Music
Grateful Dead, from right to left
Ami Yares, a musician and teacher, will be featured, with Sagol 59, in a Dec. 12 concert at the St....
Klezmatics to perform Oct. 8
The Minnesota Orchestra will welcome the Klezmatics — the Grammy Award-winning superstars of klezmer — 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8...
The Klezmatics will play Orchestra Hall
Trumpeter and group co-founder Frank London talks with the Jewish World By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The Klezmatics concert in Minneapolis...
In the groove through ‘twintuition’
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The opening track on The Potash Twins, the new album from identical twins Ezra Potash (bass trombone)...
Janis Ian is still standing and singing
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Saturday Night Live recently re-broadcast its first show, from 1975. The musical guests were Billy Preston and...
Gabriel Kahane burnishes the popular song
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Gabriel Kahane’s new album, The Ambassador (Sony Masterworks), is made up of 10 songs from 10 varied...
A wizard of the banjo
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Musicologists say that the banjo had its origins in West Africa. A number of banjo-type instruments have...
Rise up with the Klezmatics
The well-traveled and acclaimed klezmer band returns to Minnesota for shows in Rochester and Minneapolis By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Itzhak Perlman,...
Yemen Blues brings the positive energy
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Ravid Kahalani the singer and frontman for the band called Yemen Blues is preparing for a gig...
