allen lutins - folk/ethnic musician

2025 Performances:

Sat Feb 1, 2-5 pm
Playford Gang
English Country Dance
Christ Episcopal Church, Binghamton, NY

Fri Feb 7
Bardo Brothers
Mythicon - Green Man's Masquerade
Eisenhower Hotel, Gettsyburg, PA

Sat Mar 1, 9-10 am
Rosetree
Parade Day Breakfast
American Legion Post 80, Binghamton, NY

Sat Mar 1
Playford Gang
English Country Dance
Christ Episcopal Church, Binghamton, NY

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

Fri Apr 4, @ 7:30 pm
Rosetree
Otsego Dance Society Contradance
First Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown, NY

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

Sun Apr 27, @ 2 pm
Cornell University Klezmer Ensemble
Yiddish Dance Party
Lifelong, Ithaca NY

Sat May 3, 2-5 pm
Playford Gang
English Country Dance
Christ Episcopal Church, Binghamton, NY

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

Mon Jun 9, @ 5:30-8:30 pm {tentative}
Cornell University Klezmer Ensemble Outdoor concert
South Hill Cider, Ithaca NY

Sat Sep 6, @ 9-11 am
Rosetree
Vestal Farmers Market
Vestal, NY

Sun Nov 16 6-8 pm
Rosetree
Music on the Delaware coffeehouse concert
Walton Theatre, Walton, 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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Click on the publicity button above for more information, or on the video links below for sample performances. Additional music-related resources from allen include: