PKO Update: May performance and June auditions

At the end of May, the PKO played an important and much anticipated  gig at the 90th birthday party of Mintzie Kaminsky in the Bronx New York. It is well known that the Bronx is a hotbed of contemporary klezmer activity and the local bands were anxious to measure themselves  against acknowledged masters. The PKO all star line -up was enhanced by the rat-tat-tat  percussion magic of Riva Kaminsky on dumbek, and all present, though addled by generous servings  of  a rich chocolate cake, agreed that they swung fiercely.

PKO Personnel and Artistic Director, Professor Bernard Greenwald, and the lovely Orkester concert master, first accordionist, and creative director Elena, are always scouring the country (and internationally) for talented sidemen and woman to add to the Orkester. If there is a talented player out there they want to know why he or she is not playing for them.

 

That is why in mid June they hosted at Freilach Plaza in Red Hook NY, open auditions. A founding member of the PKO, Rozin Dubrow, the fiddle wizard joined them. They were accompanied that week by the paradisal paradiddles of Riva K on the skins.