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Barbes (9th st and 6th ave in Brooklyn)
Tuesday Feb 1
8 PM.

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New England Conservatory
School of Continuing Education Spring 2005

Eastern European Jewish Musical Traditions

Yelena Neplok, Instructor
10 Wednesdays: 7:00–8:30 P.M.
February 2, 2005­April 13, 2005

This program, encompassing Jewish classical and folk traditions, introduces the unique musical heritage stemming from Jewish composers and their communities in pre-war Eastern Europe.

• Jewish Folk Music and Eastern European Jewish Music Traditions
• Different genres of Jewish traditional instrumental music
• Jewish folk songs in Yiddish and Hebrew
• History of the Yiddish Theatre
  Yiddish theatre songs
• Jewish Art Music
  Jewish art songs, significant instrumental pieces by Jewish composers
• Russian Jewish Musical Culture
  The most prominent Russian and Russian Jewish composers of the 19th and 20th century

• Great Jewish Musicians of Eastern Europe in the Performing Arts

Each class includes a lecture/demonstration by the instructor Yelena Neplok, the critically acclaimed, award—winning pianist, artist-in-residence at Hebrew College and the founder and artistic director of the renowned Nigun Chamber Ensemble.

"Yelena Neplok and her colleagues bring to the people culture of highest quality." —Forward, New York

"Led by the internationally renowned artistic director, pianist, soloist , and chamber musician Yelena Neplok, the Nigun Ensemble has become one of most original outlets for Jewish Folk Music in the Bay State." —Jewish Advocate, Boston

Guest faculty will include Dr. Hankus Netsky, instructor at New England Conservatory and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band.

Students have the opportunity to perform in class and participate in a closing concert. Vocalists and instrumentalists and all interested public are welcome.

Credit: $425 per semester
Non credit: $305 per semester
Financial Aid available (call 617-585-1125 to apply)

For more information, call the instructor at 617-566-7969 or e-mail Yelena Neplok

For information or registration at New England Conservatory School of Continuing Education contact: 617-585-1136 or 617-585-1130

New England Conservatory
241 St. Botolph Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
web site: www.newenglandconservatory.edu

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David Glukh Klezmer Ensemble is excited to invite you to our upcoming performance on February 2, 2005 in Satalla (Temple of World Music) in New York City. Time: 7:30PM Address: 37 West 26 Str. (between 6th and Broadway) We are also happy to announce that from now on Dow Artists, Inc. (www.dowartists.com) is going to take care of our concert appearances in USA and Canada.

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February 2, Tribute to Filmmaker David A. Stein (1970-2004)

Wednesday February 2, 7:30pm
Bravo! Television Network (Rogers channel 40 in Toronto)
Featuring David’s four Bravo!FACT-funded short films.

Eric Stein writes:

I would like to express thanks on behalf of myself and my family for the overwhelming amount of condolences we have received since my brother David's tragic death on December 12. His loss is incredibly painful to us, but knowing the impact he made in this world makes us proud. David lived a very full life. In his 34 years he experienced and accomplished more than many people do in a lifetime. He was truly one-of-a-kind. Soulful, warm-hearted, charismatic, adventurous, creative, intelligent, talented, funny...the list goes on. David followed his dreams and inspired and touched so many peoples lives, including many in the Jewish cultural world. From my own perspective, aside from him being an amazing big brother, role model, and friend, I owe David for my current career – it was his interest in Yiddish culture and music that ultimately led me to pursue my musical career in klezmer.

It would take me thousands more words to adequately pay tribute to my brother. In lieu of that, I want to at least announce that there will be a tribute broadcast in Canada on Bravo! TV on February 2, 7:30pm est (4:30pm pst) featuring 4 of David’s short films, 2 of which I was privileged to contribute music to with Beyond the Pale. All details about the broadcast are below. Many other memorial efforts are being planned, including tributes at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival in May and at KlezKanada in August. My family and I also have ambitious plans for lasting memorial tributes to David, including an endowment or awards of some kind for young artists involved in Jewish culture. If anyone would like to help honour David’s memory and keep his spirit alive, please donate to David’s memorial fund (info below). And if you have personal stories or remembrances of David that you would like to share we would be very happy to hear them.

David A. Stein Memorial Donations c/o The Benjamin Foundation
3429 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6A 2C3
Tel: (416) 780-0324 Fax: (416) 780-0638
E-mail David A. Stein Memorial
Web: www.benjamins.ca/Static/foundation/default.htm

Bravo!FACT presents:

A Tribute to Filmmaker David A. Stein (1970-2004)

Wednesday February 2, 7:30pm
Bravo! Television Network (Rogers channel 40 in Toronto)
Featuring David’s four Bravo!FACT-funded short films:

Needle and Tread (1998)
David’s tribute to the history of Toronto’s shmatte trade, and to his beloved Bubbie Ruth Stein. Recounting her days as an immigrant seamstress in Toronto sweatshops, Bubbie’s current life is juxtaposed with that of present-day immigrant garment workers from Asia. Set to Yiddish music with Adrienne Cooper.

At The Exhibition (1999)
Painting, movement, and spoken word collide in this expressionistic piece featuring well-known Canadian actress Sheila McCarthy, acclaimed Israeli cellist Rivka Golani, and the poetry of Shula Robin.

Soup (2001)
A filmic sonnet set in the early morning hours in a subway station, Soup explores lost love, chance meetings, and the micro-moments that make up everyday life. Featuring Lazar, Miranda Kwok, Brian Katz, and music composed by Eric Stein, performed by Beyond the Pale. Try to spot David’s Hitchcockian cameo.

KhasenJah: The Jamaican-Jewish Wedding (2003)
A mixed marriage between a nice Jewish boy and an equally nice Jamaican girl begins as a tense duel of cultures before evolving into a joyous celebration of love, life, and diversity. Featuring the music of Beyond the Pale, with choreography by Allen Kaeja and David Smith, and Michael Alpert as the badkhn.

Those who cannot tune in Canadian TV or catch the broadcast can view these films on the Bravo!FACT website: www.bravofact.com (search "David Stein" under "Find Shorts")

Or, here’s the direct URL

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Wednesday, February 2nd
ISLE OF KLEZBOS & MARGA GOMEZ
double bill: live band + vivid satire!
8pm show
$10
www.knittingfactory.com
The Knitting Factory Tap Bar, NYC
74 Leonard St (btw Broadway & Church, Tribeca)

To book tickets, go to: www.knittingfactory.com

Isle of Klezbos: "talent as strong as their name is provocative... the all-female group is to Eastern European Jewish music what Cherish The Ladies is to Celtic and Irish" -Courier News For more about Isle of Klezbos (and our music on The L Word)

Comedian Marga Gomez (the dyke of darkness) will be trashing Cundaleeza Rice, Jet Blue, Polyamory, The Cheney family, and groundhogs. Marga has been featured on HBO, Showtime, PBS, Comedy Central and is the winner of a 2004 GLAAD award. For more about Marga, visit www.margagomez.com

You don't have to be klezbian to love this show. The renovated Tap Bar is now a swank room too!

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The Sephardic music ensemble, ALHAMBRA, is presenting a program called "Building Bridges:The Arabic-Sephardic Kinship". The Lebanese oudist/vocalist Maurice Chedid joins the ensemble for the free program on:

February 3rd, 1 p.m. at Trinity Church, 74 Trinity Place (Broadway and Wall Street) New York City.

Performers are Isabelle Ganz, vocals & shawm; Daniel Pincus, vocals; Maurice Chedid, vocals and oud; Haig Manoukian, oud; Michael Hess, violin, nay, qanun; and Peter Basil, percussion.

Since "Kol - Oud -Tof" will be performing that night at the 92nd St. Y, you Sephardic music groupies can have an orgy that day!

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My Yiddish Lullaby—From Second Avenue to Broadway

Music of Yiddish and Broadway theatre will be highlighted at a concert, "From Second Avenue to Broadway," honoring 350 years of Jewish life in America. Zalman Mlotek and his New Yiddish Chorale will join New York Cantors Robert Ableson, Rebecca Garfein and Jennifer Frost in song

7p.m.
Thursday, February 3, 2005
Congregation Rodeph Sholom
7 West 83rd Street off of Central Park West.

The concert will feature Broadway songs made famous by Jewish composers and music made famous by Yiddish Theatre stars, Molly Picon and Menashe Skulnik.

Tickets: $18 advance/$20 at the door
Student/senior: $10 advance/$12 at the door.
Benefactor seating and dessert reception tickets are $108.

For more info: (212) 362-8800, ext. 1337.
www.rodephsholom.org

As a select ensemble of Yiddish singers featured on Mandy Patinkin’s highly regarded Yiddish recording, Mamloshen, The New Yiddish Chorale was founded in 1995 by its conductor Zalmen Mlotek, to preserve and perpetuate Yiddish language, culture and ethics through music. Since its founding, the Chorale has performed and recorded a sophisticated repertoire of traditional Yiddish songs, works written for chorus in Yiddish by major composers, and new choral compositions based on texts of important Yiddish poets.

An internationally recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music, Mr. Mlotek has been honored with a Drama Desk Award and two Tony Award nominations for his work as co-creator, musical director and conductor of The Golden Land and Those Were the Days. He conceived and musically directed the first All Star Klezmer Extravaganza at Lincoln Center with Itzhak Perlman, which was filmed by PBS for Great Performances and later released on CD and video as the best-selling In the Fiddler's House. Among his more recent projects was an international tour and workshop production of Ghetto Tango, the CD released by Traditional Crossroads. Mr. Mlotek is currently the Executive Director of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre in New York City, the longest continuously operating Yiddish theater company in the world.

Born in Brooklyn, Robert Abelson is Cantor at Temple Israel in Manhattan. Specializing in Yiddish Art Song, Cantor Ableson, under the guidance of the late, distinguished composer, Lazar Weiner, performed works by little-known Jewish composers in addition to Mr. Weiner’s compositions. A graduate of the School of Sacred Music of the Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, on whose faculty he now serves, he performed with the New York City Opera for many seasons. He has also sung with other prestigious operatic companies, including the Seattle Opera Association, St.Paul Opera, and the Goldovsky Opera Theatre. Cantor Ableson has appeared in concert with many orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony and the Mostly Mozart Festival. One of the stars of the Jewish musical review, On Second Avenue, Cantor Ableson has appeared in a variety of film, television, and theatre programs. More recently, he had a starring role in the Broadway musical hit, Those Were The Days, which completed a national tour.

Cantor Rebecca Garfein, mezzo-soprano, is the Senior Cantor of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City, and is the first female Cantor ever to hold this position. Cantor Garfein has appeared in numerous recitals throughout the United States, Israel, and Europe. In 1997, Cantor Garfein was invited to participate in the Jewish Cultural Festival in Berlin, Germany and was the first female Cantor to give a solo concert in the same city her grandfather of blessed memory fled. At the 1998 Berlin Jewish Cultural Festival, she became the first female Cantor to preside in a German synagogue, and released a CD of the live recording of the 1997 Berlin concert, "Sacred Chants of the Contemporary Synagogue."

