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Wednesday 1 October 2008, 1 - 1.30 pm
FDT Klezmorim at 'Across the Street, Around the World', Kensington
Kensington Central Library, Phillimore Walk, W8 7RX
A lunchtime set with the band playing trad klezmer – old and new.
Ilana Cravitz (violin), Susi Evans (clarinet), Jim Marcovitch (accordion), Guy Schalom (drums), Paul Tkachenko (bass), Matt Bacon (guitar).
Free open-air event.
Thursday 2 October 2008
1 - 2 pm
FDT Klezmorim at Queen Mary, University of London
The Curve, Queen Mary, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
If you missed us in west London on Wednesday, catch us in the east the next day! The UK klezmer super-band plays a lunchtime set.
Ilana Cravitz (violin), Susi Evans (clarinet), Jim Marcovitch (accordion), Guy Schalom (drums), Paul Tkachenko (bass), Matt Bacon (guitar).
Free open-air event.
The next Kavehoyz of the Congress for Jewish Culture will feature new Yiddish songs by NEA winner of the National Heritage Award, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman performed by Adrienne Cooper, Paula Teitelbaum and Hy Wolfe.
On guitar: Avi Fox-Rosen.
Thursday, Oct. 2, 7PM admission $8.00 includes tea/coffee and pastry.
This event is cosponsored by National Yiddish Book Center.
25 E. 21st street NYC
between Park and Broadway
info: 212-505-8040
Leon Gurvitch Jazz-Project feat. Frank London (USA)
at JazzTage Hamburg 2008
Thursday, October 02, 2008, 20:00
FABRIK, Barnerstr. 36, 22765 Hamburg
www.jazztage-hamburg.de
Ticket hotline: 0049(0)40-391070
"Leon Gurvitch presented with his colleagues modern jazz sounds mixed with old klezmer elements. The arranger made traditional Jewish folk music merge with modern rhythms. … And the audience seemed to be fascinated by the youngmusicians who performed on stage with a lot of charm and humour" —Westdeutsche Zeitung
The pianist, composer, arranger and author of more than 300 compositions Leon Gurvitch lives in Hamburg. The musician together with his LEON GURVITCH Jazz-Project founded in 2000 has lately become prominent on the German as well as the European jazz & klezmer scene. The band has featured at such festivals as for example "Hamburger JazzTage" (NDR), "Eigenarten" and "Summer Jazz", "Jugend Kulturell" (NDR and Hypovereinsbank), festival of Jewish culture in Rheinland and International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam, festival of Belarusian culture (Breslau, Poland) and festival of Dialogue of four cultures (Lodz, Poland), festival Leverkusener Jazztage and International
Yuri-Bashmet-Festival in Dortmund. The five outstanding musicians of the ensemble come from five different nations with Leon Gurvitch (Belarus) on piano; Inna Vysotska (Ukraine) vocal; Vladimir Karparov (Bulgaria) on saxophone/clarinet; Omar Rodriguez Calvo (Cuba) on contrabass; and Dimitris Christides (Greece) on drums.
A new version of Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi, for string
quartet, has been commissioned by the Cassatt Quartet. It will
be premiered by them on 10/2/08 at 8:00 p.m. at the Thalia
Theatre of Symphony Space (Broadway and 9th St), in New York
City. For more information visit www.cassattquartet.com.
And for more information on the composer, who frequently
composes on Jewish topics, visit www.judithshatin.com.
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Zunächst geht es nochmals ins Ausland. Im Rahmen des Festivals son del aire sind wir am 2. Oktober in Valladolid, am 3. Oktober in Burgos und am 4. Oktober in Zamora zu hören. Beginn ist jeweils um 20.30 h.
sondelaire.blogspot.com
Jerusalem Salon
Canwest Cabaret Festival 2008, Toronto, Canada, Oct 2-3, 2008
David Buchbinder has been invited by Soulpepper chief Albert Schultz to curate the "Jerusalem Salon" at the inaugural Canwest Cabaret Festival on Oct. 2nd and 3rd, at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. Excited by the opportunity, he is developing a cabaret that will connect with the idea of Jerusalem as much as with songs from and about the city considered by so many to be holy. Joining him in this sidelong look at Jerusalem are some of the city's finest and freshest performers, including his wife, Arabic dancer and musician Roula Said.
The festival features Canada's most dynamic and exciting performers as they come together for a weekend-long cabaret festival bursting with song, story and ideas. Rediscover the 20th century songbook in playful and passionate interpretations from some of the country's most beloved artists. Get up close and personal with these extraordinary artists in the sublime and elegant setting of the Young Centre – an event not to be missed.
Thursday, Oct. 2nd, 8:45 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 3rd, 8:30 p.m.
Performers:
David Buchbinder - Trumpet & Fluegelhorn
Fern Lindzon - Vocals and Fender Rhodes
Kieran Overs - Bass
Dave Restivo - Piano
Roula Said - Vocals, Qanun, Dance
Sanda Weigl, Romanian Gypsy Jazz Singer and her Trio/Gypsy In A Tree
Potent Contemporary interpretations of Gypsy music.
SANDA WEIGL, Vocals
Shoko Nagai - Piano, Accordion, Arrangements
Stomu Takeishi - Bass
Satoshi Takeishi - Percussion
Oct. 3, 7:30 PM
Joe's Pub, NYC
425 Lafayette Street (between East 4th and Astor Place)
Tickets: $15
Phone 212.967.7555 / Tickets and Table Reservations: 212/539-8778
Tickets online: www.joespub.com
Romanian-born singer, Sanda Weigl (vye-gul), internationally celebrated for her potent, contemporary interpretation of Romanian gypsy music, will embark on her first U.S. tour this fall, presented by the Romanian Cultural Institute. Sanda, with her jazz trio, will perform the music she learned on the streets of Bucharest as a child. The first concert is scheduled at MIT's Wong Auditorium/Tang Center (Cambridge, MA) on October 14, 2008, and is organized in collaboration with the Romanian Student Association at MIT. Other stops are Chicago's Morse Theatre, and The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her ensemble at MIT will include Shoko Nagai - Piano, Accordion, Arrangements; Stomu Takeishi - Bass; and Satoshi Takeishi - Percussion.
Presented by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
www.icrny.org
Zunächst geht es nochmals ins Ausland. Im Rahmen des Festivals son del aire sind wir am 2. Oktober in Valladolid, am 3. Oktober in Burgos und am 4. Oktober in Zamora zu hören. Beginn ist jeweils um 20.30 h.
sondelaire.blogspot.com
Jerusalem Salon
Canwest Cabaret Festival 2008, Toronto, Canada, Oct 2-3, 2008
David Buchbinder has been invited by Soulpepper chief Albert Schultz to curate the "Jerusalem Salon" at the inaugural Canwest Cabaret Festival on Oct. 2nd and 3rd, at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. Excited by the opportunity, he is developing a cabaret that will connect with the idea of Jerusalem as much as with songs from and about the city considered by so many to be holy. Joining him in this sidelong look at Jerusalem are some of the city's finest and freshest performers, including his wife, Arabic dancer and musician Roula Said.
The festival features Canada's most dynamic and exciting performers as they come together for a weekend-long cabaret festival bursting with song, story and ideas. Rediscover the 20th century songbook in playful and passionate interpretations from some of the country's most beloved artists. Get up close and personal with these extraordinary artists in the sublime and elegant setting of the Young Centre – an event not to be missed.
Thursday, Oct. 2nd, 8:45 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 3rd, 8:30 p.m.
Performers:
David Buchbinder - Trumpet & Fluegelhorn
Fern Lindzon - Vocals and Fender Rhodes
Kieran Overs - Bass
Dave Restivo - Piano
Roula Said - Vocals, Qanun, Dance
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Inaugural Celebration
October 4-5(rain-date), 2008
New Center is Coming Together 12-4pm
On October 4th, 2008 the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy will celebrate the official inauguration of the Greenway parks in Boston with free live concerts, classes, rides, and food from all around the world.Once a highway and now a series of parklands throughout the downtown core, the Greenway will host this once-in-a-lifetime opening featuring local and international artists, highlighting Boston's rich cultural heritage and celebrating a vision of city life & sustainability completed. The New Center for Arts and Culture will present New Center is Coming Together-an exciting program with performances by David Buchbinder's Odessa/Havana and Brian Bender & Little Shop of Horas. To be held on a stage across from the Boston Harbor Hotel, these diverse and dynamic performers will entertain with a range of musical styles—appealing to audiences of all ages and backgrounds. This will be a lively and fun program that will entertain, delight, and educate. For more information, please visit the New Center for Arts and Culture website at www.ncacboston.org.
