{"id":9073,"date":"2011-06-28T19:14:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T23:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=9073"},"modified":"2013-10-30T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T19:21:21","slug":"the-soul-of-klezmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2011\/06\/28\/the-soul-of-klezmer\/9073\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soul of Klezmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/rss\/media\/video\/episode.1444.klezmatics.m4v -->Watch our audio slide show featuring the Grammy-winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klezmatics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Klezmatics<\/a> in concert with special guest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuanelson.com\/fr_home.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Nelson<\/a>, the prince of kosher gospel music, at the annual Washington Jewish Music Festival at <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtondcjcc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington DC&#8217;s Jewish Community Center<\/a>. Listen to our interview with Nelson and with Klezmatics band members Frank London (trumpet and keyboards) and Lorin Sklamberg (lead vocals, accordion, guitar, and piano). And revisit our 2001 story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/may-18-2001\/klezmer-music\/9035\/\">klezmer music<\/a>.  <em>Photographs by Sam Pinczuk. Edited by Fred Yi.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the common denominator when it comes to the melodies of Jewish klezmer music and African-American gospel music? Soul. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2011\/06\/28\/the-soul-of-klezmer\/9073\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":17413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[5652,9932,5815,6996,17918,9931,9934,9933,600,845,9930],"class_list":["post-9073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-african-american-jews","tag-frank-london","tag-gospel-music","tag-hasidic","tag-jewish","tag-joshua-nelson","tag-klezmer","tag-lorin-sklamberg","tag-music","tag-soul","tag-the-klezmatics","topics-literature-and-the-arts","faith-jewish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Soul of Klezmer | June 28, 2011 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What is the common denominator when it comes to the melodies of Jewish klezmer music and African-American gospel music? 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