A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Cantor Garfein has been a featured soloist with the Ra'a'na'na Orchestra and the Zamir Chorale at the Jerusalem Theater in Israel and in 2001 was a soloist at the 350th anniversary concert of the Curacao Jewish Community.

Cantor Garfein made her New York City debut with the New York Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra at Cami Hall and recently made her Carnegie Hall debut at a concert with Dr. Ruth Westheimer celebrating the release of Dr. Ruth's new book, Musically Speaking.

Cantor Garfein graduated cum laude from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. In 1993, she received her Master’s Degree in Sacred Music and Cantorial Investiture from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR).

Cantor Jennifer Frost, born in Chicago, was raised in Southern California. Her first Following her studies at the University of California at Irvine, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama, she attended Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion where she received a Masters Degree in Sacred Music and Cantorial Investiture. In addition to her work as a Cantor, Cantor Frost performs with Soul on Fire, a theatrical concert of devotional music. Having recorded its first album, Soul on Fire is currently touring throughout the United States.

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Just a brief addendum for those who missed the superb Burning Bush/BBC Concert Orchestra, cond. Robert Ziegler concert, or those who might wish to repeat the experience. The good news is that this concert will be repeated next February in Chichester, West Sussex as follows:

Thursday 3rd February 2005, 7.30pm
Chichester Festival Theatre
Tickets £10, £18, £26 and £30
Box Office 01243 781312

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Kol Oud Tof Trio - "De Venti Sinco Escalones"

Esti Kenan-Ofri, kol
Armand Sabach, oud
Oren Fried, tof

Thu, Feb 3, 2005, 8:00pm, 92nd Street at Lexington Avenue
Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall

The 92nd Street Y concludes its series, "Music and Dance of the Jewish Wedding," on Thursday, February 3, at 8:00 p.m. with a concert devoted to Moroccan Jewish wedding music from the Sephardic tradition. Whereas the Ashkenazic and Bukharan wedding programs earlier in this series presented skeletal reenactments of traditional weddings, this performance is a concert presentation of North Moroccan wedding songs rather than a staged recreation of traditional rituals; this concert also focuses primarily on music rather than dance. The renowned Israeli singer Esti Kenan-Ofri is one of Israel's foremost interpreters of Sephardic song; she performs with her group, the Kol Oud Tof Trio. Their concert focuses on the traditions of Jews in the northern Moroccan cities of Tetuan and Tangier, whose culture was heavily influenced by the Sephardic (Hispanic) traditions of Spain (roughly 50 miles to the north across the Straits of Gibraltar) and the Hekatia (pronounced Ha-kah-TEE-ya) tradition, which incorporated Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic elements in its language and culture.

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Kavehoyz: Klezmer Dance Workshop

with Michael Alpert, Instructor
and Matt Temkin, German Goldenshteyn, and Joey Weissenberg
Thursday, February 3, 2005
8:00 PM
at Beth Elohim (Garfield Temple) - Park Slope, Brooklyn
274 Garfield Place (Garfield and 8th Av).
Take the 2,3 to Grand Army Plaza or the Q to 7th Avenue.
Admission: $7.00 - Refreshments served

Sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture, Beth Elohim, CYCO, Yugntruf, and the Yiddish League.

For further info: 212-505-8040

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Massel-Tov 86551 Aichach, Wirtshaus Zum Stemmer, Stadtplatz 4, 20.00h – Einlass ab 19.00h, T. 08251-52041

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Pharaoh's Daughter
Feb. 5th
Lawrence, Kansas Lied Center
1600 Stewart drive
785-864-2787
full band
7:30p.m.

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Saturday 5th Feb 8pm - 2am

DJ’s Max Reinhardt and Lemez Lovas plus Live over da beats: Tigran Aleksanyan on Armenian clarinet / duduk / zurna / flutes

Future World Funk - Eastern Bloc Party @ Notting Hill Arts Club
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
£6 before 10pm. £8 thereafter or email YaD Arts. for a £3 guest list before 9.30pm

Future World Funk rocks into the New Year with DJs Max Reinhardt (The Shrine/various radio nationwide) and Lemez Lovas (Oi Va Voi / YaD) for a Balkan Gypsy Afro Caribbean roadblock guaranteed to blow the roof off... funky africanisms meet trumpet fanfares as Lagos collides with Ljubljana in a cascade of shimmering broken beats. And wailing loud and clear over the beats, virtuoso Tigran Aleksanyan on duduk, bringing the house down with the most sublime wood wind instrument on this earth, which like Tigran comes from Armenia. Born in the Ararat Mountains ...the man lives only for his music and his duduk.

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Klezamir
Saturday, February 5, 2005, 8:00 PM
First Parish Cabaret 2005

First Parish in Concord Unitarian Universalist
20 Lexington Rd
Concord, MA 01742

Klezamir in the Parish Hall with traditional and contemporary klezmer music. Presented by First Parish Music Events Committee.

Tickets $15 at First Parish Office and at the door.
Light refreshments will be served
For more information Call 978-369-3779, 978-369-7503, 978-369-9602
Web: www.firstparish.org/events.html

Proceeds will support future First Parish music events.

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UCLA's Progressive Jewish Students' Association and the United Arab Society Present

A Benefit concert for Oasis of Peace (Neveh Shalom/Wahat al-Salam)

with
The Yuval Ron Ensemble
featuring Najwa Gibran

performing: Songs of Sufi origin, Arabic folklore, Jewish - Andalusian and Ladino music from Spain and Morocco and Armenian traditional music

Come and join the UCLA and the Los Angeles community in celebrating a night of peace and co-existence.

Date: Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 8 pm. Doors open @ 7:30
Location: The UCLA Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium, Los Angeles.
Admission: $10 suggested donation. Proceeds to benefit Oasis of Peace (Neveh Shalom/Wahat al-Salam) - the only Israeli village of Jewish and Arab inhabitants living in co-existence, complete equality and freedom within one community. (for info about Oasis of Peace: nswas.com).
No reservations or advanced ticket sales.
Parking: $7 in Wilson Plaza (Lot #4). Enter from Sunset Blvd. Directions: visit the Fowler website at: www.fowler.ucla.edu or call 310-825-4361

The Yuval Ron Ensemble is a collaboration of musicians from Arab, Israeli, Jewish and Armenian origins. The ensemble combines the sacred musical traditions of Judaism, Sufism (Islamic mystical tradition) and the Christian Armenian Church. The Yuval Ron Ensemble is dedicated to fostering an understanding of Middle Eastern cultures.

Co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and The Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel.

Event produced by: ITAI SHAPIRA

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ESN! A Klezmer Cooking Show

Saturday, February 5th 8 PM
Starring Adrienne Cooper, Frank London and Lorin Sklamberg.
Redolent of the delicious tastes, sounds and smells of Jewish cooking, ESN is literally a songfeast in Yiddish, English and Yinglish. A full menu of food and drink in poetry music and cooking, all right on stage.

Folksbiene Theatre
at the JCC in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Avenue (76th Street)

Tickets: $25
Call 1-800-9-YIDDISH

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The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band Brings it All Back Home

Saturday, February 5, 2005
8pm
The Isabel Bader Theatre
93 Charles Street West
Tickets are $20 available from TicketKing (416) 872-1212
www.ticketking.com

"...an infectious mix of orchestrated mayhem."
—Toronto Life

"...[a] combination of rootedness, compositional smarts and virtuosic performance that works beautifully."
—Sing Out Magazine

Fresh off the creation of a new music video and a cross-country tour, the Bulgars will blow into the Bader with a new program that will combine new instrumental and vocal compositions, presentations of newly discovered musical gems obtained from the Archive of Jewish music in Ukraine, and extensive, loving re-workings of some of the band's older material, updating it to reflect the current state of affairs.

Rooted in Toronto, the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band brings together the remarkable talents of six great musicians. FBKB leader and trumpeter David Buchbinder (who also created and composed the music for SHURUM BURUM Jazz Circus- the hit show that excited audiences at the Stone Distillery last October) Victor Bateman – double bass Robert Stevenson – clarinet and bass clarinet, Marilyn Lerner – piano, keyboards and accordion and Dave Wall – vocals and percussion. For the first time in their history, the Bulgars will be appearing at a major concert without a drummer, taking the opportunity presented by drummer Daniel Barnes' sabbatical in Europe to explore a different sound, adding special guests Peter Lutek (all the saxophones and clarinets) and Stephen Donald on trombone to round out the ensemble.

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Yiddish Sing-Alongs: Everyone Welcome!
February 6 1-3 p.m.

BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
Music Room, first floor
Free parking in the building on Pierce Street
between Ellis and Eddy

With Jillian Tallmer and accompanist, returning by popular demand. Whether you are new to Yiddish music or already hooked, you will come away from these sing-alongs inspired. Jillian will introduce a dozen new songs each afternoon, using transliterated songsheets. Participants may bring in and suggest favorite songs to share.

Jillian Tallmer grew up in Manhattan, where she once played a street urchin in the Metropolitan Opera's "La Boheme." Introduced to the San Francisco Jewish Folk Chorus twenty years ago, she immediately fell in love with the world of Yiddish. For her solo performances and Yiddish sing-alongs all over the Bay Area, Jillian received the Yiddish Music Award of the Workmen's Circle in 2001. She conducts her own women's chorus, the Loose Canons, in performances of intriguing songs from around the world.

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Sunday, February 6, the Afro-Semitic Experience
2:00 p.m. at Thornton Wilder Auditorium in the Miller Cultural Complex, Arts, 2901 Dixwell Avenue, Hamden, Connecticut, 203-287-2546.

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Zun mit a regn (sun and rain)—laughter through tears is part and parcel of Yiddish music. Jewish composers devoted a great deal of attention to it and so did Shostakovich.

Jewish Music Projects Foundation presents works in this style by Shostakovich (1908-1975) and his friends Weinberg (Vainberg) (1919-1996) and Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) in a series of concerts in the Netherlands.

World War Two and the reign of terror in the Soviet Union had a deep impact on the composers. They expressed themselves in their music. The music of the persecuted Jewish people was their source of inspiration - an act of courage in a period when open pronouncements could have fatal consequences. It was often years before the works could be premiered. Now these extraordinary and intense works will be performed in the Netherlands by an ensemble of specialised musicians:

Sovali (Sofie van Lier) - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano

Concerts:

24 October 2004, 7:30, Enschede Synagogue. Tel. +31(54) 432 4507
6 February 2005, 2:30, Nijmegen Synagogue. Tel. +31(24) 345 2572
6 March 2005, 3:00, Delft Synagogue. Tel. +31(15) 256 3371
18 March 2005, 8:15, De Nieuwe Veste, Breda. Tel. +31 (76) 529 9600
10 April 2005, 2:30, A.A. Brediusstichting, Hernen Castle. Tel. +31(487) 531 387
4 May 2005, 9:00, Uilenburger Synagogue, Amsterdam. Tel. +31 (20) 662 3675
8 May 2005, 11:30, De Lawei, Drachten. Tel. +31 (512) 513 344
29 May 2005, 7:00 u. De Buitenplaats Museum, Eelde. Tel. +31 (50) 309 2072

The concerts are supported by the VSB Fund, the SNS Reaal Fund and the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Foundation.

