About the New York Klezmer Series The NY Klezmer Series (NYKS) has presented music and dance in New York City weekly in a fall and spring season from Sept. 2010 until the pandemic in Mar. 2020. We’ve recently begun offering a scaled down schedule of events, roughly once a month. Each week, NYKS presented Concerts, Workshops, Jam Sessions as well as a monthly Tantshoyz – Yiddish Dance Party with live klezmer music. The series has been based in a few places over the years – First at the 6th St. Synagogue in the East Village, then at Stephen Wise on the UWS, at Jalopy in Brooklyn, at the Town & Village Synagogue on E.14th St, and now at the beautiful and historic Hudson Yards Synagogue on West 34th St. between 8th & 9th Ave.
The series has featured leading international and local performers in an intimate setting while celebrating, and educating musicians and the public on, vital (and often neglected) traditional and contemporary expressions of Yiddish culture.
The series is run by Aaron Alexander with a lot of help from the worldwide Klezmer Music and Yiddish Culture Community, especially Pete Rushefsky and CTMD, NYSCA, Mike Ritz and the Hudson Yards Synagogue, Jordan Hirsch, Greg Wall (co-founder), Michael Winograd, Suzanne Schwimmer, Michael Winograd, Sarah Myerson, Chelsea Simon, and all the artists who contribute playing, teaching, dancing.