New musical idioms are created by the Tsvey Brider duo, who combine African-American spirituals and the music of Jewish Eastern Europe.
Penn’s
Tsvey Brider performing
Performing as Tsvey Brider, Yiddish songwriting, arranging, and performing duo Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell (vocalist) and Dmitri Gaskin (accordionist) create new musical idioms by combining two distinct older ones: African American spirituals and the music of Jewish Eastern Europe. Drawing from folk songs, lullabies, art, and religious music, Children of the Ghetto + Black Shul mobilizes an array of historic genres to create a repertoire of songs authentically inhabiting the sounds and histories of two traditions
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Free and open to the public.
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Event cosponsored by Penn’s Department of Africana Studies and Center for Africana Studies.