Title: UVA Klezmer Ensemble with special guest Susan Watts, trumpet
Location: Old Cabell Hall Auditorium, University of Virginia
Description: Elaine and Susan Watts klezmer duo.
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2008-11-23
End Time: 22:00

Elaine Watts and her daughter Susan are a fascinating duo. They not only play klezmer (traditional Eastern European Jewish folk music) exquisitely, but also have an intriguing background. Elaine, a brilliant percussionist and the first woman to graduate in percussion from the Curtis Institute of Music, is a third generation klezmer performer from the Hoffman family, Pennsylvania’s premier klezmer family. Read more…