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Oran Etkin's Timbalooloo
Sun, Mar 8, 2015, 7:30pm
Leventhal-Sidman JCC
333 Nahanton St.
Newton, MA
Tickets: $12/advance; $10/advance JCC members; $15/door. Purchase online
A sensational, hand clapping, foot-stomping interactive family introduction to jazz by award winning clarinetist, Oran Etkin.
More info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events/oran-etkins-timbalooloo/
The Aftselokhes Spectacle Committee, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice & The Workmen's Circle present:
Your Roots Are Showing: An Underground Purim Botanical
Purim 2015! Three events, three days!
Join us for a long weekend of carnival and community celebration as we unveil the results of months of collaboration, organizing, rehearsing, and endlessly inventive spectacle engineering.
Sunday, March 8 - CARNIVAL FOR ALL AGES
1-4 PM
Union Temple
17 Eastern Parkway at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
2/3 to Brooklyn Museum, Q to 7th Ave, S to Botanic Gardens
A sumptuous, topsy turvy, social justice-themed Purim carnival featuring hand-made carnival games designed and built by kids and youth. Featuring an excerpt from the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee's Purimshpiel! Fun for all ages! Wear a costume of your own, or dress up from our costume chest and strike a pose in our photo booth.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/361185904087982
The Klezmatics
Pre-concert multimedia presentation by Nora Guthrie
Sun, 8 Mar 2015, 3pm
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
Campus Road at Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11210
Flash back to 1940s Coney Island, where Woody Guthrie and his wife settled into the raucous life on Mermaid Avenue. Inspired by his Jewish family and their community, he wrote hundreds of lyrics rich with spirituality, tenderness, and a passionate belief in the human fight for peace and justice. Now Guthrie’s poetry is given new life by the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, infusing his words with Eastern European, klezmer, Celtic, Afro-Caribbean, and folk flavors in a lively dialogue about the spiritual power of music to unite.
Note: Please join us at 12pm in the Woody Tanger Auditorium (located in the Brooklyn College Library) for a pre-show event with Nora Guthrie, founder and president of the Woody Guthrie Institute and Woody Guthrie Archives (and Woody's daughter), who will make a 90-minute multimedia presentation, entitled “Holy Ground: Woody Guthrie’s Yiddish Connection,” focusing on the artistic implications of Woody's relationship with his Jewish mother-in-law, Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt, and the eclectic life of the Guthrie family in 1940s Brooklyn. RSVP'S REQUIRED. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEATS (MAXIMUM 2 PER RESERVATION).
Tickets: $30
The Sarah Aroeste Quartet
Sun, Mar 8, 2015, 4:00pm
Temple Israel
125 Pond St.
Sharon, MA
Tickets: $20/advance; $25/door. Purchase online
Inspired by her family’s Sephardic roots, Aroeste writes and performs contemporary Ladino music.
More info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events/the-sarah-aroeste-quartet/
Diwan Saz
Sat, Mar 8, 2015, 7:00pm
Temple Shalom
175 Temple St.
W. Newton, MA
Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Tix available online
An exciting Israeli ensemble performing traditional Middle Eastern music from many traditions. Featuring Rabbi David Menachem, a rising star in the revival of piyyutim in Israel; Lubna Saleme featured vocalist with Nazareth Orchestra; and Mohammed Gaddir, a 14-year-old Bedouin singer.
Veretski Pass, featuring their new program, "Poyln"
Mar 8, 2016, 7:30pm
Jewish Museum Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Tix: 18 Euro
Kitka CD release concert
PLUS Shofar Award Ceremony honoring Ronnie Gilbert
Sun, Mar 8, 8pm
Freight and Salvage
2020 Addison St.
Berkeley, CA
Tickets: $22 seniors, students, JCCEB members / $26 general—purchase tickets online
Celebrate International Women’s day with the internationally renowned, Oakland-based women’s vocal ensemble showcasing new Jewish music and traditional music of Eastern Europe. A local treasure, Kitka’s stunning dissonances, asymmetric rhythms, and lush harmonies will transport you to another world.
Part of the 30th Jewish Music Festival
More info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/kitka
Alicia Jo Rabins, w/Jess Walter, Tiphanie Yanique, Megan Snyder-Camp
Friday, March 13, 7:30pm
Hugo House
1634 11th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
Tickets: $25
Alicia Jo Rabins performs 3 new songs and Jess Walter, Tiphanie Yanique, and Megan Snyder-Camp read all brand-new material on the subject of "Parent Trap"
Tickets and more info here.
Isabelle Ganz and Jed Distler in "Sounds Jewish, Doesn't It"
Sun, Mar 8, 6pm
Cornelia St. Cafe
29 Cornelia St.
NYC
Jed Distler, pianist extraordinaire, and Isabelle Ganz, singer, will be performing the show, written by Ganz, "Sounds Jewish, Doesn't It?". The show musically illustrates the Jewish origins (folk song, Yiddish Theater and Cantorial) of many familiar Broadway songs. We also tell stories about the composers, most of whom were Jewish, with the exception of Cole Porter, who tried to make his tunes sound Jewish when he discovered what was successful!
The cover is $20, including one drink. Come laugh with us!