
David Rosman
David Rosman is a Portland, Oregon–based multi-instrumentalist (guitar, violin, piano, bass, drums) and klezmer musician, founder of Rosman Music, and a 2025-26 Art/Lab Artist Fellow in Jewish Arts and Culture.
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Aug 20, 2026
S4E6 Why One Artist Is Turning to Tradition to Innovate
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19:31Josh RoseHOST
Can you walk us through, like, in what ways were you, as you played and recorded, were you trying to just have fidelity to the traditional structures or were you trying to do stuff that was innovative, not in the recording technology, but in the playing, in the scales or whatever it might have been, the notes chosen?

David RosmanGUEST
And I veered a little bit off the beaten path of what is commonly heard in the repertoire in the United States.

David RosmanGUEST
I called it the fiddle-puckle-zookies-capella, which means the fiddle-drum-butt-bands.

David RosmanGUEST
That's what they would call the apprentice-level band that they would send out for poor people's weddings who couldn't afford to pay anything.
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38:24Josh RoseHOST
Yeah, tell me about a work that you or an artist that you want to let people know about that you love right now.