Ciao! I'm Jeanette. I'm a vegan, a singer, & a klezmer accordionist. My accordion was built in Castelfidardo, Italy & hope to bring it back to the Bugari factory for repairs & tuning. I want it worked on by a master craftsperson, & also, I've never been to Italy!
I like to teach music, play music, paint, sing, study Italian, garden, hike & cook. I love Italian painting, music & cinema (especially the films of De Sica & Monicelli, the music of Nino Rota, & the libretti of Da Ponte).

Hello! Mi chiamo Janette. Sono vegana e toco la musica Klezmer alla fisarmonica. Vorrei viaggere a Castelfidardo, Italia, a la fabrica Bugari, para ristorare la mia fisarmonica e viaggere en Italia. Mi piacono molto la musica, gli arte e la cinema de Italia, specialmente i filmi de De Sica e Monicelli, la musica de Nino Rota, e i libretti de Da Ponte.

Mi piace apprendere e insegnare la musica, lavorare in la cucina o il giardino, studiare l'italiano, camminare e cantare. Anche mi piacono tutti gli arte italiani, specialmente la pintura, la cinema, e l'opera.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet people & share cultures.

Interests

I sing in Yiddish & have a special interest in underworld songs, especially Yiddish tango. I'm also involved in Yiddish theatre & spent some years living in New York, playing klezmer music & acting in the Yiddish Folksbine trupe.

• vegan
• opera
• nature
• accordion
• klezmer
• yiddish

Music, Movies, and Books

Mozart/Da Ponte: Don Giovanni
Jill Soloway: anything
Di Sica, Monicelli, Nino Rota, Miranda July
Eileen Myles, George Eliot, Alina Bronsky

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Why just one?
Native American sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz island for Thanksgiving Day.
Playing klezmer at the Schleswig-Holstein music festival, leading dancers through a castle in Denmark.
Rescuing a beautiful wild cat & finding him a garden to live in.
Romani music festival in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria for Djurdjevdan (St. Feorge's Day).
Playing klezmer music for Natalie Portman's secret Big Sur wedding.

Teach, Learn, Share

I teach: accordion, singing, vegan cooking, English language, music producing, organic gardening, bandleading, Jewish dance. I'm learning: Italian language, theories of Rudolph Steiner, Photoshop for artists, how to unplug & enjoy simple pleasures.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Vegan food, all kinds of music, stories, hiking, gardening, silence.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Mexico