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San Francisco Yiddish Combo members (from left) Alex Farrell, Rebecca Roudman, Jason Eckl, Laura Benson and Josh Mellinger. (JASON ECKL)
Posted inPassover

Yiddish Combo will stream one-song mini-concerts every night during Passover

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 2, 2020April 2, 2020
Dr. Ilana Sherer, pediatrician and klezmer player.
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: A pediatrician who helps trans kids and moonlights playing klezmer

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 23, 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
(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
two black patches with gold wording — one patch in english, one patch in yiddish
Posted inLocal Voice

We will outlive them. But how?

Donald C. Cutler by Donald C. Cutler May 1, 2019May 15, 2019
The all-woman klezmer band Isle of Klezbos, coming this fall to the Sonoma State University Jewish Music Series (Photo/Angela Jimenez)
Posted inMusic

Again, Sonoma State asks: What is Jewish music?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 17, 2018
Dirty Cello in concert, left to right: Cory Aboud on drums, Colin Williams on bass, Rebecca Roudman on cello and Jason Eckl on guitar (Photo/Roger Franklin)
Posted inMusic

From Dirty Cello duo, klezmer for the 21st century

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 3, 2018
A Krakow Jewish Culture Festival attendee hamming it up at a Malo Orkiestra concert, June 25 (Photo/Michal Ramus)
Posted inCulture

Krakow diary, day 1: Listening to klezmer with 30,000 of my closest friends

by Rob Gloster June 27, 2018June 28, 2018
Lila Sklar and Ariel Luckey of Waystation (Photo/Edrisina Sklar)
Posted inCulture

Oakland rapper’s new CD: Call it social-issue hip-hop klezmer

by Andrew Muchin November 28, 2017November 28, 2017

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