The Old Town School of Folk Music, one of my favorite Chicago institutions, is celebrating it’s 55th birthday!  This coincides with the opening of their brand-new building across the street from the existing Lincoln Square location.  As part of the celebration, they are having 55 days of events for the public. Check out the whole [...]

As I’ve mentioned previously, the ChickenFat Klezmer Orchestra started making music together at the Old Town School.  They just posted a video of us playing at the graduation concert the school has at the end of every session: Playing a medley of Nifty’s Freilach and Angels If you haven’t had a chance to take a [...]

Eeee! We’re super exited to be playing a few songs for Milly’s Almost All Kid Holiday Spectacular. Some of you may remember Milly’s Orchid show, a “vaudeville-meets-Grand-Ole-Opry extravaganza, a place where comedians, monologists, filmmakers, musicians, jugglers, lariat twirlers and just about everyone else you can imagine got a chance to strut their stuff in a [...]