Violinist Zoe Aqua and the string band the Ebony Hillbillies will share a stage on Thursday at Gowanus club Littlefield. (New York Jewish Week) – Two folk music traditions that developed on opposite ...

Sarah Seltzer’s debut novel is full of familial drama, rock music history and lots of Yiddishkeit. Some of the most iconic American folk singers of the 1960s and ’70s were Jewish: Bob Dylan, Paul ...

A new documentary examines the little-known Jewish influences that shaped the Oklahoma-born folk music legend's life, ...

Black Ox Orkestar, a quartet assembled in Montreal in 2000 to explore the sound of the Jewish diaspora, has always been one project among many for its members. Lead singer and songwriter Scott Gilmore ...

“Jewgrass" is the fusion of bluegrass music with Hebrew lyrics and is played by a diverse group of old-time and bluegrass musicians. iStockphoto This Passover, my friend Lester Feder sat at the head ...

Singer Debbie Friedman died Sunday of complications of pneumonia, but her progressive, feminist influence on Jewish folk music will live on. According to the Times obituary, the 59-year-old Friedman ...

Jewish folk songs of Palestine. Zirmu galim ; Artsa alinu -- Jewish folk songs of Eastern Europe. Farbenkt ; Mit a nodl ; Kegen gold fun zun ; Zhankoye Repository Loc. Smithsonian Institution, Center ...

The sounds of klezmer -- instrumental Jewish folk music derived from Eastern European folk songs -- are not often heard in this part of the world. But here, in Greater Danbury, not only can they be ...

Evanston’s very own klezmer band, based at the Jewish Reconstructionist Synagogue in Evanston, brought its Evanston sound to the community on Dec. 16. The band called Heavy Shtetl, a play on the genre ...

(New York Jewish Week) — Some of the most iconic American folk singers of the 1960s and ’70s were Jewish: Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, “Mama Cass” Elliot. But what if there had been an entire Jewish family ...

In an orem shtibele (2:39) --Hob ich a por oksen = I have a pair of oxen (1:44) --Bulbe = Potatoes (1:37) --Rebbe Elimelech, Der = Rabbi Elimelech, The (2:21) --Oif'n pripitchik = On the oven (3:05) - ...