Goleslider

Goleslider is a new project that combines newly-composed Yiddish songs with klezmer improvisation and live electronics.

Artistic directors Francesca Ter-Berg (cello/voice/electronics), a pioneer of combining experimental electroacoustic music with klezmer, and Daniel Kahn (multi-instrumentalist/voice), a leading Yiddish songwriter of the 21st century, explore the concept of goles, a Yiddish word that means both exile and diaspora.
The program explores many forms of “exile,” from migration and historical exclusion to cultural and linguistic ruptures. Through new songs that set existing and newly-written Yiddish poetry, Goleslider reconsiders the broad concept of goles in the context of rising nationalism.

Photos (from left to right) by Adam Berry, Shendl Copitman, Luke Eastop, Rah Petherbridge, Zakaria Latouri, Shendl Copitman
Design by Sayumi Yoshida

Lineup:

Daniel Kahn (voice, accordion, piano, guitar)
Rosamond van Wingerden (voice)
Francesca Ter-Berg (cello, live electronics, voice) 
Anna Lowenstein (violin)
Malik Schilling (percussion)
Pieter Sint Nicolaas (trumpet, flugelhorn)

Music samples from Daniel Kahn & Francesca Ter-Berg
(from other projects; there are no recordings from this project, yet)

Concerts:

Thursday, 7 May at 7:30 p.m. @ Häselburg (Gera)
Friday, 8 May  at 7:30 p.m.@ mon ami (Weimar)
Saturday, 9 May  at 7:30 p.m.@ Kleine Synagoge (Erfurt)
Sunday, 10 May time tbc @ exploratorium (Berlin)