Jewish, Yiddish, Ladino, Klezmer, Israeli, Mizrahi and Sephardic Music and Culture
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The Portland Jewish Music Festival is here! May 8 -18, featuring local Jewish artists Michelle Alany, Diane Chaplin, and Yankl Falk with the Carpathian Express, plus great Jewish artists from elsewhere.
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Liz Schwartz's interview with Alicia Jo Rabins, founder of Girls In
Trouble, an original art-pop song cycle about women in Torah. GIT has
released two albums with Jdub Records and has toured across the US, Canada,
England, Italy and Sweden. Alicia is currently working on...
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Portland Yiddish Hour Tribute to Maurice Sendak.
Join us for a special tribute to acclaimed children's author Maurice Sendak,
who died last month. We'll be playing Pincus and the Pig, Sendak's version of
Prokofiev's classic Peter and the Wolf, with music by the Shirim Kle...
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Taxes got you down? Join host Liz Schwartz for this week's Yiddish Hour,
where we'll feature music about money and a special live short story
performance reading by radio actor George Lederer.
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Today's Roma musicians are carrying forward many of the musical traditions of
the disappeared Klezmer world of eastern Europe. Join Barry as we continue
our exploration of Balkan and Gypsy music, including tunes from the Eugene
band, Kef (appearing Saturday night 5/24 at...
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The Jewish-Irish Connection
To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, host Liz Schwartz shines the spotlight on
Ireland's Jewish community, with history and music from the Emerald Isle.
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Join Barry for a (non-Hitchcockian) musical journey, moving inexorably SSE
from Poland to western Ukraine to the Balkans, in preparation for the March
14th concert of Balkan Beat Box, at the Roseland Theater!
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