h/t to my friend Shaun in Romania who noticed that Electrecord (the former state-owned record label in Romania during communist times, now a for-profit company owning basically all Romanian music from the postwar era) deleted and is reposting all their back catalogue with AI enhanced / yassified versions of the 1970s artist photos. 🤦♀️archival malpractice
Portland OR folks, check out my friend Zoë Aqua's upcoming show with her band marrying klezmer and Transylvanian fiddle music. their album was one of my faves of last year.
https://ejcpdx.org/events/2026/2/21/cgnbyptpk6prng9epux9v0hoo9dqr6
#klezmer #JewishMusic #PortlandOR #Transylvania #Fiddle #Cimbalom
In their very first tour in the United States, Zoë Aqua and her Transylvanian String Band will bring an energetic, powerful and deeply unique program to American audiences. All ages $20adv/$25 door Tickets Here Fiddler Zoë Aqua studied folk music for two years as a Fulbright grantee in Transylva
Playing for yiddish dance at the Peretz Centre's Hanukkah party last night
randomly thought of this legendary bootleg wedding video featuring my musical hero Toni Iordache, as well as some other legends of Romanian music like Ionică Minune and Ion Drăgoi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcABG6gmCTM
#Romania #FolkMusic #cimbalom #fiddle #accordion #RomanianMusic #lautar
RE: https://klezmor.im/@carkner/115584888503430650
in case you missed it, an excellent #klezmer trio livestreamed from the Center for Jewish History last night. including Andy Statman, who studied under Dave Tarras back in the day.
take on the tune by this great historically informed performance group from Suceava called Zicălașii. they have hours of performances on youtube if you want to hear 1-200 year old Romanian dances.
https://youtu.be/h38PljwDdv4?si=VPpQMXKJrzAJjDUn&t=275
#FolkMusic #violin #cimbalom #RomanianMusic #Suceava #Bucovina #Romania
ah, for some reason I didn't connect that this famous photo of a Galician klezmer band (from the YIVO collection) is of this same Zimbler family from Przemyśl, but of an older generation. some captions say Leopold is one of the violinists, but if so the year may be wrong, as he was already in NYC in 1905.
#klezmer #JewishHistory #Przemyśl #OldPhotos #cimbalom #StringBand
#Vancouver folks, I'm playing my #Cimbalom in an ad hoc band for this event, check it out if you want to dance to some live #Klezmer music later this month. 😁
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/tantzhoyz-yiddish-in-motion-community-dance-party
The other side of the disc is quite similar 🤓🎶
https://archive.org/details/78_egy-kis-leny-van-a-vilgon-nnken-one-little-girl-in-the-world-for-me_gbia0289421b
Instrumental, Liberty Horn (Tarogato) (Hungarian Instruments) Cymbalom Accompaniment.Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer...
reading up about the #78rpm phonograph era again for an article I'm trying to write and decided to see what new discs had been posted to @internetarchive since last time I looked. Here's an interesting Hungarian-style #cimbalom and #tarogato piece by anonymous artists, recorded in NYC around 1910. The tarogato player may have been called A. Selzer.
🕵️old klezmers🎻