Beyond the Pale is a Toronto

Toronto

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-based Canadian

Canada

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 world/roots fusion band. Their style is rooted in klezmer

Klezmer

Klezmer is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe. Played by professional musicians called klezmorim, the genre originally consisted largely of dance tunes and instrumental display pieces for weddings and other celebrations...

, Balkan and Romanian

Music of Romania

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 music but heavily accented with contemporary and North American styles including bluegrass

Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...

, jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, reggae

Reggae

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, funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 and classical chamber music. The band has toured across North America and Europe and released three CDs for which they have received a number of awards. The band has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow Poland, the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards, and many other top festival and theaters. The name of the band evokes Eastern-European Pale of Settlement

Pale of Settlement

The Pale of Settlement was the term given to a region of Imperial Russia, in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed, and beyond which Jewish permanent residency was generally prohibited...

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Members

• Eric Stein (mandolin)
• Martin van de Ven (clarinet)
• Milos Popovic (accordion)
• Bogdan Djukic (violin, percussion)
• Aleksandar Gajic (violin)
• Bret Higgins (bass).

Discography

• 2001 – Routes (Borealis
  Borealis Records
  Borealis Records is a Canadian record label, founded in 1996 by four Canadian musicians. It is notable as being focused exclusively on the recording and development Canadian folk and roots music artists.- History :...
  
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• 2004 – Consensus (Borealis)
• 2009 – Postcards (Borealis)