Dan Blacksberg
@danblacksberg.bsky.social
Klezmer and Experimental trombone-based music in Philly, New York and around the world. Creates the Radiant Others Podcast!
Gonna try and run this account for fun and connection like it’s that other site circa 2012.
Gonna try and run this account for fun and connection like it’s that other site circa 2012.
Pinned
Gonna try and use this place like it’s the fun days of twitter. Expect more shares than my instagram, and a bunch of random thoughts that add up to my worldview.
Following a lot of tech people, music people, and radical Jews. The threads are there! Hang with me.
www.instagram.com/danblacksberg/
Following a lot of tech people, music people, and radical Jews. The threads are there! Hang with me.
www.instagram.com/danblacksberg/
New interview with the awesome, musician, songwriter, political and cultural organizer Ira Temple! Ira work on and off the bandstand has changed my life for the better.
It was an honor to play on two rocking tracks for this big debut album! Go listen.
It was an honor to play on two rocking tracks for this big debut album! Go listen.
"Ira Khonen Temple’s album Strange Tongue/מסתּמא־לשון / Mistame-Loshn, out from Borscht Beat, is a testament to Queer Yiddishkayt...Strange Tongue is a piece of a living, breathing, changing culture."
NEW interview with Ira Khonen Temple, up now 🦚
ingeveb.org/blog/ira-tem...
NEW interview with Ira Khonen Temple, up now 🦚
ingeveb.org/blog/ira-tem...
"I want this to be a place for you": A Conversation with Ira Khonen Temple | In geveb
Yael Horowitz and Ira Khonen Temple talk queer Yiddishkayt, collage, and masoyre in Temple's new album.
ingeveb.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
New interview with the awesome, musician, songwriter, political and cultural organizer Ira Temple! Ira work on and off the bandstand has changed my life for the better.
It was an honor to play on two rocking tracks for this big debut album! Go listen.
It was an honor to play on two rocking tracks for this big debut album! Go listen.
Looked at a music “starter pack” was not surprised to not recognize a single person. Humbling to remember the world of music is unbelievably vast and also I am so distant from most mainstream fields/scenes/paths…
Anyway here’s a track I recorded with The Body thebody.bandcamp.com/track/hallow...
Anyway here’s a track I recorded with The Body thebody.bandcamp.com/track/hallow...
Hallow / Hollow, by the body
from the album No One Deserves Happiness
thebody.bandcamp.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Looked at a music “starter pack” was not surprised to not recognize a single person. Humbling to remember the world of music is unbelievably vast and also I am so distant from most mainstream fields/scenes/paths…
Anyway here’s a track I recorded with The Body thebody.bandcamp.com/track/hallow...
Anyway here’s a track I recorded with The Body thebody.bandcamp.com/track/hallow...
Shout out to my colleagues and our excellent intergenerational Yiddish Scene!
salute to Chaia and Josh Dolgin the 2 best samplers of Yiddish music
From shtetl to synth: How Yiddish electronica found its rhythm
Josh “Socalled” Dolgin and Chaia both aim to keep Yiddish vibrant without turning it into a museum piece
forward.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Shout out to my colleagues and our excellent intergenerational Yiddish Scene!
Oh snap! Can't wait.
@danblacksberg.bsky.social you'd probably be into this. the trove of a certain celebrity cimbalom player which will hopefully be made available next month
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Oh snap! Can't wait.
This morning’s klezmer highlight. New/old recording to me of a fun tune I’ve been playing for years.
Called by many names! The name on this track, the “Ezmilover Bulgar” in the Hoffman family book, , or me, simply, “Bulgar no. 9.”
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AGVN...
Called by many names! The name on this track, the “Ezmilover Bulgar” in the Hoffman family book, , or me, simply, “Bulgar no. 9.”
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AGVN...
איזמאַילאָווער בּולגאַר (2 of 2) - UWDC - UW-Madison Libraries
search.library.wisc.edu
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This morning’s klezmer highlight. New/old recording to me of a fun tune I’ve been playing for years.
Called by many names! The name on this track, the “Ezmilover Bulgar” in the Hoffman family book, , or me, simply, “Bulgar no. 9.”
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AGVN...
Called by many names! The name on this track, the “Ezmilover Bulgar” in the Hoffman family book, , or me, simply, “Bulgar no. 9.”
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AGVN...
In need of some late night wind down music? I’m listening to
This excellent record by the BLUMP BAND. Great compositons with low low instruments. Trombone, bass clarinet, and bassoon! So good.
michaelcolemanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/blump-...
This excellent record by the BLUMP BAND. Great compositons with low low instruments. Trombone, bass clarinet, and bassoon! So good.
michaelcolemanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/blump-...
BLUMP BAND, by BLUMP BAND
7 track album
michaelcolemanmusic.bandcamp.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
In need of some late night wind down music? I’m listening to
This excellent record by the BLUMP BAND. Great compositons with low low instruments. Trombone, bass clarinet, and bassoon! So good.
michaelcolemanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/blump-...
