SOME OF THE merriest music imaginable will sound forth from San Francisco’s Old First Church, 1751 California St. at Van Ness Avenue next month. The venerable Old First Concerts organization, an ...

Susan Watts, a fourth generation Klezmer musician will perform alongside an orchestra of exclusively women on Sunday at the Annenberg Center during a performance called "Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of ...

More than one thousand klezmer tunes, some dating back to the late 19th Century, are being performed and recorded after sitting in a library in Kiev for years, thanks to the nonprofit Klezmer ...

It’s not Fiddler on the Roof. Although born of Jewish roots, klezmer is a unique style of music that is making a comeback. The sound is often fast, usually played in a hauntingly minor key without ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Klezmer music was heard Sunday at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Johnstown. Pittsburgh-based KleZlectic Ensemble performed as part of the Johnstown Concert Series. The group ...

THEY ALL have histories spanning centuries. But the accordion, ukulele and klezmer music are experiencing a rebirth. Those Old World, old-timey sounds that used to be more hip to your grandparents are ...

Susan Watts comes from a long line of performers of the Jewish genre of klezmer music: The klezmer dynasty dates to 19th century Ukraine and begins with Watts’ great-grandfather, the musician, ...

With roots in the doomed world of Eastern European Jewry, contemporary klezmer music can carry a whiff of sad nostalgia. In the right hands, however, there’s nothing morose about Yiddish party music.

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s Department of Ethnomusicology offers a range of different ensembles spanning multiple regions throughout the world, each with a rich musical dynamic and sound.

The art world has always been a bastion of globalism, with artists constantly borrowing from one another to create new, previously inconceivable works. In our increasingly anti-globalist, ...

These days, the world is constantly getting smaller, and musical styles don’t respect national or traditional boundaries. Matisyahu, for example, has made a name for himself by fusing Eastern European ...