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The Gantse Megillah: A Yiddish musical concert featuring Lori Cahan-Simon
Sunday, March 26, 2006
3:00 p.m.
at Beth Jacob Synagogue
Dayton Ohio

$5 per person
Refreshments served!

Reservations call 937 853-0372
Taste of Yiddish
Let Us Know You'll Be There! Call 853-0372

Cahan-Simon has performed in countries and venues throughout the world since beginning her professional career at age fourteen. She is a singer with the Cleveland-based Workmen's Circle Klezmer Orchestra and teaches Yiddish Culture and Language at the Workmen's Circle through the visual, performing and culinary arts.

Accompanist Walt Mahovlich currently leads the East European folk group Harmonia. He has performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center, and has played frequent concert tours throughout Europe and North America.

The Gantseh Megillah
Presented by the Dayton Jewish Community Center YIDDISH CLUB
Join the DJCC Yiddish Club - membership is only $20
and includes a concert ticket!

Reservations call 937 853-0372
Taste of Yiddish
Let Us Know You'll Be There! Call 853-0372

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KlezFest!3: "Battle" of the Klezmer Bands
featuring the five bands in the Westchester Klezmer Program, along with special guests and dance instruction.

Sunday afternoon, March 26
2:30-5:00 pm
Congregation Sons of Israel
Briarcliff Manor, New York.

$18 per person, $10 for seniors, pre-bar/batmitzvah students

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Temple Emmanuel in Wakefield, MA is celebrating Jewish Music Month with
TSU LEBN, an old world Klezmer band
Sunday, March 26th at 2:00 pm

Tickets: adults $8, children 5 to 12 $5, family rate is $25
TEMPLE EMMANUEL, 120 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, MA 01880
Information: call temple office 781-246 1886 & leave a message
www.geocities.com/temple_emmanuel

TSU LEBN’s musicians are Ben Pasamanik (clarinet) Marianne Cygnel (accordion) and Vlad Liberman (violin). For the past 10 years, Ben and Marianne have played together as the “Garlic and Onions” Klezmer Ensemble, where they have performed at concerts, festivals, weddings and Bar Mitzvas throughout greater Boston. In their latest musical project, “Tsu Lebn”, they have teamed up with Vlad Liberman to re-create the sounds of Old World klezmer, the music played by East European Jews over 100 years ago.

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Klezmer Conservatory Band Reunion
and mini-KlezmerFestival

Saturday, March 25, 8pm
Sunday, March 26: workshops 1-3:30; concert 4pm

Special Guests include:
Michael Alpert
Rosalie Gerut
Deborah Strauss
Jeff Warschauer

In this finale to the KlezmerShack's 10th Anniversary, we are pleased to co-sponsor the Klezmer Conservatory Band, plus alumni from over 25 years of yiddish and klezmer musical magic. In addition to the concerts, there will be a mini-Jewish music festival Sunday afternoon featuring everything from "A Taste of Yiddish" to Yiddish song, klezmer, Eastern European Jewish Dancing, klezmer workshops for beginners through advanced musicians, and, of course, a panel discussion on the future of Jewish music.

$22 general; $20 JCC Member
Seniors and students $2 off single ticket price
Youth Ticket $16 General $14 JCC Member
Festival Pass - concert plus workshops $25 general $23 JCC Member

Co-sponsored by the Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Brookline Workmen's Circle, and the KlezmerShack

Concerts

Saturday, March 25, 2006 ­ 8pm
Sunday, March 26, 2006 ­ Concert ­ 4:00pm

Workshop Schedule

Sunday, March 26, 2006 ­ 1:30-3:40 Workshops

Dance, sing, play music or learn to kibbutz in Yiddish with these entertaining and informative workshops. This is a unique opportunity to participate in interactive workshops with some of the greatest talents on today's Klezmer scene (including the maintainer of this website!)

1:30–2:30pm: Eastern European Yiddish Dance—Learn to dance with an "old world flavor". Michael Alpert, world-renowned vocalist and member of the legendary Band, Brave Old World, leads this unique dance workshop. All Levels Welcome!

1:30–2:30 pm: Instant Klezmer—Play klezmer music in a flash. Bring your instrument and participate in this great opportunity to learn from the master, Hankus Netsky, founder of KCB and one of the leaders of the klezmer revival.

1:30–2:30pm: Fidl­Kapelye—This workshop geared for all bowed instruments and tsimbl, will focus on learning music by ear and playing in a fluid, dynamic and interactive way. Please bring your instrument to this session led by Klezmer musician Deborah Strauss.

1:30–2:30pm: Taste of Yiddish—Yiddish for the non-Yiddish speaker. Schlep over to the JCC for a nosh of this Hamish language with Workmen's Circle Yiddish instructor Dovid Braun

2:40–3:40pm: Yiddish Sing-Along—Experience the power and poetry of Yiddish folk music with Workmen's Circle music director Lisa Gallatin. Singers of all levels are welcome.

2:40–3:40 pm: Klezmer Jam—Bring your instrument and jam with JCC Klezmer Band instructor Barry Shapiro. All levels welcome

2:40–3:40 pm: Round Table Discussion: Klezmer Revival, Nu? What's Next...—Join KCB's Hankus Netsky, duo Jeff Warschauer and Deborah Strauss, BOW's Michael Alpert and KlezmerShacks'Ari Davidow for an informative and entertaining discussion about Jewish music. Free Event

Workshop Fee: JCC Members: $5 per workshop; General: $7 per workshop
Concerts: JCC Members $20; General $22;
Youth: JCC Members $14; General $16
Festival Pass (concert plus workshops): JCC Members $24; General $23

Pre-registration recommended. Please call 617-558-6486 for registration information
Concert information call 617-965-5226

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Mobius will be DJing at Noc (Yaffo 31 / Feingold's Field, next to Adom), Saturday March 25 at 10pm.

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Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys
March 25th
JCC of Greater Monmouth "Saturday night at the J".
100 Grant Ave
Deal NJ
Call (732) 531-9100 x100 for more information.

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Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh
Klezmer & Hassidic Music
Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House
Providence, RI
209 Douglas Avenue

Saturdays, March 18th & 25th from 8 - 10 PM
Admission $10

This is a VERY small location; call early for tickets.
(401)273-9814 Go to www.brooklyncoffeeteahouse.com for directions.

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Yiddish Café proudly presents its hugely popular:

Encore Presentation of Itsik Manger’s “Megille”
SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2006 AT 8:00 P.M.

The Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre of the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts
5170 Côte-Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal

Admission: $7 for students, seniors and Library members, $10 others

For information and tickets, please call (514) 345-2627 ext. 3006

Tickets can also be purchased in person at the Saidye Bronfman Box Office
www.jewishpubliclibrary.org

Montreal, February 27, 2006 – Don’t miss this annual favourite Purim performance of the Megille-Lider, the great Yiddish poet Itsik Manger’s adaptation of the traditional Purim story. In conjunction with the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, the show features songs in Yiddish with narration in English. Open to everyone who loves music and laughter.

The Jewish Public Library, founded in Montreal in 1914, is committed to encouraging and promoting the Yiddish language, culture and literature, by collecting and preserving Yiddish materials, and by presenting a variety of cultural events.

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Klezmer Conservatory Band Reunion
and mini-KlezmerFestival

Saturday, March 25, 8pm
Sunday, March 26: workshops 1-3:30; concert 4pm

Special Guests include:
Michael Alpert
Rosalie Gerut
Deborah Strauss
Jeff Warschauer

In this finale to the KlezmerShack's 10th Anniversary, we are pleased to co-sponsor the Klezmer Conservatory Band, plus alumni from over 25 years of yiddish and klezmer musical magic. In addition to the concerts, there will be a mini-Jewish music festival Sunday afternoon featuring everything from "A Taste of Yiddish" to Yiddish song, klezmer, Eastern European Jewish Dancing, klezmer workshops for beginners through advanced musicians, and, of course, a panel discussion on the future of Jewish music.

$22 general; $20 JCC Member
Seniors and students $2 off single ticket price
Youth Ticket $16 General $14 JCC Member
Festival Pass - concert plus workshops $25 general $23 JCC Member

Co-sponsored by the Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Brookline Workmen's Circle, and the KlezmerShack

Concerts

Saturday, March 25, 2006 ­ 8pm
Sunday, March 26, 2006 ­ Concert ­ 4:00pm

Workshop Schedule

Sunday, March 26, 2006 ­ 1:30-3:40 Workshops

Dance, sing, play music or learn to kibbutz in Yiddish with these entertaining and informative workshops. This is a unique opportunity to participate in interactive workshops with some of the greatest talents on today's Klezmer scene (including the maintainer of this website!)

1:30–2:30pm: Eastern European Yiddish Dance—Learn to dance with an "old world flavor". Michael Alpert, world-renowned vocalist and member of the legendary Band, Brave Old World, leads this unique dance workshop. All Levels Welcome!

1:30–2:30 pm: Instant Klezmer—Play klezmer music in a flash. Bring your instrument and participate in this great opportunity to learn from the master, Hankus Netsky, founder of KCB and one of the leaders of the klezmer revival.

1:30–2:30pm: Fidl­Kapelye—This workshop geared for all bowed instruments and tsimbl, will focus on learning music by ear and playing in a fluid, dynamic and interactive way. Please bring your instrument to this session led by Klezmer musician Deborah Strauss.

1:30–2:30pm: Taste of Yiddish—Yiddish for the non-Yiddish speaker. Schlep over to the JCC for a nosh of this Hamish language with Workmen's Circle Yiddish instructor Dovid Braun

2:40–3:40pm: Yiddish Sing-Along—Experience the power and poetry of Yiddish folk music with Workmen's Circle music director Lisa Gallatin. Singers of all levels are welcome.

2:40–3:40 pm: Klezmer Jam—Bring your instrument and jam with JCC Klezmer Band instructor Barry Shapiro. All levels welcome

2:40–3:40 pm: Round Table Discussion: Klezmer Revival, Nu? What's Next...—Join KCB's Hankus Netsky, duo Jeff Warschauer and Deborah Strauss, BOW's Michael Alpert and KlezmerShacks'Ari Davidow for an informative and entertaining discussion about Jewish music. Free Event

Workshop Fee: JCC Members: $5 per workshop; General: $7 per workshop
Concerts: JCC Members $20; General $22;
Youth: JCC Members $14; General $16
Festival Pass (concert plus workshops): JCC Members $24; General $23

Pre-registration recommended. Please call 617-558-6486 for registration information
Concert information call 617-965-5226

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Friday March 24-March 26, The Afro-Semitic Experience artists in residence Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A weekend of worship, concerts, workshops, interfaith and interracial dialogue hosted by Temple Emmanuel, Phillips Chapel Baptist and Green Street United Methodist Church. For more information please contact the Green Street United Methodist Church at 336-722-8379, or Temple Emmanuel at 336-722-6640.

Friday Night, March 24, 7:30 pm, Friday night service at Temple Emmanuel, 201 Oakwood Drive, Winston-Salem

Saturday Afternoon, March 25, 1:30 pm, Workshop at Delta Arts Center, 2611 New Walkertown Road, Winston-Salem

Saturday Night, March 25, 7:30 pm, Concert at St. Phillips Moravian Church, Corner of Church & Race Streets in Old Salem

Sunday Morning, March 25, 11 AM Worship Service at Green Street United Methodist Church, 639 West Green Street, Winston-Salem

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Vampire Suit is excited to be playing again at the Tea Lounge, part of their series of exciting contemporary improvised music. The performance will take place on March 24th, at 9:00pm. The Tea Lounge is located at 837 Union St., Park Slope, Brooklyn.

The music has enduring beauty that touches on the heart of the Middle East's musical culture while exhibiting western flair. Open improvisations and the spirit of the belly dance coexist, encouraging the traditional undulated hip movements as a supplement to the solid instrumentation.... -Frank Rubolino Cadence Magazine

Vampire Suit draws on Jay Vilnai's unique musical heritage as a Russian-Romanian-Polish descendant raised in Jerusalem around a mix of contemporary and traditional Jewish and Arab music, with a soul for rock n'roll and a BFA in jazz. Couple that with a passion for Bartok and Stravinsky and you end up with all original music that draws on all those influences to create something akin to traditional music for a generation that hails from so many traditions. Balkan and Middle-Eastern rhythms are prominent, backed by 20th century composing concepts and jazz improvising.

'Vilnai and his vampires get high marks for their utter unpredictability from track to track, their sheer joy they get from and give to the music and the various textures and sounds that emerge.' - Budd Kopman, All About Jazz

The result is a highly personal musical texture that takes you from the tribal dances of North Africa to the marshes of the Balkans. A musical journey that is at once personal and global, music that is at the same time unmistakably modern, yet feels old and familiar.

'If Bram Stoker's imaginary Transylvania had a jazz scene, the music might sound something like this.' -Jazz Review

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Spring cleaning for the soul!

Let¹s sing away those winter blues and make inner space for the coming of
spring—Yofiyah

Kabbalah Kirtan
Friday, March 24 at 8pm
Yoga on Main
4363 Main St., Manayunk (Philadelphia, PA 19119)
admission $15
Yofiyah (voice), Aaron Rosenbloom (tabla and frame drum), Judah Prince
(harmonium and synthesizer)

Throughout history and across cultures, chanting creates joy and dissolves stress. Ancient Kabbalists had a deep understanding of this practice. Enjoy an evening¹s journey with Yofiyah, internationally-known voice of this mystical art form and innovator of the East/West fusion: Kabbalah Kirtan. Allow the rhythmic pleasure of call and response singing to open your heart and awaken your soul. Experience the power of the Hebrew language, enveloped by a rich and evocative musical tapestry of multiple voices, harmonium and drums.

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March 24 Sunday
Bohemian Nights
Wyreena Arts Centre, Croydon
Bookings Essential 9294 5590

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Friday March 24-March 26, The Afro-Semitic Experience artists in residence Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A weekend of worship, concerts, workshops, interfaith and interracial dialogue hosted by Temple Emmanuel, Phillips Chapel Baptist and Green Street United Methodist Church. For more information please contact the Green Street United Methodist Church at 336-722-8379, or Temple Emmanuel at 336-722-6640.

Friday Night, March 24, 7:30 pm, Friday night service at Temple Emmanuel, 201 Oakwood Drive, Winston-Salem

Saturday Afternoon, March 25, 1:30 pm, Workshop at Delta Arts Center, 2611 New Walkertown Road, Winston-Salem

Saturday Night, March 25, 7:30 pm, Concert at St. Phillips Moravian Church, Corner of Church & Race Streets in Old Salem

Sunday Morning, March 25, 11 AM Worship Service at Green Street United Methodist Church, 639 West Green Street, Winston-Salem

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Zhok Therapy, the rebellious child of the Casco Bay Tummlers, will be returning to the Little Dog Coffee Shop, 87 Maine St. in Brunswick, Friday, March 24. We'll be playing from 7:00 - 9:00.

We'll be back with pieces highlighting the improvisational skills of the band. Our inspiration for this will be original compositions and traditional Jewish, Roma, Balkan and Middle Eastern melodies. We'll also be doing some of our classic klezmer repertoire. Last month there was quite a bit of dancing going on, too, and we expect that will be the case this time as well.

The lineup for this event is Hayes Porterfield, percussion, Carl Dimow on flutes and guitars, Julie Goell, bass and vocals and Steve Gruverman, clarinet and sax.

There's no cover charge so we hope you'll stop by to enjoy a slightly different side of the band as well as try some of the Little Dog's goodies. And if you don't have a copy of our new CD, Journey, we'll have them for sale.

For more information you can contact the Little Dog at 721-9500.

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Golem
Mar 23: Free show at Zebulon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at 10pm. Zebulon is at 258 Wythe between Metropolitan and N. 3rd. Call 718-218-6934 for more information.

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Meshugga Klezmer Band
March 23, 2006 Afterthought Lounge 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. Little Rock, AR 8:00 PM $7 Cover

This will be a non-smokin event!

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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***CORNER PROPHETS PRESENTS HEEB STORYTELLING, MARCH 21***

Corner Prophets is pleased to present the first-ever installment of Heeb Storytelling - Jerusalem. The event will feature performances by Matthue Roth, Ann B. Young, and Dan 'Mobius' Sieradski & Ronni 'Maybe' Shendar with music by Matt Tonti

Tuesday, March 21 @ 9 PM
Daila (4 Shlmozion Hamalka, Jerusalem)

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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March 19 Sunday
Bohemian Nights
BENDIGO Commonwealth Games Arts Festival in concert and with Gorgeous Voices choir

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Massel-Tov Trio mit dem Schauspieler Krishan Mircea als Milchmann Tevje und die Klezmer
96049 Bamberg
Haas Säle - 3. Bamberger Klezmer-Tage, Obere Sandstr. 7
20.00h
T. 0951-2319

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Divahn
March 19th @ 7:00 pm
United Synagogue Chicago, Skokie, IL www.uscj.org/Midwest/

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Khevre
Sunday, March 19, 2006, 3:30 PM
Brockton Sympony
War Memorial Building
156 West Elm St.
Brockton, MA 02301

Tix: Orchestra, center, left andright $22
Balcony $20
All seats general admission by section.>

www.brocktonsymphony.org/

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Saturday, March 18
miya masaoka & anthony coleman
miya masaoka solo
anthony coleman solo
8:00 p.m., $10

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
400 Carroll Street
between Bond and Nevins
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Telephone: 718-330-0313
Open: 7 days a week

SUBWAY:
F or G Train to Carroll St (fourth stop in Brooklyn from Manhattan). Exit at front of train. Walk 2.5 blocks from stop down Carroll.