Oct. 4: Veretski Pass at the Greater Middletown Concert Association, 7:30pm
Middletown High School's auditorium, 370 Hunting Hill Ave, Middletown, CT
For tickets (860) 347-4887 or 346-3369
Sat. Oct 4 and Sun. Oct. 5, time TBA.
Middfest International,
Middletown, Ohio.
www.middfestinternational.org
Zunächst geht es nochmals ins Ausland. Im Rahmen des Festivals son del aire sind wir am 2. Oktober in Valladolid, am 3. Oktober in Burgos und am 4. Oktober in Zamora zu hören. Beginn ist jeweils um 20.30 h.
sondelaire.blogspot.com
KlezFactor is pleased to announce the release of their second CD, Klezmachine! We are celebrating with a CD release party on Saturday, October 4 at 9pm at the Concord Cafe (937 Bloor St. W.) in Toronto. Not only will KlezFactor be rocking the place, but we'll have special guests The River Pilots opening for us!
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen's Circle present …
Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)-Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC with master dance leader Zev Feldman!
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.
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 Zev Feldman. Live music will be provided by some of New York's leading klezmer musicians: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl / hammered dulcimer). Beginners welcome!
Admission: $10 ($8 for JCC and Workmen's Circle Members). Pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659
And save the date for another upcoming Tantshoyz::
Sunday, November 16th, 7-10PM at the JCC.
A Yiddish Dance master class program will be happening at the 92 St. Y featuring Zev Feldman. The first meeting will be on Sunday, October 26 from 2PM- 5PM. For more information and to register go to the 92 St. Y website. Admission is $25.
Additionally a new international group, the Yiddish Dance Action Network has formed to help research and promote Yiddish Dance around the world. For more information contact Pete Rushefsky at 917-326-9659.
Also… if you have old family videos with footage of 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 Atran Foundation, the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Peter Rushefsky, Executive Director Center for Traditional Music and Dance
The October Workmen's Circle klezmer jam is Sunday, Oct. 5 , 7-9 pm at the Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon Street in Brookline, about 5 blocks west of Washington Square, which is about 12 blocks west of Coolidge Corner, right on the Green Line Beacon Street route. We play from printed music, which we will have available in C and B-flat. All levels of players are welcome. There is a piano, though keyboard players are urged to bring a portable keyboard.
Hello friends,
With great excitement, I wish to invite you to the first concert of my new original songs.
The songs are all set to texts by Israeli poet Leah Goldberg. They are written in styles ranging from jazz and Israeli light music, to art-song, bossa nova and klezmer.
With me will be performing Tal Gamlieli on double-bass, Jared Burrell on trumpet and Tyson Stubelek on drums.
For those of you who need a sample of what we're playing, you're welcome to visit my myspace page at www.myspace.com/osnatnetzer
The concert will take place on October 5th, 7:00pm at the Lily Pad, Inman square, 1353 Cambridge st., Cambridge MA.
Suggested donation is $10.
Under the same cover, you can listen to an amazing jazz trio right after us, at 8:30. The trio includes Tal Gamlieli on double-bass, Michel Reis on piano and Mike Gleichman on drums. They will play original music by Michel Reis and Tal Gamlieli. Their style is jazz, influenced by classical music, with rhythms from South America and the Middle East. don't miss it!
Please join us, and invite all of your friends as well.
"Degenerate Music": The Music of Weimar Berlin
JCC East Bay
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
Sunday October 5, 7:30pm
$15 members/seniors/students, $20 general
The music of Kurt Weill, Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler showcases the freedom and brilliant experimentation that masked the sense of impending doom in Weimar Berlin. Denounced by Hitler as "degenerate" and forced into exile, such artists helped to bring Weimar modernity to the rest of the world. Includes vintage film footage and images.
Presented in association with The Goethe-Institut San Francisco and The Mendocino Music Festival
For tickets: 1.800.838.3006 or jewishmusicfestival.org
Sat. Oct 4 and Sun. Oct. 5, time TBA.
Middfest International,
Middletown, Ohio.
www.middfestinternational.org
Tuesday 7 October 2008
7 - 9 pm
Klezmer class at SOAS, University of London
Room G3, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street London, WC1H 0XG
Weekly class begins. Come and learn about a the klezmer tradition, including tunes, dances, accompaniment styles, and history. A weekly course (half-term break on 4 November). For details contact the Jewish Music Institute.
@ Banjo Jims in NYC, Tuesday 10/7
700 East 9th Street, New York, NY 10009 (9th St & Ave. C)
www.banjojims.com/index2.htm
9pm: Frank London
10pm: Kleztraphobix
11pm: Michael Winograd's Infection
12: Jake Shulman-Ment
Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys
"2nd Ave Square Dance" CD release concert set for October 7th at DROM, 8pm
Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and banjoist Tony Trischka join klezmer-bluegrass masters;
Drom
85 Avenue A (between 5th & 6th streets)
New York City - (212) 777-1157
In their new CD 2nd Avenue Square Dance, clarinetist Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys expand their repertoire beyond bluegrass and klezmer taking on rock, jazz, and American and Latin folk music. Leverett, whose work with the seminal group the Klezmatics earned her title as the founding mother of klezmer's new wave, fronts a group whose projects have ranged from guest spots with the Philadelphia Orchestra to creating music for the Paul Taylor Dance Company work Klezmerbluegrass. The Washington Post explains the group's unique merger of Appalachia and Eastern Europe: "The mosaic is there all at once—the swooping, supple notes of the clarinet, the wailing violin, the loping guitar that quickens the pace, joined by the bright, lift-you-out-of-your-seat fiddling." 2nd Ave Square Dance puts Leverett's hard-kicking New York mix of Jewish and bluegrass traditions into a truly American melting pot of sounds.
While continuing their unique, hybrid interpretations of standards made famous by legends like bluegrass great Bill Monroe and klezmer king Dave Tarras, 2nd Avenue Square Dance features guest appearances by electric guitarist, Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna fame, legendary folk singer Hazel Dickens, banjo virtuoso Tony Trischka and a host of musical friends from around the world, including Darol Anger, David Grier, Mike Marshall, David Licht, Hankus Netsky, Carlos Oliviera, Dudley Connell, Ronnie Simpkins, and Bobby Shankin.
Jorma Kaukonen plays regularly with Klezmer Mountain mandolinist, Barry Mitterhoff in their trio Hot Tuna. Jorma was particularly intrigued by the group since he has Jewish ancestry on his mother's side which he had, until now, gone musically unexplored. Working with Leverett, Kaukonen studied the ornamentations and melodies of Euopean and Russian klezmer traditions. He combined those with his own rock sensibilities for this recording and the resulting triple-header includes a doina (improvisation traditionally played at a Jewish wedding) renamed "Electric Kugel," (track 3) a traditional bulgar (festive dance) called "2nd Ave. Sq. Dance," (track 4) and "Tumbalalika," a track showcasing Kaukonen's acoustic guitar.
America's banjo virtuoso, Tony Trischka has appeared with virtually every bluegrass musician of note. He is a staple of American folk radio, with a long affiliation with Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, as well as other public radio and TV programs including Mountain Stage and From Our Front Porch. His Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular featured Earl Scruggs, Bela Fleck and even the multi-talented Steve Martin and garnered him three nominations at the International Bluegrass Music Awards; for Album of the Year, Recorded Event of the Year and Banjo Player of the Year. He graces Second Avenue Squaredance with stunning banjo solos including "Bill Monroe's Stoney Lonesome" & "Tex Logan's Come Along Jody".
Hazel Dickens, one of America's foremost bluegrass singers, finally came to national attention when she was featured in the documentary "Harlan County USA". Born in 1935 in West Virginia, she is long known for her pro-union, feminist songs. One of the few women band leaders in bluegrass, she has recorded two noteworthy albums on the Folkways label. She performs the only vocal song on 2nd Avenue Square Dance, bringing her raw folk style to the religious ballad "Little Moses," a song made famous by the Carter family in the 1920's.
