Jack Falk’s Carpathian-Pacific Express (Klezmer)

All aboard the Carpathian-Pacific Express, with Portland luminaries Courtney von Drehle (accordion/sax/guitar), Andrew Ehrlich (violin), Ralph Huntley (keyboards), and Ji Tanzer (percussion). Travel from the sacred to the profane and back again with singer/clarinetist Jack (Yankl) Falk of Di Naye Kapelye, the acclaimed Budapest-based Jewish roots ensemble. Our repertoire draws from the Yiddish- and Hungarian-speaking world of our grandparents, with echoes of Poland, Ukraine, Romania, and elsewhere.