KlezCalendar

81667 München, Theater Drehleier - Klezmer-Tanz in den Mai mit Massel-Tov und A Tickle in the Heaart, Rosenheimerstr. 123, 20.00, T. 089-482742, www.theater-drehleier.de

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A Day in Yiddishland: Klezmer Music and Yiddish Culture Program for all ages

Sunday, April 30th, 9:30am - 6:00pm, Kehillah Jewish High School, 3900 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, held in collaboration with the Albert L. Schultz JCC.

Join us for a fun filled day of workshops and classes in Klezmer music for all levels, special presentations and lectures, Yiddish language and humor, sing-alongs, dancing, art, special teen workshops, youth programs for ages 5 and older. Featuring fabulous teachers of the internationally renowned klezmer band Veretski Pass, special Yiddish dance teacher from Chicago, and Stanford lecturers. Check website to get the latest information.

Space is limited! Please preregister online or by mail, see web site at www.klezcalifornia.org for details. General admission $20, Students $15, Seniors $15, ALSJCC members $15, children $5.

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Letter from Istanbul Ensemble

April 30, 2006 Sunday 7 PM
New York, NY

Peter Norton Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York, NY 10025-6990

Tickets $ 26, WMI Friends $ 22

Presented by World Music Institute

Sponsored by
Turkish Culture and Tourism Office, New York & Moon and Stars Project
http://heartheworld.org/WMICAL/Calendar.asp?Month=4&TheYear=2006
Tickets: http://www.symphonyspace.org/genres/seriesPage.php?seriesId=80&genreId=1

Letter from Istanbul celebrates the traditional music of Western Anatolia & Aegean Islands. This project grew out of the longtime musical friendship of Derya Türkan and Sokratis Sinopoulos. Letter from Istanbul is a sophisticated melding of traditional Turkish and Greek folk forms such as zeybeks and sirtos. The ensemble includes: Derya Türkan on kemenche, Sokratis Sinopoulos on kemenche (Turkish fiddle) and lavta (short-necked lute), Ugur Isik on violoncello, Hakan Güngör on kanun (plucked zither), Perikles Papapetropoulos, also on lavta, and the Yarkin brothers, Fahreddin and Ferruh, on percussions. Master Derya Türkan is dedicated to continuing the style of his teacher Ihsan Özgen and of Tanburi Cemil Bey. Sokratis Sinopoulos has played in Ross Daly’s Labyrinth Ensemble, with Greek demotika and rebetika groups, as well as Byzantine music and western jazz ensembles.

Ensemble Members

Derya Türkan—kemenche (kemençe, three-stringed fiddle)
Sokratis Sinopoulos—kemenche (politiki lyra) & lavta (polítiko laoúto)
Ugur Isik—violoncello
Hakan Güngör—kanun (plucked zither)
Perikles Papapetropoulos—lavta (polítiko laoúto)
Fahreddin Yarkin—percussion
Ferruh Yarkin—percussion

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The Afro-Semitic Experience
Sunday April 30, 3:30 p.m., at Anshe Emet, 3751 North Broadway, Chicago, Illinois. For more info please call 773-281-1423.

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Dear Friend,
Do you love Jewish culture and want to be immersed in
colorful and joyful evening of Jewish songs and dances.
Come and indulge yourself in a special show by the Jewish
Musical Theater Firelech which will take place on Sunday
April 30th, 2006 at Brookline High School, 115 Greenough
street, Brookline, MA 02460 at 3:00pm
The show’s energy will captivate you and bring joy to you
hearts!

www.firelech.com

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The Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center 21 is pleased to invite you to a
lecture.

RAY (CHAYELE) PALEVSKY
member of the United Partisan Organization
(Partisans of Vilna) will speak on the topic

MY LIFE IN THE RESISTANCE

After the lecture, there will be a musical program with

JERRY SILVERMAN
renowned researcher and performer of Holocaust music

SUNDAY 30 APRIL 2006
1:30 PM

In our auditorium at 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!

*** PROGRAM IS IN YIDDISH!! ***

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KlezCalifornia 2006 will take place this spring at the Kehilla Jewish High School in Palo Alto. An exciting program is planned in collaboration with The Albert L. Schultz JCC.

www.klezcalifornia.org

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Letter from Istanbul Ensemble Concert—April 29, 2006 Saturday 8 PM, Boston MA

Tower Auditorium, Tower Building
Massachusetts College of Art
621 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Located at the corner of Longwood Ave. & Huntington Ave.
Accessible by Green Line E train (Longwood stop) or by #39 bus.
Tickets: Priority Seating $16, General Admission $11 -- when purchased on-line
Priority Seating $20, General Admission $15 -- at the door

Presented by 5th Boston Turkish Film and Music Festival
Tickets & more information:
www.bostonturkishfilmfestival.org/2006Festival/program_2006_main.htm

