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 ...

Jewish folk songs of Palestine. Zirmu galim ; Artsa alinu -- Jewish folk songs of Eastern Europe. Farbenkt ; Mit a nodl ; Kegen gold fun zun ; Zhankoye Repository Loc. Smithsonian Institution, Center ...

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 ...

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Bass plays lute, guitar and percussion in Trio Sefardi, a group that performs traditional music from the Sephardim, a Jewish community that originated in Spain. The trio performed at the Hill Center ...

Connie Francis was a longtime Parkland resident whose 1960 filmed-in-Fort-Lauderdale romp “Where the Boys Are” is to Spring Break what “Jaws” is to shark fishing. Francis was among the first people ...

TEN YEARS AGO, Sarah Morse saw a puppeteer in Germany perform the Creation story. Hiding behind a screen and wearing black gloves, "The puppeteer's hands came down like the hands of God, folding ...

As vocalist Anthony Russell learned a Yiddish piece about a woeful traveler far away from their family, he noticed it felt like another, very culturally different song — the African American spiritual ...

Gitare ; Sheltn, shelt ich dem tog (3:53) -- Papir iz doch vays (2:45) -- Fishelech koyfn (1:42) -- Beker lid (2:32) -- Dortn, dortn ibern vasserl (2:38) -- Bay dem shtetl (1:23) -- Ale vasserlech ...