As vocalist Anthony Russell learned a Yiddish piece about a woeful traveler far away from their family, he noticed it felt like another, very culturally different song — the African American spiritual ...

When I first heard Joe Buchanan’s country music, I assumed he was a Messianic Jew. “How good, how good,” he croons with a Texas drawl over a twangy guitar. “Yeah, God I love the house where you grow.” ...

(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — There is a Grammy Award for just about every kind of music — from pop to metal to New Age to Contemporary Christian — but there’s no Jewish ...

On a recent evening, a group of Jewish women gathered at Chabad of Squirrel Hill to rehearse for an upcoming performance. It didn’t take the women long to learn the finale they will perform at “The ...

(JTA) — When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we thought it might be cool to hire a klezmer band. This was during the first wave of the klezmer revival, when groups like The Klezmatics and The ...

Near the end of the last century, Dec. 3, 1994, many folks got their first exposure to Hanukkah music via Adam Sandler’s “Chanukah Song” on Saturday Night Live. Was that, perhaps, the impetus for the ...

On a chilly Sunday afternoon, the sanctuary of the Belmont A.M.E. Zion Church offered a place of warmth, and of friendship forged in history, and shared struggles expressed in music. A concert, "Songs ...

“The High Holy Days are such an important, spiritual, traditional and cultural time,” musician Deborah Stokol told the Journal. “It’s a time of reflection and to honor the past while taking stock of ...

Connie Francis was a longtime Parkland resident whose 1960 filmed-in-Fort-Lauderdale romp “Where the Boys Are” is to Spring Break what “Jaws” is to shark fishing. Francis was among the first people ...

The passing of Jewish music luminaries in pop, rock, classical, films, and Broadway shows will be honored at the Grammys ceremony–with its traditional In Memoriam segment–on Sunday, February 4. With ...

The song is called “I Hate A Cappella,” and the joke is that it was composed and performed by an a cappella group, The Richter Scales. The group, comprised largely of Ivy League tech workers in San ...

Until Yoni Battat '13 was a teenager, Jewish music meant klezmer. In his synagogue and at his Jewish school outside New Haven, Connecticut, he heard and played the Eastern European-style folk music.