Sun 6/28 @ 7PM
Hosting an annual free klezmer concert is a tradition at Cain Park in Cleveland Heights. And this year, the Cleveland-based band Yiddishe Cup will be continuing that tradition with a concert in the Alma Theater on Sunday June 28.
The band, led by clarinet player, writer and landlord Bert Stratton, stretches out a little, blending traditional-style Eastern European klezmer music with American soul music and “Borscht Belt” tunes, the sort of corny show tunes and sentimental pop ditties recorded by artists such as Eddie Fisher and the Barry Sisters, that were popular in the adult nightclubs in the Catskill resorts (the “Borscht Belt”) that attracted Jewish vacationers in the mid 20th century.
The band also features violinist Steven Greenman, keyboard player/vocalist Alan Douglass, drummer Vernondo Parker, and vocalist Tamar Gray, as well as Stratton’s wife Alice as the dance leader.