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February 1, 2008

Liquid Life, Cambridge, MA, Feb 1, 2008

Zeitgeist Outpost * 186 1/2 Hampshire St., Cambridge
Friday, February 1, 8 PM * Suggested donation: $5

Liquid Life

Woodwinds - Jim Warshauer
Oud - Gregory White
Acoustic bass - Sven Larson
Percussion - Grant Smith

Liquid Life is a four-way collaboration featuring the unusual instrumentation of oud, woodwinds, string bass, and percussion. The band came together out of a desire to play fiery, rhythmic, improvisational music at low acoustic volumes. Performances can flow from jazz to funk grooves to distinctly middle eastern feels, all seamlessly and organically. These skilled musicians create a musical empathy in the moment that audiences can immediately relate to. Fans of acoustic music, jazz, world fusion, and collective improvisation will all connect with this exciting music.

www.liquidlifemusic.com
www.myspace.com/liquidlifemusic

Yale Strom/Hot Pstromi @ BJ, NYC, Feb 1, 2008

Yale StromBack by popular demand! Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi return for another Friday Night Oneg at NYC's Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun, 88th Street between Broadway and West End Avenue.

The concert will start immediately after services. This event is free to the public (but last year's was SRO, so come early for seats).

B'Nai Jeshurun Synagogue
(212) 787-7600
www.bj.org

February 2, 2008

Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom Presents Sephardic Melody, NYC, Feb 2, 2008

Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom Presents Sephardic Melody

On February 2 at 1pm, in Schnurmacher Chapel, Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom will celebrate Sephardic Melody, a rich cultural heritage expressed both in contemporary music and traditional, which blends influences from the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Turkey, Greece, and the Mediterranean. Guest artists, Paul Woodiel, on fiddle, and guitarist Steve Gibb join cellist Eliot Bailen and flutist Susan Rotholz in a program of Sephardic instrumental and vocal interpretations both ancient and new, including music from the 19th century collections of Emanuel Aguilar, the pianist composer, and brother of the remarkable author and Jewish historian Grace Aguilar. Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom, under the artistic direction of Eliot Bailen, highlights both the best of the chamber music repertory and our Jewish heritage in music in a series of free community concerts. Admission is free and a light lunch is served preconcert . Please rsvp by phone to 646 454 3039.

Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83rd Street, can be reached by subway or bus to 86th Street and Central Park West. Walk three blocks south to 83rd Street.

Klezmakers, Santa Clara, CA, Feb 2, 2008

The KLEZMAKERS in concert!
Saturday, Feb. 2nd, 7:30pm

The mid-peninsula's very own (eight piece!) klezmer band will perform in Santa Clara. Come for a rollicking evening of dance tunes, Yiddish theater songs, some Israeli folk music, and the debut of a few of their original pieces. You can even enjoy a light dinner during the show (sandwiches, soups, pasta, etc.)

Mission City Coffee Roasting Company
2221 The Alameda, Santa Clara, 95050
admission: $8, Ph: 408-261-2221

Shira Kline, W. Roxbury, MA, Feb 2, 2008

Keshet service with musician and performer Shira Kline
Saturday, February 2, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Hillel B'nai Torah, 120 Corey Street, West Roxbury

Join us for cocktails, song and good company. Keshet works for the full inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Jewish in Jewish life. RSVP is requested by January 31. For more information or to RSVP, call 617-524-9227.

2nd Annual A Cappella Fest, Brookline, MA, Feb 2, 2008

2nd Annual A Cappella Fest to benefit childhood education for Ethiopian immigrants in Haifa, Israel. Featuring many local top college groups. For the 1st time ever, we will be seeing high school and a middle school group as well. Saturday, February 2, at 8:00pm at Congregation Kehillath Israel, 384 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA.

Optional Kosher dinner catered by Taam China for an additional $18.00, and a terrific shop Israel Fair.

For more information or tickets ($20.00/person), visit www.cjp.org/ki or call 617-277-9915. Last year was filled to capacity.

Fleytmuzik, Oxnard, FL, Feb 2, 2008

This Saturday, Feb. 2, will be the first concert of a new Fleytmuzik program that will be performed at The Villages, Florida. 7:00 is our downbeat!

Okay, so that's a town???? Well, sort of. They have their own city and now they have their new synagogue, which we are "opening" with this concert. Officially? Oxford, Florida. Still not on your visionary map? The complex is drivable from Sarasota or Tampa or Orlando....

The synagogue is Temple Shalom, "Home of the New Jewish Congregation of Central Florida". The URL for the concert itself is: www.newjewishcongregation.org
For tickets call the office at 352-259-8773.
Price for the grand evening of the concert and dance party and dessert is $25.00

I'll be rockin' it out with Pete Rushefsky, Jake Shulman-Ment, and Brian Glassman and THAT should be enough to entice you to come. The concert will feature many of my compositions as well as goodies from our best sources, ones that particularly fit the flute. Then, at the dance party and dessert afterwards we'll be playing and dancing a new sher and a patch tanz! Locals: Be there!
Not local? Book your flight today! The weather is going to be great as well.

—Adrianne Greenbaum

Theo Bikel, Toronto, Canada, Feb 2, 2008

Living Legend Theodore Bikel in concert
Sponsored by: Ashkenaz Foundation and Festival
Saturday, February 2 at 8:00pm
George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts.
Toronto, CA

For further info: 416.872.1111

Ashkenaz Foundation is very proud to present the legendary Theodore Bikel in his first Toronto appearance in over 20 years! An icon of song, stage and screen, at ‘only’ 83 years old Bikel remains a vital and prolific performer. On February 2 Bikel will perform a mix of songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, Russian, and English. Bikel will be backed by his long time pianist and musical director, Tamara Brooks, as well as Toronto’s own award-winning folk/roots fusion group Beyond the Pale, with whom Bikel recently collaborated at the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland.

Tickets $45, $60, & $75, from Ticketmaster Tel: 416-872-1111 or online at www.ticketmaster.ca

Patron packages, including exclusive access to a post-concert "Meet the Artists" reception are available through the Ashkenaz office. For more information call 416.979.9901

The concert is a benefit for an excellent cause: the Ashkenaz Festival, one of the world’s largest celebrations of Yiddish/Jewish culture. The next edition of the Ashkenaz Festival takes place August 26 – September 1, 2008 at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre and will feature a fantastic lineup of local and international musicians and artists in all disciplines. Ashkenaz is a non-profit organization that relies on the support of its community to produce its mostly free world-class programming.

Massel-Tov, Ebersberg, Germany, Feb 2, 2008

Massel-Tov
15.02.08
20:00h
85560 Ebersberg,
la gallinera, Sieghartstr. 20a,
T. 089 – 14 33 58 10
www.coral-events.de

Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, NYC, Feb 2, 2008

Yale StromBack by popular demand! Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi
Barbes,
Park Slope, Brooklyn
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.)
Saturday, February 2, 8pm.

CD release concert for their new ARC recording, "Borsht with Bread, Brothers".

The lineup: Strom (fiddle), Elizabeth Schwartz (vocals), Peter Stan (accordion), Sprocket (bass), Norbert Stachel (reeds), David Licht (percussion).

718.965.9177
www.barbesbrooklyn.com

Yiddishe Cup, Ann Arbor, MI, Feb 2, 2008

band photoYiddishe Cup

Sat. Feb. 2, 2008
The Ark,
Ann Arbor, Mich.
8 p.m. concert.
$.
www.theark.org

Kabbalah, Marseille, France, Feb 2, 2008

KabbalahKabbalah et toute l'équipe de la Meson vous présentent leurs meilleurs voeux pour cette année 2008…

Avant une série de dates parisiennes, Le groupe donne rendez vous au public marseillais ce week end :

Samedi 2 Février à 21h – Kabbalah – Centre Fleg – 4, Impasse Dragon 13006 Marseille

Infos et Réservations : 04 91 37 42 01 www.centrefleg.com

PAF 10/15€

Kabbalah propose un spectacle qui s’articule autour des nouvelles musiques juives et s’inspire de la tradition klezmer tout en intégrant des influences actuelles : rock , afro-américaine, orientale…

Depuis sa formation en 2004 à Marseille, les cinq membres de Kabbalah ont constitué un répertoire original qui sait mettre en valeur les orientations musicales et culturelles de chaque musicien (les échos des chants traditionnels hassidiques répondent aux spoken word et les climats obsessionnels évoquent la transe et le mysticisme) et leurs talents respectifs : une palette sonore d’une grande richesse musicale où la virtuosité est convoquée à chaque instant ; l’extraordinaire profusion d’instruments (saxophones, violon, contrebasse, xylophone, mandoluth, percussions…), de langues (anglais, yiddish, russe) chantées, parlées permet l’expression d’un style coloré propre à Kabbalah. Leur album « Shlomo » est une pure réussite et rarement métissage n’a été plus convaincant.

STEPHANE GALESKI – Chant, Guitare, Mandole, ULI WOLTERS - Spoken word, Saxophones et Percussions, ANNA STARTSEVA – Violon, Alto, chant, GERARD GATTO - Batterie, Percussions, Chœurs, PATRICK FERNE - Contrebasse, Chœurs

February 3, 2008

Strauss-Warschauer, Columbia Klezmer, and more, NYC, Feb 3, 2008

band photoStrauss/Warshauer-Duo

There'll be dancing in the aisles at the Fifth Annual Klezmer Concert at Town and Village Synagogue
with the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, Columbia Klezmer Band, the Temple Beth Israel Intergenerational Klezmer Band, and the Workmen's Circle Klezmer Ensemble!
Sunday February 3, 2008 at 3 PM

Manhattan-Cooper Post 1 Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. presents its Fifth-Annual Klezmer Concert featuring the internationally acclaimed Strauss/Warschauer Duo, the Columbia University Klezmer Band, the Temple Beth Israel Intergenerational Klezmer Band and the Workmen's Circle Klezmer Workshop!

3 p.m. Sunday, February 3
Doors open at 2:45 p.m.
One dollar per person donation requested
Town & Village Synagogue 334 East 14th Street (near First Avenue)

For more information please contact: (212) 477-3131

Sisters of Sheynville & Tracey Erin, Toronto, Canada, Feb 3, 2008

sisters of sheynvilleSisters of Sheynville are launching a new venture! The Yiddish swing-klez band is teaming up with award-winning solo performer Tracey Erin Smith—combining her hilarious solo show, "The Burning Bush!", with their own music and adding several brand new pieces and arrangements. At this time, only one show will take place in Toronto's Lula Lounge, and one show in New York's Actor's Temple.

Toronto: Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas Street West, FEBRUARY 3rd, 2008
Doors open at 7:00pm for dinner—Show begins at 8:00pm. Reservations: 416-778-8984 $15 show only

Tracey Erin Smith:
'The Burning Bush!', is the story of Barbara Baumawitz, a female Rabbinical student who teams up with exotic dancers to save souls, one lap dance at a time. Smith is the only solo artist to win 'Best of the Toronto Fringe Festival' two years in a row (2006 & 2007) and an Audience Choice Award Frigid Festival New York City.

"A total crowd pleaser! Theatergoers (and deep-pocketed commercial producers) should check it out while they still have the chance."
New York Theatre Experience (March 2007)

The Sisters of Sheynville:
"… they've constantly electrified audiences wherever they've gone." —Canadian Jewish News (November 2007)

"Yosl Rakover Speaks to G-d", NYC, Feb 3, 2008

Sunday, February 3rd at 7 PM

David Mandelbaum appears in this intense solo performance of Tsvi Kolitz's well known story "Yosl Rakover Speaks to G-d", about a religious fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto. Admisssion (Contribution) $15. In the Max Raskin Community Synagogue, 325 East 6th Street. Details here.

Congress for Jewish Culture, Inc.
212-505-8040

Brookline jam postponed until Feb 10, 2008

Once again the Patriots have shown themselves unable to accommodate our jam schedule. We have agreed to postpone the jam. In exchange, the halftime show will include a klezmer performance by a group to be chosen at random from an unknown drawing at a secret location.

Klezmer Jam Sunday will be Feb. 10 instead of Feb. 3 because of the Super Bowl.

Workmen's Circle building, 1762 Beacon St., Brookline
7:00 - 9:00pm

It's a place to enjoy the wonderful legacy of Klezmer music in an informal and friendly atmosphere. We play from music, available at the jam. We have a variety of instruments, and welcome players at all levels. Keyboardists should bring electric keyboards if possible.

February 4, 2008

New Yiddish Rep, NYC, Feb 4, 2008

theatre imageNew Yiddish Rep, founded by David Mandelbaum of La MaMa and Theater for the New City fame, is proud to present new pieces for Yiddish and non-Yiddish speakers alike!

Monday, February 4th at 7 pm.
The Essence, a dim sum of Yiddish Theater

An overview of Yiddish Theater from Abraham Goldfaden to the present day. Created by Allen Rickman, performed by Allen Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson and Steve Sterner. Narration in English, songs and scenes in Yiddish with English supertitles.

The Community Synagogue
325 E. 6th Street
New York, NY 10003
Suggested Donation of 15 dollars for performances. The theater appreciates donations, but maintains an “pay as you exit” policy to ensure that Yiddish theater is accessible to everyone. So come support new Yiddish theater, Jewish art and community development! We’ll see you there!

"A Yiddish Theater Dim-Sum", NYC, Feb 4, 2008

Monday, February 4th at 7 PM

The Essence: A Yiddish Theater Dim-Sum

The talented couple Allen Rickman and Yelena Shmuleson together with Steve Sterner have developed this 80 minute history of the Yiddish theater. With stories in English, and scenes and songs in Yiddish. Admission $15. At the Max Raskin Community Synagogue, 325 East 6th Street. Details here.

February 5, 2008

Benjamin Laden's 'Wild Bohemians,' Philadelphia, PA, Feb 5, 2008

The Wild BohemiansBenjamin Laden's The Wild Bohemians
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm
World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-222-1400
Map It

Tickets
$10 + $3 processing fee
Save money! Processing fee is only $1 when you purchase with CASH at the box office BEFORE day of show!

General Admission: Ticket purchase is not a guarantee of seating. Please call 215-222-1400 to reserve seating for dinner.

We are the WILD BOHEMIANS!!! Up goes the cry at a tradition that has brought the sounds, dance, and raucous joy of Mardi Gras to Philadelphia since 1984. The band’s repertoire consists of any and all music from Louisiana, including Cajun, Zydeco, Dixieland, Mardi Gras Street Music, Jazz, R&B, and a specialty the Bohemians called Swamp Stomp. The band also shows a penchant for silliness, wearing wild costumes, telling strange tales, making weird noises, and playing novelty songs that strike their fancy.

Each Fat Tuesday The Wild Bohemians have played to jubilant dancing audiences. The party has expanded to include a parade held on a Sunday afternoon before Mardi Gras (January 27th this year) featuring the band marching down South Street, trailed by costumed revelers, stopping in every bar along the route for a short set and a tall drink. The band is made up of professional musicians who play in other bands and venues all year round, but wouldn't miss this date to party with The Wild Bohemians. The line-up at times consists of over 20 players on stage. Since the band drinks for free on parade day, fans bring anything that makes a noise and claim to be ‘with the band’ The Wild Bohemians on Mardi Gras in Philadelphia, the next best thing to being on Bourbon Street!

SCSU Creative Music Orchestra, New Haven, CT, Feb 5, 2008

Tuesday, February 5, at 8:00 p.m., the SCSU Creative Music Orchestra, David
Chevan
, director, ANNUAL Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Concert in the Charles
Garner Recital Hall (Room 112C) in Engleman Hall of Southern Connecticut
State University in New Haven, Connecticut, admission is $5.00; please call (203) 392-6630 for more information

February 6, 2008

Greg Wall lecture/concert, NYC, Feb 6, 2008

Greg WallAt the Eldrige Street Synagogue, newly restored in the Lower East Side/Chinatown of Manhattan,
"Of Jews and Jazz"
Wednesday, February 6 at 7 pm
Lost and Found Music Series

Jewish musicians have long been drawn to the modes and moods of jazz. Greg Wall, chronicles the connection and, accompanied by his quartet, raises the roof with some swinging illustrations.

