It is the original world music. Klezmer is a genre of mostly celebratory dance tunes of the Ashkenazi Jews that spread from Eastern Europe to the rest of the planet in the 19th and 20th centuries. Its ...

Grammy Award-winning fiddler Alicia Svigals has performed alongside names such as Led Zeppelin, Whoopi Goldberg and Allen Ginsberg, but there’s only one style of music that has captivated her more ...

Jake Shulman-Ment is recognized as one of the best klezmer fiddlers around, one who is steeped in the musical traditions of Hungarian Jews and the folk music that surrounded them. So it’s ironic that ...

Choosing the Neighborhood Fiddle Summit over Bad Bunny for a rainy night in Brooklyn reminded me that I’m team pajama, team apple pie, team rock ‘n’ roll. I love the merge, meld and mix of cultures, ...

CHATHAM, N.Y. -- It's a long way from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to a field in Chatham. But when acclaimed klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals lifts her bow on stage under the PS21 concert tent at 2 p ...

Bluegrass and klezmer traditions meet in the music of married duo Zoe & Cloyd. Bluegrass and klezmer traditions meet in the music of married duo Zoe & Cloyd. Fiddler ...

CHATHAM, N.Y. — When Alicia Svigals first performed at PS21 five years ago, as part of a diverse program series of stringed instruments from cello to oud, she demonstrated the fiddling skills that ...

Alicia Svigals, a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics folk band, is credited with contributing to the widespread revival of klezmer and Yiddish culture. Klezmer, a traditional celebratory music ...

While cooped up in her Gloucester home during the coronavirus pandemic, Abigale Reisman did not let her beloved instrument go out of tune. “I have had a lot of time to really think about the direction ...

They were fiddlers on the roof, every of one them, just trying to scratch out a simple tune without breaking their necks, as Tevye put it in his hard-won metaphor for life. While Danny Burstein was ...