Kosher Red Hots

“More fun than a barrel of pickles. Best thing since sliced bagels. I couldn’t keep my hands from dancing.” – Fyodor Karamazov, The Flying Karamazov Brothers

The Kosher Red Hots open the rich treasury of Jewish music—whirlwind Eastern European klezmer dance tunes, Yiddish musical theater, and Spanish flavored love songs of the Sephardim. The band has inspired dancing in the aisles from Reno’s Artown Festival to Alaska’s Inside Passage on a cruise with Garrison Keillor and A Prairie Home Companion.

The Kosher Red Hots bring you a spirited clarinetist, a powerhouse accordionist, a master bassist and guitarist, and an adventurous vocalist who sings in Yiddish, Ladino and English. Together they play music that turns from rollicking to tender while they weave tales, humor, history and just plain fun into each concert.

The Kosher Red Hots are committed cultural educators with post-concert talks, music and dance workshops, and master classes. Study guides for schools and adults include geography and languages of the Jewish diaspora, songs, dances, instruments, stories, and reference resources. This red hot group has been honored with a Washington State Folk Arts Fellowship and a Washington State Music Educator of the Year Award.