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 ...

Orsolya Korcsolan has a secret. Orsolya Korcsolan has a secret. The Hungarian-born violinist and her horn-playing husband Gergely Sugar spent the last six years performing with the internationally ...

(JTA) — Folk musician and record archivist Nathan Salsburg lives on a 40-acre former tree farm in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, with fellow songwriter Joan Shelley. Shelley is not Jewish, but ...

(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 ...

Black Ox Orkestar, a quartet assembled in Montreal in 2000 to explore the sound of the Jewish diaspora, has always been one project among many for its members. Lead singer and songwriter Scott Gilmore ...

A new documentary examines the little-known Jewish influences that shaped the Oklahoma-born folk music legend's life, ...

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The sounds of klezmer -- instrumental Jewish folk music derived from Eastern European folk songs -- are not often heard in this part of the world. But here, in Greater Danbury, not only can they be ...

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 ...

Evanston’s very own klezmer band, based at the Jewish Reconstructionist Synagogue in Evanston, brought its Evanston sound to the community on Dec. 16. The band called Heavy Shtetl, a play on the genre ...

Royal Commission hears the impact of antisemitism on Jewish music as artists like Ben Adler confront cancellation in the cultural scene.

Pandemic quarantine offered him an opportunity to reconnect with the old klezmer and Yiddish records in his collection, which he sampled and played guitar over to produce two albums. (JTA) — Folk ...