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Sunday December 31, two sets, 9:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., at First Night Hartford, Hartford Stage, 50 Church Street, Hartford, Connecticut, for more information please visit www.firstnighthartford.org
Sunday December 31st 9pm-midnight???
Revolution Café, 3248 22nd St. @ Bartlett, San Francisco, CA
Free.
This show marks the end of the year, and a special Bay Area cameo by Mike Perlmutter (who has been at grad school on the East Coast). Also making a guest appearance is renowned Tuvan style throatsinger and igil player, Seth Augustus.
Performing will be:
Mike Perlmutter - saxophones, clarinet
Liam Staskawicz - trombone
Eddie Pollard - drums & percussion
Josh Sirotiak - tuba
Seth Augustus - throatsinging and igil
Yiddishe Cup
Dec. 31
9 p.m.
Akron (Ohio) First Night. concert.
Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh
Klezmer & Hassidic Music
Saturdays, 8 - 10 PM, Oct. 28th , Nov. 25th & Dec. 30th
At the historic Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House
209 Douglas Avenue,
Providence RI
(Nr "downtown") Across rt95 from the Marriot Hotel, just past the 95S entrance
Admission $12 Limited Seating (& no extras standing)
Call early for tickets (401)273-9814
For more specific directions go to www.brooklyncoffeeteahouse.com or call (401)575-2284 mornings
The Yiddish Folk Arts Program
December 24-29, 2006
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY
www.klezkamp.org
The Yiddish Folk Arts Program
December 24-29, 2006
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY
www.klezkamp.org
From the creator of the comedy song sensation "What I Like About Jew" and the founder of Rockapella comes a newly erected, Jew-themed, comedy song variety show: JEWMONGOUS!, featuring Sean Altman and guests Todd Barry, Jonathan Coulton, Tammy Faye Starlite, Cynthia Kaplan and Steve Goodie. All faiths welcome, especially Jews.
12/27 - Club Passim, Cambridge, MA (7pm & 9:30pm)
JEWMONGOUS! - a comedy song variety show - is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN, the song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew. In the aftermath of the act's debut CD “Unorthodox” in 2006, What I Like About Jew was featured on NPR's "Fresh Air With Terry Gross", rocketed into the Top 50 on Amazon.com, and is currently being fashioned into an off-Broadway musical by genuine Jewish theater producers. As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). Sean is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?", for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song (with Broadway's David Yazbek). He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in New York, he sings with Kol Zimra and Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows.
RAVES FOR SEAN'S "WHAT I LIKE ABOUT JEW" SONGS
“Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risqué borscht-belting-not to mention a reverence for tradition... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp.”—New York Times
“Racy and funny and smart and affectionate, written for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'”—Boston Globe
“Bawdy cabaret with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... with style and guts and a tune you can groove to.”—Washington Post
“Irreverent and hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Think Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman.”—Baltimore CityGuide
“Sly and hilarious.”—Village Voice
"Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect... Deliriously kitschy.”—Boston Herald
“Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... A roving celebration of Hebraic song and culture.”—Time Out New York
“An irreverent and hilarious musical revue.”—Bergen Record
"Bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Catskills seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."—Philadelphia Weekly
"Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"(This) self-deprecating humor is chicken soup for the Jewish soul."—Philadelphia City Paper
"A tongue-in-cheek New Jew revue."—New York Magazine
GUEST BIOS:
TODD BARRY (NYC show) was Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It Standup" selection on their "It List". He's appeared on Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Carson Daly, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central's Friar's Roast of Chevy Chase, "Space Ghost Coast To Coast", and in his own two "Comedy Central Presents" specials. His acting credits include "The Larry Sanders Show", "Sex And The City", "Spin City", "Chappelle's Show", "Road Trip", "Lucky Louie", "Wonder Showzen", and "Pootie Tang". He's done cartoon voice work on "Dr. Katz", "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", "Home Movies", "Squidbillies", "Hey Monie", and "Freak Squad." Todd has even done shows with The New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo, The Shins, Aimee Mann, They Might Be Giants, and Luna. He's appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia, the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where he won the Jury Award for Best Stand Up Comic. His latest CD/DVD, "Falling Off the Bone" was released on Comedy Central Records.
JONATHAN COULTON (NJ show) is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine, and a geek rock superhero. His songs about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, and self-loathing giant squids are insanely clever without ever being too clever for their own good - they repeatedly lure you into laughing before suddenly breaking your heart. For the past year he has published a new song every week for free on his website in an ambitious project called Thing a Week, spawning a few honest to goodness internet smashes like "Code Monkey" and his folky cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back." He is ready to soft rock your socks off.
TAMMY FAYE STARLITE (Long Island, Philadelphia shows) is a country-singer-cum evangelist who has spent most of her pre-teen years preaching His Word in these 48 contiguous United States. She is currently on her Soul Harvest/Gospel Tour 2006, and is pleased to spread in Phildaelphia. Tammy is proud to be affiliated with Colorado Springs' New Life Church.
STEVE GOODIE (NYC, VA, MD, MA shows) is a Nashville-based comedian singer/songwriter with credits coming out of his ass: The Today Show (NBC), The Howard Stern Show, and syndicated giants Dr. Demento and The Bob & Tom Show.
CYNTHIA KAPLAN (all shows) is the author of Why I'm Like This: True Stories (William Morrow, 2002) and the upcoming Leave the Building Quickly (Morrow, May 2007), and her comic essays have been published in many magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. She, herself, has appeared in many plays and some movies, as well as in comedy and rock clubs in New York and other cities. People Magazine called her "A literary star" and Time Out New York said she was "one of downtown's coolest actors...You'll laugh until you can't breathe."
Just to let you know I'm doing one more year end gig--solo piano this time at Tompkins Square Library, 331 E. 10th St., NYC, Wednesday, December 27, at 6 PM until 7 PM. It's free entrance so make it down if you can! I'm doing the material from my new solo CIMP CD "Burton Greene Retrospective 1961--2005" A reworking of older rediscovered old manuscripts I co-composed with flautist Jon Winter in 1961--62 as well as some more recent and new compositions. (Jon Winter and I together with bassist Alan Silva formed The Free Form Improvisation Ensemble in 1963--quite possibly the first ensemble to play wholly improvised music together.) The solo CD is coming out in January.
