tickets for evening show only are $20, packages containing workshops and multiday passes up to $320

Lisa Gutkin will be performing at Yiddish New York Online on December 26th, 8 PM ET.

YNY Fidls! is a celebration of the klezmer violin, featuring many of NYC’s celebrated klezmer violinists. Performers include Deborah Strauss, Lisa Gutkin, Zoe Aqua, Jake Shulman-Ment and Keryn Kleiman (violins) along with Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) Christina Crowder (accordion) and Brano Brinarsky (bass).

$5.00 a month membership

The GRAMMY-winning klezmer superstars made their SFJAZZ Center debut with this inspiring concert filmed in December 2015, performing seasonal music from their 2006 album Happy Joyous Hanukkah that set lyrics by the late Woody Guthrie to their delightful original compositions. Led by the soaring vocals of multi-instrumentalist Lorin Sklamberg, Klezmatics jumpstarted the resurgence of the nearly-forgotten klezmer tradition and contemporized it with an irreverent dose of punk rock attitude, and since their inception, have been one of most visible faces of today’s Yiddish culture. They have collaborated with violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman and Pulitzer prize winner Tony Kushner, and have released eleven diverse albums, including the GRAMMY-winning Wonder Wheel and their most recent, Apikorsim.

For just $5 a month ($60 annually), you can become a Member and tune in each Friday at 5 PM (PT) for the latest concert. Make it a regular date. Bring a glass of wine and cozy up – we think you will discover that digital technology can reveal new dimensions of musical performance. Fridays at Five is not your typical video concert series; it is designed to take you inside the music.

Join Lisa, Will, Jessica, and Michael for another social distancing Porch Concert!

Limited to 50 attendees, first come first serve.

Will Holshouser (accordion), Jessica Lurie (Saxophones, flute), and Michael Sarin (drums) join Lisa Gutkin for a whimsical and groovy improvisational wander through her vast musical landscape.

Best known as a long time member of the Grammy Award winning Klezmatics, and for her score and performance in the Tony Award winning Indecent, Lisa Gutkin was also a backup musician in the Fast Folk Collective, co -founded the “downtown” celtic band, Whirligig, and has had an eclectic multi-ethnic career. She’s co-authored songs with Woody Guthrie, Anne Sexton, and Maggie Dubris, performed and composed for Sex and the City, played in Sting’s The Last Ship, written two film scores for Pearl Gluck, and is a MacDowell Fellow.

Will Holshouser's music draws on an eclectic range of sounds from various folk music styles, jazz, hymns, classical and experimental music. His most recent recording is a duo project with Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeimans. He has made three albums for the Portuguese label Clean Feed, and one with Musette Explosion, a collaborative trio featuring guitarist Matt Munisteri and tuba-ist Marcus Rojas. Will has also composed music for theater, film, and dance, and has toured extensively with Regina Carter, David Krakauer, Han Bennink & Michael Moore, and Kiran Ahluwalia. Locally, he has worked with Andy Statman, Suzanne Vega, Guy Klucevsek, Mark Morris Dance, New York City Ballet, and on Broadway.

Jessica Lurie’s distinct voice was formed from the richly diverse and eclectic Seattle and NYC music scenes. As a leader, side-person, composer and collaborator, Jessica is a regular fixture on jazz, new music, experimental jazz, funk and folk scenes, touring extensively in the US and Europe, performing on saxophones, flute, voice and the occasional accordion and ukulele. Recent highlights include recognition in the 2016/2017 Downbeat’s “Rising Star for Alto Sax” poll, and the celebrated release of her Jessica Lurie Ensemble: Long Haul (2018, Chant Records). Current bands include the Jessica Lurie Ensemble, the Tiptons Sax Quartet & Drums, Living Daylights trio, Sephardic music group Sofie Salonika, Slingshot, Ethiopian-inspired jazz Freethiopiques and TEPHRA led by cellist Helen Gillet. www.jessicalurie.com