SOLO DUO MONTH

ISSUE Project Room hosts Solo Duo Month during March 2006. The program is a perfect marriage between the acoustics of the space and the excellence of these particular performers. The sets alternate acoustic musicianship with the artist's use of our existing sound installation of Stephan Moore's 16 Channel Hemipherical Speakers, creating a foundation for interaction between the musicians, their instruments, new technology and the audience.

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Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh
Klezmer & Hassidic Music
Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House
Providence, RI
209 Douglas Avenue

Saturdays, March 18th & 25th from 8 - 10 PM
Admission $10

This is a VERY small location; call early for tickets.
(401)273-9814 Go to www.brooklyncoffeeteahouse.com for directions.

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March 17th-18th Galeet Dardashti and Divahn Residency at Congregation Adat Shalom Farmington Hills, Michigan

March 18th @ 7:30 pm--Saturday night Divahn concert--Purim Party Plus!

www.adatshalom.org

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Festival*: Klezmer Festival Intermezzo 2006*
Where*: Furth, Germany*
Venue*: Kulturforum Furth; Wurzburger Str. 2; 0049-911-973840*
When*: Saturday March 18th, 2006 from 19:30 to 20:45 (7:30pm-8:45pm)*
Stadt Fürth, Kulturamt Königsplatz 2, 90762 Fürth Tel. 0911 / 974-1680 Fax 0911 / 974-1684 Internet: www.fuerth.de Stempenyu's Dream, the ensemble dedicated to performing the Jewish and klezmer compositions of violinist Steven Greenman will be performing Steven's original compositions from his double-CD recording, Stempenyu's Dream on March 18th, 2006 (from 7:30pm-8:45pm) at the Klezmer Festival Intermezzo 2006 in Furth, Germany in a double concert with Grinsteins Mischpoche. Performers of Stempenyu's Dream to include Steven Greenman (violin/vocals), Sanne Moricke (accordion), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) and Stuart Brotman (bass). For more information about the Klezmer Festival Intermezzo 2006 please see www.fuerth.de.

*Ensemble*: Stempenyu's Dream*
Performers*: Steven Greenman (violin/vocals), Sanne Moricke (accordion), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl), Stuart Brotman (string bass)*

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Hello Klezmorim!! We invite you to Klezmerpalooza 2006: The 8th Annual Intercollegiate Klezmer Festival.

Friday, March 17
Peformance: David Krakauer with DJ SoCalled and Sheryl Bailey
9 pm
Grant Recital Hall (Hope St. between Young Orchard Ave. and Benevolent St.)
*You are also invited to a Community Shabbat Dinner at 7:30 pm at Hillel (Brown St. between Angell and Meeting Sts.). We will be joined by Maggid Jhos Singer, a transgender musician, Jewish spiritual leader, meditation teacher and storyteller.

Saturday, March 18
Master Class: David Krakauer with College Bands
10 am
Alumnae Hall (Meeting St. between Brown and Thayer Sts.)

Performance: Klezmer bands from Brown, New England Conservatory, Eastman, Harvard, Northwestern, and more
2 pm
Alumnae Hall

Jam Session: College Klezmer bands, all other musicians
7 pm
The Blue Room (Faunce House, Waterman St. at Brown St.)
*Please bring your instruments!! We will have a weighted keyboard and guitar and bass amps. Bring sheet music if you use it.

About the Artists . . .

Clarinetist David Krakauer is one of the foremost musicians of the vital new wave of Klezmer. The scope and variety of his activities-ranging from classical chamber music to the Klezmatics, Klezmer Madness!, original compositions and collaborations with Berio, Zorn and Cage-illustrate a remarkable life in music.

Please see socalledmusic.com and sherylbailey.com for more information about the other performers.

We hope you will join us in negotiating a space for the study and practice of Yiddish folk arts and expanding the definition of Jewish living.

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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March 17th-18th Galeet Dardashti and Divahn Residency at Congregation Adat Shalom Farmington Hills, Michigan

March 17th: Mizrahi/Sefardi Kabbalat Shabbat Service with Galeet Dardashti.
After dinner, enjoy a workshop on Mizrahi/Sefardi Piyutim with Galeet March
18th @ 7:30 pm--Saturday night Divahn concert--Purim Party Plus!

www.adatshalom.org

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Hello Klezmorim!! We invite you to Klezmerpalooza 2006: The 8th Annual Intercollegiate Klezmer Festival.

Friday, March 17
Peformance: David Krakauer with DJ SoCalled and Sheryl Bailey
9 pm
Grant Recital Hall (Hope St. between Young Orchard Ave. and Benevolent St.)
*You are also invited to a Community Shabbat Dinner at 7:30 pm at Hillel (Brown St. between Angell and Meeting Sts.). We will be joined by Maggid Jhos Singer, a transgender musician, Jewish spiritual leader, meditation teacher and storyteller.

Saturday, March 18
Master Class: David Krakauer with College Bands
10 am
Alumnae Hall (Meeting St. between Brown and Thayer Sts.)

Performance: Klezmer bands from Brown, New England Conservatory, Eastman, Harvard, Northwestern, and more
2 pm
Alumnae Hall

Jam Session: College Klezmer bands, all other musicians
7 pm
The Blue Room (Faunce House, Waterman St. at Brown St.)
*Please bring your instruments!! We will have a weighted keyboard and guitar and bass amps. Bring sheet music if you use it.

About the Artists . . .

Clarinetist David Krakauer is one of the foremost musicians of the vital new wave of Klezmer. The scope and variety of his activities-ranging from classical chamber music to the Klezmatics, Klezmer Madness!, original compositions and collaborations with Berio, Zorn and Cage-illustrate a remarkable life in music.

Please see socalledmusic.com and sherylbailey.com for more information about the other performers.

We hope you will join us in negotiating a space for the study and practice of Yiddish folk arts and expanding the definition of Jewish living.

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The Jewish Music Forum, a project of the American Society for Jewish Music at the Center for Jewish History is pleased to announce the following presentation:

Assimilating (Post-Modern) Jewish Music: Ambivalence in Contemporary Composition

Dr. David Schiller (University of Georgia)
Respondent: Dr. Klára Móricz (Amherst College)

Friday, March 17
10 A.M.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY

Admission is free and open to the public

For information on this or other events of the Jewish Music Forum, please see the website: www.jewishmusicforum.org, call 212-294-8328 oremail the Jewish Music Forum

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the 2nd International Jewish Music festival-seminar in Moscow

DONA-FEST, March 2006

The Moscow Centre of Culture and Education "Euro-Class" announces the 2nd International Jewish Music festival-seminar "Dona-Fest, 2006" which will take place in Moscow from March 12-17, 2006.

For more information:

Center «Euro-Class», 115093, Moscow, Stremyanniy per., 33/35, Russia
call (007 095) 764-42-21 (Anatoly Pinsky)
E-mail Dona Dona Fest
www.dona-dona.ru

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Dear Friends in the New York area:

Get your Sephardic music fix on Thursday evening March 16th from 8:30-11 at the Cornelia St. Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street in the Village. Admission: $10.00 at the door.

Performers are: Michael Hess - kanun, nay, violin; Haig Manoukian - oud; Peter Basil Bogdanos- dumbek (tof), riq (tamborine), bendir (frame drum); Cantor Daniel Pincus - tenor; Director Isabelle Ganz, mezzo & shawm.

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the 2nd International Jewish Music festival-seminar in Moscow

DONA-FEST, March 2006

The Moscow Centre of Culture and Education "Euro-Class" announces the 2nd International Jewish Music festival-seminar "Dona-Fest, 2006" which will take place in Moscow from March 12-17, 2006.

For more information:

Center «Euro-Class», 115093, Moscow, Stremyanniy per., 33/35, Russia
call (007 095) 764-42-21 (Anatoly Pinsky)
E-mail Dona Dona Fest
www.dona-dona.ru

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Israeli Born Guitarist To Play NYC Show with Blues Legends Elvin Bishop, Pinetop Perkins, and Carey Bell

Heavenly Jams Band @ NYC's Town Hall 3-15

NY�s favorite Jewish Orthodox guitarist, Yosi Piamenta, has been seamlessly delivering a dreamy fusion of Middle Eastern scales, classic rock riffs, and soulful blues, to concertgoers in the New York area since settling in Brooklyn nearly two decades ago.

