Folk Bands and Artists
Johannes Paul Gräßer
Johannes Paul Gräßer (violin) “ranks among the leading violinists of the klezmer movement” (Yiddish Forward). He has been intensively involved with Yiddish music and culture as a musician and project manager since 1999. Johannes is the festival director of the Jewish-Israeli Cultural Days in Turingia, as well as the founder of the Klezmerorchester Erfurt which he has been co-directing with Szilvia Csaranko since 2015. He also teaches klezmer workships all over Germany and Switzerland with his organisation KlezWeCan.
