Pete Rushefsky
American klezmer musician
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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.
OccupationsExecutive Director, klezmer musician
KnownforExecutive Director of New York City's Center for Traditional Music and Dance
NotableworkBook called - Essentials of Klezmer 5-String Banjo, Volume I.
AwardsBubbe Award for “Best Original Klezmer Composition”
Pete Rushefsky | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | 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” |
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.
