Pete Sokolow (1940-2022) was an icon of klezmer music, a musician, author and teacher who bridged musical eras. Known as the ¨youngest of the old guys,¨ the Brooklyn-born Sokolow built his reputation performing in the Jewish Catskills, and became the first-call pianist for a coterie of leading New York klezmer musicians including Dave Tarras, the …
Klezmer for Hammered Dulcimer by Deborah Justice and Pete Rushefsky Spiral bound, pages: 64 Features transcriptions of 30 klezmer tunes and much more! Price: $25 plus shipping, NYS sales tax, and PayPal fees. For almost, five hundred years, the tsimbl (cimbalom), the hammered dulcimer of Eastern Europe, has been an integral part of Jewish klezmer …
CTMD is excited to present Generations: A Living Musical Legacy, a series of videos of new compositions by legendary klezmer clarinetist Ray Musiker (b. 1926), performed with his son, renowned pianist/conductor Lee Musiker. Additionally, we have partnered with Dan Blacksberg’s Radiant Others Klezmer Podcast Series to feature an exclusive new interview with Ray. We are …
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The Folk Artists Relief Fund is designed to offer rapid short-term payments to individuals and small groups of folk and traditional artists who have lost income as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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New Book and CD Release by Co-Founder Martin Koenig!
Learn about our newest staff member Andrew Colwell!
Yiddish New York returns for its fifth year in the LES.
CTMD Executive Director Pete Rushefsky writes in Voices, the Magazine of the New York State Folklore Society about klezmer clarinetist/bluegrass mandolinist Andy Statman, one of the most versatile musicians to ever come out of New York’s music scenes. CTMD began working with Statman and his colleague Zev Feldman in the mid-1970s on a pioneering project …
CTMD is pleased to honor Bulgarian Roma saxophonist Yuri Yunakov at our June 4, 2009 Benefit Event entitled “A Night in Istanbul.” Yuri is a long-time friend of CTMD and featured performer of our Touring Artists program, as well as a major innovator whose music is rooted in the traditions of the cosmopolitan Thracian hinterlands …
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