2019 Winter/Spring Concert Series: Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi present "Jews and Latin Rhythms"

Program Type:

Featured, Art, Community Engagement, Performing Arts

Age Group:

Middle School Age, Teens, Emerging Adults, Adults, Older Adults
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Event Details

Featuring Irving Flores – piano; Gene Perry - Afro-Cuban percussion; Tripp Sprague - tenor/flute; Tim McNalley – contrabass; Elizabeth Schwartz – vocals; Yale Strom - violin 

Hot Pstromi will perform Yiddish/English songs that used Yiddish English lyrics in a humorous way mixed with a heavy dose of Afro-Cuban rhythms. In the late 1950s through mid-1960s many Jewish musicians in the East Coast who had played klezmer music in the past followed their Jewish patrons as they traveled to Miami Beach during the winter months. They loved the Latin rhythms and realized Jewish and non-Jewish patrons at the clubs enjoyed the novelty songs and their silly lyrics. Irving Fields (piano) helped to create this genre of Yiddish and Latin music genres with his classic record "Bagels and Bongos" which was released in 1959. Strom will also take some klezmer instrumental tunes and put a Afro-Cuban rhythmic spin on them.

 

Photo: Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz. Photo by Brian Blue.

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