KlezCalendar

Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm. City Winery's brunch on April 27, 2014 features Isle of Klezbos,

General Admission: $10 / Children Under 13 - Free
City Winery
155 Varick Street
New York, New York 10013
(212) 608-0555

For further info: www.citywinery.com

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Heather Klein Presents
YIDDISH SPRING
Concert in honor of Yom HaShoah

April 24th at 6:30 p.m.
April 27th at 2:00 p.m. Pre-concert talk at 1:30 p.m.
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission St.
San Francisco

Miriam and SarahBay Area soprano Heather Klein performs “Mame Loshn,” an art song cycle in Yiddish by the composer Miriam Miller, with text by Miller’s grandmother, Sarah Traister Moskovitz, from her book of poetry, “Come to the Table.”

The program also features chamber ensemble performances of Yiddish songs written by other living composers from around the world. Klein is joined in performance by members of her Bay Area ensemble, The Inextinguishable Trio, the internationally renowned Bay Area trio Veretski Pass, and guest violinist Steven Greenman of Cleveland.

Part of the 29th Jewish Music Festival
More info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/yiddish-spring-concert-in-honor-of-yom-hashoah

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Klezmokum / Klez-Edge

27 April, 2014, 3-6pm
Synagoge Maastricht
Capucijnengang 2
Maastricht, the Netherlands

Following the success of Klezmokum’s “Old & New Gold” project in synagogues and culture centers in 2011-12 in the Netherlands, we now follow up this project with “Klez-Evergreens” which is a compilation of some of our best instrumental material over our 24 years of existence. Several of these pieces have been performed often but not recorded: some of the best repertoire not only of Klezmokum, but our instrumental subsidiaries: Klez-Edge and Klez-thetics. The music was/is quite accessible or popular with our audiences and will include the following: Klezmer traditional dance (freylekh) type pieces: Varshaver Freylekhs, , Sherele, and another klez-classic in a Balkan-style arrangement: Ketsad M’rakdin. From the great Chassidic literature will be Chassidic Song, Zhuritze Chlopotzi, and Dance of Safad. From the Klez-Edge recording on Tzadik Records: Oy Joy, and from our first Klezmokum CD (1992: Dedication. Also included are A Cozy Winter Veggy Soup from our Klez-thetics recoding (2003), and (from the classic film:) the poignant Theme from Schindler’s List. And finally.. a surprise twist: a lovely piece by the great jazz pianist/composer John Lewis that uses the Magen Abot Jewish mode scale..(Come to one of the concert to find out what it is!) The public is welcome to come for any of these concerts.

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Yes, We Sang!
Songs of Communities that Disappeared
A Musical Tribute to the Victims of the Holocaust

Sunday, April 27, 2014, 4:00 PM
JCC East Bay,
1414 Walnut Street,
Berkeley, CA

Join us as we celebrate the music of communities lost in the Holocaust. Our three choirs will sing for you and with you as we remember their songs in Yiddish, Ladino, and Hebrew. Lyrics will be provided for the community sing-along.

Participating Choirs:

• Nigunim Community Chorus
• The Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco
• Kol Truah Jewish Choir of the East Bay

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/472274482895644/

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The Boston Workmen's Circle welcomes back "Klezmer Jam" to its programming:

The Permanent Floating Klezmer Jam is in residence at the Boston
Workmen's Circle! Join Jonathan Cannon and Nat Seelen of Ezekiel's
Wheels Klezmer Band for awesome tunes and good times at the Workmen's
Circle. We will play classics and originals together from sheet music
and by ear.

Welcoming musicians of all instruments and of varying levels.

4-6 pm. Every 4th Sunday of the month.
April 27th
May 25th

Sessions held at the
Boston Workmen's Circle Building:
1762 Beacon St.
Brookline, MA

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VII Annual Klezwoods April Residency "Sessions" @ The Lilypad
Tonight's theme: "Belly Dance Extravaganza 2014" w) Rakiya and featuring Urban Nomad Dance Troupe, led by Hybrid

Sun, April 27th, 10pm
The Lilypad
1353 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA
$10

4 nights every Sunday in April. Klezwoods is bringing in a different supporting artist every week for themed shows and will be working on new original pieces by different band members.

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