During the Dnieper Klezmer Jewish Heritage tour of the Ukraine organized by josh "DJ Socalled" Dolgin and family, an elderly Yiddish speaker from Paris, Abe Bartel, led a virtuoso stream of yiddish joke telling. It is getting ever more rare to hear the original Yiddish joke tradition form a fluent speaker raised in Yiddish. Translations by Prof. Orenstein of McGill University Jewish Studies Dept.
Josh Dolgin, Michael Alpert, Alex Kontorovich, David Krakauer, Vanya Zhuk, Eric Stein and Helene Domergue sing a Russian jewish song on board the Dnieper Princess during the Klezmer Heritage Cruise tour in May 2007, someplace on the Dnieper river south of Kiev.
David Krakauer, Josh Dolgin (DJ Socalled) and Guy Schalom do a very good take on the sound of the o,ld Dave Taqrrs Klezmer trio sound of the early 1940s at a rehearsal for a concert on the Dnieper Princess river cruiser, during the May 2007 Klezmer Heritage Cruise in the Ukraine.
A Romanian folk fiddler ("Ghica din Salaj") at the 2006 Negreni Fair plays the "vioara cu goarna" or trumpet fiddle. These instruments are resonator violins made locally by craftsmen in the Bihor region of Transylvania. A small membrane resonator set below the violin bridge carries the sound to a trumpet for amplification.
Aurel Mandache (violin) and Istvan Laszlo Legedi (flute) play Moldavian traditional folk music at the 2007 Csango Bal in Budapest, Hungary. This is old style Romanian folk dance music played for dancing by the Hungarian speaking Csango minority of Moldavia. The kobza player is especially good, but plays in an oltenian style, not in the older moldavian manner.
The Traditional Gypsy string band of Palatka, a village in central Transylvania (Romania) plays at the Budapest Fono Music House, Jan. 31, 2007. Lorinc Kordoban leads on fiddle helped by his nephew Florin Kordoban as the play traditional slow Hungarian style "music for the table" for Pal H., the bass player of the band Teka...
More late night jaming from Alex "Vanya" Zhuk of Moscow with Dave Krakauer, Eric Stein, and Guy Schalom on the Dnieper KleZmer Heritage cruise, May 2007.
Fiddler Dorel Kordoban leads the dance group of the Village of Rosia in Bihor county at a festival in Oradea, Romania. He plays the vioara cu goarna, a rumpet-violin made by himself. These violins use a resonator membrane (like that in a dobro guitar) to carry the sound to a trumpet bell attached to the violin body.
The Csürrent? group playing moldavian Csango dance music at the opening tanchaz (dance house) of the G?d?r Klub in Deak Square , Budapest, January 31, 2008. This is music which is primarily Moldavian Romanian popular folk dance music as played by the Csango minority in the region of Bacau, Romania.
Turkish Gypsy musicians playing for diners at a cafe located in the Cicek Pasaj, in Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey, summer of 2006. This kind of band is called "calga" and is still found wherever there are fish restaurants or small "meyhane" cafes serving meze and beer, such as in the Cicek Pasaj, Nevizade sokak, and other nght time entertainment areas of Istanbul.
Arkady Gendler, the 84 year old master singer of Yiddish songs from Soroki, Moldova, now living in Zaporozhie, Ukraine, sings a Yiddish folk song "Nokh a Gleyzele Vayn" (Another Glass of Wine) with the participants of the Klezmer Heritage tour, Dneiper river , Ukraine, May 2007. Organized by the Dolgin Family and son Josh "Socalled" Dolgin.
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