Gordon Lockwood

In the multimedia album Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter: Ballads from the Yiddish Gothic, scholar and musician Jeremiah Lockwood opens a doorway into the rich sensorium of the Yiddish ballad. Drawing deeply from the work of legendary Yiddish folk singer Lifshe Schaechter-Widman, the collection reimagines and recasts Yiddish ballads through audio and video performances by Gordon Lockwood (the musical project of Lockwood and drummer Ricky Gordon), which appear beside archival visuals, lyric adaptations, and textual explorations. Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter invites us to experience a body of Jewish song that emerges from a world of fantasy, memory, and symbol—constituting a Yiddish gothic, a folk expressionism unapologetic in the extremes of its enticing imagery.

About the artists

Jeremiah Lockwood

Singer/guitarist Jeremiah Lockwood is the founder of The Sway Machinery, a world-exploring, genre-defying band perhaps best known for its collaborations with the late great Khaira Arby of Timbuktu.

Ricky "Dirty Red" Gordon

Drummer Ricky Gordon is a member of the Wynton Marsalis Ensemble and a prolific composer for the screen, including iconic collaborations with Spike Lee.

Live at Terra Blues

Thursday, January 19, 7:00 - 9:30 PM

149 Bleecker St., Manhattan

Gordon Lockwood live at Terra Blues: https://www.terrablues.com/events

Live at Terra Blues

Thursday, February 23, 7:00 - 9:30 PM

149 Bleecker St., Manhattan

Gordon Lockwood live at Terra Blues: https://www.terrablues.com/events

Live at Terra Blues

Thursday, March 9, 7:00 - 9:30 PM

149 Bleecker St., Manhattan

Gordon Lockwood live at Terra Blues: https://www.terrablues.com/events