Eve Sicular
@evesicular.bsky.social
Drummer & bandleader: Isle of Klezbos /Metropolitan Klezmer
Writer, lecturer, archivist, translator specializing in research re: Yiddish cinema & related cultural topics
Studied Russian History & Literature at Harvard, honors thesis “Ideology & Montage”
Writer, lecturer, archivist, translator specializing in research re: Yiddish cinema & related cultural topics
Studied Russian History & Literature at Harvard, honors thesis “Ideology & Montage”
Isle of Klezbos plays City Winery NYC Sunday afternoon, Jan 11: Sextet performs 12:30pm-2pm (doors open 11:30am for nosh & drinks). Come enjoy our band’s first show of 2026. Support us for this Arts Presenters special concert too, APAP badgeholders enter free! tickets.citywinery.com/event/isle-o...
December 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Isle of Klezbos plays City Winery NYC Sunday afternoon, Jan 11: Sextet performs 12:30pm-2pm (doors open 11:30am for nosh & drinks). Come enjoy our band’s first show of 2026. Support us for this Arts Presenters special concert too, APAP badgeholders enter free! tickets.citywinery.com/event/isle-o...
YiddishNewYork FilmFest 2025 screened “Shop on Main Street” (Ida Kaminska!), Partisans of Vilna” (edited by my YNYFF co-curator Josh Waletzky), “A Tango for Rachel” (directorial debut/co-star Lea Kalisch) & 1926 Soviet Ukrainian silent “Benya Krik”: original live score played by Matt Darriau & band
December 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
YiddishNewYork FilmFest 2025 screened “Shop on Main Street” (Ida Kaminska!), Partisans of Vilna” (edited by my YNYFF co-curator Josh Waletzky), “A Tango for Rachel” (directorial debut/co-star Lea Kalisch) & 1926 Soviet Ukrainian silent “Benya Krik”: original live score played by Matt Darriau & band
“A Tango for Rachel”: a brilliant new bilingual (mameloshn/Spanish) big-screen show was our finale at Yiddish New York 2025 film festival. This 29-min period marvel shot on location in Argentina, by debut director Lea Kalisch who beamed in live Zoom from Europe for Q&A after the movie. Great night!
December 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“A Tango for Rachel”: a brilliant new bilingual (mameloshn/Spanish) big-screen show was our finale at Yiddish New York 2025 film festival. This 29-min period marvel shot on location in Argentina, by debut director Lea Kalisch who beamed in live Zoom from Europe for Q&A after the movie. Great night!
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Great talk by @evesicular.bsky.social about what she found out about Shirley Baron so far, and about the phenomenon of orphan musicians and women's music groups more broadly etc.
another ticket I bought is for my friend @evesicular.bsky.social 's talk on Shirley Baron, a NYC drummer from WWII through the late 80s who I found ads for in my YIVO research this spring and we both became quite interested in. there's a whole oral history with her about being in a 1930s orphanage.
For Yiddish New York 2025, I’ll present a lecture on Shirley Baron, mid 20th-century percussionist & bandleader. Thanks @alte.klezmor.im for your YIVO & NYPL archival research which led us to stories of Shirley’s life both on and off bandstands in NYC & “the [Catskill] mountains” yiddishnewyork.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Great talk by @evesicular.bsky.social about what she found out about Shirley Baron so far, and about the phenomenon of orphan musicians and women's music groups more broadly etc.
Yiddish New York film festival fabulous lunchtime movie /concert tomorrow: Wild silent feature “Benya Krik” (shot on location in Odessa 1926) featuring fabulous score by Matt Darriau performed live by amazing five piece band. yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299Lk/...
December 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Yiddish New York film festival fabulous lunchtime movie /concert tomorrow: Wild silent feature “Benya Krik” (shot on location in Odessa 1926) featuring fabulous score by Matt Darriau performed live by amazing five piece band. yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299Lk/...
