2026 Events
LOST MURAL PROJECT’S MUSICAL MEMORIES CONCERT PRESENTS:
DANIEL KAHN
AUGUST 16th, 2026 4:30 p.m.
The Lost Mural, Burlington, Vermont, painted in 1910 by Ben Zion Black Photo Courtesy of the Lost Mural Project & Eric Bessette
The Lost Mural Project is thrilled to present the great Yiddish singer/songwriter Daniel Kahn, with his musical brother violinist Jake Shulman-Ment in a concert at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, 188 North Prospect Street, on Sunday, August 16 at 4:30 pm. Supertitles will be provided for translation during the performance.
An extraordinary troubadour, songwriter, translator, and multi-instrumentalist, Daniel Kahn’s music combines English, Yiddish, German and other languages in a radical mix of klezmer, lyrical folk ballads, and dark cabaret. His projects and groups include the award-winning cult band The Painted Bird, as well as Brothers Nazaroff, Semer Ensemble, The Unternationale, Bulat Blues, The Disorientalists, his duo with Jake Shulman-Ment, "The Building & Other Songs," and a forthcoming trio album with Shulman-Ment and Christian Dawid "Umru."
A graduate of YIVO's 2008 Weinreich Summer Program, Kahn teaches and appears regularly at many international Yiddish culture festivals and workshops. He played the original Perchik in Folksbiene's hit "Fidler afn Dakh," Yosl in "Amerike," Biff in NYR's "Death of a Salesman," the Badkhn in the Netflix series "Unorthodox," and was featured in Carnegie Hall's "From Shtetl to Stage." He’s appeared twice on the UVM Lane Series to sold-out delighted audiences.
Kahn works frequently as composer, actor, and director at Hamburg's Thalia and Berlin's Gorki Theater and co-founded the Shtetl Berlin festival. Videos of his Yiddish versions of Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and Tom Waits songs have received millions of views. Ashkenaz Foundation named him the inaugural Theo Bikel Artist-in-Residence. In 2018, he received the Chane and Joseph Mlotek Award for Yiddish Continuity and in 2023 he was honored with the Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Award. After being based in Berlin for 16 years, he currently resides in Hamburg, Germany with Yeva Lapsker and their son.
“Kahn’s great and artful songwriting follows in the footsteps of Leonard Cohen or Tom Waits”- German Press Agency (DPA).
“While many artists in Klezmer (and folk music generally) are concerned with preserving the past, Daniel Kahn seems determined to bend it to his will. . .Without exaggeration, it’s some of the best songwriting I’ve ever come across.” -Jon Patton, Driftwood Magazine.
“He’s like the Jewish Bob Dylan!”-a real old lady at a concert.
Concert Tickets Link & Sponsorship Link:
Daniel KAHN Concert
Lead Community Sponsors
Lost Mural Project Board Members
Temple Sinai
Ohavi Zedek Synagogue
Pomerleau Real Estate
Best Western Windjammer Hotel
Michael & Leah Rosenthal
The Optical Center
Phoenix Books
Media Factory
Additional Community Sponsors
Josh & Kathy Diamond
Sam & Gerri Bloomberg
Ellen Mintzer
Merrill & Irene Epstein
Jon & Carol Harris-Shapiro
Nevin & Barbara Zablotsky
Ed Carroll & Jackie Burke
Susan Leff
Lisa Schamberg & Pat Robins
Foster & Sally Lockwood
Anonymous
The Lost Mural Project’s Musical Memories Concert Series:
The Lost Mural Project is pleased to sponsor this performance as its annual fundraising concert of the Lost Mural Project Musical Memories Series. Lithuanian immigrant Ben Zion Black, who painted the Lost Mural in a Burlington synagogue in 1910, was a mandolin player as well as a composer, director, singer and Yiddish music aficionado.
The Lost Mural Project’s educational mission explores the diversity of our Vermont communities through artistic and musical presentations which highlight how culture and traditions are transmitted through art and music. Programs will include music and musical groups featuring Vermont’s immigrant communities, their music and traditional instruments to deepen our understanding of our collective journeys.
All Lost Mural Project events are filmed and made available to the public on the Lost Mural Project’s website on the events page, as well as through CCTV and the Media Factory.
