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 ...

Orsolya Korcsolan has a secret. Orsolya Korcsolan has a secret. The Hungarian-born violinist and her horn-playing husband Gergely Sugar spent the last six years performing with the internationally ...

Singer Debbie Friedman died Sunday of complications of pneumonia, but her progressive, feminist influence on Jewish folk music will live on. According to the Times obituary, the 59-year-old Friedman ...

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It’s one day that only happens every two years. It’s seven hours of continuous Jewish music and dance on four stages, linked by rows upon rows of Jewish paintings and crafts, Jewish organizations and ...

Black Ox Orkestar, a quartet assembled in Montreal in 2000 to explore the sound of the Jewish diaspora, has always been one project among many for its members. Lead singer and songwriter Scott Gilmore ...

Evanston’s very own klezmer band, based at the Jewish Reconstructionist Synagogue in Evanston, brought its Evanston sound to the community on Dec. 16. The band called Heavy Shtetl, a play on the genre ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC)- Musicians from Cincinnati and as far away as Israel are coming together to celebrate Jewish Music. he festival will showcase nine different concerts through March 26. The artistic ...

Yiddish Glory is a newly recorded album of Jewish folk songs, documented during World War II but thought lost for decades, that matches their... In August 1945, as World War II was drawing to a close, ...

CAPE MAY – If history is any indication they could be dancing on the streets of Cape May on the nights of June 13 and Aug. 22 when the Odessa Klezmer Band performs in a free concert series at the ...

After a packed, overly scheduled workweek, I love the slow, relaxed tempo of Friday night Shabbos dinner with my family and friends. What makes it stand out are not only the delightful tastes and ...

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 ...