Tour webpage:
www.goldenhorn.com/display.php4?content=engagements&page=ge_lfi_2006.html

Letter from Istanbul celebrates the traditional music of Western Anatolia & Aegean Islands. This project grew out of the longtime musical friendship of Derya Türkan and Sokratis Sinopoulos. Letter from Istanbul is a sophisticated melding of traditional Turkish and Greek folk forms such as zeybeks and sirtos. The ensemble includes: Derya Türkan on kemenche, Sokratis Sinopoulos on kemenche (Turkish fiddle) and lavta (short-necked lute), Ugur Isik on violoncello, Hakan Güngör on kanun (plucked zither), Perikles Papapetropoulos, also on lavta, and the Yarkin brothers, Fahreddin and Ferruh, on percussions. Master Derya Türkan is dedicated to continuing the style of his teacher Ihsan Özgen and of Tanburi Cemil Bey. Sokratis Sinopoulos has played in Ross Daly’s Labyrinth Ensemble, with Greek demotika and rebetika groups, as well as Byzantine music and western jazz ensembles.

Ensemble Members

Derya Türkan—kemenche (kemençe, three-stringed fiddle)
Sokratis Sinopoulos—kemenche (politiki lyra) & lavta (polítiko laoúto)
Ugur Isik—violoncello
Hakan Güngör—kanun (plucked zither)
Perikles Papapetropoulos—lavta (polítiko laoúto)
Fahreddin Yarkin—percussion
Ferruh Yarkin—percussion

April 29, 2006 Saturday 8 PM
Boston, MA

Presented by 5th Boston Turkish Film and Music Festival
Tickets & more information:
www.bostonturkishfilmfestival.org/2006Festival/program_2006_main.htm

Tour webpage:
www.goldenhorn.com/display.php4?content=engagements&page=ge_lfi_2006.html

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CELEBRATE YIDDISH 2006!
Featuring "Born to Kvetch"
A hilarious and enlightening performance by MICHAEL WEX
Author of the NY Times, LA Times, Amazon Bestseller

KLEZMER CONCERT WITH
Gabe Bolkosky & San Slomovitz
Honoring: Shirley Benyas, Sidney Bolkosky, Leon Cohan

Saturday
April 29, 2006
8 p.m.

Marion & David Handleman Hall & Auditorium
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building
Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
6600 West Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322

A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE AND DESSERT RECEPTION FOR THE WORKMEN'S CIRCLE/ARBETER RING OF MICHIGAN
Dedicated to Jewish Community, Yiddish Culture and Social Justice

Tickets: $36, $72, $100
Reservations & tributes: 248-545-0985

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Concert & Dance Party Featuring Veretski Pass

Saturday April 29th, 8:00pm - 11:00pm, Cubberley Community Center Auditorium, at the ALSJCC in Palo Alto, CA

KlezCalifornia will begin on Saturday night with Havdalah, leading into a spectacular lineup concert with the California Klezmer/Red Hot Chachkas All Stars with Heather Klein on vocals, and featuring the internationally renowned Klezmer Band Veretski Pass—heymish and hip! All this will be followed by a spirited dance party, with Steve Weintraub leading us through wonderful and energetic Yiddish dancing accompanied by all the musicians.

Check the web site for more details at www.klezcalifornia.org. General admission is $25, students, seniors and ALSJCC members $20, children $5.

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Neshama Carlebach is going to be at Temple Emanuel of Tempe Arizona (5801 South Rural Road, Tempe, Arizona 85283) for a Shabbaton. Activities will include Kabbalat Shabbat on Friday night (for men and women), a Shabbat afternoon lecture session, and a Saturday night Havdalla and Concert with Neshama and David Morgan. Call 480-838-1414 or visit Emaneul of Tempe's website.

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KlezCalifornia 2006 will take place this spring at the Kehilla Jewish High School in Palo Alto. An exciting program is planned in collaboration with The Albert L. Schultz JCC.

www.klezcalifornia.org

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Yankele
Apr 28, 20h45
Le Comptoir
Halle Roublot 95, rue Roublot
94120 Fontenay sous Bois
06 71 26 00 95 / 01 48 75 76 52

Plan pour se rendre au Comptoir, cliquer ici

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Neshama Carlebach is going to be at Temple Emanuel of Tempe Arizona (5801 South Rural Road, Tempe, Arizona 85283) for a Shabbaton. Activities will include Kabbalat Shabbat on Friday night (for men and women), a Shabbat afternoon lecture session, and a Saturday night Havdalla and Concert with Neshama and David Morgan. Call 480-838-1414 or visit Emaneul of Tempe's website.

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Theresa Tova is at the Kleve Stadthalle in Kleve, Germany with a program entitled A little Klez, A little Jazz. Click here for more information.