The Yiddish Folk Arts Program
December 24-29, 2006
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY
www.klezkamp.org
The Yiddish Folk Arts Program
December 24-29, 2006
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY
www.klezkamp.org
From the creator of the comedy song sensation "What I Like About Jew" and the founder of Rockapella comes a newly erected, Jew-themed, comedy song variety show: JEWMONGOUS!, featuring Sean Altman and guests Todd Barry, Jonathan Coulton, Tammy Faye Starlite, Cynthia Kaplan and Steve Goodie. All faiths welcome, especially Jews.
12/25 - Ram's Head, Annapolis, MD (7pm)
JEWMONGOUS! - a comedy song variety show - is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN, the song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew. In the aftermath of the act's debut CD “Unorthodox” in 2006, What I Like About Jew was featured on NPR's "Fresh Air With Terry Gross", rocketed into the Top 50 on Amazon.com, and is currently being fashioned into an off-Broadway musical by genuine Jewish theater producers. As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). Sean is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?", for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song (with Broadway's David Yazbek). He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in New York, he sings with Kol Zimra and Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows.
RAVES FOR SEAN'S "WHAT I LIKE ABOUT JEW" SONGS
“Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risqué borscht-belting-not to mention a reverence for tradition... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp.”—New York Times
“Racy and funny and smart and affectionate, written for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'”—Boston Globe
“Bawdy cabaret with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... with style and guts and a tune you can groove to.”—Washington Post
“Irreverent and hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Think Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman.”—Baltimore CityGuide
“Sly and hilarious.”—Village Voice
"Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect... Deliriously kitschy.”—Boston Herald
“Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... A roving celebration of Hebraic song and culture.”—Time Out New York
“An irreverent and hilarious musical revue.”—Bergen Record
"Bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Catskills seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."—Philadelphia Weekly
"Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"(This) self-deprecating humor is chicken soup for the Jewish soul."—Philadelphia City Paper
"A tongue-in-cheek New Jew revue."—New York Magazine
GUEST BIOS:
TODD BARRY (NYC show) was Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It Standup" selection on their "It List". He's appeared on Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Carson Daly, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central's Friar's Roast of Chevy Chase, "Space Ghost Coast To Coast", and in his own two "Comedy Central Presents" specials. His acting credits include "The Larry Sanders Show", "Sex And The City", "Spin City", "Chappelle's Show", "Road Trip", "Lucky Louie", "Wonder Showzen", and "Pootie Tang". He's done cartoon voice work on "Dr. Katz", "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", "Home Movies", "Squidbillies", "Hey Monie", and "Freak Squad." Todd has even done shows with The New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo, The Shins, Aimee Mann, They Might Be Giants, and Luna. He's appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia, the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where he won the Jury Award for Best Stand Up Comic. His latest CD/DVD, "Falling Off the Bone" was released on Comedy Central Records.
JONATHAN COULTON (NJ show) is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine, and a geek rock superhero. His songs about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, and self-loathing giant squids are insanely clever without ever being too clever for their own good - they repeatedly lure you into laughing before suddenly breaking your heart. For the past year he has published a new song every week for free on his website in an ambitious project called Thing a Week, spawning a few honest to goodness internet smashes like "Code Monkey" and his folky cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back." He is ready to soft rock your socks off.
TAMMY FAYE STARLITE (Long Island, Philadelphia shows) is a country-singer-cum evangelist who has spent most of her pre-teen years preaching His Word in these 48 contiguous United States. She is currently on her Soul Harvest/Gospel Tour 2006, and is pleased to spread in Phildaelphia. Tammy is proud to be affiliated with Colorado Springs' New Life Church.
STEVE GOODIE (NYC, VA, MD, MA shows) is a Nashville-based comedian singer/songwriter with credits coming out of his ass: The Today Show (NBC), The Howard Stern Show, and syndicated giants Dr. Demento and The Bob & Tom Show.
CYNTHIA KAPLAN (all shows) is the author of Why I'm Like This: True Stories (William Morrow, 2002) and the upcoming Leave the Building Quickly (Morrow, May 2007), and her comic essays have been published in many magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. She, herself, has appeared in many plays and some movies, as well as in comedy and rock clubs in New York and other cities. People Magazine called her "A literary star" and Time Out New York said she was "one of downtown's coolest actors...You'll laugh until you can't breathe."
Monday, December 25, Annual Family and Community Concert of Jewish Music at 5:00 p.m, featuring Cantor Martin Levson, Isaiah Cooper, Stacy Phillips, Hedda Rubenstein and the Greater New Haven Kapelye led by David Chevan, Congregation Mishkan Israel, 785 Ridge Road, Hamden, CT. For further information, call (203) 288-3877
Metropolitan Klezmer
special sextet lineup!
Monday, December 25th
at The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd St
two sets (12:30pm & 2:00pm)
Family day events included with museum admission
info: 212-423-3200
www.thejewishmuseum.org
The Yiddish Folk Arts Program
December 24-29, 2006
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY
www.klezkamp.org
The KNISHMASreturns! The annual xmas alternative so traditional... its truly alternative! Shtreimel joins us from Montreal on their US tour for jams that are part John Popper and Blues Traveler and part Klezmer band. Plus rising hip hop star of david Kosha Dillz and classic rock sounds by Moshe Skier Band. Its gonna be hot as ... as a knish!
Held on the mythical 9th night of Haunkah at Wicker Park's Subterranean Lounge (2011 W. North @ Milwaukee and Damen) This mini-Jewish music festival actually focuses on contemporary Jewish music and culture. "It has an alternative vibe that's at once familiar and also celebratory of the youthful, Nu-Jew culture. This year the eclectic lineup includes Hard Rock, Hip Hop and yes, Harmonicas.
Add to all that a great crowd, a great room, a midnight knish drop, the gelt pelting and airing of grievances, and its the true alternative for Xmas eve.
KNISHMAS has sold out before, so avoid the risk and the door line- Buy tix online! It's gonna be fun, its gonna hot as a knish!