Tickets start at $30 and can be purchased through the Town Hall box office, and all area Ticketmaster outlets.

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Middle East & Islamic Studies Program Boston College presents a lecture-recital by

Joel Cohen, Director of the Boston Camerata

Music and Poetry in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Andalusia

Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 4:00
Devlin 101 (next to Admissions Office)

Joel Cohen is one of the leading contemporary interpreters of early music in the world today. He directs what Le Monde in Paris has hailed as "America's foremost early music ensemble."

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the 2nd International Jewish Music festival-seminar in Moscow

DONA-FEST, March 2006

The Moscow Centre of Culture and Education "Euro-Class" announces the 2nd International Jewish Music festival-seminar "Dona-Fest, 2006" which will take place in Moscow from March 12-17, 2006.

For more information:

Center «Euro-Class», 115093, Moscow, Stremyanniy per., 33/35, Russia
call (007 095) 764-42-21 (Anatoly Pinsky)
E-mail Dona Dona Fest
www.dona-dona.ru

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Metropolitan Klezmer
Mo Pitkins House of Satisfaction
8:30pm on... $12
34 Avenue A, NYC

Purim show, great Judeo-Latino menu & full bar too! with surprise special guests

212-777-5660
mopitkins.com

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Isle of Klezbos
TUES 3/14
Mo Pitkins House of Satisfaction
8:30pm on... $10
34 Avenue A, NYC

Purim show, great Judeo-Latino menu & full bar too! with surprise special guests

212-777-5660
mopitkins.com

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The Hub presents
Golem

Join us for the Hub's annual Purim bash! Drink and dance your tuchas off to the sounds of Golem, New York's hottest nouveau klezmer-rock band. Fusing the lilting rhythms of the klezmer tradition with irreverent, vaudevillian and sometimes-brash stylings, "Golem produces the sort of music you'd expect if the Shtetl were filled with punks instead of peasants."—The Washington Post

Tuesday, March 14 8pm
12 Galaxies, 2565 Mission Street, San Francisco

JCCSF Box Office 415.292.1233 or www.jccsf.org/hub
JCCSF Members $10 / Public $12 / Students $10
21 and over only.

Wear a costume and get $2 off admission.
Contest with prizes featuring limited edition Purim t-shirt from Jewish Fashion Conspiracy.

Co-sponsored by the 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival and the LGBT Alliance of the Jewish Community Federation.

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the 2nd International Jewish Music festival-seminar in Moscow

DONA-FEST, March 2006

The Moscow Centre of Culture and Education "Euro-Class" announces the 2nd International Jewish Music festival-seminar "Dona-Fest, 2006" which will take place in Moscow from March 12-17, 2006.

For more information:

Center «Euro-Class», 115093, Moscow, Stremyanniy per., 33/35, Russia
call (007 095) 764-42-21 (Anatoly Pinsky)
E-mail Dona Dona Fest
www.dona-dona.ru

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Asefa
March 13
Purim Celebration @ Southpaw
125 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn

Asefa includes Samuel Thomas on woodwinds and percussion, Shanir Blumenkranz on oud and upright bass, Mattias Kunzli on drums and Rich Stein on percussion. From the Hebrew, Asefa collects North African Grooves imbued with contemporary concepts in improvisation and instrumentation, reflecting a fresh spirit in music making.

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JDub & Heeb present American Shmidol Karaoke Showdown
Judged by Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black & David Wain of STELLA

Mon, March 13th, 8PM
The Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey Street
$14 ADVANCE, $20 Day of Show
18+, American Shmidol begins at 9 SHARP with special guest, DJ Steinski

GET TICKETS!
American Shmidol will have winners. And winners will get prizes. Like limited edition MATISYAHU CDs & Heeb and JDub Tshirts. JDub's Purim events have a history of selling out. Get your tickets early.

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Come celebrate Purim, the Jewish carnival of role reversal, with us at Makor. It's going to be a wild evening, even if we are on the upper west side.

The Sway Machinery (with the Antibalas horn section)
live at Makor
(35 W 67th Street bet Central Park West and Columbus Ave)

We start at 10PM but there will be a Meguillah reading at 7:30 followed by an open bar (8:30-9:30) and then a comedy show featuring writers from the Daily Show.

Tickets cost $25 so make sure to come early and take advantage of the open bar!!! for directions and details visit makor.org

"Jeremiah Lockwood’s remarkably accomplished, frankly fascinating guitar work and Tomer Tzur’s limber syncopations combine with influences from the Sahara to the shtetl to the Delta (believe it) to make Sway Machinery consistently exciting and emotionally rewarding as well. Here they team up with friends from Antibalas for an exploration of a genre perhaps best labeled Jewish soul."—Pamela Grossman, The Village Voice

"Last Sunday I went to see Jeremiah Lockwood's new project: Sway Machinery with the horn section of Antibalas. This was their second show together. I will not exaggerate one bit if I tell you that this was the best Jewish music gig that I've ever been to, in my whole life. They played at The Stone, and at the end of the performance, every single person in the audience stood up and clapped, stomped, yelled for a long, long time."—Jake Marmer, Mimaamakim.org

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Yiddishe Cup
March 13
Park Synagogue
Cleveland Hts. Ohio
Purim
7:15 p.m.
www.parksyn.org

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The Old Broadway Synagogue will be celebrating Purim next Monday evening, March 13th.

Come up to that brand new, hip section of New York City known as HEHA (Hebrew
Harlem!), hear the Megilah read and listen to the fascinating sounds of renowned
Klezmer recording artists:

MARGOT LEVERETT, clarinet
MARTY CONFURIUS, string bass

Minha, Maariv and Megilah reading begin at 5:45 PM.

Party begins at 7:00 PM -- with MUSIC! HAMENTASHEN! (by Gruenbaums of Wash. Heights)
and PURIM MERRY MAKING!

ONLY $10.00

Old Broadway Synagogue
15 Old Broadway
(one half block east of B'way, between 125th and 126th streets)
(212) 662-9767

("You must take the 1 train....")

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the 2nd International Jewish Music festival-seminar in Moscow

DONA-FEST, March 2006

The Moscow Centre of Culture and Education "Euro-Class" announces the 2nd International Jewish Music festival-seminar "Dona-Fest, 2006" which will take place in Moscow from March 12-17, 2006.

For more information:

Center «Euro-Class», 115093, Moscow, Stremyanniy per., 33/35, Russia
call (007 095) 764-42-21 (Anatoly Pinsky)
E-mail Dona Dona Fest
www.dona-dona.ru

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Matisyahu

Matisyahu in Houston, TX
KTBZ The Buzz Presents
Matisyahu in Houston
Warehouse Live
Doors 8:00/Show 9:00
Tickets: $17 Advance/$20 DOS
All Ages
Fan pre-sale HERE

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Maurice El Medioni
With special support from Radio Gagarin DJs
Sunday 12 March 2006, 7.30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, London SE1 8XX (England)

Tickets £15 - £17.50
08703 800 400 or online at www.rfh.org.uk

‘The genial maestro of North African swing’ Songlines

Maurice El Medioni is the living legend of Oriental piano. Now 77, the charismatic charmer from Oran, the home of rai music, still mixes an evocative cocktail of Cuban rhythms, French chic and Oriental mellowness. The swinging melodies rekindle the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Oran of the past, when it was a sparkling melting pot of religions and cultures. His latest release Descarga Oriental takes the Cuban-Jewish theme even further, collaborating with eclectic New York based composer and drummer, Roberto Rodriguez.

‘I’ve always loved the way Maurice plays. He represents the times when music was pure and there was no war between Jews and Arabs, when we met to make music and share things.’ Khaled

Produced by KAPA Productions with support from Arts Council England

For more info and to join the mailing list visit www.kapa-productions.com

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Date: Sunday night March 12th.
Time: 7:00pm
Where: JTS Feinberg Auditorium
Broadway at 122nd Street

Tickets are $7 for students; and $15 for anyone else.

There will be a wide variety of music performed by over half of the students of the HL Miller Cantorial School.

For ticket info, contact either Sara Horowitz or Rebecca Carl.

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Sunday 12th March 7pm – late Harem Nights

Jongleurs, Middle Yard, Camden Lock, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AB
Price: £15 including mask
To book 0870 78 70707 or online at www.jongleurs.com (booking conditions apply)

Enter the realm of the senses... Harem Nights is a masquerade, full of Eastern promise, shadows, free-flowing wine, snakes, veils, spices, dance, music and more. A visually dazzling Persian carnival of circus sleaze and club concert, including sizzling live music from sultry oud players and snaky oriental saxophone solos, wandering performers, jewel-encrusted belly dancers and DJs.

