Bert Stratton Klezmer Guy

Local musician Bert Stratton regularly plays with the klezmer act Yiddishe Cup but every so often, he does special shows as Klezmer Guy. For these shows, he performs as a trio that features pianist Alan Douglass and singer Tamar Gray. The group still plays some klezmer but it also dabbles in Tin Pan Alley, swing and soul. “This is a neo-beatnik jazz/prose, matzo-meets-Motown revue,” says Stratton. He jokes that he comes off like Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor if he were raised on pastrami. (Jeff Niesel)