Emlyn Hinton – Di Golden Pave (The Golden Peacock) guitar arrangement
My instrumental version of this beautiful song.
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Di goldene pave / The golden peacock
Di goldene pave Iz di goldene pave gefloygn, gefloygn, Un di nakht hot geefnet di goldene oygn, Likhtiker mayner, shlof ayn. Di nakht hot geefnet di goldene oygn, Bin ikh fidl gevorn, un du der boygn, Umruiker mayner, shlof ayn. Bin ikh fidl gevorn un du der boygn, Un dos glik iber undz hot farlibt [...]
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“A dank dir, mayn lebn” – Chilean classic “Gracias a la vida”, sung in Yiddish by Roman Grinberg
Maybe the most beautiful hymn to life ever written with no need of further introductions or explanations. It is a song telling everything in itself, and going directly inside the core of everyone of us. It was written 1965 by Violeta Parra, who dedicated it to the object of her love disillusion, Gilbert Favre, just […]
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Avreiml der Marvikher, performed by Florian Pollak, Roman Grinberg and the Vienna JazzKlez Band
Mordechai Gebirtig, born in 1877 in Krakow, Poland, was a Yiddish folk poet and songwriter. Gebirtig had three daughters, for whom he wrote and performed his poems. The words were set to improvised melodies, and most of his songs resemble entries in a diary. Many of Gebirtig’s poems contain themes of eastern European Jewish life […]
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Vira Lozinsky sings a love song to Paris
Vira Lozinsky, one of today’s outstanding Yiddish singers,blends her singing with a variety of musical styles from East European folk (Klezmer, Gypsy, Romanian, Russian) to South American Tangos. Her repertoire includes a new material , as well as Yiddish folk songs, songs of Bessarabian, Romanian and Polish Jewish poets, and of classical and modern Yiddish […]
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Paul Robeson sang in Yiddish
I still remember the rich bass baritone voice of Paul Robeson singing “Old Man River” in the 1936 movie Show Boat. That was his song and I thought no one else could match his performance. Unfortunately, I doubt if anyone under the age of 60 would remember Robeson in spit of his worldwide fame. By chance someone just sent […]
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WATCH: ‘‘We Shall Overcome’’ sung in Yiddish
אין ליכט פֿון די באַנײַטע פּראָטעסטן לטובֿת די רעכט פֿון אַפֿריקאַנער אַמעריקאַנער, איז כּדאַי ווידער זיך צוצוהערן צום רירנדיקן נוסח פֿונעם הימען פֿון דער אַמעריקאַנער בירגעררעכט־באַוועגונג „מיר וועלן איבערלעבן“, וואָס מיישקע אַלפּערט, פֿראַנק לאָנדאָן און דוד קראַקאַוער האָבן אויספֿגעפֿירט אויפֿן קראָקאָווער ייִדישן קולטור־פֿעסטיוואַל מיט צוויי יאָר צוריק. https://www.facebook.com/reyzlz/videos/10156651342259201/?t=0 זייער נוסח פֿאַררופֿט זיך ניט בלויז אויפֿן […]
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Hasidic music video portrays the Holocaust and the Redemption
בײַם ערשטן בליק אויף אַבֿרהם מרדכי שוואַרצס מוזיק־ווידעאָ פֿאַרן ליד „מנן ומאן“ בין איך פֿאַרכאַפּט געוואָרן, ווײַל להיפּוך צו ס׳רובֿ הײַנטצײַטיקע חסידישע ווידעאָס אַזעלכע, ווײַזט עס בילדער פֿונעם ייִדישן אַמאָל. שיין צונויפֿגעשטעלט, רופֿן די פֿאָטאָגראַפֿיעס אַרויס אַ געוויסע נאָסטאַלגיע, און זענען אַ קאָנטראַסט מיטן מאָדערנעם סטיל פֿון דער מוזיק גופֿא. כאָטש די ווערטער „חורבן“ אָדער […]
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A muzikalisher ovnt of Yiddish mit internatzionale zinguers
Listen and enjoy the quality and content of the world Yiddish music concert organized by Chivis Bialik with Bet-el México for everyone! A muzikalisher ovnt of Yiddish mit internatzionale zinguers. A musical night in Yiddish with singers from all over the world ” https://www.facebook.com/betelmxoficial/videos/164981014903592/
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Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” in Yiddish
In a new video produced by the Forverts, Berlin-based Yiddish singer and songwriter Daniel Kahn performs his own recent Yiddish translation of Bob Dylan’s 1967 song, “I Shall Be Released”. Kahn, lead singer of the band Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, previously translated and performed the late Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in Yiddish, which appeared […]
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