The annual North American Jewish Choral Festival (NAJCF) brings hundreds of singers together to enjoy five magical days of a ...

Lugging heavy audio equipment, Magid traveled through parts of today’s Belarus and Ukraine (then territories of the Soviet Union) making wax cylinder recordings of Jewish folk music ...

folk and country. NEW YORK (JTA) — Saul Kaye never wanted to be a “Jewish blues” player. In his opinion, the Jewish music he had heard growing up in Northern California’s Bay Area ranged ...

Sheila Dardashti has spent her lifetime making music — but until recently had never written any of her own. Raised in Queens by Jewish lovers of folk music, Dardashti studied classical guitar ...

The Timeless Energy of the Hora There is a point in a Jewish wedding when everything changes: the music rises, the audience ...

Klezmer is Eastern European Jewish folk music In other parts of the country klezmer seemed to disappear and then was revived But in Philadelphia the Hoffman family ...

The music of the Middle East has been influenced by many different religions and cultures. As well as the religious influences of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Druze, there are traces of ...