The Yiddish word KROKE means "Cracow".
This is also the name of polpular band created in 1992 in KraKow by three graduates of the Cracow Academy of Music: Tomasz Lato, Tomasz Kukurba and Jerzy Bawol.
The group plays klezmer music, but the style is better described by Ari Davidov
- The music is too dark to really represent traditional klezmer. At times, it is almost as if the Velvet Underground have been reborn as a klezmer band - .
Very fast Kroke became utterly popular, and started to play with famous musicians like Peter Gabriel, Nigel Kennedy and Edyta Geppert.

Since 2007 the group cooperates with Tomasz Grochot who took the percussion burden out of Tomasz Kukurba.



[featured the popular Balkan song 'Ajde Jano']

The present KROKE:
Jerzy Bawoł - accordion
Tomasz Kukurba - viola
Tomasz Lato - double bass
Cooperation:
Tomasz Grochot - percussion



Kroke [ Official Website ]