🕵️old klezmers🎻Huh I don't agree with every historical statement but otherwise very interesting interview with a Ukrainian #klezmer connoisseur translated into English 😐👍
https://ukrainianjewishencounter.org/en/religious-and-klezmer-jewish-music-and-its-links-with-ukraine/
Chevra haChachamotFrom Harif:
The daughter of oud-player Sol Basha, Madrid-based Regine Basha is an artist, curator, story-teller and founder of the project Tuning Baghdad. This is an audio-visual archive of music and stories recalling Regine’s Iraqi-Jewish upbringing, her father´s deep relationship to Arabic music and the lost Jewish performers of Iraqi Maqam. She also has a keen interest in Mizrahi food and has hosted a show called Kitchen Radio.
Join Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88256691342?pwd=aaNVy8ngLli0NaGOZLl7ohUTMUEM1z.1
Meeting ID: 882 5669 1342
Passcode: SalehDaoud
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #jewdiverse #Jewish #Judaism #JewishMusic #Sephardi #Mizrahi #MENA
it's too small to read, but that Ben Bonus LP in the background is one of my all time faves from that era (1950s-60s Yiddish theatre adjacent singer songwriter stuff). his granddaughter lives in Seattle & is a big fan of his too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xB-V1SuWTE
Besaraber Motiv
Josh Dolgin belatedly sent me this photo of me looking at the choral materials in his office at McGill. 😅it's me
this online talk my organization is hosting is happening in about 2 hours, check it out if you're free. it'll be interesting.
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/ottoman-musical-routes-roots-moldavian-yiddish-connections-alan-bern
Ottoman Musical Routes & Roots: Moldavian Yiddish Connections
In the first of the 2025 Zhargon Speaker Series, Dr. Alan Bern traces the centuries-old, rich cultural connections between Yiddish and Ottoman cultures through music. This speaker series is part of the Peretz Centre's Discovering Doikayt initiative. We acknowledge the support of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation with funding provided by the Government of Canada.
Joel Rubin posted this on fb:
"Boydell and Brewer is having a 50% off sale on all ebooks until Nov. 2. Promo code BOO50. That includes my New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century."
https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/new-york-klezmer-in-the-early-twentieth-century-epub/
one of the only peer reviewed books that overlaps with the kind of research I'm doing so of course I endorse it. 😁
their Radiant Others interviews are worth a listen --
Ira (from 2023)
https://radiant-others-a.blubrry.net/ira-temple/
and Michael (from way back in 2017!)
https://radiant-others-a.blubrry.net/michael-winograd/
#klezmer #MusicPodcast #MusicianInterviews #Yiddish #JewishMusic
Ira Khonen Temple - Radiant Others
Today on the Radiant Others Podcast, Dan speaks with Ira Khonen Temple. Ira is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and embedded cultural organizer. Recent credits include accordionist for Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, and music director of Indecent at the Weston Playhouse, Great Small Works’ Muntergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls, the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committe Purimshpil, and Zoe Beloff’s Days of the…
I've been researching old Bundist songs for a workshop for a few weeks now and I can't believe I didn't know about this book till now. Arbeyt un Frayhayt, a collection of #Yiddish revolutionary, workers and folk songs mostly dating to 1903-05, published by Schmul Lehman in Warsaw in 1921.
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yiddish-books/spb-nybc212450/lehman-szmil-arbeyt-un-frayhayt
#LaborSongs #1905 #Bundism #JewishMusic
listening to my friend Adrianne Greenbaum's brand new klezmer flute album 🤪🎶
https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/di-klezmer-flute-nisht-fargesn
Di Klezmer Flute Nisht Fargesn, by Adrianne Greenbaum
18 track album
Michael Winograd & co. playing a faithful recreation of Tarras and Musiker's classic Tanz arrangements.
https://youtu.be/3j_LCnyIw3U?si=6ZR1-lOgbcvfA5M_
