For this first week of 2021 we will comment upon a light musical video posted onto YouTube platform by a talented vocalist - Olga Mieleszczuk on Dec. 23 - 2020. It's a satirical Klezmer style - Foxtrot - with the lyrics skillfully written by Ms. Mieleszczuk - titled "Borsht/Barszcz - Yiddish Song with a Polish Twist" which she performed recently during Chanukah concert in Warsaw/Poland.
She gives concerts regularly for the big legion of her fans in Warsaw/Poland and in Jerusalem/Israel where she lives with her family. Ms. Mieleszczuk has had the same group of gifted musicians accompanying her for quite a few years but she frequently features an instrumental solo by a new musician; he or she also does a duet with her - in addition to her steady instrumentalists. This video has a nice clarinet solo by Ittai Binnum (sounds like an Israeli name of that gentleman) performing with her.
It needs to be mentioned that Borsht (a vegetable [mostly beet] - beef stew) has been an enormously popular food staple with Eastern European Jews - thus came a name - "Borsht Belt" - for a string of Catskills Mountains' resorts by New York City - which has been called a "Borsht Belt" due to many New York City Jews vacationing there during the summers. A lot of New York City Jews have Eastern European ancestry and observe some traditions from Eastern Europe.
In any event - enjoy the video everybody and have a super good New Years Eve 2020/2021. Happy and Healthy 2021 to all! We shall meet here - as always - a week from today!
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