Tickets: $15 adults; $12 students and seniors

Faren Khan, Paris, France, Feb 6, 2008

Faren Khan
Oriental Klezmer Connection

in concert in paris
06/02/2008

La Vieille Grille
1 rue du Puits de l'Ermite
75 005 Paris

www.myspace.com/farenkhan

Bang on a Can All-Stars, La Jolla, CA, Feb 6, 2008

Bang on a Can All-StarsBang on a Can All-Stars on Tour
February 6 - The Other House, La Jolla, CA, 7:30PM
The All-Stars perform works by Don Byron, Fred Frith, Paul Lanksy, Lukas Ligeti, Alvin Lucier, Evan Ziporyn. More Information & Tickets

February 7, 2008

Les Mentsh, NYC, Feb 7, 2008

LOGOLes Mentsh Thursday 7 February 2008
7 PM
Atran Center for Jewish Culture
25 East 21st Street, Manhattan
Donation: $8

You are cordially invited to a Kavehoyz program with the Parisian klezmer band Les Mentsh, with Alexis (accordion) and Samuel Maquin (clarinet). To learn more about this exciting group and to hear them playing, click here.

This Parisian group is currently appearing in the United States with a touring company of "Fiddler on the Roof". Don't miss the chance to hear them in the intimate atmosphere of the Kavehoyz. Come, hear some music, sing a song, and talk a little Jewish with friends old and new!

Ot di Parizer kapelye tret oyf itst in di Fareynikte Shtatn mit a gastrolir-kompanye fun "Fiddler on the Roof". Farfelt nit di zeltene gelegnhayt zey tsu hern in der intimer atmosfer baym Kavehoyz! Kumt, hert a bisl muzik, zingt a lid, un khapt a shmues mit fraynd alte un nokh-nit-bakante!

Center for Jewish Culture logoAlveltlekher Yidisher kultur-kongres
Congress for Jewish Culture
www.congressforjewishculture.org

Kane Street Klezmer Band, Brooklyn, NY, Feb 7, 2008

Kane Street Klezmer Band—Every Thursday Night in February (Feb 7, 14, 21, 28) 7:30-9:00, at the Synagogue.

The Kane Street Synagogue is located at 236 Kane Street off of Court Street, the nearest subway stop is the Bergen Street station on the F train. It's not a bad walk along Court Street from the 2,3,4,5 lines station at Court St/Borough Hall which are the first (4,5 lines) or second (2,3 lines) stop in Brooklyn.

Kane Street Musical Director Joey Weisenberg will be directing a klezmer ensemble of Kane Street members and friends, on Thursday nights in February, 7:30-9:00. He will teach traditional klezmer melodies, and demonstrate how to make them come alive in an instrumental ensemble. This ensemble is open to all instrumentalists. Please email Joey with questions.

Joey Weisenberg is a mandolinist and guitarist. At age twelve, Joey began performing as a harmonica player and guitarist in blues bars in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He currently performs with bands including Romashka, Zagnut Circus Orchestra, The Marija Krupoves Trio, Ansamble Mastika, The Amazing Frosen String Quartet, Michael Winograd's Klezmer Outfit, and as a leader of his own ensembles. Joey has also accompanied established artists such as Neshama Carlebach, Debbie Friedman, and Henry Sapoznik. As a teacher, Joey leads his "Spontaneous Jewish Choir" workshops, and teaches for institutions including Klez Kanada and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Bang on a Can All-Stars, San Francisco, CA, Feb 7, 2008

Bang on a Can All-StarsBang on a Can All-Stars on Tour
February 7 - Amoeba Records, San Francisco CA, 7PM
If you're in the Bay Area and you love innovative music then you can't possibly turn down this killer pairing of Bang on a Can All-Stars LIVE at Amoeba Records. The All-Stars perform an intimate yet explosive set of music by Don Byron, Michael Gordon, Thurston Moore, Evan Ziporyn and more. It's FREE!

Darriau/Goff, Brooklyn, NYC, Feb 7, 2008

Darriau / Goff
NEW CELTIC STUFF
thursday nite, Feb. 7th ...

matt darriau - reeds, Irish flute, whistles, gaida.
ivan goff - Irish Uilleann pipes, flute, whistles
mathias kunzli - percussion
kyle - guitar

matt and ivan get out their tunes and arrangements for this appearance long-time coming.... please come check it out - especially Ivan's mastery of the pipes!! Dude.

BARBES ~ This Thursday, Feb. 7th - 8pm (1 set).
#376 9th st at 6th ave Park Slope, Brooklyn
7th ave stop on F,
718-965-9177

www.barbesbrooklyn.com

Chilli Fried Peppers, London, UK, Feb 7, 2008

Chilli Fried Peppers
Cool global Jewish music

Thursday, February 7, 2008
8:30pm - 11:30pm
Darbucka
182 St John Street
London, United Kingdom
View Map
Nearest Tubes: Farringdon / Angel

Laoise Davidson DJing at this event if you wanna come down and check it out - ill be playing some kool klezmer and yiddish swing. And if you havent heard it, Max Pashm's band is great, mixing dance grooves with Klezmer... promises to be an excellent evening....
£5 / £3 concs

Further info: 02074908772
www.chillifried.com

February 8, 2008

Afro-Semitic Experience, Falls Church, VA, Feb 8, 2008

band photoThe Afro-Semitic Experience
Friday, February 8, 8:00 p.m.,
Friday night service at Temple Rodef Shalom, 2100 Westmoreland Street, Falls Church, Virginia, for information please call 703-532-2217.

Red Hot Chachkas CD Release, Larkspur, CA, Feb 8, 2008

Red Hot ChachkasThe Red Hot Chachkas

Saturday Feb. 8, 2008 :: 8:30 pm

Concert-Dance-CD Release Party at Sweetwater's charming Larkspur Cafe Theater, 500 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur (415-924-6107).

Kabbalah, Nice, France, Feb 8, 2008

KabbalahKabbalah et toute l'équipe de la Meson vous présentent leurs meilleurs voeux pour cette année 2008…

Avant une série de dates parisiennes, Le groupe donne rendez vous au public marseillais ce week end :

Vendredi 8 Février à 21h – Kabbalah / Sashird Lao - Le Sézamo - Nice (06)

Kabbalah propose un spectacle qui s’articule autour des nouvelles musiques juives et s’inspire de la tradition klezmer tout en intégrant des influences actuelles : rock , afro-américaine, orientale…

Depuis sa formation en 2004 à Marseille, les cinq membres de Kabbalah ont constitué un répertoire original qui sait mettre en valeur les orientations musicales et culturelles de chaque musicien (les échos des chants traditionnels hassidiques répondent aux spoken word et les climats obsessionnels évoquent la transe et le mysticisme) et leurs talents respectifs : une palette sonore d’une grande richesse musicale où la virtuosité est convoquée à chaque instant ; l’extraordinaire profusion d’instruments (saxophones, violon, contrebasse, xylophone, mandoluth, percussions…), de langues (anglais, yiddish, russe) chantées, parlées permet l’expression d’un style coloré propre à Kabbalah. Leur album « Shlomo » est une pure réussite et rarement métissage n’a été plus convaincant.

STEPHANE GALESKI – Chant, Guitare, Mandole, ULI WOLTERS - Spoken word, Saxophones et Percussions, ANNA STARTSEVA – Violon, Alto, chant, GERARD GATTO - Batterie, Percussions, Chœurs, PATRICK FERNE - Contrebasse, Chœurs

February 9, 2008

Bang on a Can Marathon, San Francisco, CA, Feb 9, 2008

Iva BitovaBang on a Can Marathon - Next Stop: SAN FRANCISCO!
In honor of our double-decade anniversary we're packing up hours of amazing music and taking them on the road. On February 9 we'll celebrate with 10-HOURS of live ear-bending border-crossing music from around the corner and around the globe. Musicians and composers from all over the world will descend on the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for a remarkable all-day concert.

Saturday, February 9, 12 noon - 10pm
The Bang on a Can Marathon at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Performances By:
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Iva Bittova, Don Byron, Cheb i Sabbah, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Carla Kihlstedt, Lisa Moore, Njuton (from Iceland), Edmund Welles Clarinet Quartet, Pamela Z

Music By:
Iva Bittova, Cornelius Boots, Don Byron, Fred Frith, Michael Gordon, Annie Gosfield, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Carla Kihlstedt, David Lang, Paul Lansky, Lukas Ligeti, Alvin Lucier, Thurston Moore, Cheb i Sabbah, Julia Wolfe, Pamela Z, Evan Ziporyn

Complete Schedule Information
Tickets

Flying Bulgars 20th Anniversary concert, Toronto, Canada, Feb 9, 2008

band in concertThe Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band
20th Anniversary Concert
at the Al Green Theatre (in the Miles Nadal JCC) 750 Spadina Ave

Saturday, February 9th, 8pm & Sunday, February 10th, 7:30pm
Tickets: $24 in advance, $30 at the door
Tickets available at Miles Nadal JCC reception, and by phone 416-924-6211 x 0

Twenty Years ago today (well almost), a band of young, raggedy-ass musicians took to the stage at
Toronto’s Clinton Tavern to perform at promoter Serge Sloimovits’ regular Sunday jazz gig. They were
there to play a style of music that had not been heard on a Toronto stage in years, even decades: klezmer,
the traditional music of Yiddish-speaking, Eastern European Jews, that had fallen out of favour and was on
its way to extinction. Sparked both by an early Klezmer Conservatory Band recording and an invitation to
perform at a friend’s wedding, the first Bulgars learned the music on the former to play at the latter, with no
intention of taking it past that first, functional gig. But the response of the wedding guests was so
overwhelming that they decided to learn some more music and take it into the clubs. The excitement
sparked at that first sold-out Sunday gig at Clinton’s surprised both the band and the audience, and the
room overflowed with a joyous feeling of discovery.

And so began the two-decade saga of music-making, touring, recording, study, and the round-and-round
dance between tradition and innovation. Along the way the Flying Bulgars released 5 recordings, garnered
3 JUNO nominations, released 2 music videos, toured extensively in Canada, the U.S. and Europe and
were instrumental in sparking the Canadian branch of the international Klezmer revival. They also have
earned a place in the top ranks of Klezmer bands internationally, recognized for their contributions to the
development of New Jewish Music. And one thing is definitely true about this ensemble: they have never
rested on their laurels, never been content to stick with the “formula” that brought them their initial success.
The Bulgar sound has changed over the years, but the common denominator has been to create music
that reflects the group’s experience as urban Canadian musicians at the turn of the 21st century (and
beyond!).

Now, facing the reality of turning 20, growing up and leaving home, the Bulgars have chosen to celebrate
by striking out in a completely new direction: creating a set of music (and a new CD) full of original songs
with English lyrics. Composed by vocalist Dave Wall and trumpeter David Buchbinder, the new songs
question the ruthless realpolitik that has become the norm in the Jewish world, in the Diaspora and Israel
alike. Full of darkness and hope, the tunes mix poetry, anger and longing in a heady mix of Klezmerinspired
melodies with a fully-orchestrated alt-pop sound.

Join the Flying Bulgars and some very special guests from their storied history for a riotous, two-night
celebration, as they celebrate two decades of great music and launch into their third. The Bulgars are:
David Buchbinder (trumpet/composer) Dave Wall (vocals/composer) Peter Lutek (clarinets) Tania Gill
(piano) Victor Bateman (bass) Max Senitt (drums).

Yuri Lane, NYC, Feb 9, 2008

DJ Handler writes:
Modular Fam,
Almost forgot! This Saturday night Yuri Lane will be performing at the JCC! Yuri Lane is the most amazing Beat Boxer and performer I have ever seen! He has over 3 million hits on you tube for good reason. Check these videos to see why!

<> Yuri Lane - Beat Box Harmonica
<> Yuri Lane & Y-Love - Purim Freestyle
<> Yuri Lane with Hadag Nachash

so yea, he will be at the JCC Saturday and Sunday night:
Sat, Feb 9, 8:00 PM / Sun, Feb 10, 7:00 PM
$15 – Members / $20 – Nonmembers
The JCC in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St.

Steve Gibons Gypsy Rhythm Project, Chicago, IL, Feb 9, 2008

Steve Gibons Gypsy Rhythm Project
with Nicolae Feraru, Cimbalom
Music from Romania, the Balkans, and the Jazz Universe

Gibons’s band brings the improvisational sophistication of jazz to Romanian and Bulgarian Gypsy music without smoothing out its ragged edges —Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

Gypsy Rhythm Project at:
Katerina's
1920 W Irving Park Rd, 60613
Saturday, February 9, 2008
10 P.M to 1 A.M.

Come to Katerina's for an exhilarating evening of East European Gypsy Jazz. This weekend we're back at our home base, Katerina's, the eclectic Mediterranean restaurant and world music club

February 10, 2008

Chicago Klezmer Ensemble+Steve Weintraub, Chicago, IL, Feb 10, 2008

Kurt Bjorling and the Chicago Klezmer Ensemble will be perfoming this weekend at the University of Chicago Folk Festival

www.uofcfolk.org/2008/

Steve Weintraub will join the band to teach a free workshop this Sunday in Yiddish dance, focusing on the classic wedding dance, the sher—a kind of square dance. The workshop will be from 1 to 3 pm at Ida Noyes Hall.

The band will also be performing as part of the evening program, which starts at 6pm.

Annette Brodovsky Memorial Concert, Davis, CA, Feb 10, 2008

Annette BrodovskyAnnette Brodovsky Memorial Benefit Concert
Sunday, February 10, 2008, 3pm-5pm
Congregation Bet Haverim /Jewish Fellowship of Davis, Sanctuary
1715 Anderson Road, Davis, CA 95616
(Synagogue phone number 530-758-0842)
Suggested Ticket Donation: $20 (payable at the door)

The Annette Brodovsky Memorial Benefit Concert will take place on Sunday, February 10, 2008, 3pm-5pm, in the sanctuary of Congregation Bet Haverim /Jewish Fellowship of Davis, 1715 Anderson Road, Davis, CA 95616. The all-klezmer program features (in order of appearance) The Davis Klezmer Orchestra, The Freilachmakers Old-Time String Band, and The Red-Hot Chachkas. The suggested ticket donation price is $20.

Annette (Liora) Brodovsky, just 33 years old, was a talented klezmer violinist, composer, Sacramento violin teacher and teacher of Jewish tradition, as well as a devoted wife and mother of two young daughters. Annette was tragically killed by a drunk driver, April 2, 2007, just before the beginning of Passover. Kind, totally selfless, and generous beyond measure, her angelic persona and enthusiasm graced anyone lucky enough to have met her and interacted with her. When Annette won the "Composer's Award" for an original piece of klezmer music she performed at KlezCalifornia in 2004, she immediately donated the prize money back to KlezCalifornia. Her passion for klezmer music -- and all music -- was something she shared with us all, young and old. Now, three Northern California klezmer bands are offering their music to benefit Annette’s family. Please join us in this unique opportunity to honor her memory and help those closest to her.

All proceeds from this concert will benefit the family of Annette Brodovsky. All musicians are donating their music and labor. Congregation Bet Haverim, a sponsor, is donating the venue and their work for the concert.

Organizers are asking for community members to become sponsors of the benefit concert. All donations are tax deductible. Sponsorships are available at the $50, $100, $500, $1000, and $2,500 levels. Checks should be made payable to Congregation Bet Haverim with a notation on the check that the donation is for the Annette Brodovsky fund. Please mail your sponsorship checks to Congregation Bet Haverim, 1715 Anderson Road, Davis, CA 95616, Attn: Annette Brodovsky Fund.

For more information on sponsorship and the concert, please contact Elaine Fingerett at 530-756-7474.

