While going through my list of NY #klezmer names this week, I've been looking into the Axelrod family of musicians who were from Zolochiv and came to NYC around 1906.They mostly became members of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society which was a mutual aid society for klezmorim and other Jewish immigrant musicians in NY. Still trying to sort out how some seem to have moved a second time to Detroit and Chicago fairly early on.

#MusicHistory#NYhistory

While going through my list of NY #klezmer names this week, I've been looking into the Axelrod family of musicians who were from Zolochiv and came to NYC around 1906.They mostly became members of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society which was a mutual aid society for klezmorim and other Jewish immigrant musicians in NY. Still trying to sort out how some seem to have moved a second time to Detroit and Chicago fairly early on.

#MusicHistory#NYhistory

it's been around for a while, but it came up in a group chat again today.. are people aware of this audio streaming site from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine where you can listen to curated wax cylinders of Jewish music from An-sky, Kiselhof, Magid, Beregovsky etc. expeditions?😁
https://www.audio.ipri.kiev.ua/index.html

#klezmer #yiddish#WaxCylinder#USSR#Ukraine

a related thing I didn't know about till today is that Zisl Slepovitch (from Minsk, long resident in NYC) has 40 klezmer tracks from Sofia Magid's field recordings up on bandcamp.
https://zisl.bandcamp.com/album/magids-klezmer-book-vol-1-concert-key-and-bb-instruments

#klezmer#Belarus#FieldRecordings

it's been around for a while, but it came up in a group chat again today.. are people aware of this audio streaming site from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine where you can listen to curated wax cylinders of Jewish music from An-sky, Kiselhof, Magid, Beregovsky etc. expeditions?😁
https://www.audio.ipri.kiev.ua/index.html

#klezmer #yiddish#WaxCylinder#USSR#Ukraine

I don't know Yonatan, but Zoë and Dan are longtime friends from the #klezmer scene who have never performed in Vancouver before AFAIK. Same day as Powell St fest but it's timed so both are doable.
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/beit-an-evening-of-poetry-music-for-tisha-bav

I don't know Yonatan, but Zoë and Dan are longtime friends from the #klezmer scene who have never performed in Vancouver before AFAIK. Same day as Powell St fest but it's timed so both are doable.
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/beit-an-evening-of-poetry-music-for-tisha-bav

Wish I could see this lol😁 written by Mikhl Yashinsky, who I'm obsessed about, directed by Michael “Mikhele” Leibenluft, music by the same musician trio who created Shterna and the Lost Voice. A very gay #Yiddish musical
https://forward.com/culture/theater/733918/kinky-yiddish-musical/

#klezmer #theater#YiddishTheatre #operetta

I notice that Walter Zev Feldman's new book is out, "From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York." Feldman, a musicologist, is one of the key figures in the #klezmer revival & recorded with Andy Statman in the 70s. His 2016 book Klezmer: Music, History and Memory, for whatever minor parts I may disagree with, is one of the only reliable academic works in English on the genre.
https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531509767/from-the-bronx-to-the-bosphorus/

#NewBooks#JewishMusic#Bronx#Memoirs

Wish I could see this lol😁 written by Mikhl Yashinsky, who I'm obsessed about, directed by Michael “Mikhele” Leibenluft, music by the same musician trio who created Shterna and the Lost Voice. A very gay #Yiddish musical
https://forward.com/culture/theater/733918/kinky-yiddish-musical/

#klezmer #theater#YiddishTheatre #operetta

I notice that Walter Zev Feldman's new book is out, "From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York." Feldman, a musicologist, is one of the key figures in the #klezmer revival & recorded with Andy Statman in the 70s. His 2016 book Klezmer: Music, History and Memory, for whatever minor parts I may disagree with, is one of the only reliable academic works in English on the genre.
https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531509767/from-the-bronx-to-the-bosphorus/

#NewBooks#JewishMusic#Bronx#Memoirs

"#Yiddish #music lovers, this one’s for you: A free outdoor Yiddish music #concert and singalong is once again happening in #NewYorkCity this summer.

“#NewYork Sings Yiddish,” presented by Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage and the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, makes a triumphant return to #CentralPark on Monday, June 30.

This all-star celebration of Yiddish music and culture will feature performances from a host of #Jewish music all-stars, including #klezmer legend Frank London, rapper-singer-dancer-actor Lea Kalisch and klezmer-punk troubadour Daniel Kahn."

https://www.jta.org/2025/06/26/ny/a-free-yiddish-music-sing-along-and-concert-comes-to-central-park

"#Yiddish #music lovers, this one’s for you: A free outdoor Yiddish music #concert and singalong is once again happening in #NewYorkCity this summer.

“#NewYork Sings Yiddish,” presented by Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage and the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, makes a triumphant return to #CentralPark on Monday, June 30.

This all-star celebration of Yiddish music and culture will feature performances from a host of #Jewish music all-stars, including #klezmer legend Frank London, rapper-singer-dancer-actor Lea Kalisch and klezmer-punk troubadour Daniel Kahn."

https://www.jta.org/2025/06/26/ny/a-free-yiddish-music-sing-along-and-concert-comes-to-central-park

Yo, #Seattle!

"Join us for an evening of #Klezmer #music and #activism at Klezmer Starts Here: A #Benefit for the #Jewish Coalition for #Immigrant Justice on Sunday, July 6 featuring Kesselgarden Klezmer Duo and The Talne Trio at the #RoyalRoom.

Show starts at 7:30pm and doors open at 6:30pm. $20 advanced tickets are available at tinyurl.com/klezmerjcij; Tickets at the door are $25."

https://www.jewishcoalition.org/events/klezmer-starts-here-a-benefit-concert-for-jcij

Friend & activist, Austrian #Yiddish singer Isabel Frey has a new album coming out on Borscht Beat and two tracks were pre released this week 😯👍
https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/di-fliendike-pave

#JewishMusic #klezmer#Vienna#FolkMusic#Bandcamp

Yo, #Seattle!

"Join us for an evening of #Klezmer #music and #activism at Klezmer Starts Here: A #Benefit for the #Jewish Coalition for #Immigrant Justice on Sunday, July 6 featuring Kesselgarden Klezmer Duo and The Talne Trio at the #RoyalRoom.

Show starts at 7:30pm and doors open at 6:30pm. $20 advanced tickets are available at tinyurl.com/klezmerjcij; Tickets at the door are $25."

https://www.jewishcoalition.org/events/klezmer-starts-here-a-benefit-concert-for-jcij

Friend & activist, Austrian #Yiddish singer Isabel Frey has a new album coming out on Borscht Beat and two tracks were pre released this week 😯👍
https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/di-fliendike-pave

#JewishMusic #klezmer#Vienna#FolkMusic#Bandcamp