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  • BRINGING IN 2010 THE ONLY WAY WE KNOW HOW: WITH MOISHE OYSHER

    January 5th, 2010 | Blog | admin | No Comments

    Happy 2010 to all our readers. We have a full slate of concerts planned across the country this year, a blockbuster new recording coming out, and a museum exhibit set to launch in April- so we look forward to meeting many of you in the months ahead.

    What better way to celebrate the birth of …

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  • Germany Loves The Idelsohn Society

    Germany Loves The Idelsohn Society

    December 21st, 2009 | Blog | admin | No Comments

    The Juedische Allgemeine of Berlin wrote a lovely review of Mazel Tov Mis Amigos in their Winter 2009 music round-up. If you can read it, here it is:

    Wehmut trifft Rhythmus

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  • Remembering Ruth Wallis

    December 18th, 2009 | Blog | admin | No Comments

    Two years ago this month, we were saddened to learn of the loss the remarkable singer, songwriter, pianist, and comic Ruth Wallis– a genius of the risque, a poet of the saucy. Like so many, we were long-time fans of Wallis classics like ‘It’s a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba,” “The Dinghy Song,” “Queer …

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  • The Legendary Gino Restaurant

    December 16th, 2009 | Blog | admin | No Comments

    If there was an official restaurant of the Idelsohn Society, Gino at Lexington and 60th would be it. With its old world ambience and singular zebra wallpaper, not to mention the greatest capellini with segreto sauce ever served, we love that place. So we have been saddened to read about its current predicament and threat …

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  • And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl

    December 11th, 2009 | Blog, Press | admin | No Comments

    MARCO WERMAN: I’m Marco Werman. This is The World. At sundown tonight Hanukkah begins which means we can play great Hanukkah music like … . No don’t worry we’re not going to hear the dreidel song. Let’s listen instead to some music that often gets overlooked.

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    That would be none other than Motown greats …

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