Artists include Fantazia, Ghetto Plotz, DJ Max Reinhardt, bellydancers, stiltwalkers, actors and jugglers.

Dress: Arabian Nights.
A Jewish Community Centre for London event produced by YaD Arts
www.jongleurs.com or www.jewishcommunitycentre.org.uk
For other Jewish Community Centre events check out their website…

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The Free Synagogue of Flushing invites you to share an afternoon of music with:

*THE JOEL CHERNET KLEZMER QUARTET*
-featuring-
*PETE SOKOLOW*

Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.
41-60 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing (Queens), New York 11355

Tickets:
$30 Advance
$35 At the Door
Call 718-961-0030 for more information and ticket purchase

Free on site parking
Chair lift available

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Pharaoh's Daughter
NYC
Sunday March 12th
W/ matt turk at 92nd St. Y 11:30-2:30 kids Purim event

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the 2nd International Jewish Music festival-seminar in Moscow

DONA-FEST, March 2006

The Moscow Centre of Culture and Education "Euro-Class" announces the 2nd International Jewish Music festival-seminar "Dona-Fest, 2006" which will take place in Moscow from March 12-17, 2006.

For more information:

Center «Euro-Class», 115093, Moscow, Stremyanniy per., 33/35, Russia
call (007 095) 764-42-21 (Anatoly Pinsky)
E-mail Dona Dona Fest
www.dona-dona.ru

"Dona Fest" will take place in some of the most prestigious concert halls in Moscow and will include appearances by the most esteemed performers of Jewish music in Russia, the CIS and the Baltic states, as well as foreign stars of Klezmer.

Along with the concert programme, "Dona Fest" will also include an International music seminar, which will be lead by the leading specialists in the field of Jewish music and culture (Klezmer music, Yiddish songs, etc.)

The seminar programme includes:

• vocal and instrumental master classes;
• lectures on Yiddish and Ashkenazi culture;
• Jewish theatre and drama classes;
• Jewish folk dance;
• regular jam sessions;
• round table discussions, exchanging experience and knowledge;

The teachers:

• Grammy Award nominee and world famous Yiddish singer Adrianne Cooper (USA),
• Former musical director of the Royal National Theatre and The Shakespeare "Globe" theatre, one of the leading performers of traditional Klezmer music Merlin Shepherd (Great Britain),
• Founder of "The flying Bulgar Klezmer Band", composer and a famous jazz pianist Marylin Lerner (Canada),
• Leading European Jewish choir teacher and composer Polina Shepherd (Great Britain),
• European klezmer violin virtuosi Stas Rayko and Mark Kovnatsky (Germany),
• Drama art teacher and a popular Russian Jewish singer and actress Alina Ivakh (Russia).

Costs for participation:

• $200 for Russian and CIS citizens
• $550 for citizens of other countries
• $100 for Moscow residents (just seminar program)

(The cost includes full tuition: accommodation, meals and the seminar programme).

Participants pay for their own transportation. The organizing committee has a limited amount of free places (scholarships), which based on the decision of the assesment panel and available funds will be awarded to the most active figures in Jewish culture, as well as those for whom the full tuition might be a financial burden.

Free places will also be given to honoured guests and teachers. A system of partial/full payment for especially talented applicants who are not able to pay for participation in "Dona Fest" will be set aside in the "Dona Fest" scholarship fund.

Attendance of the festival's concerts must be paid for by all participants of the seminar. The festival has limited capacity. Candidates for participation must fill out an application and send it to the organizing committee (form enclosed), along with (for instrumentalists and singers) samples of their material in any audio or video format in advance.

Application forms (online at www.dona-dona.ru) are admitted till 01/03/06. The organizing committee will not consider any applications received after the indicated date. The organizing committee will announce its decision not later than 15/03/06.

For more information:

Center «Euro-Class», 115093, Moscow, Stremyanniy per., 33/35, Russia
call (007 095) 764-42-21 (Anatoly Pinsky)
E-mail Dona Dona Fest.

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Folksbiene Theatre presents:

Purim in Khelm
By Motl Didner and Miryem-Khaye Seigel
Before there was Yiddish Theatre, there was Purim Shpiel.

Join the fun as The Wise Men and Women of Khelm attempt to tell the story of Esther and Mordecai with cheerful song and outrageous comedy. Wine tasting and homentashn provided.

WHERE: JCC in Manhattan 334 Amsterdam Ave at 76th St
WHEN: Saturday, March 11, 2006 8PM
PRICE: $25

For further info: 212-213-2120
or email Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre
www.folksbiene.org

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Simchah! the Klezmer Band from the University of Virginia
will perform at Congregation Ner Shalom, 14010 Spriggs
Road, Woodbridge, VA on Saturday, March 11 @ 7:00 p.m.

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Charming Hostess

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Naftule's Dream
March 10, 8-9:30 p.m.
Rutman's Violin Shop
5 Westland Ave. (near Symphony Hall)
617-522-2900
Tickets: $5 donation

The incomparable Andrew Stern is once again filling in on the guitar chair, (while Brandon sips tea in some Viennese Coffee shop in the old world.) Please come join us as we continue to work up new repertoire and "remap" the old.

Naftule's Dream has been universally recognized for intense concert performances
which draw on elements of traditional Jewish klezmer music, hardcore rock and free
jazz with compositional brilliance and virtuosic execution. The "deep emotional
resonance" which marks their live performances has made them a must-see on the
Boston scene and has won them converts on their travels through Europe as well as
the strongholds of new music in New York and Chicago.

Naftule's Dream features musicians from a diverse list of bands prominent on the
local music scene including and Jim Gray (tuba), Michael McLaughlin (accordion) ,
Gary Bohan(trumpet); Eric Rosenthal (drums), Andrew Stern (guitar) and
bandleader/clarinetist Glenn Dickson.

"(Naftule's Dream) stretch the limits of densely composed and then freely jammed-out
music of deep emotional resonance. It's a crazy-ass circus one minute, a funeral
procession another, and everything in between the rest of the time." -Richard Gehr,
The Villiage Voice

"This is without a doubt the most startlingly original, audacious music I've
heard.What else can you say about a band that combines klezmer music and free jazz
with feedback guitar into an organic, fully realized whole? It's a remarkable
balancing act of discipline and unabashed noise, technical brilliance and a
completely contrary punk/no-wave aesthetic... Imagine Albert Mangelsdorf, Ivo
Papasov, Jimi Hendrix, and Ran Blake jamming with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band at a
Hassidic wedding and you'll get a piece of the idiosyncratic picture here." -Bill
Milkowski, Jazz Times

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On March 10, 2006 the Orange County Klezmers will be performing a concert of music from their popular CD "Echoes of Vilna" at the 7th Annual Holocaust Arts and Writing Contest held at Chapman University, California. This event is at 10 a.m. in the University's Memorial Hall. The cost of the event is free.

You can also read about the band's CD in a beautiful article from the Orange County Jewish Life by Ilean Schneider, www.ocklezmers.com/ocjl.htm.

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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"Hip Hop Einstein," Sagol 59's fourth album, will be released nationwide March 1st, on NMC Records.

There will be a large-scale release party with many special guest performers at the Sample Club (Nahalat Binyamin, Tel Aviv), on Thursday, March 9, at 9:30 PM.

To hear the lead single from the LP, "Current Affairs," visit cornerprophets.com/?p=9.

For more info, visit Sagol's MySpace page at www.myspace.com/sagol59.

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***IMPROVISATIONAL JAZZ & POETRY WITH THE KADIMA COLLECTIVE***

Join us for an evening of live jazz and poetry, featuring Jean Claude Jones and The Kadima Collective, with readings by Ronni Shendar and Dan 'Mobius' Sieradski.

The Kadima Musicians Collective is the vanguard of creative musical improvisation in Israel. For more information, visit www.kadimacollective.com.

Thursday, March 9 @ 9 PM (Tentatively)
Daila (4 Shlomzion Hamalka, Jerusalem)

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SEE, HEAR, FEEL THE MUSIC: JAZZARTSIGNS MARCH 9 IN BOSTON

Making Live Jazz Accessible To All People With and Without Disabilities

WHAT: JazzArtSigns, acclaimed vocalist Lisa Thorson's groundbreaking multimedia, multisensory and interactive improvised jazz performance piece for all audiences. JazzArtSigns features a group of world-class jazz musicians, an improvisational painter, American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters, a live audio describer and text captioner, as well as program information in Braille, large print and on tape. What makes this event groundbreaking is that everyone involved - the band, ASL interpreters and painter - trade fours and improvise.
WHEN JazzArtSIgns Concert Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. at the Wheelock Family
/WHERE: Theatre, 200 The Riverway, Boston.

