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Andrew Muchin

Andrew Muchin is a freelance writer and host of the weekly "Sounds Jewish" radio program on Mississippi Public Broadcasting Music Radio and Radio-J.com.

Zion80's 2014 performance at the Ashkenaz Festival is on YouTube in full, just one of endless Jewish concerts you can stream online. (FILE PHOTO)
Posted inCulture, Music

Bring the music to you with these 8 Jewish concerts on YouTube

by Andrew Muchin March 31, 2020March 31, 2020

“Sweet are the songs of Israel” we read in the Book of 2 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. Granted, Samuel’s knowledge of Jewish music ended in about 1000 BCE, but […]

Still from Israeli documentary "Mrs. G," showing at the 2020 East Bay International Jewish Film Festival.
Posted inUncategorized

East Bay International Jewish Film Festival returns for silver anniversary

by Andrew Muchin February 12, 2020February 28, 2020
Violinist Cookie Segelstein of the klezmer band Veretski Pass will play several of the Holocaust violins that have come to the Bay Area for the Violins of Hope series.
Posted inCulture

For local daughter of survivor, playing Holocaust violins is personal

by Andrew Muchin January 14, 2020
Photos of violins like this one, made in Germany around 1870, will be featured in one of dozens of Violins of Hope events, January through March around the Bay Area. (Amnon Weinstein)
Posted inCulture

‘Violins of Hope’ escaped the Holocaust and are coming to Bay Area for events of music and memory

by Andrew Muchin January 8, 2020January 9, 2020
Pianist and composer Alon Nechushtan will perform and teach in the Bay Area, July, 2019. (Photo/Mark Segalis)
Posted inMusic

Jazz man with Middle Eastern-inflected sound to play, teach in Bay Area

by Andrew Muchin July 16, 2019
“The Mamboniks,” screening at the 2019 S.F. Jewish Film Festival, documents Jews who were part of the mambo dance craze after World War II.
Posted inTV & Film

S.F. Jewish Film Fest: ‘Fiddler,’ ‘Mamboniks,’ and dancing Jews

by Andrew Muchin July 11, 2019July 12, 2019
(From left) Matthew Stein and Dmitri Gaskin of Baymele, a klezmer-Yiddish trio, at a recent performance (Photo/Ryan Gourley)
Posted inMusic

Jewish Folk Chorus celebrates Yiddish music — and Yiddish values

by Andrew Muchin June 18, 2019June 18, 2019
Israeli musician Aviya Kopelman is a visiting artist at UC Berkeley. (Photo/Courtesy Yuval Shiboli)
Posted inMusic

World-famous Israeli composer Aviya Kopelman is around Bay for a bit

by Andrew Muchin March 27, 2019March 27, 2019
From the cover of “Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America” by Ari Y. Kelman
Posted inBooks

Why church music rocks, and what synagogues can learn from it

by Andrew Muchin August 13, 2018August 13, 2018
Russian-American singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko on stage with the band (Photo/Roman Boldyrev, r-lerman.ca)
Posted inCulture

Silenced for years, songs of Soviet Jews heard again in all their ‘Yiddish Glory’

by Andrew Muchin February 20, 2018August 20, 2018

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