Re: pete sokolow interview on ari's site

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

At 05:04 PM 1/9/01 -0500, you wrote:
>just read an interview with Sokolow about klezmer in the Catskills on Ari's
>site. http://www.klezmershack.com/contacts/klezwords.html#catskills.  It's
>incredible -- Sokolow remembers everything, and he is, to put it mildly,
>really hilarious.  The interview reads like some wacky, but savvy, old jazz
>guy reminiscing about his days on 42nd St. A Ken Burns documentary, but
>with a Yiddish inflection. Sokolow -- turn the guy on, and the stuff
>(whatever) spills out.   
>
>Did I miss this interview when it was first posted?  Phil Brown interviewed
>Sokolow in Dec. '99.

It =is= funny. I met Phil in my Arbeiter Ring Yiddish class. He had a website 
on the Catskills. Then he did this article and told me about it, so it was 
probably posted about a year ago. It =is= great stuff.

ari

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