Sephardic musician, singer-songwriter and composer Flory Jagoda passed away on January 29, 2021. She was 97 years old. Flory Jagoda was the recipient of a…
Sephardic Musician and Composer Flory Jagoda Dies at 97
Tag: Jewish music
All-Female Ensemble Celebrates Middle Eastern Musical Connections
Divahn – Shalhevet (Divahn, 2020) Divahn is an all-female American ensemble based in New York City that specializes in Jewish music from the Middle East.…
Yiddish Music Brooklyn Style
Michael Winograd – Kosher Style (OU People, 2019) Clarinet virtuoso and composer Michael Winograd explores the roots and evolution of Yiddish music on Kosher Style.…
Artist Profiles: Lior Elmaleh
Lior Elmaleh, who has been the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra’s resident soloist for a number of years, is one of the leading representatives of the new…
Artist Profiles: The Klezmatics
The original members of The Klezmatics, Alicia Svigals (violin), Dave Lindsay (bass) and Rob Chavez (clarinet) met after reading an ad in the Village Voice…
Singer’s Warsaw Festival 2016: An annual celebration of music and culture in Warsaw
Yiddish culture returns by way of pre-war films and contemporary performances, workshops of dance and song, Jewish paper cutting, ceramics, and Hebrew calligraphy ……
26th Jewish Culture Festival, a Krakow festival of World Music
The first Jewish Culture Festival was held in Poland in 1988, at which time its main goal was to emphasize the very important role of…
Semer Jewish Music Recordings Rediscovered
Semer Ensemble – Rescued Treasure – Live at Gorki Berlin (Piranha Musik, 2016) The Semer Ensemble specializes in recreating the Jewish music of 1930s Germany.…
Yiddish Musical Journey
The influence of Yiddish and klezmer on modern, Western popular music is tremendous. Listeners have osmosed it for many decades, in music halls, theaters, the…
Levantine Music in Eastern Europe: Klezmer from Litvakistan
Music of Klezmeristan What Were Khazarian Wedding Dances and Music Like? Would They Resemble Klezmer? By: Anne Hart, M.A., author of 36 books, journalist: world…