Pete Rushefsky Explained

Pete Rushefsky
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Executive Director, klezmer musician
Known For:	Executive Director of New York City's Center for Traditional Music and Dance
Notable Works:	Book called - Essentials of Klezmer 5-String Banjo, Volume I.
Awards:	Bubbe Award for “Best Original Klezmer Composition”

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.

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.

External links

• Tsimbl.com An article on tsimbls by Pete Rushefsky
• Dumneazu Blog article on Pete Rushefsky and Tsimbls
• Center for Music and Traditional Dance website
• Concert and Lecture-Demonstration Series at Syracuse University featuring Pete Rushefsky

Notes and References

1. https://newspaperarchive.com/north-adams-transcript-dec-13-2001-p-31/?tag=klezmer+beyond+the+pale&rtserp=tags/klezmer?pep=beyond-the-pale/ "Jewish Music is World Music"
2. http://forward.com/culture/yiddish-culture/327944/yiddish-new-york-transports-viewers-to-an-alternative-universe/ "Yiddish New York Transports Viewers to an Alternative Universe"
3. http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/music/klezmer's_true_north "Klezmer’s True North: Remembering the clarinetist who sparked the klez revival."
4. http://forward.com/culture/yiddish-culture/318864/klezkamp-lives-on-with-yiddish-new-york/ "KlezKamp Lives On With 'Yiddish New York'"
5. Web site: Klezmer for the new year, 2001.
6. Rogovoy, Seth. Tsimbl Un Fidl: Klezmer Music For Hammered Dulcimer & Violin.(Elie Rosenblatt and Pete Rushefsky) (sound recording review) Sing Out! March 22, 2002
7. Web site: Review of Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer and Violin. 2020-05-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20181012074426/http://www.rainloresworldofmusic.net/Reviews/Revws_L-R/Rushefsky_Pete%26ElieRosenblatt-TsimblUnFidl.html. 2018-10-12. dead.