2025 Events
The Annual Lost Mural Project
Musical Memories Concert
November 7-10, 2025
Artist-In-Residence Community Weekend
2025 marks the Tenth Anniversary of the rescue, relocation and restoration of the Lost Mural. In celebration and in appreciation of our supporters, the Lost Mural Project is hosting fantastic artists for an artists-in-residence community weekend for its second annual “Musical Memories Concert” — the celebrated group called Ljova and the Kontraband, featuring the husband-and-wife duo of Moscow-born composer and fadolínist Ljova, and his wife, the Vilna-born vocalist Inna Barmash.
Ljova & the Kontraband (photo courtesy of the artist)
Ljova & Inna (photo courtesy of the artist)
The musicians will be conducting community and student events with Burlington High School on Friday, November 7th, 2025, and master classes with the University of Vermont on Friday, November 7th, and one Monday, November 10th, 2025.
The Saturday night, November 8th, 2025, 7:30pm, is a community group musical showcase in memory of Robert Resnik at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue. It is free and open to the public.
The musicians will also perform for the community during the “Northern Nosh,” a Jewish food event at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, during the morning of Sunday, November 9th, 2025.
The Sunday night, November 9th, 2025, 7:30pm, concert at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue is a ticketed event featuring Ljova and the Kontraband and will benefit The Lost Mural Project.
For ticketing for the Sunday, November 9th, 2025 concert, use this link: https://ohavizedek.shulcloud.com/form/ljova
The November Artists-In-Residence weekend’s program will include klezmer and folk music emanating from Jewish sources: Yiddish wordless melodies, called “niggunim,” Eastern European tunes, and original arrangements of compositions by Ljova, and local Burlington composer, Michael Schachter.
Ljova was born in Moscow, Russia, and is of Ukrainian-Jewish, German-Jewish, Polish and Romanian heritage. Inna Barmash was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. Inna sings in Yiddish, Russian and other East European languages.
The Lost Mural Project expresses its appreciation to the following sponsors of this musical performance:
Lead Community Sponsors:
North Country Federal Credit Union
Gerri Bloomberg & Sam Bloomberg
Community Bank
Irene Epstein & Merrill Epstein
Marjorie Lipson & Michael Lipson
Lisa Schamberg & Pat Robins
Joanne Sickinger & Howard Goldberg
Temple Sinai
Jewish Communities of Vermont
Media Factory
Burlington High School Music Department
University of Vermont Lane Series
Best Western Windjammer Hotel
University of Vermont Music Department
Additional Community Sponsors:
Amy Berger & Rich Berger
Judy Berger & Rich Berger
Alyson Chalnick & Andrew Chalnick
Janie Cohen & Larry Crist
Jean Markey-Duncan & Bob Duncan
Sheila C. Stanton & David S. Geddes
Rebecca Goldberg & Aaron Goldberg
Ginny Greenblott & Art Greenblott
Adrea & Charlie Kofman
Susan Leff
Barbara & Martin LeWinter
Cynthia Pasackow & Jay Pasackow
Janie Potash & Jeff Potash
Barbara J. Rippa
Carol Harris-Shapiro & Jon Harris-Shapiro
About the Lost Mural Project’s Musical Memories Concert Series
The Lost Mural Project is pleased to sponsor this performance as the second concert of the Lost Mural Project Musical Memories Series. Lithuanian immigrant Ben Zion Black, who painted the Lost Mural in a Burlington synagogue in 1910, was a mandolin player as well as a composer, director, singer and Yiddish music aficionado.
The Lost Mural Project’s educational mission explores the diversity of our Vermont communities through artistic and musical presentations which highlight how culture and traditions are transmitted through art and music. Programs will include music and musical groups featuring Vermont’s immigrant communities, their music and traditional instruments to deepen our understanding of our collective journeys.
All Lost Mural Project events are filmed and made available to the public on the Lost Mural Project’s website on the events page, as well as through CCTV and the Media Factory.
Information on Ljova & the Kontraband can be found here: https://www.ljova.com/kontraband/ and https://www.ljova.com/about/bio/
Information on Inna Barmash can be found here: https://innabarmash.bandcamp.com/album/yiddish-lullabies-love-songs
Sponsors will be featured in the event program, on the website at lostmural.org and in the video production of the concert.
