Yiddish Song of the Week

The An-sky Institute for Jewish Cutlure through The Center for Traditional Music and Dance present a new blog about Yiddish song, written by Itzik Gottesman. The blog contains information on the creators and presenters of the music, some historical data, the texts and the sound files.
http://yiddishsong.wordpress.com/

Idelsohn Society Blog and more

The new Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation has a website that includes a blog, a wiki and information about old recordings. http://www.idelsohnsociety.com/home.html
While some may believe that much of this music deserves to be lost --and for good --, others are thrilled with the revival of the Jewish music of this era. Well, with the new generation, what is old is always new again. Take a look at what your grandma listened to when she was your age... and make up your own mind.

Klezmer Guy Blog Again

If you're not reading the klezmer guy blog, you should be. yup.
http://www.yiddishecup.com/blog/2009/07/08/the-all-star-game/

Klezmer Guy Blog

Another music blogger... by Yiddish Cup:
http://www.yiddishecup.com/blog/

BlogEurope 2008 - A Klezmer Odyssey

Brian Bender (trombone, piano, melodica) has published a blog entitled "Europe 2008 - A Klezmer Odyssey" describing his five-week tour of Western Europe. Come with Brian as he performs with Klezmer Kaos (Paris), Amit Arieli (Florence), Di Gojim and Di Fidl Kapelye (Holland), Nu (Bonn), Erichetta Undergound (Rome), and others.

www.KlezmerOdyssey.Blogspot.com

Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Center Blog

A new blog from the Hebrew University Jewish Music Research Centre gives great access with links to their online exhibits.
http://jewish-music-research.blogspot.com/

They have also got some nice exhibit images on Flickr, such as the Goldfaden Centennial Exhbit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26577116@N04/sets/72157605173229332/

Blog on Music for Frum People

A new blog about musical concerts and events of interest to frum Jews, from Israel, such as concerts with men and women sitting separately, and so on. The link for the English version is below:
http://dos-music-english.blogspot.com/

New Music Blog from Israeli musicologist

Avior Byron has a blog about music, --some Jewish music in Israel, and general music in Israel. http://www.bymusic.org/index.php

Jewish Music Research Centre in Jerusalem Launches Blog

The Jewish Music Research Centre at Hebrew University in Jerusalem has launched a blog website that covers some of the more scholarly aspects of Jewish music and offers links to the exhibits, publications, and information of the Centre. You can hear a lot of interesting things here, so be sure to keep this on your RSS feeds. http://www.jewish-music-research.blogspot.com/

Teruah Blog about Jewish Music

I'm so happy there are a slew of new Jewish music blogs out there.... They are letting us all know about all sorts of aspects of Jewish music that's happening. One blog has listings of other blogs, --which is very helpful to anyone who likes to check things out online---... more and more happenings in Jewish music and more and more sound and video online as well. You can subscribe to many by RSS feeds and get info when there's something new afoot. They even get the news about us at JMWC!
Teruah is one most everyone will want to take a look see. http://teruah-jewishmusic.blogspot.com/

new Jewish music blog

Arnie Davidson, a songwriter and Contemporary Jewish Music composer based with a Reform congregation near Hartford, CT, started a blog called JewMuse http://jewmuse.blogspot.com/ exploring the use of Contemp Jewish Music to encourage involvement in worship and to strengthen community.

Jeff Klepper's Blog

Jeff Klepper, of Kol B' seder fame, has a new blog that has his "musings on Jewish music, spirituality and humor, and wistful memories of days gone by." Check it out at: http://www.jeffklepper.blogspot.com/ or read his entire "regular" website at: http://jeffklepper.com/. Either way, you'll be in the groove.

