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Mikveh is five of the top musicians on the international klezmer scene, who have joined together to create music that reflects the experience of Jewish women. Mikveh made its debut at the 1998 gala production of Obie-winning playwright Eve Ensler's V-Day, which also featured performances by world-renowned musicians and actresses Phoebe Snow, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Calista Flockhart, Lily Tomlin, and Margaret Cho.
Mikveh draws on the rich traditions of Yiddish song and the wild and soulful instrumental music known as klezmer. They compose new music and rediscover rare and remarkable historical material as well. They collaborate with other women composers writing new Jewish music (such as Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman), interpolate new material into older works, and perform creative English song-lyric translations. |
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