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-=JeW*SCHooL=- has got the low-down on some interesting musical releases just in time for the Hanukkah festivities beginning the evening of December 7^th. Included in the list is the new album, Agua Pa' La Gente:



By my favorite New York based Latino-Jewish hip hop group, the Hip Hop Hoodios. You can check out their video for Ocho Kandelikas, featuring real live Hoodio Honeys in bagel bras, here. -=JeW*SCHooL=- also has the haps on the new Limited Ed. Klezmatics album, Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanuka:



According to -=JeW*SCHooL=-:

n 1942, Woody Guthrie moved to Brooklyn and soon, through his mother-in-law, the renowned Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblat, he became involved with the Coney Island Jewish community. He wrote songs about Hanuka, about Jewish history and spiritual life and about World War II and the antifascist cause. After his death in 1967, these songs sat forgotten in archives. Lost for almost thirty years, Guthrie's Jewish lyrics were discovered in 1998 by Woody's daughter, Nora Guthrie. She was so inspired by what she found, she asked the Klezmatics to write new music for the lyrics. "Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanuka" is the first recorded release of this amazing material. Deftly intermingling klezmer with American folk and bluegrass, "Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hunaka" is destined to become a holiday classic for generations to come. This delightful collection of songs, "Hanuka's Flame", "Hanuka Gelt", "The Many and the Few" and others, is among the best of Guthrie's work, and the Klezmatics' playful renditions cast a new light on the Hanuka tradition.

Enjoy!