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Nov. 14th, 2018 06:42 pmI have seen a lot of really good concerts in the past month or so - Florence and the Machine, The Decemberists -- but the best one was the one I went to on Monday, as organized by the local Jewish Workmen's Circle, featuring radical Yiddish klezmerpunk group Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird.
Highlights:
- opening act, accordionist Hannah Temple, leading the whole room in 'Mir Veln Zey Iberlebn' ("We Will Outlive Them")
- Hannah Temple also did a really enjoyable radical queer reconfiguration of a religious-traditional song called "Vikhtik" ("what is important, what is not")
- one of my favorite songs of the night, David Eidelstadt's "Arbeter Froyen"
followed by a story about how Daniel Kahn & crew accidentally learned that David Eidelstadt's grave was right near a place they were visiting, so they all trooped out on a field trip to go find it
CEMETARY GUIDE: bet you can read that Hebrew writing on there, huh?
DANIEL KAHN: it's Yiddish yep!
CEMETARY GUIDE: we had some rabbis come out here ... they read it and said he had a pretty peculiar outlook on life
DANIEL KAHN: he probably thought the same thing about the rabbis....
And then Daniel Kahn followed up by singing the poem that's written on David Eidelstadt's grave, Mayn Tsavoe/My Testament, which is the angriest anarchist version of Danny Boy.
- the spontaneous hora that started up from the audience during the Zeyde Cohen Medley ("for my daddy is a Cohen, he don't fuck around") and kept going all the way through Yosl Ber ("now let's have a song about toxic masculinity..."), turned into a sort of intense stomp while everyone sang Dumai, and got back into full swing during March of the Jobless Corps (my first Daniel Kahn song and still my favorite, though after last night "Dumai" is making a strong bid for favor.)
I love ... radical Jewish culture? I feel it deeply and unironically in my bones in a way that I don't always its convergent parts. Did not expect that taking Yiddish classes would lead me straight to punk at this advanced age, but that's where we are.
(Other songs I remember from the setlist, for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sovay: Freedom is a Verb, The Butcher's Sher, Two Brothers, Nayn-un-Nayntsik, Embrace the Fascists, and Shtil Di Nakht Is Oysgeshternt.)
Highlights:
- opening act, accordionist Hannah Temple, leading the whole room in 'Mir Veln Zey Iberlebn' ("We Will Outlive Them")
- Hannah Temple also did a really enjoyable radical queer reconfiguration of a religious-traditional song called "Vikhtik" ("what is important, what is not")
- one of my favorite songs of the night, David Eidelstadt's "Arbeter Froyen"
followed by a story about how Daniel Kahn & crew accidentally learned that David Eidelstadt's grave was right near a place they were visiting, so they all trooped out on a field trip to go find it
CEMETARY GUIDE: bet you can read that Hebrew writing on there, huh?
DANIEL KAHN: it's Yiddish yep!
CEMETARY GUIDE: we had some rabbis come out here ... they read it and said he had a pretty peculiar outlook on life
DANIEL KAHN: he probably thought the same thing about the rabbis....
And then Daniel Kahn followed up by singing the poem that's written on David Eidelstadt's grave, Mayn Tsavoe/My Testament, which is the angriest anarchist version of Danny Boy.
- the spontaneous hora that started up from the audience during the Zeyde Cohen Medley ("for my daddy is a Cohen, he don't fuck around") and kept going all the way through Yosl Ber ("now let's have a song about toxic masculinity..."), turned into a sort of intense stomp while everyone sang Dumai, and got back into full swing during March of the Jobless Corps (my first Daniel Kahn song and still my favorite, though after last night "Dumai" is making a strong bid for favor.)
I love ... radical Jewish culture? I feel it deeply and unironically in my bones in a way that I don't always its convergent parts. Did not expect that taking Yiddish classes would lead me straight to punk at this advanced age, but that's where we are.
(Other songs I remember from the setlist, for
sovay: Freedom is a Verb, The Butcher's Sher, Two Brothers, Nayn-un-Nayntsik, Embrace the Fascists, and Shtil Di Nakht Is Oysgeshternt.)
