Daniel Kahn and Friends
with Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment
Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment offer a peek into the deep well of Yiddish music and song. Their collaborations include the lezmerpunk Cabaret band The Painted Bird, the Smithsonian Folkways Yiddish supergroup The Brothers Nazaroff, and their recent duo album The Building. Shulman-Ment is known as one of the world's best young klezmer fiddlers, a master of many Eastern European and classical techniques. Kahn's polyglot approach to song translation opens a rich and radical world of Yiddish folk songs and stories. Come learn to play or sing something or simply listen and dance.