Nothing signals the arrival of a musical genre like the emergence of a festival circuit. Folk festivals proliferated in the 1950s, rock festivals sprang forth in the ’60s and world music festivals ...

Susan Watts comes from a long line of performers of the Jewish genre of klezmer music: The klezmer dynasty dates to 19th century Ukraine and begins with Watts’ great-grandfather, the musician, ...

Upshtat Zingerai play Jewish simhah dance music for a wedding at the South Shore Cultural Center. From left to right: Emma Blau, Jonah Lazarus, Qi Yang, Hannah Mira Friedland, and Ethan Aronson Credit ...

On Nov. 20, Mostly Kosher brought its unique flair of klezmer rock to UCLA. The band – which focuses on traditional klezmer music with modern genres ranging from jazz and Latin to rock and folk – ...

Yiddish music has always evolved — from the shtetl to the stage, and now to the synth. For some time now a new wave of ...

On one evening last summer, Dan Horowitz found himself in the middle of rural Tennessee where his band was hired to play a wedding. Just like every good Jewish wedding, this one featured a Freylekh ...

Klezmer originated in Eastern Europe but finds its future in a new generation of American Jewish youth. UClezLA, which took place Sunday at Schoenberg Hall, is a Yiddish culture festival which ...

“Kleztronica” is a burgeoning Jewish music scene that’s becoming a “movement,” according to its 22-year-old creator, Upper West Side native Kaia Berman-Peters. (New York Jewish Week) — On a recent ...

Growing up Jewish in Philadelphia, Uri Caine, the genre-bending jazz pianist and composer, said he was “too cool for klezmer.” Although that Eastern European musical tradition surrounded him — his ...

Temple Beth El’s fifth annual Humboldt Jewish Music and Culture Festival kicks off Sunday evening and then continues on March 16 and 17. A program called “The Angel’s Wings: Music & Tales for the Soul ...