the KlezmerShack
'The roadmap to world music from a Jewish slant'. We cover Klezmer and more, focusing on the edges and the sounds that express who we are now. We also provide the place for klezmorim, reputable musicians, fans, and scholars to network online.
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Blown away from "The Other Europeans" in Somerville, MA last night
KlezmerShack email folder erased
Poem for KlezKanada by Seymour Mayne
Nat Hentoff reviews Mayrent release in WSJ
Yiddish Song of the Week—“Oy vey mame,” performed by Ita Taub
KlezKanada in just a week and a half, Aug 16-22—last chance to register?
New Balkan Beat Box CD - podcast from NPR
Stempenyu's Neshome - new soul from Steven Greenman now available
HBI issue on young Jewish women doing Jewish music
The Klezmer Shul - davenning klezmer style
"Branches" bridges old and new at Paper Bridge fest
Ezekiel's Wheels on YouTube
National Yiddish Book Center's "Paper Bridge" fest opens today
From Cooper and Lerner to Ezekiel's Wheel - a week of good music and not done yet
Three new reviews - recordings with attitude
First Jewish Women's Music Festival, Falls Village, CT, Aug 2-8, 2010
Stages Klezmer Paris - 2010 du 5 au 9 juillet 2010 / From July 5 until July 9, 2010
The Other Europeans, Somerville, MA, 31 Aug 2010
Yeshivas Goldenshteyn live at Northwest Folklife fest
Yiddish video from Sweden
KlezKamp Roadshow, Poyntelle, PA, Jul 7-14, 2010
YIVO encyclopedia now online!
Yiddish Song of the Week
Yiddish Princess!!!!
Yiddish Princess!
Klez and more, in French
Name that tune
JSA highlights Zimbalist and Gluck
Video clips from 2009 Argentinian Jewish Music Fest
New CDs available from JMI, UK
iTunes playlists
Thinking "Metropolitan Klezmer"
Tonight, NYC: Klezmer Ensemble open house at Workmen's Circle led by Jeff Warschauer
"Bar Mitzvah," dancing, and then Klezwoods at Atwoods!
Moishe Oysher has fun with "Khad Gadya"
Summer Klezmer Workshop, LeMans, France, Jul 25 - Aug 1 2010
Yiddish Summer Weimar 2010 now online
Review of new Moshe Berlin CD
Kafrissen on rebooting the Barry Sisters
KlezKanada 2010, Aug 16-22 - Registration now open!
"Yiddish Sources" website relaunched
Jeremiah Lockwood - Forward's "Artist in Res" - Nigun Project
SoCalled documentary now available
Mardi Gras Day, French Quarter, New Orleans, German Goldenshteyn tune
International Jewish Music Festival, the Netherlands, Oct 28-31, 2010
A snapshot of Jewish music in Cuba
Review of Klezmatics in Somerville, MA
"Beyond the Pale" podcast
Two US Jewish Music Fests Imminent--Klezmerquerque, KlezCalifornia
The Sway Machinery and Super 11 in Timbucktu
New video from Afro-Semitic Experience
Best historic Jewish music recording release yet - now available!
Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture announced for University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Vilna" performed by Fraidy Katz
"Jewish Artists for Haiti" benefit concert this Thursday, Jan 28, 2010
Jews and Christmas ... and Mormons
CD Release: Shir Hodu: Jewish Song from Bombay of the '30s
New Flying Bulgars CD: Tumble Into Light
Something different for the solstice season
Rootless Cosmopolitan nails it
Levi and Dardashti wow the audience at 5th Sephardic Fest
Yiddish Rudolph
Sandra Layman in Seattle, WA
"Rejoicing" - a recording worth mentioning on Thanksgiving Day
Barry Serota z"l
25th Annual KlezKamp registration opens
Sapoznik: "youngers of zion" cd sales to benefit Mark Rubin
Mark Rubin needs your help
"Girls in Trouble" captivates
Dan Kahn & Painted Bird + Salt Wives, tonight, Lilypad, Cambridge, MA
Jo Amar, z"l, June 26, 2009
Ben Bresky interview of Tim Sparks
Publicity on work by Greg Wall, et al, for a cure
Article on Israel's "Oy Division"
New video: Klezmokum on tour
Klezmer Podcast - Watcha Clan - no touring US
New CD, songs, art songs about peace, now available on CDBaby.com
Klezmer Ensemble open house led by Jeff Warschauer, Manhattan, NY, Sep 15, 2009
Premiere of Theo Bikel's "Shalom Aleichem: Laughter through Tears," NYC, Nov 8 - Dec 13, 2009
2nd Argentinian KlezFiesta, Buenos Aires, Nov 7-15, 2009
Pix from First Jerusalem Klezmer Fest at beginning of August
Hot Damn! Ribs & Brisket Revue coming to Boston Oct 24-25
new release of Sophie Tucker recordings
Zahava Seewald video
Good listening from KlezKanada
Audition for the Harvard Yiddish Players' Fall Prod. of "Shulamis"
Folksbiene: Calling All Kids
Beyond "Oy Vey": Yiddish Classes at The Workmen's Circle
A good day for music / reconnecting with Danny Kalb
new blog for KlezKanada 2009
Memorial: The Night of the Murdered Poets
new video - Hip Hop Hoodíos’ “Times Square (1989)”
Afro-Semitic Experience, tonight in Watertown, MA
Bronya Sakina - live in 1986
SoCalled - You are never alone (live)
Cooper and Lerner cap another great "Paper Bridge"
KlezKanada, Aug 24-30, full brochure now available
Minsker Kapelye blows me away with "Tutejsi" (The Locals)
"Postcards" from Beyond the Pale and US tour
The Curious Case of the Moment Magazine Jewish Music issue
Drupal testing, at last
Klezmer Classes in Minneapolis this summer begin June 17, 2009
Many Jewish Music courses at Philadelphia's Gratz College this summer
Sara Alexander, z"l
Composer for Mexican Jewish Dance Fest seeks advice
Sylvia Feder, z"l
Jack Saul, z"l
Klezmer Michael Winograd: One of the "36 under 36"
A blast from the past - "Mazl," by the Ravens
Elizabeth Schwartz, Yale Strom, and more
JMI London KlezFest, Aug 9-14, 2009
Punk Torah Commentary
Sam Glaser in NJ shabbaton fundraiser for Dubiecko cemetery fund
KlezKamp Roadshop Madison Dance Party
Hip Hop Hoodíos’ “Carne Masada” Debuts at #8 on iTunes Alternativo Chart
Margot Leverett w/Brown University wind ensemble
Sway Machinery "EP of the month" project
Greg Wall & Hasidic New Wave are fighting cancer with song - and they aren't the only ones
First Berkshires Jewish Music Fest, Jun 17-28, 2009
Israeli Marked "Yiddish Day" May 26
Washington Jewish Music Festival kicks off next week: June 4-11
Frank London Klezmer Brass Allstars coming to Lowell, MA Folk Fest Jul 24-26, 2009
KlezKanada Faculty Announced
Time to register - KlezKanada 2009 is Aug 24-30
The disturbing reappearance of Global Village Music
Interesting "Sha Shtil"
Off-topic again - teaching Jews about Judaism
Yid Vicious: Car-less Klezmer in Madison
Cleveland - Eastern European music nirvana
Klezmer Paris 2009, 6-10 July 2009
Klezmer workshop, French countryside, Jul 26 - Aug 2, 2009
Order me a corned beef and rye
KlezKamp Roadshow sells out in Madison, WI
The KlezmerShack now on Twitter
Pearl Lang, z"l
Vilnius Jewish Library seeks music donations
Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird - Yiddish Culture is Alive, like it or not
Passover for Kids: Mama Doni's "Rasta in Pasta!"