Subterranean Lounge
2011 W. North Ave.
Damen Blue Line Stop
Tickets
Founded by harmonica innovator, Jason Rosenblatt, and named for the traditional fur hat worn by Chassidic Jews, headliner Shtreiml blends elements of klezmer, gypsy music and jazz to create a vibrant sound that is at once Eastern European Folk Music and Down-Home Blues. Shtreiml's debut album, Harmonica Galitzianer, nominated for a Montreal Independent Music Award for Best World Music Album 2003, showcases Rosenblatt's unique approach to playing the 10-hole diatonic harmonica or "blues harp." One of a handful of people in the world who can play the diatonic harmonica chromatically, Rosenblatt uses recently devised techniques pioneered by harmonica master Howard Levy (of Blea Fleck and the Flecktones), to fit the instrument generally associated with the blues into an Eastern European context. Levy taught Rosenblatt his technique, and Rosenblatt applied it to Klezmer music, which typically uses a fiddle, clarinet or accordian as its lead instrument. The music evokes John Popper and Blues Traveler playing a Jewish wedding. The group has performed at dozens of festivals, concerts, clubs and private functions in Canada, Europe and the U.S., headlining the raucous Krakow Jewish Festival.
Also performing are hip hop performer KOSHA DILLZ and rock trio MOSHE SKIER BAND. KOSHA DILLZ is an Israeli-born MC, battle rapper and freestyler who has most recently been appearing with rap notables Remedy Ross and Killah Priest (Wu-Tang Clan) C-Rayz Walz, Platinum 112 and has recently recorded a single with Matisyahu. His rhymes reference the rappers' own struggle to lead a straight-edge life after running into trouble with substance abuse during his teens years, an experience which led him to explore his own Judaism. The synthesis of heritage and hip hop has created a buzz for the 25 year old New Jersey resident for dropping parallels between the Jewish faith and his personal struggle with a positive style that embraces Chassidic and other Jewish concepts thorugh his lyrics. He recently recorded with freestyler Y-Love, Wu-Tang member Killah Priest and Tunisian rapper Dragon Ball T.
Skier, a bassist who once and still performers with Jewish parody band Shlock Rock, brings a classic rock and blues edge to Jewish songs that features the blistering sill of Hasidic guitarist Mendel Appel. The Milwaukee based trio, rounded out with Dan Lawitts on drums, has built a modest Chicago niche following, in large part due to their
musicianship.
The music is great, KNISHMAS is a chance to embrace a new
take on Jewish cultural heritage in funky way. Soft, savory
and familiar like home, but hot and hip in an old-school
way. Very much like a knish.
HIP HOP SULHA feat. Hadag Nachash
Hadag Nachash, Saz, Yuri Lane, Y-Love, Jake Break, & dj handler
BB Kings
237 West 42nd St.
Doors @ 6PM show begins promptly at 8pm / all ages
$40.00 General admission standing room only
$55.00 VIP reserved general admission seating - First come, first seated on seats. All seats are located on sides.
(buy tickets)
The Hip-Hop Sulha reinvents the concept of the traditional Arab sulha [reconciliation] by bringing leading Israeli and Palestinian hip-hop musicians—as well as notable American Jewish and Muslim artists—together to celebrate peace and religious tolerance via the performing arts. for info at www.hiphopsulha.com
"Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad" tours for the holidays with hula hoops, hip hop and hilarity in hand, like a dreidal spinning in Vegas. Celebrating Xmas Eve with a brand new show, including comedians Rachel Feinstein (Comedy Central), Ophira Eisenberg (Comedy Central), Rena Zager (Comedy Central), Rebecca Drysdale (Aspen Comedy Fest), spoken word artist Vanessa Hidary AKA The Hebrew Mamita (HBO and "The Tribe"), special guest Scotty the Blue Bunny and our very own Burlesque All-stars, Sister Schmaltz and our very own houseband, The Jew Boys, hosted by comedian, chanteuse and resident ringleader, The Goddess Perlman who will be throwing down the Yiddish rhymes.
Dec. 24th
@7:30pm/9:30pm
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette St.
NYC
212-967-7555
"Hilarious"—The Boston Globe
"The best way for a Catholic Boy to spend Xmas Eve"—Michael Musto, the Village Voice
"One of the dangers of assembling a comedy show around a common theme is that the humor might end up hitting the same note over and over again. The popular "Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad" avoids the same fate by showcasing comedians who are pointedly specific but inclusively funny."—The Onion
"Mixing touching themes with humor, raunch, attitude and sexuality makes for a full experience all around."—The Berkshire Eagle
Fishel Bresler's Klezmer Hasidic Ensemble
will perform again this year on
December 24th - Sunday, 7:30 PM at Congregation Ohawe Shalom Coffee House, Pawtucket RI.
Project Shoresh and the Providence Community Kollel co-sponsors.
671 East Ave in Pawtucket (corner of Glenwood, nr where Blackstone meets Hope St)
Doors open 7:00PM $10 adults, $7 children (under B-Mitzvah).
Kosher Latkes, hot dogs, snacks & beverages will be on sale.
questions? 401 273-9814
From the creator of the comedy song sensation "What I Like About Jew" and the founder of Rockapella comes a newly erected, Jew-themed, comedy song variety show: JEWMONGOUS!, featuring Sean Altman and guests Todd Barry, Jonathan Coulton, Tammy Faye Starlite, Cynthia Kaplan and Steve Goodie. All faiths welcome, especially Jews.
12/24 - Jammin' Java, Vienna, VA (7pm & 9:30pm)
JEWMONGOUS! - a comedy song variety show - is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN, the song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew. In the aftermath of the act's debut CD “Unorthodox” in 2006, What I Like About Jew was featured on NPR's "Fresh Air With Terry Gross", rocketed into the Top 50 on Amazon.com, and is currently being fashioned into an off-Broadway musical by genuine Jewish theater producers. As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). Sean is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?", for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song (with Broadway's David Yazbek). He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in New York, he sings with Kol Zimra and Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows.
