{"id":14621,"date":"2013-07-10T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=14621"},"modified":"2013-07-10T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T12:20:10","slug":"the-buddy-holly-klezmer-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/the-buddy-holly-klezmer-band\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BUDDY HOLLY <br>KLEZMER BAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/the-buddy-holly-klezmer-band\/buddy-holly\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14701\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14701\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"buddy holly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/buddy-holly-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/buddy-holly-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/buddy-holly.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small><em>This is KlezFiction . . .<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I dream<\/strong><\/span> about klezmer music and Buddy Holly. I want to be Buddy Holly, but I have to settle\u00a0 for Klezmer Guy.<\/p>\n<p>Animal voices &#8212; the sound of cats and fleas.\u00a0 Significant to my music?\u00a0 I need to find out.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>There are<\/strong><\/span> no rules for good music, only examples of it.<\/p>\n<p>Yiddishe Cup\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/yiddishecup\"><em>Meshugeneh Mambo<\/em><\/a> is a terrific record.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klezperanto.com\/\"><em>Klezperanto<\/em><\/a> \u2013- another good choice. (By the group Klezperanto.)<\/p>\n<p>The wrong song in the wrong place can be the right song.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hope You Like Klezmer, <\/em>a coffee table book,<em>\u00a0 <\/em>has more than 100 color photos of klezmer musicians.\u00a0 Some tied up, some with instruments in odd places.\u00a0 I&#8217;m in a bathtub with reeds, like Moses.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Half-ended<\/strong><\/span> melodies are fun.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here.\u00a0 <em>Hinen<\/em>i.\u00a0 Take it or leave it.<\/p>\n<p>Please, don\u2019t go!<\/p>\n<p>Fine, go.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I want to<\/strong><\/span> play medium-sized halls &#8212; 1,500-seat venues &#8212; this summer with my band: the Buddy Holly Klezmer Band.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2013\/23_2_snd-cleveland.html\"><em>&#8220;Renting the American Dream&#8221;<\/em><\/a> in the latest <em>City Journal<\/em>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> fiction.<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Read the comments too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Yiddishe Cup plays Wiley Middle Scho0ol lawn, University Heights, Ohio, 7:30 p.m. Thurs. July 25.\u00a0 Indoors if raining.\u00a0 Free ice cream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Here&#8217;s a vid from the 2009 Wiley show:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FGnDvkn32b8?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is KlezFiction . . . I dream about klezmer music and Buddy Holly. I want to be Buddy Holly, but I have to settle\u00a0 for Klezmer Guy. Animal voices &#8212; the sound of cats and fleas.\u00a0 Significant to my music?\u00a0 I need to find out. There are no rules for good music, only examples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14621"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15365,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621\/revisions\/15365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}