In the world of Jewish roots music — that is, music that originated in the shtetls of Eastern Europe — Elad Kabilio has two strikes against him: he’s Israeli and he’s a cellist. But don’t tell that to ...

In a musical sense, Bay Area quartet Davka re-creates the deeds ascribed in legend to the mystic Jewish masters of medieval Europe, who, through incantations gleaned from the ancient Hebrew texts, ...

2 David Eckstrand To Star as 'Sir' in In TETCNY's Production Of THE DRESSER On Tuesday, September 10, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo will present Klezmer Meets Classical, a concert ...

It was in Petaluma that Julie Egger, a violinist raised in a secular Jewish household on New York's Long Island, committed herself to the effervescent Jewish folk music known as klezmer. Since that ...

When Wendy Marcus started performing klezmer music in 1983, she was treated as a curiosity. In head scarf and shawl, a violin tucked under her chin, the University of Washington grad then in her late ...

“Energy is eternal delight,” the poet William Blake said, and klezmer music proves his point. For centuries throughout Jewish Eastern Europe, rhythmically high-strung klezmer bands, which often ...

During the revival of klezmer music in the 1980s, Jewish musicians like The Klezmatics claimed that they were not playing their fathers' kind of klezmer. They suggested instead that their new ...

Smoked fish and klezmer are two sure signs of a happy Jewish occasion. But as author Thane Rosenbaum discovered, klezmer provides more than a soundtrack for simchas. In his 2002 novel "Golems of ...