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.

Celebrate Hanukkah with traditional foods and music by the gonifs klezmer band. Singing accordionist Jeanette Lewicki, clarinetist Sheldon Brown and bass player Richard Saunders will play klezmer ...

(JTA) At the Orchard Estate assisted living facility in Woodbury, New York, residents hum along to the klezmer music familiar to many Jews of their generation. The Yiddish-inflected music with roots ...

The klezmer group Tsu Fil Duvids (Yiddish for "too many Daves"), from Highland Park, will peform at Locktown Stone Church. (Courtesy of Caroline Beidelman) The Friends of Locktown Stone Church will be ...

The Historic Triangle’s latest arts offerings range from super musical fun to seriously thoughtful theater. For a refreshing bit of entertainment, check out Bagels & Fraylox Klezmer Band at Bruton ...

A seasoned Jewish writer and Yiddish translator analyzes why "sparks flew" during the maestro's 80th birthday celebration at ...

Klezmer music has always been a blend of every cultural strain to come within its orbit, from a cantorial chant to pop songs to jazz. So why not hip-hop as well? With his band Klezmer Madness, ...

Klezmer originated in Eastern Europe but finds its future in a new generation of American Jewish youth. UClezLA, which took place Sunday at Schoenberg Hall, is a Yiddish culture festival which ...

Born in Brooklyn, Richárd Bernard grew up listening to the sounds we now associate with klezmer music. His family enjoyed listening to Yiddish and folk music records, including those of Theodore Bikel ...

At a July 26 concert at 92YTribeca in celebration of New York’s first legal same-sex marriages, the singer-guitarist Nedra Johnson struggled to find the words to describe the relationships between ...

No one knows exactly how klezmer music began. Like many aspects of Jewish culture, it's the subject of some debate. Early klezmer musicians were often itinerant, and when they left Eastern Europe in ...