Jews have a long and storied history in country music and, for a few weeks this winter, the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History will showcase it. On four consecutive Tuesdays, starting ...

Musicologist Uri Schreter shows how postwar trends played out on the dance floor. Of course we also wanted to dance to rock ‘n’ roll and needed musicians who could handle Sinatra for our parents’ ...

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Penn Libraries, the University of Pennsylvania-based repository for the Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive, calls it “among the most important resources in the world for the study of ...

More than a year ago, klezmer music lovers Raye Holab and Ben Sweet embarked on a “dreaming session” that ended in a bold idea — a multi-day Colorado festival dedicated to the Eastern European style ...

Until Yoni Battat '13 was a teenager, Jewish music meant klezmer. In his synagogue and at his Jewish school outside New Haven, Connecticut, he heard and played the Eastern European-style folk music.

When Peter Himmelman was growing up in suburban Minneapolis, being Jewish felt dorky; Curtis Mayfield and John Lee Hooker ...

“We get lost, or are ineligible, in existing categories,” said Sarah Aroeste, who performs in Ladino. (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — There is a Grammy Award for just about every ...

Temple Beth El will host its third annual Jewish Music & Culture Festival starting Tuesday. The event runs through Feb. 10. This year’s all-Zoom program offers a blend of new and returning presenters.

“The High Holy Days are such an important, spiritual, traditional and cultural time,” musician Deborah Stokol told the Journal. “It’s a time of reflection and to honor the past while taking stock of ...

Silver Jews are one of the greatest bands still making records. They are an acquired taste, and founder/musician/poet David Berman has made damned well sure things stay that way. For years, the rock ...

A music venue in Bristol has said it was a "mistake" to cancel a gig by a Jewish band after pressure from "activist groups" ...