Over the last thirty years, drummer Michael Sarin has been at the center of New York City’s genre bending jazz and improvisational music community. His versatility and musical wit helped forge long associations with forward-looking artists Ben Allison, Thomas Chapin, Dave Douglas, Mark Dresser, Marty Ehrlich, Erik Friedlander, David Krakauer, Myra Melford, and Mario Pavone. His unique style and approach to the drum set has been highly sought after by musicians looking to expand the definitions of jazz and improvised music, and can be heard on over 200 recordings. Michael performs all over the world--in major and minor festivals; concert halls famous and infamous, big and small.

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The Greenwich Village Folk Festival is proud to present another great night of amazing music.

Price is $15 per person, with special conditions for social distancing guidelines! Read details below.

The Irish-y, Jewish-y, Bluegrass-y, Jazzy, Funky special something that Lisa Gutkin is so well known for is the Quartet "Lisa's Pieces"

Safe Social Distancing Seating With Very Limited Ticket Availability. Tickets Are Sold By The Table ONLY. Tables Of 2, 4, and 6 are available upon request. See The Attached Seating Chart. Five Indoor Tables With Open French Doors Facing The Performance And Eight Outdoor Tables Are Available. Rain date will be announced for a Wednesday or Sunday in late September or October. Admission Is Still Only $15.00 Per Person But Must Be Purchased As A Table For Safety Table Of Two = $30., Four = $60.

Watch Lisa live on Facebook and Youtube on September 19th, 7pm, busking in support of Folkworks to fund their new website!

Join Lisa and Will at a social distancing Porch Concert!

Limited to 50 attendees, first come first serve.

Lisa Gutkin is best known as a long time member of the Grammy Award winning Klezmatics, and for her score and performance in the Tony Award winning Indecent. She was a backup musician in the Fast Folk Collective, co -founded the “downtown” celtic band, Whirligig, and has had an eclectic career. She’s co-authored songs with Woody Guthrie, Anne Sexton, and Maggie Dubris, performed and composed for Sex and the City, played in Sting’s The Last Ship, written two film scores for Pearl Gluck, and is a MacDowell Fellow.

Will Holshouser's music draws on an eclectic range of sounds from various folk music styles, jazz, hymns, classical and experimental music. His most recent recording is a duo project with Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeimans. He has made three albums for the Portuguese label Clean Feed, and one with Musette Explosion, a collaborative trio featuring guitarist Matt Munisteri and tuba-ist Marcus Rojas. Will has also composed music for theater, film, and dance, and has toured extensively with Regina Carter, David Krakauer, Han Bennink & Michael Moore, and Kiran Ahluwalia. Locally, he has worked with Andy Statman, Suzanne Vega, Guy Klucevsek, Mark Morris Dance, New York City Ballet, and on Broadway.

Free Live Streamed Event

Live Indecent Performance & Chat with Lisa Gutkin and special guest Rebecca Taichman

From Grammy to Tony – Join Lisa Gutkin for a performance and chat about her experiences leading up to, creating, and performing in Broadway’s Indecent. Q&A with special guests Matt Darriau, Christina Crowder and Tony Award Winning Director of ‘Indecent’ Rebecca Taichman.

Woo hoo! Will Holshouser in the house (or, in the yard, as it were). Join us for a special edition of Wednesdays at 8 with Lisa where there will be two, real life humans on the screen!

As always, you can watch the show on Facebook Live, or you can join Lisa's email list to get details on how to join Zoom!

