Bye Bye! Salut! Mazel tov! A musical journey around the world and through time, in swing, chanson, jazz and klezmer, on the trail of Jewish life in Europe and America.

With playful ease and subtle humor, CONJAK lures the audience on a furious musical journey that follows the escape route of many Jewish emigrants from Germany to America - but in the opposite direction, as a symbol of the resurgence of Jewish culture in Europe and the indestructible utopia of togetherness without hatred and fear...


The four-piece group's repertoire includes not only swing classics by George Gershwin, chansons by Edith Piaf and pop by MECANO, Shirley Bassie and others, but also Yiddish, Hebrew and Sephardic songs as well as songs by Jewish composers such as Sholom Secunda, Friedrich Hollaender and Amy Winehouse.


Front woman Christiane Hagedorn (voc, vl) navigates as a charming 'tour guide' between numerous languages and musical styles with somnambulistic certainty and astonishing authenticity and also feeds her travel group with little anecdotes and curiosities from time to time...


She is supported by three virtuosos on various instruments who are in no way inferior to her in terms of originality, joy of playing and ingenuity: Martin Scholz (p, cor, perc), Gregor Hengesbach (guit) and Dieter Kuhlmann (b, sax).