‘The first time my band ever encountered such hostility’
On Aug. 2, a performance by the popular Yiddish-klezmer band Dobranotch at a large folk festival in Galicia, Spain, was cut short when pro-Palestinian members of the audience began heckling the musicians and then throwing stones and other objects at them, targeting the band over recent concert appearances they made in Israel.
Afterwards, the festival organizers released a statement, explaining that they cancelled the concert out of concern for the musicians’ safety. The organizers also condemned the fact that “an event historically rooted in peaceful cultural exchange, community gathering, and musical celebration was disrupted by violence.”
In this first-hand account, band leader Mitia Khramtsov describes exactly what happened that evening: https://forward.com/yiddish-world/844454/the-first-time-my-band-ever-encountered-such-hostility/