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DJ So Called

"Précurseur et fer de lance du courant hip-hop klezmer outre-atlantique, coauteur du sensationnel album "Hip Hop Khasene" avec la violoniste Sophie Solomon et de l'improbable "SoCalled Seder" featuring Killah Priest, Katie Moore, Susan Hoffman-Watts, Frank London et Irving Fields, SoCalled a surgi à Paris en octobre dernier auprès d¹Iva Bittova et du David Krakauer¹s Klezmer Madness lors d¹un concert mémorable au festival Klezmopolitan.

Dans le cadre de sa première tournée européenne d¹envergure, il fait escale à Paris le jeudi 20 avril 2006 au Studio de l'Ermitage et le mercredi 26 avril 2006 au Point Ephémère avec comme invité de marque le saxophoniste Julien Lourau (Groove Gang, Magik Malik, Bojan Z...), à Saint-Etienne le vendredi 21 avril 2006 au Grand Lux et à Marseille le vendredi 28 avril 2006 au Poste à Galène (locations points de ventes habituels).

On y découvre sa vision jubilatoire d¹un esprit yiddish nourri de jazz, de rock, d'électro, de musique orientale et surtout de hip hop, style propice aux transgressions de codes et de croyances établies.

L¹occasion pour Socalled de présenter son nouvel album "Ghetto Blaster" (Label Bleu), poursuivant son hommage festif et avant-gardiste à l¹un des héritages musicaux les plus pénétrants, vastes et entraînants qui soit." Blaise Merlin

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The Afro-Semitic Experience
Friday, April 28, Friday night service at Temple Sinai, One Engle Street, Tenafly, New Jersey, for more information please call 201-568-3035.

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Slavic Soul Party!
Friday, April 28th, 2006 @ 7pm til?
World Music Fest - Cleveland, OH
6203 Detroit Ave
Cleveland, OH 44102
www.detroitavenuearts.org

Fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding American grooves, and ecstatic anthems both new and old: Slavic Soul Party! is just what it says. Brash and strong as slivovitz, these nine musicians have forged a virtuosic new brass band music in the heart of New York City—melding Gypsy, East European, Mexican, and Asian immigrant backgrounds with American jazz and sou—and “developed a reputation for delivering a great time.” (NY Times)

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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:

"I am a Jew from eternal nowhere": Yiddish song in the aftermath of the Holocaust

Shirli Gilbert (University of Michigan) Respondent: Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University)

Friday, April 28
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 orMusic in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps (Oxford University Press, 2005) was a runner-up in the Holocaust category of the 2005 National Jewish Book Award.

Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Assistant Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Columbia University. His first book, Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, was published in 2004 by Stanford University Press, and Landmark Yiddish Plays, an anthology he co-edited and translated with Joel Berkowitz, will be published in June. He is the co-editor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History.

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Slavic Soul Party!
Thursday, April 27th, 2006 @ 9pm
HotHouse - Chicago, IL
31 E Balbo Dr
Chicago, IL 60605
1.312.362.9707
Cross Street: State Street
Directions: El: Red Line to Harrison
hothouse.net

Fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding American grooves, and ecstatic anthems both new and old: Slavic Soul Party! is just what it says. Brash and strong as slivovitz, these nine musicians have forged a virtuosic new brass band music in the heart of New York City—melding Gypsy, East European, Mexican, and Asian immigrant backgrounds with American jazz and soul—and “developed a reputation for delivering a great time.” (NY Times)

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At the Borders
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Thursday, April 27

For more information, call 845-758-7543 or visit inside.bard.edu/jewish/events

ALL EVENTS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC PRESENTED BY THE JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM
Made possible with support from the Center for Cultural Judaism, Bertha Effron Fund of the Community Foundation of Dutchess County, Wassermann-Streit Y’DIYAH Memorial Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, and Jazz at Bard.

"Chronicle of the Love and Death of the Standard Bearer Christoph Rilke" (Theresienstadt, 1944)
Viktor Ullmann’s setting of Rainer Maria Rilke’s prose poem
LECTURE AND PERFORMANCE
Philip V. Bohlman, Werkman Professor of the Humanities and Music,
University of Chicago
Christine Wilkie Bohlman, lecturer in piano and music theory, University of
Illinois at Chicago
OLIN HUMANITIES BUILDING, ROOM 104, 12:30 p.m.

Between East and West, Past and Present: Jews and Their Musical Cultures
PANEL DISCUSSION
Leon Botstein, President of Bard College
Philip V. Bohlman, Werkman Professor of the Humanities and Music,
University of Chicago
Mark Slobin, Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
OLIN HALL, 2:30 p.m.

A Personal Journey through Klezmer Music
David Krakauer, clarinetist and faculty member, The Bard College
Conservatory of Music
OLIN HUMANITIES BUILDING, ROOM 102, 5:00 p.m.

Shake My Heart: Yiddish Song in Two Worlds
Adrienne Cooper, Frank London, Marilyn Lerner, with special guest David Krakauer
These internationally renowned artists bring jazz, classical music, and creative improvisation to material ranging from folk songs to contemporary poetry.
OLIN HALL, 8:00 p.m.

BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK
For more information, call 845-758-7543 or visit inside.bard.edu/jewish/events

ALL EVENTS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC PRESENTED BY THE JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM
Made possible with support from the Center for Cultural Judaism, Bertha Effron Fund of the Community Foundation of Dutchess County, Wassermann-Streit Y’DIYAH Memorial Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, and Jazz at Bard.

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Slavic Soul Party!
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 @ 9pm
Northside Tavern - Cincinnati, OH
4163 Hamilton Ave
1.513.542.3603
www.northside-tavern.com

Fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding American grooves, and ecstatic anthems both new and old: Slavic Soul Party! is just what it says. Brash and strong as slivovitz, these nine musicians have forged a virtuosic new brass band music in the heart of New York City—melding Gypsy, East European, Mexican, and Asian immigrant backgrounds with American jazz and sou—and “developed a reputation for delivering a great time.” (NY Times)

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Charming Hostess

Singing "Benjamin in Love: A Song Cycle"

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DJ So Called

"Précurseur et fer de lance du courant hip-hop klezmer outre-atlantique, coauteur du sensationnel album "Hip Hop Khasene" avec la violoniste Sophie Solomon et de l'improbable "SoCalled Seder" featuring Killah Priest, Katie Moore, Susan Hoffman-Watts, Frank London et Irving Fields, SoCalled a surgi à Paris en octobre dernier auprès d¹Iva Bittova et du David Krakauer¹s Klezmer Madness lors d¹un concert mémorable au festival Klezmopolitan.

Dans le cadre de sa première tournée européenne d¹envergure, il fait escale à Paris le jeudi 20 avril 2006 au Studio de l'Ermitage et le mercredi 26 avril 2006 au Point Ephémère avec comme invité de marque le saxophoniste Julien Lourau (Groove Gang, Magik Malik, Bojan Z...), à Saint-Etienne le vendredi 21 avril 2006 au Grand Lux et à Marseille le vendredi 28 avril 2006 au Poste à Galène (locations points de ventes habituels).

On y découvre sa vision jubilatoire d¹un esprit yiddish nourri de jazz, de rock, d'électro, de musique orientale et surtout de hip hop, style propice aux transgressions de codes et de croyances établies.

L¹occasion pour Socalled de présenter son nouvel album "Ghetto Blaster" (Label Bleu), poursuivant son hommage festif et avant-gardiste à l¹un des héritages musicaux les plus pénétrants, vastes et entraînants qui soit." Blaise Merlin

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Slavic Soul Party!
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 @ 9pm
Gooski's - Pittsburgh, PA
3117 Brereton St
Pittsburgh, PA 15219-3707
1.412.681.1658

Fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding American grooves, and ecstatic anthems both new and old: Slavic Soul Party! is just what it says. Brash and strong as slivovitz, these nine musicians have forged a virtuosic new brass band music in the heart of New York City—melding Gypsy, East European, Mexican, and Asian immigrant backgrounds with American jazz and sou—and �developed a reputation for delivering a great time.� (NY Times)

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BIG BENEFIT BASH, BANQUET & CONCERT
honoring JOSEPH V. MELILLO Executive Producer of The Brooklyn Academy of Music
featuring performances by LAURIE ANDERSON, DON BYRON, SUSAN MARSHALL & COMPANY, and the BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2006
Angel Orensanz Foundation 172 Norfolk Street (just below Houston)
6 PM Cocktails and Dinner
8-10:30 PM Cocktails and Concert

You are invited to support us in one of three ways!

• Join us for cocktails, dinner and concert from 6 PM
• Join us for cocktails and concert at 8 PM
• Help congratulate Bang on a Can and Joseph V. Melillo with a Benefit Journal page

Learn more about giving levels and ticket prices here or for further information, please contact Tim Thomas at 718.852.7755.

Benefit Chairs: Dan Baldini, Lynette Jaffe, Elizabeth Murrell, Adam Wolfensohn Artistic Directors: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe

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Yiddishe Cup
April 23
2 p.m.
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
(at Brooklyn College)
Walt Whitman Theatre
$25
718-951-4500
www.brooklyncenter.com

IRT #2 to last stop, "Flatbush Avenue."

Dr. Demento: "[Yiddishe Cup is] a dizzying combination of retro and contemporary references, and hot music."

George Robinson, New York Jewish Week: "I can't imagine what they are like on stage but I'm sure the American Psychiatric Association is watching closely."

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Pharaoh's Daughter
APRIL 23rd (benefit at Columbia University for Darfur)
7p.m. With Divahn and Sultana Ensemble
And student documentary footage in Sudan.

