This two-man band gave one performance only during an art festival in Chicago on May 31, 2010 & was a prelude to the present day Sid Yiddish And His Candy Store Henchmen. While Sid ranted and otherwise performed, Yitn Mitn Fidl accompanied Sid on violin.
Read MoreTechnology. It’s what drives all of us in one form or another, having said that, Denmark was the least likely place I thought I would end up as the result of technology! The year was 2007 and I was still on MySpace. Six months earlier, i had just opened a YouTube account and uploaded my first video; a throat singing song of mine entitled Mykel Board Weasel Squeezer. It was sometime in late...
Read MoreIn the early days in between rocks and caves, man created fire. He invented the wheel. He developed the birth of sound and noise. And from that frothy mix came forth on the tenth day of December in the year of our Lord 2010, the eventual creation of the universe, the Big Bang Theory and Sid Yiddish And His Candy Store Henchmen. And the world gasped. The Henchmen’s arsenal of instrumentation...
Read MoreAfter a failed tryout with a sound-painting orchestra in 2005, Sid began gravitating toward a different sound: noise & free improvisation. Sid had already been going to noise and improvisation shows in Chicago and had been paying close attention to other bands with alternative sounds for the past decade, so this wasn’t any different with the exception being that the only requirement...
Read Morein 2002 Sid was close to retiring from the poetry scene but a chance meeting with blues poet Wisconsinite Wes Heine, changed all of that when Sid appeared in a student film shot by Heine. They became lifelong friends as Sid appeared in a few more of Wes’ films and they began attending Chicago area poetry open mics. Within a few years, Sid & Wes teamed up to form a poetry jug band and...
Read MoreSid Yiddish’s second band picked up where Joey The Tush Kangaroo left off. Same format, yet Sid began writing more original material, as well as using costumes for the first time, in order to fuel the band’s theatrical & performance aspect. Sid, the lead vocalist, wore a cow costume with full makeup, while bassist David Bernstein wore a grim reaper outfit. Steven Escoffery...
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