PRESS QUOTES:
"Imagine a shotgun marriage between the music from 'O Brother Where Art Thou' and that band from your cousin's wedding and that will only begin to describe the Klezmer Mountain Boys." —The Blueprint
"Something new and wonderful emerging from mixed traditions" —Washington Post
"American Jews have been making great bluegrass music for more than 40 years, and fiddler Kenny Kosek and guitarist Barry Mitterhoff are among the genre's leading lights." —Boston Herald
"The musicians blend classic bluegrass with what could be called classic klezmer by whipsawing from one to the other in a single song—.[they] even received a standing ovation in Kentucky, the mothership of bluegrass." —The Forward
October 11th- Bucharest, Romania
Papa Soare str. 23
Sarah Aroeste is hitting the Balkans to spread some Ladino music! Joined by local dancers and storytellers, Sarah will be performing in community centers across the Balkans starting this week! If you are in any of the following cities, or know people who are, please spread the word. All shows are free!
All programs are sponsored by the JDC Europe and the Gesher Project.
The Grammy Award-winning The Klezmatics
Saturday, October 11, 2008, 8:00 PM
Appel Farm Arts and Music Center
Elmer, NJ
Tickets: $27.50
Tel: 800 394-1211
www.appelfarm.org
The vitality and joy of the Klezmatics music has brought audiences across the world to their feet. They are renowned for re-inventing traditional klezmer music, fusing traditional Eastern European sounds with edgy jazz arrangements in boundary-defying performances.
Wonder Wheel: Lyrics By Woody Guthrie received the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album. Pre-show conversation with Klezmatics available ($10) and a wine-tasting dinner package ($45 include ticket to show).
Sunday 12 October 2008, 11.45am - 1pm
Klezmer Workshop
London Klezmer Session
1 - 4pm
The Cross Kings, 126 York Way, N1
London klezmer session every second Sunday of the month. Bring an instrument and a tune, or just come to shmooze & booze. Info and tunes. Next date: Sunday 9 November.
Public launch of Ilana's new book "Klezmer Fiddle—a how-to guide", and an opportunity to purchase (signed?!) copies.
Workshop £5; Jam £1.
Sunday, October 12th, 2008 - 1:30pm
Calling all Litvaks!
Dr. Dmitri Slepovitch,
ethnomusicologist, folklorist and klezmer formerly of Minsk, Belarus, will lecture in Yiddish on the topic:
"Yiddish music in Belarus".
Based on extensive fieldwork of him and
Prof. Nina Stepanskaya z''l.
He will also show clips of video interviews and play samples of his findings as well.
Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center
3301 Bainbridge Avenue, corner 208th St.
(near Montefiore Hospital), Bronx, NY
$ 3.50 Refreshments served.
INFORMATION: +1 917 930-0295
On Sunday October 12, 2008 at 2 PM the Yiddish Culture Club will present the opening of our Yiddish cultural season. The topic of the event will be "Yiddish Folk Songs in Word and Sound". Participants in the program will be Ms. Fan Magid Shalin, Cantor of the Temple Beth Chaim Chadashim, and Mrs. Lilke Majzner.
The event will take place at The Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club located at 8339 W. 3rd St. Los Angeles CA. 90048.
Refreshments will be served.
Members free. Guests $4.
Please join The Klez Dispensers as we celebrate our 10 year anniversary with a concert, dance party, and the release of our brand new CD!
Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008
Time: 3:00pm
Place: Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33rd Street, New York, NY
Tickets: $10 at the door, or reserve in advance by calling (212) 889-6800 ext. 271
About the album, "Say You'll Understand" : This eight-piece big band of young jazz and klezmer hotshots dispenses virtuosic musicianship and lush, swinging arrangements of mid-20th century klezmer and Yiddish classics, featuring vocals by Susan Watts, as well as their own stirring original compositions. While powerfully evoking the golden age of American-Yiddish swing, the group simultaneously blazes new trails in contemporary klezmer-jazz crossover. There is something for everyone to enjoy!
Kids and Family Rock Concert!
"Rockin' The World 2008" Benefit Concert, a community event for kids of Metrowest to reach out to kids of Kibbutz Erez—featuring a performance by The Mama Doni Band.
Held on October 12th at 3:00PM at Bnai Shalom Synagogue in West Orange, NJ. Purchase Tickets at www.jewishtickets.com
Further info: Child's Way Jewish Montessori
718-813-7170
Montclair, NJ
October 12th- Sofia, Bulgaria
50 Alexander Stamboliiski blvd
Sarah Aroeste is hitting the Balkans to spread some Ladino music! Joined by local dancers and storytellers, Sarah will be performing in community centers across the Balkans starting this week! If you are in any of the following cities, or know people who are, please spread the word. All shows are free!
All programs are sponsored by the JDC Europe and the Gesher Project.
Austin Klezmorim
Festival @ Round-Top, TX
Sunday October 12, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Concert tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students and children. They can be reserved by phone (979-249-3129) or online until Friday October 10, 2008 or purchased at the door one hour prior to the performance. Personal checks, cash and Visa/MC are accepted.
Further info: Festival Institute in Round Top, TX
The Grammy Award-winning The Klezmatics
10/12/2008
Tarrytown Music Hall
Tarrytown, NY
(914) 631-3390
www.tarrytownmusichall.org
Pharaoh's Daughter stripped down, with Chana Rothman opening
Sunday, October 12th 8p.m. $18
A fall show on Sunday night at the lovely, intimate, great food venue:
Club Helsinki in Great Barrington.
CLUB HELSINKI
20 Railroad Street
Great Barrington, MA
So those, with summer/fall homes in tanglewood, Great Barrington, Connecticut, or enroute to sukkahfest, or in MA for Columbus day wekeend, or who just want to take a 3 hours drive to see the leaves change, would love to see you!
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., September 29th, 2008) -- Pharaoh's Daughter and Chana Rothman, two of the most creative and innovative artists in contemporary Jewish music perform at Club Helsinki on Sunday, October 12, at 8, joining forces for a night of spiritual rock and world music to celebrate the upcoming Sukkot Holiday.
Basya Schecter's band Pharaoh's Daughter blends a psychedelic sensibility and a pan-Mediterranean sensuality. Schechter leads her band through swirling Hasidic chants, Mizrachi and Sephardi folk-rock and spiritual stylings filtered through percussion, flute, strings and electronica. Her sound has been cultivated by her Hasidic music background and a series of trips to the Middle East, Africa, Israel, Egypt, Central Africa, Turkey, Kurdistan and Greece.
Chana Rothman's bilingual, bohemian tunes, born of her native Canada, Himalayan trekking, adventures in Israel, and the New York City subways, have earned a growing pile of accolades. New York Times called her recent River-to-River Festival concert "worth checking out" and The Jewish Week gave her debut cd, We Can Rise (Oyhoo Records), four stars. Popsyndicate.com calls her music "Bob Marley meets Edie Brickell,"
Basya Schecter and Chana Rothman Will appear at Club Helsinki on Sunday, October 12 at 8. Tickets are $18 and are available at the club (284 Main Street, Great Barrington), by calling (413) 528 - 3394 or online at www.clubhelsinkiweb.com.
"Fall brings one of my favorite harvest holidays: Sukkot," says Chana Rothman, a roots-reggae-inspired singer/songwriter whom popsyndicate calls 'Bob Marley meets Edie Brickell.'
"Sukkot is the ultimate chill-out holiday," Rothman continues, "it's a seven-day festival where we're basically supposed to sit, eat, sleep, sing, and congregate in little huts – you know, get back to basics. You need to be able to see the stars through the roof of the hut. I absolutely love being in the Berkshires for this holiday. It's the best."
Sukkot has also become an ingathering of sorts, according to Rothman. Connecticut's Falls Village, home to eco-retreat centers Isabella Freedman and Elat Chayyim, yields a crop of revelers who plan to take a break from their organic farming and environmental educating to caravan to the Sunday October 12 show. "It's a perfect way to kick off the holiday," raves one eco-farm dweller, "two of my favorite NYC bands, up here. Awesome." Rothman and Schechter, each bringing a scaled-down acoustic version of their bands, are thrilled to mark this holiday with a special intimate show
Rothman and Schecter's Pharaoh's Daughter, whose combined accolades range from NPR to National Geographic to jewschool.com to the New York Times, team up together with the shared goal of providing a range of spiritual rock, acoustic reggae, spoken word, and global consciousness. "Let's kick it off right," they agree, "and maybe this year we'll really get back to our roots."
Just to let the on-line klezmer world know about a klezmer orchestra I am busy forming in the London UK area.
