KlezCalendar

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 22, 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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Thursday 22nd March

SOCALLED SEDER: Socalled, Sophie Solomon, Bukky Leo, Max Reinhardt, Boujemaa Bouboul

The Grand Hall, The Cobden Club, 170 Kensal Road, London W10 5BN (nearest tube: Westbourne Grove)

Doors Open: 8pm Tickets: £8

Book online at www.jcclondon.org.uk or email us to reserve your ticket. Door Policy at the Cobden Club requires your names in advance.

The Slave Trade was made illegal in Britain in 1707. To mark these 200 years of equality in the UK the JCC invites you to a blistering Passover affair of live funk and hiphop, visual artistry and performance you will never forget:

Featuring:
SO CALLED: conducting a symphony of hip hop beats and old Jewish record samples
SOPHIE SOLOMON: Europe’s most charismatic fiddler.
BUKKY LEO: Fela Kuti and Tony Allen’s afro-pioneering horns player.
MAX REINHARDT - legendary Austrian theatre wizard cum world music DJ
PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS: Gnawan multi-instrumentalist BOUJEMAA BOUBOUL, WILL FARQUARSON on bass and digital imagician MIKI SHAW

Produced by YaD Arts for the Jewish Community Centre
www.yadarts.com

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Pharaoh's Daughter
Thursday, MARCH 22nd, Pier 60 NYC
Benefit for Seeds of Peace
(amazing youth camp organization bringing Israeli, Palestinian and
Egyptian teenagers together)
www.seedsofpeace.org/peacemarketinvitation07

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>Massel-Tov Trio
22.03.07, 19:00 Uhr Vernissage der Ausstellung
Gegen das Vergessen- Kunst und Geschichte
Deutsche Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst e.V., Wittelsbacherplatz 2
Eingang Finkenstraße, 80333 München, T. 089-282548
www.dgfck.de

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The Valley Klezmer Band has ongoing rehearsal on Thursday nights from 7:30–9pm at the Lander-Grinspoon Academy in Northampton, MA, and occasionally in Amherst!!! Bring your instrument and play!!! Join the VKB and play klezmer and Israeli party music! Learn klezmer dance-forms such as khosidls, freylekhs and horas. You'll also learn the basics of making band arrangements.

The VKB is a performing ensemble open to the community. You should have at least intermediate competency on your instrument, and be able to read music or learn quickly by ear. Sheet music and CDs will be provided. The fee is $50 - $100, sliding scale, for around 10 sessions.

Scholarships are available.

Please email Amy Rose (preferred) or call 413-253-3831.

The VKO is directed by Amy Rose, flutist, pianist and accordionist. In 1987, Amy founded Klezamir, one of New England's premier klezmer bands. Klezamir recorded four CDs and has performed at hundreds of concerts and parties around New England. Amy also teaches piano and flute. Please email Amy Rose (preferred) or call 413-253-3831. The VKO is supported by a grant from the Harold Grinspoon Foundation

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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!

This afternoon (2pm): Avi Avital is an Israeli mandolin master who recently won first prize in the international competition for plucked strings “Città di Voghera” (Italy); and has played solo with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Milano and others.

and tonight: Aires de Sefarad: Born in Argentina, trained in Israel and the US, the now Berkeley-based composer Jorge Liderman brings a highly original twist to Sephardic music with Duo46, two maverick players of violin and guitar in this work commissioned in part by the Guggenheim Foundation. The double bill includes Avi Avital, an Israeli mandolin master who recently won first prize of the international competition for plucked strings “Città di Voghera” (Italy); and has played solo with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Milano and others.

For more information: www.jewishmusicfestival.org

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Rav Shmuel
Thursday Mar 22, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Sidewalk Cafe
94 Ave. A at 6th St.
Manhattan (E. Village), NY 10009
Cost: No Cover, 2 Drink Min.

This is the earliest show I've played at Sidewalk in quite a while - and it will start on time!