For more information, please call Sofie van Lier, tel. 020-6623675; or email her.

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Join the Strauss/Warschauer Duo this Sunday, February 6 at 3:00 PM for a free concert at the Town and Village Synagogue, 334 East 14th Street (near 1st Avenue), New York City.

We'll be performing a short set, to be followed by performances from Generation K (a kids' klezmer band coached by Deborah), the Workmen's Circle Tuesday Night Band (coached by Jeff), and the Columbia University Klezmer Band (coached by Jeff and Deborah).

Last year's concert was packed, so get there early! Doors will open at 2:30. Free and open to the public, no tickets necessary.

The concert is sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans Stuyvesant-Cooper Post 235.

For more information, e-mail Jeff Warschauer or call him at (718) 399-1147

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FleytMuzik's flutist, nationally acclaimed classical and klezmer flutist, Adrianne Greenbaum, will teach a masterclass on traditional classical repertoire, as well as a participatory workshop on playing klezmer music on Feb 8, 2005 at 4:30pm at Ohio State University.

Co-sponsored by Melton Center for Jewish Studies and the Music Department
tel: 614) 292-4654 or 614-292-4618
music.osu.edu

Adrianne's workshop combines the teaching of klezmer with traditional flute repertoire. The class will also explore the use of klezmer techniques and feelings within the traditional flute repertoire by adapting and fusing the folk idioms and the intent behind the music to achieve a more natural performance of traditional classical repertoire. Going beyond is the goal! Above all, both in traditional repertoire and in klezmer, Adrianne has tried-and-true methods for working with tone production, embouchure flexibility, and phrasing. All levels will benefit from her many years of teaching students ranging from the very young, through college and adults.

Adrianne Greenbaum is a nationally acclaimed klezmer and classical flutist. As a klezmer, she is the founder and leader of FleytMuzik, an ensemble with flute, violin, cimbalom and bass, and of The Klezical Tradition klezmer band where she performs on both flute and keyboard and leads Yiddish dance. She has been on the faculties of Living Traditions' KlezKamp, KlezKanada, and Boxwood, was a premier participant with FleytMuzik at the KlezMore Festival in Vienna in 2004, and presents master classes in the art of klezmer performance to classical flutists. She has also performed with Kapelye, with Adrienne Cooper in performances at the International Jewish Festival in Amsterdam and NYC's Jewish Museum. As a clinician interested in sharing klezmer music with young people of all ages and backgrounds, she also presents school workshops and directs three student klezmer ensembles in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Klezical Tradition has won many awards for its recording Family Portrait, including Top 10 CDs from both Moment Magazine and the NY Jewish Week. The band was also chosen to be included as a feature in the ABC-TV documentary A Sacred Noise: The New Jewish Music.

Adrianne's classical training includes receiving her Bachelors in Music from the Oberlin College Conservatory and her Masters degree from the Yale School of Music, studying with Robert Willoughby and Thomas Nyfenger respectively. She has performed as soloist and orchestral musician in all of New York's major concert halls and in many major cities of the U.S. She is currently Solo Flutist with the New Haven Symphony, the Wall Street Chamber Players, and Orchestra New England. She has held faculty positions at Wesleyan and Yale Universities, at Smith College, and is currently Associate Professor of flute at Mount Holyoke College. She can be heard in recordings on the Koch International, CBS Masterworks, Nonesuch, and EMC labels as well as on her independent albums Sounds of America and Klezical Tradition's Family Portrait.

Adrianne currently performs on several different types of wood flutes including a Stowasser Siccama-style flute from Hungary, a Kohlert simple system 8-key flute, a Monnig wood Boehm, a Rittershausen wood Boehm, and her modern wood Powell.

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Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment
Monday February 7th
@ the Revolutionary Café
3248 22nd Street at Bartlett
(between Valencia and Mission Streets),
Mission District

FREE

The musicians:
Mike Perlmutter - alto and tenor saxophone
Josh Sirotiak - tuba
Olivier Hamant - clarinet and bass clarinet
Liam Staskawicz - trombone
Dave Mairs ­ drums

The word "Zoyres" comes from the Yiddish word "zoyers" which refers to "sours" - soured vegetables (like pickles and sauerkraut) that are common to Eastern European food. These foods not only cross borders, but represent organic change, ferment - somewhat akin to Zoyres' music, which has also made its way across borders and has been transformed through the filter of the band's aesthetics and culture. The music's roots are still recognizable in klezmer and Balkan music, but so is the transformation into something new (much in the same way that a pickled cucumber is visually recognizable as a cucumber, but is quite different to the taste buds).

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FleytMuzik, featuring Adrianne Greenbaum, vintage flutes and piccolo, with Pete Rushefsky, cimbalom.

February 7, 8:00pm,
Ohio State University
Weigel Auditorium
$12 General Admission
$10 OSU faculty, staff, Alumni Association members
$5 Senior citizens and students with ID
Free for OSU school of music students with ID

Co-sponsored by Melton Center for Jewish Studies and the Music Department
tel: 614) 292-4654 or 614-292-4618
music.osu.edu

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FleytMuzik's flutist, nationally acclaimed classical and klezmer flutist, Adrianne Greenbaum, will teach a masterclass on traditional classical repertoire, as well as a participatory workshop on playing klezmer music on Feb 8, 2005 at 11:00am at Miami University.

Sponsored by Miami University Women's Center
tel: (513)529.1510
www.units.muohio.edu/womenscenter/
(the website may still read "Klezical Tradition," but it's FleytMuzik!)

Adrianne's workshop combines the teaching of klezmer with traditional flute repertoire. The class will also explore the use of klezmer techniques and feelings within the traditional flute repertoire by adapting and fusing the folk idioms and the intent behind the music to achieve a more natural performance of traditional classical repertoire. Going beyond is the goal! Above all, both in traditional repertoire and in klezmer, Adrianne has tried-and-true methods for working with tone production, embouchure flexibility, and phrasing. All levels will benefit from her many years of teaching students ranging from the very young, through college and adults.

Adrianne Greenbaum is a nationally acclaimed klezmer and classical flutist. As a klezmer, she is the founder and leader of FleytMuzik, an ensemble with flute, violin, cimbalom and bass, and of The Klezical Tradition klezmer band where she performs on both flute and keyboard and leads Yiddish dance. She has been on the faculties of Living Traditions' KlezKamp, KlezKanada, and Boxwood, was a premier participant with FleytMuzik at the KlezMore Festival in Vienna in 2004, and presents master classes in the art of klezmer performance to classical flutists. She has also performed with Kapelye, with Adrienne Cooper in performances at the International Jewish Festival in Amsterdam and NYC's Jewish Museum. As a clinician interested in sharing klezmer music with young people of all ages and backgrounds, she also presents school workshops and directs three student klezmer ensembles in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Klezical Tradition has won many awards for its recording Family Portrait, including Top 10 CDs from both Moment Magazine and the NY Jewish Week. The band was also chosen to be included as a feature in the ABC-TV documentary A Sacred Noise: The New Jewish Music.

Adrianne's classical training includes receiving her Bachelors in Music from the Oberlin College Conservatory and her Masters degree from the Yale School of Music, studying with Robert Willoughby and Thomas Nyfenger respectively. She has performed as soloist and orchestral musician in all of New York's major concert halls and in many major cities of the U.S. She is currently Solo Flutist with the New Haven Symphony, the Wall Street Chamber Players, and Orchestra New England. She has held faculty positions at Wesleyan and Yale Universities, at Smith College, and is currently Associate Professor of flute at Mount Holyoke College. She can be heard in recordings on the Koch International, CBS Masterworks, Nonesuch, and EMC labels as well as on her independent albums Sounds of America and Klezical Tradition's Family Portrait.

Adrianne currently performs on several different types of wood flutes including a Stowasser Siccama-style flute from Hungary, a Kohlert simple system 8-key flute, a Monnig wood Boehm, a Rittershausen wood Boehm, and her modern wood Powell.

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Songs of Stateless Peoples

Maria Krupoves Trio
Tuesday, February 08, 2005 @ 7pm
Admission $12
Satalla
The temple of world music
37 West 26th St.
New York, NY [6th & Broadway]
212.576.1155

Dr. Maria Krupoves, vocal artist and folklorist, is internationally acclaimed as a singer and interpreter of the folksongs of Central and Eastern Europe, especially those of her native Vilnius. She has traveled extensively to find songs in Yiddish, Polish, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Gypsy (Roma), Karaim, Tatar, and other languages. Multilingual herself, she sings her entire repertory in the original languages.

Recently the Maria Krupoves Trio recorded a new CD, "Without a Country." Joining her were Joey Weisenberg (mandolin) and Travis DiRuzza (bass), both from New York City. The album presents songs of European stateless peoples in 8 languages: Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew, Ladino, Karaim, Tatar, Roma (Gypsy), Russian (Russian Old Believers) and Belarusian. This concert will be its New York record release.

"Maria Krupoves sings each language, and portrays each culture as though she was born into it. She is a gifted and charismatic performer."
— Moishe Rosenfeld, President of Golden Land Concerts

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Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar is a quartet consisting of accordion, violin, mandolin and bass that highlights both well-known and more obscure Klezmer tunes, as well as Bailey's own original compositions. Reminiscent of an earlier time in the history of recorded Jewish music, the result is fresh, unique, and thoroughly engaging. The synagogue's foyer is transformed into a "café-style" setting, complete with intimate tables and delicious desserts.

Astoria Center of Israel synagogue
27-35 Crescent Street, Astoria (Queens)
Call 718-278-2680 or visit www.astoriacenter.org.

Next two concerts are: Tuesday, January 11th and February 8th, 7:30 -­ 9:30pm.

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FleytMuzik, featuring Adrianne Greenbaum, vintage flutes and piccolo, with Pete Rushefsky, cimbalom.

February 8, 8:00pm
Miami University
Souers Recital Hall
Oxford, OH.
Free.

Sponsored by Miami University Women's Center
tel: (513)529.1510
www.units.muohio.edu/womenscenter/
(the website may still read "Klezical Tradition," but it's FleytMuzik!)

