Library's Free 2012 Concert Series Kicks Off Feb. 12

Yale Strom is a multi-talented artist whose list of accomplishments is long: violinist, composer, filmmaker, writer, photographer, scholar and playwright.

Strom has conducted extensive field research in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans among the Jewish and Rom communities. His work during the last 20 years and 75 research expeditions has led to his status as a leading ethnographer-artist of klezmer music and history, helping form the repertoire of his klezmer band Hot Pstromi.

Strom and Hot Pstromi will give a free concert featuring jazz and klezmer music at Carlsbad City Library’s Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium on Sunday, Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. Tickets will be issued beginning at 1 p.m. at the auditorium the day of the concert. Seating is limited and first come, first served.  

Strom has been praised as "a commanding bandleader and composer" by Pulse! Magazine and "one of the best klezmer musicians in the country" by Houston Public News. The U-T San Diego raved, “…this maverick does so many things with such great skill and vision that he's in a league of his own."

Strom’s accomplishments include composing for numerous film and dance scores as well as the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Denver Center production of Tony Kushner's The Dybbuk and the National Public Radio series Fiddlers, Philosophers & Fools: Jewish Short Stories from the Old World to the New, hosted by Leonard Nimoy. 

The concert is made possible by the Carlsbad Library and Arts Foundation’s Robert H. Gartner Cultural Endowment Fund.