This is the reality of the music industry under Covid now: Taylor Swift and Adele to this day still get a Covid safety bubble. Their fans? Ordinary musicians like klezmorim? No, you just get sick, repeatedly, forever. Nice. #Covid #Klezmer #music #livemusic
https://newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/covid-is-still-a-working-class-issue/

My friend, accordionist and singer Ira Temple, has his new album on preorder on Borscht Beat today with a very silly sample track "Hot zikh mir/Queer wedding song"
https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/strange-tongue-mistame-loshn

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird פּאַרטיזאַנער און פּאַראַזיטר Partisans & Parasites

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mTmytUvHXo6clrddq0-ci8aQofpZPUzxY

A minor #klezmer musician I'm researching tonight, Irving Nazer (born c.1885 in Lemberg/Lviv, died 1945 in NYC) gave his employment on his WWI draft card as Allaire's Scheffal [sic] Hall.

It's such an odd name that I looked it up and apparently it's a famous landmark which at the time was a German-themed social club and restaurant; it hasn't been a restaurant in forever but the building still exists. Interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheffel_Hall

A musical notation question ... I've been digitizing some handwritten scores for a klezmer workshop, all pieces by this old NY violinist Israel J. Hochman, and he often has the habit of writing a slur or line across the first two notes of triplets. Does it mean anything in particular about how it should be played?

as today is #BandcampFriday I'll re-toot my old thread about recent #klezmer and #Yiddish albums which I found worthwhile or interesting:
https://klezmor.im/@carkner/114755726561803457

Playing this funny outdoor gig for the Strathcona Jewish walking tour people in McLean Park.

one of the most active & noteworthy #klezmer #yiddish dance teachers of our era, Steve Weintraub, has been having major health problems and someone is running a gofundme to help him get through it.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/step-by-step-support-steve-weintraubs-road-to-recovery

#Vancouver people, I'm playing my Cimbalom in a small ad-hoc #klezmer band at this tonight if you're interested
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/tantzhoyz-yiddish-in-motion-community-dance-party

wow, my friend Eve (fellow Jewish music researcher who lives in NY) sent me this great Jewish Currents post from 2015 which I was totally unaware of.
"...I’m sure there is a doctoral dissertation waiting to be written about the relationship between the activities of the various Foner orchestras and the death rates of members of the Apex Social Club, but I leave that for some other scholar to pursue."

https://jewishcurrents.org/from-the-bandstand-the-odyssey-of-a-catskills-resort-musician

"Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: #Klezmer and Other Displaced #Musics of #NewYork” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir.

Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on #Ottoman #Turkish #music, #Yiddish dance and klezmer music. An accomplished #musician and a respected #academic who has taught at elite universities, Feldman was a key player in the 1970s klezmer revival — and, in fact, it was Feldman who popularized the term “klezmer” to describe the traditional instrumental music of East #European #Jews.

“Klezmer was still an obscure term of the Yiddish lexicon,” Feldman writes in his new memoir, “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York.”

https://www.jta.org/2025/07/16/ny/he-kicked-off-the-1970s-klezmer-revival-now-hes-paying-tribute-to-new-yorks-vast-global-music-scene

it's been around for a while, but it came up in a group chat again today.. are people aware of this audio streaming site from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine where you can listen to curated wax cylinders of Jewish music from An-sky, Kiselhof, Magid, Beregovsky etc. expeditions?
https://www.audio.ipri.kiev.ua/index.html

kind of a distant concept at the moment, but especially as an NEH funded project I was working on about these materials was cut this spring along with everything else... maybe next year I'd love to apply for arts grants and try to somehow curate & arrange for string trio(?) some of the #klezmer concertos of the 19th century which are kicking around in the Ukrainian national library without getting much attention.

#Vancouver folks, I'm playing my #Cimbalom in an ad hoc band for this event, check it out if you want to dance to some live #Klezmer music later this month.
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/tantzhoyz-yiddish-in-motion-community-dance-party

love the https://klezkanada.org art design this year.
"Introducing the artwork for our 2025 Summer Retreat, created by Avia Moore. This year’s design celebrates our focus on Yiddish dance and is inspired by hand-painted linocuts by Jewish artists in the early 20th century"

you can see some of their past designs here ... I really admire the care and thought that goes into them on what is surely a minimal budget
klezkanada.bandcamp.com/merch

I have to take a sec to praise the KLEZKANADA!!! summer Jewish culture retreat in August. They continue to do really good Covid safety protocols, to protect the community. Fer instance, "Participants, faculty, and staff are REQUIRED to take a COVID TEST no more than 24 hours before arrival. You must test negative and be symptom-free to enter camp." Wow. Well done. Thank you. #klezmer #yiddish #jewish #CovidIsNotOver https://klezkanada.org/summer-retreat/covid-19-safety/