Freylekh Jamboree / NIPPON KLEZMER
A very rare band from Japan playing Klezmer (Jewish) and Gypsy (Roma) music. The band formed in 1999. Not using any electrical instruments at all, the band’s sound reminds one of nostalgic circus music and old jass bands.(The electric guitar player is participating as a guest player.) With all the different backgrounds of the musicians from Ding-Dong(A Japanese advertising Marching Band), Jazz, Rock, Pop, New Orleans, Latin, Musette, Irish, to Classical, and their free style performance, the band is able to create a distinctive world of...
read moreKlezmer Dance with Dr. Zev Feldman, Pete Rushevsky, et al…
Dr. Walter Zev Feldman teaching a “freylakhs” dance at the Yiddish Dance House (Tants Hoys) held at the Manhatten Jewish Community Center in January 2007. The band is about as all-star as one can get for traditional Klezmer, featuring Michael Winograd and Christian Dawid on clarinets, Pete Rushevsky on tsimbl, Jacob Shulmen-Ment on fiddle, Richie Barshay on poik, and other great musicians whose names escape me. Dr. Feldman – a musicologist and an expert on Yiddish and Turkish musical traditons – teaches how to express...
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Shiatsu Healer I’ve worked professionally as a shiatsu massage therapist and healer for more than twenty years- successfully treating hundreds of patients from all walks of life for a wide variety of complaints.
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