Leader of the band The Sway Machinery, a group that takes “golden age” khazones as the jumping off point for creating new music. Available as a soloist on guitar and voice for private engagements and club dates. Jeremiah Lockwood plays with his new duo, Book of J, with musician Jewlia...
Lecturers, Performers, Yiddish Choruses, Singers & Song Leaders / Santa Clara County
Klezmer performances, East European folk and gypsy music. Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian. Balkan and Israeli folk dance music. Workshops for instrumental and vocal music. Accordionist, band leader, workshop leader, booking agent. Plays accordion, balalaika, tzimbl, guitar, percussion, and vocals. Member of the Bay Area's original Klezmorim, Troika Balalaikas, Hatsegana, Silver String...
Jeanette Lewicki (Oakland) is a thirty-year practitioner of Yiddish song as well as an accordionist and a klezmer bandleader. She has taught at Yiddish New York, Yiddish Summer Weimar, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Jewish Learning Works, and KlezCalifornia events; sung with the San Francisco Symphony and coached Michael Tilson Thomas in...
Lecturers, Performers, Yiddish Choruses, Singers & Song Leaders / East Bay
Musical/educational programs for many Jewish holidays. Mark Levy has performed and taught in the San Francisco Bay area for 40 years at temples, synagogues, JCC's, HaMaqom (formerly Lehrhaus Judaica), Workers Circle, and other Jewish groups. He has appeared throughout the country, in Europe and Israel and is a singer and...
A vibrant trio of violin, accordion, and drums, LKK has an extensive repertoire of Klezmer, Sephardic, Balkan, Greek, Gypsy, Israeli, and Russian music. Available for all simkhehs and holidays.
The Kleztet is a peninsula-based band with core members Lisa Ratner, Mark Goldstein, Kathy Sherman and Naomi Temes. We play weddings, parties, b'nei mitzveh events, and celebrations of all kinds. Our music styles include klezmer, celtic, jazz, folk and classical.
Klezmer and Israeli music, and some bluegrass at events large or small
Songs in Yiddish, English, and Hebrew from America, Europe and Israel. Singer, musician, and teacher with many years’ experience singing for schools, camps, and organizations
Performers, Yiddish Choruses, Singers & Song Leaders / East Bay
Band specializing in traditional Old World Klezmer and Israeli dance music. Also swing and old standards. Sonia Tubridy, accordion; Paul Alexander, clarinet; Gus Garelick, mandolin and violin; Richard Saunders, bass. CDs: “Mazel Tov”; “Raisins and Almonds”; “The Rabbi’s Farewell”; “Chiribim Bim Bam” (Favorite Yiddish Vocals with Alby Kass). Available for...
Suska and Mordecai provide traditional klezmer with pinches of old time jazz, ethnic folk, theater and American popular music, simmered gently with the blues, rock and reggae, a dash of psychedelia, cooking for ten years and serving up the twanging lingering tones of Jewgrass, African, Celtic, Hawaiian, spiced with the...
Joshua Horowitz is an internationally renowned klezmer performer with Veretski Pass, Budowitz, and other groups. The Promiscuous World of Jewish Music: Join Josh every Monday at 11am Pacific Time (2pm Eastern, 7pm UK, 8pm most of Europe in a series of free Zoom lectures on an array of fascinating aspects...