KlezKanada dance video
"Freedom Seder" on YouTube
Lox & Vodka's Caron Dale / "Havdalah" on YouTube
Marty Levitt videos and CD release
New Hoodiíos release, May 12 - "Carne Asada"
Getcher Passover rap right here
Interview with Greg Wall on the new Rav Kook project
ברכת החמה
The Sway Machinery - interview in the Forward
The Sway Machinery and Balkan Beat Box stupendous
KlezKanada Scholarship application now available
Wolf Krakowski interview on Israeli radio
ידיעות אחרונות discovers Yiddish dancing ;-)
20th Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival, 12-16 Jul 2009
Mar 29 - music everywhere, especially here in Boston
Yiddishe Cup, live video
Budowitz videos
Video of Jewish Violinist Leon Schwartz
A Josh Nelson shabbes tish and the King of Texas Jewish Bluegrass Tuba
Josh Horowitz: Klezmer and the Hungarian Tanchaz scene
Valentine's Lecha Dodi
American Yiddish Instrumental Fusion Music in the 1950s and 1960s
Cantor Susan Wehle, z"l
Memorial Service for Pesakh Fiszman, z"l, Feb 18, 2009
Yiddishe Cup Ann Arbor performance reviewed
Brazilian Klezmer band, "Zemer" on YouTube
1st Montreal International Yiddish Theatre Festival, Jun 17-25, 2009
"The Real Arab Book" now available from OrTav
new Yiddish rap: Gey nisht avek
Music site on Algerian Jewish music
new video from DeScribe and Y-Love
Shirim at the Lilypad this Sunday, Feb 8, 2009
Debut: Ha-Orot: The lights of Rav Cook, NYC, Feb 7, 2009
Sephardic Music Class at Longy starts Feb 10, 2009, Cambridge, MA
Felix Mendelssohn, lost and found
Five new reviews from Keith Wolzinger: from a jazzy Yizkor, to New Jewish dance music from France
KlezKanada winter program deferred to mid-February in Montreal
KlezKanada tribute to Pesakh Fiszman, z"l
Photos: Yiddishe March at the Jewish inaugural festivities
Ruth Ellen Gruber memories of Henryk Halkowski, z"l
Second Jack Zaentz podcast released
KlezmerShack wins Drupal book
Adrienne Cooper - Remembering Pesakh Fiszman, z"l
Judith Pinnolis review: Rebecca Teplow's "Kaveh / Hope"
Worlds within a World releases Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman film
Props to the Klezphonics
Veretski Pass t-shirts almost as good as the music
Piyut online
Don Byron at 50
"Aneinu" - new Moshe (Moussa) Berlin field recordings by Joel Rubin
This Land is Your Land, at the pre-Inauguration concert this afternoon
Another view of John Zorn
Some recent reviews of interest by Elliott Simon
New Wolzinger reviews, from Polish Klezmer to Canadian Yiddish Art Song
Reappearing Acts: From Jewish Life to Jewish Dance Theatre, now online
Joza Karas, z"l
Klezmer Podcast on Roberto Rodriguez
New 4-CD Haim Effendi set from Jerusalem via Joel Bresler
Bios of Jewish musicians in Poland between the two World Wars
KlezKanada 2009 scholarship applications now available online
New Debbie Friedman CD, "Shacharit"
KlezKanada 2009 announced, August 24-August 30 2009
Alberta Hunter: "Ikh hob dikh tsufil lib"
Cuban Jewish Music update
Henry Sapoznik to be visiting scholar
"The Arab Real Book" - a boon for fans of Middle Eastern Book
Pesakh Fiszman, z"l
7th Annual KlezmerQuerque, Albuquerque, NM Feb 12-15, 2009
Music, Jews, and Arabs - a common ground
A second yiddish opera to premiere from Daniel Galay
Three Yiddish Divas coming to my home town, Mar 21-22, 2009
Travelogue of last fall - Brian Bender in Europe
Y-Love teams up with Crown Heights soul rapper 'Describe'
Free Jewish Sheet Music
Yom Tov Ehrlich celebrated
Video: Buenos Aires Klezmer Festival
Adam Stinga, trumpet, w/ Other Europeans Project
Henryk Halkowski, z"l
Indiana University Jewish sacred music program scholarship
Summer Internships available at National Yiddish Book Center - Feb 2 application deadline
"Tanzhoyz" live and well in Germany; Boston next?
The Forward: article on Serge Gainsbourg
"Arise!," from Sy Kushner
Yiddis video from down under
Ghettoplotz: Jew Many DJs - Music Video Mashup
Moussa Berlin live in Jerusalem
Pete Sokolow tears up Tarras' Rumeinishe Freilakhs
Diwon: The Beat Guide to Yiddish
"Save the Music" brings digital Jewish music collection online
Alas, some things (low pay for cantors; low pay for Jewish musicians) don't seem to change
Over 1000 entries in KlezmerShack musicians database
Elaine Hoffman-Watts: Girls Don't Play Drums
"Celebrate the Dream", NYC, with Abraham Inc
Shirim Khadashim - a new Jewish music blog is born
Maxwell St. Klezmer celebrates 25th Anniversary
Blog in Dm comments on "Beyond Boundaries"
"Sisters of Sheynville" Canadian folk vocal group of the year
David Breytman, a"h, 1948-2008
Bruce Adler, z"l, 1944–July 25, 2008
Harris Wulfson, z"l, July 23, 2008
Maurice Schwartz exhibit now online
Freestyling to klezmer
Despite funding cuts: London KlezFest 2009 NOT cancelled
Moshe Cotel, z"l, Oct 24, 2008
Pete Rushefsky featured in Jewish Week article
Judith Cohen checks in from Rome, Barcelona, Palma …
Hanukkah klezmer podcast from Keith Wolzinger
Updated Yizkor book links, by Helen Winkler
The vanishing Global Village Music
"Days of Light" from Yerachmiel
Sufganiot - Rabbi Joe Black and Maxwell St. Klezmer
Teruah Music adds Podcast
KlezFactor merits "Video of the day"
Der yidisher-gramofon online!
An Afro-Semitic "Ocho Kandelikas"
Erran Baron Cohen - Dreidl
Bob Cohen on the story behind the new DNK CD
Jewlia Eisenberg and Kugelplex wish you a Happy Hanukkah
Klára Móricz - The Art of Jewish Music, à la Russe
Di Naye Kapelye/Traktorist - what a treat!
Sarah Aroeste—Roberto Rodriguez Cuban-Sephardic Music Project
Pass the candle
Moussa Berlin honored in Israel - 50 years of incredible music
Atzilut's concert for peace
Three must-have CDs, reviewed by Keith Wolzinger
Two for Chanukah
Bel Canto - were these recordings =really= the nusakh from temple days?
Review: New Klezmer Fiddle book by Ilana Cravitz
Beyond Boundaries this Tuesday
Cookie Segelstein on the cover of Hadassah Magazine
Mothers who Drum
I wanna be a rebbe
Jorma Kaukonen plays KlezmerGrass
National Day of Listening
The Chanukah video bar just got much, much higher
Let us remember how lies have been used against us....
My bubby is voting for Obama
Palin comes out against Klezmer Fiddling. Feh.
Nat Hentoff on David Chevan's "Yizkor"
Judy Wachs, 70, founder of Voice of the Turtle, z"l
Di Grine Kuzine get silly
"Tanzhoyz" movement spreads to Chicago
New release from Ljova & the Kontraband
Abraham Inc., Live at Ashkenaz, on CBC radio
Shemspeed celebrates first anniversary, Nov 18
New website on Sephardic music discography: www.sephardicmusic.org
A beautiful afternoon at the Rose Kennedy Greenway
Pete Sokolow with the Tarras Band
More from Krakow Jewish Music Festiva, 2008 - the finale
Isa Kremer CD!
Photos from KlezKanada 2008
Leverett and her Klezmer Mountain Boys … with Jorma Kaukonen, Hazel Dickens and more!
Cancelled: Danube Klezmer Cruise, May 15-24, 2010
NEC courses on Jewish and Russian Music
Jewlia Eisenberg's busy summer
Praise for "Isle of Klezbos"
new Klezmer Fiddle Book from UK's Ilana Cravitz
new Yale Strom children's book
Austin Klezmorim bring klez to "Festival Institute @ Roundtop"
Ashkenaz Festival videos online
"Signs of Peace" set to Susan Watts / Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars
Eli Herscovitch: Working on new project, "When Bialystock came to Montreal"
New Jazz Yizkor recording
Klezmer Orchestra forming in London, UK
The more-or-less 25 essential klezmer recordings
Paul Brody's Sadawi in Lithuania
Zev Feldman at Music Mountain, CT, today
Andy Statman blows Ashkenaz away
Jewish Music Brunch in Toronto - Bella, did you eat?