Eyn Velt Brian Bender and Little Shop Of Horas

There's a great review of Brian Bender's new CD Eyn Velt on "Klezmer Podcast Blog". Brian is bending the boundaries beautifully... of klezmer, that is. So take a peek here and read all about it: http://klezmerpodcast.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/review-eyn-velt/
And when you finish reading the review, check out Brian Bender's Little Shop of Horas at www.littleshopofhoras.com

YKs Jewish Music Forum

jmusicforum.blogspot.com
We're so happy some of the younger people are getting around to writing reviews. This is one of the better blogs around, especially as YK finds "some very interesting stuff" out there on the internet. ... Worth reading and putting into your feed.

Israeli Music TV

A new blog called "Free Jewish Music" provides entertainment to Americans, especially geared toward young Modern Orthodox. Lots of Reggae a la Matisyahu, David Broza, YouTube videos (now Google video) and so on. http://www.israelimusictv.com/

1000 Blog Posts about Jewish Music

The Jewish Music WebCenter is celebrating the 1000th blog posting about Jewish music. These listings represent only a small fraction of events of all types in Jewish music world wide. We look forward to seeing what the next 1000 musical events will be!

LP Camp or True Americana?

The 'History of Jewish music' told through LP album covers is ready for perusal and additions. http://www.hippocampusmusic.com/LPs/albumscollection.html Josh Kun and Roger Bennett, calling themselves "Hippocampus,” have entered the entertaining world of Jewish camp. It's hard to say whether this is more a dedication to a really bad advertising ideas at Capitol and Decca Records in the 50s or actual Jewish sensibilities. Neverthess, their blog says it all: http://hippocampusmusic.com/LPs/ or will, eventually.

KlezKanada has Started, So I'm on Vacation

9:15pm JMWC KlezKanada Blog here. Departing from the usual announcements, JMWC is creating a week of blogging from the wonderful and beautiful setting of KlezKanada, where I'm on vacation this week. Amazingly, they have internet connection this year, so I thought those who wish could can read what I'm doing on my summer vacation for a change.

Lucky me, my husaband and I are here at KlezKanada, --Leaving Boston...traveling through New Hampshire, Vermont and the Canadian border... where it was a relief that the holdup was not too long... on through the Montreal traffic, through the Laurentians and here at Camp B'nai B'rith. KlezKanada is getting an early start this evening with a cabaret starting right off the bat --candlelit checkered tablecloths, the whole thing--with some young singers... , "Papiroisson" is being sung with Michael Winograd accompanying Rena Herman, --who has a nice voice is setting a great mood for the crowd. Now it's a Yiddish sing-along. More performers from Toronto Mike Liebowitz on sax and the Crazy Klermer Machine. Cool, modern mixed with klezmer. The rain is keeping everyone inside, so it's really crowded. It's camp, so everyone is greeting old friends and familiar with every bump in the roads around the campsite. Variety show time. "Rumania, Rumania" and the night begins to get a bit more with it. A clarinet medley...That's the first 30 minutes. I guess it's going to be a great week of fun and lots of great Yiddish music. These Yiddish camps (there's also KlezKamp in the States, and Yiddishvokh) are about as close as you get to Yiddishland nowadays come alive with music, art, dance, crafts, literature, theater and plenty for the family to do. Now I'm hearing "Die Mame Iz Gegangen" with clarinet and banjo...

So I'm sitting here with Carolyn Shaffer from Montreal and she plays accordian. It's her fourth time her at KlezKanada... she's absolutely loves it, Carolyn tells me: "it's huge thing in my life, it's so inspiring, I've learned so much. Four years ago I was a beginner and I learned a lot and it's my entry into the music. Now I'm in a girl Yiddish band called the "Yiddenes". We got our name her at KlezKanada. Someone told us this word, "yiddene", which means Jewess, and we loved it so we adopted the name for our band. It has a kind of connotation of someone bossy, but we're reclaiming the word as something positive... It's really something special to play in an all female Klezmerband."

Another band is playing German Goldenshteyn's songs...

You can find out more about the camp and the activities here at www.klezkanada.com.