Upcoming Performances:

2024

Sat Jan 4
Playford Gang
English Country Dance
Christ Episcopal Church, Binghamton, NY

Sat Feb 1
Playford Gang
English Country Dance
Christ Episcopal Church, 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 25, @ 2 pm
Cornell University Klezmer Ensemble Yiddish Dance Party
One World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca NY

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

Sat Jun 7
Playford Gang
English Country Dance
Christ Episcopal Church, Binghamton, 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