Jewish Music Masterclass featuring Daniel Kahn

When Daniel Kahn became the inaugural recipient of the Theodore Bikel Artist-in-Residence by the Ashkenaz Foundation, Bikel said he felt that Kahn was carrying on his work. This Detroit-born, Berlin-based troubadour, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and translator Kahn combines Yiddish, English, German, and Russian in a radical mixture of Klezmer, lyrical folk ballads, dark cabaret, and political punk. His Yiddish rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” has close to 1.9M views on YouTube. With Kahn’s band, the Painted Bird, he presents a variety of passionate songs inspired in part by the struggles of Jewish revolutionaries at the turn of the century, and in part by his own intense desire for a better world. Learn about Kahn’s work as he engages with attendees and explores the inspirations behind his compositions.