For ticketing for the Sunday, November 9th, 2025 concert, use this link: https://ohavizedek.shulcloud.com/form/ljova
Tenth Anniversary Program
Lost Mural Project Musical Memories Concerts
November 8th & 9th, 2025
November 2025 Musical Memories Program In Tribute to Robert Resnik
November 14, 2024
“Marty Fogel with Thread of Blue”
The Inaugural Concert for the Lost Mural Project Musical Memories Series
Ohavi Zedek Synagogue and the Lost Mural Project will host a concert featuring saxophonist Marty Fogel and his quintet, Thread of Blue, including Tom Cleary on piano, Dan Silverman on trombone, Jeremy Hill on bass and Geoff Bernstein on drums. The program will include improvisational jazz music emanating from Jewish sources: liturgical melodies, original pieces inspired by religious text, Eastern European tunes and original arrangements of songs by American Jewish composers Jerry Bock, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin and Kurt Weill.
Proceeds benefit The Lost Mural Project and Full Circle Preschool.
About the Lost Mural’s Musical Memories Concert Series
The Lost Mural Project is pleased to sponsor this performance as the inaugural event of the Lost Mural Project Musical Memories Series. Lithuanian immigrant Ben Zion Black, who painted the Lost Mural in a Burlington synagogue in 1910, was a mandolin player as well as a composer, director, singer and Yiddish music aficionado. The Lost Mural Project’s educational mission explores the diversity of our Vermont communities through artistic and musical presentations which highlight how culture and traditions are transmitted through art and music. Programs will include music and musical groups featuring Vermont’s immigrant communities, their music and traditional instruments to deepen our understanding of our collective journeys.
Once you hit play below, the sound begins at 1:14 after the introductory pages.
“Vermont Eats”
Eastern Europe to Burlington
June 6, 2024
The Lost Mural Project and the Vermont Historical Society joined together to celebrate the culture that European Jews brought to Burlington at the turn of the twentieth century. With the legacy of the Lost Mural, the Copper Ark, and Ohavi Zedek’s More Magic from the Kitchens of OZ cookbook, we invite guests to engage with the thriving Jewish community that immigrated to Vermont starting in the 1880s, resulting in Burlington’s Old North End neighborhood, known as “Burlington’s Little Jerusalem.”
Vermont Eats is a series of cultural events focused around food and understanding the communities that contribute to Vermont’s unique identity and story. This event featured a performance from the Marty Fogel band with Marty Fogel playing the clarinet and saxophone, Geoff Bernstein playing drums, Michael Schachter playing the keyboard, Dan Silverman playing the trombone, and John Thompson-Figueroa playing bass.
Dr. Samuel Gruber PhD presented a keynote, Picture This: Art and Life for Vermont's Jewish Immigrants, about the history of the Jewish community in Burlington.
Video by VIDEOSyncracies LLC
“Revel & Reveal”
Donor Event & Community Klezmer Music Concert Celebration
June 28, 2022
The Lost Mural Project & the Friends of the Lost Mural are delighted to celebrate the successful rescue, relocation and full restoration of the 1910 Lost Mural.
A donor recognition event to thank our supporters and to mark the public reveal of the Lost Mural’s marvelous colors as originally painted in 1910 by the artist, Ben Zion Black, honored The Honorable Madeleine M. Kunin for her leadership and guidance during the journey of the Lost Mural to this momentous occasion.
The “Revel & Reveal” Donor event celebrating the Lost Mural occurred on Tuesday, June 28th, 2022.
The video of the FaceBook Live Event is here and is one hour long:
The following persons spoke at the event (in order):
Jeff Potash & Aaron Goldberg, Lost Mural Project Co-Founders; the Honorable Madeleine M. Kunin; Karen Mittelman, Executive Director, Vermont Arts Council; Joshua Perelman, Chief Curator & Executive Director, National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA; Senator Patrick Leahy; Congressman Peter Welch; and Kathryn Becker Van Haste, Senator Bernie Sanders VT State Director.
The Lost Mural Project & the Friends of Lost Mural hosted the community for an in-person musical celebration on Tuesday, June 28th with the Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band at OZ, with Yiddish music and dance!!
The “Revel & Reveal” Event & Community Klezmer Music Concert Celebration are supported in part by grants from the Vermont Arts Council & the Vermont Humanities and will be recorded as part of the educational mission of the Lost Mural Project.
Donations can be made in honor or in memory of friends and family for a community educational exhibit about the Lost Mural Project and Burlington's Little Jerusalem neighborhood at https://www.lostmural.org/make-a-donation.
Thanks for your assistance, services and support of the Lost Mural Project!
Please contact Aaron Goldberg, Lost Mural Project’s Co-Founder & President, at agoldbergvt@gmail.com for media inquiries and public and/or private tours.