The rehearsals for the orchestra will begin on Monday 13th of October at:-
The Inn on the Green
3/5 Thorpe Close
Ladbroke Grove
London W10 5XL
Website for more info on the location: www.iotg.co.uk
The rehearsals will be every 3 weeks from 19.30-21.30 on 13th Oct.; 3rd Nov.; 24th Nov.; 15th Nov.; & led by the the very wonderful Ilana Cravitz. We want musicians, singers & dancers..!
Do let the klezmer world know abou this special shtik!!
for more info contact E-mail William Millis
Paradox Trio Trio!
Monday, Oct 13th
Barbes (6th ave @ 9th st BROOKLYN)
7pm (one set)
Matt Darriau - reeds+
Seido Salifoski - percussion +
Greeg Heffernan - cello +
Original music inspired by Eastern European, Balkan, Gypsy and downtown traditions. The group features Matt Darriau on two Bulgarian instruments, the Kaval (an end-blown flute, similar to the Arabic ney) and the Gaida (bagpipe) as well as saxes and clarinets. He is joined by Brad Shepik on guitars, Rufus Cappadocia on cello and Seido Salifoski on dumbek.
Sanda Weigl, Romanian Gypsy Jazz Singer and her Trio/Gypsy In A Tree
Potent Contemporary interpretations of Gypsy music.
SANDA WEIGL, Vocals
Shoko Nagai - Piano, Accordion, Arrangements
Stomu Takeishi - Bass
Satoshi Takeishi - Percussion
Oct 14, 8:00pm
MIT, Cambridge MA, WONG AUDITORIUM, MIT Tang Center
70 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
Admission: $15.00 at door
artscal.mit.edu
Romanian-born singer, Sanda Weigl (vye-gul), internationally celebrated for her potent, contemporary interpretation of Romanian gypsy music, will embark on her first U.S. tour this fall, presented by the Romanian Cultural Institute. Sanda, with her jazz trio, will perform the music she learned on the streets of Bucharest as a child. The first concert is scheduled at MIT's Wong Auditorium/Tang Center (Cambridge, MA) on October 14, 2008, and is organized in collaboration with the Romanian Student Association at MIT. Other stops are Chicago's Morse Theatre, and The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her ensemble at MIT will include Shoko Nagai - Piano, Accordion, Arrangements; Stomu Takeishi - Bass; and Satoshi Takeishi - Percussion.
Presented by RCI NY in collaboration with the Romanian Student Association at MIT. www.icrny.org
October 15th- Athens, Greece
Sina str. and 9 Vissarionos str.
Sarah Aroeste is hitting the Balkans to spread some Ladino music! Joined by local dancers and storytellers, Sarah will be performing in community centers across the Balkans starting this week! If you are in any of the following cities, or know people who are, please spread the word. All shows are free!
All programs are sponsored by the JDC Europe and the Gesher Project.
DANIEL ABRAMS' Opera For Piano concert on Oct. 15, at the Mannes College of Music, will include the American premier of his Musical Portraits from Wagner's 'Ring' (each"Portrait" is based on the musical motif of that character, a particular scene of importance, and/or a verbal statement of consequence).
The program also includes ABRAMS' Chaconne on "Dido's Lament" from Dido And Aeneas , Variations on "Voi Che Sapete" from The Marriage of Figaro, and Variations on "Ein Engel Leonora" from Fidelio. Opera For Piano retains each pieces original style, preserving its complex moods and subtle powers -- as if the composers themselves had written the operas as piano music. They are not transcriptions, but music that Abrams' deeply loves and wished to be able to play on the piano. Abrams considers this series his most important legacy to music and feels that Opera For Piano is adding some glorious music to the performing pianist's repertoire.
Concert information:
Mannes College of Music,
150 West 85 St (bet. Columbus & Amsterdam)
Wednesday, October 15 8 pm
No charge: seating begins at 7:30 pm
More information: www.Daniel-Abrams.com/Opera-For-Piano
DANIEL ABRAMS has been internationally acclaimed as both a pianist and as a composer. He had a double Fulbright in piano & composition (which was renewed for a second year) to the Royal Academy of Music, and performed extensively throughout Europe as an American Cultural Ambassador. His highly heralded New York debut at Town Hall in 1957 brought him major management and years of concertizing. Also, appearances on many TV and radio shows (including The Today Show, the Mike Wallace show, Joe Franklin, Pegeen Fitzgerald, etc.) In 1962, shortly after surviving a plane crash while on a concert tour in S. America, Abrams accepted a teaching position at Goucher College and The Johns Hopkins University. While in Baltimore, he founded and, for sixteen years, conducted The Goucher/Hopkins Community Symphony. He has continued to perform as soloist with orchestras and in recitals, but has restricted his appearances to the area in which he lives. Recently, Martha Argerich heard some of Abrams' music and included it in her Lugano Piano Festival.
Following is an excerpt from The New York Herald Tribune review for the first concert (of his four concert cycle) of the Mozart piano sonatas at the Kaufman Y : Mr. Abrams, as has been noted before, is born to the piano; he cannot help but make beautiful sounds and he brings to whatever he tackles not only musicianship, technique and interpretative prowess, but a very special kind of intellectual radiance that quite sets him apart. In short, the five sonatas heard contained a veritable galaxy of refinements--indeed, the sort of refinements that seem slowly to be creeping out of contemporary piano
playing. We urge you to attend."
October 16th- Thessaloniki, Greece
24 Tsimiski str.
Sarah Aroeste is hitting the Balkans to spread some Ladino music! Joined by local dancers and storytellers, Sarah will be performing in community centers across the Balkans starting this week! If you are in any of the following cities, or know people who are, please spread the word. All shows are free!
All programs are sponsored by the JDC Europe and the Gesher Project.
Michael Winograd Klezmer Ensemble @ Settlement Music School, Philladelphia
Oct 16th, 8pm
Michael Winograd - clarinet
Joey Wiesenberg - mandolin
Patrick Farrell - accordion
Dan Blacksberg - trombone
Nick Cudahy - bass
Judith Berkson - vocals
The Prince of Kosher Gospel, Joshua Nelson, will perform during the 6p.m. Shabbat Services, Friday, October 17, 2008 at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Manhattan. Cantor Rebecca Garfein, Senior Cantor of Congregation Rodeph Sholom along with Assistant Cantor, Shayna Peavey and the Rodeph Sholom Children’s Choir, will join Joshua Nelson in soulful song to kick off Rodeph Sholom’s annual Mitzvah Marathon Weekend.
The entire community is invited to join us. Congregation Rodeph Sholom is located at 7 W. 83rd Street off of Central Park West. For more information, please call 646-454-3030. For more information about our Mitzvah Marathon Weekend, please see our website www.rodephsholom.org
In the 17 years since Joshua Nelson first sang along with a Mahalia Jackson album he discovered in his grandparents' home when he was eight-years-old, he has spread the sheer joy of spiritual music to audiences from New Jersey to Jerusalem and throughout the world. Joshua, whose voice bears a remarkable resemblance to that of the late Ms. Jackson, has performed in concert halls, synagogues, churches, and at various outdoor venues, both solo and with such musical luminaries as Wynton Marsalis, Billy Preston, Aretha Franklin, and Stephanie Mills; Gospel greats Albertina Walker, the Barret Sisters, Hezekiah Walker, Kirk Franklin, Dottie Peoples, Dorothy Norwood, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Reverend Timothy Wright, and Bobby Jones & New Life, the greatest Jewish Klezmer band in the world, The Klezmatics, and late jazz greats Cab Calloway and Dizzy Gillespie, among others. In 2004, Mr. Nelson appeared on the “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, alongside Jamie Fox. Mr. Nelson was named by Oprah as “The Next Big Thing,” performing “How I Got Over” and “Elijah Rock.” Oprah remarked, “I have never heard a voice like his, he literally brought the house down.”
Cantor Rebecca Garfein is the Senior Cantor of Congregation Rodeph Sholom and is the first female Cantor to hold this position in the history of the congregation.
Cantor Garfein has appeared in numerous recitals throughout the United States, Israel, and Europe and has two solo CD recordings, a live recording from the 1997 Jewish Festival in Berlin entitled, “Sacred Chants of the Contemporary Synagogue” and her first studio recording, “Golden Chants in America...Commemorating 350 years of Jewish Music, 1654-2004,” the first U.S. recording to feature Jewish music spanning 350 years of life in America.
Cantor Garfein graduated cum laude from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music with a degree in vocal performance and opera. In 1993, she received her Master’s Degree in Sacred Music and Cantorial Investiture from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR).
