Pete Rushefsky

Pete Rushefsky is an American klezmer musician^[1] and executive director of New York City's Center for Traditional Music and Dance.^[2][3][4] He plays the cimbalom or "tsimbl" as well as the 5-string banjo.

Pete Rushefsky
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Executive Director, klezmer musician
Known for	Executive Director of New York City's Center for Traditional Music and Dance
Notable work	Book called - Essentials of Klezmer 5-String Banjo, Volume I.
Awards	Bubbe Award for “Best Original Klezmer Composition”

He has a book published called Essentials of Klezmer 5-String Banjo, Volume I.

In 2022, Rushefsky won a Bubbe Award for “Best Original Klezmer Composition”

Discography

• Git Azoy (it's good this way) (2000?) with the 12 Corners Klezmer band ^[5]
• Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer and Violin (2001) with Elie Rosenblatt.^[6][7]
• Af di gasn fun der shtot - On the Streets of the City (2003) with Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and others.
• On the paths: Yiddish songs with tsimbl (2004) with Becky Kaplan.
• Fleytmuzik in Kontsert (2008) with Adrianne Greenbaum and Jacob Shulman-Ment.