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Wednesday, February 9th, 4:30pm:

Acclaimed Yiddishist CARAID O'BRIEN will appear at the Westside Yiddish Cultural School, located in the basement of Congregation Shaare Zedek, 212 W. 93 St. (E. of Broadway). Ms. O'Brien will relate her experiences growing up in an Irish-American family in Boston, her serendipitous discovery of Yiddish, and her career dedicated to the Yiddish language as a Yiddishist, actress and writer (as profiled in the NEW YORK TIMES). This event is free and open to the public. Seating will be on a first-come basis.

Further info: (212) 724-6388

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Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh
Satalla
Wednesday, Feb. 9., at 10:00 PM
37 West 26th St.
Tickets: $12 at the door
Phone 212 576 1155
www.satalla.com

Midrash Mish Mosh recently released their debut CD on John Zorn’s Tzadik label to rave reviews. The all-original music, written by Alexander, is rooted in the klezmer tradition, yet reaches out to embrace and include Jazz, thrash punk, middle-eastern and israeli music, and balkan and african rhythms.

The band features an mix of downtown jazz/jewish music all-stars and great young players in the klezmer scene. The band at Satalla will be: Frank London –trumpet, Susan Watts – trumpet, Alex Kontorovich – clarinet, Greg Wall- saxophone & clarinet Curtis Hasselbring – trombone, Brad Shepik – guitar, Fima Ephron - bass, Mike Sarin – drums, Aaron Alexander – drums

Drummer and Composer Aaron Alexander is considered by many to be a fantastic klezmer and jazz drummer and composer. His new CD "Midrash Mish Mosh" has been acclaimed by critics, musicians and listeners alike. Over the past decade and a half his performances and recordings with Hasidic New Wave, Babkas, The Klezmatics, Greg Wall's Later Prophets, Alicia Svigals, Satoko Fujii Orchestra, Tronzo Trio, Jay Clayton, Margot Leverett, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Boban Markovich Orchestra and Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars have brought his music to the attention of listeners all over the world. Alexander conceived and co-produced Hasidic New Wave’s 2002 collaboration with Senegalese Sabar drum ensemble Yakar Rhythms, which was widely acclaimed by critics and public alike: It was an "inspired collaboration” and a "brilliant Afro-Semitic fusion" wrote Jazz Times writer Bill Milkowski.

Other press quotes

"contains a fascinating mixture of Jewish music melded into some wonderful avant garde sounds. What makes Alexander's album so fascinating is that, like Golem's Ezekiel, Alexander is making new music based on very deep knowledge of mainstream American Jewish culture, prayer, and music, and then creating something fantastic and new and edgy. To me, Alexander's music speaks to the heart of what it means to live in a world where one is trying to balance multiple realities: Jewish, American, Jazz, Bagels, Mysticism, Intermarriage, the Yankees, and pulls it together in ways that are always exciting, and that prove that working on that balance is fun and worth doing." —Ari Davidow, Klezmershack

"A project with newly composed music of expansive scope, Alexander has produced a screaming celebration of the multicultural American Jewish identity." —Elliot Simon, All About Jazz

"Pounding free-bop with swirling klezmerish lines, this is definitely not your grandpa's bar mitzvah band. Alexander sounds like Barry Altschul on crystal meth, a dervish on wood blocks and crash cymbals. There are also some straight-ahead klezmer burners." —George Robinson, Jewish Week

"Alexander’s animated percussion style brings a sense of creative frenetics to his little big band ... the drummer's krazed klez swoops you off your feet." —Jim Macnie, Village Voice

"Alexander's recording boasts a wide palette, a broad, pan-cultural reach connecting thrash-punk to Hasidic dance, and funny, evocative song titles, including "Kleyzmish Moshpit," "Yiddishe Kop," and "Khosidl for the Mixed Marriage." —Seth Rogovoy, The Forward

"... a relentlessly fun record." —John Schaeffer, WNYC Radio

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On Feb. 10, 2005, at 6 PM, Singer Sarah Tilevitz and pianist Roman Katz explore songs in Russian and Yiddish about Jewish partisans in the Russian Resistance of WWII, with lullabies, love songs, laments and patriotic anthems.

Kew Gardens Hills branch of Queens Library is located at 72-33 Vleigh Place, Flushing, NY, at (718) 261-6654.

Web: www.queens.lib.ny.us

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Pharaoh's Daughter
Feb. 10th
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia St. @ W.4th

Mimaamakim event "I and Thou Circus"
6:45 artists in the round, with Nehedar Orchestra, Jake Marmer, i'll be solo
with others - 8:30 full band performance: $15 each set.

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Is Everything Old New Again?

A Talk and Demonstration on Klezmer Music
with Stuart Brotman and Josh Horowitz
Thursday, February 10, 7:30 p.m.

Join two of the central figures of the Klezmer Revival for an exploration of klezmer music's vibrant musical and cultural itinerary. From its beginnings in Eastern Europe, Jewish instrumental music has moved back and forth across the Atlantic, undergoing forces as varied as the birth of the recording industry, the destruction of European Jewry, assimilation and decay, and a now thirty-year-old revival. The question arises: Where do the Old and New Worlds really reside and how do they meet? Josh and Stu answer this question and others as they play musical examples and rare recordings, recollect their field work, share amusing anecdotes, and lead a lively discussion.

This event is free and open to the public. The BJE Jewish Community Library is located at 1835 Ellis St., San Francisco, CA. For more info, call 415-567-3327 or e-mail the BJE Library.

Stuart Brotman is one of the central figures and the leading bassist of the Klezmer Revival, as well as a performer on the tsimbl and a variety of Eastern European flutes. He plays these instruments in Brave Old World and Veretski Pass, as well as with various ensembles in the San Francisco Bay.

Joshua Horowitz is the founder and director of the ensemble Budowitz and has performed and recorded on tsimbl and 19th- century accordion with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Veretski Pass, Rubin & Horowitz, Brave Old World, Adrienne Cooper, Alicia Svigals, and Ruth Yaakov.

Program co-sponsored by KlezCalifornia.

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The Sway Machinery

will be appearing at SOBs opening for
the afrobeat orchestra ANTIBALAS

we will be joined in our performance by several esteemed members of the Antibalas horn section

your attendance is most definitely required

Thursday, February 10th at 8:30 PM
S.O.B.'s
200 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014
Price: $14.00 advance $16.00 day of

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Thursday, February 10th
@ ROTHKO
116 Suffolk St. at Rivington St.
Doors at 8pm, tickets $10, www.rothkonyc.com
Golem at 9pm, with:
Heloise & the Savoir-Faire Dancers, www.heloisemusic.com
The Ambitious Orchestra & the Love Show (a 17-piece real-live orchestra!)
Jollyship the Whizbang ("pirate puppet show"!)

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American Society for Jewish Music
Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011

February 11
Professor Edwin Seroussi, Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, "Studying Jewish Music in Israel: Achievements, Failures and Challenges for the Future"
Guest chair and respondent: Professor Stephen Blum, City University of New York

All sessions will take place on Friday mornings, beginning at 10:00 AM at the Center for Jewish History. Please RSVP via e-mail to the American Society for Jewish Music or call 212-294-8328. For additional information, please see www.jewishmusic-asjm.org.

The Jewish Music Forum, a new initiative of the American Society for Jewish Music, an affiliate of the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History, is pleased to announce its inaugural academic seminar series. This ongoing seminar will feature leading scholars presenting new research findings and theoretical contributions to the academic study of Jewish music. All events are free and open to the public.

Jewish Music Forum
Spring 2005 Academic Seminar
"New Perspectives on Music in Jewish Life"
American Society for Jewish Music
Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011

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KLEZSHUL MIT MEYSHE ALPERTN / KLEZSHUL WITH MICHAEL ALPERT
February 12-16, 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia

Advanced program on Yiddish folklore and klezmer music run by the world's leading expert on Yiddish dance, violinist, accordion player, vocalist, and ethnomusicologist Michael Alpert from New York. The program is intended only for those musicians who participated (at least once) in Klezfest St. Petersburg 1997-2004.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg via fax at (+7-812) 314-5117, or e-mail Alexander Frenkel.

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A group of local residents, including Wholesale Klezmer, is working hard to put on a benefit concert for tsunami survivors.

The concert is at Temple Israel, Pierce St, Greenfield on February 12 at 7.00. Snow date is Feb. 13th.

For information, and in case of uncertain weather, please call: 413-774-2136

If you are coming from out of town and cannot purchase your tickets for the Tsunami Benefit Concert at the World Eye Bookstore, you may send a check for your tickets, payable to the American Jewish World Service to: R. Witty, 51 Freeman Dr, Greenfield MA 01301

Proceeds will be sent to American Jewish World Services which is providing humanitarian aid and long-term rehabilitation and reconstruction support to the people affected by the tsunami. Tickets can be purchased at World Eye Book-store in Greenfield or at the door the evening of the concert.

An impressive lineup of musicians have volunteered their time and skills for the concert.

Michael DiMartino and World Beat are a nationally known group that perform all original music based on traditional rhythms and instruments from around the world. Their focus is to promote an awareness of the world’s multicultural diversity and the idea that the arts are a universal language, part of every culture of the world.

The Wholesale Klezmer Band performs music for both Jewish and general audiences that expresses Jewish values of justice and peace. "An unforgettable evening of comedy and drama and joy and sorrow," said a reviewer from the Saratoga Arts Council. They have played at the 100th anniversary of Carnegie Hall and at President Clinton's inauguration.

Moonlight and Morning Star combine jazz, poetry, Jewish and Gospel music to create powerfully expressive performances. They have played in schools, houses of worship, festivals, conferences, coffee houses to audiences of all ages. Their work embodies a deep respect for the diversity of all life.

Charlie King and Karen Brandow are musical storytellers who sing and write passionately about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. Charlie King has been at the heart of American folk music for over forty years and his songs have been recorded and sung by Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie and others.

David Arfa is a storyteller and environmental educator who tells stories of wisdom, joy and hope.

Efraim Eisen is Temple Israel's spiritual leader and also an accomplished singer and musician.

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Beyond the Creaking Trees

Klezmer and east European folk music meet bluegrass and jazz in this amazing collaborative concert featuring Beyond the Pale and the Juno-nominated CREAKING TREE STRING QUARTET. Two of Canada's leading folk/roots and world music ensembles, brought together on the same stage for the first time. Each group will perform their own set, followed by a collaborative set featuring a combined ten-piece ensemble. The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on CBC radio. A genre-bending evening of hot acoustic music. Not to be missed!

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 12, 8pm
Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W., CBC building
Admission: $20
For tickets phone 416-205-5555
GGS Website: www.glenngouldstudio.cbc.ca

Presented with the assistance of Toronto Arts Council

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le groupe Yankele se produira en concerts:

Le mercredi 26 janvier à 21h, à la vielle grille, 1 rue du puits de l'Ermite 75005 Paris. Métro Monge Réservation au 01.47.07.02.07

Le concert du samedi 12 février 2005 à 20h30 au centre culturel Jean Houdremont à La Courneuve est reporté à la rentrée prochaine.

