The Sway Machinery will celebrate Hanukkah with a special Festival of Lights performance at New York’s Drom this Tuesday, December 27. The group is led by former Balkan Beat Box guitarist Jeremiah Lockwood and features members of Antibalas and other stalwarts of the New York improv world. The performance, dubbed Vodka & Latkes, is part of the New York Yiddish Music Festival, which will honor a range of Jewish sounds throughout December 29 at venues around New York.

The Drom performance will boast a number of other acts. They include: Ternovka Ensemble, a new collaboration between renowned Yiddish singer Zhenya Lopatnik and tsimblist (hammered dulcimer) player Pete Rushefsky; Smithsonian Folkways recording artists The Brothers Nazaroff; a supergroup that is the subject of a new documentary film, Soul Exodus featuring Daniel Kahn (Berlin), Psoy Korolenko (Moscow), Bob Cohen (Budapest) and Jake Shulman-Ment (Brooklyn); and Hydra, a new Brooklyn vocal group that performs in English, Albanian, Spanish, Macedonian and HydraTongue. The evening will conclude with a set by the YNY All-Stars.