After visiting my Grandfather's Shtetl, Criuleni (Krivlyany) in republic of Moldova, we took a shortcut back to Kishinev and found the village of onitcani. my Grandfather's original name was Onitskansky, and we had always wondered where the name came from. Now we know.
David Krakauer, Josh Dolgin (DJ Socalled) and Guy Schalom do a very good take on the sound of the o,ld Dave Taqrrs Klezmer trio sound of the early 1940s at a rehearsal for a concert on the Dnieper Princess river cruiser, during the May 2007 Klezmer Heritage Cruise in the Ukraine.
During the Dnieper Klezmer Jewish Heritage tour of the Ukraine organized by josh "DJ Socalled" Dolgin and family, an elderly Yiddish speaker from Paris, Abe Bartel, led a virtuoso stream of yiddish joke telling. It is getting ever more rare to hear the original Yiddish joke tradition form a fluent speaker raised in Yiddish. Translations by Prof. Orenstein of McGill University Jewish Studies Dept.
Arkady Gendler, the 84 year old master singer of Yiddish songs from Soroki, Moldova, now living in Zaporozhie, Ukraine, sings a Yiddish folk song "Nokh a Gleyzele Vayn" (Another Glass of Wine) with the participants of the Klezmer Heritage tour, Dneiper river , Ukraine, May 2007. Organized by the Dolgin Family and son Josh "Socalled" Dolgin.
The Traditional Gypsy string band of Palatka, a village in central Transylvania (Romania) plays at the Budapest Fono Music House, Jan. 31, 2007. Lorinc Kordoban leads on fiddle helped by his nephew Florin Kordoban as the play traditional slow Hungarian style "music for the table" for Pal H., the bass player of the band Teka...
A Romanian folk fiddler ("Ghica din Salaj") at the 2006 Negreni Fair plays the "vioara cu goarna" or trumpet fiddle. These instruments are resonator violins made locally by craftsmen in the Bihor region of Transylvania. A small membrane resonator set below the violin bridge carries the sound to a trumpet for amplification.
The Szaszcsavas band playing at the Budapest Palace of Artists. Led by Jámbor István "Dumnezu", with Mezei Ferenc "Csángáló" on three stringed kontra viola.
Fiddler Dorel Kordoban leads the dance group of the Village of Rosia in Bihor county at a festival in Oradea, Romania. He plays the vioara cu goarna, a rumpet-violin made by himself. These violins use a resonator membrane (like that in a dobro guitar) to carry the sound to a trumpet bell attached to the violin body.
Bivaly Group at Budapest's G?d?r Tanchaz (Thursdays at Deak Ter park)opening night Jan.31, 2007. Dances from Kalotaszeg region of Transylvania, in Romania.
The Csürrent? group playing moldavian Csango dance music at the opening tanchaz (dance house) of the G?d?r Klub in Deak Square , Budapest, January 31, 2008. This is music which is primarily Moldavian Romanian popular folk dance music as played by the Csango minority in the region of Bacau, Romania.
![Arkady Gendler sings \"Nokh a Gleyzele\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/lUTJvWAvoQg/2.jpg "Arkady Gendler sings \\"Nokh a Gleyzele\\"")
![Romanian \"Vioara cu Goarna\" fiddle from Bihor](http://img.youtube.com/vi/i7qOVsbpANw/2.jpg "Romanian \\"Vioara cu Goarna\\" fiddle from Bihor")
