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Musician Daniel Kahn does his part
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Travelin' Troubadour
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abaret musician-actor
Daniel Kahn, formerly of
Farmington Hills, travels solo
or with his band playing edgy, original
Yiddish music. He also performs old
favorites at festivals, theaters and clubs
throughout Europe, Israel, the United
States and Canada.
Kahn, 30, now of Berlin, will give
a free Yiddish concert for the home
crowd 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, at the
Jewish Community
Center in West
Bloomfield. He'll per-
form with New York
clarinetist Michael
Winograd. Yiddish
Alive, an independent
group headed by Alva
Dworkin of Southfield, Daniel Kahn
is the sponsor.
"We're just a group that wants to
see Yiddish presented annually at the
JCC under its auspices:' said Dworkin,
who met Kahn at his local concert of
Yiddish songs last year.
Kahn spoke to the Jewish News
while appearing at the Ashkenaz
Festival in Toronto.
JN: What are some of your
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DK: I graduated from Roeper School
in 1997. My bachelor of theater arts
is from the University of Michigan in
2001. I've acted in Old Wicked Songs
and other shows for Jewish Ensemble
Theatre.
JN: What interests you
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about Yiddish?
DK: I grew up with very little
Yiddish, though I had a pretty inten-
sive Jewish education at Temple Israel.
Yiddish is a beautiful language with a
rich history and literature. I've studied
it intensively at the YIVO Institute in
New York.
JN: How do you incorporate
Yiddish into your fife?
DK: When I discovered Yiddish song
and literature, I became aware of its
very diverse, radical, political and
lyrical culture. I like bringing Yiddish
into new contexts with my music,
to challenge accepted definitions of
cultural identity and politics. I trans-
late Yiddish and German songs into
English and vice versa.
JN: Why did you move to
Germany?
▪ DK: After graduating
from U-M, I traveled
around a lot, includ-
ing New Orleans for a
few years. My friend
Alan Bern, a klezmer
musician, invited me to
Berlin. That appealed to
me because I'm inter-
ested in Bertol Brecht,
German theater and political cabaret.
I didn't come with a plan to focus on
Jewish music, per se. It developed out
of my experiences to create a klezmer
band, the Painted Bird (from the Jerzy
Kozinski novel). We're a loose-knit
association of like-minded people.
Some members live in Russia and New
York. The Painted Bird mixes Yiddish
material with things like punk, cabaret
and gothic folk.
JN: What can you say about
your Sept. 21 program?
DK: We will be doing old Yiddish
songs, new Yiddish songs and Jewish
songs. I'll sing and play accordion,
piano and ukulele. We'll cover politics,
love, war, biology, alcohol and God
— well, not so much about God. We
don't do much religious material.
JN: Is what you do fun?
DK: Being a musician is the eternal
loophole — you get to travel around the
world, meet people and get paid for sing-
ing songs. It's pretty amazing. 0
Daniel Kahn and Michael Winograd perform 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, at
the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. No charge. Details:
(248) 557-8599.