I was Project Scholar for Souls Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer, funded by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. Philadelphia Folklore Project’s Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer featured a concert of new compositions, written and performed by three generations of women who bring contemporary meaning to klezmer, a traditional, Eastern European, Jewish folk music form. Led by Susan Lankin-Watts, a 2015 Pew Fellow, the project will bring together violinists Cookie Segelstein, Deborah Strauss, and Alicia Svigals; pianist Marilyn Lerner; clarinetists Zoe Christiansen and Ilene Stahl; trombonist Rachel Lemisch; accordionist Lauren Brody; flute. player Adrianne Greenbaum; and bassist Joanna Sternberg.
ouls Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer
