Dobranotch was founded in Nantes, France in 1997 by three folk musicians from Saint Petersburg: Mitia Khramtsov, Oleg Drobinsky, and Stas Zubtsov.[1] These musicians had been living in France at that time, busking and playing Jewish and Celtic music.[2] The group's name, which means "good night" in Russian, is also a reference to a tune genre in Klezmer music which marked the end of the day's events in a traditional Eastern European Jewish wedding.
Because of the eclectic personal and musical backgrounds of the group's members, their repertoire came to include a wide variety of genres including not only Klezmer and Balkan music, but Russian-language Jewish songs from Odesa, Middle Eastern music, and others.[1] The group became an important part of the renewed popularity of Klezmer music in Russia in the 1990s, notable for their use of traditional acoustic instruments rather than electronic music.[3][4][5]
The group has performed at a number of festivals over the years, including the Fusion Festival and Jewish Culture Festival Krakow,[6]KlezKanada,[7] Ashkenaz,[8] the Rudolstadt-Festival,[9][10] the Sziget Festival.[11] The group has won various awards, including the Eiserner Eversteiner audience favorite award in 2017,[12] the Russian World Music Award in 2018, and the German Record Critics Award for best third quarter release in 2019.[6]
^Rubin, Joel (2015). "Klezmer music – a historical overview". In Walden, Joshua S. (ed.). The Cambridge companion to Jewish music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 135. ISBN9781107023451.
^Feldman, Walter Zev (2016). Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory. Oxford University Press. p. 117. ISBN9780190636418.
^Wickström, David-Emil (2014). "The St. Peterburg Scene". Rocking St. Petersburg - Transcultural Flows and Identity Politics in Post-Soviet Popular Music. Berlin: Ibidem Verlag. p. 107. ISBN9783838261003.
^ ab"Dobranotch". dobranotch.ru. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
^"Events". KlezKanada. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