Cantor Shayna Peavey is the Assistant Cantor of Congregation Rodeph Sholom since 2007, having been invested by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion that same year. Cantor Peavey grew up in Springfield, MO and graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a degree in Music Education.
Cantor Peavey wrote her master’s thesis about the music of the Ethiopian Jews as a result of her interest in world Jewry and her time spent in Israel during her Cantorial studies. While living in Jerusalem, she spent time researching the Ethiopian community and completed her thesis and subsequent recital, “I am Black and Beautiful, O Daughters of Jerusalem: The Development of the Music of the Ethiopian Jews here in New York.”
10/17/2008
tbd
Krakow, Poland
www.concerts.pl
The Klezmatics are touring in Germany and Austria in October/November 2008. Their new album "Tuml=Lebn: The best of the first 20 years" will be out on October 17 (label: piranha)
Fine Foreign Film is back!!!!
Friday October 17th, 8PM
Church of the Advent, Beacon Hill, Boston
entrance on Mt. Vernon St., near Brimmer
Charles St. (red line) Arlington St. (green line)
617 623 6739
Rick, Andrew, Andy, Eric and I come together after nearly a year to play some pieces from the immortal score (well we want to help make it immortal,) A Streetcar Named Desire, by the great Alex North. We'll also pull out some of our favs from the Italian Film world, including the all to addictive "Autoradio," and transgendered "La Princessa", (okay now I'm getting silly, you'll have to see the movie to get that one.)
We will be sharing the evening with the modern music virtuosos The LaCrosse Trio.
Visit us at:
www.myspace.com/fineforeignfilm
Hej Venner. Så er der endnu et par klezmerkoncerter for fuld udblæsning.
Vi giver den gas med melankoli og store armbevægelser, smukke ballader og hurtige polkaer, - og alle får lov til at synge og danse. Der sker :
Fredag d. 17.10 kl. 21:30
på Café Svejk, Smallegade 31, 2000 F
Og søndag d. 19/10 kl 19:00
på KafCaféen, Skindergade 3, 1159 K
På Gensyn
Kærlig hilsen TRIO KLEZMER
Cork Festival of Jewish Culture, October 18th & 19th 2008
The festival will be a two-day event celebrating Jewish culture and the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue in Cork.
It will be held October 18-19 2008 in Main Restaurant and Boole Lecture Theatre 1 at University College Cork.
Saturday,October 18th
7:00-7:15pm Opening of the Cork Festival of Jewish Culture
7:15-8:15pm Klezmer dance & Yiddish song workshop led by Vivi Lachs (London), with the accompaniment by the Klezmer Klub (London)
8:30-9:45pm Concert by the Klezmer Klub (London)
10:00-11:30pm Concert by the Fireflies (klezmer band based in South West Ireland)
Concert tickets: €10 for one night or both nights for €15.
For more information and booking: E-mail Cork Jewish Festival
Cork Festival of Jewish Culture is held under the patronage of the Lord Mayor of Cork, Councillor Brian Bermingham and the president of University College Cork, Dr. Michael Murphy.
The festival is organized by the Iona Chaplaincy (University College Cork) and the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism based in Dublin.
October 18th -Belgrade, Serbia
Kralja Petra 71a
Sarah Aroeste is hitting the Balkans to spread some Ladino music! Joined by local dancers and storytellers, Sarah will be performing in community centers across the Balkans starting this week! If you are in any of the following cities, or know people who are, please spread the word. All shows are free!
All programs are sponsored by the JDC Europe and the Gesher Project.
Casco Bay Tummlers
Saturday, October 18, 7 p.m.,
Center Theater, 20 East Main St in downtown Dover-Foxcroft
Contact Person: Russ Page 207-564-8943
Chamber of Commerce phone: 564-7533
The BREW: Aaron Novik's Samuel Suite & Dirty Dan, Eval Dan
Saturday October 18, 8:00pm
$10 member, $15 general
JCC East Bay
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
Aaron Novik's ten-piece band presents an avant chamber-jazz rumination on the life of Novik's grandfather, who immigrated to America from a small village in WWI Poland. Samuel and Aaron passionately debated music-the grandfather particularly loved Bach's cantatas, a curious irony, that being a Jew, his favorite music was about Jesus. This religious oxymoron serves as the impetus for the sad and loving suite, in which Novik employs Jewish scales in the chorale style to create a sort of Jewish equivalent to Bach's Christian ones.
He uses different variations on the harmonic minor scale, the backbone of most klezmer and Jewish songs, with especially intriguing-and practically never used-scales starting on the second, third, sixth and seventh degrees.
To kick off the show, Dan Fries and Dan Cantrell of Dirty Dan, Eval Dan trek down another heretofore unexplored path for klezmer, combining the evocative rhythms and melodies of flamenco with traditional klezmer idioms. This fresh fusion melds beautifully, resulting in a crisp and irresistible sound hovering somewhere between Zaporozhye and Málaga.
Co-presented by the Jewish Music Festival, Berkeley Hillel, Polish Arts and Culture Foundation and the Jazzschool
Tickets available at the door
Score goes to Paris
Saturday 18th October 2008, 8pm
Sunday 19th October 2008, 4pm
dance sailorHop on the Eurostar for another chance to see the highly acclaimed commission of a new live soundtrack for the classic 1923 Yiddish silent film East and West.
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.
Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme
71 Rue de Temple, 75003 Paris
Price: EUR 14 / cons. EUR10
To book
Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme
Am 18. Oktober sind wir zu Gast in Bremen beim Best of Klezmer-Festival, Beginn 20.00 h. Eine Folge unseres Auftritts vor fünf Jahren dort.
www.weserterrassen.com/events/monat3/evklezmer.htm#22
Saturday Oct 18th 9-12
Mini Klezwoods
w/Joe Kessler, Michael McLaughlin, and Kendall Eddy
Klez, Balkan and whatever else fits our fancy
Sabur Restaurant - great Balkan food!
212 Holland St., Teele Square Somerville
www.myspace.com/klezwoods1
Agada with Basya Schechter
Hello all, last minute event tomorrow night, I¹ll be guesting with some
percussion, oud and singing, with friends at a Sukkah party! See below!
Saturday Oct 18 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
East Village Shul
325 E 6th St. (between 1st & 2nd Ave.)
Succot party, $15 include Booze & Snacks
Basya Schechter: Percussion, Vocal & Oud
Satoshi Takeishi: Percussion
Dan Nadel: Flamenco Guitar
Har-El Shachal: G Clarinet, Alto Sax and Ney
Cork Festival of Jewish Culture, October 18th & 19th 2008
The festival will be a two-day event celebrating Jewish culture and the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue in Cork.
It will be held October 18-19 2008 in Main Restaurant and Boole Lecture Theatre 1 at University College Cork.
Sunday,October 19
4:00-4:45pm Lecture by Professor Dermot Keogh from the UCC History Department on the history of the Jewish community in Cork
5:00-6:00pm Screening of "Shalom Ireland"—a documentary film on the history of the Jewish community in Ireland (esp Dublin)
6:30-7:30pm Concert by Festival Ensemble
8:00- 9:30pm Concert by The North Strand Klezmer Band (Dublin)
10:00-11:30pm Concert by Yurodny (Dublin)
Concert tickets: €10 for one night or both nights for €15.
For more information and booking: E-mail Cork Jewish Festival
Cork Festival of Jewish Culture is held under the patronage of the Lord Mayor of Cork, Councillor Brian Bermingham and the president of University College Cork, Dr. Michael Murphy.
The festival is organized by the Iona Chaplaincy (University College Cork) and the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism based in Dublin.
The Great East End Treasure Hunt - back after a Spring sell out!
Sunday 19th October 2008, from 2pm
Stumble around the East End and watch the Jewish history of this areapavillion programme
unfurl with musicians, treasure clues, actors and bagels. Sign up in groups to discover some stories, fall upon soup kitchens, bump into klezmer players and search for disappearing synagogues.
We'll scatter signposts, clues, artists including actors Judy Batalion, Brian Lobel and Claire Benjamin, live musicians and hidden items along the roads of the East End, taking you on a two hour tour around a Jewish world that has all but vanished.
The afternoon will finish with tea, drinks and live music from She'koyokh from 4:30pm at Corbet Place, Old Truman Brewery.
Meet by the Cable Street Mural painted on the side of St. George's Hall, Cable Street E1.
You will be given your designated afternoon arrival time when you register.
Price:
Group charge £40/ Individuals £9
Register individually or in a group of up to five people.
