Clarinet great Michael Winograd will lead all-star musicians in a performance “Tanz,” a groundbreaking recording that flopped in 1956. (New York Jewish Week) — In 1955, a group of musicians gathered ...

A leading voice in the world of klezmer music and Yiddish song for close to 40 years, the Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB) continues to thrill audiences all over the world. With a repertoire ranging ...

Metropolitan Klezmer, founded in 1994, is the collaborative adventure of seven exceptional New York-based musicians creating inspired interpretations and original compositions around a panorama of ...

(JTA) At the Orchard Estate assisted living facility in Woodbury, New York, residents hum along to the klezmer music familiar to many Jews of their generation. The Yiddish-inflected music with roots ...

Anyone familiar with McCracken Middle School in recent years knows that awards, recognitions and accolades are no stranger to band director Chip De Stefano and his student musicians. To give but one ...

Phoenix’s music scene has long had a reputation for being a haven for genre-bending weirdness. Nothing encapsulates this more than the Jewish klezmer/R&B/funk/Latin ...

One of the fun things about klezmer bands is their names—Yiddishe Cup, The Klezmer Mountain Boys, Brave Old World, The Shtetl Blasters… anywhere from The Best Little Klezmer Band in Texas to The Isle ...

"This is not your zayde's (grandfather's) klezmer," says clarinet virtuoso David Krakauer, who has insistently expanded the idiomatic possibilities of contemporary klezmer music. Krakauer has turned ...

The Skokie-based Maxwell Street Klezmer Band performed in Highland Park at an outdoor concert Aug. 30. The Blues Skies Concerts series, presented by Sheridan Music Studio, producer of livestream and ...

This story has been updated to reflect new information about the number of casualties and the suspected shooter’s age. One of the first eyewitness videos to emerge from the shooting at the Fourth of ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. At the Orchard Estate ...