Fiddlin' on a Rooftop

When Moishe House and KFAR party 'Old School,' we really take you back- to the Old Country, that is. Join us for a night of live ethnic funk music on the Moishe House deck for some 'Fiddlin' on the Rooftop'. Our special guest, NYC's hottest violinist Jake Shulman-Ment and his band A Redele (A Wheel) play Gypsy, Eastern European folk and Klezmer throughout the night.

Schmooze under the stars, feast your eyes on fireworks. Nosh on cheesecake, We'll make a L’chaim to life and put the FUN in funky as we sing and dance the night away to some serious Heavy Shtetl! This event will be the best you go to all month; guaranteed.

**Space is limited and advance registration required:**


Violinist Jake Shulman-Ment leads a new generation of Klezmer and Eastern European folk music performers, having co-founded, performed, and recorded extensively throughout North America and Europe since the age of fourteen with groups including Romashka, MetróFolk, the Klezminors, the Village Klezmer Quintet, and Art Bailey’s Orkestra Popilar.

He has performed with such luminaries as David Krakauer, Frank London, Duncan Sheik, Kálmán Balogh, Alicia Svigals, Michael Alpert, Deborah Strauss, Jeff Warschauer, Adrienne Cooper, Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, Fleytmuzik, Di Naye Kapelye, Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, Életfa Hungarian Folk Band, and many others.

Jake co-founded and regularly performs at “Tantshoyz,” the monthly Yiddish dance party at Manhattan's JCC and performs a wide range of styles includes klezmer, classical, Romanian, Hungarian, Gypsy, and Greek.

Jake has been a faculty member of New York's esteemed Henry Street Settlement since fall 2007, as well as at the Yiddish folk arts program, KlezKamp, since 2006, Klezmer Paris, KlezKanada, and Yiddish Summer Weimar.

An avid traveler, Jake has made several extended journeys to collect, study, perform, and document traditional folk music in Hungary, Romania, and Greece. His newly released album, "A Redele" (A Wheel), is a ground-breaking, original klezmer violin album, showing his wide range of capabilities, from traditional klezmer to original compositions, from brilliantly arranged Yiddish and Hungarian vocal tunes, to fresh improvisation.