Nigel Kennedy
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Nigel Kennedy is an English musician and composer. He plays the violin, viola and piano. His early career was primarily spent performing classical music, and has since expanded into jazz, klezmer, and
Kennedy performing in 2010
Nigel Kennedy Szczawnica – Jaworki, Poland
Nigel Kennedy performing 2026 in Basingstoke
Klezmer
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Klezmer is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisat
Nigel Kennedy
…and composer. He plays the violin, viola and piano. His early career was primarily spent performing classical music, and has since expanded into jazz, klezmer, and other genres. Kennedy's grandfather was Lauri Kennedy, principal cellist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and his grandmother was Dorothy Kennedy…
Jewish musicians of Rohatyn (west Ukraine)
Portrait of Pedotser (A. M. Kholodenko), nineteenth-century klezmer virtuoso
Max Leibowitz orchestra from 1921
Elane Hoffman Watts, klezmer drummer, in 2007