Vintage Variety of Strummers at AACI

From Vintage Variety of Strummers at AACI

There are times when a person just has to let his hair down and enjoy life in spite of the dictates of surrounding situations in which we might otherwise want to commit hari-kari.
So, last night while the young and the restless were out carousing the streets of the cities of Israel, a group of those who are somewhat considered "the old relics" of society by the younger generation, but what we ourselves consider to be the "oldies, but goodies", gathered at the AACI and enjoyed the live entertainment of a vintage variety of 'strummers'.
Whether strumming on the old banjo, guitar or Appalachian dulcimer, stringing along on the fiddle, pounding out music on an antiquated out-of-tune piano, or strummin' the ol' washin' scrub-board, our Vintage musicians belted out quite a variety of songs, those 'oldies, but goodies'.
The small crowd sang along with songs from the Beatles, a little country Bluegrass, Klezmer favorites and Dixieland all dating back as far as the mid-1800s. So what if we were out of tune and no two people sang the same words!
Bruce Brill was MC, "Minstrel of Ceremonies", for the evening, accompanying the others with diverse stringed instruments. His son Deyf-Deyf, who just returned from India, started us out with music from the Beatles era, but was cut short by his dad who considered that particular era "modern" music.
David Baron spirited things up with Carlebach songs in addition to some of his own creative songs, while Judy Cohen's home-grown humorous songs about present day life made everyone roll with laughter.

From Vintage Variety of Strummers at AACI

Along came Elazar Brandt accompanied by his wife Krina, of whom he is extremely proud of and oozes with love and affection for her. (They still consider themselves relatively newly-weds, even though, they are recently new GRANDparents. Elazar is the "Jazz Man" of Israeli society, well known for his Dixieland music. He can be found anywhere from the streets of Jerusalem to the Comedy Theatres, to entertaining at dinners for huge organizations, to Bar or Bat Mitzvahs, to visiting children on the obscure settlements. He's the closest thing to the jolly man in red known to kids around the world that you will find in the Middle East, lovable & harmless, entertaining to kids of all ages, 1 year-120 years.
Bruce's rendition of what he considers the original, Biblical "Yahoo!" is a real classic and a favorite of mine!