“Formerly deceased, the music now enjoys rude good health. A perfect example of this sea change in musical fortunes.” – Forward
Listen to Michael Winograd
New – klezmer workshop with Dan Blacksberg on Thursday, April 22!
A leader in the second generation of the klezmer revival, clarinetist and composer Michael Winograd is considered a modern master of the klezmer clarinet style and has also developed his unique voice in the area of free-jazz with his group Infection. He performs or has performed with SoCalled, Budowitz, Frank London, Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Kenny Wollesen, Michael Alpert, Alicia Svigals, the Xylopholks and many more. Since graduating with distinction from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Hankus Netsky, Joseph Maneri, Dominique Eade, Joe Morris, Bob Labaree and Ran Blake, Michael has taught and performed all over the world, including at KlezKamp, KlezKanada, the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow Poland, the Klezmer Workshop in Paris, Winnipeg and Calgary Folk Festivals, and the Dawson City Music Festival.
Benjy Fox-Rosen is a Brooklyn based bassist, singer, and composer. He has performed internationally as a member of Luminescent Orchestrii, a Balkan inspired string band, and is also a founding member of PLAY! ensemble, a microtonal improvisation group. In 2007 Benjy was a recipient of the Bronfman Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Student Artists for “Minutn fun Bitokhn” his suite composed around four Yiddish songs. Benjy performs regularly with Transylvanian folk band Metrofolk, Jake Shulman-Ment, Michael Winograd, The Amazing Frozen String Quartet and with his own band, Minutn fun Bitokhn, focusing on the songs of, and original setting of poems by Mordechai Gebirtig.
Patrick Farrell is a Brooklyn, NY based accordionist, brass fanatic, composer and bandleader who has been described as a “wizard” by Feast of Music and as a player of “mordant wit and blistering speed” by Lucid Culture. An open-eared approach and consistent curiosity about music have led him to study and perform in an ever-expanding variety of musical fields, including collaborations in theater, dance and spoken word. He has travelled extensively in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, where he regularly studies with his primary accordion teacher, Goran Alachki of Skopje, Macedonia. In New York, the klezmer community has graciously welcomed him and he regularly shares the stage with luminaries such as Frank London, Margot Leverett, Alicia Svigals and Eve Sicular. He is also leader of the circus/new-music/comedy group Stagger Back Brass Band, and plays in a wide range of other groups, including Ljova, the Kontraband, Romashka, Veveritse, and in various improvisational and new music settings.
Philadelphia trombonist Dan Blacksberg will join the trio for this performance. Dan is one of the few trombonists playing klezmer music on the east coast. He has performed or recorded in the US and abroad with Frank London, Michael Winograd, Aaron Alexander, Susan Watts, Elaine Hoffman Watts, the Klez Dispensers, Hankus Netsky, Alan Bern, Adrienne Cooper, Alex Kontorovitch and the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra – musical associations have brought him to such far-flung locales as Hungary, Poland, Austria, Germany, Canada and some strange corners of Brooklyn.
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