I’m giving a talk at Yiddish New York on Shirley Baron, little known NYC-based drummer/bandleader whose career spanned the 1930s-1980s. There’s an entire oral history transcript at NYPL (recorded in 1988). While I have no photos of her, I’m enjoying a look back: Int’l Sweethearts of Rhythm archives
December 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I’m giving a talk at Yiddish New York on Shirley Baron, little known NYC-based drummer/bandleader whose career spanned the 1930s-1980s. There’s an entire oral history transcript at NYPL (recorded in 1988). While I have no photos of her, I’m enjoying a look back: Int’l Sweethearts of Rhythm archives
thanks for this great reminder @clancyny.bsky.social Your consensus with Brendan Gill was an auspicious first review for our Metropolitan Klezmer debut! And thanks for introducing me to Barbara Rubin via her Warhol screentest
I'm remembering a 1998 holiday party at the Andy Warhol Foundation. Lots of champagne. But no music.
A colleague had just released a klezmer CD. We played it over the office P.A.
Brendan Gill (New Yorker) popped out of his office. He loved it! Me too!
Yiddish For Travelers – Metropolitan Klezmer
A colleague had just released a klezmer CD. We played it over the office P.A.
Brendan Gill (New Yorker) popped out of his office. He loved it! Me too!
Yiddish For Travelers – Metropolitan Klezmer
C Minor Bulgar
YouTube video by Metropolitan Klezmer - Topic
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December 17, 2025 at 5:49 AM
thanks for this great reminder @clancyny.bsky.social Your consensus with Brendan Gill was an auspicious first review for our Metropolitan Klezmer debut! And thanks for introducing me to Barbara Rubin via her Warhol screentest
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Blaise Metreweli, "C" in charge of MI6, was formerly "Q" who ran spy tech.
“We’re now operating in a space between peace and war....
Power itself is becoming more diffuse, more unpredictable as control over these technologies is shifting from states to corporations and sometimes to individuals.”
“We’re now operating in a space between peace and war....
Power itself is becoming more diffuse, more unpredictable as control over these technologies is shifting from states to corporations and sometimes to individuals.”
December 17, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Blaise Metreweli, "C" in charge of MI6, was formerly "Q" who ran spy tech.
“We’re now operating in a space between peace and war....
Power itself is becoming more diffuse, more unpredictable as control over these technologies is shifting from states to corporations and sometimes to individuals.”
“We’re now operating in a space between peace and war....
Power itself is becoming more diffuse, more unpredictable as control over these technologies is shifting from states to corporations and sometimes to individuals.”
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ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-accidentally-publishes-a-watch-list-of-immigration-lawyers-which-is-definitely-a-normal-thing-for-the-government-to-do/
ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do
This is... disturbing.
abovethelaw.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-accidentally-publishes-a-watch-list-of-immigration-lawyers-which-is-definitely-a-normal-thing-for-the-government-to-do/
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oh, one more thing, news com au reports the hero is Ahmed El-Ahmed, owner of a fruit stall.
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
oh, one more thing, news com au reports the hero is Ahmed El-Ahmed, owner of a fruit stall.
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
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Say his name as many times as you can
oh, one more thing, news com au reports the hero is Ahmed El-Ahmed, owner of a fruit stall.
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Say his name as many times as you can
Yiddish NY FilmFest opens Sun night 12/21: “The Shop on Main Street” 1965 Czech-made Oscar-winner starring Ida Kaminska. Talkback Mon aftn 12/22 Irena Klepfisz, Yelena Shmulenson, Josh Waletzky & me +Yiddish clips of Ida Kaminska’s shmues on Studs Terkel radio www.yiddishnewyork.com/yny-2025-fil...
December 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Yiddish NY FilmFest opens Sun night 12/21: “The Shop on Main Street” 1965 Czech-made Oscar-winner starring Ida Kaminska. Talkback Mon aftn 12/22 Irena Klepfisz, Yelena Shmulenson, Josh Waletzky & me +Yiddish clips of Ida Kaminska’s shmues on Studs Terkel radio www.yiddishnewyork.com/yny-2025-fil...
