Fiddler

The smell of Christmas goose sizzling in the oven wafts tantalizingly and heavily through the house. Outside, snowflakes dance and transform nature into a winter wonderland. The rich plate of cookies has long since been eaten, causing leaden satiety … The best thing to do in this situation is either to go to the nearest Irish pub - or to put in the new Fiddler's Green album and go on an acoustic journey into the comfortably raw Christmas Ireland.

The scent of the Christmas goose sizzling in the oven moves through the house enticingly and heavily.

The Irish folk rock band FIDDLER'S GREEN has announced their 16th studio album for December 29, 2023.

The Irish folk rock band FIDDLER'S GREEN has announced their 16th studio album for December 29, 2023. The record is entitled "The Green Machine“ and is the first album with own material since the 2019 work “Heyday". In the meantime, however, the anniversary work “3 Cheers For 30 Years” (2020), the live record “Acoustic Pub Crawl II - Live in Hamburg” (2020) and the Christmas album “Seven Holy Nights” (2022) have been released.

Based on a book of short fiction called Tevye and his Daughters by Russian writer Solomon Rabinowitch (aka Sholom Aleichem), Fiddler on the Roof tells the story a typical Jewish family living the simple life at the turn of the century. Tevye (Topol) and his wife Golde (Norma Crane) struggle to match their three eldest daughters with suitable husbands from their little Russian village of Anatevka. Yente (Molly Picon), the town's unofficial matchmaker, has word that the local wealthy butcher Lazar Wolf (Paul Mann) has "cast his eye" on Tevye's eldest daughter Tzeitel (Rosalind Harris). She, however, has already nailed the young tailor Motel (Leonard Frey in an Oscar-nominated role) as her husband-to-be. With ever less desirable suitors baying for the hands of his remaining nubile daughters, poor Tevye attempts to hold on to tradition while addressing his children's blind passions. This juggling act, symbolized by a fiddler sawing out a tune perched precariously on a rooftop, has Tevye turning to God for guidance and some kind of uneasy reconciliation.