Abby Rosenblatt - What's New Bobenyu? (2008)

Down-home Yiddish folk music with echoes of Emmylou Harris and Joan Baez.

“What’s New Bobenyu?” the debut album by vocalist Abby Rosenblatt is stellar array of classic and not so classic Yiddish folksongs performed with sincerity and humour. With sparkling vocal clarity, Abby performs heartfelt renditions of Yiddish lullabies in addition to rousing bluegrass treatments of holiday songs and klezmer arrangemts of wedding standards. Backed up by a band of some of the finest musicians on both the klezmer and bluegrass scenes, including Pete Sokolow, Christian Dawid, Joe Grass and Shtreiml, Abby’s recording will have audiences of young and old pulling out the hankies and dancing in the aisles.