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Symphony Space just released some great seats for Thursday’s Isle of Klezbos show! Low ticket alert, book now: www.symphonyspace.org/events/revel...
Revelry: Isle of Klezbos
Symphony Space is a performing arts center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan offering theater, film, literature, music, dance and family entertainment. Our mission is to connect art, ideas, and comm...
www.symphonyspace.org
December 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Symphony Space just released some great seats for Thursday’s Isle of Klezbos show! Low ticket alert, book now: www.symphonyspace.org/events/revel...
Ticket link just posted for our next Joe’s Pub show: Isle of Klezbos plays the Ides of March! Full sextet onstage at NYC’s Public Theater cabaret, Sunday 3/15/2026 at 6pm publictheater.org/performances...
Isle of Klezbos
Isle of Klezbos sextet approaches Yiddish musical traditions with loving irreverence and profound respect.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Ticket link just posted for our next Joe’s Pub show: Isle of Klezbos plays the Ides of March! Full sextet onstage at NYC’s Public Theater cabaret, Sunday 3/15/2026 at 6pm publictheater.org/performances...
Thursday NYC 7:30 PM come see Isle of Klezbos at Symphony Space! Rare uptown show, & on a proper concert stage for Revelry series: The Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater. get reservations soon for Dec 11 (and yes, band swag & tickets make great early Hanukkah gifts) www.symphonyspace.org/events/revel...
December 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Thursday NYC 7:30 PM come see Isle of Klezbos at Symphony Space! Rare uptown show, & on a proper concert stage for Revelry series: The Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater. get reservations soon for Dec 11 (and yes, band swag & tickets make great early Hanukkah gifts) www.symphonyspace.org/events/revel...
Update: Yiddish New York film fest talkback panel for “The Shop on Main Street” (Mon aftn 22/22 discussion, following Sun night 12/21 screening) features Irena Klepfisz & Yelena Shmulenson. I am so honored to moderate this shmues! Plus excerpts from Studs Terkel’s radio interview with Ida Kaminska
Yiddish NY FilmFest opener: Anti-fascist Oscar-winner “The Shop on Main Street” starring Ida Kaminska, icon of a Yiddish stage dynasty. Plus genius tango-erotic tale; bawdy silent accompanied live; & doc “Partisans of Vilna” — all on HUC big screen. Co-curators Josh Waletzky & me
yiddishnewyork.com
yiddishnewyork.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Update: Yiddish New York film fest talkback panel for “The Shop on Main Street” (Mon aftn 22/22 discussion, following Sun night 12/21 screening) features Irena Klepfisz & Yelena Shmulenson. I am so honored to moderate this shmues! Plus excerpts from Studs Terkel’s radio interview with Ida Kaminska
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
For Yiddish New York 2025, I’ll present a lecture on Shirley Baron, mid 20th-century percussionist & bandleader. Thanks @alte.klezmor.im for your YIVO & NYPL archival research which led us to stories of Shirley’s life both on and off bandstands in NYC & “the [Catskill] mountains” yiddishnewyork.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
For Yiddish New York 2025, I’ll present a lecture on Shirley Baron, mid 20th-century percussionist & bandleader. Thanks @alte.klezmor.im for your YIVO & NYPL archival research which led us to stories of Shirley’s life both on and off bandstands in NYC & “the [Catskill] mountains” yiddishnewyork.com
Isle of Klezbos welcomes trombonist Reut Regev twice as special guest artist: This Sunday 2pm at The Emelin/Mamaroneck & Thursday, Dec 11 at Symphony Space 7:30pm on NYC’s Upper West Side, links at Klezbos.com (low ticket alert for Westchester) Pam Fleming/tpt, me on drums. Stage photos: Hank Gans
