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Klezmer and Carnatic musicians to perform together on April 19 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side

By Doug Doyle
Published April 12, 2026 at 7:45 AM EDT
Trina Basu and Arun Ramamurthy
courtesy of the artists
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courtesy of the artists
Trina Basu and Arun Ramamurthy

On Sunday April 19 an eclectic performance will take place at a synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Two violinists steeped in the traditional music of southern India will join a Yiddish folk band that includes a klezmer fiddler.

Jake Shulman-Ment
courtesy of the artist
Jake Shulman-Ment

As WBGO’s Jon Kalish reports, the violinists met in Brooklyn’s flourishing improvised music scene…

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Doug Doyle
Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998. Since then, Doug and his news staff have received more than 300 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.
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