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Yiddishe Cup is <\/strong><\/span>the house band at the Lake County (Ohio) Heritage Festival. \u00a0We play there every July.\u00a0 Twenty years in a row.<\/p>\n Why don’t the organizers get somebody else?<\/p>\n Because we talk.\u00a0 Bluegrass bands and old-time musicians don’t talk.\u00a0 They just pick.\u00a0 Folk musicians, they’ll talk, but it’s pabulum about trees and trysts.\u00a0 Polka guys, they talk — to each other.\u00a0 And they mumble.<\/p>\n Lake County, just east <\/strong><\/span>of Cleveland, is a stronghold of Italians and Slovenians.\u00a0 Many are retired railroad and factory workers.\u00a0 They like to hear “Eaton Axle,” “Fisher Body,” and “Collinwood Railroad Yards.”<\/p>\n Those aren’t songs.\u00a0 They’re just words, and I like to say them. For instance, I’ll say, “Who remembers the Collinwood Yards on East One-hundred Fifty-second?”\u00a0 There are a couple klezmer train songs.\u00a0 There’s a hit from Russia: “7:40.”<\/p>\n We do “Gino,” an Orthodox Jewish tune with an Italian-sounding name.\u00a0 We also do “That’s Morris,” a parody of “That’s Amore.” We introduce it with: “This is by that great Ohio Jewish composer Dean Martin.\u00a0 His name in Hebrew means ‘flying tiny octopus.'”<\/p>\n You have to<\/strong><\/span> be there.<\/p>\n The Slovenians like to hear “Slovenian” pronounced properly: Slovene-yun<\/em>, not Slovene-ian<\/em>.<\/p>\n I explain Hebrew is loshn kodesh<\/em>, the holy tongue, like Latin. Yiddish by contrast is mama-loshn<\/em>, the mother tongue.\u00a0 “Mama Lotion. You can buy it at CVS.”<\/p>\n You have to be there.<\/p>\n —-<\/span> Yiddishe Cup is the house band at the Lake County (Ohio) Heritage Festival. \u00a0We play there every July.\u00a0 Twenty years in a row. Why don’t the organizers get somebody else? Because we talk.\u00a0 Bluegrass bands and old-time musicians don’t talk.\u00a0 They just pick.\u00a0 Folk musicians, they’ll talk, but it’s pabulum about trees and trysts.\u00a0 Polka […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","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=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8982,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/8982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/span>Sun. (July 25): \u00a0Yiddishe Cup is at the Lake County Heritage Festival, formerly the Little Mountain Folk Festival.\u00a0 Painesville, Ohio. $.<\/span> www.lakehistory.org<\/a>.\u00a0 Final revised schedule: Yiddishe Cup is on at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.<\/span>
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\nThurs., July 29: \u00a0“Driving Mr. Klezmer” duo show at Cain Park, Cleveland Hts., 7 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0 $20 in advance, $23 at the door. $2 off for 60+ and students.\u00a0 216-371-3000 or www.cainpark.com<\/a>.\u00a0 If you miss this show, your last words might be “I really screwed up.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"