TICKETS: $20; $10 students. Voice: 617-879-2300 * TTY: 617-879-2150.

PERFORMERS: Lisa Thorson, vocals; Cercie Miller, saxophones; Doug Johnson, piano; David Clark, bass; George Schuller, drums; Nancy Ostrovsky, improvisational painter; Jody Steiner and Misha Derissaint, ASL interpreters; Vince Lombardi, audio describer; and Don DePew of The Caption Coalition.

WHY: "Access to the arts and culture is still a rarity for many people with disabilities," says VSA arts of Massachusetts' director Charlie Washburn. "Rarest of all are integrated events that make the artistic product available and accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities. JazzArtSigns is a groundbreaking event because it provides people with and without disabilities the opportunity to interact with art and music from a variety of perspectives so that they literally see, hear and feel music as it is being performed."

JazzArtSigns creator Thorson, a wheelchair user, comments on her artistic vision. "Through JazzArtSigns I hope to inspire new mainstream artistic projects that will take a holistic view of access to the arts - one where access is an element in the creative process rather than an add-on that restricts creativity. With JazzArtSigns, the ASL interpreter and painter trade fours with the band and everyone improvises. This is what makes this event so unique."

PRESENTERS: VSA arts of Massachusetts and Wheelock Family Theatre. Each organization is celebrating its 25th Anniversary Season.

WORKSHOPS VSA arts of Massachusetts is sponsoring workshops for students and presenters in jazz and painting improvisation, universal design in the arts and audience development. These will encourage community building and give everyone a look at the future of cultural access. A complete schedule of workshops will be available soon.

FUNDING: JazzArtSigns was developed in collaboration with VSA Arts of Massachusetts' National Cultural Arts Initiative with support from the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). JazzArtSigns is also supported by Berklee College of Music's Faculty Fellowship Program, and the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission.

www.lisathorson.com
www.wheelock.edu/wft
www.vsamass.org

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Charming Hostess
Thursday, Mar 9, 7:30pm
Seattle, WA
Tractor Tavern 5213 Ballard Ave NW
Singing "Benjamin in Love: A Song Cycle"

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Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 7:45pm
Kavehoyz: Lisa Mayer in a Yiddish program on Sophie Tucker "Size 14"
With Pete Sokolow & Matt Temkin
Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope
274 Garfield Place, Brooklyn
Subways #2, #3 to Grand Army Plaza
Admission: $8.00

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Josh Waletzky's film about the Kirov Opera and Ballet companies, "Sacred Stage: The Mariinsky Theater", is having a NY premiere screening next Wednesday at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, one showing only, at 8:15pm. The film features eye- and ear-filling performances, plus behind-the-scenes scenes, plus incisive commentaries, plus a narration written by Ronald Blumer and spoken by Richard Thomas.

Read all about it at this site: filmlinc.com/wrt/showing/sacredstage.html

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Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar will be performing Wednesday, March 8 at
Astoria Center of Israel's "Cafe ACI". For more info, click on the url
below....

Wednesday, March 8 , 2006, 8-9:30pm
Astoria Center of Israel
27-35 Crescent Street, Astoria, Queens
$5 donation
www.astoriacenter.org/op

Hope to see you there!

Musicians:
Art Bailey- accordion
Brandon Seabrook- mandolin
Jake Shulman-Ment-violin
Jeremy Brown-violin
Jim Guttmann-bass

Music from Romania and a few other places...

Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar is a quintet consisting of accordion, two
violins, mandolin and bass that highlights both well-known and more obscure
klezmer tunes, as well as Bailey's own original compositions. The
repertoire is a mix of early 20th century Jewish fiddle pieces, original
compositions, improvisation, and features material originally recorded by
Romanian-born cymbalom master and Lower East Side restaurateur, Joseph
Moskowitz. Reminiscent of an earlier time in the history of recorded Jewish
music, the result is fresh, unique, and thoroughly engaging.

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Daphna Sadeh & The Voyagers

Daphna Sadeh- compositions,Double Bass
Stewart Curtis- Clarinet,Flutes
Koby Israelite - Accordion
Nim Schwartz - Oud
Ronen Kozokaro - Percussion

@ the Spitz
Tuesday, March 7th 2006
109 Commercial Street
London E1 6BG
9:30pm ( doors open at 7:00pm)
Ticket: £10
http://www.spitz.co.uk/venue.htm

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Alex Kontorovich's Deep Minor

MAKOR March 7th, 2006: 9:30pm
New York, NY: Makor (35 West 67th street)
Beginning at 9:30pm the evening will include the premiere performance of Alex Kontorovich's Deep Minor.

Tickets are $12 online or at the door. Call Y-Charge at 212.415.5500 or visit www.makor.org for more information and online ticket purchase.

Dive into the rambunctious rhythmic grooves and lose yourself in the intimate improvisations of Deep Minor—the latest project of all original compositions from reedman/bandleader Alex Kontorovich. To create this high energy quartet, Kontorovich joins forces with three premiere world jazz musicians: Brandon Seabrook (guitar/banjo), Reuben Radding (bass), and Aaron Alexander (drums). Mixing funk, Afro-Cuban, klezmer and Balkan influences, Deep Minor is the most exciting new must-see group to hit the New York jazz scene.

Deep Minor will begin at 9:30pm on Tue. March 7th at the Steinhardt Building. Tickets are $12 online or at the door. Call Y-Charge at 212.415.5500 or visit www.makor.org for more information and online ticket purchase.

PERSONNEL
Alex Kontorovich (Leader, Clarinet/Sax) was born in Russia and currently resides in NYC. He has toured all over North America, Europe, and Israel with various ensembles including Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars, Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh, the Klez Dispensers, and King Django's Roots and Culture Band. He has been a featured guest performer with prestigious ensembles including the Klezmatics, the Toronto Philharmonia, and with klezmer hip-hop maestro SoCalled, he is also on the faculty of the KlezKamp and KlezKanada festivals. Only in his 20's and already known in world music and jazz scenes as a kickin' sideman, Kontorovich sets out on his own with his newest project � Deep Minor.

Brandon Seabrook (guitar/banjo)
Reuben Radding (bass)
Aaron Alexander (drums)

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Charming Hostess
Tuesday, Mar 7, 7:30pm
Washington, DC
Busboys & Poets
Corner of 14th & V Streets NW
Singing "Benjamin in Love: A Song Cycle"

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Pharaoh's Daughter
NYC
Tuesday March 7th after 9p.m.
Playing oud to live musicians and dj at Kush (orchard street) benefit for Persian Arts Festival

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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The Strauss/Warschauer Duo continues the Monday evening Columbia Series with a special hands-on workshop for klezmer instrumentalists and Yiddish singers. Bring your instruments and voices. Listeners are also welcome.

A Bintl-Lebns (A Bundle of Lives)
Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein (University of Pennsylvania) and the Strauss/Warschauer Duo present an evening of autobiographical readings, letters, poetry, music and songs that celebrate Yiddish culture through first-person narrative.

All events will be held at Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116th Street (between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive) in New York City at 8 PM, and are free and open to public. No tickets necessary. For more information please call (718) 399-1147 or email Agnieszka Legutko.

The next event in the series is on Apr 3, 2006.

Deborah Strauss (violin, accordion, vocals) and Jeff Warschauer (guitar, mandolin, vocals) are two of the most astonishing and popular performers and teachers in the international klezmer and Yiddish music scene. They were both long-time members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and have performed with violinist Itzhak Perlman on film and in concert. As the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, they have performed to overwhelming acclaim in such diverse venues as the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow, the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater in New York City, and the Art of Yiddish in Los Angeles with Theodore Bikel. They lead workshops and classes throughout North America and Europe, are on the faculty of KlezKamp, KlezKanada and KlezFest at the University of London, and are curators of the Columbia University Series on Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song.

Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein is the Ruth Meltzer Senior Lecturer in Yiddish and Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A poet and a translator, Hellerstein is also a scholar of Yiddish and modern Jewish literature. Her books include translations of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern's Yiddish poems, IN NEW YORK: A SELECTION; PAPER BRIDGES: SELECTED POEMS OF KADYA MOLODOWSKY; and JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE: A NORTON ANTHOLOGY, which she co-edited. Her numerous articles, translations, and poems are published for both scholarly and general audiences. Among other awards, Hellerstein received a Guggenheim fellowship for her work on women Yiddish poets.

