Recent & Upcoming Performances:

2024

Sat Nov 2
Playford Gang
English Country Dance
Christ Episcopal Church, Binghamton, NY

Wed Nov 6
Cornell University Klezmer Ensemble Dining Hall Concert
Flora Rose House, Cornell University, Ithaca NY

Sat Dec 7, 2-5 pm
Playford Gang
English Country Dance
Christ Episcopal Church, Binghamton, NY

Sun Dec 15, 1-3 pm
Playford Gang
Home for the Holidays celebration
Roberson Museum, Binghamton, NY

2025

Sun Mar 2, @ 2 pm
Rosetree
Tioga County Contra Dance
Owego, NY

Fri Apr 25, @ 2 pm
Cornell University Klezmer Ensemble Yiddish Dance Party
One World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca NY

Fri Jul 11, @ 7:30 pm
Rosetree
Otsego Dance Society Contradance
First Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown, NY

allen lutins is a Binghamton, NY based multi-instrumentalist/ethnomusicologist best known for his work with several Ithaca-based klezmer ensembles. He is co-founder of klezmer group Klez Project, Celtic/Scandinavian/Americana band Rosetree, and early music ensemble Playford Gang. His primary instruments are clarinet, Irish whistles and guitar. He also dabbles in Turkish saz and various percussion instruments, and received two years of training in Hindustani music on the sitar.



Performance by my band Klez Project at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Ithaca NY 21 July 2015
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Recording of my duo Rosetree at my home studio 5 February 2018
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Solo recording at my home studio 26 February 2017
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Moe
Moe Levine (allen's maternal grandfather) providing allen's first music lesson
Abe
Abe Stern (allen's paternal grandfather) with tenor guitar