Will Holshouser is an accordionist, composer, and improviser who has lived in Brooklyn for almost thirty years. He was given an accordion at an impressionable age and was soon bewitched by its charms. Since then, he has played all over the world with a variety of artists and his own groups. Will’s music draws on an eclectic range of sounds from various folk music styles, jazz, hymns, classical and experimental music. His most recent recording is a duo project with Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeimans. He has made three albums for the Portuguese label Clean Feed, and one with Musette Explosion, a collaborative trio featuring guitarist Matt Munisteri and tuba-ist Marcus Rojas. Will has also composed music for theater, film, and dance, and has toured extensively with Regina Carter, David Krakauer, Han Bennink & Michael Moore, and Kiran Ahluwalia. Locally, he has worked with Andy Statman, Suzanne Vega, Guy Klucevsek, Mark Morris Dance, New York City Ballet, and on Broadway. Will studied accordion with William Schimmel, and composition with Tania León and Dalit Warshaw at Brooklyn College, where he also teaches.

Ticket Price: $25

Watch KlezKanada’s 25th anniversary Summer Retreat online!

To celebrate KlezKanada’s 25th anniversary, we are thrilled to welcome back the Grammy Award-winning group, The Klezmatics, as this year’s headlining act. 

With Lorin Sklamberg (vocals, accordion, guitar), Lisa Gutkin (violin), Frank London (trumpet), Matt Darriau (clarinet, saxophone, kaval), Paul Morrissett (bass) and Richie Barshay (drums).

Ticket Price: $20

Music is central to “Indecent,” a two-time Tony Award-winning play that has deeply moved audiences and critics since its 2015 debut. The production's on-stage musicians set the mood, evoke time and place, and create poignant transitions to help recount the controversy surrounding the play God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch. After touring for years in Europe and playing in the Bowery, Asch’s play moved up to Broadway in 1923, where the producer and cast were arrested and convicted on the grounds of obscenity (in part for featuring a kiss between two women).

Join Lisa Gutkin (co-composer, co-arranger, co-music director, and violinist for the Broadway production and music director for subsequent productions), Christina Crowder (music director and accordionist for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Portland Artists Repertory productions), and Matt Darriau (off Broadway and Broadway clarinetist) as they perform selections from “Indecent,” and share insight into its creation and performance. Q&A to follow.

Free outdoor concert, but you need to register. Social distancing rules in effect.

Pricing from $50 to $236

The Bernard and Reva Broder Memorial Concert

The Klezmatics, the internationally acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning modern klezmer outfit, was founded in New York City in 1986 and has been performing around the world since then. Blending instrumental and vocal virtuosity and experimentation with theatricality firmly rooted in klezmer and Yiddish tradition, the Klezmatics brought the revival of klezmer into the rock era, blazing the path for the klezmer renaissance with one foot in the shtetl and the other in the downtown avant-garde. The Klezmatics are Lorin Sklamberg, vocals, piano, and guitar; Frank London, trumpet and keyboards; Matt Darriau, clarinet, saxophone, and recorders; Lisa Gutkin, violin; Paul Morrisett, bass and tsimbl; and Richie Barshay, drums.

This week on Wednesdays at 8 with Lisa, I'm honored to have the presence of Tine Kindermann and Frank London, an accomplished and incredibly artistic couple. I am excited to chat about and experience some of their art that has come out of this turbulent time.

Tine Kindermann is a visual artist and musician from Berlin, Germany, who has been living and working in New York City since 1993. A figurative artist working in various media, her work, which includes miniature tableaux and dioramas, video, sculpture and painting, has been shown at Stephen Romano Gallery, the Governors Island Art Fair, RePop, Mark Miller Gallery and other galleries in New York City, as well as Neurotitan Gallery and Gallery Kurt im Hirsch in Berlin. Together with Deborah Ugoretz, Tine curates exhibitions for Yiddish New York, an annual cultural festival in NYC.

Sir Frank London is a Grammy-award winning trumpeter and composer. A member of the Klezmatics, he has played trumpet with Lester Bowie, David Byrne, Pink Floyd, They Might Be Giants, LL Cool J, Hector LaVoe, Karen O, Itzhak Perlman, Jane Siberry, Mel Tormé, LaMonte Young, John Zorn and is on over 500 CDs.

