Oy Mendele! (Sh'vat/January)

Happy new year!

For today (5:30 PM PST, 90.7 FM KALX-Berkeley) we have on tap:

• Tim Barsky -- storyteller, battle flutist, and mastermind of The Bright River [a mass transit tour of the afterlife] -- will be by to discuss the show and perhaps drop a sample or two on us. The Bright River just finished its run at the Traveling Jewish Theatre in SF and is about to begin a 2 week engagement at the Julia Morgan center. [audio]
• Klezmer music scholar (and Amherst College professor) Craig Harwood stopped this week and we recorded a little trip through the Eastern European Jewish wedding ceremony of days gone by. Tune in for some really rare klezmer sides from 1910's and '20s, some klezmer/hip-hop wedding music from MC Socalled, and information about the music and the wedding ceremony that you just plain can't hear anywhere else. [audio]

Our audio archives are here. Note that the KALX stream is currently down, so get the recorded audio from the archive.

Have a great 2005/5765!