Pete Rushefsky

Pete Rushefsky
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Executive Director, klezmer musician
Known for	Executive Director of New York City's Center for Traditional Music and Dance
Notable work	Book called - Essentials of Klezmer 5-String Banjo, Volume I.
Awards	Bubbe Award for “Best Original Klezmer Composition”

Pete Rushefsky is an American klezmer musician[1] and executive director of New York City's Center for Traditional Music and Dance.[2][3][4] 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 [5]
• Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer and Violin (2001) with Elie Rosenblatt.[6][7]
• 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

1. "Jewish Music is World Music". North Adams Transcript, via Newspaper Archives. December 13, 2001 - Page 31
2. "Yiddish New York Transports Viewers to an Alternative Universe". Forward. Seth Rogovoy December 24, 2015
3. "Klezmer’s True North: Remembering the clarinetist who sparked the klez revival.". 03/17/2010 George Robinson, The Jewish Week
4. "KlezKamp Lives On With 'Yiddish New York'". Jon Kalish. ForwardAugust 11, 2015
5. "Klezmer for the new year, 2001".
6. Rogovoy, Seth. Tsimbl Un Fidl: Klezmer Music For Hammered Dulcimer & Violin.(Elie Rosenblatt and Pete Rushefsky) (sound recording review) Sing Out! March 22, 2002
7. "Review of Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer and Violin". Archived from the original on 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2020-05-04.

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