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Baymele (“little tree” in Yiddish) is a klezmer band rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their debut album, Sapling, embodies the idea of new growth

A green duck goes in search of noodles to chew on. A soldier leaving for the Russo-Japanese war bids a heartbreaking farewell to his mother,

The Bay Area music community experienced a huge loss in May 2025 with the passing of Rob Reich. Rob will be remembered as a fabulous

Enjoy this rendition of Broyt un Royzn (Bread and Roses) by Seattle-based ensemble Brivele. View the video »

Watch the Bay Area’s own Kehillah Klezmer Band perform a wonderful rendition of Olam Chesed Yibaneh. Watch video »

For peysekh: Dayenu in Yiddish, by Dinah & Zisl Slepovich! Watch video »

Bay Area klezmer band Veretski Pass recently released a new album with clarinetist Joel Rubin, The Peacock and The Sunflower. The album explores the musical interactions

Read this interesting article about singer Paul Robeson, who sang (or sometimes didn’t sing!) in Yiddish. If you scroll down, there is an excellent recording of

Listen to a modern take on an anti-war classic: the band Litvakus performs Niet, pan Lavrov, a Yiddish song lamenting the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

Listen to this performance of Loyb, a poem by Chava Rosenfarb, a survivor of the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, set to music by Alan Bern, and