RAVES FOR SEAN'S "WHAT I LIKE ABOUT JEW" SONGS
“Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risqué borscht-belting-not to mention a reverence for tradition... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp.”—New York Times
“Racy and funny and smart and affectionate, written for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'”—Boston Globe
“Bawdy cabaret with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... with style and guts and a tune you can groove to.”—Washington Post
“Irreverent and hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Think Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman.”—Baltimore CityGuide
“Sly and hilarious.”—Village Voice
"Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect... Deliriously kitschy.”—Boston Herald
“Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... A roving celebration of Hebraic song and culture.”—Time Out New York
“An irreverent and hilarious musical revue.”—Bergen Record
"Bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Catskills seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."—Philadelphia Weekly
"Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"(This) self-deprecating humor is chicken soup for the Jewish soul."—Philadelphia City Paper
"A tongue-in-cheek New Jew revue."—New York Magazine
GUEST BIOS:
TODD BARRY (NYC show) was Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It Standup" selection on their "It List". He's appeared on Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Carson Daly, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central's Friar's Roast of Chevy Chase, "Space Ghost Coast To Coast", and in his own two "Comedy Central Presents" specials. His acting credits include "The Larry Sanders Show", "Sex And The City", "Spin City", "Chappelle's Show", "Road Trip", "Lucky Louie", "Wonder Showzen", and "Pootie Tang". He's done cartoon voice work on "Dr. Katz", "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", "Home Movies", "Squidbillies", "Hey Monie", and "Freak Squad." Todd has even done shows with The New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo, The Shins, Aimee Mann, They Might Be Giants, and Luna. He's appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia, the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where he won the Jury Award for Best Stand Up Comic. His latest CD/DVD, "Falling Off the Bone" was released on Comedy Central Records.
JONATHAN COULTON (NJ show) is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine, and a geek rock superhero. His songs about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, and self-loathing giant squids are insanely clever without ever being too clever for their own good - they repeatedly lure you into laughing before suddenly breaking your heart. For the past year he has published a new song every week for free on his website in an ambitious project called Thing a Week, spawning a few honest to goodness internet smashes like "Code Monkey" and his folky cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back." He is ready to soft rock your socks off.
TAMMY FAYE STARLITE (Long Island, Philadelphia shows) is a country-singer-cum evangelist who has spent most of her pre-teen years preaching His Word in these 48 contiguous United States. She is currently on her Soul Harvest/Gospel Tour 2006, and is pleased to spread in Phildaelphia. Tammy is proud to be affiliated with Colorado Springs' New Life Church.
STEVE GOODIE (NYC, VA, MD, MA shows) is a Nashville-based comedian singer/songwriter with credits coming out of his ass: The Today Show (NBC), The Howard Stern Show, and syndicated giants Dr. Demento and The Bob & Tom Show.
CYNTHIA KAPLAN (all shows) is the author of Why I'm Like This: True Stories (William Morrow, 2002) and the upcoming Leave the Building Quickly (Morrow, May 2007), and her comic essays have been published in many magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. She, herself, has appeared in many plays and some movies, as well as in comedy and rock clubs in New York and other cities. People Magazine called her "A literary star" and Time Out New York said she was "one of downtown's coolest actors...You'll laugh until you can't breathe."
Frantic Turtle and Rashanim: the Lonely Avantgarde Jew on Christmas
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
New York NY
6pm
All info: upcoming.org/event/129939
HIP HOP SULHA MINI (for kids & teens)
featuring a selection mc's from the Hip Hop Sulha series
The JCC in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Ave @ 76th St.
3pm / $10 jcc members / $15 non members / all ages
The Hip Hop Sulha is an exciting event featuring some of the most current and world-renowned Israeli and Palestinian musicians. Now, for the first time, at the Hip Hop Sulha Mini, kids and teens alike will be part of this unique opportunity to see Arab and Jewish creativity together on one stage. This unique concert will be followed by an exclusive Q&A with the musicians. Co-presented with Corner Prophets, an Israeli organization that showcases young hip hop artists by putting them on stage and on the radio. Hosted by the JCC in Manhattan. For more information, see HipHopSulha.org, CornerProphets.com, or visit JCC Manhattan.org or call 646-505-5708 for tickets.
The Yiddish Folk Arts Program
December 24-29, 2006
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY
www.klezkamp.org
ARABIAN NIGHTS HANUKKAH PARTY
Smadar, Dancers & dj handler
Knitting Factory (Tap Bar)
74 Leonard St
9pm / $5 for 18+ / $10 for 21+
(buy tickets)
co-sponsored by the Sephardic Education Center, and the Hillels of Baruch and Hunter College, the Indian Jewish Congregation, and the Summit Institute-Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Foster Care for Children and Youth at Risk.
JDub and Brooklyn Jews Present:
Jewltide in Brooklyn
Sun. Dec 24 @ Southpaw
$18 Advance/$25 Day of Show / 18+ / Doors 8 PM
Featuring Golem + SoCalled + DJ Anaan
Latkas and Eggrolls 8-9 pm
JDub and Brooklyn Jews Present:
Jewltide in Brooklyn
Sat. Dec. 23 @ Southpaw $12 Advance / $15 Date of Show / 18+
Featuring The LeeVees, Balkan Beat Box DJ set + Special Guests.
Jewltide in Washington, DC
Saturday Dec. 23
6th and I
$10 On Sale Now / $12 Day of Show / Doors 8 PM
Featuring Golem + SoCalled + Heeb Magazine
This event made possible through a grant from Charles & Lynn Schusterman Foundation.
The LeeVees
Saturday, December 23rd
Brooklyn, NY
Southpaw
125 Fifth Ave
Tickets $12
18+
8:00 pm
www.ttthebears.com
"Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad" tours for the holidays with hula hoops, hip hop and hilarity in hand, like a dreidal spinning in Vegas. Celebrating Xmas Eve with a brand new show, including comedians Rachel Feinstein (Comedy Central), Ophira Eisenberg (Comedy Central), Rena Zager (Comedy Central), Rebecca Drysdale (Aspen Comedy Fest), spoken word artist Vanessa Hidary AKA The Hebrew Mamita (HBO and "The Tribe"), special guest Scotty the Blue Bunny and our very own Burlesque All-stars, Sister Schmaltz and our very own houseband, The Jew Boys, hosted by comedian, chanteuse and resident ringleader, The Goddess Perlman who will be throwing down the Yiddish rhymes.
Dec. 23rd
The Birchmere
3701 Mt. Vernon Ave
Alexandria, VA 22305
703-573-SEAT
"Hilarious"—The Boston Globe
"The best way for a Catholic Boy to spend Xmas Eve"—Michael Musto, the Village Voice
"One of the dangers of assembling a comedy show around a common theme is that the humor might end up hitting the same note over and over again. The popular "Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad" avoids the same fate by showcasing comedians who are pointedly specific but inclusively funny."—The Onion
"Mixing touching themes with humor, raunch, attitude and sexuality makes for a full experience all around."—The Berkshire Eagle
From the creator of the comedy song sensation "What I Like About Jew" and the founder of Rockapella comes a newly erected, Jew-themed, comedy song variety show: JEWMONGOUS!, featuring Sean Altman and guests Todd Barry, Jonathan Coulton, Tammy Faye Starlite, Cynthia Kaplan and Steve Goodie. All faiths welcome, especially Jews.