Le vendredi 11 mars et le samedi 12 mars 2005 à 20h45 à la Halle Roublot : 95, rue Roublot 94120 Fontenay sous bois. Réservations très conseillées 06.71.26.00.95

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KLEZSHUL MIT MEYSHE ALPERTN / KLEZSHUL WITH MICHAEL ALPERT
February 12-16, 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia

Advanced program on Yiddish folklore and klezmer music run by the world's leading expert on Yiddish dance, violinist, accordion player, vocalist, and ethnomusicologist Michael Alpert from New York. The program is intended only for those musicians who participated (at least once) in Klezfest St. Petersburg 1997-2004.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg via fax at (+7-812) 314-5117, or e-mail Alexander Frenkel.

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Listen to great classic live Klezmer while enjoying a feast of lox, bagels, juice and coffee. Perfect Sunday morning cultural activity for the whole family. A great neighborhood brunch! Come join us from 10am to 1pm

Sunday February 13 - Golem

$5 for kids/$15 for adults/$30 for the whole family Reservations recommended!

Tribeca Hebrew
67 Hudson Street/1 Jay Street
(Enter on Jay Street - between Greenwich St and Hudson St)
New York, NY 10013
212-608-0555
Ask for Slava

1/2/3/9 To Chambers Street Walk North on Hudson to Corner of Jay

www.tribecahebrew.org

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Free KOL B'SEDER Concert
Sunday Feb. 13
Temple Beth Shalom
Needham MA
11:00 a.m.

Dan and Jeff will be joined by a three piece back-up band, Cantor Lori Salzman, and the Temple's junior choir, as they tear through hit after hit from every phase of their legendary 30-year collaboration, from 'Modeh Ani' to 'Rabbi Ben Bag-Bag'. Please bring a can of tuna for the 'Family Table' to distribute to the needy. For more information visit templebethshalom.info (Directions are found via the Site Map, and you can also download "The Scroll" newsletter with additional info.)

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Minneapolis Institute of Arts - Pillsbury Auditorium

Family Day
Sunday, February 13th
Two Shows 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.

Free and Open to the Public

You are invited to our Eastern European Wedding as it happened before WWII. The event usually lasted six days but this ceremony will be brief. The whole event was led by music and a master of ceremonies, called a Bahdkin. Ours will have a lot of beautiful music along with storytelling and singing and dancing. The narrator will lead you along the steps of the ceremony and you will learn why this is called 'Through Tears to Joy'.

"Through Tears to Joy"
An Eastern European Jewish Wedding

Featuring music, dance, and storytelling
with: David Jordan Harris-voice, Carla Vogel-storyteller,
Jane Peck & Christopher Yaeger-dancers,
Gasn Nign Klezmer Band - Becky Wexler-clarinet, Judith Eisner-fiddle Jennifer Rubin-bass, Diane Benjamin-tsimbl, Lisa Albrecht-percussion
Original Lyrics-Margie Newman

For directions or further information e-mail Judith Eisner or call at 612-822-9236

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Rescheduled from 1/23 due to snow

A Taste of Yiddish: Interactive program with Michael Baran & Musical program featuring Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi

$8 members; $10 non-members Sunday, Jan. 23
2:00-5:00 pm at WC/AR building
45 E. 33rd Street, New York City
212 889-6800

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William Bristol Civic Auditorium
Bellflower City Hall
15500 Civic Center Dr.
Bellflower, CA

For further info: 562-867-5980

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Hope to see you all at the Workmen's Circle February klezmer jam a week from Sunday Feb. 13 7-9 pm.

Both the National Football League and the NE Patriots requested we postpone it a week. As well, some local klezmorim are participating in the half-time marching band, where they will perform the Bobover Wedding March.

We play mainly from printed music, which we will have available in C and B-flat. All levels of players are welcome. There is a piano.

The WC is at 1762 Beacon Street in Brookline, about 5 blocks west of Washington Square, which is about 12 blocks west of Coolidge Corner, right on the Green Line Beacon Street route.

The jam is now leaderless, with no cost.

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The Adams Street Synagogue presents:

Do you really know what "Jewish Music" is? What makes Jewish music sound "Jewish"? Can you recognize a piece of music as being "Jewish"? Do you have to be Jewish to write (or play) Jewish music? Do all Jewish composers write Jewish music all the time? part of the time? none of the time? How "Jewish" is our synagogue music, klezmer music, and folk music?

Come hear Professor Ludmilla Leibman of the Boston University School of Music discuss these issues, which are the subject of a course that she has initiated at the University. She will be embellishing her presentation with examples and excerpts that promise to provide an enlightening and entertaining evening.

Many of you may remember Professor Leibman's outstanding presentation of Holocaust related music that she gave at the shul last spring. We look forward to another inspiring experience. The scheduled time is 7:30 PM.

This lecture is free to all. The Adams Street Synagogue is located at 168 Adams Street, in Newton, MA, between Washington and Watertown Streets. Please visit www.adamsstreet.org for more information, including class and service schedules. Or call the shul office at 617-630-0226.

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KLEZSHUL MIT MEYSHE ALPERTN / KLEZSHUL WITH MICHAEL ALPERT
February 12-16, 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia

Advanced program on Yiddish folklore and klezmer music run by the world's leading expert on Yiddish dance, violinist, accordion player, vocalist, and ethnomusicologist Michael Alpert from New York. The program is intended only for those musicians who participated (at least once) in Klezfest St. Petersburg 1997-2004.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg via fax at (+7-812) 314-5117, or e-mail Alexander Frenkel.

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KLEZSHUL MIT MEYSHE ALPERTN / KLEZSHUL WITH MICHAEL ALPERT
February 12-16, 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia

Advanced program on Yiddish folklore and klezmer music run by the world's leading expert on Yiddish dance, violinist, accordion player, vocalist, and ethnomusicologist Michael Alpert from New York. The program is intended only for those musicians who participated (at least once) in Klezfest St. Petersburg 1997-2004.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg via fax at (+7-812) 314-5117, or e-mail Alexander Frenkel.

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Sarah Aroeste
Tuesday, February 15th 8 PM
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Nicholas Hall
An Evening of Sephardic Music & Dance
With Judith Brin Ingber
$8 general admission / students free with I.D.
Box Office: (732) 932-7511 or http://www.masongross.rutgers.edu">www.masongross.rutgers.edu

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KLEZSHUL MIT MEYSHE ALPERTN / KLEZSHUL WITH MICHAEL ALPERT
February 12-16, 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia

Advanced program on Yiddish folklore and klezmer music run by the world's leading expert on Yiddish dance, violinist, accordion player, vocalist, and ethnomusicologist Michael Alpert from New York. The program is intended only for those musicians who participated (at least once) in Klezfest St. Petersburg 1997-2004.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg via fax at (+7-812) 314-5117, or e-mail Alexander Frenkel.

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Massel-Tov Trio mit dem Schauspieler Krishan Mircea als Milchmann Tevje und die Klezmer 65520 Bad Camberg, Bürgerhaus "Kurhaus Bad Camberg", 19.30h

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The Guy Mendilow Trio
February 16th, 9:00pm
Ryles Jazz Club
212 Hampshire Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tickets $10
Web: www.rylesjazz.com/a>
www.guymendilow.com/a>

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Klez Dispensers
Wednesday, February 16, 2005, New York, NY
10:00 pm
Concert at Satalla
37 W26th Street

The Klez Dispensers incorporate the soulful and comic vocals of Susan Watts into their classic American klezmer sound for an exciting evening of freylekhs, Yiddish swing, and sarcasm.

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The first international klezmer event in Moscow will take place February 17th-20th.

The idea of this event came from the Jewish ensemble "Dona" (Moscow) and their producer Anatoly Pinsky, so the seminar has also become known as "Dona-Fest". The festival will bring together more then 60 musicians from the former USSA and Europe. The gala concert of the First International Festival of Jewish music in Moscow will consist of completely new material which will be prepared during the 3 days of seminar. It will take place at the Jewish Theatre Shalom.

The leading teachers of the event are Merlin Shepherd (world known klezmer musician, who has developed a unique method of teaching klezmer instrumentalists by ear) and Polina Shepherd (leading Jewish choir composer in the former USSR who bases her vocal teaching on instrumental ornamentation and Jewish modes).

Amongst the organisers and teachers there will be representatives of the "old" Yiddish tradition (Arkady Gendler, Ukraine) and of the newest generation of Russian and ex-Russian klezmorim (Mark Kovnatsky, Germany; Alina Ivakh, Kazan; Alexey Rozov, Evgenya Slavina, Moscow).

Now in Moscow ­ Celebration of Yiddishkeit!

More info (in Russian only): www.dona-dona.ru

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On February 17 (Thursday) Tamar and I are performing in NYC

Cervantes Institute
Amster Yard
211-215 East 49th Street
New York, NY 10017.
7pm
Tel: 1 212 308 77 20

It will be mostly Sephardic songs, with the usual bits and pieces of regional Spanish, Sephardic diaspora, medieval Galaico-Portuguese, etc.

For further info closer to the event: www.cervantes.org

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Klez Dispensers
Thursday, February 17, 2005
West Long Branch, NJ
7:30 pm
Concert at Monmouth University

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Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment
Thursday February 17th 8pm
Simple Pleasures Café
3434 Balboa at 36th Avenue,
Richmond District
San Francisco

free

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Du informeres hermed om Koncert med Klezmofobia m. gæstesolist Channe Nussbaum

strictly hassidic- bop - rock - klezmer

Torsdag d. 17. februar 2005 kl. 21.00 Entre 70,-

på: ETNORAMA
Spillestedet for verdensmusik i København
Nørre Allé 7, baghuset, 2200 København N. tlf. (+45) 3536-0537
www.etnorama.com

Et helt nyt klezmer orkester i Danmark medvirkende:
Bjarke Kolerus ­ clarinets
Ole Algreen Reimer ­ trumpets
Jeppe Tuxen ­ hammond organ
Jonatan Aisen ­ drums
Peter "Kinamanden" Nielsen ­ bass

se evt. www.klezmofobia.dk

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Slivovitz and Soul is a new monthly party series hosted by Klezmer-hip hop maestro So Called, with special guests joining him each month for a collision of MCs, beatboxers and badkhanim.

Bring your Balibosta. Get Farshnickert.
An Eastern European laced hip hop shtetl dance party.

Slivovitz and Soul
Thurs, February 17
$5, 10PM
@ The Slipper Room
167 Orchard Street at Stanton
1 block below Houston
F/V to 2nd Ave
Sponsored by the 14th St Y and Jewish Below 14th Street

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The first international klezmer event in Moscow will take place February 17th-20th.