INFORMATION ON THE BANDS:

The Davis Klezmer Orchestra has been getting the Davis community to kick up its heels at weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, anniversaries, and other joyous occasions since the early 90’s. Founded by Bob Wren, string-player extraordinaire, the ensemble began by playing music collected by ethnomusicologist Moishe Beregovsky. When Davis adopted Uman as a sister city in the Ukraine, Wren was inspired to give a Davis Art Center course in klezmer music. (Uman had been a capital of klezmer music and Jewish culture before the holocaust.) Three of the current band members were in that early 1992 class. When the course ended, the musicians just couldn’t stop. Today, band members include George Weis, cello; Julie Partansky, coronet; Ralph Libet, violin; Moreen Libet, viola; and Elaine Fingerett, accordion. Frequently the band is joined by Marc Epstein, clarinet; and Matt Herman, percussion.

The Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band, 5-piece ensemble from Sacramento, California, has been entertaining enthusiastic audiences since 1995. The band's founding impetus was to create a Celtic and old-timey influenced version of klezmer that hearkened to the stringed instrument based origins of the genre. This approach, which relied particularly on the use of the fidl, bass and clawhammer banjo (in place of the tsimbl), was particularly well represented in their first CD, "The Flower of Berezin" (1998). Since that time they have been joined by a wonderful clarinetist, which has greatly enhanced their power and appeal. In the words of one reviewer, the Freilachmakers' music "bubbles with exuberance and a great sense of fun", their playing "highly viruostic, yet subtle". The band is available for concerts, weddings, bar/bat mitzvehs, conferences, fundraisers and other simchas. Band personnel include Andy Rubin (clawhammer banjo, mandolin, guitar and vocals), Marc Epstein (clarinet), Elaine Fingerett(accordion), Dave Rosenfeld (violin, guitar, mandolin, and percussion) and Lou Ann Weiss (string bass and cello.) Annette Brodovsky was the Freilachmakers’ fiddler between 2000 and 2005.

The Red Hot Chachkas are two time winner of "Best Klezmer Band" in the Bay Area, 2006 and 2007, and featured on "Spark," a documentary show on KQED about klezmer music in the Bay Area. The Red Hot Chachkas' sound swings, shakes, and serenades. Comprised of multi-talented performers on violin, clarinet, mandolin, accordion, bass, and drums, the group plays traditional Eastern European dance tunes, ranging from frenzied to tranquil tantsn, plus original compositions and improvisions building on the klezmer tradition. Led since 1997 by Julie Egger, whose violin playing is inspiring, emotional, and contagious, they have performed at concerts, festivals, senior centers, schools, Jewish congregations, art and cultural exhibits, and private parties and simchas in the San Francisco Bay Area, where their versatility has excited, entertained and educated audiences young and old. The band’s latest CD is Spice it Up! Band members include Julie Egger, violin; Tony Phillips, mandolin; Barbara Speed, clarinet; Michael Arrow, drums; Breck Diebel, bass; and Glenn Hartman, accordion and piano.

Frantic Turtle w/Chana Rothman, NYC, Feb 10, 2008

Frantic Turtle greets you neuro-rasta-snow-howl stylee! We got a show coming up on Feb 10th, with a sweet singer of Zion, Chana Rothman and a few wonderful writers of the Drisha Arts Fellowship program.

The Turtle will appear in a revamped minimalistic setup doing anxious situps/crunches on the King's Throne of fish.

The show's on Sunday Feb 10th, 7.30pm @ the Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston (b/n Ave B & C). No cover!

Flying Bulgars 20th Anniversary concert, Toronto, Canada, Feb 10, 2008

band in concertThe Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band
20th Anniversary Concert
at the Al Green Theatre (in the Miles Nadal JCC) 750 Spadina Ave

Saturday, February 9th, 8pm & Sunday, February 10th, 7:30pm
Tickets: $24 in advance, $30 at the door
Tickets available at Miles Nadal JCC reception, and by phone 416-924-6211 x 0

Twenty Years ago today (well almost), a band of young, raggedy-ass musicians took to the stage at
Toronto’s Clinton Tavern to perform at promoter Serge Sloimovits’ regular Sunday jazz gig. They were
there to play a style of music that had not been heard on a Toronto stage in years, even decades: klezmer,
the traditional music of Yiddish-speaking, Eastern European Jews, that had fallen out of favour and was on
its way to extinction. Sparked both by an early Klezmer Conservatory Band recording and an invitation to
perform at a friend’s wedding, the first Bulgars learned the music on the former to play at the latter, with no
intention of taking it past that first, functional gig. But the response of the wedding guests was so
overwhelming that they decided to learn some more music and take it into the clubs. The excitement
sparked at that first sold-out Sunday gig at Clinton’s surprised both the band and the audience, and the
room overflowed with a joyous feeling of discovery.

And so began the two-decade saga of music-making, touring, recording, study, and the round-and-round
dance between tradition and innovation. Along the way the Flying Bulgars released 5 recordings, garnered
3 JUNO nominations, released 2 music videos, toured extensively in Canada, the U.S. and Europe and
were instrumental in sparking the Canadian branch of the international Klezmer revival. They also have
earned a place in the top ranks of Klezmer bands internationally, recognized for their contributions to the
development of New Jewish Music. And one thing is definitely true about this ensemble: they have never
rested on their laurels, never been content to stick with the “formula” that brought them their initial success.
The Bulgar sound has changed over the years, but the common denominator has been to create music
that reflects the group’s experience as urban Canadian musicians at the turn of the 21st century (and
beyond!).

Now, facing the reality of turning 20, growing up and leaving home, the Bulgars have chosen to celebrate
by striking out in a completely new direction: creating a set of music (and a new CD) full of original songs
with English lyrics. Composed by vocalist Dave Wall and trumpeter David Buchbinder, the new songs
question the ruthless realpolitik that has become the norm in the Jewish world, in the Diaspora and Israel
alike. Full of darkness and hope, the tunes mix poetry, anger and longing in a heady mix of Klezmerinspired
melodies with a fully-orchestrated alt-pop sound.

Join the Flying Bulgars and some very special guests from their storied history for a riotous, two-night
celebration, as they celebrate two decades of great music and launch into their third. The Bulgars are:
David Buchbinder (trumpet/composer) Dave Wall (vocals/composer) Peter Lutek (clarinets) Tania Gill
(piano) Victor Bateman (bass) Max Senitt (drums).

Klezmer Jam, Workmen's Circle, Brookline, MA, Feb 10, 2008

Once again the Patriots have shown themselves unable to accommodate our jam schedule. We have agreed to postpone the jam. In exchange, the halftime show will include a klezmer performance by a group to be chosen at random from an unknown drawing at a secret location.

Klezmer Jam Sunday will be Feb. 10 instead of Feb. 3 because of the Super Bowl.

Workmen's Circle building, 1762 Beacon St., Brookline
7:00 - 9:00pm

It's a place to enjoy the wonderful legacy of Klezmer music in an informal and friendly atmosphere. We play from music, available at the jam. We have a variety of instruments, and welcome players at all levels. Keyboardists should bring electric keyboards if possible.

February 11, 2008

Afro-Semitic Experience, Brunswick, ME, Feb 11, 2008

band photoThe Afro-Semitic Experience
Monday, February 11, in concert to Celebrate Diversity at Bowdoin, 7:00 p.m., Kanbar Auditorium, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, for more info please call: 207-725-3834

February 13, 2008

Bang on a Can All-Stars w/Iva Bittova, NYC, Feb 13, 2008

Iva BitovaThe 2008 People's Commissioning Fund (PCF) Concert, New York City

BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS
with special guest IVA BITTOVÁ
Wednesday, February 13, at 8pm
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023

Bang on a Can All-Stars make their annual return to Merkin for the 2008 People's Commissioning Fund concert. Three world premieres commissioned by the people! The All-Stars premiere work by two inventive New York composers Tristan Perich and Ken Thomson and Turkish electroacoustic composer Erdem Helvaciaglu; then welcome avant-gypsy-folk singer-violinist Iva Bittová from the Czech Republic for a rare NY performance of their riveting live collaboration.

This annual concert at Merkin has become a mob scene in recent years and we enourage you to get your tickets early! Purchase tickets here. With a palette as wide-ranging as audio-sculpture, electronica, punk-jazz-fusion, eastern European experimental folk and more set upon the virtuoso musicians of Bang on a Can, this promises to be a super special concert. The PCF is a radical partnership between artists and audiences to commission works from adventurous composers. More info at our site.

Afro-Semitic Experience, Boston, MA, Feb 13, 2008

band photoThe Afro-Semitic Experience
Wednesday, Feb. 13, in concert at Simmons College, 4:00 p.m., Linda K Paresky Conference Center, 3rd floor, Main College Building, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts, for more information please call: 617-521-2137

February 14, 2008

Nigun Chamber Ensemble in benefit for Russian Jewish Community, Brighton, MA, Feb 14, 2008

Musicians for Community: A Fundraiser to Benefit Programs for the Russian Jewish Community

Thursday, February 14, 7:00 p.m.
Center Makor and Temple Bnai Moshe, 1845 Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton

The featured entertainers will be the Nigun Chamber Ensemble. They will perform a unique blend of Jewish folk songs in Yiddish and Hebrew, popular Jewish traditional instrumental music, classical music and art songs by prominent Jewish composers. Cost is $36 for sponsors, $25 general, $10 for senior citizens and students. For more information, visit www.centermakor.org. For tickets or to RSVP call 617-771-4870.

Tantshoyz - Yiddish Dance Party & Workshop, NYC, Thursday Feb 14, 2008

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring present…

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)—Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC

Thursday, February 14, 2008
7:00PM–10:00 PM
At the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.
In the Theater

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader Deborah Strauss. Live klezmer music will be provided by some of New York's hottest musicians: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) and Jeff Warschauer (guitar/mandolin/cobza). Beginners welcome!

Cost is $10 ($8 for JCC and Workman’s Circle Members), pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

A new international Yiddish Dance Action Network has been created to help research and promote Yiddish Dance around the world. For more information, contact Pete Rushefsky.

And if you have old family videos with footage of traditional Yiddish Dance we’d love to know about it!

Support for the Yiddish Dance Project was provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Kane Street Klezmer Band, Brooklyn, NY, Feb 14, 2008

Kane Street Klezmer Band—Every Thursday Night in February (Feb 7, 14, 21, 28) 7:30-9:00, at the Synagogue.

The Kane Street Synagogue is located at 236 Kane Street off of Court Street, the nearest subway stop is the Bergen Street station on the F train. It's not a bad walk along Court Street from the 2,3,4,5 lines station at Court St/Borough Hall which are the first (4,5 lines) or second (2,3 lines) stop in Brooklyn.

Kane Street Musical Director Joey Weisenberg will be directing a klezmer ensemble of Kane Street members and friends, on Thursday nights in February, 7:30-9:00. He will teach traditional klezmer melodies, and demonstrate how to make them come alive in an instrumental ensemble. This ensemble is open to all instrumentalists. Please email Joey with questions.

Joey Weisenberg is a mandolinist and guitarist. At age twelve, Joey began performing as a harmonica player and guitarist in blues bars in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He currently performs with bands including Romashka, Zagnut Circus Orchestra, The Marija Krupoves Trio, Ansamble Mastika, The Amazing Frosen String Quartet, Michael Winograd's Klezmer Outfit, and as a leader of his own ensembles. Joey has also accompanied established artists such as Neshama Carlebach, Debbie Friedman, and Henry Sapoznik. As a teacher, Joey leads his "Spontaneous Jewish Choir" workshops, and teaches for institutions including Klez Kanada and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Yiddish Cafe, Montreal, Canada, Feb 14, 2008

Yiddish Café: “Love is a Ring of Fire”

Yiddish Café presents “Love is a Ring of Fire” on Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. The evening features love songs and poems by some exceptional Montreal talent, and includes refreshments in a café-style setting. At the Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal. Sponsored by the Augenfeld Family Endowment. Cost $5 for JPL members and students, $10 others. Call 514-345-2627 ext. 3006 for tickets and information.

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

www.jewishpubliclibrary.org

February 15, 2008

Shema: What Jewish Culture Sounds Like, Denver, CO, Feb 15-20, 2008

DivahnThe Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver presents,
SHEMA: WHAT JEWISH CULTURE SOUNDS LIKE
With Galeet Dardashti and Divahn for an exploration of
Middle Eastern and Sephardic Jewish music

Friday, February 15, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
University of Denver
Merage & Allon Hillel Center
2390 S. Race Street, Denver, CO 80210
$18/ person for community members
Free for students
Tickets can be reserved by calling Hillel at 303.777.2773 ext. 222 or through their website at www.hillelcolorado.org.
Space is limited so get your tickets early!!

Divahn Performance
The Mizrahi-Sephardigrooves of Divahn's bold all-lady ensemble features soaring harmonies, haunting improvisations and funky arrangements of traditional and new innovative music. This rockin' concert includes entrancing vocals in Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, Persian, Arabic, and Aramaic; thrilling percussion on tabla (Indian percussion), doumbeks (Middle Eastern and North African percussion), riq (Eqyptian tambourine), and finger cymbals. Critically acclaimed cello virtuosity and enchanting Balkan and Arab violin complete a performance not to be missed! Galeet Dardashti provides insights and anecdotes on the origins of the music Divahn performs.

For further info: www.du.edu/cjs/public_programs.html

SHEMA: What Jewish Culture Sounds Like continues with our year-long project at the University of Denver’s Center for Judaic Studies which explores the orality of Jewish culture through media of music, sermons, poetry, theatre and languages of Jewish culture. Join us for a week of Middle Eastern and Sephardic Music with one of the most noted artists and scholars in this field – Galeet Dardashti and her all female band, Divahn!

Galeet Dardashti is completeing her PhD. in ethnomusicology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. An Iraqi Jewish cantor, Galeet is a world-renowned musician of Middle Eastern music. She is the winner of several prestigious arts fellowships including the Six Points Jewish Arts Fellowship from the Foundation of Jewish Culture in New York. Dardashti's work examines the relationship between traditional Arabic muscial forms known as piyyutim and contemporary popular music in Israel, both Arab and Jewish. Her all female band, Divahn, has performed around the world and is the leading voice of Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) Jewish sounds. Visit their website and sample their music at www.divahn.com
Mizrahi Kabbalat Shabbat Service at Hillel
Join Galeet Dardashti in her role as a cantor for a dynamic Sephardi-Mizrahi Kabbalat Shabbat service which will have you singing and clapping! This special service involves prayers with beautiful melodies from a range of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities.

The Center for Judaic Studies brings you these and other programs with generous support from community members, departments and academic units at the University of Denver, the Posen Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Hillel at the University of Denver and ISIME.

Klezmerquerque Klezmer music & dance fest, Albuquerque, NM, Feb 15-17, 2008

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Albuquerque's annual Klezmer music and dance festival celebrates its sixth year over Presidents’ Day weekend.

All events held at Congregation Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (between Candelaria & Griegos) in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA

Friday, February 15th, 6:30-10:00pm:
6:30pm: The festival opens with a danced Freylekhe Shabbes "service" to the music of Alavados, Nahalat Shalom's 5-piece in-house band. Dances will be led by Nahalat Shalom's Yiddish dance troupe Rikud.
7:00pm: Vegetarian POTLUCK dinner.
Beyond the Pale
8:00pm: Performances by Toronto's acclaimed and award-winning Beyond the Pale, Chicago's klezmer dance-master Steve Weintraub, Abq's own The Rebbe's Orkestra with special guest vocalist & clarinetist from Seattle Sheila Fox. 8:45pm: The music and dance continues with the 20-piece Nahalat Shalom Community Klezmer Band and open dancing led and taught by Steve Weintraub with Rikud.

The cost for Friday evening's event is a $15-$18 suggested donation (under 18-free or donation).

KLEZMERQUERQUE 2008 welcomes back by popular demand the klezmer dance master from Chicago: Steve Weintraub, who teaches and performs klezmer and East European Jewish dance at workshops around the world. Steve will perform on Friday and Saturday evenings in addition to teaching two dance workshops on Saturday and one on Sunday. The Rebbe's Orkestra, the popular Albuquerque-based klezmer ensemble will also perform on Friday and Saturday evenings with special guest clarinetist and vocalist Seattle's Kosher Red Hots: Sheila Fox. Sheila will also be teaching a Yiddish & Sephardic song workshop on Sunday from 10:30am-noon.