12/23 - Knitting Factory, NYC (7pm & 9:30pm)
JEWMONGOUS! - a comedy song variety show - is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN, the song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew. In the aftermath of the act's debut CD “Unorthodox” in 2006, What I Like About Jew was featured on NPR's "Fresh Air With Terry Gross", rocketed into the Top 50 on Amazon.com, and is currently being fashioned into an off-Broadway musical by genuine Jewish theater producers. As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). Sean is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?", for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song (with Broadway's David Yazbek). He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in New York, he sings with Kol Zimra and Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows.
RAVES FOR SEAN'S "WHAT I LIKE ABOUT JEW" SONGS
“Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risqué borscht-belting-not to mention a reverence for tradition... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp.”—New York Times
“Racy and funny and smart and affectionate, written for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'”—Boston Globe
“Bawdy cabaret with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... with style and guts and a tune you can groove to.”—Washington Post
“Irreverent and hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Think Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman.”—Baltimore CityGuide
“Sly and hilarious.”—Village Voice
"Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect... Deliriously kitschy.”—Boston Herald
“Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... A roving celebration of Hebraic song and culture.”—Time Out New York
“An irreverent and hilarious musical revue.”—Bergen Record
"Bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Catskills seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."—Philadelphia Weekly
"Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"(This) self-deprecating humor is chicken soup for the Jewish soul."—Philadelphia City Paper
"A tongue-in-cheek New Jew revue."—New York Magazine
GUEST BIOS:
TODD BARRY (NYC show) was Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It Standup" selection on their "It List". He's appeared on Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Carson Daly, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central's Friar's Roast of Chevy Chase, "Space Ghost Coast To Coast", and in his own two "Comedy Central Presents" specials. His acting credits include "The Larry Sanders Show", "Sex And The City", "Spin City", "Chappelle's Show", "Road Trip", "Lucky Louie", "Wonder Showzen", and "Pootie Tang". He's done cartoon voice work on "Dr. Katz", "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", "Home Movies", "Squidbillies", "Hey Monie", and "Freak Squad." Todd has even done shows with The New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo, The Shins, Aimee Mann, They Might Be Giants, and Luna. He's appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia, the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where he won the Jury Award for Best Stand Up Comic. His latest CD/DVD, "Falling Off the Bone" was released on Comedy Central Records.
JONATHAN COULTON (NJ show) is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine, and a geek rock superhero. His songs about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, and self-loathing giant squids are insanely clever without ever being too clever for their own good - they repeatedly lure you into laughing before suddenly breaking your heart. For the past year he has published a new song every week for free on his website in an ambitious project called Thing a Week, spawning a few honest to goodness internet smashes like "Code Monkey" and his folky cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back." He is ready to soft rock your socks off.
TAMMY FAYE STARLITE (Long Island, Philadelphia shows) is a country-singer-cum evangelist who has spent most of her pre-teen years preaching His Word in these 48 contiguous United States. She is currently on her Soul Harvest/Gospel Tour 2006, and is pleased to spread in Phildaelphia. Tammy is proud to be affiliated with Colorado Springs' New Life Church.
STEVE GOODIE (NYC, VA, MD, MA shows) is a Nashville-based comedian singer/songwriter with credits coming out of his ass: The Today Show (NBC), The Howard Stern Show, and syndicated giants Dr. Demento and The Bob & Tom Show.
CYNTHIA KAPLAN (all shows) is the author of Why I'm Like This: True Stories (William Morrow, 2002) and the upcoming Leave the Building Quickly (Morrow, May 2007), and her comic essays have been published in many magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. She, herself, has appeared in many plays and some movies, as well as in comedy and rock clubs in New York and other cities. People Magazine called her "A literary star" and Time Out New York said she was "one of downtown's coolest actors...You'll laugh until you can't breathe."
if Hanukkah puts you in the mood for some progressive punk rock, then check out the Jewish Punk Rock Hanukkah Tour in Pomona at the Tiki Room on December 21st and at the Workmen's Circle in LA on Friday, December 22nd. The show begins at 8pm with Yidcore, "the original Aussie Jewish punk pranksters," Jewdriver, the satirical send-up of neo-nazi band Screwdriver, and The Zydepunks, "New Orleans Cajun Irish Breton Klezmer Slavic Zydeco punk," along with screenings of documentary films Jericho's Echo and Tattoo Jews. For more information visit the website for the tour at www.hanukkahtour.com, where you can also link to samples of the band's music.
From the creator of the comedy song sensation "What I Like About Jew" and the founder of Rockapella comes a newly erected, Jew-themed, comedy song variety show: JEWMONGOUS!, featuring Sean Altman and guests Todd Barry, Jonathan Coulton, Tammy Faye Starlite, Cynthia Kaplan and Steve Goodie. All faiths welcome, especially Jews.
12/22 - Tin Angel, Philadelphia (7:30pm)
JEWMONGOUS! - a comedy song variety show - is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN, the song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew. In the aftermath of the act's debut CD “Unorthodox” in 2006, What I Like About Jew was featured on NPR's "Fresh Air With Terry Gross", rocketed into the Top 50 on Amazon.com, and is currently being fashioned into an off-Broadway musical by genuine Jewish theater producers. As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). Sean is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?", for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song (with Broadway's David Yazbek). He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in New York, he sings with Kol Zimra and Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows.
