{"id":25504,"date":"2018-02-21T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=25504"},"modified":"2018-02-21T08:23:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:23:12","slug":"the-harshest-review-of-yiddishe-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/21\/the-harshest-review-of-yiddishe-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"THE HARSHEST REVIEW OF YIDDISHE CUP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Yiddishe Cup<\/strong> <\/span>calls its act \u201cneo-Borscht Belt klezmer comedy.\u201d That\u2019s been done before &#8212; the Borscht Belt schtick. For starters, about 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Yiddishe Cup can half-fill a golden age center in Miami. Then what? They\u2019re not getting any younger. Has Yiddishe Cup ever toured for weeks, developing a solid groove, establishing decent ensemble chops? On weekends the band passes out inflatable guitars at bar mitzvahs, eats baked salmon, and watches \u201creflections\u201d videos.<\/p>\n<p>Does Yiddishe Cup research Yiddish tunes at YIVO? Does anybody in Yiddishe Cup even know what YIVO is?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>One more<\/strong><\/span> thing: dynamics. Try it, Yiddishe Cup.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>&#8211;I can&#8217;t remember who wrote this. <\/em><em>I&#8217;m blocking.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Glowing reviews &#8212; so far &#8212; for Funk a Deli (formerly Yiddishe Cup), performing 8 p.m. Sat., March 3, at the <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=bop+stop+funk+a+deli&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-b-1\">Bop Stop<\/a>, Cleveland.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"funk a deli\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli-768x572.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli-1024x763.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli.jpg 1598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yiddishe Cup calls its act \u201cneo-Borscht Belt klezmer comedy.\u201d That\u2019s been done before &#8212; the Borscht Belt schtick. For starters, about 60 years ago. Yiddishe Cup can half-fill a golden age center in Miami. Then what? They\u2019re not getting any younger. Has Yiddishe Cup ever toured for weeks, developing a solid groove, establishing decent ensemble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25504","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=25504"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25517,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25504\/revisions\/25517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}