Welcome to the 2008 Jewish Music Festival

Art Bailey

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Pianist and accordionist Art Bailey is active in the improvised and world music scenes, and has appeared with such diverse musical performers as jazz saxophonist Steve Lacy, classical violinist Itzhak Perlman, and renowned bluegrass musician Del McCoury. Art has been the pianist with the Klezmer Conservatory Band since 1998, contributing new arrangements to the band’s repertoire and making stage and television appearances worldwide.

Since moving to New York in 2003, Art has performed with many of the major participants of the downtown klezmer scene including David Krakauer, Frank London, Alicia Svigals and Matt Darriau. He has performed on Broadway in the revival of Fiddler on the Roof with Harvey Fierstein and in Most Happy Fella at Lincoln Center with the New York City Opera.

In addition to his activities as a pianist and arranger in jazz and Latin music, his current project, Art Bailey’s Orkestra Popilar, is an exciting quintet that explores the Romanian side of Jewish music. On their recently released debut cd, Branch from the Tree, the band explores early 20th century Jewish fiddle pieces, improvisation, newly composed music, and pieces from the klezmer and Eastern European repertoire.