Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi Community Concert

Event Details

West Lafayette’s Temple Israel hosts a concert by Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi, a pioneering klezmer/Romani band founded by musician, filmmaker, ethnographer, and author Yale Strom in the 1980s. The ensemble moves freely between klezmer and Romani music, Yiddish song, Hasidic melodies, and Balkan compositions, showing that klezmer is not a museum piece but a living music that continually crosses ethnic and cultural boundaries, absorbs new influences, and evolves with the musicians who play it.

The concert is presented as part of a three-day residency by Strom at Purdue University. Strom is an expert on the music of the Jews in Eastern Europe in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries and their history and culture. He performs klezmer music, the traditional wedding music of the Jews of Eastern Europe, characterized by expressive melodies and dances. In addition to campus and community concerts, he’ll host a documentary film screening, conduct a student musician workshop, and make classroom visits. All events are free and open to the public.

For more information, email Frank Rosenthal at rosefam2856@gmail.com.

This program received support from an Indiana Humanities Mini-Grant.