His compositions include the Yiddish-Cuban opera Hatuey Memory of Fire (with Elise Thoron), Salomé: Woman of Valor (with Adeena Karasick), the folk-opera A Night In The Old Marketplace (with Alex Aron and Glen Berger), Green Violin (with Elise Thoron & Rebecca Taichman), 1001 Voices: Symphony for a New America (with Judith Sloan & Warren Lehrer), and Tony Kushner’s A Dybbuk. In 2019 he’ll premiere Ghetto Songs at Hamburg’s Elbephilharmonie; From Shtetl to Stage at Carnegie Hall, and Kurt Weill in New York in Dessau. London was knighted by Hungary for his work advancing Jewish and multicultural Hungarian music and culture.

2020 Virtual Old Songs Festival on Folk Music Notebook

The Klezmatics will be performing on Sunday, June 28th from Noon to 3pm ET

Download the app to watch the festival online!

On our next episode of Wednesdays at 8 With Lisa, company artists from the Dance Theatre of Harlem will come together with The Klezmatics for an exciting evening of music and dance improv and recorded excerpts of the bands Balamouk rehearsals.

Subscribe to our email list below or klezmatics.com for the Zoom link, and the link will be sent at 7pm. Space limited, doors open at 7:30.

70+ musicians, singers, and dancers from six countries gather online on Sunday, June 21st @ 6pm EDT to celebrate fathers, grandfathers, father figures, future fathers, and adopted dads of all sorts. Join us!

This concert is free, but supported entirely by community contributions. The money raised goes directly to the performers, who have experienced loss of nearly all income during the Covid crisis. Contribute to the TUNE SUPPLY Artist Fund here:

This event will take place on TUNE SUPPLY's YouTube channel. The link below will go live right at 6pm on June 21st:

Full lineup coming soon.

Happy Father's Day and see you soon!

The Virtual Great Hudson River Revival will be brought to you online on Clearwater's traditional Father’s Day weekend. We hope you will join us for a day full of music, story telling, activism, education, and celebration. The program will run from 11AM-11PM with lots of familiar personalities, as well as new and exciting performances.

Watch Lisa do her set at 6:00 PM!

Virtual Revival is free for all to attend, but we hope you will donate if you are able.

VIEW THE LIVE STREAM AT:

Schmooze Fest with Jordan Hirsch this Wednesdays at 8 with Lisa Gutkin - who knows where we'll get to! (But surely, some trumpet will be heard.)

As usual, you can watch the show live on Facebook Live or on Zoom. If you'd like to get news on Lisa’s upcoming projects, subscribe to the email list on this website

Jordan Hirsch’s interest in Klezmer and Yiddish song goes back to his high school years in the 1970’s when he discovered Klezmer and Jazz trumpet icon Ziggy Elman on his parents Benny Goodman records, and the Klezmer clarinet sounds still frequently heard on NYC wedding bandstands. One of the last of “the old guys”, Jordan played with some of the greatest American Klezmer musicians, including Ray Musiker, Howie Lees, Paul Pincus, and Danny Rubinstein on countless Chasidic and Jewish music gigs starting in 1981. Jordan has taught And performed at Klezkanada and Yiddish New York, and was the lead trumpet for the recent critically acclaimed production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish.

Tunes, tunes, tunes - I’ve been working on various projects and my head is filled with all kinds of tunes... So next Wednesday is just me and the fiddle!

You can catch me at Wednesday’s, 8PM EST on Facebook Live! If you’d like to join the Zoom session, subscribe to the email list on this website.

6:30 PM Doors Open

7:00 PM Acoustic Jam

8:00 PM Open Mic

9:00 PM Featured Artist - Lisa’s Pieces

​Refreshments will be served, please bring a dish to share.

Westchester Blugrass Club evenings usually start with an open jam, followed by an open mic, then a headlining act.  Esteemed musicians including Tony Trischka, Barry Mitterhoff, Jen Larson and Grant Gordy have played the clubhouse. 

