Ooops, misspelled a name up above--should be Lydie Auvray (no wonder I couldn't find her in Google!). She was liaised for a while with the Braunschweiger singer Jurgen Slopianka, who had a pub in Braunschweig and also for a time in Hannover. She's still going strong.

Another group doing Yiddish music was Espe. Groups that my girl-friend liked were Lilienthal (from Hameln, I believe) and Schmetterlinge (I think from Vienna) doing political-type stuff.

Saw a great singer playing "unplugged" in Bochum about 12 years ago, then again with a rock band somewhere else in the Ruhrpott. I hear he's made a good few CD's by now, but can't think of his name (just one word--his surname)...