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Rhythm Atlas 311 2023-12-04 Hannukah Special
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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Host Denis McGIlvray celebrates Hannukah in the first half of this week’s special episode of The Rhythm Atlas. You’ll hear new music by Frank Londo...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KAMU, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
Rhythm Atlas 266 2022-12-12 with Hanukkah Music
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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In the first half of this week’s special edition of The Rhythm Atlas, we’ll celebrate Hanukkah. You’ll hear traditional klezmer-styled tunes, songs...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KAMU, and WVPE


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
Chenango Sessions 131 - Alicia Svigals
From: Andru Bemis
Series: Chenango Sessions
Caption: Alicia Svigals
Solo klezmer fiddle, recorded live at the Cranberry Coffeehouse in Binghamton, NY, on 21 August 2021.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
Rhythm Atlas 165 Hanukkah Special 2020 EVERGREEN
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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On this special holiday edition of The Rhythm Atlas, we’ll celebrate Hanukkah with music by artists from around the world. Produced in 2020, this i...

Bought by WYSO, KAMU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WHQR, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
The Rhythm Atlas 114 Chanukah and Christmas Music Around the World
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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With Chanukah and Christmas overlapping this year, we'll celebrate both holidays on this festive edition of The Rhythm Atlas world music program. Y...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
The Rhythm Atlas 61: Hanukkah Music Special 2018-12-02
From: Denis McGilvray
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On this special edition of the weekly program, we’ll explore the many facets of Hanukkah music from around the world. We’ll hear some traditional k...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WJAB, WVPE, and Interlochen Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
Now There's Only Time To Live Forever
From: Jessica Ripka
Caption: Penelope DeWitt at Stoney Beach after her recording session, Credit: Jessica Ripka
Think about something you've spent your whole life wanting to do. Now try to think about what's kept you from doing it. What comes to mind? For...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 19, 2016
  • Length: 10:34
  • Purchases: 2
Yung Yiddish
From: Israel Story
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In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 16:05
Eternal Echoes for Hanukkah
From: James Jacobs
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Violinist Itzhak Perlman and Jewish music scholar and performer Hankus Netsky join host James David Jacobs for an hour of songs and stories celebra...

Bought by WRKF, WRCJ-FM, KERA, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 31
Amnon Weinstein's Violins of Hope - Live in Charlotte
From: Sam Van Hallgren
Caption: Amnon Weinstein, with a Violin of Hope, Credit: Ken Lambla
Master violin maker Amnon Weinstein has spent the past two decades finding and restoring violins that survived the Holocaust. In April, 2012, he br...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Klezmer musician Mark Stillman talks to Scott Hall
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Mark Stillman
Mark Stillman plays accordian with vocalist Sima Shumlovsky, and clarinetist Shelly Hanson. From the Twin Cities, this Klezmer Band plays Ethnic Ea...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 15:09
  • Purchases: 1
05 Lubliner Nign
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
At the Sabbath table on a Friday evening, the Khasidim of Eastern Europe sang tish nigunim, “table songs” praising God . . . seeking to get closer ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:16
04 Lustig Zayn
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
Sometimes, klezmer songs borrowed from popular folk melodies. “Lustig Zayn”, also known as “My Yofes” came from Polish peasants. But the more kle...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:24
03 Simkes Hanefesh
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This is a more spiritual tune. In 18th Century Poland, the Jewish mystic philosophy of Khasidism was born. The Khasidim believed that singing song...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:53
02 Sofia's Song
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
In the audio drama “The Witches of Lublin,” Sofia is a teenaged girl in love – all that matters to her is that the object of her affection shares h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:44
01 Shtayn Gart's
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This lively dance is a bulgar. It is exactly the sort of music one would hear at one of the market fairs held in Easter Europe during the late 1700...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 09:55
The Witches of Lublin
From: Sue Zizza
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(this 58:30 program is the final version) Lublin, Poland, 1797: While they prepare for Passover, a family of Jewish women klezmer musicians struggl...

Bought by WRGY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Radio Catskill, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 25