KLEZMERQUERQUE 2008 also welcomes back Toronto's critically-acclaimed and award-winning 5-piece klezmer ensemble Beyond the Pale. The band will be teaching klezmer music classes on Saturday and Sunday plus BTP’s virtuoso violinist Aleksandar Gajic will teach a special Serbian violin kolo workshop on Saturday. Beyond the Pale will perform on Friday evening and is the featured band at the concert/dance party on Saturday, Feb. 16th at 7:30PM. Tickets for the Saturday concert may be purchased in advance for $18.00 (for ALL seats/ages) at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (505)344-8139 and at Natural Sound, 3422 Central Ave. SE (505)255-8295 - both in Albuquerque. Tickets will also be available at the door for $20.00-general and $18.00-fixed income & under 18.

On Saturday, February 16th from 11AM-Noon there will be a special FREE klezmer potpourri presentation for kids and families - advanced reservations REQUIRED (call 243-6276).
And from 12:15-1:30PM come have a vegetarian lunch at KLEZMERQUERQUE as you listen to the beautiful klezmer string music of Albuquerque's "Kompanye"—Admission is an $8.00-$15.00 donation.

The festival will open on Friday, February 15th at 6:30PM with a danced Freylekhe Shabbes to the music of Alavados, Nahalat Shalom’s 5-piece in-house band with dancing led by Rikud -Nahalat Shalom’s Yiddish dance troupe. At 7PM there will be a vegetarian potluck dinner and at 8PM there will be performances by Beyond the Pale, Yiddish dance-master Steve Weintraub, and ABQ’s own The Rebbe's Orkestra with special guest artist Sheila Fox. The music and dance will continue with Nahalat Shalom’s 20-piece Community Klezmer band and open dancing led by Steve Weintraub and Rikud. Admission for Friday evening’s event is a $15-$18 suggested donation (under 18-free/donation).

Admission for the entire weekend of events (2 concerts/dance parties, 3 classes, klezmer potpourri presentation and a lunch with music program) is $90-general, $75-seniors/fixed income/under 18. Individual classes (one-and-a-half hour long each) are $20-general / $16-fixed income.

For more information please contact:

Festival Coordinator Beth Cohen (505) 243-6276 or email her and/or

Congregation Nahalat Shalom www.nahalatshalom.org (505)343-8227
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Pharaoh's Daughter, Winnipeg, Canada, Feb 15, 2008

band publicity photoPharaoh's Daughter
February 15, 2008
Winnipeg, CA Venue TBA
Jazz and world music workshop to University students.

Zhok Therapy, Okbari, Saco, ME, Feb 15, 2008

From the Balkans to Turkey - to Portland, Maine
Concerts with Zhok Therapy and Okbari

Friday, February 15th, 8pm, $10
One Longfellow Square
Double bill featuring Zhok Therapy and Okbari
www.onelongfellowsquare.com or 761-1757 for tix and info

Two of Portland's most unusual and exciting bands, Zhok Therapy and
Okbari, will be featured in a double bill at One Longfellow Square on Friday, February 15th. Zhok Therapy performs traditional and new music with influences ranging from Balkan dance music to jazz. Okbari performs traditional Armenian and Turkish music. Zhok Therapy will also be performing a solo concert the following night at the Saco Coffeehouse.

Zhok Therapy is the unruly alter-ego of Maine's well-known klezmer band, the Casco Bay Tummlers. Zhok Therapy still has one toe in the klezmer tradition, but has expanded their repertoire to include Greek, Balkan, and Middle Eastern music. Adding further influences from jazz and blues, their deep grooves and improvisations are both innovative and well rooted in a rich and varied ethnicity. "Zhok Therapy will remedy whatever ails with their cross pollinations." The band will be joined by special guest Mark Tipton, on trumpet, for these two performances. Tipton is an immensely gifted improvisor and composer who has recently returned to Maine after a number of years in New York City. The other band members are: Carl Dimow, flutes and guitars, Steve Gruverman, clarinets and saxophone, Julie Goell, bass and vocals, Hayes Porterfield, percussion.
(A zhok, by the way, is a type of Jewish and Middle Eastern rhythm.)

Okbari performs Armenian and Anatolian folk music, as well as traditional folk and contemporary songs from the Greek, Arabic and Balkan traditons. Okbari is Amos Libby and Eric LaPerna. Libby is a dynamic performer on oud, (a middle eastern lute), and voice. LaPerna is a gifted and inspired percussionist. Okbari was formed in 1995 and has released four recordings. In this unique performance, Okbari will present a suite of Ottoman classical compositions along with Turkish and Armenian folk songs inspired by their recent journey to Turkey. Okbari will appear with special guest violinist Michael Gallant (of the late Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian Middle East Ensemble.)

Kabbalah, Avignon, France, Feb 15, 2008

KabbalahKabbalah et toute l'équipe de la Meson vous présentent leurs meilleurs voeux pour cette année 2008…

Avant une série de dates parisiennes, Le groupe donne rendez vous au public marseillais ce week end :

Vendredi 15 Février à 21h30 –
Kabbalah – Le Delirium Tzigane - Avignon (84)

Kabbalah propose un spectacle qui s’articule autour des nouvelles musiques juives et s’inspire de la tradition klezmer tout en intégrant des influences actuelles : rock , afro-américaine, orientale…

Depuis sa formation en 2004 à Marseille, les cinq membres de Kabbalah ont constitué un répertoire original qui sait mettre en valeur les orientations musicales et culturelles de chaque musicien (les échos des chants traditionnels hassidiques répondent aux spoken word et les climats obsessionnels évoquent la transe et le mysticisme) et leurs talents respectifs : une palette sonore d’une grande richesse musicale où la virtuosité est convoquée à chaque instant ; l’extraordinaire profusion d’instruments (saxophones, violon, contrebasse, xylophone, mandoluth, percussions…), de langues (anglais, yiddish, russe) chantées, parlées permet l’expression d’un style coloré propre à Kabbalah. Leur album « Shlomo » est une pure réussite et rarement métissage n’a été plus convaincant.

STEPHANE GALESKI – Chant, Guitare, Mandole, ULI WOLTERS - Spoken word, Saxophones et Percussions, ANNA STARTSEVA – Violon, Alto, chant, GERARD GATTO - Batterie, Percussions, Chœurs, PATRICK FERNE - Contrebasse, Chœurs

February 16, 2008

Shira Kayam community sing, W. Roxbury, MA, Feb 16, 2008

Shira Kayam (Song Like an Ocean) singing group
Saturday, February 16, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Temple Hillel B'nai Torah, 120 Corey Street, West Roxbury
Join others who love to sing and grow spiritually (drumming included). No Hebrew knowledge is necessary. The event is free. For more information, call 617-323-0486.

Latourelle Orkestra, Quebec City, Quebec, Feb 16, 2008

LATOURELLE ORKESTRA spectacle au Bal du Lézard
Saturday, February 16, 2008 at 9:00pm
Le Bal du Lézard
1049, 3e Avenue
quebec, QC
View Map

Tel: 418.529.3829

Brûleront les planches au Bal du Lézard et vous invites à venir découvrir leurs nouvelles compositions. Une soirée hautement exotique en l'occasion du Carnaval de Québec.

www.myspace.com/orkestralatourelle

Klezmerquerque Klezmer music & dance fest, Albuquerque, NM, Feb 15-17, 2008

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Albuquerque's annual Klezmer music and dance festival celebrates its sixth year over Presidents’ Day weekend.

Sunday, February 17th:
10:30am-Noon: Classes-choose from: Dance class with Steve Weintraub,
OR Beginning OR Intermediate/advanced klezmer music with Beyond the Pale,
OR SPECIAL Yiddish & Sephardic song with Sheila Fox. ($20-general, $16-fixed income/under 18).

All events held at Congregation Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (between Candelaria & Griegos) in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA

KLEZMERQUERQUE 2008 welcomes back by popular demand the klezmer dance master from Chicago: Steve Weintraub, who teaches and performs klezmer and East European Jewish dance at workshops around the world. Steve will perform on Friday and Saturday evenings in addition to teaching two dance workshops on Saturday and one on Sunday. The Rebbe's Orkestra, the popular Albuquerque-based klezmer ensemble will also perform on Friday and Saturday evenings with special guest clarinetist and vocalist Seattle's Kosher Red Hots: Sheila Fox. Sheila will also be teaching a Yiddish & Sephardic song workshop on Sunday from 10:30am-noon.

KLEZMERQUERQUE 2008 also welcomes back Toronto's critically-acclaimed and award-winning 5-piece klezmer ensemble Beyond the Pale. The band will be teaching klezmer music classes on Saturday and Sunday plus BTP’s virtuoso violinist Aleksandar Gajic will teach a special Serbian violin kolo workshop on Saturday. Beyond the Pale will perform on Friday evening and is the featured band at the concert/dance party on Saturday, Feb. 16th at 7:30PM. Tickets for the Saturday concert may be purchased in advance for $18.00 (for ALL seats/ages) at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (505)344-8139 and at Natural Sound, 3422 Central Ave. SE (505)255-8295 - both in Albuquerque. Tickets will also be available at the door for $20.00-general and $18.00-fixed income & under 18.

On Saturday, February 16th from 11AM-Noon there will be a special FREE klezmer potpourri presentation for kids and families - advanced reservations REQUIRED (call 243-6276).
And from 12:15-1:30PM come have a vegetarian lunch at KLEZMERQUERQUE as you listen to the beautiful klezmer string music of Albuquerque's "Kompanye"—Admission is an $8.00-$15.00 donation.

The festival will open on Friday, February 15th at 6:30PM with a danced Freylekhe Shabbes to the music of Alavados, Nahalat Shalom’s 5-piece in-house band with dancing led by Rikud -Nahalat Shalom’s Yiddish dance troupe. At 7PM there will be a vegetarian potluck dinner and at 8PM there will be performances by Beyond the Pale, Yiddish dance-master Steve Weintraub, and ABQ’s own The Rebbe's Orkestra with special guest artist Sheila Fox. The music and dance will continue with Nahalat Shalom’s 20-piece Community Klezmer band and open dancing led by Steve Weintraub and Rikud. Admission for Friday evening’s event is a $15-$18 suggested donation (under 18-free/donation).

Admission for the entire weekend of events (2 concerts/dance parties, 3 classes, klezmer potpourri presentation and a lunch with music program) is $90-general, $75-seniors/fixed income/under 18. Individual classes (one-and-a-half hour long each) are $20-general / $16-fixed income.

For more information please contact:

Festival Coordinator Beth Cohen (505) 243-6276 or email her and/or

Congregation Nahalat Shalom www.nahalatshalom.org (505)343-8227
Pre-registration forms are available on the web site -----

Klezmerquerque Klezmer music & dance fest, Albuquerque, NM, Feb 15-17, 2008

Klezmerquerque logo
Albuquerque's annual Klezmer music and dance festival celebrates its sixth year over Presidents’ Day weekend.

All events held at Congregation Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (between Candelaria & Griegos) in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA

Saturday, February 16th Events:
9:15-10:45am: Classes-choose from: Yiddish dance with Steve Weintraub, OR Beginning or Intermediate/advanced klezmer music with Beyond the Pale ($20-general, $16-seniors/fixed income/under 18).

11:00am- Noon: FREE Klezmer potpourri for kids & families featuring Klezmerquerque artists (RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: 505-243-6276).

12:15-1:30pm: Lunch 'n' music. Eat a delicious lunch at Klezmerquerque as you listen to the beautiful string klezmer music of Albuquerque's Kompanye ($8-$15 donation).

1:45-3:15pm: Classes-choose from: Yiddish dance with Steve Weintraub, OR Beginning OR Intermediate/advanced klezmer music with Beyond the Pale, OR SPECIAL Serbian kolo violin (int/adv) with violinist Aleksandar Gajic. ($20-general, $16-seniors/fixed income/under 18 -- PER class).

Beyond the Pale
7:30pm -- CONCERT /DANCE PARTY FEATURING TORONTO’S BEYOND THE PALE!
PLUS! Opening for Beyond the Pale: Steve Weintraub & The Rebbe's Orkestra with Sheila Fox!

($18-In advance at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (505) 344-8139 and at Natural Sound,
3422 Central Ave. SE (505) 255-8295,

At the door: $20-general, $18-seniors/fixed income/under 18).

KLEZMERQUERQUE 2008 welcomes back by popular demand the klezmer dance master from Chicago: Steve Weintraub, who teaches and performs klezmer and East European Jewish dance at workshops around the world. Steve will perform on Friday and Saturday evenings in addition to teaching two dance workshops on Saturday and one on Sunday. The Rebbe's Orkestra, the popular Albuquerque-based klezmer ensemble will also perform on Friday and Saturday evenings with special guest clarinetist and vocalist Seattle's Kosher Red Hots: Sheila Fox. Sheila will also be teaching a Yiddish & Sephardic song workshop on Sunday from 10:30am-noon.

KLEZMERQUERQUE 2008 also welcomes back Toronto's critically-acclaimed and award-winning 5-piece klezmer ensemble Beyond the Pale. The band will be teaching klezmer music classes on Saturday and Sunday plus BTP’s virtuoso violinist Aleksandar Gajic will teach a special Serbian violin kolo workshop on Saturday. Beyond the Pale will perform on Friday evening and is the featured band at the concert/dance party on Saturday, Feb. 16th at 7:30PM. Tickets for the Saturday concert may be purchased in advance for $18.00 (for ALL seats/ages) at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (505)344-8139 and at Natural Sound, 3422 Central Ave. SE (505)255-8295 - both in Albuquerque. Tickets will also be available at the door for $20.00-general and $18.00-fixed income & under 18.

On Saturday, February 16th from 11AM-Noon there will be a special FREE klezmer potpourri presentation for kids and families - advanced reservations REQUIRED (call 243-6276).
And from 12:15-1:30PM come have a vegetarian lunch at KLEZMERQUERQUE as you listen to the beautiful klezmer string music of Albuquerque's "Kompanye"—Admission is an $8.00-$15.00 donation.

The festival will open on Friday, February 15th at 6:30PM with a danced Freylekhe Shabbes to the music of Alavados, Nahalat Shalom’s 5-piece in-house band with dancing led by Rikud -Nahalat Shalom’s Yiddish dance troupe. At 7PM there will be a vegetarian potluck dinner and at 8PM there will be performances by Beyond the Pale, Yiddish dance-master Steve Weintraub, and ABQ’s own The Rebbe's Orkestra with special guest artist Sheila Fox. The music and dance will continue with Nahalat Shalom’s 20-piece Community Klezmer band and open dancing led by Steve Weintraub and Rikud. Admission for Friday evening’s event is a $15-$18 suggested donation (under 18-free/donation).

Admission for the entire weekend of events (2 concerts/dance parties, 3 classes, klezmer potpourri presentation and a lunch with music program) is $90-general, $75-seniors/fixed income/under 18. Individual classes (one-and-a-half hour long each) are $20-general / $16-fixed income.

For more information please contact:

Festival Coordinator Beth Cohen (505) 243-6276 or email her and/or

Congregation Nahalat Shalom www.nahalatshalom.org (505)343-8227
Pre-registration forms are available on the web site -----
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Pharaoh's Daughter, Winnipeg, Canada, Feb 16, 2008

band publicity photoPharaoh's Daughter unplugged
February 16, 2008
Winnipeg, CA 8pm Rady Jewish Community Center 123 Doncaster Street

Music 'N' Mavens & Israeli Concert Series, featuring Uri Sharlin on accordion, piano and keys, and Dan Aran on drums

Shema: What Jewish Culture Sounds Like, Denver, CO, Feb 15-20, 2008

DivahnThe Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver presents,
SHEMA: WHAT JEWISH CULTURE SOUNDS LIKE
With Galeet Dardashti and Divahn for an exploration of
Middle Eastern and Sephardic Jewish music

Saturday, February 16, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
The Oriental Theatre
4335 West 44th Avenue
Denver, Co. 80212

$18 general public
$10 DU faculty and staff
$5 with a University student ID
Thanks to support from our sponsors, tickets are offered at a reduced price.