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Sunday 23rd April 7pm – 11pm
Tracy Ann Oberman, Maureen Lipman, David Aaronovitch, Norman Lebrecht, Max Wigram and more...
SP!EL @ the Hampstead Theatre and the new Jewish Community Centre for London
Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue Swiss Cottage, NW3 3EU
Price: £12 /£11 concessions
Book on 0207 722 9301 or online at www.hampsteadtheatre.com

At SP!EL, four guests including Maureen Lipman, Tracy Ann Oberman, Norman Lebrecht and Max Wigram with host David Aaronovitch will chew the fat over contemporary cultural events, surrounded by sneak live previews of new albums, plays, performance and books by visiting bands, actors and contemporary dancers.

We will feature a performance from Three Admirers, a newly commissioned piece from the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, adapted by the award-winning Samuel Adamson and directed by Mark Rosenblatt plus dj Max Reinhardt in the bar after the show.

Discussion includes Andy Warhol's Ten Portrait Of Jews at the National Portrait Gallery, the new novel Journey to the land of No by Roya Hakakian and Ushpizin, showing at Screen on the Hill and the Odeon Swiss Cottage.

Produced by YaD Arts for the Jewish Community Centre
www.hampsteadtheatre.com & www.jewishcommunitycentre.org.uk

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Alex Kontorovich's Deep Minor

The Knitting Factory, in the Old Office:
74 Leonard St., NYC
Sunday, April 23, 6:30pm

Tickets are $8 in advance and at the door.
212.219.3132
www.knittingfactory.com

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.

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Pharaoh's Daughter
APRIL 23rd (QUEENS)
Queen's Arts Museum — Pharaoh's Daughter UNPLUGGED @ 5p.m.
With Basya Schechter — oud, saz, guitar Daphna Mor — recorders, ney, zurna and Meg Okura — violin

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Sunday, April 23, 2006 at 4pm
Topanga Earth Day
presents:
"a day long celebration and a union of music, arts, science, healing and ceremony"
featuring:
The Yuval Ron Ensemble
Concert for Earth Day

with guest singer: Ahmed El Asmar
guest dancers: Maya Karasso and Melanie Kareem

Location: at the Topanga State Park; Nature Center, Trippet Ranch 20825 Entrada Road, Topanga, CA. 90290, back at the ranch.

Time: Yuval Ron Ensemble Concert at 4 pm , activities from 10am-5pm
Admission: $10 for the whole day!
For tickets and more info: www.topangaearthday.org

Proceeds will benefit Turtle Project & Stream Team and the Center for Land Base Learning - two local community, not for profit working to educate, preserve, and restore the natural environment
Topanga Earth Day, Sunday April 23rd will include numerous activities, workshops, booths, bazaar, environmentalists, displays, yoga, music and dance shows and more for the whole family from 10 am to 5 pm

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The Chabot College Foundation presents the world premiere of "Forbidden Voices," a concert that showcases rarely performed songs written by Jewish composers whose works were banned by the Nazis. This monumental event is slated for Sunday, April 23, 2006, between Passover and Holocaust Remembrance Day, at 3 p.m. at the Chabot College Performing Arts Center, 25555 Hesperian Boulevard, Hayward, California 94545.

Tickets may be purchased at cityboxoffice.com or by calling 415-392-4400. The event is a benefit for the Chabot College Foundation. A portion of the proceeds will be contributed to the Holocaust Center of Northern California. Donors who give $250 or more will receive complimentary VIP tickets, the CD and the opportunity to meet the performers at a back stage event following the program. Contact the Foundation for more information at (510) 723-6802.

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Bruce Adler appears in concert at Queens Theater in The Park (New York) at 8pm on Saturday night April 22nd and again at 2pm in the afternoon on Sunday April 23rd. Go to queenstheatre.org or call 718-760-0064 for tickets.

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The Austin Klezmorim
FREE! Concert in conjunction with Citywide Fiesta in San Antonio
Sunday April 23, Noon, 1:30, & 3:00
Congregation Agudas Achim
16550 Huebner Rd, San Antonio, 78248
(210) 479-0307

NOTE: Don't drink too much tequila!

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Psychosemitic Presents: Emunah, ZeJ and GhettoPlotz plus
BassBinge DJs & Vocalists

April 22
doors open 7pm; music kicks off 9pm
£6
The Spitz, London, E1 6BG

Psychosemitic blends the best of Jewish and world music
with hip hop, breaks, house, dub and drum & bass, plus
there will be visuals, art and other entertainments to
keep people happy in between dancing!

Further info: www.psychosemitic.com

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Dor L'Dor will appear at the Down Home in Johnson City, Tennessee, on Saturday, April 22, 2006 at 9:00 p.m. Tickets are $12. Breaking the klezmer barrier in upper East Tennessee, this will be the Down Home's first klezmer concert. Move over Bela Fleck and Nickel Creek.

For further info: (423) 929-9822

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Bruce Adler appears in concert at Queens Theater in The Park (New York) at 8pm on Saturday night April 22nd and again at 2pm in the afternoon on Sunday April 23rd. Go to queenstheatre.org or call 718-760-0064 for tickets.

