Howard Prager, 66, and his klezmer band were set up Monday morning in chairs on a slow-moving flatbed truck as they pulled into the lineup for the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park ...

Donation Options Search Search Search The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band performed 16 bars of music on a float during the July 4th parade before shots rang out. On Sunday, the band returned to ...

The young musicians are members of the Klezmaniacs, a new, local ensemble. This youth klezmer band, founded in January 2023 at the MakomNY synagogue in Bethpage, New York, is one of at least three ...

Throughout his career Sokolow played jazz as well as klezmer. He was particularly talented as a stride piano player. Sokolow led two bands: Klezmer Plus and the Original Klezmer Jazz Band.

Almost as a joke, Abramovitz mentioned the idea of starting a klezmer band. “And then Becca said, ‘let’s do it!’” said Abramovitz, sitting on an armchair next to Wolkstein.

Those aren’t terms that scream joy, either. But to say that the Budapest Klezmer Band, which has been going in Hungary for 32 years, brought warmth to that hall would be to say too little.

Growing up, he got his start playing in his dad Bert Stratton’s klezmer band, Yiddishe Cup, and has played in past editions of Yiddish Concert in the Park. Later, while at the University of ...

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 ...

Metropolitan Klezmer, founded in 1994, is the collaborative adventure of eight exceptional New York musicians creating inspired interpretations and original compositions around a panorama of ...

and I knew there were other klezmer bands in Michigan, and I wanted to a way for us to come together,” said Posner, who also serves as director of bands for Bloomfield Hills High School.

“You guys all right out there? It’s getting dark!” So gloats the puckish Wanderer, a narrator figure, checking in with the audience partway through the rollicking klezmer musical “Old ...