Tickets available online at www.theorientaltheater.com or by calling 1.800.838.3006.

Doors open at 6 p.m. with a cash bar and restaurant available for pre-concert dining. Concert begins at 7:30 p.m. A reception with Divahn to follow the concert.
Public Lecuture with Galeet Dardashti
Mizrahi Piyutim: Middle Eastern Prayer Poetry
Join Galeet Dardashti for an interactive evening that introduces attendees to the Sephardi piyut traditions from the Middle East and North Africa. This evening will not only allow you to hear and learn a few of these beautiful and poetic songs but will provide you with a cultural and historical lens for understanding why the paytanim (poets) wrote them and continued composing them up until the last century. This lecture will also highligh the important ways in which the music of these piyutim draws from secular Arabic and Middle Eastern music. Galeet will perform and teach a number of piyutim representing the Iraqi, Sephardi-Yerushalmi, Moroccan, and Iranian traditions.

For further info: www.du.edu/cjs/public_programs.html

SHEMA: What Jewish Culture Sounds Like continues with our year-long project at the University of Denver’s Center for Judaic Studies which explores the orality of Jewish culture through media of music, sermons, poetry, theatre and languages of Jewish culture. Join us for a week of Middle Eastern and Sephardic Music with one of the most noted artists and scholars in this field – Galeet Dardashti and her all female band, Divahn!

Galeet Dardashti is completeing her PhD. in ethnomusicology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. An Iraqi Jewish cantor, Galeet is a world-renowned musician of Middle Eastern music. She is the winner of several prestigious arts fellowships including the Six Points Jewish Arts Fellowship from the Foundation of Jewish Culture in New York. Dardashti's work examines the relationship between traditional Arabic muscial forms known as piyyutim and contemporary popular music in Israel, both Arab and Jewish. Her all female band, Divahn, has performed around the world and is the leading voice of Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) Jewish sounds. Visit their website and sample their music at www.divahn.com
Mizrahi Kabbalat Shabbat Service at Hillel
Join Galeet Dardashti in her role as a cantor for a dynamic Sephardi-Mizrahi Kabbalat Shabbat service which will have you singing and clapping! This special service involves prayers with beautiful melodies from a range of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities.

The Center for Judaic Studies brings you these and other programs with generous support from community members, departments and academic units at the University of Denver, the Posen Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Hillel at the University of Denver and ISIME.

Zhok Therapy, Saco, ME, Feb 16, 2008

Saturday, February 16th, 8pm, (7pm-open mic)
$10 (under 12 free)
Zhok Therapy in concert
Saco Coffeehouse
Unitarian Universalist Church
60 School Street
Saco, Maine
sacocoffeehousecom or 282-0062 for tix and info

Zhok Therapy is the unruly alter-ego of Maine's well-known klezmer band, the Casco Bay Tummlers. Zhok Therapy still has one toe in the klezmer tradition, but has expanded their repertoire to include Greek, Balkan, and Middle Eastern music. Adding further influences from jazz and blues, their deep grooves and improvisations are both innovative and well rooted in a rich and varied ethnicity. "Zhok Therapy will remedy whatever ails with their cross pollinations." The band will be joined by special guest Mark Tipton, on trumpet, for these two performances. Tipton is an immensely gifted improvisor and composer who has recently returned to Maine after a number of years in New York City. The other band members are: Carl Dimow, flutes and guitars, Steve Gruverman, clarinets and saxophone, Julie Goell, bass and vocals, Hayes Porterfield, percussion.
(A zhok, by the way, is a type of Jewish and Middle Eastern rhythm.)

February 17, 2008

Yiddish Dance, Saratoga Springs, NY, Feb 17, 2008

Come dance away the cold days of winter & delight to a klezmer concert on President’s Day weekend in beautiful Saratoga Springs, NY at the annual Dance Flurry! www.danceflurry.org/festival. Flurry events include:

  • Yiddish Dance lead by Avia Moore with music by di bostoner klezmer on Sunday, February 17th from 11:30 A.M.-12:45 P.M. as well as dances and dance workshops in Contra, Swing, Latin, Zydeco, Waltzes, Texas Two-Step, Salsa, etc.
  • a klezmer music concert on Sunday by di bostoner klezmer on Sunday, February 17th from 3:30 to 4:30 We will charm you with original compositions, tangos, waltzes, and good old danceable bulgars & freylekhs … as well as a host of other concerts, music workshops, and open jamming
  • Classes—including a wind styles class co-taught by Brian Bender and Dena Ressler with three other musicians on Sunday from 10-11 A.M. and an accordion styles workshop the same day co-taught by Barry Shapiro with six! others from 1:30-2:45 P.M.

Tickets: Buy discounted full-festival tickets on-line (save $15) before 1/28 or just for one day (at-door tickets never sell out; no reservations are required)

Sunday: the day of the Yiddish music and dance happens—runs from 9 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Cost is $25 students and seniors, $30 other adults, and $3 kids.

Dance leader Avia Moore has danced and taught alongside many of the world's foremost Yiddish dance teachers/leaders. Avia studied Yiddish dance with Michael Alpert and Zev Feldman—pioneering figures of the klezmer revival and leading researchers of Yiddish dance—and now co-teaches with them at KlezKanada. Avia is the founder and artistic director of Burnt Wine, a theatre company dedicated to exploring cultural themes in a postmodern setting. A graduate of the Drama Honors program at the University of Alberta, Avia will be an MA student at Dartington College of Arts (Devon, England) in 2008. She can currently be found in Montreal working as the Administrative Director for KlezKanada.

di bostoner klezmer
Brian Bender, trombonist, keyboardist, melodica player and composer. Brian has performed klezmer music at Carnegie Hall, the Presidential Inauguration of Bill Clinton, and in Israel, Alaska and Egypt. A graduate of New England Conservatory of Music, he was a popular instructor at KlezKamp for many years, and is a much-sought-after performer. He heads his own jazz ensemble and plays regularly with world music, Celtic, contradance and Dixieland bands.

Dena Ressler, co-founder, clarinetist, and bandleader, Dena has taught at KlezKamp, at the summer Klezmer Institute at the New England Conservatory of Music and a klezmer history seminar at the Conference for Rurual Jews in New England. She has had fun playing with klezmer luminaries like Michael Alpert, Frank London, Deborah Strauss, and David Licht.

sitting in with us is Barry Shapiro, accordionist, pianist. Barry was a founding member of the world-famous Klezmer Conservatory Band, and of the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra. A graduate of New England Conservatory of Music, Barry has performed with Theodore Bikel, and Isachor Maron (author of "Tzena").

Folksbiene: Yiddish Theatre on the Road, East Meadow, NY, Feb 17, 2008

Folksbiene TroupeYIDDISH THEATRE ON THE ROAD
Di Folksbiene Trupe (The Troupe) hits the road with performances of "Makht a Tsimes!" A collection of new and classic Yiddish comedy routines and theatre songs performed by the young up and comers of the Yiddish stage.

February 17, 2008 at 2:00 PM
East Meadow Public Library
1886 Front Street
East Meadow, NY 11554-1700
Please note, tickets are available only to residents of East Meadow, NY
For information please call 516-794-2570 or visit www.folksbiene.org/troupe.htm

Performances are entirely in Yiddish with English translation supertites.

Shirim 25th Anniversary concert, Arlington, MA, Feb 17, 2008

shirimCan you believe it? It is time for the 25th Anniversary concert of Shirim on Feb. 17, 2:00 at the Regent Theater, 7 Medford St., Arlington, MA. Tickets are $12.50, $8 for seniors and kids. Call the box office at (781) 646-4849 for tickets or visit www.regenttheatre.com. We are keeping the price low in the spirit of celebration and because we are making a video of the concert and want to have you there! Buy your tickets early!

Our first gig was 25 years ago at a Purim party at MIT, if I remember correctly. And since then we have played hundreds of weddings and Bar Mitzvahs in the Boston area- maybe yours? We have recorded 7 unique CDs, we have worked with Maurice Sendak and Ellen Kushner, played on the soundtrack of a Woody Allen movie, toured across the U.S.A., Canada and Europe, and we keep playing here in Boston through it all. Remember the annual December 25th concerts at Coolidge Corner? First Night at Berklee Performance Center? Hanukah celebrations at Downtown crossing in the freezing cold? It has been a long road, and we keep on going on!

So come and see us again! We’ll play some fresh music and some chestnuts. Hope to see you there!

Shirim started performing in 1982 at the beginning of the current klezmer revival and has performed across the United States, Canada and Europe. The band has collaborated with children’s author/artist Maurice Sendak to create the Parent’s Choice award winning “Pincus & the Pig,” a Jewish/klezmer adaptation of “Peter and the Wolf” and won a Gracie Award for their Hannukah project with NPR’s Ellen Kushner, “The Golden Dreydl: a Klezmer Nutcracker.” Shirim is featured on the soundtrack of Woody Allen’s “Deconstructing Harry” and has released seven recordings on the Tzadik, Rykodisc and Newport Classic labels. The band has performed with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, the Niagara Symphony, and at major international jazz and klezmer festivals.

The band is based in Boson and has performed at hundreds of weddings and Bar Mitzvahs for local residents, even playing weddings for couples and returning years later to perform at the Bar Mitzvahs of their kids! Shirim’s annual Christmas Day concerts at the Coolidge Corner Theater were a tradition in the 1990s, fondly remembered by many.

The band boasts members who are highly respected veterans of the klezmer revival, Glenn Dickson on clarinet, David Harris on trombone, Michael McLaughlin on piano and accordion, Jim Gray on tuba, Eric Rosenthal on drums and Brandon Seabrook on banjo. Their concerts reflect both a seriousness of musicianship and a strong emotional resonance with the music.

Cantor Sam Weiss, Steven Greenman, Pete Rushefsky, NYC, Feb 17, 2008

"Cantorial Inspiration"
Sunday, February 17 at 3 pm

Cantor Sam Weiss, violinist Steven Greenman, and tsimbl (hammered dulcimer) player Pete Rushefsky bring synagogal sonorities to the fully restored Eldrdige Street Synagogue sanctuary with a program of traditional and new pieces rooted in the cantorial and klezmer traditions. The trio will look back to the Cantorial Golden Age, when a long succession of cantors inspired the worshipers of the Eldrdige Street congregation. They will also draw inspiration from the great 19th-century klezmer violinists of Berditchev, Ukraine, and from other favorite Jewish melodies.

Tickets: $15 adults; $12 students and seniors

Eldridge Street Project
12 Eldridge Street
New York, New York 10002
Tel: 212.219.0888

Directions: www.eldridgestreet.org/visit_us_d.htm

SCORE: East and West, London, UK, Feb 17, 2008

Sunday 17th February 2008, 4pm

East & West (Ost und west) (U) + live accompaniment by Lemez Lovas of Oi Va Voi and guest musicians
16:00 / A rare screening of Sidney M Goldin and Ivan Abramson's silent Yiddish comedy, starring Molly Picon
17 February 2008
Cinema 1

Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS

£8.50/£6 conc/£4.50 under 15s from the Barbican ticket office: 0845 120 7527 or online

Part of the Barbican’s silent film / live music series, Lemez Lovas, formerly of Oi Va Voi, directs guest musicians Moshikop and Rohan Kriwaczek in an irreverent live performance of a score for East and West – especially prepared for the JCC – that played to sell-out audiences in 2005 and 2006.

In Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson’s silent movie (1923), streetwise New Yorker Mollie (Molly Picon) travels to her demure cousin’s wedding in a traditional Polish shtetl. Lovas, Moshikop and Kriwaczek’s cheeky new score takes us from traditional klezmer to contemporary electronica, from liturgical melancholy to party pop kitsch and from vaudeville to breakbeat. As love blossoms between East and West, and the musical narrative unfolds, traditional and modern worlds are brought into collision.

Check out a trailer for the gig here.

Produced by Yad Arts for the JCC for London and the Barbican
www.yadarts.com

Yuval Ron Ensemble in Inspirational evening of sacred Sufi music, Los Angeles, CA, Feb 17, 2008

What: A Time for Peace - An Inspirational evening of sacred Sufi music from the Turkish and Pakistani traditions and devotional music from the Moroccan-Jewish and Yemenite-Jewish music heritages.

Who: The Yuval Ron Ensemble, featuring Najwa Gibran, vocal soloist, with appearance by Whirling Dervish of the Melevi Order-Aziz.

Where: Islamic Center of Southern California 434 S. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90021. The Location of the Concert is a sacred space! The public is asked to attend dressed in a manner, which is respectful and appropriate for a place of worship.

When: Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 7:30pm

Money: tickets are $20 at the door, no advanced sales.

Info: Tel: 310-415-6747, e-mail Yuval Ron Ensemble, or Calendar page at www.yuvalronmusic.com

Anna Shternshis lecture on East European Jewish Culture in post-Soviet Imagination, Montreal, Canada, Feb 14, 2008

Anna Shternshis: “White Piano from the Shtetl: East European Jewish Culture in Post-Soviet Imagination”

Scholar and author Anna Shternshis will speak in English on “White Piano from the Shtetl: East European Jewish Culture in post-Soviet Imagination” on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. at the Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal. Cost $5 for JPL members and students, $10 others. Call 514-345-2627 ext. 3006 for tickets and information.

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

www.jewishpubliclibrary.org

How do post-Soviet Jews imagine their roots? What aspects of East European Jewish nostalgia do they cherish? What does it mean for our understanding of secular Jewish identity? Anna Shternshis offers examples from post-Soviet films, Jewish restaurant menus, musical performances and Russian-language blogs in order to analyze the trends of contemporary Russian Jewish culture.

Anna Shternshis holds a D.Phil. in Modern Languages and Literatures from Oxford University and currently teaches at the University of Toronto. She is the author of the 2006 book Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939.

Michael Winograd Klezmer Ensemble CD Release, NYC, Feb 17, 2008

CD coverSunday, February 17th
Michael Winograd and his Klezmer Ensemble
celebrate the release of their new CD "Bessarabian Hop" with a Big CD release party/bash/concert/extravaganza!!!

this will take place at the Workmen's Circle, in NYC! (on Sunday, Feb 17th)
thats at 45 E. 33rd Street (off Park Ave)
thats at 8pm (with doors open at 7ish)
thats $10
thats alot of fun!!!!

The group:
Joey Wiesenberg: mandolin
Patrick Farrell: accordion
Pete Rushefsky: tsimbl
Daniel Blacksberg: trombone
Nick Cudahy: bass
Richie Barshay: percussion
Michael Winograd: clarinet

with guests
Judith Berkson: vocals
Michael Alpert: vocals, violin
and probably more.....

wow!!!! we really hope you can join us for this night of wild emotions and ecstatic colors!!!

Yiddish Dance class, NYC, Feb 17, 2008

New Yiddish Dance Class at NY's 92 St. Y presented by Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the 92 St. Y.

CTMD announces a new partnership with Manhattan's 92 St Y to offer a series of Yiddish dance classes beginning in September led by Walter Zev Feldman and other master dance leaders.

Building on our monthly Tantshoyz (dance house) series at the JCC in Manhattan, the 92 St. Y classes will provide intermediate and advanced dancers with a more in-depth opportunity to explore classic Yiddish and coterritorial dances such as the sher, hora/zhok, freylekhs, honga, hora moldavaneasca and bulgar. Special focus will also be given to the expressive power and gestures of solo dance. Classes will feature live klezmer music performed by Jake Shulman-Ment on violin and Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).

Eight, three-hour sessions will be held on the following Sundays, from 2PM-5PM: September 30, October 21, November 18, January 20, February 17, March 30, April 27, and June 1. Cost for the series is $250 (interested participants must register for the entire series). To register or for more information, go to the 92nd St. Y website or call Pete Rushefsky at 212-571-1555 ext. 36 or email Pete.