If your group needs to be a different size, call us to discuss.
To book
Please call the JCC for London office on 020 7431 9866.
Lecture in Yiddish with Prof. Eugene Orenstein "On the Centenary of the Czernowitz Conference"
Lecture in Yiddish with Prof. Eugene Orenstein "On the Centenary of the Czernowitz Conference" on Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. at the Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal. Cost: $5 JPL members/students, $10 others. Refreshments served. For information call (514) 345-2627 ext. 3006 or advance tickets call (514) 345-6416. Sponsored by the Yentl Fishman Fund.
The Czernowitz Yiddish Language Conference in 1908 was the first international attempt to consolidate the achievements of Yiddish and to encourage its creative future. The meaning of this attempt will be analyzed through the prism of the past century.
Eugene Orenstein is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at McGill University and has also taught at Columbia University, NYU, Oxford, and Monash University in Melbourne. He has most recently contributed articles to The Encyclopedia Judaica, 2007.
The 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.
The All Newton Music School, 321 Chestnut Street
West Newton, Massachusetts, is proud to present
Hankus Netsky & Another Realm
Sunday, October 19 at 4:00pm.
A reception will follow.
Perhaps best known for fronting the Klezmer Conservatory Band - the internationally renowned Yiddish music ensemble – Netsky showcases his musical diversity with his latest band Another Realm as part of our 2008-2009 Wolf Concert Series.
Tickets for this family event are $25.
Seniors and ANMS adult students $15.
Registered ANMS students 18 and under are admitted free with a paying adult.
Seating is limited so order your tickets now by calling 617.527.4553 x101.
Click here for complete Wolf Concert Series information cts.vresp.com/c/?AllNewtonMusicSchool/e8a4baa3ec/TEST/27dc92bd78
Another Realm consists of pianist and reed player Hankus Netsky, flutist/composer Linda Chase, bassist Kim Cass, and percussionist Tupac Mantilla. On this occasion, they will also be joined by vocalist Rebecca Rubin. Together, the group explores a repertoire that includes pieces from South American, Eastern European, Asian, and Jewish traditions, jazz standards, music of romantic and impressionist European composers, poetry-based improvisations, and original songs and compositions.
Hankus Netsky is chairman of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Vice President for Education at the National Yiddish Book Center, and founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internationally renowned Yiddish music ensemble.
Linda Chase teaches composition, arranging, world music, jazz and improvisation at Berklee College of Music. She is the recent winner of the Kaji Aso Studio's "Tanabata" Composition Prize, and the recipient of a Berklee faculty composition grant for her recent composition, "Reflections on Rumi."
Bassist Kim Cass attended New England Conservatory, where he worked with Ran Blake, Joe Maneri, Allan Chase, Ruth Lepson, and George Garzone. While there, he performed with and contributed compositions to Miwokido Kid, which was selected as the 2004-2005 Honors Jazz Quartet.
Tupac Mantilla is a native of Colombia, where he is well known for his percussion work in both traditional and contemporary music.
New York-based Vocalist Rebecca Rubin has recorded with Another Realm, and has received considerable acclaim as an acapella performer and arranger.
Score goes to Paris
Saturday 18th October 2008, 8pm
Sunday 19th October 2008, 4pm
dance sailorHop on the Eurostar for another chance to see the highly acclaimed commission of a new live soundtrack for the classic 1923 Yiddish silent film East and West.
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.
Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme
71 Rue de Temple, 75003 Paris
Price: EUR 14 / cons. EUR10
To book
Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme
Hej Venner. Så er der endnu et par klezmerkoncerter for fuld udblæsning.
Vi giver den gas med melankoli og store armbevægelser, smukke ballader og hurtige polkaer, - og alle får lov til at synge og danse. Der sker :
Fredag d. 17.10 kl. 21:30
på Café Svejk, Smallegade 31, 2000 F
Og søndag d. 19/10 kl 19:00
på KafCaféen, Skindergade 3, 1159 K
På Gensyn
Kærlig hilsen TRIO KLEZMER
THE FIRST ANNUAL SONOMA JEWISH MUSIC AND ART FESTIVAL
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Congregation Shir Shalom,
252 W. Spain St.,
Sonoma, CA
Outdoor Art Festival: 1 - 6 PM (No admission charge)
Jewish-themed artists and musicians in a celebration of the Jewish creative cultural tradition. Music by the Klezmer band Red Hot Chachkas and others.
Evening Concert: 6 - 9:30 PM Featuring the Stephanie Ozer Ensemble, Rabbi Jack Gabriel and Friends, Vocolot. Tickets $25 advance; $30 at door; children under 13, half-price.
www.shir-shalom.org/festival, 707/935-3636
A Yiddish Winterreise for Darfur, Sunday 19 October at The Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market, EC1
On Sunday, 19 October we will be giving what we consider to be our most important performance yet. A Yiddish Winterreise is a cycle of songs in Yiddish performed by Mark Glanville (Bass-Baritone) and Alexander Knapp (Piano), which aims to replicate the emotional journey of Schubert's original, but in a Holocaust context. From the outset it was conceived both as a way of building bridges and a means of lending support to the victims of modern genocides.
The concert will be given at the Church of our Most Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market, London EC1, Sunday 19 October at 19.30. Minimum charge £10. We urge you to attend.
All the profit from this performance, given under the auspices of UNICEF, will go to children of refugees from Darfur, a region which continues to be volatile, five years after the start of the conflict. Over 4 million people have been affected, and of these 2 million have been displaced. For the 2.1 million children affected, including 630,000 under the age of 5, the conflict has often meant growing up in difficult conditions in refugee camps. Fighting between rebel groups, security forces and the Janjaweed militia continues largely unrestrained. Entire villages have been wiped out and 400,000 people have been killed.
'The 24-song cycle of Yiddish folk songs, popular songs and art songs — half of them arranged by the superb pianist Alexander Knapp, an expert on Jewish music … lasts 80 minutes and Glanville was masterly in sustaining its technical and emotional demands.' —Yehuda Shapiro in Opera Now
'Genuine creative originality in performance is rare indeed, but was certainly manifest in this revelatory recital at Kent House. For once, the cliché is appropri ate: this was a performance to remember for a lifetime. A CD is planned for later this year, and cannot be too strongly recommended.' —Raymond Fischer in Westminster Quarterly
'Overall it was a musically mezmerizing and beguiling experience. Glanville's powerful resonant baritone, redolent of years of experience in leading opera companies such as Opera North, Scottish Opera, and New Israeli Opera, gained in focus and intensity during the course of the cycle, while Knapp's accomplished pianism displayed masterly command of colour and line.' —Malcolm Miller in MVDaily.com
Paper Promises: Presented by Jewish Dance Theater
Sunday October 19, 8:00pm
$15 member, $20 general
JCC East Bay
1414 Walnut St., Berkeley
Come join visionary performance artist Melusina Gomez and experimental Klezmer musician David Rosenfeld for an evening of danced thoughts, quiet reflections and wild wishes, inspired by the letters, poetry and stories of women through six centuries, including , 'Ariake-Poems of Love and Longing' ,'The Girl Who Loved the Wind'.and 'The Finger' penned by the legendary Kabbalist Rabbi, Issac Luria. Paper Promises glides through a landscape of visual art, soundscape, resigned absurdity, and butoh inspired imagery and dance, ultimately asking the question: What does life promise us?
Presented by the Jewish Dance Theatre and co-presented by the JCC of the East Bay
Tickets available at the door.
Sunday 10/19 @ Lily Pad in Cambridge, MA
the return of the WInograd/Staaf Duo
MW - clarinet
Carmen Staaf - piano
10pm
please come!!!
Rashanim
Sunday, October 19 at 10pm
The Stone
Corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street
NYC 10009
Rashanim is a trio of guitar, bass and drums/percussion combining the power of rock with the spontaneity of improvisation, deep Middle Eastern grooves, and mystical Jewish melodies. The 'Jewish power trio' is led by Jon Madof on guitar and includes Mathias Künzli (Lauryn Hill) on drums and percussion and special guest Yoshie Fruchter (Pitom, Soulfarm) on bass. The band gets its name from the noisemakers used during the raucous Jewish holiday of Purim.
Mon. Oct. 20, 7:30pm
Fairmount Temple,
Beachwood, Ohio.
