David Chevan

A couple of weeks ago I had a great albeit brief visit to one of my favorite cities in the USA.  Warren Byrd and I had been invited back to the Jewish Temple in Alexandria for a concert. I looked…

This past Sunday, for the second year in a row, the Nu Haven Kapelye performed Klezmer for an hour before the Yard Goats  game at Dunkin Donuts Park in Hartford.  We had a blast, and crowds gathered around the group…

Playing in the Sunken Garden at the Porter Phelps Huntington Museum.  

A great night of music making in a beautiful space

It’s been a while since my last music update. I’ve had a great musical summer that began in late June when Warren, Saskia and I were in Italy and gave an Afro-Semitic Experience concert on the steps of the Great…

I’m back from an extraordinary week of performing Letters from the Affair in London; a week with several near artistic disasters and quite a few small, but real triumphs. It all began back in May when Letters from the Affair…

The Nu Haven Kapelye had its first ever photo shoot today.  We met in Edgerton Park in New Haven and Harold Shapiro, working with Cynthia Astmann organized a great morning of photos.

Here's some pics I took on my…

This past summer I played quite a bit of Klezmer with a trio of musicians.  Here's a clip of us playing the Broyges Tantz at the Edgewood Park Famer's market in New Haven.  Enjoy!

Featuring Dana Astmann on accordion…

Baba David Coleman, drummer, teacher, priest, and founding member of the Afro-Semitic Experience is suffering from stage IV cancer that has spread throughout his body. 

He is being cared for by his family in Ohio.  

They don’t…

  What a musical year it has been.  There were some high points and real lows.  The hardest moment this year came on June 4 when I got a call the day after playing an Afro-Semitic Experience concert and learned that…

Just a few weeks ago I had the honor of playing with the Afro-Semitic Experience at the opening plenary session of the Biennial conference of the URJ, the Union of Reform Judaism. We played a brief set just before the…