KlezCalendar

Yiddish Culture Festival
Workshops, Performance, & Finale Party

November 1, 2014, 9am - 7pm
Reminder: Daylight Savings Time ends Saturday night
Oshman Family Jewish Community Center
3921 Fabian Way,
Palo Alto, California

9:00am — Master Classes

Joel Rubin, Veretski Pass will work with individuals and bands who sign up in advance. Audience encouraged!
11:00am-12:30pm — Workshops Session 1

Adults and Teens: Instrumental Music, Dancing, Poetry, Lecture/Demonstration
Kids ages 6-12 and their families: How Does the Tsar Drink Tea? Class will put together a play for a 5:00pm performance!
12:45-1:45pm — Buffet Lunch

FREE for Pass holders, or available for purchase if ordered by Saturday, Nov. 1, or BYO. Eat and shmooze with new and old friends!

2:00-3:00pm — “Three Singers, Four Opinions” Performance

A performer of rare Yiddish songs, a self-taught folk singer, and an opera-trained bass - all supported by one versatile accordionist - compare their favorite Yiddish songs in a series of solos, duets & trios. Featuring Sharon Bernstein, Jeanette Lewicki, and Anthony (Mordechai-Tzvi) Russell, accompanied by Jim Rebhan.
3:15-4:45pm — Workshops Session 2

Adults and Teens: Instrumental Music, Singing, Literature
Kids ages 6-12 and their families: How Does the Tsar Drink Tea? Class will put together a play for a 5:00pm performance!
5:00-7:00pm — Freylekh Finale, Music & Dance Party (with pizza!)

Music by Joel Rubin, Veretski Pass, Saul Goodman's Klezmer Band, Ghost Note Ensemble, Festival Dance Band, and more! Dancing led by Bruce Bierman

Bring instruments, dancing shoes, voices and your friends and family!

More information: www.klezcalifornia.org

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Bella, The Colour of Love

Sunday, Nov 2, 2014, 2pm and 7pm
Toronto Centre for the Arts
5040 Yonge Street,
Toronto, Ontario M2N 6R8

After 4 years of development with performances in Philadelphia, Warsaw Poland, Halifax and New York, Bella: the Colour of Love is being presented by The Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company for a three week run in Toronto, Running from October 15th to November 2nd
Tickets go on sale at
www.hgjewishtheatre.com/201415_Bella.html

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1548504912031371/

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A CELEBRATION OF YIDDISH HONORING CHANE YACHNESS
Please come and enjoy a celebration of Eastern European Yiddishkeyt through song, stories and food. Dedicated to those who gave of their lives at great sacrifice so that we could have a better life here in the goldene medine (Golden Land).

This celebration is in honor of Chane Yachness whose yortsayt is September 29, 2014. Teacher, soldier of Yiddish: Yiddish language, Yiddish song and Yiddish culture - and the love of my life. The well-known New York performer Hy Wolfe will present a program of Yiddish songs and stories, accompanied on the piano by Steve Stern. Professor Eugene Orenstein will share readings.
Ted ‘Wolf’ Haendel

Woodstock Jewish Congregation
1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock, NY 12498
November 2, 2014
2:00 to 4:00 PM
Information at: 845-246-4908

The event is free and all are welcome!

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Klezmer session at The Harrison

Sunday Nov 2, 2014, 8-10.30pm
The Harrison,
28 Harrison Street,
London WC1H 8JF

The London Klezmer Quartet anchors this monthly slot. Bring an instrument and a tune to share, or just come along to listen.

pdfs of tunes

Free entry

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