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The Fireflies
On Saturday 22nd April you can see the full four piece Fireflies rocking it up in the Blind Piper in Caherdaniel, South Kerry.

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Slavic Soul Party!
Friday, April 21, 2006 @ 9:30pm
Maia - East Village , NYC
98 Avenue B (between E. 6th St. and E. 7th St.)
1.212.358.1166
www.maiameyhane.com

Fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding American grooves, and ecstatic anthems both new and old: Slavic Soul Party! is just what it says. Brash and strong as slivovitz, these nine musicians have forged a virtuosic new brass band music in the heart of New York City—melding Gypsy, East European, Mexican, and Asian immigrant backgrounds with American jazz and sou—and “developed a reputation for delivering a great time.” (NY Times)

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Naftule's Dream is at Ruttman's again this Friday. Again, Andrew Stern will be guest guitarist, with the regular gang. Eric Rosenthal is hot off the road after playing a couple of weeks in Poland with Paul Brody. He heard a student band out in the middle of nowhere, Poland, up near Lithuania, which had transcribed Naftule tunes off the CDs and was playing them on a concert! The Naftule sound has travelled far!

So, here is the dope, you can hear it right here in Boston, or travel to Poland, take your pick:
April 21, 8:00pm-9:30pm, Rutman’s Violin Shop (11 Westland Ave., near Symphony Hall, Boston, call us at 617-522-2900 for info)
Suggested admission donation is $5.

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In just under two weeks,Klezmerica will perform a rare public concert in the city of Minneapolis itself. Our Saviour's Lutheran Church has invited us to perform in appreciation of all the volunteers who make the fine vegetarian restaurant St. Martin's Table such a special treat for its many fans and customers.

By April 21, Passover and Easter will be over, and live Jewish music will be great way to celebrate the true arrival of Minnesota spring!

Feel free to join Joe Vass, Carolyn Boulay, Jay Epstein, Dave Jensen, Dale Mendenhall, and Chris Bates in this special Klezmerica concert. Dancing is encouraged but not required (no pressure)!

Thanks and Chag Sameach (Happy Holiday)!

Date: Friday, April 21
Place: Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, 2315 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis
Time: 7:00 P.M.
Ticket Price: Only $10! Available in advance at: 612-339-3920, or at St. Martin's Table, OR AT THE DOOR

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DJ So Called

"Précurseur et fer de lance du courant hip-hop klezmer outre-atlantique, coauteur du sensationnel album "Hip Hop Khasene" avec la violoniste Sophie Solomon et de l'improbable "SoCalled Seder" featuring Killah Priest, Katie Moore, Susan Hoffman-Watts, Frank London et Irving Fields, SoCalled a surgi à Paris en octobre dernier auprès d¹Iva Bittova et du David Krakauer¹s Klezmer Madness lors d¹un concert mémorable au festival Klezmopolitan.

Dans le cadre de sa première tournée européenne d¹envergure, il fait escale à Paris le jeudi 20 avril 2006 au Studio de l'Ermitage et le mercredi 26 avril 2006 au Point Ephémère avec comme invité de marque le saxophoniste Julien Lourau (Groove Gang, Magik Malik, Bojan Z...), à Saint-Etienne le vendredi 21 avril 2006 au Grand Lux et à Marseille le vendredi 28 avril 2006 au Poste à Galène (locations points de ventes habituels).

On y découvre sa vision jubilatoire d¹un esprit yiddish nourri de jazz, de rock, d'électro, de musique orientale et surtout de hip hop, style propice aux transgressions de codes et de croyances établies.

L¹occasion pour Socalled de présenter son nouvel album "Ghetto Blaster" (Label Bleu), poursuivant son hommage festif et avant-gardiste à l¹un des héritages musicaux les plus pénétrants, vastes et entraînants qui soit." Blaise Merlin

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Slavic Soul Party!
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 @ 9pm
Barbes (every tuesday forever!)
376 9th Street (corner of 6th Ave.)
www.barbesbrooklyn.com
1.718.965.9177

Fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding American grooves, and ecstatic anthems both new and old: Slavic Soul Party! is just what it says. Brash and strong as slivovitz, these nine musicians have forged a virtuosic new brass band music in the heart of New York City—melding Gypsy, East European, Mexican, and Asian immigrant backgrounds with American jazz and soul—and “developed a reputation for delivering a great time.” (NY Times)

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Basya Schechter
APRIL 17th —ARTIST SEDER OFFERS A NEW TAKE ON AN OLD STORY
Performing solo, with other artists presenting.

The Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU and AVODA Arts is hosting a creative interpretation of the ancient Passover story with an Artist Seder on Monday, April 17th from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at The Bronfman Center, 7 East 10th Street, between University Place and 5th Avenue. The event is free for New York University students, faculty, and staff, $10 for community members

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The Fireflies
On Monday 17th April (Easter Monday) at 12pm, The Fireflies duo (Fiona and Ruti) will play in The Round Gallery, Siamsa Tire, Tralee, Co. Kerry as part of the Samhloaicht Easter Festival. Lots of other good stuff going on there too, it's a fab arts festival and worth a visit.