Audience members and musicians bring food or drinks to share, their instruments and love of bluegrass; creating a community unique in Westchester County.  All ages and abilities are welcome

The Westchester Bluegrass Club, grew out of musicians passion for the music and a desire to bring great bluegrass acts to a small local venue.  Through the dedication of Mike Burns, Ben Freed and Michael Rosenthal, with the help of friends;  small concerts have been brought to the Purdy's Lake House for over 15 years.

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Lisa’s Pieces will perform at The Falcon on May 14th

More details to follow

Tunes, tunes, tunes - I’ve been working on various projects and my head is filled with all kinds of tunes... So next Wednesday is just me and the fiddle!

You can catch me at Wednesday’s, 8PM EST on Facebook Live! If you’d like to join the Zoom session, subscribe to the email list on this website.

TUNE SUPPLY presents "Mother's Day from Far Away"

47 performers from four countries will be featured as we bring tunes from our homes to yours. Check out the lineup in the attached poster!

Join us Sunday, May 10th @ 6pm EDT on the TS YouTube channel for this extravaganza. Link below. Happy Mother's Day!

https://youtu.be/253yWRLHjls
https://tune.supply/concerts

Watch Lisa’s performance starting here.

A 12-hour Facebook Live musical concert and fundraiser -- Mother's Day Tribute to Toshi Seeger -- supporting the critical environmental action initiatives by Hudson River Clearwater Sloop. Featuring 12 hours of diverse, original, and activist musicians, with some sharing stories and memories of Toshi Seeger, curated by Fred Gillen, Jr.

DONATION LINKS HERE:
https://bit.ly/DonateToshiTributeLINK
https://www.clearwater.org/donate/

Watch Lisa’s performance here.

This “Wednesdays at 8 with Lisa,” celebrates Earth Day in a special belated online multimedia event with singer/songwriter Fred Gillen Jr. and photographer Jim Metzger. Lisa and Fred will sing and fiddle while Jim shows images of trips from an environmental mission to Nepal that the three went on last summer. It’s a visual and aural treat not to be missed. Subscribe to Lisa’s email list on this website to be part of the Zoom chat, or watch on Facebook Live!

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NYFA (New York Foundation For The Arts) grant recipient Fred Gillen Jr. has released eleven full-length albums, to great critical acclaim. He has performed all over the U.S. and Europe as a solo artist. From 2017 to 2019 he was music director of the Group The Greenheart, traveling to Nepal four times and India once, performing concerts to raise awareness of environmental activism. His songs have been featured on ABC's "All My Children," NPR's "Car Talk," CMJ's New Music Marathon Sampler, and in 2012 his version of Woody Guthrie's "I Ain't Got No Home" was featured on "Pete Remembers Woody," a collection of Pete Seeger's spoken stories about Woody Guthrie. interspersed with various artists' renditions of Guthrie's songs. Like Seeger and Guthrie, Gillen's lyrics often reflect both the hope and despair of the human condition, while his music illustrates the diversity of influences in the air when he was growing up in the 1970's. His live performances are spontaneous and full of storytelling, and he enjoys audience participation.

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Jim Metzger: When I was 15 my father asked me what I wanted to do as a profession and I replied “I wanted to be a photographer for Life Magazine”. He said “you can’t make any money doing that”.

I got a degree in Architecture from Cornell University in 1977 and have been practicing since I graduated. I will get it right one of these days. But the joy of photography never left and I now split my time working on residential Architecture and photography.

I have been able to combine photography with a deep seated commitment to environmental and political causes I discussed being able to travel with “The Greenheart” as the band photographer for several years. In 2017 James Dean Conklin said it was time. I have had the extraordinary opportunity to travel with this wildly talented environmental activist band to Nepal three times and to India once in the last three years. Being able to bring a visual message of peace and environmental justice to and from half way around the world has finally allowed me to realize the dream I had as a 15 year old boy.

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I’m really looking forward to "being together" with you!

