Real Music & Real Estate . . .

Yiddishe Cup’s bandleader, Bert Stratton, is Klezmer Guy.
 

He knows about the band biz and – check this out – the real estate biz, too.
 

You may not care about the real estate biz. Hey, you may not care about the band biz. (See you.)
 

This is a blog with a gamy twist. It features tenants with snakes and skunks, and musicians with smoked fish in their pockets.
 

Stratton has written op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post.


 
 

THE YIDDISHE CUP FORMULA

by Bert Stratton

1. Theory has nothing to do with Yiddishe Cup.

2.  Yiddishe Cup does not play it safe. We take chances and, yes, we occasionally screw up. Do you know how hard it is to make semi-decent music?

3. Musicians need encouragement, not criticism.

4. We don’t use fake books.

5. We listen, then lock in.

6. Pyrotechnics are OK with us.

8. Feelings are always appropriate. The down side is we often feel hurt and abused.

9. We are chatty.

10. Our X-axis is comedy; our Y, tragedy. Plot it.

yidd cup formula

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Yiddishe Cup plays the community-wide Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) celebration 5:30-7:30 p.m. tomorrow (Thurs. April 23) at Park Synagogue, Cleveland Hts.

yiddishe cup photo by shane wynn BEST

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3 comments

1 William Jones { 04.22.15 at 12:28 pm }

See you at Yom haAtzmaut.

2 Bert Stratton { 04.22.15 at 5:04 pm }

To William Jones:

Yep, see you at Yom Ha’atz.

Strange but true: Last year my wife brought a Gaza Palestinian exchange student to the gig.

3 Ken Goldberg { 04.22.15 at 7:38 pm }

He must have squeaked through Security. Such an enigmatic little contribution this week, Bert. It will take me hours to try to sort it out.

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