Quick report from Ashkenaz
Last call: KlezKanada, Aug 18-24, 2008
Ashkenaz Festival Starts in two weeks, Toronto, Canada
And the wrap-up - Greenman + Mahovlich online in the IA
Reminder: Greenman & Mahovlich tonight, Cambridge, MA
Steven Greenman+Walt Mahovlich, Cambridge, MA, Aug 4, 2008
Bob Cohen salutes the "others"
New JTA column by "virtually Jewish" Ruth E. Gruber
On the LadinoBus with Judith Cohen in Turkey
Paper Bridge fest starts today in Amherst, MA at NYBC
Leon Blank, z"l
Catching up: Michael Winograd Ensemble at NYBC
Washington Post Columnist Starts Jewish Music Project
Beltz - Vira Lozinsky with Raanana Symphonette Orchestra
More video from Krakow
"Other Europeans" concert at Krakow Jewish Culture Fest
The Jerusalem Post weighs in on "Lipa"
KlezKanada brochure available; registration filling up; Aug 18-24, 2008
JDub 5th Anniversary Party, NYC, Jul 20, 2008
La Minute Klezmer Bling Bling
Yale Strom to teach at Mark O'Connor Strings, Jul 28-Aug 1, 2008
The Lipa Ban - Charedi music controversy continues
More on Heeb's allegedly Jewish "Diamond Days"
Gypsy-Klezmer Mashup
Y-Love / This is Babylon
Three new reviews by Keith Wolzinger
Judy Frankel, z"l
New releases at UK's "Jewish Music"
Fresher Reviews from Professor Robinson: Israel at 60
A fresh set of reviews from George Robinson
KlezKamp Channel on YouTube - new clips
Jewish podcasts that don't suck
Krakow Jewish Culture Festival concerts to be streamed online
New YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
Channe Nussbaum & Klezmofobia rock out in Mexico
KlezKamp one-day roadshow, NYC, July 13, 2008
Shemspeed's Summer Stage, this Sunday, June 29, NYC
פארווערטס - א שפּאציר איבער דער רעדאקציע
The Ark on SPARK
"Essen" sticks to my ribs
"Shmoozin'" down under--a new "must have" CD from Klezmania
KlezFest London 2008, Aug 7-22, 2008
KlezKanada Brochure and Workshop Schedule Available Online!, Aug 18-24, 2008
KlezKamp Roadshow, Poconos, PA, Jul 30 - Aug 6, 2008
Konsonans Retro on YouTube
Klezmer on Spanish radio
Video: Klezmer Juice performing in LA
In praise of Pete Sokolow
New blog from Jeff Klepper
Cape Code Mandolin camp to feature klezmer, Sep 26-28, 2008
Best of the new Paris Klezmer scene
Remembering Marty Levitt and Rudy Tepel, z"l
JDUB 5th Anniversary party in NYC
Drapkin's "Suite of Old Yiddish Melodies" performed by Austin Symphonic, on YouTube
Paris Klezmer Festival arrives, Jul 7-11, 2008
The klezmer Golem, revisited
Yiddish Vokh, Copake, New York, Aug 20 - 26, 2008
Michael Kahan, z"l
Heeb's "Diamond Days" - this is Jewish?
Judaica Sound Archives at FAU Features Legendary Yiddish Entertainment Family on its Website
Yiddish Summer Weimar almost here - "The Other Europeans," Jul 10 - Aug 15, 2008
Portuguese Street Corner klezmer
Frank London, tonight, NYC, Musical Extravaganza Carnival Party
Good food in Beer Sheva
Purim? It's time for the "Big Megillah"
"Early Recordings of Jewish Music in Poland," now available online
Purim coming! CDs and music available online
Samy al-Maghribi 1922-2008, z"l
Fwd: Marty Levitt 1931-2008, z"l
Herbie Mann's Eastern European Roots
Origins of "Miserlu," the melody
Why Klezmer? by Inna Barmash
New Keith Wolzinger reviews of Brian Bender, Hilda Bronstein
Max Romeo, Tel Aviv
New klezmer podcasts and blog entries
Flory Jagoda in benefit for Sarajevo Holocaust victims, Arlington, VA, Apr 6, 2008
"Jewgrass" featured in the
Forward
Tim Sparks - watch out Doc Watson!
Veretski Pass / Trafik and 3 other reviews by Keith Wolzinger
new reviews: Deep Minor, Polina Shepherd
New article on Rose/Fort/Winograd
CD Review: Konsonans Retro
Call for papers - "Music of America and the Sea"?
Songlines gives four stars to "Baym Taykh"
Abe Cahan's articles on Yiddish Dance available
OySongs: Dan Nichols & Eighteen sheet music catalog added
"Songs of Life" Festival commemorates Bulgarian rejection of Nazi antisemitism during WWII
Lots of interesting articles in this week's "Forward"
Zeek issue on Jewish music
Eleanor Reissa in San Jose, CA this Sunday, Feb 24, 2008
Vote for SoCalled!
Play along with the Austin Klezmorim and learn some klezmer
Amazing music performances documented on KlezmerShack
Two interesting articles
Shirim still putting on a great show, 25 years on
new dance documentary released
"Sabbath in Paradise" released on DVD
Fraidy Katz and Polina Shepherd on Montreal Radio
Pro Musica Hebraica launched
Yiddish Romantic Mush
New Wolzinger review: Sheynville Express
Afro-Semitic splash in Boston
Hadag Nakhash somewhat disappointing in Boston
David Krakauer live on the Internet Archive
Klezmer Podcast, "Yiddishe Cup"'s Bert Stratton
New reviews by Keith Wolzinger
Panorama Krewe at Mardi Gras
Two more reviews: London's "A Night in the Old Market" and Brave Old World, "Lodz Ghetto"
George Robinson reviews: Polina Shepherd, Metropolitan Klezmer, Blue Fringe, Romashka video, and more
Elliott Simon reviews: Metropolitan Klezmer, Red Hot Chachkas, Lori Cahan-Simon
Two Yale Strom reviews in "All About Jazz"
The Harlem Experiment's "Reefer Man" gets political animation on YouTube
"A Cantor's Tale," now available on DVD
new CD of meditative Jewish music
Mattisyahu article in NY Times, Dec 23, 2007
KlezKanada scholarship forms now available
Veretski Pass interview from Oct 2007
Two generations of klezmorim
The weirdest klezmer review so far
Mickey Katz' descendents endow Jewish Music chair
JMI Conf, "The Impact of Nazism on Musical Development in the 20th Century," UK, 8-11 Apr 2008
Klezmer Podcast: Oy Division
"Papirosn," tango-style
Klezmerola - Klezmer piano roll recordings released on CD
New Klezmer Clarinet forum
KlezKanada Winter Session, Feb 21-24, 2008
Ray Musiker CD released by Living Traditions
KlezKamp blog, podcast,
Zhurnal
Return of "Gershwin the Klezmer" to S. Florida
Konsonans Retro and others in Helsinki Jam
Sponsors sought for Annette Brodovsky memorial benefit, Davis, CA, Feb 10, 2008
Y-Love and Afro-Semitic Ensemble on YouTube
Greg Wall article in NY
Jewish Week
NEC courses on Eastern European Jewish Music begin in Feb.
Klezmatics live on Italian radio, Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Classical to Klezmer: a Wild Wind Weekend at Liverpool University Sunday 9 – Monday 10 March 2008
Flying Bulgars 20th Anniversary concert, Toronto, Canada, Feb 9,10, 2008
Michael Winograd Klezmer Ensemble CD Release, NYC, Feb 17, 2008
Shirim 25th Anniversary concert, Arlington, MA, Feb 17, 2008
New video clip of Divahn, others
Abe Brumberg, z"l
Israel apologizes to surviving Fab 4 members of 1965 ban
Klezmerquerque returns, Feb 15-17, 2008, Albuquerque, NM
Not klezmer, but really neat, anyway
JWABlog "Postcards from Yiddishland" celebrates KlezKamp
Blog in Dm: "The Klezmer Gene"
Greg Wall's Later Prophets returns to Boston 1/26/08
Klezmer Shofar
Alicia Svigals article: "Queer Klezmer Quandry" in Shma
Yiddish Dance Action Network: Calling All Zamlers!
Klezmatics in Rome, Jan 22, 2008
Jewish Music at the Grassroots - class by Hankus Netsky in Brookline, MA, Feb 10-Mar 9, 2008
The Shondes for real - CD released
Rudy Tepel, o"h
Yiddish Dance Symposium notes now online
new Veretski Pass CD, Trafik available now; official release Feb 22, 2008
KlezKamp 2007 Blog
Basya Schechter at Heschel Symposium, Dec 9, 2007
Yiddish "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
Winter Yiddish classes to begin at Montreal Jewish Public Library - sign up now
Blast from the past, that ol' "Violin in the Home"
Yiddish Dance Symposium, Welcome
Yiddish Dance Symposium, NYC, Dec 9, 2007
"Shtreiml," live at Common Fence Music, RI
Rosenblatt & Lemisch @ Stanton St. Synagogue Honors Luncheon
Shtreiml to appear tonight in Rhode Island
Just say nu - Yiddish widget for your webpage
Call for papers: "Music of Yiddishkayt"; Deadline 3 Dec 2007
New Winograd neo-trad klezmer CD--release party, Nov 12
Another late review: The Yiddish Policeman's Union
Klezmer Juice in "Una Noche Yidishe"
New CD Release: Alisa Fineman
new blog: "Learning Tsymbaly"
Conference: Music, Oppression and Exile, London, Apr 9-13, 2008
Yiddish Dance Research Symposium, NYC, Dec 9-10, 2007
KlezKamp 2007 announced: Dec 23-28, 2007 - Mame-Loshn: Women in Yiddish Culture
Klezmer on the Square, London, UK
Newton JCC Bookfair special: "Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive", Nov 11, 2007
Stacy Phillips & Paul Howard: Jewish Music medley
Photos: Great Day on Eldridge St.
Michael Wex book launch, "Just Say Nu", Gladstone, Toronto, Oct 29
Blog for women who perform for women-only audiences
Shalshelet deadline next week: Nov 1
Yale Strom's The Absolutely Complete Klezmer Songbook, reviewed by Eric Zaidins
New CD Review: Red Hot Chachkas / Spice it up!
