Maribor's ethno-klezmer band Kontra-Kvartet is a group that is actively and creatively engaged in playing the traditional music of the Eastern European Ashkenazis. Their performances are always energetic and conjure up the charm of Eastern European dance rhythms, especially those that we don't hear so often. Kontra-Kvartet, which in recent years is actually a quintet, presented their music at various festivals and in synagogues in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Italy, Austria and Serbia, and they also performed at the biggest festival klezmer music in Israel. The members of the band Kontra-Kvartet are Vesna Čobal (violin), Daniel Marinič (accordion), Domen Marn (clarinet), Petar Marić (guitar) and Branko Smrtnik (double bass).