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Come out and celebrate a Persian Purim with the Divahn ladies!!

Sunday, March 5th @ 8:00 pm
Barbes - free pre-Purim show
376 9th St. (near 6th Ave. corner)
Park Slope, Brooklyn 718.965.917

sponsored by Brooklyn Jews (www.BrooklynJews.org)

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Matisyahu

Matisyahu in Indianapolis, IN
The Vogue
Doors 7:00/Show 8:30
Tickets: $23 Advance/$25 DOS
21+
Fan pre-sale HERE

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KlezFactor
returns to Toronto's Free Times Cafe for their "Bella, Did ya eat?" Brunch. KF will perform in a (slightly) reduced form, due to the small venue as well as the traditional nature of the music.

Ali Berkok will melodicize on melodica, Mark Pellizzer will electrify on guitar, Jennifer Burford will certainly not be vile on the violin and Mike Anklewicz will play clearly on the clarinet.

Brunch is $17.95 - reservations are recommended for each sitting - 11:45 am, and 1:45 pm. Call 416-967-1078 for more information.

Free Times Cafe
320 College St.
tel: 416-967-1078
www.freetimescafe.com

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Simply Tsfat
Sunday, March 5th @7pm
Chicago, IL
Cong. Bnei Shalom
701 Aptakisic Rd
Buffalo Grove
www.russianjews.org
contact: 773-973-1800
tickets: $20

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The Klezmatics
perform "20 Years Live!" Concert
Town Hall NYC
Sunday, March 5, show-time is 4 PM

(NY, NY): The Klezmatics, NYC's eccentric Jewish Folk Music renegades, are working on twenty years of existence and are celebrating with a special performance at the famed Town Hall on Sunday, March 5, 2006. Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com.

Tel:(212) 840-2824
www.the-townhall-nyc.org/

The Klezmatics will be recording the show for an upcoming documentary and tv broadcast that are being filmed simultaneously. The documentary is due to be released in 2007. The tv show will hopefully hit the airwaves in Autumn 2006.

Also on the radar:

• The Klezmatics are recording the first ever Klezmercana album; the songs of American Folk Icon Woody Guthrie meets the music of the pre-eminent Jewish Folk group. The album, in coordination with Nora Guthrie and the Woody Guthrie Archives, is due for release in mid - late 2006.

• The band will performing at SXSW 2006 for the first time in over fifteen years. Their unique billing will be with noted Guthrie / Wilco singer- songwriter Billy Bragg.

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Pharaoh's Daughter
Sunday March 5th 3p.m.
Norwalk, Connecticut
(make up concert from feb.12th blizzard)
Congregation Beth El 109 East Avenue Norwalk, CT
(203) 838-2710
Free!

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Steve Weintraub is indeed coming to Bolton St. Synagogue in Baltimore on March 4th and 5th. Klezzazz will provide backup, at least on the night of the 4th. On Saturday the 4th, we'll have a warm-up instructional session at 5pm, potluck dinner at 6pm and a dance party at 7pm until ??? The band is organizing it's repertoire around the dance music. $10 donation (kids and students free) but we won't collect money until after havdalah, which is right before the dance party. On Sunday the 5th, there will be a dance workshop by Steve from 3 to 5pm. $12 with kids and students free. Please come if you're in the area. E-mail Michael Checknoff for more information.

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Josh Waletzky, the New York-based Yiddish singer-songwriter and film maker will give a concert at the Workmen's Circle in Brookline on Sunday, March 5 at 2:00 p.m. Josh brings an unusual repertoire of folk and original songs in Yiddish. Don't miss this opportunity to hear him! Admission free.

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FleytMuzik, with Adrianne Greenbaum, (flute) Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl)
and Marty Confurius (bass), will perform at Beth El, 8215 Old Georgetown Rd, Bethesda, MD for a Shabbat weekend, March 3,4, and 5.

Friday night is a Klezmer Kabbalat Shabbat , with all instrumental tunes composed by Adrianne. Service begins at 6:30 with dinner following.

Saturday evening is Havdala (6:30) followed by a Malaveh Malkah dessert and dancing, with the above musicians plus guest clarinetist and lister, Tom Powalski. We'll dance the evening away with my leading of the freylekhs, sher, hora, and whatever else people are up for doing. (Social dancing as well, I'm told....so I will bring the keyboard and Tom will lug the sax. Something for everyone....)

Sunday morning will be a Hebrew school program introducing the kids to klezmer.

Call 301-652-2606 for reservations and more info. (The office might be confused, somewhat, since the flyers said "Klezical Tradition" instead of FleytMuzik....same flutist, different ensemble....just so you know up front why the potential confusion on their part....) Hope to see some of you Southerners there!

http://www.bethelmc.org/

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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CORNER PROPHETS PROUDLY PRESENTS
Y-LOVE WITH DJ CARESS
And Special Guests
Early Set by Mobius

UGANDA
Aristobulus 4, Jerusalem
Go to Cafe Hillel on Jaffa St., walk up Helene HaMalka (the street which intersects with Jaffa at Cafe Hillel), and turn left into the very first alleyway (Aristobulus). Uganda will be on your right.

Saturday, March 4 @ 21:00

Y-Love (Yitz Jordan) is an MC unlike any other. He is a black convert into the Bostener sect of chassidus (the mystical branch of Orthodox Judaism). He is among the most innovative freestylers on the scene, weaving seamless polyglot rhymes in English, Arabic, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Most unique is Y-Love's revival of Aramaic, the ancient language used to discuss Jewish Law. With each word he spits in the tongue of the Talmud, Y-Love breathes new life into Hasidism, and hip-hop, one beat at a time.

Check out this short film about the man and his music: modularmoods.com/tv/introducing_y-love_video.html
Visit Y-Love's page at Modular Moods here: modularmoods.com/y-love
Visit his MySpace page here: myspace.com/ylove

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Come out and celebrate a Persian Purim with the Divahn ladies!!

Saturday, March 4th @ 8:30 pm
Congregation Shomrei Emunah
67 Park Street
Montclair, NJ
(973) 746-5031

www.shomrei.org

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Birthday party/fundraiser for Congregation Tehillah, Riverdale's Dynamic Synagogue. It's a celebration of five years of community. The klezmer dance concert will feature Shirim Klezmer Orchestra. Also includes a silent auction and a dessert tasting.

Saturday, March 4, 2006 from 8:30-11:30 pm
Riverdale Temple, 4545 Independence Avenue, Bronx, NY
$18 (includes dessert!)

tickets: (718) 884-4839
www.congregationtehillah.org

Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, one of the country’s top klezmer orchestras, will bring their traditional Jewish jazz sound to Riverdale as part of the birthday celebration/fundraiser/ dance for Congregation Tehillah, a socially conscious synagogue based in Riverdale that was founded five years ago.

Shirim, based in Boston, is considered to be one of the top klezmer orchestras in the country. Their toe-tapping arrangements of classic klezmer tunes and ingenious takes on classical composers such as Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Satie have been featured in films, on radio, and at colleges, concert halls, and weddings across the country. Billboard magazine awarded them a critic’s choice and their album Klezmer Nutcracker has become an annual program on National Public Radio.

Many of the musicians that will play at the Tehillah party are also members of Naftule’s Dream, a jazz/klezmer ensemble that has been breaking down the barriers of traditional klezmer music. Combining klezmer with modern classical, freely improvised rock fusion, and fiery improvisation, Naftule’s Dream is "without a doubt the most startlingly original, audacious music I've heard," according to Bill Milkowski of Jazz Times.

Shirim will play two dance/music sets between 9 and 11:30 pm. The concert/fundraiser is open to the public. (Doors open at 8:30 pm) Other events will include a silent auction and a dessert tasting (free with admission). Tickets for the party are $18 each and can be purchased in advance through Congregation Tehillah or at the door. For more information or for tickets visit www.congregationtehillah.org or call (718) 884-4839

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Kurt Weill Birthday Tribute
Saturday Mar. 4
8:00 PM

Curated by Anthony Coleman. Featuring Elysian Fields, Mark Anthony Thompson, Sanda, Shelley Hirsch, Doveman, Christina Courtin, Gina Leishman and the Main Squeeze Orchestra.

Kurt Weill, one of America's greatest composers, embraced myriad musical forms but found his greatest success in popular music and theater. Raised in Germany, the classically trained cantor's son developed dark, emotional and subversive social and political commentaries in collaboration with playwright Bertolt Brecht. Pianist Anthony Coleman and friends pay tribute to the man behind The Threepenny Opera and present modern takes on his seminal songs, including "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife," "Alabama Song," "Mack the Knife" and "Lost in the Stars."

