Yakutian master player Spiridon Shishigin remembers master jew’s harp maker Bernard Lalanne-Cassou through his personal memories after his sudden and sorrowful disappearance. On February 20, 2023, Bernard Lalanne-Cassou, a lover and connoisseur of the jew’s harp, a jew’s harp player, a master jew’s harp maker, a renowned entomologist, a true friend and a very kind person, left us forever.

 

The IJHS JOURNAL #7, the new issue of the Journal of the International Jew's Harp Society is finally published!

The issue has been presented and distributed in a very limited printed edition at the Festival and Congress of the International Jew's Harp Society in Berlin (July 27-30 2022), the digital edition is yet freely available on our website for the members of our Society.

How to access the journal: the MEMBERSHIP to the International Jew's Harp Society gives access to all the past publications, including all the numbers of our Journal. If you're not subscribed yet, do it now and get you...

27 - 31 July 2022 Berlin

From July 27 to 31 2022, we present the world's unique Jew's Harp Festival at the ufaFabrik in Berlin. Here, more than hundred of the best Jew's Harp players from many different cultures and countries will come together. Together we would like to give the subject of Jew's Harp playing, which is largely unknown in Germany, an own space. During four days you can expect concerts, sessions, workshops, discussions, lectures, rituals and a Jew's Harp market. In summer, the ufaFabrik will become the ultimate Jew's Harp meeting place: for all those who already play Jew's Harp ...