RAVES FOR SEAN'S "WHAT I LIKE ABOUT JEW" SONGS
“Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risqué borscht-belting-not to mention a reverence for tradition... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp.”—New York Times
“Racy and funny and smart and affectionate, written for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'”—Boston Globe
“Bawdy cabaret with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... with style and guts and a tune you can groove to.”—Washington Post
“Irreverent and hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Think Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman.”—Baltimore CityGuide
“Sly and hilarious.”—Village Voice
"Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect... Deliriously kitschy.”—Boston Herald
“Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... A roving celebration of Hebraic song and culture.”—Time Out New York
“An irreverent and hilarious musical revue.”—Bergen Record
"Bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Catskills seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."—Philadelphia Weekly
"Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"(This) self-deprecating humor is chicken soup for the Jewish soul."—Philadelphia City Paper
"A tongue-in-cheek New Jew revue."—New York Magazine
GUEST BIOS:
TODD BARRY (NYC show) was Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It Standup" selection on their "It List". He's appeared on Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Carson Daly, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central's Friar's Roast of Chevy Chase, "Space Ghost Coast To Coast", and in his own two "Comedy Central Presents" specials. His acting credits include "The Larry Sanders Show", "Sex And The City", "Spin City", "Chappelle's Show", "Road Trip", "Lucky Louie", "Wonder Showzen", and "Pootie Tang". He's done cartoon voice work on "Dr. Katz", "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", "Home Movies", "Squidbillies", "Hey Monie", and "Freak Squad." Todd has even done shows with The New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo, The Shins, Aimee Mann, They Might Be Giants, and Luna. He's appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia, the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where he won the Jury Award for Best Stand Up Comic. His latest CD/DVD, "Falling Off the Bone" was released on Comedy Central Records.
JONATHAN COULTON (NJ show) is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine, and a geek rock superhero. His songs about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, and self-loathing giant squids are insanely clever without ever being too clever for their own good - they repeatedly lure you into laughing before suddenly breaking your heart. For the past year he has published a new song every week for free on his website in an ambitious project called Thing a Week, spawning a few honest to goodness internet smashes like "Code Monkey" and his folky cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back." He is ready to soft rock your socks off.
TAMMY FAYE STARLITE (Long Island, Philadelphia shows) is a country-singer-cum evangelist who has spent most of her pre-teen years preaching His Word in these 48 contiguous United States. She is currently on her Soul Harvest/Gospel Tour 2006, and is pleased to spread in Phildaelphia. Tammy is proud to be affiliated with Colorado Springs' New Life Church.
STEVE GOODIE (NYC, VA, MD, MA shows) is a Nashville-based comedian singer/songwriter with credits coming out of his ass: The Today Show (NBC), The Howard Stern Show, and syndicated giants Dr. Demento and The Bob & Tom Show.
CYNTHIA KAPLAN (all shows) is the author of Why I'm Like This: True Stories (William Morrow, 2002) and the upcoming Leave the Building Quickly (Morrow, May 2007), and her comic essays have been published in many magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. She, herself, has appeared in many plays and some movies, as well as in comedy and rock clubs in New York and other cities. People Magazine called her "A literary star" and Time Out New York said she was "one of downtown's coolest actors...You'll laugh until you can't breathe."
Hi friends,
After a 1.5 year hiatus I'm back in New York. If you're around, come down to dig the music and say hello!
Best, Burton Greene
Thursday, Dec 21 9 pm
Zebulon 258 Wythe Ave
Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn (Bedford-1st stop on L train in Bklyn)
(free entry ... great food and drinks)
A presentation concert of our new CD on CIMP "Ins and Outs":
Burton Greene Trio
Ed Schuller- bass
George Schuller- drums
Burton Greene- piano
BALAGAN BOOGALOO
DJ Rekha, DJ Busquelo, dj handler & VJ Nico with belly dancers and suprises all night
Mocca
78 Read st off Church
9pm / $8 / 21+
The Bhangra, Baile Funk, New Mediterranio & Afro Beat Party
VJs + DJs in their pjs, Belly Dancers, Live Drummers
A party unlike any other in the city. Village Voice dubbed the Balagan party, "Stereotype-defying music." and the NY Time Out made it their critic's pick. Come see what all the fuss is about.
co-sponsored by the 14th St Y and JCP Downtown
if Hanukkah puts you in the mood for some progressive punk rock, then check out the Jewish Punk Rock Hanukkah Tour in Pomona at the Tiki Room on December 21st and at the Workmen's Circle in LA on Friday, December 22nd. The show begins at 8pm with Yidcore, "the original Aussie Jewish punk pranksters," Jewdriver, the satirical send-up of neo-nazi band Screwdriver, and The Zydepunks, "New Orleans Cajun Irish Breton Klezmer Slavic Zydeco punk," along with screenings of documentary films Jericho's Echo and Tattoo Jews. For more information visit the website for the tour at www.hanukkahtour.com, where you can also link to samples of the band's music.
Jewltide in Boston
Thurs. Dec. 21
TT The Bears
www.ttthebears.com
$10 On Sale Now / $12 Day of Show / 18+ / Doors 8:30 PM
Featuring Golem + SoCalled + Heeb Magazine + Shtreiml
This event made possible through a grant from Charles & Lynn Schusterman Foundation.
The Klezmatics—Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah Tour (includes selections from "Wonder Wheel")
Thu, Dec 21, 2pm
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
(323)850.2000
Purchase
Tickets Online
AFRO-SEPHARDIC AND LADINO MUSIC
Afro-Semitic Experience & Sarah Aroeste Band
Spanish Portugusse Synagaogue
3 West 70th st at Central Park West
7pm / $12adv or $15 door / all ages
An evening of cross-cultural music with Middle Eastern melodies, the beautiful language of Ladino and the infectious rhythms of Africa.
RSVP to Alana 212-873-0300 x209
Metropolitan Klezmer Hanukkah Show
Thursday, 12/21 (evening)
at Riverspace Arts
119 Main St, Nyack NY
Two sets, 7:00pm showtime
$15 adults/ $10 kids
www.riverspace.org
From the creator of the comedy song sensation "What I Like About Jew" and the founder of Rockapella comes a newly erected, Jew-themed, comedy song variety show: JEWMONGOUS!, featuring Sean Altman and guests Todd Barry, Jonathan Coulton, Tammy Faye Starlite, Cynthia Kaplan and Steve Goodie. All faiths welcome, especially Jews.
12/21 - The Brokerage, Bellmore, Long Island, NY (7pm)
JEWMONGOUS! - a comedy song variety show - is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN, the song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew. In the aftermath of the act's debut CD “Unorthodox” in 2006, What I Like About Jew was featured on NPR's "Fresh Air With Terry Gross", rocketed into the Top 50 on Amazon.com, and is currently being fashioned into an off-Broadway musical by genuine Jewish theater producers. As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). Sean is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?", for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song (with Broadway's David Yazbek). He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in New York, he sings with Kol Zimra and Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows.
