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, ...

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, ...

Klezmer All-Star Bash. When: 8 p.m. Thursday. Where: Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York. How much: $21-62. For information, call (212) 247-7800 or visit carnegiehall.org. Forty ...

Growing up Jewish in Philadelphia, Uri Caine, the genre-bending jazz pianist and composer, said he was “too cool for klezmer.” Although that Eastern European musical tradition surrounded him — his ...

The Klezmer Music Foundation keeps klezmer music alive and thriving in the Chicago area. Since 1994, it has supported the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, whose members enrich the community by creating ...

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 ...

A preview of ECHO: The Energy Corridor of Houston Orchestra’s Season Opener, with studio performances by Klezmer violinist Steven Greenman. Considered one of the world's best interpreters of Klezmer ...

On one evening last summer, Dan Horowitz found himself in the middle of rural Tennessee where his band was hired to play a wedding. Just like every good Jewish wedding, this one featured a Freylekh ...

Imagine aerial acrobatics accompanied by a dreamy melody on fiddle and cimbalom. A juggler maneuvering seven bouncing balls ...

The Klezmer Music Ensemble at UCLA has nine members and is looking to add more. Current members are (top row, from left) Michel Klein, Niccolo Scolieri, Amy Law, Tyler Bailie, Ethan Eshkol and Sam ...