Sunday, September 22, 2013

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Tayere KlezKamp patriotn, It is with great joy and excitement that we announce the 29th edition of our beloved KlezKamp, this year dedicat...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

How to talk to the band

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What a great week. And I can't wait until Summer Kamp in Madison, WI. What does Madison have that Kerhonksen doesn't? Frozen Custard...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Klezkamp photos on Facebook!!

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Follow this link to see quite a few more pictures of this years fun!
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

KlezKamp 2010

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Di HooHA!

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Tonight, KlezKamp's newest old tradition Di HooHA our fency-shmency dress up dance party takes off at 7:45 with Tantz Meister Steve Wein...

All the cool kids speak Yiddish...

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For the last 90 minutes, there have been a two young co-eds, maybe 18-19 at most and cute like heck, flirting furiously entirely in Yiddish....

Whew...

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Man, it was kind of like a dream. Clarinetist and producer Alex Kontorovich made the treacherous drive up from the city to lead a good chunk...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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Under Full Sail Day Two: classes are up and running smoothly as if we'd been doing this for years (oh, yes, for 26!) and all the new fol...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Damn, what's all this white stuff??

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Well, it's hard to even find time to sit down and write at all. And the first few days were filled with such bad weather and screwed up ...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

The calm before the storm....literally

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Sunday morning at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa. The skeleton crew showed up last night and we're getting KlezKamp on its feet. It...
Monday, December 28, 2009

A Major Announcement

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Last night, Douglas Rosenberg from the University of Wisconsin, Center for Jewish Studies made an exciting announcement on the Tanzhall sta...

Yiddish Bulgar

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Henry Sapoznik, Cookie Segelstein, Pete Sokolow, Alex Kontorovich, Micheal Winograd, Mike Cohen, Frank London, Daniel Blacksburg, Jim Guttma...

The Hoo-Hah : Grand March, snippet

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Henry Sapoznik, Cookie Segelstein, Pete Sokolow, Alex Kontorovich, Micheal Winograd, Mike Cohen, Frank London, Daniel Blacksburg, Jim Guttma...

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Henry Sapoznik, Cookie Segelstein, Pete Sokolow, Alex Kontorovich, Micheal Winograd, Mike Cohen, Frank London, Daniel Blaskburg, Jim Guttman...

The Big "Hoo-Hah" Dance, Krakowiak

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Henry Sapoznik, Cookie Segelstein, Pete Sokolow, Alex Kontorovich, Micheal Winograd, Mike Cohen, Frank London, Jim Guttman, Aaron Alexander,...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

The Second Half

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This morning begins the second half of KlezKamp. Shabbos was a wonderful, restful experience for most of the folks here, lots of singing an...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

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Pearl Sapoznik singing in the hall..

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Pete Sokolow at the controls...

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

It's starting....

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People have started to arrive, and in a couple of hours the trickle of arrivals will swell to a torrent. The registration folders are in pr...

My late entry to the Klez Kamp Zhurnal

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I screwed up and delivered my Zhurnal story a week too late to make publication, so here it is at least on line: Man, it was cold, colder th...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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The hotel is quiet tonight. Five of us are quietly working on our computers in the lobby; the bartendder has a football game on the tv, and...
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On the verge of the next 25....

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KlezKampers and KlezKamp fans: On the verge of celebrating our 25th annual winter KlezKamp, starting tomorrow at the Hudson Valley Resort an...
Saturday, January 5, 2008

"Set the Way-Bac Machine for 1989, Sherman...."

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This transmission comes to us from that far off universe called 1989, when, after only a few short, successful years of running KlezKamp at ...
Friday, January 4, 2008

KlezKamp Podcast now available!!

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Thanks to our friends Mark Rubin , Mitchel Mernick and many others, you may now subscribe to the KLEZKAMP PODCAST .  We intend to add new e...

More KlezKamp photos

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Here  is another set of KlezKamp photos, these by Alan Lankin.
Thursday, January 3, 2008

More photos

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Here are more KlezKamp 2007 photos, these courtesy of Bonnie Greenberg.
Sunday, December 30, 2007

KlezKamp 2007 Photos!

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Here are photos of KlezKamp 2007, courtesy of Bob and Aaron Blacksberg: http://rblacksberg.com/KlezKamp2007/index.html Thanks Bob and Aaron!...
Friday, December 28, 2007

Well, THAT was quick!

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Yet again, the week for we spend months and months planning, is gone for another year. KlezKamp23 is over, and with it, the memories we crea...

Carpathian Jewish Ensemble

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Lead by one time Kamper, now staffer, Jacob Shulman-Ment: Jake Shulman-Ment is among the premier young performers of klezmer violin. He...

Elaine Hoffman Watts Ensemble

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A short excerpt of the epic Philadelphia Sher, which ran close to 20 minutes of continuous playing and dancing, the later ably lead by Steve...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Cookie and Josh

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Here violin instructor Cookie ("Marlene") Segelstein and tsimbl-accordionist Joshua ("P.J.")Horowitz of Veretski Pa...
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Arkansas Traveller? Arkansas Traveller!

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Staffers Mark Rubin and Andy Statman play a little American music at the staff concert.
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Introducing the Klez Kamp Podcast!!

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Cookie Segelstein & Mark Rubin Photo by Alan Lankin First up, a snippet from the Klez Kamp Staff Dance Band
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

The Living Traditions CD Series Concert

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Tonight's evening program was an opportunity to introduce this year's KlezKampers to the Living Traditions CD series documenting som...

Photos from the Front.....

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Pete Sokolow Andy Statman Beyle Schaechter-Gotteman Some guy on Bass Jimmy Gutman and other dancers Photos by Alan Lankin

Last night's Staff Concert

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Heiko Lehmann at the Staff Concert Last night's Staff Concert was full of noteworthy performances each of which would be the highlight o...

Aloha from KlezKamp!

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Hard to believe that KlezKamp is more than half over (it's Wednesday after lunch as I write). Radio KlezKamp is broadcasting, small gro...
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Meeting with our Masters

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We had one of those "only at KlezKamp" moments last night.  It epitomized our goal to have older masters of the Yiddish folk arts ...

Er, what day is it again??

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Oh, yeah, Christmas. Who could have possibly known? I mean, there's yiddish music in every corner and yiddish language at every table. T...