The idea of this event came from the Jewish ensemble "Dona" (Moscow) and their producer Anatoly Pinsky, so the seminar has also become known as "Dona-Fest". The festival will bring together more then 60 musicians from the former USSA and Europe. The gala concert of the First International Festival of Jewish music in Moscow will consist of completely new material which will be prepared during the 3 days of seminar. It will take place at the Jewish Theatre Shalom.

The leading teachers of the event are Merlin Shepherd (world known klezmer musician, who has developed a unique method of teaching klezmer instrumentalists by ear) and Polina Shepherd (leading Jewish choir composer in the former USSR who bases her vocal teaching on instrumental ornamentation and Jewish modes).

Amongst the organisers and teachers there will be representatives of the "old" Yiddish tradition (Arkady Gendler, Ukraine) and of the newest generation of Russian and ex-Russian klezmorim (Mark Kovnatsky, Germany; Alina Ivakh, Kazan; Alexey Rozov, Evgenya Slavina, Moscow).

Now in Moscow ­ Celebration of Yiddishkeit!

More info (in Russian only): www.dona-dona.ru

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ANNOUNCING KLEZMERQUERQUE 2005:
A Southwestern celebration of Klezmer music and dance into the 21st century: a weekend of concerts, dance parties, and classes featuring the music and dance of the Eastern European Jewish People. FEBRUARY 18th through FEBRUARY 20th, 2005 (President's day weekend).

All events held at Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (between Candelaria & Griegos), ABQ, NM 87107

Phone: (505) 343-8227
E-mail Nahalat Shalom
Web: www.nahalatshalom.org --- Klick on "Klezmer"
Event coordinator: Beth Cohen
Ph: (505) 243-6276

We are very excited to be featuring, for the first time ever in the U.S., a internationally recognized dancer/teacher from Germany - originally from Belz, Moldova. We are equally excited to welcome back world-class Klezmer clarinet virtuoso, Margot Leverett.

Presented by Congregation Nahalat Shalom (Inheritance of Peace congregation) - a non-profit, tax-exempt organization in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. This year's featured performers/teachers:

MARGOT LEVERETT, world-renown virtuoso Klezmer clarinetist, saxophonist, and bandleader is one of the foremost of the new generation of klezmer clarinetists. Studied with the famed klezmer clarinetist Sid Beckerman and classically trained at Indiana University School of Music, Margot was involved in avant-garde music when she first heard klezmer, the dynamic East European music traditionally played at Jewish weddings. Leverett was a founding member of the Klezmatics in 1985 and Mikveh in 1999. She started her own band "Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys" in 2001. Her solo CD, "The Art of Klezmer Clarinet," was released in 2001 on the Traditional Crossroads label to glowing reviews. Margot tours around the world, performing and teaching traditional and original klezmer music at festivals and workshops. Because of her popularity at last year's event, we are excited to have Margot return to Klezmerquerque this year.

SULIM (SHULIM ZALTMAN), choreographer, dancing master, Born in 1938 in Belz, Moldova and now residing in Fulda, Germany. At the age of nine, Sulim Zaltman was a member of the "Folkstantz"- ensemble of Belz. At 17 he became the leader of the folklore dancing chorus "Bukuria," participating in countless festivals all over the former Soviet Union. Under Mr. Zaltman's leadership, the dancing chorus won many national and international competitions in the field of "Folklore Dancing". Specializing in Moldavian, Ukrainian, Russian, Rumanian, Bulgarian and Jewish dances, Sulim's mastery of Eastern-European folk dances is sought after throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union. He has taught at many festivals in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa and Chishinau. His many decorations, diplomas and medals show the quality of his artistic oeuvre; In 1977 Sulim and his ensemble won the first prize at the "Festival of Folk-Art of Nations". Before he emigrated to Germany in 1997 he spent many years as a choreographer and dancer at the Belz Jewish Theatre, directed by the famous writer Michael Felsenbaum. Since 1997, Sulim has been teaching Jewish folk dances in the Jewish community of Fulda, Germany and at various Jewish festivals throughout Germany. This is Sulim's first visit to the U.S., and he speaks Yiddish, Russian and German fluently. Please come to welcome and honor him - and most of all - dance with him.

Schedule of Events:

Friday, February 18th, 6:30 pm:
Freylekhe Shabbes (Joyous Sabbath) featuring a 'danced' Kabbalat Shabbat service followed by a potluck vegetarian dinner (7:00) and a short concert (7:30) by our featured guest artist Margot Leverett accompanied by ABQ's favorite Klezmer band: The Rebbe's Orkestra, concert segues into dancing led by Sulim Zaltman & Nahalat Shalom's Yiddish dance troupe: Rikud ($10.00- suggested donation).

Saturday, February 19th Events:

10-11am: Yiddish and Eastern European dance class with Sulim Zaltman ($18).
11:15am-12:15pm: Klezmer music class with Margot Leverett ($18).
12:30-1:30pm: Saturday afternoon lunch 'n lecture - presenter TBA ($5-10 donation).
2:00-3:30pm: Music class - Margot ($18) OR Dance class - Sulim ($18) choose one.
7:00pm: Concert/dance party with Margot Leverett accompanied by the 18-plus piece intergenerational Nahalat Shalom Community Klezmer Band and Saturday students. Dances lead by Sulim Zaltman, Rikud and student dancers ($10 - or free for Saturday students).

Sunday, February 20th

12:00-1:30pm: Music class - Margot ($18) OR dance class - Sulim ($18).

Event price: $60 for 2 parties, lunch/presentation, & 4 classes payed BEFORE Friday eve. Feb. 18th.
Individual classes and events can be payed for at time of class/event.
Discounts for students, seniors, and fixed/low income - inquire.

Lodging: Hotels and B&B's within 1/2 to 2miles - call/e-mail coordinator for info.
Close to Historic Old Town, museums and Rio Grande Nature Center and trails.
World-class ski areas: Santa Fe (1.5 hours); Taos, Angelfire & Red River (2.5-3.5 hours); Sandia Peak (40 mins. ABQ)

All events held at Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (between Candelaria & Griegos), ABQ, NM 87107

Phone: (505) 343-8227
E-mail Nahalat Shalom
Web: www.nahalatshalom.org --- Klick on "Klezmer"
Event coordinator: Beth Cohen
Ph: (505) 243-6276

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The first international klezmer event in Moscow will take place February 17th-20th.

The idea of this event came from the Jewish ensemble "Dona" (Moscow) and their producer Anatoly Pinsky, so the seminar has also become known as "Dona-Fest". The festival will bring together more then 60 musicians from the former USSA and Europe. The gala concert of the First International Festival of Jewish music in Moscow will consist of completely new material which will be prepared during the 3 days of seminar. It will take place at the Jewish Theatre Shalom.

The leading teachers of the event are Merlin Shepherd (world known klezmer musician, who has developed a unique method of teaching klezmer instrumentalists by ear) and Polina Shepherd (leading Jewish choir composer in the former USSR who bases her vocal teaching on instrumental ornamentation and Jewish modes).

Amongst the organisers and teachers there will be representatives of the "old" Yiddish tradition (Arkady Gendler, Ukraine) and of the newest generation of Russian and ex-Russian klezmorim (Mark Kovnatsky, Germany; Alina Ivakh, Kazan; Alexey Rozov, Evgenya Slavina, Moscow).

Now in Moscow ­ Celebration of Yiddishkeit!

More info (in Russian only): www.dona-dona.ru

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ANNOUNCING KLEZMERQUERQUE 2005:
A Southwestern celebration of Klezmer music and dance into the 21st century: a weekend of concerts, dance parties, and classes featuring the music and dance of the Eastern European Jewish People. FEBRUARY 18th through FEBRUARY 20th, 2005 (President's day weekend).

All events held at Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (between Candelaria & Griegos), ABQ, NM 87107

Phone: (505) 343-8227
E-mail Nahalat Shalom
Web: www.nahalatshalom.org --- Klick on "Klezmer"
Event coordinator: Beth Cohen
Ph: (505) 243-6276

We are very excited to be featuring, for the first time ever in the U.S., a internationally recognized dancer/teacher from Germany - originally from Belz, Moldova. We are equally excited to welcome back world-class Klezmer clarinet virtuoso, Margot Leverett.

Presented by Congregation Nahalat Shalom (Inheritance of Peace congregation) - a non-profit, tax-exempt organization in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. This year's featured performers/teachers:

MARGOT LEVERETT, world-renown virtuoso Klezmer clarinetist, saxophonist, and bandleader is one of the foremost of the new generation of klezmer clarinetists. Studied with the famed klezmer clarinetist Sid Beckerman and classically trained at Indiana University School of Music, Margot was involved in avant-garde music when she first heard klezmer, the dynamic East European music traditionally played at Jewish weddings. Leverett was a founding member of the Klezmatics in 1985 and Mikveh in 1999. She started her own band "Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys" in 2001. Her solo CD, "The Art of Klezmer Clarinet," was released in 2001 on the Traditional Crossroads label to glowing reviews. Margot tours around the world, performing and teaching traditional and original klezmer music at festivals and workshops. Because of her popularity at last year's event, we are excited to have Margot return to Klezmerquerque this year.

SULIM (SHULIM ZALTMAN), choreographer, dancing master, Born in 1938 in Belz, Moldova and now residing in Fulda, Germany. At the age of nine, Sulim Zaltman was a member of the "Folkstantz"- ensemble of Belz. At 17 he became the leader of the folklore dancing chorus "Bukuria," participating in countless festivals all over the former Soviet Union. Under Mr. Zaltman's leadership, the dancing chorus won many national and international competitions in the field of "Folklore Dancing". Specializing in Moldavian, Ukrainian, Russian, Rumanian, Bulgarian and Jewish dances, Sulim's mastery of Eastern-European folk dances is sought after throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union. He has taught at many festivals in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa and Chishinau. His many decorations, diplomas and medals show the quality of his artistic oeuvre; In 1977 Sulim and his ensemble won the first prize at the "Festival of Folk-Art of Nations". Before he emigrated to Germany in 1997 he spent many years as a choreographer and dancer at the Belz Jewish Theatre, directed by the famous writer Michael Felsenbaum. Since 1997, Sulim has been teaching Jewish folk dances in the Jewish community of Fulda, Germany and at various Jewish festivals throughout Germany. This is Sulim's first visit to the U.S., and he speaks Yiddish, Russian and German fluently. Please come to welcome and honor him - and most of all - dance with him.

Schedule of Events:

Friday, February 18th, 6:30 pm:
Freylekhe Shabbes (Joyous Sabbath) featuring a 'danced' Kabbalat Shabbat service followed by a potluck vegetarian dinner (7:00) and a short concert (7:30) by our featured guest artist Margot Leverett accompanied by ABQ's favorite Klezmer band: The Rebbe's Orkestra, concert segues into dancing led by Sulim Zaltman & Nahalat Shalom's Yiddish dance troupe: Rikud ($10.00- suggested donation).