I'm informed via a full page ad in TONY from author Douglas Copeland (Generation X) that this Thursday the 22nd is also some sort of "Water Day" where you pay $1 for a glass of NY tap water at resteraunts all over the city and this money then goes to support a cause. Unfortunately I have forgotten what that cause is and I threw out last weeks issue of TONY... I tried googling "1 dollar tap water Douglas Copeland" but was not successful at getting any more info. So instead come out and spend only a few dollars more for a couple of drinks while I croon sweet but sarcastic love songs at you from the stage...

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UVA Klezmer Ensemble
Thursday, March 22, 8pm
Old Cabell Hall
Free
(434) 924-3984

The recently formed UVA Klezmer Ensemble will be giving its premiere performance under the direction of our new Director of Music Performance, Joel Rubin. The ensemble, made up of UVA students, faculty and other members of the Charlottesville community, is dedicated to exploring klezmer and other Jewish
musical traditions.

The performance will feature two guest artists, violinist David Chernyavsky and pianist James Loeffler. Chernyavsky is known to the UVA community for his brilliant performances and master classes as part of the recent Joel Rubin Ensemble residency. Currently Assistant Concertmaster of Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center, Chernyavsky is a former member of the renowned St. Petersburg String Quartet.

Loeffler has been the Berkowitz Assistant Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia since fall 2006. He has performed as pianist in numerous klezmer bands. He is also a co-founder and current academic vice-chair of the Jewish Music Forum, a New York-based academic organization that seeks to promote interdisciplinary dialogue and scholarly exchange in the field of Jewish musical studies, and serves as Research Director of Pro Musica Hebraica, a new Washington-area organization working to develop an ongoing Jewish music concert series at the Kennedy Center.

The performance will focus on the klezmer traditions of New York and Philadelphia between the two world wars, as well as late 19th century Russia. Klezmer, originally the ritual and celebratory instrumental music of the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe, was brought to North America by immigrants around the turn of the last century. Since the 1970s, a dynamic revival of this tradition has been taking place in America and beyond. Klezmer's recent popularity has brought it far from its roots in medieval minstrelsy and Jewish ritual and into the sphere of mainstream culture.

www.virginia.edu/music/pressrelease/06-07/klezmer032207.html

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THE FLUGGERBULGARS
play klezmer, rumanian and moravian traditional songs

featuring:
David Shulman- clarinet
Jiri Slavik- violin
Fred Thomas- bass
Francesc Marco- piano

@ LEONARDS
42 Northampton Rd
London EC1
8pm
£2 entrance fee

Clips of the band can be heard on www.myspace.com/thefluggerbulgars
Come ready to dance and have a joyfull time

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Concert - EDOM - Thursday, March 22, 8 pm

Edom brings its innovative fusion of avant-garde jazz and Israeli Jewish music to the Museum for a one-night only concert in conjunction with the Dateline Israel exhibition. Edom is led by Israeli-born, composer/guitarist Eyal Maoz, and features Brian Marsella on organ, Shanir Blumenkranz on bass, and Yuval Lion on drums. The group's self-titled debut album was released in 2005 by John Zorn's Tzadik Label as part of its Radical Jewish Culture series and has performed at the 2006 Montreal Jazz Festival.

Tickets: $15 general public; $12 students/over 65; $10 Jewish Museum members

The Jewish Museum
Tel: 212-423-3298
www.thejewishmuseum.org

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Ensemble DRAj
Am 22. März schließlich sendet der WDR unser Konzert vom 10. Februar, welches im Jazzclub domicil in Dortmund stattfand. Außer den Live-Beiträgen haben wir im Vorfeld auch noch einige andere Titel eingespielt, die bisher nicht in dieser Besetzung zu hören waren (zumindest nicht für Hörer in NRW). Und auch hier der Link für weitere Informationen:
www.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/sendung.phtml?sendung=WDR+3+Konzert&termineid=361764&objektart=Sendung

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Thursday 22nd March

SOCALLED SEDER: Socalled, Sophie Solomon, Bukky Leo, Max Reinhardt, Boujemaa Bouboul
The Grand Hall, The Cobden Club, 170 Kensal Road, London W10 5BN (nearest tube: Westbourne Grove)
8pm. £8

Book online at www.jcclondon.org.uk or email YadArts to reserve your ticket. Door Policy at the Cobden Club requires your names in advance.

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