Elaine Hoffman Watts is a klezmer drummer who has been performing since the early 1990s. She has played with some of the most well-known klezmer bands, including The Klezmatics and The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band. Elaine’s drumming style is based on traditional klezmer rhythms, but she also incorporates elements of jazz and rock.
Beginning in 1998, Elaine Hoffman Watts was a percussion teacher at KlezKamp, and she has taught percussion in the Philadelphia area since the mid-1960s. She was a recipient of a 2007 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States’ highest honour in the folk and traditional arts.
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