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Genre: Folk
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Genre: Traditional
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Genre: Traditional
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Genre: Traditional
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
www.freilachmakers.com
Playing Since: 1968
Interests:
[Teaching] [Socializing] [Helping]
Occupation: Toxicologist
Gender: Male
My Instruments:
(1) 1931 Vegaphone 5-string conversion with a Fawley neck, (2) 2000 Dave Godwin 5-string #6, (3) Orpheum #1 tenor banjo
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Traditional klezmer: Budowitz, Alicia Svigals, Margot Leverett;
Celtic: Solas, DeDannan, The Chieftains, Liam Clancy, Archie Fisher;
American folk: Gordon Bok, Bill Staines, Ed Trickett
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Created 12/14/2006
Last Visit 4/4/2016
Pesticide toxicologist in "real" life (California Environmental Protection Agency). Co-founder and director of The Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band. Discography: (1) "Klezmer at the Confluence: Jewish Music from Sacramento" (2010): www.cdbaby.com/cd/freilachmakers3 (2) "And I in the Uttermost West" (2005): www.cdbaby.com/cd/freilachmakers2 (3) "The Flower of Berezin" (1998): www.cdbaby.com/cd/freilachmakers (4) "Shalom Ireland" (2003), our collaborative soundtrack CD by Ceilizemer: www.cdbaby.com/cd/ceilizemer