Donations are sliding scale/honor system, and the proceeds will go to all of the artists.

Venmo: @Lisa-Gutkin-1

Paypal: paypal.me/lisagutkinmusician

Lisa's Pieces will perform at the Dogwood Cafe on April 29th.

More details to follow

Hey Folks!

I'm excited to announce that we will be returning April 29th with another installment of "Wednesdays at 8 With Lisa"! This time, we will be featuring special guests Cantor Sarah Myerson and accordionist Ilya Shneyveys as a dynamic duo. The pair form Shekedina, an exploration of divine names in many languages though musical meditation and sacred chanting. I hope you'll be able to join us for a concert filled with healing and beauty.

To join the Zoom meeting, subscribe to Lisa's mailing list on our website

I’m really looking forward to "being together" with you!

Shekedina: Shemot Kedoshim - Divine Names

Judaism has many names for the Divine; in Hebrew, in Aramaic, in Yiddish, in Ladino. Divine names spanning many genders. Names that speak to all of our desires and imaginings of the Divine: compassion and creation, strength and healing, intimate and unknowable.

Shekedina is an original musical exploration of these divine names. Join us in sacred chanting and meditation with Sarah Myerson, composer and cantor with a daily Yoga practice and Ilya Shneyveys, multi-instrumentalist and music producer.

Sarah Myerson is a cantor actively working to bridge the worlds of Jewish religion and Yiddish culture. Her love of klezmer music and background in folk dance drew her to study Yiddish dance at festivals and workshops. Since 2008 she has led Yiddish social dancing and taught workshops and private lessons in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Israel, and Australia. She has also coordinated the Yiddish Dance Workshop for Yiddish Summer Weimar (2018, 2019). To deepen her connection with Ashkenazi culture, Sarah has studied Yiddish language at YIVO (NY), the Arbeter Ring (NY), Beit Ben Yehuda (Jerusalem) and Tel Aviv University. Sarah received her bachelor’s degree in composition from the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney, Australia. She continues to write and perform new Yiddish and sacred Jewish music, often accompanying herself on harmonium, banjolele, or percussion. Sarah received her cantorial investiture and Master of Sacred Music degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (NY), and her cantorial commission from the Cantors Assembly. She currently serves the community of Kane Street Synagogue in Brooklyn (NY).
cantorsarahmyerson.wixsite.com/cantor

Ilya Shneyveys is an international performer, accordionist and multi-instrumentalist, teacher, composer, arranger and producer of contemporary Jewish music, from klezmer and Yiddish folk song to fusion and experimental projects.

A founding member of Berlin’s famous Neukölln Klezmer Sessions and Shtetl Neukölln festival, as well as a long-time faculty member at Yiddish Summer Weimar, Ilya has performed and taught at major Jewish festivals around the world, including Yiddish Fest Moscow, Yiddish New York, Klezfest St.Petersburg, Klezfest London, KlezKanada, Montreal Jewish Festival, Toronto Ashkenaz Festival, Krakow Jewish Festival and more.

He is the artistic director and a founding member of the Yiddish psychedelic rock band Forshpil (LV-RU-DE) and a founding member of the Yiddish-Bavarian fusion project Alpen Klezmer (DE), winner of 2014 RUTH World Music Award at TFF Rudolstadt. He is an artictic director of the German-Israeli student exchange project The Caravan Orchestra, for which he was awarded the 2017 Shimon-Peres-Prize. As a touring member of the klezmer-balkan band Dobranotch (RU) he has received the Eiserne Eversteiner Preis in 2017. He has performed and collaborated with such projects like Opa! (RU), The Klezmatics (US), Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird (DE) and many others.

Ilya composes contemporary traditional klezmer pieces and creates original arrangements of traditional Jewish music. He is renowned as an improviser, accompanist and band leader.

Originally from Riga, Latvia, Ilya has been traveling the world for the last 15 years promoting Yiddish music and culture. He is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.
ilya.shneyveys.com