Saturday, February 19th Events:

10-11am: Yiddish and Eastern European dance class with Sulim Zaltman ($18).
11:15am-12:15pm: Klezmer music class with Margot Leverett ($18).
12:30-1:30pm: Saturday afternoon lunch 'n lecture - presenter TBA ($5-10 donation).
2:00-3:30pm: Music class - Margot ($18) OR Dance class - Sulim ($18) choose one.
7:00pm: Concert/dance party with Margot Leverett accompanied by the 18-plus piece intergenerational Nahalat Shalom Community Klezmer Band and Saturday students. Dances lead by Sulim Zaltman, Rikud and student dancers ($10 - or free for Saturday students).

Sunday, February 20th

12:00-1:30pm: Music class - Margot ($18) OR dance class - Sulim ($18).

Event price: $60 for 2 parties, lunch/presentation, & 4 classes payed BEFORE Friday eve. Feb. 18th.
Individual classes and events can be payed for at time of class/event.
Discounts for students, seniors, and fixed/low income - inquire.

Lodging: Hotels and B&B's within 1/2 to 2miles - call/e-mail coordinator for info.
Close to Historic Old Town, museums and Rio Grande Nature Center and trails.
World-class ski areas: Santa Fe (1.5 hours); Taos, Angelfire & Red River (2.5-3.5 hours); Sandia Peak (40 mins. ABQ)

All events held at Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (between Candelaria & Griegos), ABQ, NM 87107

Phone: (505) 343-8227
E-mail Nahalat Shalom
Web: www.nahalatshalom.org --- Klick on "Klezmer"
Event coordinator: Beth Cohen
Ph: (505) 243-6276

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Ensemble DRAj
19. Februar 2005
20.00 h
Musik im Kunsthaus: Akkordeon plus x, Rübezahlstr. 33, 45134 Essen, Telefon: 0201 - 44 33 13

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MOBIUS WAXES THE POWERBOOK + A SPECIAL SCREENING OF TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE
Sat., Feb 19, 10PM
at Daila, Shlomzion Hamalka 4

Corner Prophet's very own Mobius One spinning hip hop, reggae, funk & more, followed by a midnight screening of South Park creators' Trey Parker and Matt Stone's recent film, Team America: World Police.

Neviim B'Pinah is a newly formed cultural initiative intent on fostering provoking new cultural experiences upon the Jerusalem landscape. Our current goal is to liven up Jerusalem's underground hip hop scene with that ill charif flavor, bringing MCs, human beatboxes, spoken word poets, graffiti artists, breakdancers & DJs together for an array of events throughout the holy city.

For more info, visit www.cornerprophets.com.

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The first international klezmer event in Moscow will take place February 17th-20th.

The idea of this event came from the Jewish ensemble "Dona" (Moscow) and their producer Anatoly Pinsky, so the seminar has also become known as "Dona-Fest". The festival will bring together more then 60 musicians from the former USSA and Europe. The gala concert of the First International Festival of Jewish music in Moscow will consist of completely new material which will be prepared during the 3 days of seminar. It will take place at the Jewish Theatre Shalom.

The leading teachers of the event are Merlin Shepherd (world known klezmer musician, who has developed a unique method of teaching klezmer instrumentalists by ear) and Polina Shepherd (leading Jewish choir composer in the former USSR who bases her vocal teaching on instrumental ornamentation and Jewish modes).

Amongst the organisers and teachers there will be representatives of the "old" Yiddish tradition (Arkady Gendler, Ukraine) and of the newest generation of Russian and ex-Russian klezmorim (Mark Kovnatsky, Germany; Alina Ivakh, Kazan; Alexey Rozov, Evgenya Slavina, Moscow).

Now in Moscow ­ Celebration of Yiddishkeit!

More info (in Russian only): www.dona-dona.ru

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ANNOUNCING KLEZMERQUERQUE 2005:
A Southwestern celebration of Klezmer music and dance into the 21st century: a weekend of concerts, dance parties, and classes featuring the music and dance of the Eastern European Jewish People. FEBRUARY 18th through FEBRUARY 20th, 2005 (President's day weekend).

All events held at Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (between Candelaria & Griegos), ABQ, NM 87107

Phone: (505) 343-8227
E-mail Nahalat Shalom
Web: www.nahalatshalom.org --- Klick on "Klezmer"
Event coordinator: Beth Cohen
Ph: (505) 243-6276

We are very excited to be featuring, for the first time ever in the U.S., a internationally recognized dancer/teacher from Germany - originally from Belz, Moldova. We are equally excited to welcome back world-class Klezmer clarinet virtuoso, Margot Leverett.

Presented by Congregation Nahalat Shalom (Inheritance of Peace congregation) - a non-profit, tax-exempt organization in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. This year's featured performers/teachers:

MARGOT LEVERETT, world-renown virtuoso Klezmer clarinetist, saxophonist, and bandleader is one of the foremost of the new generation of klezmer clarinetists. Studied with the famed klezmer clarinetist Sid Beckerman and classically trained at Indiana University School of Music, Margot was involved in avant-garde music when she first heard klezmer, the dynamic East European music traditionally played at Jewish weddings. Leverett was a founding member of the Klezmatics in 1985 and Mikveh in 1999. She started her own band "Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys" in 2001. Her solo CD, "The Art of Klezmer Clarinet," was released in 2001 on the Traditional Crossroads label to glowing reviews. Margot tours around the world, performing and teaching traditional and original klezmer music at festivals and workshops. Because of her popularity at last year's event, we are excited to have Margot return to Klezmerquerque this year.

SULIM (SHULIM ZALTMAN), choreographer, dancing master, Born in 1938 in Belz, Moldova and now residing in Fulda, Germany. At the age of nine, Sulim Zaltman was a member of the "Folkstantz"- ensemble of Belz. At 17 he became the leader of the folklore dancing chorus "Bukuria," participating in countless festivals all over the former Soviet Union. Under Mr. Zaltman's leadership, the dancing chorus won many national and international competitions in the field of "Folklore Dancing". Specializing in Moldavian, Ukrainian, Russian, Rumanian, Bulgarian and Jewish dances, Sulim's mastery of Eastern-European folk dances is sought after throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union. He has taught at many festivals in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa and Chishinau. His many decorations, diplomas and medals show the quality of his artistic oeuvre; In 1977 Sulim and his ensemble won the first prize at the "Festival of Folk-Art of Nations". Before he emigrated to Germany in 1997 he spent many years as a choreographer and dancer at the Belz Jewish Theatre, directed by the famous writer Michael Felsenbaum. Since 1997, Sulim has been teaching Jewish folk dances in the Jewish community of Fulda, Germany and at various Jewish festivals throughout Germany. This is Sulim's first visit to the U.S., and he speaks Yiddish, Russian and German fluently. Please come to welcome and honor him - and most of all - dance with him.

Schedule of Events:

Friday, February 18th, 6:30 pm:
Freylekhe Shabbes (Joyous Sabbath) featuring a 'danced' Kabbalat Shabbat service followed by a potluck vegetarian dinner (7:00) and a short concert (7:30) by our featured guest artist Margot Leverett accompanied by ABQ's favorite Klezmer band: The Rebbe's Orkestra, concert segues into dancing led by Sulim Zaltman & Nahalat Shalom's Yiddish dance troupe: Rikud ($10.00- suggested donation).

Saturday, February 19th Events:

10-11am: Yiddish and Eastern European dance class with Sulim Zaltman ($18).
11:15am-12:15pm: Klezmer music class with Margot Leverett ($18).
12:30-1:30pm: Saturday afternoon lunch 'n lecture - presenter TBA ($5-10 donation).
2:00-3:30pm: Music class - Margot ($18) OR Dance class - Sulim ($18) choose one.
7:00pm: Concert/dance party with Margot Leverett accompanied by the 18-plus piece intergenerational Nahalat Shalom Community Klezmer Band and Saturday students. Dances lead by Sulim Zaltman, Rikud and student dancers ($10 - or free for Saturday students).

Sunday, February 20th

12:00-1:30pm: Music class - Margot ($18) OR dance class - Sulim ($18).

Event price: $60 for 2 parties, lunch/presentation, & 4 classes payed BEFORE Friday eve. Feb. 18th.
Individual classes and events can be payed for at time of class/event.
Discounts for students, seniors, and fixed/low income - inquire.

Lodging: Hotels and B&B's within 1/2 to 2miles - call/e-mail coordinator for info.
Close to Historic Old Town, museums and Rio Grande Nature Center and trails.
World-class ski areas: Santa Fe (1.5 hours); Taos, Angelfire & Red River (2.5-3.5 hours); Sandia Peak (40 mins. ABQ)

All events held at Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (between Candelaria & Griegos), ABQ, NM 87107

Phone: (505) 343-8227
E-mail Nahalat Shalom
Web: www.nahalatshalom.org --- Klick on "Klezmer"
Event coordinator: Beth Cohen
Ph: (505) 243-6276

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IMAGO
"Dégradé de couleurs orientales sur lit d'improvisation..."

en concert pour l'AMJ

dimanche 20 février 2005 à 17h
Salle de la Cité Bleue
46 av. Miremont
1206 Genève.

A l'écoute d'Imago, ceux qui ne connaissent pas la musique klezmer s'écrient: "Mais… c'est du klezmer!" et ceux qui connaissent cette musique disent : "Non, non, c'est pas du klezmer! C'est…" Mais alors, c'est quoi? Israélien? Séfarade? Tout cela un peu? Ou plus encore? Pour répondre à la question, venez découvrir le son si particulier de cette formation genevoise ainsi que l'originalité de ses arrangements....

Saxophone soprano : Emilie Bugnon
Clavier : Laurent Flumet
Guitare : Philippe Gonzalez
Harmonica : Guillaume Lagger
Batterie : Doron Mintz

Organisation: Association des Amis de la Musique Juive. Informations et réservations par e-mail ou tél: 022 734 71 93

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Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 7pm

SACRED SOUL II
Performed by
The Yuval Ron Ensemble
and
The Gwen Wyatt Chorale

Wilshire United Methodist Church, 4350 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA.
Free parking at church lot and on street
$15 for all at the door (cash or check only). Box office open at 6pm, doors at 6:30pm

Sacred musical traditions of Judaism, Sufism, and Christian Armenian Church
Meets
African-American spirituals and gospel music

A rare concert event dedicated to the spirit of Martin Luther King and his guidance concerning PEACE, in honor of Black History Month.

Guest emcee James Janisse of 88.1 FM Jazz Radio, to read excerpts from speeches by Dr. King. Guest dancer: Maya Karasso (Whirling)

Web: www.ronyuvalmusic.com
E-mail Ron Yuval for more info.

