Pete Rushefsky is an American klezmer musician"Jewish Music is World Music". North Adams Transcript, via Newspaper Archives. December 13, 2001 - Page 31 and executive director of New York City's Center for Traditional Music and Dance."Yiddish New York Transports Viewers to an Alternative Universe". Forward. Seth Rogovoy December 24, 2015"Klezmer’s True North: Remembering the clarinetist who sparked the klez revival.". 03/17/2010 George Robinson, The Jewish Week"KlezKamp Lives On With 'Yiddish New York'". Jon Kalish. ForwardAugust 11, 2015 He plays the cimbalom or "tsimbl" as well as the 5-string banjo.
He has a book published called Essentials of Klezmer 5-String Banjo, Volume I.
In 2022, Rushefsky won a Bubbe Award for “Best Original Klezmer Composition”
Discography
Git Azoy (it's good this way) (2000?) with the 12 Corners Klezmer band Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer and Violin (2001) with Elie Rosenblatt. Af di gasn fun der shtot - On the Streets of the City (2003) with Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and others. On the paths: Yiddish songs with tsimbl (2004) with Becky Kaplan. Fleytmuzik in Kontsert (2008) with Adrianne Greenbaum and Jacob Shulman-Ment.
References
External links Tsimbl.com An article on tsimbls by Pete Rushefsky Dumneazu Blog article on Pete Rushefsky and Tsimbls Center for Music and Traditional Dance website Concert and Lecture-Demonstration Series at Syracuse University featuring Pete Rushefsky