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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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