This excellent record by the BLUMP BAND. Great compositons with low low instruments. Trombone, bass clarinet, and bassoon! So good.
michaelcolemanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/blump-...
Reposted by Dan Blacksberg
just had the immense pleasure of learning that the yiddish word for “quotation marks” literally means LITTLE GOOSE FEET (gendznfislekh, גענדנפֿיסלעך)
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
just had the immense pleasure of learning that the yiddish word for “quotation marks” literally means LITTLE GOOSE FEET (gendznfislekh, גענדנפֿיסלעך)
Big hearty congrats to Sarah!
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Big hearty congrats to Sarah!
Super fun show in west Philly coming up this Friday! I’m playing with one of the coolest artists. I haven’t met in person yet, the one and Yotzeret Sheydim!! We’ll be doing a Noise Shabbat, incoming on a stacked bill!
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Super fun show in west Philly coming up this Friday! I’m playing with one of the coolest artists. I haven’t met in person yet, the one and Yotzeret Sheydim!! We’ll be doing a Noise Shabbat, incoming on a stacked bill!
Reposted by Dan Blacksberg
the very nasty people of Avalanche have been very unfair and hurt our beautiful mako reactors which are so green, so beautiful, we love them, we're all going to see mother
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
the very nasty people of Avalanche have been very unfair and hurt our beautiful mako reactors which are so green, so beautiful, we love them, we're all going to see mother
I feel for all my friends in New York who worked so hard to organize for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, especially @jfrejnyc.bsky.social (and so often get ignored by the mainstream press), that the price for winning is to work harder, but I know they are up for it!
As @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social stated yesterday: “My message to the more than 100,000 volunteers who brought us to this point is that the work continues”
Join the work, join the movement, join JFREJ!
Learn more at our New Member Orientation tomorrow night! Head to jfrej.org/orientations 💫
Join the work, join the movement, join JFREJ!
Learn more at our New Member Orientation tomorrow night! Head to jfrej.org/orientations 💫
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I feel for all my friends in New York who worked so hard to organize for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, especially @jfrejnyc.bsky.social (and so often get ignored by the mainstream press), that the price for winning is to work harder, but I know they are up for it!
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Monthly premium going from $500 to $1800 here. Luckily a tax credit can bring it down to "only" $1100 per month.
Instead it looks like I'm going to be paying about $700/mo for a significantly worse plan.
Everyone in Congress knows this is happening and none of them, Rs or Ds, care in the least.
Instead it looks like I'm going to be paying about $700/mo for a significantly worse plan.
Everyone in Congress knows this is happening and none of them, Rs or Ds, care in the least.
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Monthly premium going from $500 to $1800 here. Luckily a tax credit can bring it down to "only" $1100 per month.
Instead it looks like I'm going to be paying about $700/mo for a significantly worse plan.
Everyone in Congress knows this is happening and none of them, Rs or Ds, care in the least.
Instead it looks like I'm going to be paying about $700/mo for a significantly worse plan.
Everyone in Congress knows this is happening and none of them, Rs or Ds, care in the least.
More food for thought from @bcmerchant.bsky.social
Helpful hearing Cory Doctorow uplifting sectoral bargaining over copyright reform for artists dealing with AI and other forms of extraction. I’d relish it if musician unions work affected me directly!
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-dis...
Helpful hearing Cory Doctorow uplifting sectoral bargaining over copyright reform for artists dealing with AI and other forms of extraction. I’d relish it if musician unions work affected me directly!
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-dis...
How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow
A chat with the SF writer, activist, and author about his world-conquering coinage and how workers can take back the internet.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
More food for thought from @bcmerchant.bsky.social
Helpful hearing Cory Doctorow uplifting sectoral bargaining over copyright reform for artists dealing with AI and other forms of extraction. I’d relish it if musician unions work affected me directly!
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-dis...
Helpful hearing Cory Doctorow uplifting sectoral bargaining over copyright reform for artists dealing with AI and other forms of extraction. I’d relish it if musician unions work affected me directly!
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-dis...
My brain’s wake up music! Is this song titled “And Now” or “Golden Heart?”
Don Cherry is the perfect blend of melody and noise. Or a better way to understand it I think is that the boundaries of the melody stretch far, far beyond our usual understanding of key or sound.
youtu.be/9RUGa4gggmg&...
Don Cherry is the perfect blend of melody and noise. Or a better way to understand it I think is that the boundaries of the melody stretch far, far beyond our usual understanding of key or sound.
youtu.be/9RUGa4gggmg&...
Don Cherry – Complete Communion (Full Album)
YouTube video by Bitches Brew
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
My brain’s wake up music! Is this song titled “And Now” or “Golden Heart?”
Don Cherry is the perfect blend of melody and noise. Or a better way to understand it I think is that the boundaries of the melody stretch far, far beyond our usual understanding of key or sound.
youtu.be/9RUGa4gggmg&...
Don Cherry is the perfect blend of melody and noise. Or a better way to understand it I think is that the boundaries of the melody stretch far, far beyond our usual understanding of key or sound.
youtu.be/9RUGa4gggmg&...
