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The Klezmatics

Frank London: Touzle Your Kurchy

by Glenn Astarita
September 21, 2026

Trumpeter Frank London has never been one to color neatly inside the historical lines. Known for his groundbreaking work with the Klezmer Conservatory Band and The Klezmatics, the restless downtown maestro has spent decades detonating cultural boundaries. With the Loisaida Fife and Drum Corps, he turns his sights toward eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Americana, dragging dusty martial traditions ...

The Klezmatics at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
December 19, 2025

The Klezmatics Happier Joyous Hanukkah Miner AuditoriumSan Francisco, CA December 15, 2025  As they near their 40th anniversary in 2026, The Klezmatics delivered a jazz-infused Hanukkah program to SFJAZZ that balanced groove, grief, and collective resilience while keeping the dance floor in mind. Drawing on material from Happier Joyous Hanukkah, recently ...

The Klezmatics: 40 Years of Revolutionary Joy

by Steven Roby
December 12, 2025

In this episode of Backstage Bay Area, host Steven Roby sits down with Frank London, trumpeter and founding member of the Grammy Award-winning band The Klezmatics. For four decades, The Klezmatics have been the world's leading voice in blending traditional Yiddish roots with the energy of punk, jazz, and gospel. Frank shares stories from ...

Craig Fraedrich Tony Nalker: Alone Together

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 29, 2019

An involved listening to this oxymoron-titled album could easily have one thinking that trumpeter Craig Fraedrich and pianist Tony Nalker probably could have been categorized by Audobon as “birds of a musical feather." That's not a surprise since both spent decades in the elite U.S. Army Blues Jazz Ensemble and they've worked together on Fraedrich's previous ...

Oslo Jazz Festival 2018

by John Sharpe
August 29, 2018

Oslo Jazz Festival Oslo, Norway August 15-17, 2018 Introduction The Norwegian capital Oslo bills itself as a festival city and, with around a thousand concerts each year, claims that it has the most concerts per inhabitant of any city in Europe. Included among those are the 70 plus events which made ...

The Klezmatics: Live at Town Hall

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 28, 2012

La pubblicazione di questo doppio album dal vivo collima con le celebrazioni per i venticinque anni di attività (e almeno altrettanti dischi) dei Klezmatics, nell'occasione (era il 5 marzo 2006) attorniati da una moltitudine di ospiti, anche molto prestigiosi (uno su tutti: David Krakauer). Il risultato è decisamente enciclopedico, con tutti i pro e anche qualche ...

David Krakauer releases Pruflas: The Book of Angels Vol. 18 Music by John Zorn on Tzadik Records

June 4, 2012

Clarinetist David Krakauer, praised internationally for his astounding ability to play in a myriad of music genres with “prodigious chops” (The New Yorker) and “soulfulness and electrifying showiness” (The New York Times), has recorded for the Tzadik label a collection of tunes selected especially for him to play by John Zorn from his milestone work, The ...

Clearwater Festival 2012 Line-Up

May 24, 2012

Clearwater's 2012 Great Hudson River Revival, also known as the Clearwater Festival, the country’s oldest music and environmental festival, will be held on June 16 and 17 this year. Over the weekend, hundreds of musical artists will appear at the beautiful Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson, NY to perform on 7 bio-diesel and solar powered stages. ...

Singer Susan McKeown Finds Melody in Melancholy "Singing in the Dark"

September 13, 2010

A Voice in the Night, A Light in the Wilderness: Singer Susan McKeown Finds Melody in Melancholy on Singing in the Dark Singer Susan McKeown has met the mad king forced to dwell with the birds in the treetops, and the witchy women and crazy ladies tearing through the night. Longing to counterbalance the persistent stigma ...