Latest Album, Yiddish Silver Screen
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YIDDISH SILVER SCREEN זילבערנער קינאָ (Zilberne Kino) has dropped! Our latest album celebrates our 25th Anniversary with a reawakened repertoire inspired by forgotten vintage film soundtracks.
NYC based ISLE of KLEZBOS sextet approaches Yiddish musical traditions with loving irreverence and profound respect. The soulful, fun-loving powerhouse all women's klezmer sextet has toured from Vienna to Vancouver since 1998. Performing neo-folkloric tunes, re-grooved standards, and genre-transcending originals, the ensemble's gorgeous arrangements range from rambunctious to swinging to ethereal.
Isle of Klezbos full sextet returns for APAP Conference Weekend Klezmer Brunch at City Winery’s Loft Stage.
Open to the public, doors open at Noon.
TKTS: $25 In Advance and $30 Day Of Show
25 11th Avenue at Pier 57
NYC
YIDDISH SILVER SCREEN זילבערנער קינאָ (Zilberne Kino) has dropped! Our latest album celebrates our 25th Anniversary with a reawakened repertoire inspired by forgotten vintage film soundtracks.
WEARY SUN TANGO live at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Our Klezbos sextet ciné-concert three-city tour kicked off at the Detroit Jewish Film Festival, moving on to our multi-media quartet show in Brattleboro, Vermont at Epsilon Spires, finishing up with bandleader Eve Sicular's 2024 Harvard University lecture on Music of the Yiddish Silver Screen Event at the Center for Jewish Studies.
Isle of Klezbos Yiddish film music programs bring fascinating yet often-overlooked soundtrack highlights to new audiences, complete with our unique scholarly insights and spellbinding artistic interpretations.
ISLE OF KLEZBOS played sold out tour & hometown shows — YIDDISH SILVER SCREEN release party at Joe's Pub at The Public Theatre in NYC; Florida tour opener at Arts Garage in Delray and the band's debut at City Winery Boston, MA.
ISLE OF KLEZBOS & FRIENDS celebrated the band's Silver (25th) Anniversary with a full house at Joe's Pub. Guest accordion virtuoso Ilya Shneyveys graced this special show.
Watch our new music video for this spooky take on ABI GEZUNT: MOLLY'S CAUTIONARY TALE as reinterpreted on track 5 of YIDDISH SILVER SCREEN, featuring guest vocal duo Rachel Weston and Annie Cohen.
Keith Wolzinger interviews Eve Sicular
Queer Yiddishkeit ISLE OF KLEZBOS Interview with Eve Sicular
Jewish Women's Archive, Can We Talk? Podcast
Eve Sicular’s article Once upon a time, a Yiddish-ish 'Mikado' starred Danny Kaye, Jerome Robbins and Judy Garland explores how a Yinglish showbiz legend began at Tamiment Resort in the Poconos the fraught summer of 1939, with campy coda in wartime Hollywood.
Published in The Forward on April 17, 2024
Did you catch Klezbos and Metropolitan Klezmer bandmembers in HBO Max's AJLT finale — Season 1, Episode 10 SEX AND THE CITY sequel?
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