Yid Vicious featured Podcast on "Higher Ground"-WPR

[David Spies]

Yid Vicious French horn player Kia Karlen was recently featured in a podcast for the Wisconsin Public Radio program "Higher Ground with Jonathan Overby", including selections from the band's recent CD release "Dollars to Doinas".

The link below takes you to the podcast page of the show:

http://www.wpr.org/higherground/Podcast.cfm" target="_blank

Yid Vicious (Podcast #751)

Jonathan talks to Kia Karlen about the origins of Yid Vicious. Karlen is a member of the seven-piece band which was formed in 1995 in Madison, WI in order to "ameliorate the woeful dearth of klezmer in America's otherwise pleasant heartland." Klezmer is Yiddish folk music, music for dancing and celebrating.

The revival of Klezmer started in the 70s and is now played at weddings, at Bat and Bar Mitzvahs, luxurious ballrooms and festival stages and often drive crowds into flurries of "freylekh-fueled dancing fury." Their repertoire is drawn mainly from traditional secular Yiddish music.

There are seven members of Yid Vicious, playing clarinets, saxophones, fiddle, horn, vocals, guitar, accordion, tuba, drums and sometimes theremin. This interview includes several pieces from their new CD "Dollars to Doinas". Their website is http://www.yidvicious.com" target="_blank.

*An up-to-the-minute concert listing is available at http://www.reverbnation.com/yidvicious" target="_blank.