Well now, this is a satisfying feedback loop. Here’s some trombone for you all.
From my concert suite “Name of the Sea” commissioned by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in 2019.
youtu.be/Vk776aBIcQQ?...
From my concert suite “Name of the Sea” commissioned by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in 2019.
youtu.be/Vk776aBIcQQ?...
Walls Fell/Retjenu 1
YouTube video by danblacksberg
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Well now, this is a satisfying feedback loop. Here’s some trombone for you all.
From my concert suite “Name of the Sea” commissioned by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in 2019.
youtu.be/Vk776aBIcQQ?...
From my concert suite “Name of the Sea” commissioned by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in 2019.
youtu.be/Vk776aBIcQQ?...
Found out about this absolutely wild human endeavor from @rcmacleod.bsky.social in the @aftermath.site newsletter (utterly recommend signing up) and as someone who plays Yiddish music and has performed it in this part of the world, I have feelings. Not even sure what they are, but they are strong!
"It's not a tomb. It's a town. And it will always be."
Czech larp group, Rolling, are based out of a former Nazi concentration camp hospital. Their performances embrace the complications and pain of that history.
Czech larp group, Rolling, are based out of a former Nazi concentration camp hospital. Their performances embrace the complications and pain of that history.
A Czech larp group wrestles with Nazi history by roleplaying in its bones
Exploring Disco Elysium and the power of art in a former concentration camp.
www.rascal.news
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Found out about this absolutely wild human endeavor from @rcmacleod.bsky.social in the @aftermath.site newsletter (utterly recommend signing up) and as someone who plays Yiddish music and has performed it in this part of the world, I have feelings. Not even sure what they are, but they are strong!
Totally great conversation between a new favorite @bcmerchant.bsky.social and Cory Doctorow.
Learned a new term Vocational Awe coined by Fobazi Ettarh - notions of our work as sacred prevent us from standing up for ourselves as laborers. Reminds me that musicians are really susceptible to this.
Learned a new term Vocational Awe coined by Fobazi Ettarh - notions of our work as sacred prevent us from standing up for ourselves as laborers. Reminds me that musicians are really susceptible to this.
Excellent pod with @bcmerchant.bsky.social and Cory Doctorow.
TL;DR: Tech workers, organize! It's the only way to disenshittify the internet (and regain a sense of agency).
TL;DR: Tech workers, organize! It's the only way to disenshittify the internet (and regain a sense of agency).
How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow
Podcast Episode · Blood in the Machine: The Podcast · 11/10/2025 · 1h 8m
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Totally great conversation between a new favorite @bcmerchant.bsky.social and Cory Doctorow.
Learned a new term Vocational Awe coined by Fobazi Ettarh - notions of our work as sacred prevent us from standing up for ourselves as laborers. Reminds me that musicians are really susceptible to this.
Learned a new term Vocational Awe coined by Fobazi Ettarh - notions of our work as sacred prevent us from standing up for ourselves as laborers. Reminds me that musicians are really susceptible to this.
Played with Elaine of blessed memory for years as a student and then as a band member with her and her daughter Susan Watts who still carries the family tradition. Elaine fucking rocked and cursed with the best. Philly as fuck and the best klezmer beat on the planet. Miss her realness.
Elaine Hoffman Watts is today's featured percussionist. she was an amazing klezmer drummer.
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Played with Elaine of blessed memory for years as a student and then as a band member with her and her daughter Susan Watts who still carries the family tradition. Elaine fucking rocked and cursed with the best. Philly as fuck and the best klezmer beat on the planet. Miss her realness.
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a legend - Elaine Hoffman Watts - I remember hearing her at Klezkanada back when. she carried on amazing old school klezmer percussion style to new generations.
Elaine Hoffman Watts is today's featured percussionist. she was an amazing klezmer drummer.
January 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
a legend - Elaine Hoffman Watts - I remember hearing her at Klezkanada back when. she carried on amazing old school klezmer percussion style to new generations.
Hey @bsky.app people!
Dan Blacksberg, your friendly traditional and modern klezmer and/or free jazz/doom metal/noise trombonists here!
Here to try and paint a big enough picture to encompass all my sounds and thoughts about and around music.
www.danblacksberg.com
Is a good starting point!
Dan Blacksberg, your friendly traditional and modern klezmer and/or free jazz/doom metal/noise trombonists here!
Here to try and paint a big enough picture to encompass all my sounds and thoughts about and around music.
www.danblacksberg.com
Is a good starting point!
Dan Blacksberg
www.danblacksberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Hey @bsky.app people!
Dan Blacksberg, your friendly traditional and modern klezmer and/or free jazz/doom metal/noise trombonists here!
Here to try and paint a big enough picture to encompass all my sounds and thoughts about and around music.
www.danblacksberg.com
Is a good starting point!
Dan Blacksberg, your friendly traditional and modern klezmer and/or free jazz/doom metal/noise trombonists here!
Here to try and paint a big enough picture to encompass all my sounds and thoughts about and around music.
www.danblacksberg.com
Is a good starting point!