Metropolitan Klezmer, founded in 1994, is the collaborative adventure of seven exceptional New York-based musicians creating inspired interpretations and original compositions around a panorama of ...

German audiences are enthusiastic about the show “Tshemodan,” where circus artists perform to a live klezmer band ...

18 years ago, America’s finest and most influential klezmer musicians gathered on the steps of the historic Eldridge Street Synagogue, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, for a photograph. The picture was ...

During the the 1980s, when the traditional dance music of East European Jews known as klezmer was enjoying a revival, Pete Sokolow was called "the youngest of the old guys." "Now I'm the oldest old ...

Musicians and fans will pay tribute to Brooklyn’s Pete Sokolow, who died in 2022, and his role as a generational bridge builder. (New York Jewish Week) — The late Brooklyn klezmer musician Pete ...

Susan Watts comes from a long line of performers of the Jewish genre of klezmer music: The klezmer dynasty dates to 19th century Ukraine and begins with Watts’ great-grandfather, the musician, ...

Klezmer originated in Eastern Europe but finds its future in a new generation of American Jewish youth. UClezLA, which took place Sunday at Schoenberg Hall, is a Yiddish culture festival which ...

Klezmer is a wellspring for NYC's jazz musicians and as Yale Strom points out in The Book of Klezmer; this well runs very deep. While jazz's 'soul' is African-American spiritual music, klezmer is a ...

Too pioneering for its own good, 1955 klezmer album finally gets debut performance Celebrated in later decades by top musicians but largely ignored in its own time, virtuoso album ‘Tanz’ was played by ...

When I was hardly taller than knee level to the proverbial grasshopper, there was a dog-eared paperback lying around our house with a title that ran something like “You Don’t Have to Be Jewish to ...

Classical musician and klezmer specialist Robin Seletsky will present a lecture and performance on music and the Holocaust on Sunday, April 15, at SUNY Cortland. Seletsky, accompanied by pianist Kim ...

Clarinetist David Krakauer is known as both a classical virtuoso and a hard-rocking player of klezmer, the instrumental music of East European Jewry. Several years ago, he connected with DJ Socalled, ...