Above photo is from a klezmer music session at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend 2015.
Klezmer events
Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle Center, Memorial Day weekend
Many years there is a Big Jewish Show as a part of Folklife, and often klezmer bands are featured in that showcase and at other times during the festival. The schedule is typically posted in early May. Check Northwest Folklife Festival for information.
Klezmer jam in Seattle
See the Klez Chaos page for more details.
Klezmer jam in Olympia
Everyone is welcome at the Olympia Klezmer jams, held the second Thursday of each month. Contact Laurie at paula-sonata@comcast.net for information.
Interesting Links
Album release for Chekhov’s Band: Eastern European Klezmer Music from the EMI Archives 1908-1913
The New York public library has a website to help locate Yiddish music online. Click here.
Mendocino Balkan Camp (East European Folklife Center)
The Klezmer Shack: a tremendous on-line klezmer resource maintained by Ari Davidow, including blogs, calendars, directories, reviews, articles, videos, and more. A person could spend many happy hours exploring this site and learning, for example, that the Klezmatics are perform
Klezmer Guide: Attention Klezmer nerds! Here is a comprehensive cross-reference of klezmer tune names, recordings, and sheet music sources.
Milken Archive of Jewish Music: including lots of oral histories, sound recordings, videos and good solid information about the vast body of music pertinent to the American Jewish experience, including klezmer, pictures from shtetls and more.