And stay tuned for information about a new season of Tantshoyzen and a December 9 Symposium at NYU entitled Defining Yiddish Dance: Sacred, Secular, Borrowed and Transformed.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Yiddish Dance Project is supported by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Division of Folk Arts and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

February 18, 2008

Shema: What Jewish Culture Sounds Like, Denver, CO, Feb 15-20, 2008

DivahnThe Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver presents,
SHEMA: WHAT JEWISH CULTURE SOUNDS LIKE
With Galeet Dardashti and Divahn for an exploration of
Middle Eastern and Sephardic Jewish music

Monday, February 18, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
University of Denver
Newman Center for Performing Arts, Spencer Room
2344 E. Iliff Ave. Denver, CO 80208
Free and open to the public but reservations are required Please call 303.871.3660.
Rimon:Master Classes in Judaic Studies with Galeet Dardashti
Performing Arab and Middle Eastern Music in Israel
Based on Galeet Dardashti's doctoral dissertation research in anthropology, these Master Classes chronicle the recent mainstreaming of Middle Eastern and Arab-influenced art music (musika etnit yisraelit) in the Israeli public sphere. Long-forgotten Iraqi septuagenarian musicians are only now asked to share their unique knowledge with receptive Israeli students and audiences; Palestinian and Jewish Israelis have formed a range of Middle Eastern and Arab-influenced bands; Israeli groups are performing interpretations of the music of Egyptian legends such as Oum Kalthoum and Farid El-Atrash for packed concert halls; and recently some of Israel's most noted secular rock singers have recorded their own renditions of Middle Eastern piyutim (Jewish praise songs). These developments over the past fifteen years represent an historical shift in Israeli cultural politics and indicate an openness to cultural diversity and a decline of the homogeneous Israeli national cultural identity that government policy had strongly encouraged since the State's inception. Through the music scene, Galeet examines this unique nationalist movement in Israel, examining how scholars can represent some of the complex cultural realities of this global era.

For further info: www.du.edu/cjs/public_programs.html

SHEMA: What Jewish Culture Sounds Like continues with our year-long project at the University of Denver’s Center for Judaic Studies which explores the orality of Jewish culture through media of music, sermons, poetry, theatre and languages of Jewish culture. Join us for a week of Middle Eastern and Sephardic Music with one of the most noted artists and scholars in this field – Galeet Dardashti and her all female band, Divahn!

Galeet Dardashti is completeing her PhD. in ethnomusicology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. An Iraqi Jewish cantor, Galeet is a world-renowned musician of Middle Eastern music. She is the winner of several prestigious arts fellowships including the Six Points Jewish Arts Fellowship from the Foundation of Jewish Culture in New York. Dardashti's work examines the relationship between traditional Arabic muscial forms known as piyyutim and contemporary popular music in Israel, both Arab and Jewish. Her all female band, Divahn, has performed around the world and is the leading voice of Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) Jewish sounds. Visit their website and sample their music at www.divahn.com
Mizrahi Kabbalat Shabbat Service at Hillel
Join Galeet Dardashti in her role as a cantor for a dynamic Sephardi-Mizrahi Kabbalat Shabbat service which will have you singing and clapping! This special service involves prayers with beautiful melodies from a range of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities.

The Center for Judaic Studies brings you these and other programs with generous support from community members, departments and academic units at the University of Denver, the Posen Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Hillel at the University of Denver and ISIME.

la chorale juive de France, Paris, France, Feb 18, 2008

Je travaille le chant lyrique à Paris, dans la tessiture de ténor lyrique, en tant que soliste, également je chante dans des ch ur ou ensembles vocaux.
Depuis quasiment un an, je chante dans la chorale juive de France, dirigée par Hector SABO. Il y a 4 mois, je fus sollicité par le chef de ch ur pour être soliste, avec la volonté de développer l art cantorial.
A paris, lundi 18 février à 20h00, à la synagogue de Nazareth (Paris 3ème), nous faisons un concert, accompagné par deux hazzanim.

February 19, 2008

Shema: What Jewish Culture Sounds Like, Denver, CO, Feb 15-20, 2008

DivahnThe Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver presents,
SHEMA: WHAT JEWISH CULTURE SOUNDS LIKE
With Galeet Dardashti and Divahn for an exploration of Middle Eastern and Sephardic Jewish music

Tuesday, February 19 & Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 4-6 p.m.
University of Denver
Sturm Hall, Room 286 (2nd Floor)
2000 E. Asbury Avenue
Denver, Co. 80208

Free and open to the public but reservations are required as space is limited. Please call 303.871.3660. When registering please leave your email address so we can send you readings for the course.

Our Rimon: Master Classes in Judaic Studies revolve around readings pre-selected by our visiting scholars and artists. To make reservations and obtain a copy of the readings, please contact Marlene Tolman at 303.871.4633.

DU Students can earn credit for the Rimon:Master Classes in Judaic Studies. To learn more, contact Prof. Sarah Pessin.

For further info: www.du.edu/cjs/public_programs.html

SHEMA: What Jewish Culture Sounds Like continues with our year-long project at the University of Denver’s Center for Judaic Studies which explores the orality of Jewish culture through media of music, sermons, poetry, theatre and languages of Jewish culture. Join us for a week of Middle Eastern and Sephardic Music with one of the most noted artists and scholars in this field – Galeet Dardashti and her all female band, Divahn!

Galeet Dardashti is completeing her PhD. in ethnomusicology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. An Iraqi Jewish cantor, Galeet is a world-renowned musician of Middle Eastern music. She is the winner of several prestigious arts fellowships including the Six Points Jewish Arts Fellowship from the Foundation of Jewish Culture in New York. Dardashti's work examines the relationship between traditional Arabic muscial forms known as piyyutim and contemporary popular music in Israel, both Arab and Jewish. Her all female band, Divahn, has performed around the world and is the leading voice of Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) Jewish sounds. Visit their website and sample their music at www.divahn.com
Mizrahi Kabbalat Shabbat Service at Hillel
Join Galeet Dardashti in her role as a cantor for a dynamic Sephardi-Mizrahi Kabbalat Shabbat service which will have you singing and clapping! This special service involves prayers with beautiful melodies from a range of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities.

The Center for Judaic Studies brings you these and other programs with generous support from community members, departments and academic units at the University of Denver, the Posen Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Hillel at the University of Denver and ISIME.

Reuben Hoch, Oakland Park, FL, Feb 19, 2008

Reuben HochReuben Hoch

Please Join Us for An Evening of Alternative Improv
Tuesday February 19, 2008, 9PM

Come hear the new standards in a slick jazz jam band format. Music of The Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, Coldplay, and John Coltrane. Our goal is to keep jazz alive using a fresh approach to creative improvised music.

Reuben Hoch - Drums
Tom Lippincott - Guitar
Tony Smith - Bass

Come out and support live music and Kilmo @ The Alley.
Oakland Park, FL
www.alligatoralleyflorida.com

The "Shekhter-Tekhter" and Binyumen, Paris, France, Feb 19, 2008

THE "SHEKHTER-TEKHTER" AND BINYUMEN
with their show

OUR ZEYDAS AND BUBBAS AS CHILDREN

a revue about kids, young and older, and their relationships with each other, with their parents, with the Rabbi, with the world.

The songs are all in Yiddish.
Translations are provided.

The performers:
BINYUMEN SCHAECHTER
and the "Shekhter-tekhter"
(the "Schaechter Daughters"),
REYNA SCHAECHTER (age 13) and
TEMMA-LEEBA SCHAECHTER (age 8)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008, 8:30 P.M.
in the Medem-bibliotheque
18, passage Saint-Pierre Amelot, 75011 Paris
Admission: 14 euro. Members: 10 euro
tel. : 01 47 00 14 00, fax : 01 47 00 14 47
Metro : Oberkampf, Filles du Calvaire Bus : 20, 56, 65, 96
www.yiddishweb.com

Yuval Ron Ensemble, Whittier, CA, Feb 19, 2008

Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 8pm

"Mystical Music of the Middle East"

with The Yuval Ron Ensemble featuring
singer Najwa Gibran
Whirling Dervish Aziz
and dancer Maya Karasso

Location: Shannon Center for the Performing Arts at Whittier College
13406 E. Philadelphia St.Whittier, CA 90608

Admission: $10 (students: $8)

Reservations and information: By phone 562-907-4203

For further info: Email Yuval Ron Ensemble, or Calendar page at www.yuvalronmusic.com

February 20, 2008

Shema: What Jewish Culture Sounds Like, Denver, CO, Feb 15-20, 2008

DivahnThe Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver presents,
SHEMA: WHAT JEWISH CULTURE SOUNDS LIKE
With Galeet Dardashti and Divahn for an exploration of Middle Eastern and Sephardic Jewish music

Tuesday, February 19 & Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 4-6 p.m.
University of Denver
Sturm Hall, Room 286 (2nd Floor)
2000 E. Asbury Avenue
Denver, Co. 80208

Free and open to the public but reservations are required as space is limited. Please call 303.871.3660. When registering please leave your email address so we can send you readings for the course.

Our Rimon: Master Classes in Judaic Studies revolve around readings pre-selected by our visiting scholars and artists. To make reservations and obtain a copy of the readings, please contact Marlene Tolman at 303.871.4633.

DU Students can earn credit for the Rimon:Master Classes in Judaic Studies. To learn more, contact Prof. Sarah Pessin.

For further info: www.du.edu/cjs/public_programs.html

SHEMA: What Jewish Culture Sounds Like continues with our year-long project at the University of Denver’s Center for Judaic Studies which explores the orality of Jewish culture through media of music, sermons, poetry, theatre and languages of Jewish culture. Join us for a week of Middle Eastern and Sephardic Music with one of the most noted artists and scholars in this field – Galeet Dardashti and her all female band, Divahn!

Galeet Dardashti is completeing her PhD. in ethnomusicology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. An Iraqi Jewish cantor, Galeet is a world-renowned musician of Middle Eastern music. She is the winner of several prestigious arts fellowships including the Six Points Jewish Arts Fellowship from the Foundation of Jewish Culture in New York. Dardashti's work examines the relationship between traditional Arabic muscial forms known as piyyutim and contemporary popular music in Israel, both Arab and Jewish. Her all female band, Divahn, has performed around the world and is the leading voice of Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) Jewish sounds. Visit their website and sample their music at www.divahn.com
Mizrahi Kabbalat Shabbat Service at Hillel
Join Galeet Dardashti in her role as a cantor for a dynamic Sephardi-Mizrahi Kabbalat Shabbat service which will have you singing and clapping! This special service involves prayers with beautiful melodies from a range of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities.

The Center for Judaic Studies brings you these and other programs with generous support from community members, departments and academic units at the University of Denver, the Posen Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Hillel at the University of Denver and ISIME.

Jeremiah Lockwood, NYC, Feb 20, 2008

Jeremiah Lockwood of the Sway Machinery: Hidden Melodies Revealed
a work-in-progress showing
Feb. 20, 7pm
Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St, NYC, $10
Tickets at www.ticketweb.com or 917.606.8200

Jeremiah Lockwood will be performing solo, playing pieces from The Sway Machinery repetoire and new works-in-progress from the Hidden Melodies Revealed project. His performance will be followed by a scholarly discussion of the history of Cantorial music with Peter Rachefsky, Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, and Cantor David Lefkowitz, of the Park Avenue Synagogue.

Pharaoh's Daughter, Houston, TX, Feb 20, 2008

band publicity photoPharaoh's Daughter
February 20, 2008
Pharaoh's Daughter
Houston, TX
School appearance - more info TBA

Golem opens Jewish Music Festival, Houston, TX, Feb 20, 2008

GolemNYC Klezmer-rock band Golem opens Jewish Music Festival
Wednesday February 20th, 2008

Show starts at 8:00 p.m.
JCC Houston
5601 S Braeswood
Houston, TX 77096

$14 JCC Member, $18 Public, $10 senior/student
Tickets may be purchased at www.jcchouston.org
tel: 713-729-3200 ext. 3327

Contrary to popular belief, GOLEM is neither a towering Jewish Frankenstein who defended the Jews of 17th Century Prague, nor a creature from “Lord of the Rings.”

It is, however, one of the best rock bands around the New York area. Fronted by Annette Ezekiel - singer, accordionist, and 5-foot powerhouse, with vocalist, tambourine player, crazy-man Aaron Diskin, violin virtuoso Alicia Jo Rabins, trombonist Curtis Hasselbring, upright bassist Taylor Bergren-Chrisman, and drummer Tim Monaghan. Annette had been listening to her grandparents' Klezmer records since she was a kid and could feel the music’s Slavic dance beats in her feet. It was soon after this that she conceived of the band GOLEM – a monster stumbling through Jewish music – shaking things up yet remaining true to the tradition.

February 21, 2008

KlezKabaret, Montreal, Canada, Feb 21, 2008

KlezKanada log KlezKabaret and Jam Session led by Frank London!

Open to the Public!
Join us on Thursday, February 21st for a KlezKabaret featuring some of the hottest new talents on the Klezmer scene. The Kabaret will be followed by a rockin' Jam Session led by Frank London.

Where: Bistro Parc des Princes, 5293 Avenue du Parc
When: February 21, 2008 - 8:30 until late
How Much: $10 at the door (free for full-time participants of the Winter-Session)

For more information, contact Avia Moore by email or by phone 514.993.2842.

Pharaoh's Daughter, Houston, TX, Feb 21, 2008

band publicity photoPharaoh's Daughter
February 21, 2008
Houston, TX 8pm JCC of Houston 5601 S. Braiswood

Kane Street Klezmer Band, Brooklyn, NY, Feb 21, 2008

Kane Street Klezmer Band—Every Thursday Night in February (Feb 7, 14, 21, 28) 7:30-9:00, at the Synagogue.

The Kane Street Synagogue is located at 236 Kane Street off of Court Street, the nearest subway stop is the Bergen Street station on the F train. It's not a bad walk along Court Street from the 2,3,4,5 lines station at Court St/Borough Hall which are the first (4,5 lines) or second (2,3 lines) stop in Brooklyn.

Kane Street Musical Director Joey Weisenberg will be directing a klezmer ensemble of Kane Street members and friends, on Thursday nights in February, 7:30-9:00. He will teach traditional klezmer melodies, and demonstrate how to make them come alive in an instrumental ensemble. This ensemble is open to all instrumentalists. Please email Joey with questions.

Joey Weisenberg is a mandolinist and guitarist. At age twelve, Joey began performing as a harmonica player and guitarist in blues bars in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He currently performs with bands including Romashka, Zagnut Circus Orchestra, The Marija Krupoves Trio, Ansamble Mastika, The Amazing Frosen String Quartet, Michael Winograd's Klezmer Outfit, and as a leader of his own ensembles. Joey has also accompanied established artists such as Neshama Carlebach, Debbie Friedman, and Henry Sapoznik. As a teacher, Joey leads his "Spontaneous Jewish Choir" workshops, and teaches for institutions including Klez Kanada and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

February 22, 2008

"Creating 'New' Jewish Sounds," Josh Kun at the Jewish Music Forum, NYC, Feb 22, 2008

Dear friends of the Jewish Music Forum,

Our next presentation will be held on
February 22, 2008
10:30 am - 12 pm

at the Center for Jewish History, Forchheimer Auditorium
15 W. 16th Street (between 5th and 6th Aves., north side of the street)
New York, NY 10011
This event is FREE and open to the public

"Creating 'New' Jewish Sounds"
Presentations and a roundtable with
Dr. Josh Kun, University of Southern California
Dr. Judah M. Cohen, Indiana University
Daniel Saks, member of the NYC bands DeLeon and The LeeVees

www.jewishmusicforum.org

In the last fifteen years, numerous new organizations, companies, and artists have attempted to reassess the meaning of "Jewish" sound, largely for audiences described as young, hip, and independent. Yet under what conditions did these sounds emerge, and how do they address the concerns of the Jewish philanthropic foundations that support many of them? The three speakers in this session will explore what it means to produce "Jewish" music in a cultural milieu that relies heavily on a combination of philanthropic, organizational, and journalistic attention, as well as "tangibles" such as CDs and intangibles such as "hipness."

