Daniel Kahn was born in Detroit and studied theater and poetry at the University of Michigan. After living in New Orleans and New York, he moved to Berlin in 2005 and founded The Painted Bird, which has toured the world and won several awards with its 5 albums. He works as a theater director, actor, composer and playwright. In 2016, the Ashkenaz Foundation named him the first Theo Bikel Artist-in-Residence.

With him are the musicians Christian Dawid (clarinet) and Jake Shulman-Ment (violin):

Christian Dawid is a well-traveled and internationally sought-after clarinetist. He is classically trained, but has acquired and performed countless styles from jazz to Tyrolean music, and specializes in Yiddish and Eastern European folk music. He leads Trio Yas and Ukrainian hipster-brass band Konsonans Retro, and has shared a number of international stages withartists such as Boban Markovic, Frank London, Socalled, Arkady Gendler, Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird, Brave Old World, OPA!, Shura Lipovsky, Theodore Bikel, Alan Bern, Yuriy Gurzhy, Lorin Sklamberg, Forshpil, Paul Brody’s Sadawi and The Other Europeans.

Jake Shulman-Ment from New York is one of the most recognized klezmer musicians of our time. He tours internationally as a soloist and performs with Daniel Kahn, Joey Weisenberg, Abigale Reisman, Pete Rushefsky and others. He has worked with The Painted Bird, Di Naye Kapelye, The Brothers Nazaroff, Frank London, Sanda Weigl, Adrian Receanu, Duncan Sheik, Francesca Ter-Berg, Laurel Premo, Ali Dineen, Michael Alpert, Fleytmuzik, MetroFolk and Romashka.