Sunday October 18, 2026 | 2:00 Instrumental Klezmer Workshop, 3:30 lecture & performance | Homewood Friend Meeting | 3107 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218

Join us for an intimate afternoon of music and learning with Christina Crowder: Executive Director of the Klezmer Institute, astonishing accordionist, and scholar extraordinaire!

2pm -- Instrumental klezmer workshop (in person only)

3:30pm -- Trampled Manuscripts: Interactive lecture & performance (in person & online)

Trampled Manuscripts brings newly digitized, century-old Yiddish and Ukranian klezmer music -- rescued from the S. An-sky ethnographic expeditions of 1912 - 1914 and the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine -- back to life through performance and storytelling.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Christina has been performing and researching Jewish music for thirty years, beginning in Budapest, Hungary in 1993 as a founding member of Di Naye Kapelye, and continuing with a Fulbright grant to Romania to document Jewish music in 1999, and since 2002 with an active research, teaching, and performing career in the US. She is Executive Director of the Klezmer Institute, which has been awarded three NEH Grants for Institute projects (2021-2025). Christina lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and performs with the Zamlers Trio. She also performs with Michael Winograd and the Honorable Mentschen, the Dave Levitt Klezmer Trio and many others. She has been a guest instructor in klezmer accordion and ensemble performance in the US, Canada, and Europe, and was both musical director and performer in the 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the 2020 ART Portland productions of the Broadway play “Indecent.” With the Klezmer Institute, Christina edited the Levitt Legacy music folio, is curating a player folio of KMDMP music, and has led KMDMP artist residency programs in Arizona, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oregon, France, and Belgium.