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Isle of Klezbos welcomes trombonist Reut Regev twice as special guest artist: This Sunday 2pm at The Emelin/Mamaroneck & Thursday, Dec 11 at Symphony Space 7:30pm on NYC’s Upper West Side, links at Klezbos.com (low ticket alert for Westchester) Pam Fleming/tpt, me on drums. Stage photos: Hank Gans
Isle of Klezbos will play Mamaroneck’s Emelin Theatre this Sunday at 2pm, & just in time — a delightful “Know Your Neighbors” interview: youtu.be/Gad0G65C4HE This episode airs tomorrow (Friday, Dec 5) at 8:30pm on LMC channel 75 Optimum / 36 Verizon. It repeats through the weekend Saturday & Sunday
"Know Your Neighbors" Klezmer bandleader Eve Sicular interview/LMC-TV host Sunny Goldberg 11-20-2025
YouTube video by Eve Sicular
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December 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Isle of Klezbos will play Mamaroneck’s Emelin Theatre this Sunday at 2pm, & just in time — a delightful “Know Your Neighbors” interview: youtu.be/Gad0G65C4HE This episode airs tomorrow (Friday, Dec 5) at 8:30pm on LMC channel 75 Optimum / 36 Verizon. It repeats through the weekend Saturday & Sunday
$10 off Emelin Theatre tickets: Isle of Klezbos plays Mamaroneck NY matinee Sunday, December 7 at 2pm. Use discount code FRIDAY10 (offer good til this Sun 11/30). Great show & such a deal, Westchester! emelin.org/event/isle-o...
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
$10 off Emelin Theatre tickets: Isle of Klezbos plays Mamaroneck NY matinee Sunday, December 7 at 2pm. Use discount code FRIDAY10 (offer good til this Sun 11/30). Great show & such a deal, Westchester! emelin.org/event/isle-o...
“Last Candle” is a Jill Sobule original she wrote among songs for the stageplay “Yentl.” She taught us this music when Isle of Klezbos performed for the project a decade ago. We share this tribute from 6/24/2025 at Joe’s Pub, dedicated as a memorial to Jill (with her own intro)
youtu.be/SImrCOCtODg
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Isle of Klezbos plays Jill Sobule’s “Last Candle”: Music from Yentl tribute at Joe’s Pub
YouTube video by Eve Sicular
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November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“Last Candle” is a Jill Sobule original she wrote among songs for the stageplay “Yentl.” She taught us this music when Isle of Klezbos performed for the project a decade ago. We share this tribute from 6/24/2025 at Joe’s Pub, dedicated as a memorial to Jill (with her own intro)
youtu.be/SImrCOCtODg
youtu.be/SImrCOCtODg
Next month Isle Klezbos plays Manhattan’s UWS! Some great seats are still left but this one might sell out soon. Hope to see you at Symphony Space, tell your NYC friends & family.
We’ll play Symphony Space on Thursday, Dec 11: Isle of Klezbos debut for the Revelry concert series on NYC’s Upper West Side! Tickets now www.symphonyspace.org/events/revel...
Revelry: Isle of Klezbos
Symphony Space is a performing arts center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan offering theater, film, literature, music, dance and family entertainment. Our mission is to connect art, ideas, and comm...
www.symphonyspace.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Next month Isle Klezbos plays Manhattan’s UWS! Some great seats are still left but this one might sell out soon. Hope to see you at Symphony Space, tell your NYC friends & family.
Isle of Klezbos sextet plays The Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck NY four weeks from this afternoon: Sunday, Dec 7 at 2pm. Klezmer, Yiddish swing & tango and more with great gals on the bandstand!Tell your Westchester family and friends emelin.org/event/isle-o...
Isle of Klezbos | Emelin Theatre
The soulful, fun-loving powerhouse all women's sextet fuses klezmer tradition with jazz, swing, and global influences.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Isle of Klezbos sextet plays The Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck NY four weeks from this afternoon: Sunday, Dec 7 at 2pm. Klezmer, Yiddish swing & tango and more with great gals on the bandstand!Tell your Westchester family and friends emelin.org/event/isle-o...