CHATHAM, N.Y. — When Alicia Svigals first performed at PS21 five years ago, as part of a diverse program series of stringed instruments from cello to oud, she demonstrated the fiddling skills that ...

Grammy Award-winning fiddler Alicia Svigals has performed alongside names such as Led Zeppelin, Whoopi Goldberg and Allen Ginsberg, but there’s only one style of music that has captivated her more ...

Noah Bendix-Balgley was the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster from 2011 through 2015. Now the Concertmaster for theBerlin Philharmonic, Bendix-Balgley continues to showcase his artistic ...

Choosing the Neighborhood Fiddle Summit over Bad Bunny for a rainy night in Brooklyn reminded me that I’m team pajama, team apple pie, team rock ‘n’ roll. I love the merge, meld and mix of cultures, ...

Jake Shulman-Ment is recognized as one of the best klezmer fiddlers around, one who is steeped in the musical traditions of Hungarian Jews and the folk music that surrounded them. So it’s ironic that ...

In klezmer, the fidl / violin isn't just a melody-hogging diva -- as in the traditional "fidl kapelye" (fiddle band), it can be a rhythm instrument too! Join Jon Cannon, former member of the ...

It is the original world music. Klezmer is a genre of mostly celebratory dance tunes of the Ashkenazi Jews that spread from Eastern Europe to the rest of the planet in the 19th and 20th centuries. Its ...

Alicia Svigals, a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics folk band, is credited with contributing to the widespread revival of klezmer and Yiddish culture. Klezmer, a traditional celebratory music ...

On May 18, acclaimed klezmer musician and composer Alicia Svigals accepted an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) for “extraordinary contributions to ...

What do Itzhak Perlman, Tevye, Fagin, Betty Boop, early jazz, Yentl, Millie (as in “Thoroughly Modern”) and UC Irvine have in common? They’ve all been klezmerized! And so will Segerstrom Concert Hall ...