Shtetl and POP Montreal brunch it up with musicians doing covers of their favourite Leonard Cohen tunes. Live broadcast from Bagel Etc. Win tickets to Cohen’s Mtl. show!
Category Archives: Music
First Shtetl on the Shortwave of 2011 is an interview with Berlin-based musician Daniel Kahn who’ll be performing with his band, The Painted Bird on January 15th at Dorshei Emet Synagogue. If anything will get you to synagogue I think this concert would be it!
Kol Nidre Special with pop star and cantor Daniela Gesundheit of Snowblink, Geoff Berner, Argentinian Jews of Montreal and a few unexpected renditions of the Kol Nidre prayer.
Tagged Argentina, holiday, Kol Nidre, music, religion, Snowblink, Whisky Rabbi, yom kippur
Ronit Avni speaks about her new documentary Budrus (Israelis & Palestinians stand together to peacefully protest the Israeli security barrier) + great music from The Montreal Jewish Music Festival and the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto.
Posted in Film, Music, Shortwave
Tagged Ashkenaz, Budrus, Israel, Montreal Jewish Music Festival, Palestine, Ronit Avni
African-American Hasidic rapper Y-Love can rhyme in Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish and Arabic and has lots to say about race, the Gulf spill, Islam, Jewish unity, Jewish community and a whole lot more+ Holy Rollers…the film.
Tagged black and Jewish, Hasidic, Holy Rollers, Kevin Asch, politics, religion, Y-Love
Listen to an interview with Alicia Jo Rabins of the post-biblical art pop band Girls in Trouble and with documentary direcotr Carl Leblanc about his film The Heart of Auschwitz.
Posted in Film, Music, Religion, Social justice
Tagged Alicia Jo Rabins, Bible, Carl Leblanc, Girls in Trouble, Holocaust, The Heart of Auschwitz