Later that day, at 3pm, Ruti is teaching a Klezmer dance workshop also in Siamsa Tire, lots of freilach and bulgar steps for you to take home and practise!!

Later that self same day Ruti and Fiona will be reappearing in a completely different county!! At 8pm at Fitzpatrick's in Kilcrohane, Sheep's Head, West Cork. Part of the Craic on the Coast, a great little music festival with fun and seaside galore.

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Pharaoh's Daughter
APRIL 16th 9:30p.m. JOE's PUB (NY-VILLAGE)
Annual Passover Pub concert with free maccaroons and guest dancers Kaeshi and Elisheva of Bellyqueen premiering new choreagraphy and songs

BUY TICKETS NOW!!!!
$12 advance $15 at the door.
Public Theater box office 212-239-6200 or www.telecharge.com

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The Chassidic Jazz Project performs at The Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club on April 15-16. Sets are at 8PM & 10:30PM.

Sat, Sun 4/15-16, 8 & 10:30pm
Reuben Hoch & The Chassidic Jazz Project
Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club
Deauville Hotel
6701 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL

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Celebrate Spring with leftover family Pesakh guests:

Klezical Tradition
Pays tribute to many of the great clarinetists of the 20th century: Beckerman(s), Brandwein, Epstein, Goldensteyn, Musikers, Pincus,Taras.
Fairfield Theatre Company 70 Sanford St., Fairfield, CT 06824
Concert begins at 7:00.

www.fairfieldtheater.org
203/259-1036
Ticket price: $17, FTC members $12;. Seniors $14; Students are $12
(However, $5 more at the door, they say on their website)

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On Sunday April 16, the Argentinean Jewish Relief Committee of Greater Boston (AJRC) will hold its 5th annual concert, "Sounds of Argentina 2006" to benefit the Jewish community in Argentina. The performance will feature Argentinean cantors Dudi Feuer (Temple Emanu-El in Florida), Karen Nisnik (Buenos Aires), and Elias Rosemberg (Temple Emeth in Newton), with the host congregation’s cantor - Aryeh Finklestein- as well as widely praised Argentinean soprano Clara Sandler. The concert will take place at 3:00 pm at Congregation Mishkan Tefila, 300 Hammond Pond Parkway, Chestnut Hill. Cantorial, as well as popular Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew songs will be featured. This concert brings real community entertainment lead by extraordinarily talented and lively voices.

The Argentinean Jewish Relief Campaign of Greater Boston (AJRC) was organized in January 2002, as an all-volunteer, grassroots response to the worsening circumstances facing Argentinean Jews. The concert is co-sponsored by Combined Jewish Philanthropies and by the Consulate General of Israel to New England. The proceedings go in their entirety to help the Argentinean Jewish Community.

Tickets are $25 for general admission, $20 for seniors and $10 for children and students. For donations or to purchase tickets, send a check to AJRC-CJP, 39 Brighton Ave., Boston, MA 02134 or call 617- 457-8788 with credit card. Tickets may be purchased on line at www.ajrc.org. Tickets will be available at the door on the day of the concert beginning at 2:00 pm. The concert was sold out in the past, so reserving your tickets is suggested.

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"Let My People Sing:" a groundbreaking Passover festival celebrating freedom, Jewish life, art and culture will be in Los Angeles, April 8-16, 2006.

For further info: Tel: 818-760-1077
Web: www.letmypeoplesing.com/main.html

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Saturday, April 15 at 8:30 pm
"Music, Mayses...and Matse?!"

at the Workmen's Circle/Arbeter ring
1525 S. Robertson Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
tel 310.552.2007

Tickets are $15 for Workmen’s Circle members, and $20 for nonmembers. Get $2 off per ticket if your paid ticket order is received at Workmen’s Circle by the end of the day Thursday, April 13. Sorry, no phone reservations accepted for this concert.

We present three world-renowned virtuoso musicians�Yale Strom (violin), Elizabeth Schwartz (vocals), and Mark Dresser (contrabass)—in "Music, Mayses...and Matse?!" in a rare L. A. appearance at Workmen's Circle. Drawing from both traditional and nontraditional Yiddish and klezmer music to celebrate Khol Amoyd Peysekh, these three musicians epitomize world-class performance level in their areas of expertise. Yale Strom is the world's leading artist-ethnographer of klezmer music and culture; Elizabeth Schwartz is renowned for her timbre and interpretation of new and traditional Yiddish song; Mark Dresser is acknowledged as one of the world's leading jazz bassists- composers and has been playing klezmer with Strom since 1982.

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The Chassidic Jazz Project performs at The Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club on April 15-16. Sets are at 8PM & 10:30PM.

