Video: “Urloyb” from “Two Worlds / Tsvey Veltn” text by Mordechai Gebirtig music by Benjy Fox-Rosen performed by the Yiddish Art Trio at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC.
Patrick Farrell is an accordionist, composer and bandleader from the United States who has been described as a “wizard” (Feast of Music) and as a player of “mordant wit and blistering speed” (Lucid Culture).
Excerpts from his website: Patrick is an integral part of the international klezmer community as a performer and teacher, plays with “new music” and improvisational groups, and enthusiastically toots on an alto horn in various brass bands.
Farrell has appeared on over 40 recordings, recently with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble and Never Enough Hope, and also enjoys working with dance and theater ensembles as a composer, music director and accompanist.
Current projects include the avant-garde/traditionalist klezmer group Yiddish Art Trio (with Michael Winograd and Benjy Fox-Rosen), unique and unusual duets with trumpeter Ben Holmes, New Yiddish Song duets with Berlin-based vocalist Sveta Kundish, chamber-folk ensemble Ljova and the Kontraband, and cross-cultural project from Lahore, Pakistan and Brooklyn, NY, Sandaraa.
Until recently he led and composed for the circus/new-music group Stagger Back Brass Band, releasing one acclaimed album in 2009. Farrell also maintains his membership in Panorama Brass Band, from his former home of New Orleans, LA, during the annual Mardi Gras season. He plays in Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars and Alicia Svigals’ Klezmer Fiddle Express, and also often works as arranger for various ensembles and friends. Farrell has studied accordion in Macedonia, Serbia, Germany, and Romania, and has played in clubs, concert halls, streets, and serenades all over Europe and North America.
Yiddish Art Trio Upcoming Performances:
North America Summer Tour August 13-18, 2016
August 13, 14, 2016
Festival des traditions du Monde de Sherbrooke
August 15, 2016 7:PM
Woodstock Jewish Congregation
1682 Glasco Turnpike
Woodstock, NY 12498
August 16, 7:30 PM, $18 Presented by Kulturfest NYC in cooperation with the Museum of Jewish Heritage