Simchat Torah. free.
www.fairmounttemple.org
Tues. Oct. 21, 7:30pm
Park Synagogue,
Cleveland Hts., Ohio
Simchat Torah. free.
www.parksyn.org
On Wednesday, October 22nd at 11:30 A.M., at the Arbeter-ring, 48 Kalisher Street, Tel Aviv, our Culture club will be hosting our beloved guest from Hamburg, Dorothea Greve ("Shevele"), together with 15-17 members of the Solomon Birenbaum Yiddish Club, who will present literary readings commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Czernovitz Yiddish Language Conference.
All members of our Culture Club and Yiddish-lovers of Israel are invited.
Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel Aviv Israel
Tel/fax: 972-3-517-6764
Mitvokh, dem 22-tn Oktober, 11:30 in der fri, vet forkumen in "Arbeter-ring", Kalisher 48 in Tel Aviv, a bagegenish fun der Kultur-krayz mit undsers a libn gast : Dorothea Greve ("Shevele") fun Hamburg, tsuzamen mit 15-17 mitglider fun dem Hamburger Solomon Birenbaum-geselshaft far Yidish, velkhe veln zikh presentirn mit a kinstlerisher bine-leyenung gevidmet der Czernovitzer Shprakh-Konferenz tsu ir 100-yorikn ondenk-yubile.
Alle mitglider funem Kultur-krayz un frayvilike gest zenen farbetn.
Yaim Naim w/David Donatien
w/ special guest Peter Von Poehl
October 23, 2008 at 8pm8, ages: 17+
House of Blues
Chicago, IL
773.362.4760
Enter to win a pair of free tickets
We also have a limited number of discounted tickets. Click to pay $15 (vs. $25 w/ fees)
Sponsored by Kfar, www.kfarcenter.com
In the past, Apple has been known to ‘make’ artists with their clever ad campaigns, from the chaos of their colorful iPod ads to the calm minimalism of their Mac ads.
Not even they could’ve predicted the sudden success of Yael Naïm’s self-titled american debut upon being featured in the much anticipated 08? Macbook Air commercial (shown below).
A native of Paris, France, Yael was born to a Jewish-Sephardi family, and moved to Israel when she was very young. Her multi-cultural upbringing is perhaps best expressed on the first track of her album, titled ‘Paris’.
On it she sings in both Hebrew and French. However, despite being brought up world’s apart, Yael’s music is very relevant to music today in the USA, and undoubtedly much of the new fan base she has gained will continue to support this talented songstress and her sweet, lyrical folk vocals in the future.
¡Fiestaremos! Judy Frankel and the Sephardic Music Tradition
A Film Screening and Talk by Kate Regan
Thursday, October 23, 7:30pm
FREE
BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco
¡Fiestaremos! presents the inspiring work of the late Bay Area musician, singer, and researcher Judy Frankel. This thirty-minute documentary captures some of the loving relationships Judy fostered with members of the Sephardic community, and her dedication to preserving the Ladino musical heritage.
Kate Regan is associate professor of Spanish language and literature at the University of Portland, where she was named the university's outstanding teacher in 1999. Born in Chicago, she moved with her family to Cuernavaca, Mexico when she was nine. Professor Regan is the recipient of the 2000 Carnegie and Case Foundations U.S. Professor of the Year award.
For more information please visit the Library website.
Co-sponsored by the BJE Jewish Community Library, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, San Francisco State University, and the 24th Annual Jewish Music Festival
¡Fiestaremos! Judy Frankel and the Sephardic Music Tradition
A Film Screening and Talk by Kate Regan
Thursday, October 23, 7:30pm
FREE
BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco
¡Fiestaremos! presents the inspiring work of the late Bay Area musician, singer, and researcher Judy Frankel. This thirty-minute documentary captures some of the loving relationships Judy fostered with members of the Sephardic community, and her dedication to preserving the Ladino musical heritage.
Kate Regan is associate professor of Spanish language and literature at the University of Portland, where she was named the university's outstanding teacher in 1999. Born in Chicago, she moved with her family to Cuernavaca, Mexico when she was nine. Professor Regan is the recipient of the 2000 Carnegie and Case Foundations U.S. Professor of the Year award.
For more information please visit the Library website.
Co-sponsored by the BJE Jewish Community Library, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, San Francisco State University, and the 24th Annual Jewish Music Festival
On Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 7:30 PM coloratura soprano Heather Buck will sing my Yiddish version of Leonard Bernstein's "Glitter and be Gay" from Candide at the Jewish Museum - 1109 Fifth Ave. Tickets: $15 (general public); $12 (students and seniors over 65); $10 (Museum members). For information call 212-423-3337. The Jack Gottlieb/Jewish Museum event is part of a city-wide 3-month Bernstein Festival which runs from Sept. 24th through Dec. 13, 2008.
www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_12245_pf.html
THURSDAY 10/23, 8PM: Jalopy! Brooklyn NY
315 Columbia St, Red Hook
OCTET, great small theater & bar
$10. 718-395-3214 www.jalopy.biz
Sanda Weigl, Romanian Gypsy Jazz Singer and her Trio/Gypsy In A Tree
Potent Contemporary interpretations of Gypsy music.
SANDA WEIGL, Vocals
Shoko Nagai - Piano, Accordion, Arrangements
Kermit Driscoll - Bass
Satoshi Takeishi - Percussion
Oct 24, 7:30pm
Morse Theatre, Chicago
1328 W. Morse Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
Phone: 312.804.4456
Admission: $15.00
www.themorse.com
Romanian-born singer, Sanda Weigl (vye-gul), internationally celebrated for her potent, contemporary interpretation of Romanian gypsy music, will embark on her first U.S. tour this fall, presented by the Romanian Cultural Institute. Sanda, with her jazz trio, will perform the music she learned on the streets of Bucharest as a child. The first concert is scheduled at MIT's Wong Auditorium/Tang Center (Cambridge, MA) on October 14, 2008, and is organized in collaboration with the Romanian Student Association at MIT. Other stops are Chicago's Morse Theatre, and The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her ensemble at MIT will include Shoko Nagai - Piano, Accordion, Arrangements; Stomu Takeishi - Bass; and Satoshi Takeishi - Percussion.
Presented by RCI NY and The Morse Theatre. Presented by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
www.icrny.org
Vendredi 24 Octobre à 20h - la Meson
SHLOMO COMBO
Avec Stéphane Galeski : guitare, mandole, chant, Uli Wolters : saxophones, flûte, percussions, Patrick Ferné : contrebasse et Gérard Gatto : batterie.
invités : hassan boukerrou : percussions, cyril benhamou : flûte
« Leur musique vient des profondeurs de l’Europe Centrale. Chargée d’émotions, forcément. Singulière. Porteuse d’un souffle mystique issu de la nuit des temps. »
Retrouvons les musiciens de Kabbalah en quartet !
Au programme : nouveautés , quelques invités de marque et un petit retour, Juste pour le plaisir, sur la partie plus traditionnelle de leur répertoire avec des morceaux tels que Fun Tashlikh, Baym Rebin Palestrina, Tartar Tanz et autres Der Bosfor.
La Mesón
52 rue Consolat
13001 Marseille
04 91 50 11 61
www.lameson.com
TSIMTSOUM sera en concert
le samedi 25 octobre
au Falabar à 21H , une creperie bar tres sympa !
31 rue Alexandre Dumas
75011 PARIS
Du klezmer métissé avec pleins de cordes ...
www.myspace.fr/tsimtsoum
www.habitusmag.comHabitus presents:
New Orleans Night
with The Sugartone Brass Band
to celebrate the launch of Habitus on New Orleans
Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 8:00pm
Gowanus Studio Space
119 8th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Aves)
South Brooklyn, NY
Live music.
Classic cocktails.
Subscription deals.
$10 Donation.
The Sugartone Brass Band is New York's premiere New Orleans-style brass band devoted to bringing the traditions of the Big Easy to the Big Apple. They have been featured in New York City's Annual Halloween Parade since 2004. The Sugartone Brass band is dedicated to promoting the traditions of New Orleans' music worldwide. Their first album, "Live from Brooklyn," was released in February.
The new issue is here! As always, we have worked hard to bring you a unique perspective on an extraordinary city––a view into New Orleans that only Habitus can offer. Some highlights include:
In Providence at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House,
Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh play Klezmer & Hassidic Music
5 Saturday Evenings 8 – 10 PM $9
Oct. 25, Nov. 29, Dec. 20, Jan. 31 & Feb. 28
209 Douglas Ave, 5 minutes from the Providence Marriot, (down the hill from Staples & Whole Foods): Go right on Orms along side the Marriot, over rt 95, then take first right onto Douglas Ave. We're 1/2 mile down on the right, just past the rt 95 S entrance.
