I have spent the past three months or so covering both Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and Gaza...
world-music
The late, great Irish traditional musician, Mícheál Ó’Domhnaill (photo: Nightnoise.org) On July 9th, one of the greatest...
Tonight KBCS broadcast Peter Graff’s The Old Country, one of the station’s finest world music programs. Peter...
Last week, I attended my first Kronos Quartet concert with special guest, Rahman Asadollahi, the Azeri accordion...
I’ve never seen the Kronos Quartet in concert before and decided to see them tonight at Seattle’s...
Hazzan Issac Azoze is the emeritus cantor of Seattle’s Congregation Ezra Besarroth, a community of Jews from...
Max Helfman was a choral conductor and Jewish educator born in Poland. There his father had been...
Avadim Hayinu from Hazin Haggadah (source: Richard McBee) Tonight’s installment of Jewish music for Passover involves a...
Here’s another daily installment of my Passover music offerings. Tonight, I have a most unusual piece to...
Andy Statman & David Grisman have recorded a rousing version of Adir Hu (hear it), traditionally sung...
In 1995, a Jewish neonatologist decided that the world needed a Jewish answer to the Gregorian chant...
Here’s the second in my series on Passover music. Like the first entry, I’m keeping with the...