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A Bizele Masheke, a ‘shikers’ (drunk’s) song with translation

September 20, 2019/ByJewish Website/InMusic, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

די זינגערין און מוזיקאָלאָגין דזשיין פּעפּלער, וואָס איז שטענדיק אַ פֿאַרלאָזלעכער קוואַל פֿון טשיקאַווע ווידעאָס פֿון אַלטע לידער, האָט לעצטנס אַרויסגעלאָזט אַ רעקאָרדירונג פֿון ד׳׳ר הענעך סאַפּאָזשניקס זאַמלונגען, אין וועלכער שלמה שמולעוויטש זינגט זײַן בדחנות־ליד „אַ ביסל משקה‟. אין דער רעקאָרדירונג, פֿון 1903, קען מען הערן די שטאַרקע השפּעה וואָס דער אָפּערעטע־סטיל האָט געהאַט אויף […] Read More

Making Music With the Jews of Uganda

September 17, 2019/By Judy Bolton-Fasman/InArticles, Featured, Music/0 Comment

Rabbi Jeffrey Summit, Ph.D., is a man of many talents. He is the Neubauer Executive Director of Hillel at Tufts University and holds appointments as research professor in the department of music and the Judaic studies program. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for his album, “Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda,” […] Read More

Spotify’s Jewish music makes me feel like a kid again

September 17, 2019/ByJewish Website/InArticles, Music/0 Comment

When searching for songs for a playlist I was putting together for my kids on Spotify, I came across a tune — “Pana HaGeshem,” (“The Rain has Gone Away”) by Cindy Paley and Ann Brown — that I hadn’t heard in at least 20 years. I discovered that, in addition to remembering all the words […] Read More

Atelier de musique klezmer les Klezmorimlekh

September 17, 2019/ByJewish Website/InYiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Dimanches de 11h à 13h (sauf exceptions) Ouvert aux instrumentistes à partir de 10 ans et ayant trois ans de pratique de leur instrument, cet atelier propose d’étudier les grands standards de la musique klezmer et de constituer un répertoire en vue de représentations publiques. La musique klezmer est présente lors des festivités et mariages juifs d’Europe de […] Read More

First Sephardic Festival in San Diego

September 17, 2019/ByMimi Pollack/InRincón Sefaradí/0 Comment

When I was in my 20’s, my two sisters and I lived in Mexico City in a Jewish area known as Colonia Polanco. We had an apartment on a street called Tennyson in an older run down building that had been quite lovely in its heyday. There were two Sephardic families living in the same […] Read More

“Gracia” by Sarah Aroeste

September 16, 2019/ByJewish Website/InCD of The Week, Rincón Sefaradí/0 Comment

Gracia is Sarah Aroeste’s third album in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), and includes many original songs. Produced with Shai Bachar (Ishtar Alabina, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Sheila Jordan), the songs on Gracia are a mix of feminist, experimental, rock-beat, energetic, empowering, electronic, retro-chic, Mediterranean-infused and fine-crafted, detailed sounds. Gracia Scalerica de Oro/Dodi Yarad Chika Morena La Comida la […] Read More

Alan Lomax and the Search for the Origins of Music

September 11, 2019/ByGeoffrey Clarfield/InArticles, Music/0 Comment

Ethnomusicology was initially the creation of a small number of men and women, mostly European and North American, who were trying to make sense of the growing number of recordings of music from non-Western cultures that were being made in the field, first on wax cylinders and then on shellac records at the dawn of […] Read More

The 21 top Israeli music albums since the 1980s

September 11, 2019/ByJessica Halfin/InFeatured, Music/0 Comment

To understand the music of a country is to understand the culture. Experts agree that music is one of the best language-acquisition tools, but even if you don’t know the lyrics you can still get a sense of the wide variations in styles and cultural avenues that exist here in Israel, just by rocking out […] Read More

Benny Friedman – Hareini (Lyric Video – בני פרידמן – הריני מקבל (קליפ מילים

September 11, 2019/ByJewish Website/InMusic/0 Comment

Hareini is a high energy tune featuring the lyrics “Veohavta L’reiacha Kamocha’ – Love your neighbor as you love yourself’. The song also features for the first time two of Benny’s kids, Shalom and Dovid Friedman, ages 7 and 5 respectively. Too cute! The song is available here on YouTube and will be available on […] Read More

Last Call to audition to sing in the Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus!

September 11, 2019/ByJewish Website/InYiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

YOU ARE INVITED TO AUDITION for the acclaimed Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus conducted by Binyumen Schaechter The JPPC rehearses on Monday evenings near midtown Manhattan. Our first rehearsal for the 2019-20 season is on September 16. Auditions by appointment only. Click here for more information and to schedule an audition. Click here to read more […] Read More