Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff, the core of the bluegrass group Nefesh Mountain, had just returned from a family trip to Poland and the Ukraine in 2018 when news broke about a mass shooting at the ...

It’s rare if at all that a concert preview would include bluegrass music with a synagogue in the same sentence. However, with the arrival of Nefesh Mountain for a two-night swing through Vermont the ...

Jerry Wicentowski grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household in New York City. "Not exactly a bastion of country music," he said with a laugh. But ever since he was a teenager, that wasn't enough to keep ...

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 ...

(New York Jewish Week) — In January a young bluegrass guitar player in Appalachia emailed Andy Statman out of the blue, expressing admiration for the work of the 71-year-old Brooklyn klezmer musician.

Somewhere in New York, perhaps at this very moment, someone is hosting a “picking party,” a bluegrass gathering in a private home where musicians sit and play tunes. And Margot Leverett, a 45-year-old ...

The Ashkenaz Festival, North America's largest celebration of global Jewish music and culture, returns with a full slate of in-person programming in the first live edition of the normally biennial ...