A Great Day on Eldridge Street - the Podcasts!
CD Review: The Lithuanian Empire
Call to action! Innovative NYC Yiddish Dance program in peril
"Yiddish is Alive and Well in NY"
New series from Stewart Cherlin: "Apprehension and Longing"
Tango controversy - what do you think?
Taglit-birthright israel and JDub Records Launch 'The Eight,' A New Way To Celebrate Hanukah
OyHoo Festival Opener tonight!: Fiddlin' w/the roof
Four new CD reviews--Keith Wolzinger on Vira Lozinsky, KlezFactor, Den Flygande Bokrullen, Budowitz
Yiddish "Hard Day's Night"
"Kamti LeHallel" - music of Spanish & Portugese Jewish communities
The Shondes!
South Coast Simcha Band on YouTube
More about "The Harlem Experiment"
Fine new Jewish Music website: Shemspeed.com
"The Harlem Experiment" to be released Oct 30, 2007
Andy Rubin interviewed about old time banjo and klezmer, July 2007
"Secular and Religious Musicians Perform at Beit Shemesh Festival"
Bob Cohen blogs "The Great Day," the parade, and the tour to come
"A Night in the Old Market" opens in Philly
New SoCalled video, "You are never alone"
Konsonans Retro review
Sukkoth in Jerusalem
"A Great Day on Eldridge Street" begins
New "Boston Jewish Music" group on Facebook
Khevre in joyous reunion; fundraiser for Leukemia Research
Krakow 2007
Honkfest in Somerville, MA, Oct 5-7, 2007
From Israrel: new cd "From Grey To Blue With Itzik Manger"
Call for Papers: "Hearing Israel: Music, Culture and History at 60"
Nina Stepanskaya, z"l
New Arabic-Hebrew peace song
Klezmer Brass Allstars from 2002, PLUS Gangbe Brass
Writer Richard Grayson reminisces about "Uncle Dave" Tarras
New International Journal of Community Music
Special Opera Nostalgia issue on great cantors
New Aaron Lebedeff website
Global Rhythm article on Boom Pam, exciting new Israeli Band
Video/Audio: Twisting Tradition: Music History and Cultural Change, LA, Spring 2007
News catchup: Elaine Hoffman Watts NEA National Heritage Fellowship
Review of latest Budowitz album in Songlines Magazine
"Their star will never fade" Daoud and Saleh Al-Kuwaity
New Havdalah CD released
News catchup: Shloimke Beckerman tapes discovered
Frank London's "A Night in the Old Marketplace" premieres in Philly, Sep 29, 2007
On the importance of reading email--another reminder
More web 2.0: Snap Shots
More Yiddish Dance in NYC!
new Steve Goodman bio
New CD set of Jerusalem Sephardi Baqashot
Call for Papers: Hearing Israel: Music, Culture, and History at 60
Oy, Vey! Another Chanukah sighting
Zev Feldman at KlezKanada 2007
Yale Strom kicks off "Great Day on Eldridge Street," Oct 11, 2007
GOT MUSIC? November 1 DEADLINE for submissions to Shalshelet's Third International Festival.
L'shanah tovah tikatevu—It sounds like Chanukah already!
Jewish Songs at an Exhibition, SF Bay Area, Sep 5-9
David Krakauer to lead April workshops at Carnegie Hall; Applications open Sept 15, 2007
KlezKanada Budowitz rebate offer
new CD Review: Budowitz / Live
ADL reverses course; Tarsy rehired
Good places to find out about Jewish Music
For the next week: KlezKanada
Genocide denial by ADL makes a mockery of organization's mission - Time for Foxman to go
Quick review of The Klezmatics in Rome last month
Jennifer Grey sings "Duvid Crocket" - on YouTube, of course
Hip Hop Hoodíos Partners with Amnesty International for
Photos from Weimar Summer
New brass band, our first Ukrainian listing, and a new CD
Message from Israel - Glenn Tamir
Paris Yiddish Center - Nouveau programme - new program - naye program
Zamir Chorale of Boston to hold Auditions, Newton, MA, Sep 23, 2007
Khevre Reunion/Benefit set for Oct. 7, 2007, Cambridge, MA
Marty Schwartz, Budowitz, KlezCalifornia on video
Seattle's "Kesselgarden" on YouTube
New CD: Yemenite Diwan from Hebrew University
New Review: Balkan Beat Box / Nu*Med
International Association of Yiddish Clubs, Cleveland, OH, Aug 3-6, 2007
review of Regev and Seroussi's "popular music of Israel"
"Out of Babylon" - new CD of Baghdadi-Jewish music
Millie and the Mentshn on YouTube
New Reviews: Pharoah's Daughter, Fred Katz, Shtreiml
Ghettoblaster arrived in US, June 12
Glenn Dickson performance online
KlezKanada brochures now available online; Aug 20-26, 2007
Grumble grumble even farther from new reviews
4th Annual KlezMORE festival, Vienna, Austria, Jun 25-Jul 8, 2007
Weimar Yiddish Summer, Weimar, Germany, Jul 9 - Aug 9
"Librescu Tango" in memory of Holocaust survivor who died protecting students at Virginia Tech
David Chevan's "Yizkor" on YouTube
video blog from Klezmer Cruise in the Ukraine
Jewish Dancing in Hollywood
Klezfest St. Petersburg 2007
Molly Picon exhibit in NYC
Nist Grammy: WIRTUALNE GESLE 2007: Minsker K and P Brody
Sid Beckerman, z"l
Women Cantor's Network conference, Sudbury, MA, Jun 13, 2007
Klezmer-Paris 2007, July 2-6
Re-release: Folk Songs for Far Out Folk, Jun 26, 2007
Channe Nussbaum and Klezfobia video
new Klezmer Podcasts posted
Theo Bikel returns to KlezKanada
More on hutsul music
NYC Tantshoyz on "YouTube"
Video of new Minneapolis band, "Classic Klesmer"
More on Hutsul Tecso
Dates for the 2007 Tzfat Klezmer Festival
a zisn pesakh
Yet another Orthodox != Jewish conundrum
Mendy
Klezmer and Maqamim in Tel Aviv
UK Conference on Ernest Bloch
Metro Klezmer meets "American Shadkhn"
New Klezmer Reviews by George Robinson
The Music of Ancient Israel to "Jimmi Hendrix"-style klezmer!
Leibu Levin - a new Anthology of music to Yiddish Poetry
NPR story on Ladino
new editon of "Jewish Heritage Travel" released today
Extended liner notes to "Shalom Comrade!" announced, plus new articles
The roots of the tune, Miserlu
Jimmy Buffet meets Manishevitz
Brave Old World concerts in Newton cancelled
Kudos to violin teacher Steven Greenman
Two new European discographies
New Hanna Tiferet CD
New CD: "Journey to Shabbat"
Tecsoi and the late Hutsel/Gutsel Craze
BA Music offers a blintze recipe for Passover
Three new Yiddish publications—two songbooks—from Medem, France
TRANSKAPELA (Poland) - new record and new concerts - available all Year 2007
KlezCalifornia announces "Gele Pages"
Discovering Jewish Music, now in paperback with audio CD
Living Tradiitons releases Zeev Scooler CD
A plethora of JMI summer offerings: cantorial, klezmer, yiddish
Svigals' to curate month at Zorn's "The Stone"
Recent Reviews and Interviews
Teapacks - the controversial "Push the Button" song, and "salaam salami," too!
Andy Statman on YouTube
Registration forms for KlezKanada, Aug 20-26, 2007, now available online
Klezmatics give Boston wonderous "Wonder Wheel"
The usual Balkan Night complaint
Jerusalem's Corner Prophet gets a shout-out in "Time"
West Bank Story wins Oscar
Podcast on Flory Jagoda from Nextbook
Michael Wex: Lending our Jews in Belgium
Metropolitan Klezmer and Jewish Women's Archive featured in online scholarly journal
Israeli band, tipex, pushes Eurovision's "political" buttons
Metroplitan Klezmer CD release party for "Travaling Show"
Video from Meron 7th of Adar fest
John Zorn to receive William Schuman Award, NYC, Apr 26
Frank London to debut "A night in the old marketplace," Mar 26
Valley Klezmer Band open rehearsals, Northhampton, MA, every Thursday
Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys on YouTube
Veretski Pass on the radio
The Purim Story - listen to the Megilla on the evening of Mar 3, 2007
Congregational Singing in Hasidic Congregations, by Cantor Sam Weiss
New CD reviews by Günther Schöller: "Trumpets for Di Fidl-Kapelye" and Eastern European brass klezmer field recordings
New Yiddish Opera in Tel Aviv
Kitka and Davka on PBS; available also on DVD
KlezKanada youth scholarship application now online
OySongs downloadable MP3s taking off
New Releases from Jewish Music International, UK
22nd annual Jewish Music Festival, San Francisco Bay, coming Mar 8-25
Klezmer Podcast #2, Lorin Sklamberg
Klezmatics live in Chicago, by Stewart Cherlin
Set list - Klezmer: The Next Generation
Matisyahu and JDUB Records Resolve Dispute
Cantor Erik L. Contzius makes music available for online sale
Klezmer Podcast premieres w/David Krakauer, SoCalled
Nikitov captured live on video
Let my people sing festival, Los Angeles, CA, Mar 7-11, 2007
Budowitz releases insanely great live recording
News from Living Traditions/KlezKamp
new Joel Rubin Ensemble release, "Midnight Prayer"
Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter, o"h
The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist, now available
Another Saturday night event in Brookline - benefit to support aid efforts in Darfur
Klezmatics win Grammy!!!!
