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Today is double single release day!! We are so excited to share these two new songs with you. ~Z&C Listen to “We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart” HERE and “Bei Mir Bistu Sheyn” HERE. Our record label, Organic Records, wrote a wonderful press release which we wanted to share: (February 17, 2023) — Right on the heels of Valentine’s Day, klezgrass practitioners Zoe […]

We enjoyed a heartwarming end to 2022 with some wonderful holiday collaborations. Here is a clip of us with the Davidson College Jazz Ensemble performing our original tune, “Zisa Meydele” (“Sweet Little Girl” in Yiddish). We also enjoyed hosting A Swannanoa Solstice at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts in Asheville featuring a fantastic […]

Happy Fall Y’all! 🍂🍁 It’s double single release day!! “Rainbow of My Dreams” streaming link: https://clg.lnk.to/ZCrd-s “Bulgar Sigansky” streaming link: https://clg.lnk.to/ZCbs-s These tracks are the beginning of a new Z&C album entitled “Songs of Our Grandfathers,” paying homage to our respective musical roots (klezmer and bluegrass). This project was inspired by the beautiful 1995 Andy […]

We are super excited to announce our new album, entitled REBUILD is here!! We had a great time collaborating with our stellar bandmates, Bennett Sullivan and Kevin Kehrberg, and our wonderful producer, Jon Weisberger and our friends at Organic Records on this release and we can’t wait to share it with the world. You can […]

“Chestnut Mountain” is a song I wrote about our family homeplace in Wilkes County, NC. My late grandfather, bluegrass fiddler Jim Shumate, was born there in 1921. There is so much history on that mountain. When I was young, the whole area was relatively remote and undeveloped aside from a few almost impassable roads. Later, […]