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The Yiddish "Pirates of Penzance" Returns!

Di Yam Gazlonim is back at the JCC for a return engagement
The National Yiddish Theatre—Folksbiene is thrilled to bring Di Yam Gazlonim ("The Pirates of Penzance" in Yiddish) back to the JCC in Manhattan for a celebrated return engagement beginning Sunday, March 18th.

Performed in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles

Mar 21, 2pm & 8pm

Call 212-279-4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com to order tickets. All tickets $40.

JCC in Manhattan - 334 Amsterdam Avenue @ 76th Street

Folksbiene website: www.folksbiene.org

Don't miss this chance to see the show that The New York Times called "brisk, bright and funny" and "a joyful treat."

Book and Lyrics by Al Grand
Directed by Allen Lewis Rickman
Musical Direction by Zalmen Mlotek

This limited engagement begins Sunday, March 18 for two weeks only.

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Later Prophets - A Klezmer Benefit Concert
NYC based band that fuses Jazz and Klezmer music performs at Gann Academy in Waltham

Wednesday, March 21st at 7:30 pm
333 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452

Students $5
Adults $10

The proceeds of the concert will support the Meitrarim-Lod Music Center in the Israeli development town of Lod. Meitrarim-Lod Music Center uses music to foster greater tolerance of religious and non-religious families while being committed to musical excellence and developing self-esteem and group cooperation through ensemble work.

For more info call 781-642-6800 ext. 215.
The KlezmerShack reviewed Later Prophets at Ashkenaz 2006.

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Debut concert of Jake Shulman-Ment's Magyar Khasene
Wednesday, March 21, 7pm
Eldridge Street Synagogue
12 Eldridge St. Manhattan
$12 adults; $8 students/seniors
www.eldridgestreet.org

Jake Shulman-Ment - violin
Pete Rushefsky - cymbalom
Laszlo Hajdu-Nemeth - kontra
Raul Rothblatt - bass
David Licht - percussion

Violinist Jake Shulman-Ment leads an old Hungarian-style band in a debut performance of music drawn from his own travels and research in Hungary and Transylvania, as well as from various source recordings. With its mix of universal East European Jewish melodies, localized Hungarian tunes and styles, and Gypsy influences, the Hungarian-Jewish folk repertoire resembles klezmer, but often departs from the style which has been popularized in recent years.

Includes reading by author Joshua Cohen from his debut novel, Cadenza for the Schneiderman Violin Concerto, a post-modern rumination on 20th-century culture, music and politics as told from the perspective of a brilliant but obscure Hungarian composer.

Also, check out this article out in the Jewish Week about the concert: www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13780

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Grammy winners The Klezmatics
Wed, March 21
20 Years Live! A Retrospective Celebration
Handelsbeurs
Gent, Belgium
Time: 8 pm
www.handelsbeurs.be/

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This year’s Festival will be held from March 8-25 and feature concerts throughout the Bay Area. Performers include Aires de Sefarad; Michael Alpert; Peter Apfelbaum; Avi Avital; Steven Bernstein; Dan Cantrell; Kitka; Klezmer Buenos Aires; Pharaoh's Daughter and more!

Tonight: Noa—Known in Israel by her given name Achinoam Nini, Noa is Israel’s leading international concert and recording artist. Born in Tel- Aviv in 1969, Noa lived in New York City from age 2 until her return to Israel alone at the age of 17. Her family is originally from Yemen. After serving the mandatory two years in the Israeli Army in a military entertainment unit, Noa studied music at the Rimon School where she met her long-time partner and collaborator Gil Dor.

and: Poetry Slam on the theme of Diaspora—The three finalists will have the opportunity to showcase at Community Music Day for additional monetary prizes.…

For more information: www.jewishmusicfestival.org

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YAACOV ELKOBI''
LE 20 MARS 2007 20H30 A L' ESPACE RACHI
LE 21 MARS 2007 20H45 A NOGENT LE PERREUX

M Gérard UZAN,
Président de la Commission administrative
du Centre Communautaire HEKHAL DAVID présente,

UNE GRANDE SOIREE JUDEO ADANLOUSE ..
Le Mercredi 21 mars 2007 à 20 H 45 heures

Avec la participation des Artistes,

’’YAACOV ELKOBI''PAYTAN &''GABRIEL ELFASSI''TENOR
Accompagnés par l’orchestre de ‘’Michel SUISSA’’

Contact, Maurice Mamane : 06.63.49.80.87
173 AV DU GENERAL DE GAULLE 94170 LE PERREUX
PAF/ Tel:01.48.72.88.65

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Asefa w/Rocking Chair and JoyEngin
March 21
Southpaw
125 5th avenue, Brooklyn, 11217.

$7.50 adv./$10 d.o.s
8 pm doors/9 pm show
>> buy tickets

For those of you who missed us at Southpaw a couple weeks ago, we are playing there tomorrow night!
www.spsounds.com

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