Sat, Sun 4/15-16, 8 & 10:30pm
Reuben Hoch & The Chassidic Jazz Project
Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club
Deauville Hotel
6701 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL

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Pharaoh's Daughter
APRIL 15th (BROOKLYN)
Southpaw 125 5th Avenue $10
With Jfrej pitch, The Shondes, Jason Trachtenburg, Tricrotic
Doors open 8p.m. Show 9p.m.

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"Let My People Sing:" a groundbreaking Passover festival celebrating freedom, Jewish life, art and culture will be in Los Angeles, April 8-16, 2006.

For further info: Tel: 818-760-1077
Web: www.letmypeoplesing.com/main.html

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"Let My People Sing:" a groundbreaking Passover festival celebrating freedom, Jewish life, art and culture will be in Los Angeles, April 8-16, 2006.

For further info: Tel: 818-760-1077
Web: www.letmypeoplesing.com/main.html

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"Let My People Sing:" a groundbreaking Passover festival celebrating freedom, Jewish life, art and culture will be in Los Angeles, April 8-16, 2006.

For further info: Tel: 818-760-1077
Web: www.letmypeoplesing.com/main.html

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"Let My People Sing:" a groundbreaking Passover festival celebrating freedom, Jewish life, art and culture will be in Los Angeles, April 8-16, 2006.

For further info: Tel: 818-760-1077
Web: www.letmypeoplesing.com/main.html

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Slavic Soul Party!
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 @ 9pm
Barbes (every tuesday forever!)
376 9th Street (corner of 6th Ave.)
www.barbesbrooklyn.com
1.718.965.9177

Fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding American grooves, and ecstatic anthems both new and old: Slavic Soul Party! is just what it says. Brash and strong as slivovitz, these nine musicians have forged a virtuosic new brass band music in the heart of New York City—melding Gypsy, East European, Mexican, and Asian immigrant backgrounds with American jazz and soul—and “developed a reputation for delivering a great time.” (NY Times)

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Metropolitan Klezmer "Night Before Seder" show
Full-length, full-band extravaganza @ Mo Pitkin's, NYC
Tuesday, April 11
8:30 PM
$10 + one drink minimum
Judeo-Latino cuisine too!
34 Avenue A (btw E 2nd & 3rd St's), 212-777-5660 mopitkins.com

Come on down for the Pre-Pesakh special, and we're having company: guest artists Michael Farkas (The Wiyos) & Jeannette Lewicki (Max & Minka, Zagnut Orkestar). Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction features retro decor, theme menu, and for this occasion a satisfyingly long music set: MK's octet will prime you for Passover with new tunes & familiar favorites!

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A rare treat from Paris—
The Forward Newspaper presents:

The Fiddler Efim Zubritski and his daughter, the pianist, Alisa
Zubritski, will
present a musical program including Jewish music/composers (folkmusic,
Kreisler)
at the Workmen Circle Building, 45 E. 33rd st.(between Park and
Madison). at 7:15 PM
This event is FREE.

co-sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture.

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"Let My People Sing:" a groundbreaking Passover festival celebrating freedom, Jewish life, art and culture will be in Los Angeles, April 8-16, 2006.

For further info: Tel: 818-760-1077
Web: www.letmypeoplesing.com/main.html

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"Let My People Sing:" a groundbreaking Passover festival celebrating freedom, Jewish life, art and culture will be in Los Angeles, April 8-16, 2006.

For further info: Tel: 818-760-1077
Web: www.letmypeoplesing.com/main.html

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The Sway Machinery
at Zebulon

Special guest DJ Ori Kaplan
Sunday, April 9, 9pm
258 Wythe Ave. (bet. N.3 & Metropolitan) Williamsburg
Subway: L to Bedford
www.zebuloncafeconcert.com
$Free

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Debbie Friedman will be among the participants at A Seder for Darfur at the UCLA Hillel, 574 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Tickets are $125, $500, and $1000 and All proceeds benefit the global humanitarian efforts of Jewish World Watch for Darfur, Sudan. For more information call 818-501-1836 or click here

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The Gerard Edery Ensemble will take part in the DownTown Seder in New York City sponsored by Michael Dorf. For more information and to purchase tickets please visit OyHoo.com.

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Slavic Soul Party!
Sunday, April 9th, 2006 @ 4pm
workshop/discussion with SSP!
Amherst College Dept. of Music, Friedmann Room
Amherst, MA
1.413.542.2195
www.amherst.edu/%7Emusic/Events.htm#Apr

Fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding American grooves, and ecstatic anthems both new and old: Slavic Soul Party! is just what it says. Brash and strong as slivovitz, these nine musicians have forged a virtuosic new brass band music in the heart of New York City—melding Gypsy, East European, Mexican, and Asian immigrant backgrounds with American jazz and soul—and “developed a reputation for delivering a great time.” (NY Times)

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