Josh Kun is a professor in the Annenberg School of Communication and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, where he also directs The Popular Music Project at The Norman Lear Center. He is the author of "Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America" (UC Press), which won a 2006 American Book Award. In 2005, he co-founded the non-profit record label Reboot Stereophonic, which is dedicated to excavating lost treasures of Jewish-American music. He is co-author (with Roger Bennett) of "And You Shall Know Us By The Trail Of Our Vinyl: Jewish History As Told By The Records We Have Loved and Lost," to be published later this year by Random House.

Judah M. Cohen is the Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, at Indiana University. He has authored the books "Through the Sands of Time: a History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, USVI" (Brandeis University Press, 2004), and the forthcoming "The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment" (Indiana University Press, expected 2009). As a Dorot Fellow in NYU's Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (2003-2006), Cohen studied the "new" Jewish music & culture scene, resulting in a collaborative "Heebster" entry for the modiya.nyu.edu website and a forthcoming essay on Jews and hip-hop.

Daniel Saks, is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, and banjoist. He currently leads the band DeLeon, dedicated to fresh interpretations of Sephardic songs. He is also currently a member of The LeeVees. Both bands are affiliated with JDub Records, a non-profit dedicated to new and innovative Jewish music and cross cultural musical dialogue. Saks, the son of a rabbi, was born and raised in the DC area.

"Creating 'New' Jewish Sounds" is presented by the American Society for Jewish Music, the American Jewish Historical Society, and the Working Group on Jews, Media, and Religion at NYU's Center for Religion and Media.

www.jewishmusicforum.org
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KlezKanada Winter Session, Montreal, Canada, Feb 22-24, 2008

KlezKanada logKlezKanada Winter Session

Winter Session Events
Workshops with our internationally acclaimed Faculty! February 22, 23 and 24, 2008. Small classes, private coaching

Held right in the heart of Montreal, our Winter Session will bring you 4 days of workshops, master classes, jam sessions, klezkabarets and world-class performances! Don't miss the chance to be a part of this amazing weekend! Please forward this email to anyone who you think might be interested!

Workshops include:
Frank's Ensemble,
Strings Masterclass with Deb and Cookie,
Yiddish Pronounciation for Singers with Michael,
If You Wanna Play Klezmer You Gotta Dance Klezmer
with Avia and Michael and a stellar dance band
Rhythm 101 with Thierry,
Makeover Masterclass with Josh and Cookie,
Songs of Reverence, Irreverence and Revolution with Michael, Nigunim with Frank, Jeff, Deb and more,
Ask Drs Klez with Josh, Cookie and others,
.....and more...!

Participants must register for workshops in advance.

PLUS... Jam Sessions, KlezKabarets and Concerts!
Snow Fiddler
DATE: February 21-24, 2008
TIME: Various
LOCATION: Montreal
MORE: $85 for the whole weekend or pay by the event.
Register Now

For more information, contact Avia Moore by email or by phone 514.993.2842.
www.klezkanada.com
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Basya Schechter, Cleveland, OH, Feb 22, 2008

band publicity photoBasya Schechter
February 22-23, 2008
Basya Schechter
Cleveland, OH Venue TBA
School workshops in the Cleveland, Ohio area

John Zorn's Shir Ha-Shirim, NYC, Feb 22-23

JOHN ZORN'S
Sefer Shir Shel Shir Ha-Shirim / The Song of Songs

February 22 and 23 at 8pm At The Abrons Arts Center /Henry Street Settlement 466 Grand St. at Pitt St. on the Lower East Side - 212-598-0400

Featuring Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson.

Opening act--John Zorn's trio--Marc Ribot, Carol Emanuel & Trevor Dunn

Scored for five female voices and two narrators, Shir Ha-Shirim is John Zorn's lush and sensitive setting of the Song of Songs, the world's first erotic verse. Featuring the expressive voices of two of the world's greatest storytellers, Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, this is a romantic and lyrical project evoking feelings of love, eroticism and spirituality. With Martha Cluver, Lisa Bielawa, Kathryn Mulvihill, Abby Fischer, and Kirsten Sollek.

www.henrystreet.org/arts

John Zorn's Shir Ha-Shirim, NYC, Feb 22-23

JOHN ZORN'S
Sefer Shir Shel Shir Ha-Shirim / The Song of Songs

February 22 and 23 at 8pm At The Abrons Arts Center /Henry Street Settlement 466 Grand St. at Pitt St. on the Lower East Side - 212-598-0400

Featuring Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson.

Opening act--John Zorn's trio--Marc Ribot, Carol Emanuel & Trevor Dunn

Scored for five female voices and two narrators, Shir Ha-Shirim is John Zorn's lush and sensitive setting of the Song of Songs, the world's first erotic verse. Featuring the expressive voices of two of the world's greatest storytellers, Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, this is a romantic and lyrical project evoking feelings of love, eroticism and spirituality. With Martha Cluver, Lisa Bielawa, Kathryn Mulvihill, Abby Fischer, and Kirsten Sollek.

www.henrystreet.org/arts

February 23, 2008

KlezKanada Winter Session, Montreal, Canada, Feb 22-24, 2008

KlezKanada logKlezKanada Winter Session

Winter Session Events
Workshops with our internationally acclaimed Faculty! February 22, 23 and 24, 2008. Small classes, private coaching

Held right in the heart of Montreal, our Winter Session will bring you 4 days of workshops, master classes, jam sessions, klezkabarets and world-class performances! Don't miss the chance to be a part of this amazing weekend! Please forward this email to anyone who you think might be interested!

Workshops include:
Frank's Ensemble,
Strings Masterclass with Deb and Cookie,
Yiddish Pronounciation for Singers with Michael,
If You Wanna Play Klezmer You Gotta Dance Klezmer
with Avia and Michael and a stellar dance band
Rhythm 101 with Thierry,
Makeover Masterclass with Josh and Cookie,
Songs of Reverence, Irreverence and Revolution with Michael, Nigunim with Frank, Jeff, Deb and more,
Ask Drs Klez with Josh, Cookie and others,
.....and more...!

Participants must register for workshops in advance.

PLUS... Jam Sessions, KlezKabarets and Concerts!
Snow Fiddler
DATE: February 21-24, 2008
TIME: Various
LOCATION: Montreal
MORE: $85 for the whole weekend or pay by the event.
Register Now

For more information, contact Avia Moore by email or by phone 514.993.2842.
www.klezkanada.com
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Basya Schechter, Cleveland, OH, Feb 23, 2008

band publicity photoBasya Schechter
February 22-23, 2008
Basya Schechter
Cleveland, OH Venue TBA
School workshops in the Cleveland, Ohio area

Dream Kitchen, Berkeley, CA, Feb 23, 2008

THE BREW: Dream Kitchen and Craig Ventresco, Meridith Axelrod & Rob Reich
JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
Saturday, February 23, 8:00 pm
$10 members, $12 non-members
Buy tickets NOW!

Craig Ventresco, Meredith Axelrod, and Rob Reich fashion music utterly unconcerned with the modern era. Concentrating on early 20th century vaudeville, ragtime, and popular songs as recorded on obscure 78s from the dawn of the recorded music era, their sound travels backwards across time, pleasantly rumbling down the dirt roads of an America that once was.

Dream Kitchen presents a radical reevaluation of early Jazz, showing its roots in ragtime and folk music and its implications for improvisation. Compositions by Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington are thrashed, trashed and smashed by a tuba-guitar-drums trio of John Schott, Marc Bolin, and John Hanes. The trio, whose members have won countless accolades in pretty much every musical genre, will also indulge in an investigation of the works of early Jewish Jazz composers.

Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh, Providence, RI, Feb 23, 2007

Fishel Bresler and Shelley Katsh. photo by Irving SchildFishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh & their Klezmer Hassidic Music,
return to the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House in Providence!

Five shows, the last Saturdays of the Months- Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving Wknd), Dec. 29, Jan. 26, Feb. 23 & Mar. 29*
8* - 10 PM - Admission $9

Very easy to get to, the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House is at 209 Douglas Ave, 5 minutes from the Providence Marriot: Right on Orms, across the bridge over 95 , first right onto Douglas Ave. We're one half mile down on the right, just past the 95S entrance. For more specific directions go to www.BrooklynCoffeeTeaHouse.com or call 575-2284 weekday mornings.

We hope to see you there, and bring a friend too!

* March 29th starts 8:30 PM

Avraham Rosenblum (Diaspora Band), Brooklyn, NYC, Feb 23, 2008

This Saturday Night, February 23, 2008
AVRAHAM ROSENBLUM will perform at
THE JEWISH MUSIC CAFE
401 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Doors open 8:30 PM
$12
For more info please visit www.jewishmusiccafe.com

Klezmer Concert/Dance Party, Montreal, Canada, Feb 23, 2008

KlezKanada logoKlezKanada presents a World-Class Klezmer Concert and Dance Party. The event takes place Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 9pm at Kola Note (5240 Avenue du Parc, Montreal).

This exciting evening features a line-up of internationally acclaimed klezmer musicians. From Montreal to New York, from concert halls to nightclubs, these performers create a buzz wherever they appear. Grammy award-winning trumpeter Frank London is famous for his work with klezmer supergroups The Klezmatics and The Klezmer Brass Allstars. Renowned Yiddish singer Michael Alpert has been a pioneering figure in the renaissance of Klezmer and Yiddish music for the past 30 years. Cookie Segelstein and Josh Horowitz are founding members of Veretski Pass and loved for their virtuosic traditional style. The dynamic Strauss/Warschauer Duo features two of the most astonishing and popular performers and teachers in the international klezmer and Yiddish music scene.

Special guests for the evening include cello visionary Matt Haimovitz, the first classical musician to play at NY's notorious CBGB club. Also Montreal's Shtreiml, New York's fastest rising young clarinet star Michael Winograd and more!

Dancing will be led by Avia Moore and Michael Alpert.

One show only, Saturday, February 23, 2008 at Kola Note, 5240 Avenue du Parc, Montreal. Doors will open at 8:30 pm, the show will commence at 9 pm. General admission tickets $20, student tickets $10. Available at the door. For sponsorship tickets, please call 514.993.2842. A partial tax receipt will be issued. For more information, contact Avia Moore by email or by phone 514.993.2842.

KlezKanada, Canada's largest organization dedicated to Yiddish/Jewish culture and the arts, brings an evening of music and dance to Montreal's historic Jewish neighbourhood. KlezKanada is known for exciting events that appeal to all ages and interests. The event is part of KlezKanada's Winter-Session, a weekend of workshops, cabarets, jam sessions and performances.

February 24, 2008

Folksbiene: Yiddish Theatre on the Road, Philadelphia, PA, Feb 24, 2008

Folksbiene TroupeYIDDISH THEATRE ON THE ROAD
Di Folksbiene Trupe (The Troupe) hits the road with performances of "Makht a Tsimes!" A collection of new and classic Yiddish comedy routines and theatre songs performed by the young up and comers of the Yiddish stage.

February 24, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Congregation Rodeph Shalom
615 North Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19123
For information please call 215-627-6747 or visit www.folksbiene.org/troupe.htm

Performances are entirely in Yiddish with English translation supertites.

KlezKanada Winter Session, Montreal, Canada, Feb 22-24, 2008

KlezKanada logKlezKanada Winter Session

Winter Session Events
Workshops with our internationally acclaimed Faculty! February 22, 23 and 24, 2008. Small classes, private coaching

Held right in the heart of Montreal, our Winter Session will bring you 4 days of workshops, master classes, jam sessions, klezkabarets and world-class performances! Don't miss the chance to be a part of this amazing weekend! Please forward this email to anyone who you think might be interested!

Workshops include:
Frank's Ensemble,
Strings Masterclass with Deb and Cookie,
Yiddish Pronounciation for Singers with Michael,
If You Wanna Play Klezmer You Gotta Dance Klezmer
with Avia and Michael and a stellar dance band
Rhythm 101 with Thierry,
Makeover Masterclass with Josh and Cookie,
Songs of Reverence, Irreverence and Revolution with Michael, Nigunim with Frank, Jeff, Deb and more,
Ask Drs Klez with Josh, Cookie and others,
.....and more...!

Participants must register for workshops in advance.

PLUS... Jam Sessions, KlezKabarets and Concerts!
Snow Fiddler
DATE: February 21-24, 2008
TIME: Various
LOCATION: Montreal
MORE: $85 for the whole weekend or pay by the event.
Register Now

For more information, contact Avia Moore by email or by phone 514.993.2842.
www.klezkanada.com
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KlezKanada Lecture: Frank London, Montreal, Quebec, Feb 24, 2008

KlezKanada logoKlezKanada 2008 Lecture Series
Gelber Conference Centre, 2 Carré Cummings Square, Montreal, Quebec
February 24, 2008, 4 pm
Frank London
Topic TBA

Lloica Czakis Yiddish Tango, Geneva, Switzerland, Feb 24, 2008

Lloica CzakisTANGELE : La pulsation du tango yiddish

Lloïca Czakis: chant, Juan Lucas Aisemberg: violon, Ivo De Greef: piano.

Dimanche 24 février 2008 à la Cité Bleue, Genève
à 11h : Conférence - entrée libre

à 17h : Concert
tarifs: 30.- ; Tarif réduit (AVS; étudiants, etc): 20.-
Réduction supplémentaire de 10.- aux membres AMJ

Réservation: 022/344.64.09 ou email AMJ
informations: www.amj.ch et www.tangele.com

Pharaoh's Daughter, Cleveland, OH, Feb 24, 2008

band publicity photoPharaoh's Daughter
February 24, 2008
Cleveland, OH Time TBA - Siegel College

Workshop: Revival of Sephardic Music, Oakland, CA, Feb 24, 2008

Workshop on the Revival of Sephardic Music
Temple Sinai
2808 Summit Street, Oakland
Sunday, February 24 2:00-4:30
$12 members of JCC East Bay and Temple Sinai, $15 non-members
For info call 510.848.0237.

How do tradition and revival co-exist? Musical scholar Francesco Spagnolo traces the history of the revival of Sephardic music since the 19th century. Illustrated with musical demonstrations by duo Teslim (Kaila Flexer on violin and Gari Hegedus on oud and lauoto).

Afro-Semitic Experience, Hamden, CT, Feb 24, 2008

band photoThe Afro-Semitic Experience
Sunday, February 24, in concert, Thornton Wilder Hall, Miller Library, 2901 Dixwell Avenue, Hamden, Connecticut. For more information please call: 203-287-2546.

David Buchbinder, Toronto, Canada, Feb 24, 2008

David BuchbinderFebruary 24:
David Buchbinder
Monkey Toast,
Toronto

Come see David perform in a completely new setting, as the featured guest "interviewee" on this week's Monkey Toast, the happening monthly comedy/variety event created by David Shore. This month's unique and hilarious offering goes down tomorrow night at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 8pm. Pay What You Think!

For more info: www.monkeytoast.com

Eleanor Reissa, San Jose, CA, Feb 24, 2008

Eleanor Reissa. NY Times PhotoHOT, HIP AND HEYMISH
with the Queen of Yiddish Soul
Congregation Sinai presents
ELEANOR REISSA SINGS YIDDISH SOUL
Piano Accompaniment by GRANT STURIALE

DIRECT FROM A SOLD OUT RUN AT THE HOUSEMAN THEATRE IN NY!
Sunday, February 24th at 2:00 PM at Congregation Sinai, 1532 Willowbrae Avenue in San Jose

Tickets for 2pm Eleanor Reissa performance are $36. each, in support of her brother's San Jose shul. For reservations and more information, please contact the Sinai office (1532 Willowbrae Avenue, San Jose or 408-264-8542). CDs will be available for purchase at the concert as well. Reservations required by February 22nd.

Join Tony Award Nominee Eleanor Reissa for a celebration of the vitality of Yiddish music and humor. You don't need to understand Yiddish to appreciate the joy and warmth of this unique soulful language. The show seamlessly blends passionate folk songs, classics of the Second Avenue Theater, and stirring expressions of love, piousness, and protest.

