Articles related to "Klezmer Music"

Accordion virtuoso Geoff Berner plays a rousing set of modernized, socially-conscious klezmer music to an appreciative Montreal audience.

4/5: Accordion virtuoso Geoff Berner returns with The Wedding Dance of the Widow Bride, an inspired and passionate blend of klezmer music and holy matrimony.

Django Reinhardt changed the very philosophy of the jazz guitar, turning it into a major solo instrument. This is a life of the man.

In the 1890s, Jews fled Russian areas of Eastern Europe, settling in New York's East Side. They spoke Yiddish, a vibrant language which they fought to keep alive.