RAVES FOR SEAN'S "WHAT I LIKE ABOUT JEW" SONGS
“Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risqué borscht-belting-not to mention a reverence for tradition... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp.”—New York Times
“Racy and funny and smart and affectionate, written for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'”—Boston Globe
“Bawdy cabaret with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... with style and guts and a tune you can groove to.”—Washington Post
“Irreverent and hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Think Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman.”—Baltimore CityGuide
“Sly and hilarious.”—Village Voice
"Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect... Deliriously kitschy.”—Boston Herald
“Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... A roving celebration of Hebraic song and culture.”—Time Out New York
“An irreverent and hilarious musical revue.”—Bergen Record
"Bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Catskills seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."—Philadelphia Weekly
"Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"(This) self-deprecating humor is chicken soup for the Jewish soul."—Philadelphia City Paper
"A tongue-in-cheek New Jew revue."—New York Magazine
GUEST BIOS:
TODD BARRY (NYC show) was Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It Standup" selection on their "It List". He's appeared on Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Carson Daly, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central's Friar's Roast of Chevy Chase, "Space Ghost Coast To Coast", and in his own two "Comedy Central Presents" specials. His acting credits include "The Larry Sanders Show", "Sex And The City", "Spin City", "Chappelle's Show", "Road Trip", "Lucky Louie", "Wonder Showzen", and "Pootie Tang". He's done cartoon voice work on "Dr. Katz", "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", "Home Movies", "Squidbillies", "Hey Monie", and "Freak Squad." Todd has even done shows with The New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo, The Shins, Aimee Mann, They Might Be Giants, and Luna. He's appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia, the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where he won the Jury Award for Best Stand Up Comic. His latest CD/DVD, "Falling Off the Bone" was released on Comedy Central Records.
JONATHAN COULTON (NJ show) is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine, and a geek rock superhero. His songs about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, and self-loathing giant squids are insanely clever without ever being too clever for their own good - they repeatedly lure you into laughing before suddenly breaking your heart. For the past year he has published a new song every week for free on his website in an ambitious project called Thing a Week, spawning a few honest to goodness internet smashes like "Code Monkey" and his folky cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back." He is ready to soft rock your socks off.
TAMMY FAYE STARLITE (Long Island, Philadelphia shows) is a country-singer-cum evangelist who has spent most of her pre-teen years preaching His Word in these 48 contiguous United States. She is currently on her Soul Harvest/Gospel Tour 2006, and is pleased to spread in Phildaelphia. Tammy is proud to be affiliated with Colorado Springs' New Life Church.
STEVE GOODIE (NYC, VA, MD, MA shows) is a Nashville-based comedian singer/songwriter with credits coming out of his ass: The Today Show (NBC), The Howard Stern Show, and syndicated giants Dr. Demento and The Bob & Tom Show.
CYNTHIA KAPLAN (all shows) is the author of Why I'm Like This: True Stories (William Morrow, 2002) and the upcoming Leave the Building Quickly (Morrow, May 2007), and her comic essays have been published in many magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. She, herself, has appeared in many plays and some movies, as well as in comedy and rock clubs in New York and other cities. People Magazine called her "A literary star" and Time Out New York said she was "one of downtown's coolest actors...You'll laugh until you can't breathe."
Folksbiene at CUNY presents a concert version of the famous operetta "The Witch," by Abraham Goldfaden, the acknowledged father of the Yiddish theatre. The first Yiddish operetta staged in America, "The Witch" tells the fairy-tale story of a young girl victimized by a scheming stepmother and local witch. "The Witch" is music directed by Zalmen Mlotek, with stage direction by Motl Didner. Starring Suzanne Kobb, Joanne Borts, Adrienne Cooper, Jake Feldman, Hy Wolfe, Ashley Adler and featuring The New Yiddish Chorale.
Performances are
With English and Russian supertitles.
Thursday, 12/21 (midday)
Empire State Building
king kong klezmer... free!
12:30pm - 1:30pm lunchtime show
sextet lineup, 34th Street entrance
Fabian Schnedler, the Berlin Yiddish singer, half of the group "Shiker vi Lot"
Boston
20th of December (Wednesday),
8pm at Johnny's D (17 Holland Street, Boston, Sommerville, Maine).
It will be a concert of the Shirim Klezmer Band, and Fabian will sing before.
Fabian accompanies himself on guitar and has cool arrangements of known and unknown yiddish songs plus a beautiful voice. He is usually not to be heard in the US - so go and hear a talented singer from Berlin, who studied with Michael Alpert, Adrienne Cooper
and others, and is now presenting his own approach! Highly recommended by Janina Werb and Itzik Gottesman on the Jewish-Music mailing list. (Shirim, of course, is highly recommended by all.)
Jewltide in Chicago
Wed. Dec. 20
Empty Bottle
1035 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL
$12 On Sale Now / $15 Day of Show / 21+ / Doors 9 PM
Featuring Golem + SoCalled + Heeb Magazine
This event made possible through a grant from Charles & Lynn Schusterman Foundation.
Folksbiene at CUNY presents a concert version of the famous operetta "The Witch," by Abraham Goldfaden, the acknowledged father of the Yiddish theatre. The first Yiddish operetta staged in America, "The Witch" tells the fairy-tale story of a young girl victimized by a scheming stepmother and local witch. "The Witch" is music directed by Zalmen Mlotek, with stage direction by Motl Didner. Starring Suzanne Kobb, Joanne Borts, Adrienne Cooper, Jake Feldman, Hy Wolfe, Ashley Adler and featuring The New Yiddish Chorale.
Performances are
With English and Russian supertitles.
WOMEN OF TZADIK
Basya Schechter, Jewlia Eisenberg, and Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
The Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place
7pm / $20 adults, $18 seniors, $15 student/members / all ages
(buy tickets)
An eclectic line-up of innovative, female performers will highlight the
diversity of the Sephardic community and its musical traditions with
this exciting concert. In addition to sharing a home at the Tzadik
record label, these artists share a vision for presenting rich Jewish
music in a way that embraces and revives traditional styles while
creating a new, modern sound.