I do some DJing - Klezmer, TNG, Feb 17, 2007
10 years for the Jewish Music Web Center
klezmer bartok on YouTube
HaZamir uninspiring in "Jews and Blues"
Veretski Pass finishes new CD and celebrates
Naftule's Dream in Forest Hills
Sounds files from Austin, TX
Greek music workshop in Watertown, MA
Web resource for chasidic nigun
Belated Shout Out to "Jewltide"--Shtreiml, Golem, SoCalled, the Leevees in Boston
Pictures of KlezKamp 2006
Humongous Jewmongous - shout out to Sean Altman
The KlezKamp Blog
New Fraidy Katz CD, "Di Alte Kashe"
Klezmatics new CD nominated for Grammy
Illustrated Tribute to Frank London
new Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman children's CD
Ithaca College Klezmorim release "Music for Hawaiian Gardens"
new Jewish-only MP3 site, and more: OySongs.com
new Jewish Music label: Jewish Music Group
review of new Yale Strom book
The march of bad Jewish videos continues
A day in the life of a tuba player
1st Shirim CD now available at CDBaby.com
review of Cahan-Simon Chanukah CD
KlezKamp 22 - begins Dec 24-26 - still a few slots!
Feminist klezmer band, Pomegranate, releases first CD in Toronto
Indie klezmer recording awards - another good Hanukkah gift list!
Incredible concert in Boston area, option 2
Incredible concert in Boston area, option 1
Joel Rubin to be on Virginia Public Radio show, "With Good Reason"
Arkady Gendler to join Dnieper Klezmer Cruise, Apr 29-May 11, 2007
Spring mini-KlezmerFest set to return to Boston area
CD Review: the Klezmatics / Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah
CD Preview: A Chanukah Feast, Vol. II
CD Review: Klezmatics / Wonder Wheel
CD Preview: Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar / Branch from the Tree
New Yiddish Choral music CD from JPPC
New release: SoCalled / Ghettoblaster
Review of "Painted Bird" in new Jewish Currents
Besh o droM!
More Jewish music reviews in "All About Jazz"
CD Review: Andy Statman / East Flatbush Blues
CD Review: Marilyn Lerner / Romanian Fantasy
CD Review: Balkan Beat Box
Preview: Merlin Shepherd Kapelye / Intimate Hopes & Terrors
Mizrahi music denied access to Israeli airwaves?
CD Review: Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars / Carnival Conspiracy
Klezmer davenning in Philly
Another path: Inna Barmash on "Oyfn Veg"
CD Review: Judith Cohen / Sefarad en Diáspora
CD Review: The LeeVees / Hanukkah Rocks
CD Review: KlezKanada Faculty Anthology 2006
CD Review: German Goldenshteyn / A Living Tradition - A+!
Hava Nagila
Start your holiday shopping with the new Brave Old World DVD
Rubinchik's Orkestyr Re-released on iTunes
Sylvia Braitman, z"l
Thank Gopod* for the Board of Guardians of British Jews
Reminder: Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman featured in Zev Feldman program this week
Yiddish America up for Grammy
If it's not one thing, it's another
Debbie Friedman bio on TV Oct 19, 22
The Sukkoth Shake
Weimar master classes - winter edition, Feb 3-8, Germany
Yiddishe Cup on Israeli Radio
Don Walser, z"l
"The Silence is Lifted"
Changing High Holiday liturgy
The history of Jews in America
Coverage of the "Oyhoo" Jewish Music Festival, NYC
The world's first graphic novel about
Klezmorim?
Mighty good, too!
Today! Jewzapalooza! German Goldenshteyn memorial! NYC
קלעזקעמפּ
22 KlezKamp announced: Dec 24-29, Kerhonkson, NY
Yid Vicious to tour Japan, Oct 8-15
Winners of 2nd Annual Jewish Music Awards
Latest reviews by George Robinson, just in time for High Holidays
Professor Zev Feldman curates series at 92nd St. Y
Dance and Klezmer Video online
Wrapping up Ashkenaz, one week later
Mazl Tov, Eve Monsingo
Classic rebetika with Hebrew lyrics
Askhenaz 2006, Motzei Shabbat
Ashkenaz Festival, Toronto, Aug 29-Sep 4
Photos from KlezKanada
Jewish food and Klezmer in Carmel Valley, CA
Alicia Svigals on fire - catching up on amazing performances
KlezKanada blog launched ... and we're back
the road to KlezKanada
Fasten your seatbelts. We're in for a bumpy night
Live from Tzfat Klezmerfest Tues, Jul 11
3rd KlezMORE Fest starts today
History of "Hava Nagila" revealed
German Goldenshteyn, a"h
Best of Bay Area Jewish music poll
Nine Luminaries Of Jewish Liturgical Song
New reviews on the KlezmerShack start with Israel music
Klezmer Video Blog
New website Chazzanim Farband
Remembering Jewish Refuge in Shanghai
KlezKanada registration in high gear
Bruce Springsteen - almost as good as Hankus Netsky!
7th Annual Washington, DC Jewish Music Festival, May 16 - 24
The Psalms of Ali Ufki, now on CD
Klezmer-Paris 2006, Jul 6-10
The writeups: The 2006 Boston Jewish Music mini-fest/KCB Reunion/KlezmerShack 10th Anniversary celebration
Klezfest 2006 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Jun 17-22, 2006
A Happy Klezmer Passover to all
A new Flory Jagoda album: this review and others from Judith Cohen
Sway Machinery on NPR
2006 Boston Jewish Music Fest/KCB Reunion/KlezmerShack 10th Anniversary pix up
Jack Kessler brings out the Klingon in Brookline
Center for Traditional Music & Dance - and we congratulate Pete Rushefsky
And now, introducing Gad Elbaz
Matisyahu interview in "The Onion"
Broiges tanz - on film!
An amazing 10th Anniversary sendoff/KCB Reunion/mini-Jewish Music Fest - the 'too tired to write/too hyper to sleep yet' entry
Ride-Shares to KCB reunion? Cambridge student and others in need
First International Jewish Music Festival, New Orleans, Apr 1-2
A great fortnight of Jewish music in London!
2006 Weimar Festival announced - Jul 11 - Aug 10, 2006
Golem inks deal with JDUB
KlezmerPalooza, Today!
Afro-Semitic Experience Live via Podcast
KCB Reunion - last call for Playbill ads
KCB Reunion/KlezmerShack 10th - you can help!
Workshop Schedule set for final KlezmerShack 10th Anniversary Concert
Jazz for all of us, regardless of physical ability
new George Robinson reviews
KlezKanada announces dates: Aug 20-27, 2006
Let My People Sing - 9 days of music in LA
Los Angeles' Hatikvah Music still in business
Klezmer Heritage Cruise on the Dnieper, Apr 29 to May 11, 2007
"20 Years Live!" for the Klezmatics, NYC, Town Hall, Mar 5
"Shalom Comrade" CD release - Yiddish music in the USSR, 1928-1961
Sway Machinery Live: Jack from Mimaamakim
New calendar feature
Call for Volunteers: KlezmerShack 10th Anniversary / Klezmer Conservatory Band Reunion
SRO at Kaplan-Rushefsky concert in Newton
Shoshana Damari, z"l
Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer ROCK
Beyond the Pale wins Canadian Folk Music Award
Tribute to Viktor Ullmann
di Fidl-Kapelye / Live in Amsterdam; review by Günther Schöller
New KlezmerShack review: Panoramaland
Hankus Netsky on American Jewish Cultural History; course in Newton, MA begins Feb 13
Shai: Misc Pop Culture Entries Archives
NEC to offer to courses on Eastern European Jewish Music starting Feb 14
Musique ensemble XX, South of France, 19-26 Aug
KlezKamp Photos online
Frank London interviewed about his "Carnival Conspiracy"
The Rabbi Basement Tapes
Hip Hop Hoodíos nominated for two "Jammy" awards
New Reviews by George Robinson begin with a "Plea for Peace"
Goodbye 2005, hello 2006, still the same old 5766
Matisyahu videos
"Dreydl" makes Austin TV news
21st Berkeley Jewish Music Festival, Berekeley, CA, 4-26 Mar 2006
Roots of Klezmer CD; recorded in Moldavia
new Jewish PR blog, UK
Elliott Simon discovers amazing Polish Jewish bassist
Orange County Klezmer featured by OC Jewish Life
Really good Sephardic folklore sites
George Robinson: Best Jewish Music Recordings of 2005
Yiddish 78s online!
