Tap your toes and learn the words to German folk songs this weekend Published: Aug. 28, 2008, 11:28 a.m.

An album was written for them, mostly in the style of Bavarian folk music, but with a light rock beat. The girls were asked what they wanted to sing about, and the writers produced songs to match ...

Fast Forward Andrea Pancur, singer who bridged German and Yiddish song traditions, dies at 54 A Catholic with roots in Slovenia, she found connections between klezmer music and the folk songs of ...

The Reading Liederkranz Singers kicked off a weekend of German folk singing Saturday at Sangerfest 2018, a concert at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Reading. Wearing German-inspired outfits, t… ...

It performed locally at German Day celebrations, folk festivals, Oktoberfests, and private functions. A 30-voice singing branch was also formed for the performance of Bavarian and German folk songs.

The German folk songs they grew up singing at home didn’t go over so well in Cold War-era Europe, Jens says. But American folk music, strangely, was neutral territory.

The German Folk Song Archive (DVA) was founded in 1914. Since 1953 it has been a free and independent scientific research institute sponsored by the state of Baden-Wurtemberg.

Pancur’s website explained that German and Yiddish folk music feature “songs that are so old that even the ancient Bavarian and the old Klezmer musicians back in the day had no idea they were ...