Former Cal student radio host (KALX) Eric Fixler writes: This is the Oy Mendele! episode from December 2004, when we were still on KALX. It features music historian Craig Harwood and myself walking ...

(JTA) — When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we thought it might be cool to hire a klezmer band. This was during the first wave of the klezmer revival, when groups like The Klezmatics and The ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. On one evening last summer, Dan Horowitz found himself in the middle of rural ...

Susan Watts, a fourth generation Klezmer musician will perform alongside an orchestra of exclusively women on Sunday at the Annenberg Center during a performance called "Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of ...

Live music abounds in Denver, but there’s nothing quite like Festo Festo. The monthly gathering of musicians, dancers and artists showcases Jewish klezmer music and a wide range of Balkan musical ...

Susan Watts comes from a long line of performers of the Jewish genre of klezmer music: The klezmer dynasty dates to 19th century Ukraine and begins with Watts’ great-grandfather, the musician, ...

More than one thousand klezmer tunes, some dating back to the late 19th Century, are being performed and recorded after sitting in a library in Kiev for years, thanks to the nonprofit Klezmer ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. In the traditional Jewish betrothal ceremony (called tnoyim in Yiddish), the bride and groom barely play a role. The parents of both sides ...