This event will take place at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street.

Tickets are $20 in advance; $25 at the door.

Tickets may be purchased online on the Makor/92nd St. Y Website

www.makor.org

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Pharaoh's Daughter
Saturday March 4th 8p.m.
@ Ruth Hyman JCC, Deal NJ, Evelyn Axelrod Performing Arts Center
(discounts for seniors and children)
Call 732-531-9100 xt. 142 or just come...
$25

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New York Composers Circle Concert

On Saturday, March 4th, at 8 PM, a concert of music by American composers being presented under the auspices of the New York Composers Circle will include a performance of 'Three Yiddish Poems,' by Jacob E. Goodman, a song cycle consisting of settings of poems by Leyb Naydus, Rokhl Korn, and Avrom Reyzin. The poems are about three stages of love: infatuation, deep love, and remembrance. The last song can also be taken as a eulogy for a way of life that is now no more.

The concert program, is featured on the website of the NYCC (www.nycomposerscircle.org)

Saturday, March 4, 2006, 8:00 PM
at
St. Peter's Church, Chelsea
346 West 20th St.
New York City

A Concert of Music and Dance
Suggested Contribution: $15.00

Performers include:

Richard Brooks
John de Clef Pineiro
Jill Frere
Jacob E. Goodman
Donald Hagar
Noah Haverkamp
Patricia Leonard
Nataliya Medvedovskaya
Richard Russell
Bill Vanaver

Featuring:
Hiromi Abe, piano
Mary Barto, flute
Tamara Cashour, piano
Nancy Garniez, piano
Leonard Lehrman, piano
Molly Merkler, dancer
Diliana Momtchilova, cello
Elizabeth Mondragon, mezzo-soprano
M. Lindsay Smith, dancer
Patricia Sonego, soprano
Yuri Vodovoz, violin
Helene Williams, soprano

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The Bridge Institute
www.nycbridge.com
Presents
M-SOUL - Motzei Shabbat Openmic of Univeral Language
Saturday night, March 4th, 2006, 8 pm
Featuring: Guitar Great! Melvin Sparks

In the international city of NYC, a new program designed to promote the art of improvisation, uniting all citizens from every walk of life.

If you would like to perform, please send and email., or sign-up when you arrive, 1st come, 1st serve basis.

at: Congregation Washington Heights
179th and Pinehurst
take the "A" train to 181, make a right at 179th, entrance in on the side.

Admissions - $10 at the door

A night of improvisational music featuring professional and local musicians from all over NYC. All are welcome to come and perform with the house band or with new people. The only requirement is to speak universal language, there is no singing, its all about the music! All styles of music are encouraged, including blues, jazz, klezmer, funk, etc.

With house band, Naqshon's Leap - drummer Shawn Hill (P-Funk), bassist Alvin, and guitarist Jason Caplan

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FleytMuzik, with Adrianne Greenbaum, (flute) Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl)
and Marty Confurius (bass), will perform at Beth El, 8215 Old Georgetown Rd, Bethesda, MD for a Shabbat weekend, March 3,4, and 5.

Friday night is a Klezmer Kabbalat Shabbat , with all instrumental tunes composed by Adrianne. Service begins at 6:30 with dinner following.

Saturday evening is Havdala (6:30) followed by a Malaveh Malkah dessert and dancing, with the above musicians plus guest clarinetist and lister, Tom Powalski. We'll dance the evening away with my leading of the freylekhs, sher, hora, and whatever else people are up for doing. (Social dancing as well, I'm told....so I will bring the keyboard and Tom will lug the sax. Something for everyone....)

Sunday morning will be a Hebrew school program introducing the kids to klezmer.

Call 301-652-2606 for reservations and more info. (The office might be confused, somewhat, since the flyers said "Klezical Tradition" instead of FleytMuzik....same flutist, different ensemble....just so you know up front why the potential confusion on their part....) Hope to see some of you Southerners there!

http://www.bethelmc.org/

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Matisyahu

Matisyahu in Chicago, IL
Riviera Theatre
Doors 5:30/Show 7:00
Tickets $32 advance/$35 DOS
21+
Fan pre-sale HERE

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Steve Weintraub is indeed coming to Bolton St. Synagogue in Baltimore on March 4th and 5th. Klezzazz will provide backup, at least on the night of the 4th. On Saturday the 4th, we'll have a warm-up instructional session at 5pm, potluck dinner at 6pm and a dance party at 7pm until ??? The band is organizing it's repertoire around the dance music. $10 donation (kids and students free) but we won't collect money until after havdalah, which is right before the dance party. On Sunday the 5th, there will be a dance workshop by Steve from 3 to 5pm. $12 with kids and students free. Please come if you're in the area. E-mail Michael Checknoff for more information.

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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FleytMuzik, with Adrianne Greenbaum, (flute) Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl)
and Marty Confurius (bass), will perform at Beth El in Bethesda, MD for a Shabbat weekend, March 3,4, and 5.

Friday night is a Klezmer Kabbalat Shabbat , with all instrumental tunes composed by Adrianne. Service begins at 6:30 with dinner following.

Saturday evening is Havdala followed by a Malaveh Malkah dessert and dancing, with the above musicians plus guest clarinetist and lister, Tom Powalski. We'll dance the evening away with my leading of the freylekhs, sher, hora, and whatever else people are up for doing. (Social dancing as well, I'm told....so I will bring the keyboard and Tom will lug the sax. Something for everyone....)

Sunday morning will be a Hebrew school program introducing the kids to klezmer.

Call 301-652-2606 for reservations and more info. (The office might be confused, somewhat, since the flyers said "Klezical Tradition" instead of FleytMuzik....same flutist, different ensemble....just so you know up front why the potential confusion on their part....) Hope to see some of you Southerners there!

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"Hip Hop Einstein," Sagol 59's fourth album, will be released nationwide March 1st, on NMC Records.

To celebrate the release, Friday, March 3, at 12 PM, there will be a release party at Tuvya (6 R' Shushan, Jerusalem).

To hear the lead single from the LP, "Current Affairs," visit cornerprophets.com/?p=9.

For more info, visit Sagol's MySpace page at www.myspace.com/sagol59.

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Asefa @ Mo Pitkin's
Thursday, March 2, 9:30pm, $10
34 Ave. A (btw 2/3 st.), NYC
www.mopitkins.com

Asefa includes Samuel Thomas on woodwinds and percussion, Shanir Blumenkranz on oud and upright bass, Mattias Kunzli on drums and Rich Stein on percussion. From the Hebrew, Asefa collects North African Grooves imbued with contemporary concepts in improvisation and instrumentation, reflecting a fresh spirit in music making.

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"Hip Hop Einstein," Sagol 59's fourth album, will be released nationwide March 1st, on NMC Records.

To celebrate the release, Sagol and DJ Caress will be holding a small, free gig at Jerusalem's Music House (R' Keren Hayesod) on Thursday, March 2, at 9:30 PM.

To hear the lead single from the LP, "Current Affairs," visit cornerprophets.com/?p=9.

For more info, visit Sagol's MySpace page at www.myspace.com/sagol59.

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Mendy CAHAN & der YIDDISH EXPRESS
proudly presents
YIDDISH FEVER
new CD release
www.yiddishexpress.com

THU March 2, 2006 8PM 40 NIS
Beth Shalom Aleikhem
Rehov Berkowitz 4
Tel Aviv
Reservations 03/6956513

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Matisyahu

6:00pm
Matisyahu in Minneapolis, MN
Drive 105 Presents
Matisyahu in Minneapolis
First Avenue
Doors 6:00/Show 7:30
Tickets: $21 Advance/$23 DOS
18+
Fan pre-sale HERE

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Simply Tsfat
Wednesday, March 1st @ 8pm
lower East side, Manhattan, NY
10 Clinton street (just south of Houston)
Congregation Chasam Sopher
www.chasamsopher.org
Tel: 212-777-5140

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Matisyahu

8:00pm
Matisyahu in Kansas City, MO
KRBZ The Buzz Presents
Matisyahu in Kansas City
The Beaumont Club
Doors 8:00/Show 9:00
Tickets: $21 Advance/$25 DOS
All Ages
Fan pre-sale HERE

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The next Astoria Klezmer Jam session is Wednesday, March 1, 7:30-9:30pm. Hope to see some of you there.

Klezmer jam session at Astoria Center of Israel, led by Margot Leverett and open to all. All musicians are welcome to join in, and anyone can come listen or just hang out - it's free! This will be the last one before Passover break. Check www.AstoriaCenter.org for updates. 27-35 Crescent Street, Astoria (Queens), New York 718-278-2680

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