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Yiddish Language Joke Session Posted by: dumneazu
Video duration: 269 seconds 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. Related: cruise, dnieper, dolgin, france, heritage, jewish, jokes, language, socalled, speaker, ukraine, vitz, yiddish |
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Klezmer singing Russian song Posted by: dumneazu
Video duration: 403 seconds 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. Related: alpert, dnieper, dolgin, folk, klezmer, krakauer, music, niggun, nign, russian, song, yiddish, zhuk |
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David Krakauer does Tarras Trio Posted by: dumneazu
Video duration: 131 seconds 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. Related: clarinet, cruise, dave, david, dnieper, dolgin, guy, heritage, jewish, klezmer, krakauer, music, schalom, tarras, trio, yiddish |
![Romanian \"Vioara cu Goarna\" fiddle from Bihor](http://img.youtube.com/vi/i7qOVsbpANw/2.jpg "Romanian \\"Vioara cu Goarna\\" fiddle from Bihor") |
Romanian "Vioara cu Goarna" fiddle from Bihor Posted by: dumneazu
Video duration: 97 seconds 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. Related: bihor, fiddle, folk, goarna, music, negreni, romania, transylvania, vioara |
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Palatka Band at Fono, Budapest Posted by: dumneazu
Video duration: 157 seconds 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... Related: fiddle, gypsy, hungarian, music, palatka, romanian, traditional, transylvania |
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Aurel Mandache and Laszlo Legedi, Moldavian Folk Music Posted by: dumneazu
Video duration: 119 seconds 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. Related: csango, dance, flute, folk, hungarian, kobza, moldavian, music, romania, traditional |
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Vanya Zhuk and David Krakauer Jam with Klezmer guitar Posted by: dumneazu
Video duration: 250 seconds 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. Related: alex, cruise, david, dnieper, dolgin, eric, guy, heriate, klezmer, krakauer, schalom, socalled, stein, ukraine, vanya, yiddish, zhuk |
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Csürrent? Group playing Csango Music at G?d?r Tanhaz Posted by: dumneazu
Video duration: 290 seconds 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. Related: budapest, cobza, csango, csürrent, dance, fiddle, folk, hungarian, koboz, moldavian, moldovan, moldva, music, romanian, tanchaz |
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Gypsy Musicians: Calga music, Cicek Pasaj, Istanbul, Turkey Posted by: dumneazu
Video duration: 99 seconds 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. Related: beyoglu, calga, cicek, folk, gypsy, istanbul, music, musicians, pasaj, sokak, turkey |
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Old Time Cajun Music: One Step de McGee's Posted by: dumneazu
Video duration: 123 seconds Bob Godfried and Bob Cohen play a Dennis McGee tune at John Allen's Solstice party, Dec. 21, 2007, Beacon, NY. Related: acadian, accordion, cajun, creole, dennis, fiddle, folk, louisiana, mcgee, music |
![Arkady Gendler sings \"Nokh a Gleyzele\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/lUTJvWAvoQg/2.jpg "Arkady Gendler sings \\"Nokh a Gleyzele\\"") |
Arkady Gendler sings "Nokh a Gleyzele" Posted by: dumneazu
Video duration: 185 seconds 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. Related: arakdy, bessarabia, dnieper, dolgin, gendler, jeritage, jewish, klezmer, socalled, tour, ukraine, yiddish |
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Hutsul Band from Tecso (Tjaciv): Maramures Romanian Tune Posted by: dumneazu
Video duration: 162 seconds The Hutsul band fromthe village of Tjaciv (known as the Tecso band in Hungarian) plays a favorite Romanian melody from the Maramures Region, which is just south across the Tisa river from the Transcarpathian Ukrainian region where Tjaciv is found. The fiddler is Ivan Popovich, playing at the Kafana Serbian restaurant in Budapest, Hungary on April 2, 2007... Related: fiddle, folk, hungarian, hutsul, maramures, music, romanian, ruthenian, tecso, tjaciv, ukrainian |