For more specific directions go to www.BrooklynCoffeeTeaHouse.com
The Sway Machinery
Saturday, October 25, 9:30pm
Elbo Room
647 Valencia St. San Francisco
Tickets: $15
Presented by The Hub in partnership with the 24th Annual Jewish Music Festival
For tickets visit tickets.jccsf.org.
Jeremiah Lockwood, son of composer Larry Lockwood and grandson of the legendary Cantor Jacob Konigsberg, teams up with an all-star cast of musicians who have played with the likes of Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Antibalas and more. Drawing on a wild blend of influences—including pre-war master cantors, Malian guitar, Saharan beats, Afro-pop and the good ol' blues—The Sway Machinery delivers a sonic experience that knocks out a joyful rhythm at the gates of prayer.
"Lockwood's arrangements of Jewish cantorial songs whip up a frenzy wherein all the world's music can do that which music does best: celebrate." —Village Voice
The Sway Machinery
Saturday, October 25, 9:30pm
Elbo Room
647 Valencia St. San Francisco
Tickets: $15
Presented by The Hub in partnership with the 24th Annual Jewish Music Festival
For tickets visit tickets.jccsf.org.
Jeremiah Lockwood, son of composer Larry Lockwood and grandson of the legendary Cantor Jacob Konigsberg, teams up with an all-star cast of musicians who have played with the likes of Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Antibalas and more. Drawing on a wild blend of influences—including pre-war master cantors, Malian guitar, Saharan beats, Afro-pop and the good ol' blues—The Sway Machinery delivers a sonic experience that knocks out a joyful rhythm at the gates of prayer.
"Lockwood's arrangements of Jewish cantorial songs whip up a frenzy wherein all the world's music can do that which music does best: celebrate." —Village Voice
SUNDAY 10/26, 3PM: Bergen CCC, Paramus NJ
Ciccone Theatre OCTET Tickets online: tickets.bergen.edu
"This & That Series"
201-447-7428 www.bergen.edu/pages/1851.asp
Few artists have had the world-wide impact of Maestro Giora Feidman, one of the world's pioneers of modern Klezmer, and an internationally beloved clarinet virtuoso.
New Yorkers will have a rare opportunity to see Giora Feidman in Concert on Sunday, October 26 at Temple Israel.
Temple Israel of the City of New York
Sunday, Oct 26, 7:30-9:30pm
112 E. 75th St., NYC
Members: $20 / Non-members: $25 / Students 18 and under: $5
212.249.5000
www.templeisraelnyc.org
BOSTON AND JERUSALEM
DATE & TIME: Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: The Fenway Center at Northeastern University (corner St. Stephen and Gainsborough Streets)
(click here for directions)
COST: NU Students with ID free; Adults: $20. To buy tickets: www.gonu.com/tickets/
Northeastern University will present the only Boston appearance by the renowned Jerusalem Academy Chamber Choir, under the direction of Prof. Stanley Sperber. The Academy Choir, now in its 40th season, is considered one of Israel's finest vocal ensembles, performing frequently with the Israel Philharmonic and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. This will be the first concert on the choir's American tour.
Also on the program will be the Northeastern University Chamber Chorus and the Zamir Chorale of Boston, conducted by Prof. Joshua Jacobson. The program includes Daniel Pinkham's Wedding Cantata, Yehezkel Braun's Song of Songs, and other works by American and Israeli composers.
In a grand finale the three choirs will join forces, over one hundred voices strong.
For more information, call (617) 373-2671.
October 26, 2008 The XII IAYC Conference, La Jolla, CA
Yale Strom, Elizabeth Schwartz and Hot Pstromi, grand finale concert, International Association of Yiddish Clubs conference, La Jolla, California.
For further info. and event time, call 650-349-6946.
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Sunday, October 26, 6:00 -- 9:00pm
The Klezmakers at Yaya Cuisine
Come for dinner, stay for music and dancing. When you combine Middle Eastern cuisine with live klezmer music, you're in for a crazy good time! Come see (and hear and taste) for yourself. Enjoy your fill of phyllo dough, then dance it off! No cover charge. For reservations, 650/344-2860. YAYA Cuisine & Bar, 1108 Burlingame Ave., Burlingame, CA 94010 or www.klezmakers.com/contact.htm
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10/27/2008
Fabrik
Hamburg, Germany
www.ass-concerts.de/band.php?band=278
The Klezmatics are touring in Germany and Austria in October/November 2008. Their new album "Tuml=Lebn: The best of the first 20 years" will be out on October 17 (label: piranha)
The Workmen's Circle Klezmer Ensemble will be holding a free open house on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 7 PM.
Led by famed klezmer musician Jeff Warschauer.
Play wonderful music while making new friends and having a great time!
Free Open house: Tuesday, October 28, from 7-9 PM
Seven paid sessions, Tuesdays at 7 PM: November 4, 11, 18 and 25, December 2, 9 and 16.
Single session class fee: $30. Discount for Workmen's Circle members and/or those attending all seven sessions: $180
Sessions will take place at the Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33 Street, Manhattan (between Park and Madison).
For more information, please email Dana Schneider Dana Schneider or call 212 889-6800 x 271
Chag Sameach everyone. I'm very happy to announce that Chicago now joins NYC and the Bay Area in what I may dare to call the "Tanzhoyz Movement". (Who's next, I wonder) I'll be hosting monthly Yiddish dance parties with live music! Here's to getting those dances back into the community. Wish us luck!
Join us at the HOPKELE
Chicagoland's NEW monthly Klezmer Dance Party
Led by Internationally renowned Yiddish DanceMaster STEVE WEINTRAUB
With LIVE music provided by KURT BJORLING and Members of CHICAGO KLEZMER ENSEMBLE
Last Wednesdays of the month (mostly)
NEXT HOPKELE
October 29, 7:30pm to 9:30pm
At JRC
303 Dodge Avenue
Evanston, Illinois
847-328-7678
$8 / $5 JRC members and students
10/29/2008
Heilig-Geist Kirche
Frankfurt, Germany
www.ass-concerts.de/band.php?band=278
The Klezmatics are touring in Germany and Austria in October/November 2008. Their new album "Tuml=Lebn: The best of the first 20 years" will be out on October 17 (label: piranha)
4th Annual Cabaret Benefit
Honoring the Blessed Memory of Abe Oster
with Special Guest Performers including Tony-nominated Eleanor Reissa
October 30, 2008
Museum of Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place, NYC
We are pleased to pay tribute to Abe Oster's philanthropic devotion to Jewish institutions. It is particularly appropriate to hold this event at the museum that he and his wife, Ann, were so devoted to creating. His memory and Ann's continued work inspire us all to preserve Yiddish culture for future generations.
Additional Performers include:
Robert Paul Abelson and Zalmen Mlotek
Dinner Buffet: 6:00pm Program: 8:00pm
For tickets and journal sales please visit www.folksbiene.org/upcoming-savethedate.html
10/30/2008
Tollhaus
Karlsruhe, Germany
www.ass-concerts.de/band.php?band=278
The Klezmatics are touring in Germany and Austria in October/November 2008. Their new album "Tuml=Lebn: The best of the first 20 years" will be out on October 17 (label: piranha)
ROULETTE
Thurs. Oct. 30, 8:30 PM
Spring events are at 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets).
Performances begin at 8:30pm, unless otherwise noted.
Reservations/Tickets: 212.219.8242
Admission: $15 / Harvestworks and DTW members, Students & Seniors: $10
Roulette members / Location One members: free.
Something happened and a lot of new work came out of it. Please come and find out what. Tonight's program includes Artifacts for String Quartet, The Other of Language for Violin and Cello, Six Short Pieces For Piano,...it was in a Hotel...and More!
10/31/2008
Gewerkschaftshaus
Erfurt, Germany
www.ass-concerts.de/band.php?band=278
The Klezmatics are touring in Germany and Austria in October/November 2008. Their new album "Tuml=Lebn: The best of the first 20 years" will be out on October 17 (label: piranha)
Am 31. Oktober treten wir im Rahmen der Gedenkveranstaltung "... ein Himmel voll Brand" Zum 70. Jahrestag der Reichspogromnacht 1938 im Gemeindehaus Am Zwinger in Karlsruhe-Durlach auf.
www.ka.kirchennetz.info/_kalender/index.php?tpl=detail&id=713&item_start=20