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200 singers from HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Choir will be appearing at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th Street, Philadelphia on Monday, February 21 (Presidents' Day) at 6 p.m. The singers hail from all points from Montreal to Washington, DC and from as far west as Los Angeles, coming together from their local ensembles to join their voices in regional choirs and then one large chorus. (We're also featuring a HaZamir Chamber Choir and an Alumni Ensemble). It is great to hear the next generation getting excited about Jewish choral music - and they'll be singing a variety of selections from Israel and America.

Tickets are $36, $25 and $18. Merkin Box Office is 212-501-3330.

HaZamir is a project of the Zamir Choral Foundation, Matthew Lazar, Founder and Director.

This is a great program for families, given the popularity of the repertoire, the ages of the performers, and the early concert time. Hope you can make it!

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Klez Dispensers
Monday, February 21, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
11pm - 1 am
Concert at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus
847 N 3rd Street
$5
The Klez Dispensers will play Philly's haven for real jazz, playing American klezmer, Yiddish swing, and old-time jazz. all the while exploring the similar origins of these great musical styles. Featuring Susan Watts on vocals and Adrian Banner's stride piano. Enjoy the yam fries!

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Saturday, January 22, 7:30 p.m., the Afro-Semitic Experience
in Concert at Lakeside Congregation, 1221 County Line Road, Highland Park, Illinois, for tickets and further information please call 847-432-7950

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Tuesday, Feb 22, 8pm
JCC Manhattan 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.
$10/15

www.jccmanhattan.org
646-505-5708 for reservations

Explore the whimsical and fabulous acts of New York's Jewish visual theater artists who are using painting, puppets, animation, music and more to create, "take," baadasssss theater. Get a taste of new and classic works by

MORNOGRAPHY, mysterious and lovely downtown animator and tattoo artist

JENNY ROMAINE, sparkling star of Great Small Works & Circus Amok with excerpts from Glikl Of Hameln, and the new Betty Boop Suite

BERNICE SILVER, the 90 year old Queen of Pot Pourri with the Puppeteers of America presenting one of her inimitable happenings and songs of her own composition

And music by SUSAN WATTS, mighty TRUMPET PRINCESS of Philadelphia's Klezmer Dynasty, HOUSE OF HOFFMAN.

CELEBRITY GUEST STARS: Adrienne Cooper, Jennifer Miller, Elaine Hoffman-Watts, Avram Mlotek, Ron Caswell, Ariella Wurtzel, Jeff Baker, and many others!

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February 23, 2005 9PM
Les Bobards 4328 Boul. St-Laurent
Montreal, QC
$5

Discovering the connections between Eastern-European Jewish Music and Turkish Music

Shtreiml with special guest, master Turkish oud player and vocalist Ismail Hakki Fencioglu.

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February 24, 2005 8PM
El Salon 4388 Boul. St-Laurent
Montreal, QC
$10

Basya Schechter with special guests Shtreiml and Ismail Hakki Fencioglu

Pharaoh's Daughter's Basya Schechter will be doing a solo acoustic set and will be joined by sepcial guests Shtreiml and Ismail Hakki Fencioglu. This is a rare opportunity for Montrealers to see one of the leading figures on the new Jewish music scene.

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OLD JERUZ CIPHER
Thurs., Feb 24, 9PM
at Daila, Shlomzion Hamalka 4

Our monthly hip hop freestyle cipher. Hosted by Sagol 59, with special guests. Featuring performances in Hebrew, English, Russian and Arabic.

Neviim B'Pinah is a newly formed cultural initiative intent on fostering provoking new cultural experiences upon the Jerusalem landscape. Our current goal is to liven up Jerusalem's underground hip hop scene with that ill charif flavor, bringing MCs, human beatboxes, spoken word poets, graffiti artists, breakdancers & DJs together for an array of events throughout the holy city.

For more info, visit www.cornerprophets.com.

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MARKEY FUNK
Thurs., Feb 24, 10PM
at xD1, Ben Sira 4

After the cipher, roll on through to xD1 and catch Markey Funk gettin' down on the decks.

Neviim B'Pinah is a newly formed cultural initiative intent on fostering provoking new cultural experiences upon the Jerusalem landscape. Our current goal is to liven up Jerusalem's underground hip hop scene with that ill charif flavor, bringing MCs, human beatboxes, spoken word poets, graffiti artists, breakdancers & DJs together for an array of events throughout the holy city.

For more info, visit www.cornerprophets.com.

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Tuesday, January 25, 7:30 p.m., the Afro-Semitic Experience
in Concert at Bucknell Hall, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, for more info please call 570-577-1592.

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Massel-Tov 96049 Bamberg, Haas Säle – 2. Bamberger Klezmer-Tage, Obere Sandstr. 7, 20.00h, T. 0951-23195

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Soirée découverte Festival Yiddishland à la rencontre des Cévennes

Samedi 26 février 2005 à 18h30
Lieu : Restaurant scolaire de l’Ecole d’Onex-Parc
Entrée rue des Bossons à ONEX . Entre la Police et le parking de la piscine, direction ludothèque.

Adresse et plan: www11.mappy.com/sidGAE8mDN8yO7Mn21w/Z?out=2;xsl=1;sel=citymap
2 parkings : Police ou piscine

Programme

19h à 20h : Lecture - Spectacle " Et tu le raconteras à tes enfants ", par Eliane et Bernard KLEIN avec accompagnement musical de Florent LEZAT

20h à 20h45 : Buffet yiddish livré par la " Table familiale " de Champel

20h45 à 21h30 : Présentation du "Festival Yiddishland à la rencontre des Cévennes " à Bréau : film + témoignages

21h30 à 22h : Contes yiddish par Lucienne STITELMANN

22h : Danses yiddishes avec Maîtres à danser : Marcel et Danièle CHILOU ! Spectacle, film, contes et informations en Français !

PARTICIPATION A LA SOIREE SUR INSCRIPTION JUSQU’AU 23 FEVRIER AUPRES DE LUCIENNE STITELMANN : 022 / 793 01 68 ou adresse email

Participation aux frais de la soirée : 30 FRANCS ou 20 Euros
Des boissons pourront être achetées sur place.

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"Klezmer Hop" -- a full evening of Klezmer music and dance -- returns to St. Augustine Feb. 26. (Saturday)

Following last year's enormously successful event for more than 200 enthusiasts, the event returns to R.B. Hunt Elementary School on A1A Anastasia Blvd. (across from Alligator Farm), starting at 7 p.m.

Returning also, from Chicago, is Steve Weintraub, nationally recognized proponent of Yiddish dance, to demonstrate and lead.

Music will be provided by the Gainesville-based 24th Street Klezmer Band.

Klezmer Hop is sponsored by Temple Bet Yam - Temple By The Sea - a Reform Jewish Congregation. Dessert, coffee and soft drinks are provided. Tickets are $22 per person in advance, $25 at the door. Reservations: 471-0418.

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Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys
February 26 7:30pm
Temple Ner Tamid
936 Broad St. Bloomfield, NJ
973-338-1500
www.nertamid.org

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KlezFactor
Live at the Renaissance Cafe
1938 Danforth Ave.
Toronto, Ontario.
Saturday, February 26, 2005, 9PM. $5 cover.

KlezFactor's debut performance, playing a more traditional repetoire for this engagement.

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Pharaoh's Daughter
Feb. 26th
Club Soda Montreal
9:40p.m.
part of the Strictly Mundial World Music Conference.

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Klezmer Jam, led by Adrianne Greenbaum
Sunday, February 27, 10:00 am
Woodbridge Jewish Community Center, (New Haven, CT)
360 Amity Road
Woodbridge, CT 06525
Phone: 203-387-2522

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Listen to great classic live Klezmer while enjoying a feast of lox, bagels, juice and coffee. Perfect Sunday morning cultural activity for the whole family. A great neighborhood brunch! Come join us from 10am to 1pm

Sunday February 27 - Frank London Project

$5 for kids/$15 for adults/$30 for the whole family Reservations recommended!

Tribeca Hebrew
67 Hudson Street/1 Jay Street
(Enter on Jay Street - between Greenwich St and Hudson St)
New York, NY 10013
212-608-0555
Ask for Slava

1/2/3/9 To Chambers Street Walk North on Hudson to Corner of Jay

www.tribecahebrew.org

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Next "North of Boston" Klezmer Jam will be held in Watertown, MA (not strictly North of Boston but just a little west) on Sunday Feb 27th at 12:30 pm. We do provide transcribed music on request.. For details, e-mail Vlad Liberman.

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Yiddish Sing-Along: Everyone Welcome!
Sunday, February 27, 3 p.m.
The Immigrant Experience: From A Brivele der Mamen to Zumer Bay Nakht Oyf di Dekher

BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
Music Room, first floor
Free parking in the building on Pierce Street
between Ellis and Eddy

With Jillian Tallmer and accompanist, returning by popular demand. Whether you are new to Yiddish music or already hooked, you will come away from these sing-alongs inspired. Jillian will introduce a dozen new songs each afternoon, using transliterated songsheets. Participants may bring in and suggest favorite songs to share.

Jillian Tallmer grew up in Manhattan, where she once played a street urchin in the Metropolitan Opera's "La Boheme." Introduced to the San Francisco Jewish Folk Chorus twenty years ago, she immediately fell in love with the world of Yiddish. For her solo performances and Yiddish sing-alongs all over the Bay Area, Jillian received the Yiddish Music Award of the Workmen's Circle in 2001. She conducts her own women's chorus, the Loose Canons, in performances of intriguing songs from around the world.

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You are cordially invited to a lecture by
Shane Baker
Executive Director of the Congress for Jewish Culture

In honor of the 20th yortsayt of Joseph Buloff,
master actor of the Yiddish stage,
he will speak on

The Origins of the Vilna Troupe

After the lecture there will be a performance by
Elizabeth Schwartz
lead singer for "Hot Pstromi"
in a program of Yiddish songs new and old!

Sunday 27 February 2005
1:30 PM

In our auditorium
3301 Bainbridge Ave & 208th St., Bronx.

(D train to 205 St, #4 to Moshulu Pkwy;
Buses 10, 28 or 34 to 210th St.)

Contribution: $3.50
Members and students -- free

Refreshments will be served

Come with your friends and family!

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"At Home with Kafka: Three Modern Fables"
Tales of the strange and fabulous by Bernard Malamud, Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer, and Steve Stern

Read by Book-It Repertory Theatre actors
Jonathan Hochberg, Shellie Shulkin, and David S. Klein

with

Klezmer, Sephardic, and downright ineffable musical snippets and punctuation
by
Sandra Layman, violin

Info: www.nextbook.org/localprograms/seattle_writersseries.html

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Klezmerkoncert på Frederiksberg

"Nussbaum - Smidl - Ougaard" optræder LIVE
med special guest star Bjarke Kolerus, klarinet
Søndag d. 27. februar kl. 17:00 (Entré kr. 60,-) :
Byggeriets Hus, Godthåbsvej 33, 2000 F

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