Brave Old World's "Lodz Ghetto" leads off new George Robinson reviews
treasure trove of klezmer sheet music online in manchester england, england, over across the atlantic sea
Bagels and Bongos rerelease
Hip Hop Hoodios debut "Kike on a Mike" video on mymusic.com
Hadassah magazine on New Jewish Music
The Village Voice discovers "New Jewish Music"
Hatikvah Music prepares to close
Rootless Cosmopolitan to blog KlezKamp
"Song of the Lodz Ghetto" makes Newsday Top 10 Classical for 2005
New Cantorial CD: The Spirit of Hanukkah
Michael Wex on Fresh Air
Punk Princesses: Jews with Attitude
Bob Cohen's summer vacation
Catching up from last June: Beyle Gottesman receives NEA National Heritage Fellowship
Reworked Szymon Laks "Elegy for the Jewish Little Towns" released
Latest George Robinson reviews now online
Cowboy "Hamentaschen" from Smithsonian Folkways
Thanksgiving - not a Jewish holiday; but a holiday Jews celebrate
A burgeoning Jewish scene in Moscow
Sephardic music article in the Forward
Go See "Ushpizin"
Klezmer Mailing list in Moscow
UK Jewish Music Podcast
Klezmer Madness on "My Space"
First "KlezmerShock", Minsk, Belarus, Nov 23-24
Pics of the Frank London Klezmer Brass AllStars in Richmond, VA
NPR Interview: John Zorn and John Madof
Blown away by "A Cantor's Tale"
Paul Pincus (1918-2005), z"l
The marriage of Lloica and Czackis - a modern klezmer's tale
Collecting Sephardic Music - article from Pakn Trager now on KlezmerShack
A wonderful new graphic novel, "The Rabbi's Cat"
Brave Old World to perform "Songs of the Lodz Ghetto" in San Francisco, Oct 15
Book on teaching Purimspiel published
Jew*School covers the NYJMHC
Heeb's First Annual Jewish Music Award Fest - Don't you first have to have a clue about Jewish Music?
Klezmer Paris 2005, Oct 22-26
Dona Fest/Moscow announced: March 12-17, 2006
Josh Dolgin interview: The Walrus
Jewish musicians sought for Katrina benefit in Seattle
Update on Hatikvah Music
Majer Bogdanski, z"l
"Youngers of Zion" at the National Yiddish Book Center
the KlezKanada weblog is on
Mike Eisenstadt, z"l
Alan Watsky's comments on KlezKanada
First round, KlezKanada photos
Montreal Gazette on KlezKanada 2005
LA Landmark - Hatikvah Music - threatened by gentrification
Taking a vacation due to overwork
Great new Jewish arts blog - Mimaamakim
Props for the Ken Ulansey Ensemble
Hasidic nigunim released in Jerusalem
Calling all Yiddish Theater Enthusiasts to KlezKanada
DJ SoCalled in Boston - review of a great concert
The Jewgrass Boys go to Harvard
Yiddish Dancing as a metaphor for life
This
is my idea of a music calendar
Christian Dawid on Klez-Vienna
New Jewish blog aggregator - welcome to JewishBlogging.com
2nd International Jewish Music Festival/Seminar in Moscow, Dona-Fest, March 2006
Who drove 50 Shekel to Jesus?
BBC commemorates 80th anniversar of YIVO
3rd Annual Rozhinkes Retreat for Cantors
JTS Music Archives online upgraded
HaZamir reaches new heights in 36th anniv. gala
Weimar Klezmer Wochen - still a few openings
And, from the NYTimes via Alex Lubet: JewsRock.org
Newly discovered Jewish Music Blog
Marc Ribot, Anthony Coleman and the Young Philadelphians, NYC, May 25
Article on the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir
Brave Old World to present "Lodz Ghetto" music at Folksbiene, in NYC, May 11-15
Jvibe's call for a Jewish Grammy
Frank London itnerviewed by Benjamin Bresky
Rogovoy on the latest radical Jewish music
San Francisco Bay Area Klezmer Resource Guide
KlezKanada 2005, Aug 21-28, introduces special "East Meets West" Scholarship expansion
Israeli Songwriter Ehud Manor mourned
Taraf de Haidouks, kazoo-ized
KlezmerShack 10th Anniversary: the party continues
Charming Hostess rules / Ale Brider returns in Choir Fest
Charming Hostess celebrate KlezmerShack 10th tonight in Cambridge, MA
Klezfest in Ukraine, Aug 21-25, 2005
KlezFest, St. Petersburg, Jun 18-22, 2005
Nan Metashvili on the road to Timbuktu
Purim's over, but give a listen to "The Big Megillah
Two wonderful new CDs reviewed
Hebrew Calligrapher's work on display in April
European Assoc. for Jewish Culture Review, 2005
Two sold out concerts
Divahn unable to make tonight's Khevre/Divahn double-bill in Cambridge, MA
Recuperating in Mopti
new CD of Yiddish Folksongs by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman!
"The Language of the Heart"/"Los Muestros"
Do you live in the Boston area?
new Purim CD from Binyomin Ginzberg
Nan Metashvili in the Sahel
Newbury Comics boycotting Jewish Music?
First KlezmerShack 10th Anniversary Concerts lined up
2nd Annual Safed Master Clarinet classes, followed by Klezmer Fest
Oh, lovely parrot - Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala
Yankl Falk on a good Israeli record store
New CD of Indian Jewish music
New Israeli Peace Music Group
Jewish Holiday Music from the Jerusalem National University Library Sound Archive
New CD for Passover, or for any day inspiration: Let my people go!
Nan Metashvili on the road to Sharawi Arab Republic
The power of Music in Judaism
20th Jewish Music Festival in Berkeley, CA, Mar 19 - Apr 3
Pictures from the St. Petersburg KlezShul workshop w/Michael Alpert
New reviews by George Robinson in the Jewish Week
Doing my best to sell out
Michael Drapkin, "Invocation"
"Djemaa el Fna" - Nancy Metashvili reports from Marrakesh
Khevre, at LAST, and more
Mattisyahu review from middle America
Eva Broman with new Ladino Music leads
David A Stein Tribute to air on Canada's Bravo, Feb 2
Old and new albums reviewed, new to the Klezmershack
Ellott Simon on "Music from the Winery"
How Stalin invented world music
Seth Rogovoy on "What the Klezmer Revival can teach Sephardic Music"
Smithsonian Folkways recordings available from MSN
Kabbalistic Kirtan featured in The Forward
Avrom Reisin song booklet available from the Congress for Jewish Culture
New Jewish Forum to do webcasts
Nancy Metashvili in Morocco
20th KlezKamp scrapbook, 2004
Victoria de los Angeles z"l
new website yiddish for historians
Announcing the Jewish Music Forum
New Klezmatics CD: "Brother Moses Smote the Water"
Music from "The Shvitz" revisited!
new transcriptions of kale bazetsns and doinas available
Class on "Eastern European Jewish Musical Traditions" begins NEC, Boston, MA, Feb 2
The latest from Mark Rubin: Belf Romanian MP3s and the Youngers of Zion CD
Belated "Light the Menorah"
NewMusicBox looks as Klezmer (is that the only Jewish music?)
Major Jewish and African-American singing in Newton, MA, coming Jan 22-23
10th Anniversary Coming - Help needed
"Yankele" releases nifty new book/CD for accompanying klezmer learners
Interesting articles on Jewish music in the Forward
Folksbiene looking for singer/actor/dancers; auditions NYC Jan 6
Bnai Brith Radio, from the Forward
Metashvili on the road: Review of Burning Bush, live in York, UK
Wonderful rant on Carlebach jam bands
Tofuhut on Brandwein
Eight Days of Jewish Music Reviews, by George Robinson
Yet more new reviews
Matisyahu, Hip Hop Hoodios live video links
Something Jewish Chanuka radio special still available
New reviews, at last
David Stein, z"l
Call for entries: Cracow Jewish Culture Festival
Art of Yiddish set to open in LA, Dec 19 - 25
Loolwa Khazoom on Jewish Hip Hop
Matisyahu clip - singing and some interview
Weekend Edition's "goyish" take on new "Chanukah Music"
And now, for Chanukah
First round Klezmershack "klezcontacts" update completed
German Record Critics award to Solomon & Socalled
"Yiddish Art Songs" rerelease on Omega
A Carlebach encounter in Tel Aviv
Link to an actual wedding site?
