It’s always been a challenge for those who don’t celebrate Christmas to find something enjoyable to do Dec. 25, when most ...

Violinist Zoe Aqua and the string band the Ebony Hillbillies will share a stage on Thursday at Gowanus club Littlefield. (New York Jewish Week) – Two folk music traditions that developed on opposite ...

Sarah Seltzer’s debut novel is full of familial drama, rock music history and lots of Yiddishkeit. Some of the most iconic American folk singers of the 1960s and ’70s were Jewish: Bob Dylan, Paul ...

"Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah" Jewish Music "Wonder Wheel" Jewish Music SUSAN MCKEOWN "Blackthorn: Irish Love Songs" World Village THE KLEZMATICS HAVE EMERGED as the most interesting of the ...

Orsolya Korcsolan has a secret. Orsolya Korcsolan has a secret. The Hungarian-born violinist and her horn-playing husband Gergely Sugar spent the last six years performing with the internationally ...

Singer Debbie Friedman died Sunday of complications of pneumonia, but her progressive, feminist influence on Jewish folk music will live on. According to the Times obituary, the 59-year-old Friedman ...

It’s one day that only happens every two years. It’s seven hours of continuous Jewish music and dance on four stages, linked by rows upon rows of Jewish paintings and crafts, Jewish organizations and ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — New York Folklore is putting on its final event in a free, three-part showcase of the Capital Region’s folk music traditions. The show will feature The Kleiner Klezmer ...

More than a year ago, klezmer music lovers Raye Holab and Ben Sweet embarked on a “dreaming session” that ended in a bold idea — a multi-day Colorado festival dedicated to the Eastern European style ...

Black Ox Orkestar, a quartet assembled in Montreal in 2000 to explore the sound of the Jewish diaspora, has always been one project among many for its members. Lead singer and songwriter Scott Gilmore ...

(JTA) — Folk musician and record archivist Nathan Salsburg lives on a 40-acre former tree farm in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, with fellow songwriter Joan Shelley. Shelley is not Jewish, but ...

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