The Plaid Tongued Devils are a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 musical group. It started as an alternative country duet with singer Ty Semaka and guitarist Alan Kolodziejzyk in 1990 and has been a 5 piece since 1992. Since 1998, their music has combined Roma

Roma music

Romani music is the music of the Romani people, who have their origins in Northern India, but today live mostly in Europe....

, 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...

, Ska

Ska

Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...

, Rock and 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...

 music, dubbed romaklezkarock by the band - at least on one of the tour T-shirts. The group regularly tours in Canada and the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. Some members of the group have written and recorded songs for OpenBSD

OpenBSD

OpenBSD is a Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It was forked from NetBSD by project leader Theo de Raadt in late 1995...

 CD releases.

Discography

• Monsteroma - 2005
• Belladonna - 2002
• In Klezkavania - 1999 (Also a theatre event)
• Tongue and Groove - 1996
• Running With Scissors - 1994

External links

• Official Website
• Dutch Fansite
• A performance of, "The Amazing Rock 'n Roll Violinist" filmed at OJV de Koornbeurs in Delft, Netherlands