Susan Watts, a fourth generation Klezmer musician will perform alongside an orchestra of exclusively women on Sunday at the Annenberg Center during a performance called "Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of ...

Klezmer music is like pornography and spirituality: Everyone knows it when they hear it, but few agree upon just what it is. The funny thing is, klezmer hasn’t been around very long. As a term ...

Klezmer All-Star Bash. When: 8 p.m. Thursday. Where: Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York. How much: $21-62. For information, call (212) 247-7800 or visit carnegiehall.org. Forty ...

With roots in the doomed world of Eastern European Jewry, contemporary klezmer music can carry a whiff of sad nostalgia. In the right hands, however, there’s nothing morose about Yiddish party music.

It’s turning into a week full of klezmer at the New Times office. The folks at Rough Guide sent over their latest disc, The Rough Guide to Klezmer Revival, for review, with 18 tracks of fresh new ...

(JTA) At the Orchard Estate assisted living facility in Woodbury, New York, residents hum along to the klezmer music familiar to many Jews of their generation. The Yiddish-inflected music with roots ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. On one evening last summer, Dan Horowitz found himself in the middle of rural ...

Music is the universal language. You’ll be convinced it’s true if you attend a concert by the Salaam-Shalom Music Project on April 23 at Evanston’s SPACE. “We started it around the time of 9/11,” said ...

It’s been dubbed Kleztronica. Essentially electronic dance music with klezmer elements, the year-old genre is made to a large degree with samplers and synthesizers, though old-school instruments that ...

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The Klezmer Music Ensemble at UCLA has nine members and is looking to add more. Current members are (top row, from left) Michel Klein, Niccolo Scolieri, Amy Law, Tyler Bailie, Ethan Eshkol and Sam ...