From the creator of the comedy song sensation "What I Like About Jew" and the founder of Rockapella comes a newly erected, Jew-themed, comedy song variety show: JEWMONGOUS!, featuring Sean Altman and guests Todd Barry, Jonathan Coulton, Tammy Faye Starlite, Cynthia Kaplan and Steve Goodie. All faiths welcome, especially Jews.
12/20 - 12 Miles West, Bloomfield, NJ (7pm)
JEWMONGOUS! - a comedy song variety show - is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN, the song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew. In the aftermath of the act's debut CD “Unorthodox” in 2006, What I Like About Jew was featured on NPR's "Fresh Air With Terry Gross", rocketed into the Top 50 on Amazon.com, and is currently being fashioned into an off-Broadway musical by genuine Jewish theater producers. As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). Sean is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?", for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song (with Broadway's David Yazbek). He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in New York, he sings with Kol Zimra and Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows.
RAVES FOR SEAN'S "WHAT I LIKE ABOUT JEW" SONGS
“Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risqué borscht-belting-not to mention a reverence for tradition... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp.”—New York Times
“Racy and funny and smart and affectionate, written for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'”—Boston Globe
“Bawdy cabaret with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... with style and guts and a tune you can groove to.”—Washington Post
“Irreverent and hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Think Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman.”—Baltimore CityGuide
“Sly and hilarious.”—Village Voice
"Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect... Deliriously kitschy.”—Boston Herald
“Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... A roving celebration of Hebraic song and culture.”—Time Out New York
“An irreverent and hilarious musical revue.”—Bergen Record
"Bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Catskills seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."—Philadelphia Weekly
"Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"(This) self-deprecating humor is chicken soup for the Jewish soul."—Philadelphia City Paper
"A tongue-in-cheek New Jew revue."—New York Magazine
GUEST BIOS:
TODD BARRY (NYC show) was Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It Standup" selection on their "It List". He's appeared on Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Carson Daly, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central's Friar's Roast of Chevy Chase, "Space Ghost Coast To Coast", and in his own two "Comedy Central Presents" specials. His acting credits include "The Larry Sanders Show", "Sex And The City", "Spin City", "Chappelle's Show", "Road Trip", "Lucky Louie", "Wonder Showzen", and "Pootie Tang". He's done cartoon voice work on "Dr. Katz", "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", "Home Movies", "Squidbillies", "Hey Monie", and "Freak Squad." Todd has even done shows with The New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo, The Shins, Aimee Mann, They Might Be Giants, and Luna. He's appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia, the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where he won the Jury Award for Best Stand Up Comic. His latest CD/DVD, "Falling Off the Bone" was released on Comedy Central Records.
JONATHAN COULTON (NJ show) is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine, and a geek rock superhero. His songs about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, and self-loathing giant squids are insanely clever without ever being too clever for their own good - they repeatedly lure you into laughing before suddenly breaking your heart. For the past year he has published a new song every week for free on his website in an ambitious project called Thing a Week, spawning a few honest to goodness internet smashes like "Code Monkey" and his folky cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back." He is ready to soft rock your socks off.
TAMMY FAYE STARLITE (Long Island, Philadelphia shows) is a country-singer-cum evangelist who has spent most of her pre-teen years preaching His Word in these 48 contiguous United States. She is currently on her Soul Harvest/Gospel Tour 2006, and is pleased to spread in Phildaelphia. Tammy is proud to be affiliated with Colorado Springs' New Life Church.
STEVE GOODIE (NYC, VA, MD, MA shows) is a Nashville-based comedian singer/songwriter with credits coming out of his ass: The Today Show (NBC), The Howard Stern Show, and syndicated giants Dr. Demento and The Bob & Tom Show.
CYNTHIA KAPLAN (all shows) is the author of Why I'm Like This: True Stories (William Morrow, 2002) and the upcoming Leave the Building Quickly (Morrow, May 2007), and her comic essays have been published in many magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. She, herself, has appeared in many plays and some movies, as well as in comedy and rock clubs in New York and other cities. People Magazine called her "A literary star" and Time Out New York said she was "one of downtown's coolest actors...You'll laugh until you can't breathe."
Hanukkah with
Rabbi Joe Black and the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
Wednesday, December 20 (sixth night of Hanukkah)
6:00 pm Family Concert / 7:30 pm Community Concert
Temple Sholom of Chicago
3480 N. Lake Shore Drive
Doors and concessions open 1/2 hour before each concert
Tickets $12 advance/$15 at the door
Children age 3 and under free
Family maximum $50 advance/$55 at the door
Come early - stay late! One ticket price for one concert or both!
Be a Maccabee!
For $250, receive a reserved parking space in the Temple Sholom lot the
night of the concert, reserved concert seats for up to 6 people, a Rabbi Joe
Black CD, & a Maxwell Street Klezmer Band CD. Maccabee spaces are limited!
Reserve your tickets today!
Order on-line at www.chicagojewishdayschool.org
Or mail your check to Chicago Jewish Day School
5959 N. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, IL 60660
Questions? Call (312) 458-9802
Tickets will not be mailed. Your reservation will be Will Call
All proceeds benefit the Chicago Jewish Day School
Limited paid parking available at Mid City Garage at 3440 N. Broadway, 3440 Lake Shore Drive, 3600 Lake Shore Drive and The New York at 3660 N. Lake Shore Drive.
Alicia Svigal's Klezmer Fiddle Party
Wednesday, Dec 20 6 p.m.
A Chanukah program followed by latke dinner for 3 and 4 year olds and their families, at the JCC in Manhattan.
www.jccmanhattan.org
Violinist Alicia Svigals, considered by many to be the world's leading klezmer fiddler, founded Jewish roots band the Klezmatics and her current group, the all-female Mikveh. As a musician and composer, she's worked with Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, the Ben Folds Five, playwrights Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and Eve Ensler (the Vagina Monologues), poet Allen Ginsburg, violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, Jewish spiritual singer/songwriter Debbie Friedman, cantor Avraham Fried and many others. She has appeared on David Letterman, MTV, Good Morning America, PBS' Great Performances, and NPR's Prairie Home Companion, Weekend Edition and New Sounds. Her solo album Fidl is the world's first klezmer violin CD. She loves to play weddings and bat/bar mitzvahs and can be reached at her website: www.aliciasvigals.com. "...violin playing with depth and urgency..." L.A. Times