Review: from the archives
This is a throw back to our very first show with Daniel Kahn at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern. It is lovely to reflect on this night again as we are preparing for our first European Tour including a show hosted by Dan in Hamburg.
By Sasha Senderovich, November 2018
Daniel Kahn's concert last night was fantastic, as expected, but what was also fantastic was the band that opened for Dan, Seattle's own BRIVELE. They describe themselves as "an anti-fascist klezmer folk-punk trio who braid together oral history, Yiddish language, contemporary and old-country musical genres, American Vaudeville, and visual arts" -- and that is all excellently true from what I heard of their work last night. Their rendition of some old anti-Tsarist Yiddish songs, for example, sounded amazingly ... contemporary. Check them out!
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington, Seattle