Today’s show is an interview with Art Bailey of the New York based Klezmer band Orkestra Popilar. The show features recordings by Orkestra Popilar as well as early Klezmer source recordings by the great Romanian cymbalom (hammer dulcimer) player Joseph Moskowitz which have been a large part of the inspiration for Orkestra Popilar’s music.
Art Bailey’s Orkestra Popilar – See above for a live recording of them from Banjo Jim’s Dec. 5th, 2008
Joseph Moskowitz on the right, playing the cymbalom
Links:
http://www.artbailey.org – Art Bailey’s website
Article – Remembering Joseph Moskowitz
Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski
Jews Without Money – Book by Michael Gold featuring a description of Joseph Moskowitz and his wine cellar and New York’s Lower East Side