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 ...

From Baroque Italy to ancient Hebrew poetry, Philharmonia Baroque's "Jewish Nightlife" overturns easy ideas about what Jewish ...

This forgotten musician was once a world-famous singer of both opera and Yiddish folk music. Isa Kremer was a diva who took America by storm.

The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic will focus on Jewish music and culture with two events in February. “Klezmer & ...

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 ...

This article previously appeared in Yiddish. I recently learned that between 1928 and 1938, a Soviet-Jewish musicologist, ethnographer and folklorist named Sofia Magid gave the Jewish world a precious ...

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 ...

Klezmer music, a Jewish musical tradition that has received recognition all over the world, has returned to Belarus. This musical tradition emerged in Eastern Europe as a combination of folk music of ...

Songwriter Lil' Rev performed a bluesy tribute to Jewish folk music he fondly refers to as "Jewgrass" on Wednesday at the Moline Public Library, 3210 41st St. His program "Fiddler on the Roof Meets O ...

On Nov. 20, Mostly Kosher brought its unique flair of klezmer rock to UCLA. The band – which focuses on traditional klezmer music with modern genres ranging from jazz and Latin to rock and folk – ...

(New York Jewish Week) — Some of the most iconic American folk singers of the 1960s and ’70s were Jewish: Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, “Mama Cass” Elliot. But what if there had been an entire Jewish family ...