Lorin Sklamberg is a vocalist, accordionist, pianist, guitarist and founding member of American
Klezmer
Klezmer ( yi, קלעזמער or ) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for l ...
band
The Klezmatics
The Klezmatics are an American klezmer music group based in New York City, who have achieved fame singing in several languages, most notably mixing older Yiddish tunes with other types of more contemporary music of differing origins. They have ...
.
He began performing Jewish music at age fifteen, and moved to New York in the early 1980s to incorporate klezmer into his music.
Prior to New York, Lorin was part of the self-described "gay-Jewish-radical faerie folk duo" called Pilshaw and Sklamberg.
In addition to his work with The Klezmatics, Lorin works at the
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
YIVO (Yiddish: , ) is an organization that preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia as well as orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to Yiddish. (The word '' ...
as their sound archivist.
Discography
With
Don Byron
Donald Byron (born November 8, 1958) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet but has also played bass clarinet and saxophone in a variety of genres that includes free jazz and klezmer.
Biography
His mother w ...
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Don Byron Plays the Music of Mickey Katz
''Don Byron Plays the Music of Mickey Katz'' is an album by clarinetist Don Byron featuring music associated with comedian and musician Mickey Katz which was released on the Nonesuch label in 1993.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Bob Tarte sta ...
'' (Nonesuch, 1993)
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External links
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Klezmatics members: Lorin Sklamberg
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Klezmer musicians
Living people
Radical Faeries members
Year of birth missing (living people)
The Klezmatics members
American gay musicians
LGBT Jews
Musicians from California
American people of Jewish descent