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Fog City Blues

Erev Hanukkah Blues

A musical celebration of the Festival of Lights, which begins Sunday night.

Just ahead of the first candlelighting, we'll listen back to music and conversation with three Hanukkah-time visitors: Meshugga Beach Party, purveyors of fine Judeo-surf-rock and their 2011 album Hot Rod Hanukkah; Jeremiah Lockwood, who paid tribute to the classic John Fahey Christmas record with his own 2021 album A Great Miracle: Jeremiah Lockwood’s Guitar Soli Chanukah Record; and David Katznelson of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation, whose 2012 compilation 'Twas the Night Before Hanukkah: The Musical Battle Between Christmas and the Festival of Lights collects rare and iconic holiday music for Jews of both faiths. Sunday, December 14 at 4 pm.

Devon Strolovitch studied medieval Judeo-Portuguese manuscripts and earned a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University before coming to KALW. He is the Senior Producer of Philosophy Talk, and since 2007 has hosted Fog City Blues, the weekly digest of Blues in the Bay Area and beyond.