New fusion of Indian and Jewish meditation/ecstatic music released
Youngers of Zion hit the recording studio; Mark Rubin checks in
New Elliott Simon reviews in "All About Jazz" including Chanukah selections
That Pre-Chanukah Review Crunch
Bubby's Song
Pincus and the Pig - the Seth Rogovoy review
A rap for the 'Shack
"A Chanukah Feast" for the ears and a great program
Yes, I have new reviews, too
Latest reviews by George Robinson
"Kosher Woody" - article on the new Klezmatics work with Woody Guthrie songs
Jack Gottlieb at the Library of Congress, via the web
Special Hip Hop Hoodios Chanukah offer
Yossele Rosenblatt re-issues
New for the KlezmerShack: We co-sponsor a special reading for a special book person: Aaron Lansky
Yossi Piamenta mailing list
Klezmatics/Woody Guthrie Chanukkah CD in limited edition
Out as Jews and Out as Gays; playing Klezmer and proud of it!
Go Red Sox! 2004 World Series Champions
Wafarin Strangers
Some klezmer listings are going away
Belated Post - Di Fidl Kapelye in NYC, reviewed by Roger Reid
Svigals and Lerner enchant Amherst
"The Immigrant" - a new musical about the Jewish Immigrant experience
Oh, right, there's no point writing reviews if I don't mention them....
More reviews by George Robinson
Who is a Jew? What is Jewish Art?
Mishegoss! set to run in Minneapolis
Elliot Simon on The Chassidic Jazz Project and Klez Dispensers
Mizrahi music takes over the Israeli airwaves
Stempenyu's Dream CD released
KlezmerShack coding updated
Notes from Zamir/ Mark Slobin commenting on Jewish Music Theatre
Cantor Sam Weiss on "Teshuva"
3rd Int'l Conf. on Judeo-Spanish Studies
Khevre burns the house down at Zeitgeist, 9/26/04
Freylakh the vote, NYC, Oct 12
Milken Archive on NPR
Review of London's KlezFest 2004
Class on History of Klezmer starts in Oct, NYC
Shalshelet, "Festival of New Jewish Liturgical Music", Nov 13-14
More on "Maftirim" from Turkey
Ashkenaz 2004: Great music, but still some questions
George Robinson on Folkways reissues, now available from Hatikvah in LA
"KlezKanada" continues
Rogovoy on Wall's "Later Prophets"
Shteyt Oyf! (Stand up!) for Social Justice, Hopewell Junction, NY, Sep 3-6 3-6, 2004
KlezKanada weblog new entry up
Charming Hostess charms, blows us all away
What a KlezKanada!
Ashkenaz Festival Schedule complete
The Yiddish Voice — Boston Yiddish Radio Show's Tenth Year
Spammers and the KlezmerShack listings
Politics Aside, Oi Va Voi wows Israel
"Something Jewish" - a new online Jewish magazine
From Klezmer to Klezcore
Non-Jews, Klezmer, and Anti-Semitism in Germany
Something Klezmer happening in Astoria, Queens
A weekend with the Klezmatics in London
Workmen's Circle Chorus still singing out for social justice
Lots of great new music
Yiddishe Cup Channels Mickey Katz
Piamenta aims for Orthodox heavy metal fans; Hendrix he's not
Rogovoy on Mikveh, Golem
I will be teaching at KlezKanada, Aug 25-29, this year
Seth Rogovoy on Mikveh
New recommendations on the "mailto" page
Lag B'Omer melodies digitized in Israel, now on web
Interview with composer Ofer Ben-Amots at Milken Archive site
New Yiddish+Tsimbl album by Kaplan and Rushefsky
New Reviews of all sorts
"Di Shtockshpil" revisited
JMI announces Cantorial workshops in London this summer
new pages, projects at Living Traditions
New reviews on Rainlore's world of music
new reviews on "All About Jazz"
New Reviews on Klezmershack
5th Annual KlezFest, Kiev, Ukraine, Aug 15-20, 2004
International Conference Opens to Address future of Jewish Heritage in Europe
New article by Stewart Cherlin on Chicago live performances
KlezmerWelten 2004 pix
KlezCalifornia details, San Francisco, Jun 20-25
Changes coming to KlezmerShack
New Reviews on Rainworld's World of Jewish Music
Steven Greenman: Major klezmer violin project nearing release
Right Wing Orthodox Jewish Rocker has interesting blog
3-CD set of American synagogue music review
new albums by Shtreiml and Brave Old World
Catching up - more great writing by Richard Sharma
Cahan-Simon's "Vessel of Song" CD earns rave
Golden Horn releases Veretski Pass CD
Elliott Simon on "I Remember Klezmer"
Jewish music list archives now searchable
New Jewish Music fest in Brooklyn
On the road with Frank London and Boban Markovic
Watts CD release party a smash
Folkways Jewish Recordings Now on CD
new Seth Rogovoy reviews
Eighth annual Klezfest announced for St. Petersburg, Russia, Jun 12-16
New articles about, new releases from the Milken Archive of Jewish American Music
Rashanim, Caplan concert review by Roger Reid
New KlezmerShack reviews
KlezKamp 2004 announced
Online Study Guide for Klezmer Music
Oi Va Voi big hit in Israel
Israeli fusion band to tour US, Canada, in summer 2004
More reviews from Richard Sharma
Klezmer Workshops begin, NYC, Jan 27
Adrienne Cooper in Ghetto Tango, NYC, Jan 18
Shalom Ireland film in NY
KlezKanada scholarships available
Cleveland paper reports on Steven Greenman's latest project
Yiddish article on 'KlezKamp" 2003
Krakauer "Live in Krakow"
Rogovoy on Asia in Forverts
Rainlore adds even more - updated UK calendar coming
jmwc announcements - new weblog on the block
Oi Va Voi in Top Ten
Loads of new articles from Richard Sharma
Jewish Rock Stars
Polish Jewish Music - Online Journal
Latest George Robinson reviews
New Jeffrey Wollock article in ARSC
Discography of early European Jewish recordings
Brave Old World go Indie with "Bless the Fire"
Sarah Aroeste interview on NPR
Lost Platina tapes released
Seth Rogovoy's seasonal CD roundup
Hannukah at the Phonoteqah
Catching up with Rainlore's articles, UK
Traditional Chanuka and Purim songs for piano
Seth Rogovoy writes about Alicia Svigals
new reviews on All About Jazz
Rogovoy on new Klezmatics/Guthrie collaboration
Updates at Rainlore's World of Jewish Music
New KlezmerShack reviews
Gerard Edery Sephardic Song Book released
Margot Leverett and Klezmer Mountain Boys featured in The Forward
Chopin for the Oud
KlezmerShack on the Road: Milken Conference, NYC, Nov 7-11
What does it mean to be a cantor?
New reviews by George Robinson
Review: New Milken Archive Recording of Jewish Concertos
Festival of New Jewish Liturgical Music, Nov 13-14
Biggest Hora in History - this weekend in New Jersey
New CDs of Spanish-Portugese Cantorial Music
Review: Kruzenshtern & Parohod / the craft of primitive klezmer
Review: Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys
KlezKamp returns to Catskills, Dec 23-29, 2003
Czech Jewish Jazz from Nazi Era
article on Israeli music in "Maamakim"
First 5 Milken CDs released on Naxos
All About Jazz back up; new reviews by Elliott Simon
David Chevan, "Days of Awe" review
Jewish Music in Poland Between the World Wars
Yiddish and Music at the Los Angeles Winter Yiddish Intensive!
Updated Ukrainian Jewish site
Helsinki Klezmer Festival, Oct 25-27
Judaica Music Website Now Open
Radio feature on Tzadik artists
Days of Awe review
Israeli Klezmer wins UNESCO Prize
Western Sephardic Music Tradition
Alicia Svigals to appear in Boston, Sep 24
Klezmer class starts Sep 23, Boston
More on KlezKanada, on the radio
Article: Klezmer Dance at KlezKanada
New Entries on Rainlore's Jewish Music pages
Sparks Project - Interesting new Jewish art of a non-musical kind
More on the Milken Archive and Conference
Howie Leess, z"l
Hop Hop Hoodios sign national distribution
Folksbiene Weekend, Catskills, NY, Labor Day Weekend, Aug 29 - Sep 1
Now we're "Fair and Balanced"
Latest reviews on the KlezmerShack
Robinson feature on Rashanim, Shtreiml
New Afro-Semitic CD - music from High Holidays
Klezmatics to do Woody Guthrie Hanukkah program
Audition for the Folksbiene
Release "Eybike Mame"/10th anniversary of Wergo Jewish Music Series
2000 sheets of Cantorial music online
Update from KFAR Jewish Center
Rainlore posts new klezmer reviews
Five new music reviews
First feature-film klezmer soundtrack in 50 years?
