TORONTO — Ariel Wyner dedicated his band’s rendition of “Do You Hear Jerusalem Moan?” to slain American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Then he started strumming the mandolin.

The Jacob’s Ladder music festival, held twice a year at the Nof Ginosar kibbutz along the Sea of Galilee, and which just concluded its spring session this past weekend, has been quietly ...

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An onstage wedding proposal, a freak downpour and a ton of good music were all part of the ... It was par for the course at the Jacob’s Ladder festival, which seems to continuously top itself ...

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Now in its 37 th year, Jacob’s Ladder is best known as Israel’s preeminent folk, country, bluegrass and Irish music festival. Held twice a year at Kibbutz ...

As for the music: It's not just guitarist/frontman ... plunging, proggy clouds. But Jacob's Ladder has a serious grasp of pop hooks. That, and the sort of feeling-soaked lyrics that have made ...

“Jacob’s Ladder” is something of a return to form for Reich after a quietly daring departure. Since his breakthrough experiments of the late 1960s, his music has been defined by its chugging ...

He explains: “In Jacob's Ladder, there's somewhat more instrumental music than vocal music. It became clear right from the start that I was going to give free rein to the instruments.