Klezmer Music Workshop with Lisa Gutkin

After a brief demonstration with archival and live examples of klezmer music (for those less familiar with it), Lisa will teach a klezmer rhythm and tune, along with ornamentation and phrasing, sharing her methods for learning by ear, and how to practice on and off of an instrument. Participants are welcome to join on instruments, voice, clapping, or foot tapping.

This program is FREE for JRC for congregants and $20-$30 sliding scale for others. Email lisa.gutkin@gmail.com to register.

Lisa Gutkin has crafted a courageously varied artistic career by bringing an instantly relatable style to audiences through her theater, music, and storytelling. A masterful Grammy Award-winning violinist, singer/songwriter, actor, and composer, Lisa has an uncanny way of taking those audiences with her wherever she goes.

Recognized as violinist and vocalist for the groundbreaking, Grammy winning Jewish Roots band The Klezmatics, and as fiddler for the Downtown Celtic band Whirligig, Lisa is also known for her scoring, performance, and music direction in the two time Tony Award-winning play, Indecent. She had an on-screen cameo and compositions featured in Sex and the City; performed in Sting’s Broadway musical The Last Ship; and her song Gonna Get Through This World – with words by Woody Guthrie – was hailed by Pete Seeger, as “a piece of genius.” Lisa’s playing and stories are fun and poignant, and her voice has been praised by the LA Times as “hauntingly emotional.”

Lisa has been teaching since she was 13 years old. The outcome of her vast experience with classical training, folk fiddling, Alexander Technique, and Qi gong,  have helped her create amazing techniques that change people’s lives forever.