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Keith Wolzinger
Klezmer Podcast

After an incredible “groyse kontsert” last night (Theo Bikel is still amazing, and I don’t even like that kind of music) we retired to the Cabaret to check out the Crown Royal and music.

I was far too sleepy to stay long, but while I was there, the quality was uniformly astounding (except for the Crown Royal—I’m going back to the Oban I brought with). The variety was equally astounding. A duo did a klezmer tune featuring saxaphone and amazing scat/voices, with the voices going from scat to didjideroo. Not your usual klezmer. A very, very young girl with a very, very mature voice did a broadway song. Itzik Gottesman, my favorite פֿאָרװערטס reporter did some wonderful Yiddish folk songs which I hadn’t heard (except for one that his mother wrote). He was preceded by a klezmer boogie band called “The Lithuanian Empire” (sp?) that I expect to review over on the KlezmerShack sometime soon. Very good. Some more Yiddish song and I called it a night.

For people like me whose favorite music is whatever wasn’t playing the song before, the Cabaret is perfect.

I’ve uploaded some songs from the first night of KlezKabaret. This was an open jam session featuring Arkady Goldenshteyn, Frank London, and Alex Kontorovich.

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Keith Wolzinger
Klezmer Podcast