Tickets are only $36.00 $25.00 for Seniors 65 and over $18.00 for Kids 18.00 and under $75.00 for Supporters (includes a CD and preferred seating) $500.00 for Patrons (includes a CD, preferred seating, and a party at the home of Maureen Ellenberg with a performance by Miss Reissa in a warm, intimate setting)

For reservations please call
(408) 264-8542

"A JOYOUS EXPERIENCE!" —Sheldon Harnick, lyricist of "Fiddler on The Roof"

"ELEANOR REISSA LIGHTS UP THE STAGE" —1010 WINS Radio

"A SMILE THAT RADIATES, AN EXPERT COMEDIENNE" —The New York Daily News

­Congregation Sinai, a Jewish synagogue located in the Willow Glen neighborhood, announced that Eleanor Reissa will bring her highly-praised Off-Broadway show, Hot, Hip, and Heymish directly from a sold-out run at the Houseman Theater in New York to Congregation Sinai on Sunday, February 24th at 2:00PM.

Eleanor Reissa is one of the world s most renowned interpreters of Yiddish music, as well as a Tony-nominated director, and award winning theatre artist. Born and bred in Brooklyn, Eleanor is a proud product of the New York City public school system. Eleanor s parents were Holocaust survivors, which accounts for Eleanor s fluency in Yiddish and love of Yiddishkeit.

Join Eleanor and her piano accompanist, Grant Sturiale, for a delightful afternoon celebrating gems of Yiddish music and humor. You don't need to understand Yiddish to appreciate the joys and warmth of this unique, soulful language. The program seamlessly blends passionate folk songs, classics of the Second Avenue Theatre, and touching expressions of love, piousness and protest. You'll laugh, cry and realize you understand more than you thought. Those who attended her previous concert here raved about her singing and comedy.

Steven Dick, current president of Congregation Sinai, who does not speak or understand Yiddish, said, "I had a wonderful time. The concert was filled with great music and a lot of funny moments. I highly recommend this concert to anyone regardless of their Yiddish background."

For concert admission fees, reservations and more information, please contact the Sinai office (1532 Willowbrae Avenue, San Jose or 408-264-8542). CDs will be available for purchase at the concert as well. Reservations required by February 22nd.

Folksbiene, "Makht a Tsimes!", Philadelphia, PA, Feb 24, 2008

The Folksbiene Troupe, "Makht a Tsimes!"
Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Congregation Rodeph Shalom
615 North Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19123

IN YIDDISH WITH ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN SUPERTITLES

For information please call 215-627-6747
Details: folksbiene.org/upcoming.html

Kabbalah, Paris, France, Feb 24, 2008

KabbalahKabbalah et toute l'équipe de la Meson vous présentent leurs meilleurs voeux pour cette année 2008…

Avant une série de dates parisiennes, Le groupe donne rendez vous au public marseillais ce week end :

Dimanche 24 Février à 21h – Kabbalah – Le Cannibale Café – Paris (11e)

Kabbalah propose un spectacle qui s’articule autour des nouvelles musiques juives et s’inspire de la tradition klezmer tout en intégrant des influences actuelles : rock , afro-américaine, orientale…

Depuis sa formation en 2004 à Marseille, les cinq membres de Kabbalah ont constitué un répertoire original qui sait mettre en valeur les orientations musicales et culturelles de chaque musicien (les échos des chants traditionnels hassidiques répondent aux spoken word et les climats obsessionnels évoquent la transe et le mysticisme) et leurs talents respectifs : une palette sonore d’une grande richesse musicale où la virtuosité est convoquée à chaque instant ; l’extraordinaire profusion d’instruments (saxophones, violon, contrebasse, xylophone, mandoluth, percussions…), de langues (anglais, yiddish, russe) chantées, parlées permet l’expression d’un style coloré propre à Kabbalah. Leur album « Shlomo » est une pure réussite et rarement métissage n’a été plus convaincant.

STEPHANE GALESKI – Chant, Guitare, Mandole, ULI WOLTERS - Spoken word, Saxophones et Percussions, ANNA STARTSEVA – Violon, Alto, chant, GERARD GATTO - Batterie, Percussions, Chœurs, PATRICK FERNE - Contrebasse, Chœurs

February 26, 2008

Pharaoh's Daughter, Vancouver, Canada, Feb 26, 2008

band publicity photoPharaoh's Daughter
February 26, 2008
Vancouver, CA 8pm at JCC Chutzpah Festival 950 West 41st Avenue
more info

Shtreiml, Boston, MA, Feb 26, 2008

shtreiml band photoShtreiml
Tuesday February 26, 2008 @ 9PM
The Beehive
541 Tremont St.
Boston, MA 02116
617-423-0069

"… the band burned the house down bouncing back and forth between traditional klezmer and some new prog-rock influenced jam band fusion. This is one of the really hot hot young bands—maybe the one stretching the envelope the most."Ari Davidow

February 27, 2008

Zhok Therapy, Lewiston, ME, Feb 27, 2008

Zhok Therapy in concert
Wednesday, Feb. 27, at the Lewiston, ME Public Library.
The free public event will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. in Callahan Hall on the library's third floor.

Zhok Therapy is the unruly alter-ego of Maine's well-known klezmer band, the Casco Bay Tummlers. Zhok Therapy still has one toe in the klezmer tradition, but has expanded their repertoire to include Greek, Balkan, and Middle Eastern music. Adding further influences from jazz and blues, their deep grooves and improvisations are both innovative and well rooted in a rich and varied ethnicity. "Zhok Therapy will remedy whatever ails with their cross pollinations." The band will be joined by special guest Mark Tipton, on trumpet, for these two performances. Tipton is an immensely gifted improvisor and composer who has recently returned to Maine after a number of years in New York City. The other band members are: Carl Dimow, flutes and guitars, Steve Gruverman, clarinets and saxophone, Julie Goell, bass and vocals, Hayes Porterfield, percussion.
(A zhok, by the way, is a type of Jewish and Middle Eastern rhythm.)

Kabbalah, Paris, France, Feb 27, 2008

KabbalahKabbalah et toute l'équipe de la Meson vous présentent leurs meilleurs voeux pour cette année 2008…

Avant une série de dates parisiennes, Le groupe donne rendez vous au public marseillais ce week end :

Mercredi 27 Février à 21h – Kabbalah – Les 3 Arts – Paris (20e)

Kabbalah propose un spectacle qui s’articule autour des nouvelles musiques juives et s’inspire de la tradition klezmer tout en intégrant des influences actuelles : rock , afro-américaine, orientale…

Depuis sa formation en 2004 à Marseille, les cinq membres de Kabbalah ont constitué un répertoire original qui sait mettre en valeur les orientations musicales et culturelles de chaque musicien (les échos des chants traditionnels hassidiques répondent aux spoken word et les climats obsessionnels évoquent la transe et le mysticisme) et leurs talents respectifs : une palette sonore d’une grande richesse musicale où la virtuosité est convoquée à chaque instant ; l’extraordinaire profusion d’instruments (saxophones, violon, contrebasse, xylophone, mandoluth, percussions…), de langues (anglais, yiddish, russe) chantées, parlées permet l’expression d’un style coloré propre à Kabbalah. Leur album « Shlomo » est une pure réussite et rarement métissage n’a été plus convaincant.

STEPHANE GALESKI – Chant, Guitare, Mandole, ULI WOLTERS - Spoken word, Saxophones et Percussions, ANNA STARTSEVA – Violon, Alto, chant, GERARD GATTO - Batterie, Percussions, Chœurs, PATRICK FERNE - Contrebasse, Chœurs

February 28, 2008

Bang on a Can All-Stars, Baton Rouge, LA, Feb 28, 2008

Bang on a Can All-StarsBang on a Can All-Stars on Tour
February 28 - LSU Union Theater, Baton Rouge, LA, 6-11PM
BANG ON A CAN MARATHON with Iva Bittová and Don Byron
Buy Tickets Here

Kane Street Klezmer Band, Brooklyn, NY, Feb 28, 2008

Kane Street Klezmer Band—Every Thursday Night in February (Feb 7, 14, 21, 28) 7:30-9:00, at the Synagogue.

The Kane Street Synagogue is located at 236 Kane Street off of Court Street, the nearest subway stop is the Bergen Street station on the F train. It's not a bad walk along Court Street from the 2,3,4,5 lines station at Court St/Borough Hall which are the first (4,5 lines) or second (2,3 lines) stop in Brooklyn.

Kane Street Musical Director Joey Weisenberg will be directing a klezmer ensemble of Kane Street members and friends, on Thursday nights in February, 7:30-9:00. He will teach traditional klezmer melodies, and demonstrate how to make them come alive in an instrumental ensemble. This ensemble is open to all instrumentalists. Please email Joey with questions.

Joey Weisenberg is a mandolinist and guitarist. At age twelve, Joey began performing as a harmonica player and guitarist in blues bars in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He currently performs with bands including Romashka, Zagnut Circus Orchestra, The Marija Krupoves Trio, Ansamble Mastika, The Amazing Frosen String Quartet, Michael Winograd's Klezmer Outfit, and as a leader of his own ensembles. Joey has also accompanied established artists such as Neshama Carlebach, Debbie Friedman, and Henry Sapoznik. As a teacher, Joey leads his "Spontaneous Jewish Choir" workshops, and teaches for institutions including Klez Kanada and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

David Buchbinder, Toronto, Canada, Feb 28, 2008

David BuchbinderDavid Buchbinder
February 28
Olivia's at 53
53 Clinton St., Toronto

416-533-3989
www.oliviasat53.com

Tim Sparks workshop+performance, Lexington, MA, Feb 28, 2008

Tim SparksTim Sparks
Feb 28, 2008
Workshop: 6:00-7:30pm
Cost: $30 and includes admission to the following concert. Space is limited so signing up in advance is encouraged.

Concert: 8:00pm
The Music Emporium
165 Mass Avenue
Lexington, Massachusetts
www.themusicemporium.com

The Music Emporium & Collings guitars are thrilled to offer a workshop and concert by the extraordinary guitarist Tim Sparks on Thursday February the 28th. Tim Sparks won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championships in 1993 and has since gone on to tour the globe and record an amazing body of work. He has shared cd space with some of the most respected guitarists working today, such as Marc Ribot and Bill Frisell. Most notably, Tim has carved out a unique niche for himself by reinterpreting Jewish music for solo guitar and chamber ensembles on John Zorn’s Tzadik label. Tim’s compositions are unlike anything else in the guitar repertoire and are fascinating examples of the limitless possibilities of the instrument. Darkly romantic and technically brilliant, his songs are models of gifted arrangement and inspired improvisation.

Both the workshop and the concert will be an opportunity to revel in Tim’s vast musical vocabulary. During the workshop, he will explore and teach two compositions, one focusing on the Jewish and Balkan influences in his music, and one drawing on roots music. This is also a time to get Tim’s advice on any musical questions you may have regarding arranging, improvising, or performing.

For more than a few years now Tim's main guitar has been a Collings OM1 with a cedar top and mahogany back and sides. The concert is a chance to hear an exceptional musician take full advantage of the range of his Collings, as Tim performs music in the aforementioned genres and treats us to new unrecorded pieces. This is a once in a blue moon event and a fantastic opportunity for local guitarists. Don’t just take our word for it. Leo Kottke had the following to say about Tim Sparks, “I'm Tim Sparks' biggest fan. His stuff is very difficult to play but it doesn't sound difficult. I think that's real musicianship. He's really one of the best musicians I know.” Bill Frisell said of Spark’s album Neshamah, “Tim Sparks is incredible, a complete original. Every guitarist on the planet has got to hear this.”

Kabbalah, Paris, France, Feb 28, 2008

KabbalahKabbalah et toute l'équipe de la Meson vous présentent leurs meilleurs voeux pour cette année 2008…

Avant une série de dates parisiennes, Le groupe donne rendez vous au public marseillais ce week end :

Jeudi 28 Février à 21h – Kabbalah – Le Café des sports – Paris (20e)

Kabbalah propose un spectacle qui s’articule autour des nouvelles musiques juives et s’inspire de la tradition klezmer tout en intégrant des influences actuelles : rock , afro-américaine, orientale…

Depuis sa formation en 2004 à Marseille, les cinq membres de Kabbalah ont constitué un répertoire original qui sait mettre en valeur les orientations musicales et culturelles de chaque musicien (les échos des chants traditionnels hassidiques répondent aux spoken word et les climats obsessionnels évoquent la transe et le mysticisme) et leurs talents respectifs : une palette sonore d’une grande richesse musicale où la virtuosité est convoquée à chaque instant ; l’extraordinaire profusion d’instruments (saxophones, violon, contrebasse, xylophone, mandoluth, percussions…), de langues (anglais, yiddish, russe) chantées, parlées permet l’expression d’un style coloré propre à Kabbalah. Leur album « Shlomo » est une pure réussite et rarement métissage n’a été plus convaincant.

STEPHANE GALESKI – Chant, Guitare, Mandole, ULI WOLTERS - Spoken word, Saxophones et Percussions, ANNA STARTSEVA – Violon, Alto, chant, GERARD GATTO - Batterie, Percussions, Chœurs, PATRICK FERNE - Contrebasse, Chœurs

Shtreiml, Arlington, VA, Feb 28, 2008

shtreiml band photoShtreiml
Thursday February 28, 2008 @9PM
Iota Club and Cafe
2832 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA
703-522-8340
$12

"… the band burned the house down bouncing back and forth between traditional klezmer and some new prog-rock influenced jam band fusion. This is one of the really hot hot young bands—maybe the one stretching the envelope the most."Ari Davidow

Bookniks Cabaret, London, UK, Feb 28, 2008

Thursday 28 Feb 9:30pm
Bookniks Cabaret
Laoise Davidson will be hosting an evening of stories, music and laughs "an eclectic fusion of music and spoken word with a dose of Yiddish Swing" featuring:
Ellaya Ayal Mor - storyteller
Lana Citron - writer/stand up comedian
Rudolph Delson - novelist
Eva Salzman - poet
Rachel Rose Reid - Storyteller
Adam Taylor - poet
(£5)

February 29, 2008

Tim Sparks, Brooklyn, NY, Feb 29, 2008

Tim SparksTim Sparks

02/29/2008 09:00 PM - Rose Live Music
345 Grand Street, Williamsburg
Brooklyn, New York
www.liveatrose.com/live/

Tim Sparks will bring his gumbo of world/jazz/klezmer guitar to Rose Music for a intimate set on Friday, February 29 at 9:00. Known for his celebrated recordings on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records, Sparks is a virtuoso who references everything from Delta Blues to Eastern European Horas to Postmodern Jazz. "This is totally beautiful and inspiring music, warm and soulful, rich with melody, harmony and rhythm. Every guitarist on the planet has got to hear this. Tim Sparks is incredible, a complete original." —Bill Frisell

Zoyres + Fishtank Ensemble, San Francisco, CA, Feb 29, 2008

band photoZoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment

Friday February 29th 9pm
at Amnesia with Fishtank Ensemble (great Roma style fusion music)
853 Valencia St.
Between 19th & 20th
San Francisco
$8

Polina Shepherd w/Ashkenazim, Cologne, Germany, Feb 29, 2008

AshkenazimConcert in Cologne 29 February 18.00
WDR 3 Funkhaus-Konzerte

"Baym taykh" - Sehnsucht am Wasser, Königskinder—und Undine-Motiv, trennende Weite und lockende Tiefe—bei ihren lyrischen Annäherungen an Themen jüdischer Tradition und Identität heute schaffen Polina Shepherd und ihr Quartet Ashkenazim aus moderner jiddischer Poesie und eigenen Vokalimprovisationen ein ganz neues Genre von britischen New Yiddish Songs. Polina Shepherd (Gesang, Klavier), Yana Ovrutskaya (Gersang), Evgenya Slavina (Gesang) und Merlin Shepherd (Gesang, Klarinette, Saxophon) wurden in ihrem Kölner Konzert begleitet von Simon Russell (Bass).

Der Eintritt beträgt fünf bis zwölf Euro. Karten gibt es an der Abendkasse und über KölnMusik Ticket.
www.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/specials_detail.phtml?folgenid=348302