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Tag Archives: Klezmer music
The Klezmatics’ Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah
Who knew? Woody Guthrie, the American folk singer and agitator of the Dust Bowl and the Depression, the writer of “This Land is Your Land” and “Roll On Columbia,” also wrote Hanukkah songs! And now, adding to his posthumous collaborations … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, hanukkah music, holiday music, Klezmer music, Woody Guthrie
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De Amsterdam Klezmer Band’s Limonchiki
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Looking for a spicy klezmer band? From Holland, De Amsterdam Klezmer Band might be the band for you. Assigned to Knitting Factory’s alternative sub-label, their music is at times so spiced up with Eastern European … Continue reading
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Tagged Balkan music, Klezmer music, world music
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Romashka’s Romashka
In a little over a year, Romashka have built a reputation as one of the most exciting and energetic bands in New York City’s world music scene. Before converging on Brooklyn, the band’s eight members cut their musical teeth in … Continue reading
Metropolitan Klezmer’s Yiddish For Travelers, and Metropolitan Klezmer featuring The Isle Of Klezbos (teaser)
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Some people — me for example — think of klezmer as great party music, even though they’ve never been to a Jewish party! I always think of partying when I hear klezmer, even if I … Continue reading
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Tagged Klezmer music, world music
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The Klezmer Conservatory Band’s Dance Me To The End of Love
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. If one would consider KlezRoym New School, then the Klezmer Conservatory Band is thoroughly Old School in their approach to the music. All of the usual forms of klezmer are here: the frenetic freylekhs, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Klezmer music, world music
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Frank London, Lorin Sklamberg, and Rob Schwimmer’s The Zmiros Project; and Marilyn Lerner & David Wall’s Still Soft Voiced Heart
Judith Gennett wrote this review. “There are gates in heaven that will not open except by melody and song.” — Jim Loeffler, liner notes to The Zmiros Project “Zmiros” are hymns sung during the circum-Sabbath meals. The Zmiros Project sets … Continue reading
Tagged Klezmer music, world music, Yiddish music
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KlezRoym’s Sceni
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. This is a lesson that I find myself learning over and over again: Never, ever underestimate humanity’s ability to reconfigure venerable art forms into new, often strange objects. Just when I thought I had klezmer … Continue reading
Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi’s The Wolf and the Lamb
Klezmer music has a long and fascinating history, and it’s continuing to add to that history as a living art form. The violinist, composer and ethnographer Yale Strom has been one of its leading proponents, with his band Hot Pstromi, … Continue reading
Tagged Jazz music, Klezmer music, world music
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Souls of Fire’s Firedancing
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Souls of Fire is a British group who take their influences from the klezmer recordings of the Twenties and Thirties, among other related sources. Although they add a more modern twist to their music, … Continue reading
Sandy Weltman’s The Klezmer Nuthouse
Judith Gennett wrote this review. You may have been told at some point that bluegrass is a genre with rigid rules. Sometimes it is, but the rules have not restricted the musicians of the bluegrass underworld. They also have not … Continue reading
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Tagged Bluegrass music, Klezmer music, world music
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