Choosing the Neighborhood Fiddle Summit over Bad Bunny for a rainy night in Brooklyn reminded me that I’m team pajama, team apple pie, team rock ‘n’ roll. I love the merge, meld and mix of cultures, ...
In klezmer, the fidl / violin isn't just a melody-hogging diva -- as in the traditional "fidl kapelye" (fiddle band), it can be a rhythm instrument too! Join Jon Cannon, former member of the ...
Alicia Svigals, a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics folk band, is credited with contributing to the widespread revival of klezmer and Yiddish culture. Klezmer, a traditional celebratory music ...
In an interview with Iggy Fenech, the London-based fiddle player and folk writer Chris Haigh talks about Klezmer music, his work with Morcheeba and Riverdance, and the Klezmorimalta Foundation’s ...
It is the original world music. Klezmer is a genre of mostly celebratory dance tunes of the Ashkenazi Jews that spread from Eastern Europe to the rest of the planet in the 19th and 20th centuries. Its ...
CHATHAM, N.Y. — When Alicia Svigals first performed at PS21 five years ago, as part of a diverse program series of stringed instruments from cello to oud, she demonstrated the fiddling skills that ...
On May 18, acclaimed klezmer musician and composer Alicia Svigals accepted an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) for “extraordinary contributions to ...
In March of 2020, Craig Judelman came to visit his friend and fellow musician Michael Alpert at his home in Scotland. They were taking a break from life on the road before heading south to the ...
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