Four new reviews
Velvel strikes again! Songs Never Silenced, now out
Myrian Alter review by Elliott Simon
Khupe review von Deutschland
Bohlman Rescues Music of Rare Jewish Cabarets
new Yiddish music
Jeff Dorchen strikes back with Ad-Hoc Book of Days
Divan: the film, premieres on West Coast at SFJFF
Hankus Netsky Institute canecelled
Appreciating the Stringband
Shtreiml concert review
Comic Robin Williams on the Klezmatics
13th Jewish Cultural Fest opens, Cracow, Poland
Cantors retreat to the Catskills, Aug 10-13
Hop Hop Hoodíos on NPR
Review of Paul Shapiro album
New calendar launched
Hadass Pal-Yarden releases collection of Ottoman Ladino music
"Nextbook" - New Jewish Cultural website
New KlezKalendar in "beta"
Elliott Simon reviews in "Squids Ear"
Lots of new reviews of almost everything
Margot Leverett in special Tonic show, Sun Jun 8
New Robinson column on Jewish Music
Jewish Tango in Argentina
New at "Chazzanut Online"
Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys
About the Yale Jewish Music Conference
Joseph Moskowitz, ,Remembered
About Italian Jewish Music
Jewish Music Blog in NYC
New reviews from all over
European Association for Jewish Culture Grants 2003
A musical synagogue celebration in Victoria, BC, Canada
Klezmer articles in Israel
Review: Jewish Cello Masterpieces
Hankus Netsky Summer Klezmer Institute, Jul 21-25 2003
Interview with Yasmin Levy
Hop Hop Hoodios on TV
Klezmatics Review on RootsWorld
Radio Broadcast tonight, 5/19/03, from Meron
Maxwell Street Klezmer / Old Roots, New World
Mikveh/Erica Jong for Mother's Day, NYC
Conference on Rebetika, Oct 16 - 19, 2003
Review: Duo Controverso / Gedanken
RSS Newsreaders
A Jewish Dancing datapoint
new JMD-UK site
Review of Koby Israelite
Three new reviews
Klezmer midi etc
Breakfast at Fezziwig's - A different dance tradition
Klezfest St. Petersberg, July 12-16, 2003
A tin whistle for klezmorim
8th Annual KlezKanada, Aug 20-24
JewSchool
KlezCalifornia--early bird reg. discount ends May 1
New Flying Bulgars; Album Release May 10,11
Max and Minka accordion duo release
Wu-Tang Clan to tour Israel
Jewish Music Conference at Yale, Apr 12-13
TRANCE: An Art Installation (Opens April 30)
Lots of Jewish music around Passover
Yiddish Radio Project wins the Peabody Award
Websites on Jewish Liturgical Music
Reviews of Sephardic Passover CDs, George Robinson
Italian Jewish musical traditions, article
Klezmer on the Air: Germany Apr5,
Folklore and Dance tour of Romania, Jun 20 - 30, 2003
E. Euro Ashkenazi Nusach online
Argentinian Yiddish Choir on the Web: Spanish, English
Where are the Jewish weblogs?
Favorite Passover Recordings
mailing lists for stringed instruments
Klezmatics new release, "Rise Up", May 13
Wolf Krakowski + Middle Eastern roots music w/Alicia Svigals
New KlezmerShack Reviews
CRI bought by New World Records; CD dist sought
12th "Days of Jewish Culture," Chemnitz, Germany, Mar 27 - Apr 3
Albuquerque Academy Klezmer Camp, Jun 23-27
First Icelandic band listing
Article about Alpert, Mayer, Dresder in "The Singing Table"
Review of Theresa Tova CD
Review of Laura Wetzler CD
Martin Schwartz article
Review of Maxwell St Klezmer, "Old Roots, New World"
Review of Klezthetics CD, "Calistrophy" by Elliott Simon
"Kabbalah Music" CD Concert Art Exhibit, premiers Mar 9
Klezmer Reviews in "Sing Out!"
About Michal-Josef Guzikov
New Jewish Music website
Jozef Jankowski tsimbl article
new issue of Zukunft on Jewish Music
Praise for "Joy of Klez" charts
Alexandria Kleztet, Delusions of Klezmer
Lerner/Moguilevsky Duo lauded
Israeli Bus Station music, 1993
Memories of a Neskaya Dance Weekend, Oct 2002
Yiddish American Digital Archive
Yiddish sound archives online at Dartmouth
Sephardic bibliography, and more, online at UC Davis
Five New Reviews
Kol Isha?
Rubinchik's Orkestyr back in print
Review of Maxwell Street / Old Roots New World, by Richard Sharma
new articles by Elliott Simon
Best of 2002, from George Robinson
"Mediterraneanism" in Israeli music:
Weimar Klezmer Weeks
new website: Lingua Franca
Yiddishe Cup brings fun brand of Jewish music to Dallas
The Other Jewish Music
Yiddish Conference, Baltimore, MD, Sep 4-7
Metropolitan Klezmer in "Preview"
Mikveh to appear in Boston, Feb 8,9
Wandering through Jewish tradition by BEN-CANAR: a new CD from OW
Petition to British Musicians Union
KlezFest London returns 29 Jun - 10 Jul
Updated Sephardic Music Bibliography
New home page
More on "Oriental" Israeli music
Jewish Music is Alive and Well in Toronto!
"Klezmerwelten" Fest in Germany, Jan - Jun 2003
KlezCalifornia: Yiddish Folk Arts Camp
New American-Jewish Music for Prayer CD
Yiddish Immersion in LA, Dec 16-22
Henry Sapoznik interview--the banjo scoop
"vorbei" (beyond recall)
Hanukkah is coming: Hip Hop Hoodios release "Ocho Kandelikos" video
New release-Jewish music by holocaust survivor Anita Lasker Wallfisch
Seymour Rexite, z"l
Living Traditions announces 18th Annual KlezKamp
Khevrisa performs from European Wedding Repertoire, NYC, Oct 6
The Paris Yiddish Center opens October 14, 2002
Sephardic Songbook, 2nd Edition released
Kloset Klezmer Akkordeonists
East European Jewish Dance workshop with Zev Feldman, Franconia, NH, Oct 11-13
Special Jewish Dance Publication
Michail Alexsandrowitsch z"l
New: Yiddish Folk Dance Video
Klezfest in St. Petersburg, Russian, Jul 20 - 23, 2002
Ashkenaz Fest, Aug 31 - Sep 2, Toronto, ON, CANADA
Berkley's Boaz Accordions moves
Michael Alpert to innaugurate Brookline Workmen's Circle coffeehouse, Sat Apr 27
Latest reviews by Ari Davidow cheer up a taxing season
David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness reviewed by Michael Spudic
Strauss/Warschauer Duo seeks bookings in Europe, Summer 2002
Sony Legacy Yiddish Music Reissue Series innaugurated with three historic titles
Release party for the Afro-Semitic release recording, Middletown, CT, Apr 1
Klezmer Music: From Underground to Outer Edge
New CD by David Krakauer released in France
Passover music and more
Cantor Isaac Algazi: Sweet Singer of Israel
Choral Concert in the Jewish and Christian traditions "Psalms"
Albuquerque Academy Klezmer Camp July 8-12, 200
Cubo Futurist Klezmer
Craig Taubman to release One Shabbat Morning CD
Beyond Recall: Once more revisited..., review by Michael Spudic
In Memoriam of Liberation--Theodorakis' Mauthausen Trilogy and more, recent reviews by Ari Davidow
Rahel Jaskow debum album--new music by an Orthodox Jewish woman
New book on Synagogue Music
Klezmatics album rereleases on Rounder records
Strauss/Warschauer Duo in Copenhagen, Mon Feb 11
Israeli Klezmer Workshop starts Feb 10
New Yiddish Passover CD - Songs My Bubbe Should Have Taught Me, Volume One: Passover
Klezmer Violinist Steven Greeman to offer workshops, culminating in public performance
Katz Cantorial manuscript available online
Seth Rogovoy to lecture on klezmer in Belmont, MA, spring 2002
Klezmer Camp California, Summer 2003
Klezmerpalooza 2002 at Yale, Feb 24
Sephardic Songbook edited Saltiel, intro by Josh Horowitz
The Soul of Klezmer: Last reviews of 2001
Jewish Entertainment Resources
Sandra Layman's "Little Blackbird" released--Klezmer, Romanian, Greek, Turkish, and Hungarian violin music
Jewish music curriculum available in German
Moshe Berlin live performance available
Klezmer in Berlin: Whose Klezmer Is It, Anyway?
Shul Music Web page is finally on-line!
My Travels, by Tamar Adams
Arkady Gendler: "My Hometown Soroke, Yiddish Songs of the Ukraine"
Radio Szalom, Jewish music Internet broadcast from Poland
Writing about the Klezmer Revival, by Ari Davidow
Years's Best Recordings by George Robinson
Klingon Klezmer Live, on the web
The latest hot stuff, part 2, 12 Dec 2001
Wholesale Klezmer with timely new CD
A New liturgical voice, by Cantor Sam Weiss
Chanuka Favorites from the Jewish-Music Mailing List
Klezzing in the Peg: Helen's Dream Vacation
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