CU Klezmer & Bluegrass Bands

The Columbia Klezmer Band and Columbia’s Bluegrass Band, Lion in the Grass play their spring concerts back-to-back in one night of rollickin' fun!  It's free so bring your friends along.

Columbia Klezmer Band at 6:00 PM
Columbia’s Bluegrass Band, Lion in the Grass at 7:00 PM

The Columbia Klezmer Band, founded in 2000, is a group of talented Columbia, Barnard, and JTS students from a variety of musical backgrounds. Klezmer is the Jewish folk/dance music whose roots lie in old Eastern Europe.
 
The band is coached by Jeff Warschauer, who is internationally  renowned as a klezmer instrumentalist, Yiddish singer and educator.

Lion in the Grass, the CU Bluegrass Band, was started at Columbia in 2004, and has already achieved a strong reputation on campus and in the community.  It is directed by Toby King.

Sponsored by the Columbia University Music Performance Program

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