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 19, 2015 features Metropolitan Klezmer

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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Alicia Jo Rabins, reading AND playing new songs
also appearing: NYC poet/filmmaker Daniel Wolff

Wednesday April 29, 2015, 7:30pm
Mountain Writers Series
TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont,
Portland, OR

$5 suggested donation

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דער אויפֿשטאַנד אין וואַרשעווער געטאָ: צום 72סטן יאָרטאָג
72nd anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising

Sunday, April 19th at 12 noon
Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza in Riverside Park,
west side of Riverside Drive between 83rd and 84th Street
NYC

This year as every year, we invite you to join us in remembering the victims of and fighters against the Nazi destruction of European Jewry as we gather in honor of the 72nd anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. This event is co-sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture, the Workmen's Circle/Arbeter-ring, the Jewish Labor Committee.

Chair: Marcel Kshensky, Ed.D

Artistic program:
Paula Teitelbaum will singYiddish songs and lead us in the Partizaner Himen and the Bundishe Shvue.

Irena Klepfisz, Annette Harchik, David Mandelbaum and Shane Baker, Recitations

We hope you will attend and bring friends and family as well.

The Congress for Jewish Culture gratefully acknowledges the Atran Foundation, the Bertha Foundation, and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of New York as well as private donors for their support of this and other programming.

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The London Klezmer Quartet

Sunday 19 April, 12.15-1.45pm
Sunday Buzz series at Arts Depot
Arts Depot,
5 Nether St.,
Finchley, London N12 0GA
FREE ENTRY

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Jaffa Road
SHIR ENERGY MUSIC FESTIVAL at TEMPLE SOLEL

Join us SUNDAY APRIL 19 at 3:15 pm
Temple Solel is in Cardiff By The Sea, a small community just outside of San Diego. We will be on the mainstage at their festival at 3:15 shortly before the headliner MATISYAHU hits the main stage.

On Monday April 20the at noon lead singer Temple Solel and the Leichtag Foundation will present Aviva Chernick doing a vocal workshop at the beautiful Leichtag Ranch in Encinitas.

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3 Leg Torso Performs with the Rogue Valley Symphony

Sunday, April 19th, 3 PM
Performing Arts Center, Grants Pass High
Grants Pass, OR

Join 3 Leg Torso for this long awaited collaboration with the Rogue Valley Symphony!
This has been a partnership that has been in the works for the last two years, and we are delighted that we get to perform ALL of our original and traditional compositions with a full symphony orchestra!

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Sunday, April 19, 3:00 p.m.
Jewish Music & Poetry Project
Center for New Music,
55 Taylor St.
San Francisco, CA

Nanette McGuinness, soprano, Dale Tsang, piano, and Adaiha MacAdam-Somer (the Jewish Music & Poetry Project) return from their Hungarian tour to perform the world premiere of newly commissioned works by Guggenheim Fellow Laura Schwendinger (Kay Ryan Songs), Bay Area rising composer Kurt Erickson (The Beautiful Wonders: Songs to Poems by Gertrud Kolmar) and David Garner’s Capriccio, along with music by Guggenheim Fellows Elena Ruehr and James Primosch, plus Sandor Vandor and Dallapiccola.

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Alicia Svigal's original score to the 1918 silent film classic, "the Yellow Ticket," starring Pola Negri, performed live by Klezmer Unfettered: Marilyn Lerner and Alicia Svigals

Sunday, April 19, 4 pm
Irvington Town Hall Theater,
85 Main Street,
Irvington, NY 10533

INFO AND TICKETS: $18 adult/$10 college student at www.irvingtontheater.com; $21/$13 at the door. 914.599.6602

The Yellow Ticket is a live multimedia concert event featuring the eponymous 1918 Pola Negri silent film with a performance of an original score by Alicia Svigals, one of the world's foremost klezmer fiddlers. The score is the newest commission from the Foundation's New Jewish Culture Network (NJCN) and marks the first feature-length film composition by Svigals who will perform live with virtuoso pianist Marilyn Lerner at each of the screenings of this cinema classic. Set in Poland and Tsarist Russia, the film portrays a woman's struggle to overcome adversity in a story of secret identifies, heroic measures, and triumphant love.

The Yellow Ticket PROMO from Jewish Culture on Vimeo.

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Yes, We Sang!
Three Choirs’ Musical Tribute to the victims of the Holocaust: Concert and sing-along

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

Sunday, April 19, 2015, 4:00 pm
JCC East Bay 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
General Admission $10, Seniors and Children FREE

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

More info: www.jcceastbay.org/events/2015/04/19/artsculture/yes-we-sang/

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Richárd Bernard's OY!Stars invade LAS VEGAS!!!!!!!

April 19, 2015, 6pm
Temple Beth Sholom
10700 Havenwood Lane
Las Vegas, Nevada, 89135

Open to the public (and others) after you buy a ticket!
Reserve your seats now at 702-777-3100

Or go to: tun.touro.edu/Klezmer/

Join us as we stage our daring desert raid
Featuring Richárd Bernard, Zinovy Goro, Miamon Miller, Gee Rabe & Greg Hosharian, even!

Join our Las Vegas gambol twixt traditional Klezmer & Yiddish through
Gypsy, vintage Jazz, garage Rock, Celtic, Latin, and Cowboy music!

A legit excuse to go to Vegas, courtesy of YOUR Richárd Bernard’s OY!Stars

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The Red Hot Chachkas
Special Reunion Concert

Sunday April 19th at 7:30pm
Cinnabar Theater,
3333 Petaluma Blvd. North
Petaluma, CA

featured former Chachkas Glenn Hartman (of New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars, accordion) and Michael Arrow (drums), with current Chachkas Julie Egger (violin), Barbara Speed (clarinet & winds), Tony Phillips (mandolin), Breck Diebel (bass).

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Concert: "Defending the Homeland: Rare Yiddish Songs of World War II"
Featuring Psoy Korolenko and Anna Shternshis

Sunday, April 19, 2015, 8pm
Al Green Theatre,
720 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, ON

Tickets $10 at the door. Free for students.

"Avant-bard" singer/songwriter/performer Psoy Korolenko and U of T Professor Anna Shternshis bring to life "lost" Yiddish songs of the Holocaust in this all-new concert and lecture program. Written and transcribed by surviving Ukrainian Jewish writers of the Kiev Cabinet for Jewish Culture after the war as a testament to their struggle for survival, these rare Yiddish artifacts were confiscated and hidden by the Soviet government in 1949, and have only recently come to light. Learn about the incredible stories behind these treasures, savour the music and revel in the creativity of Yiddish-speaking Holocaust survivors.

Co-presented by Ashkenaz Festival and Miles Nadal JCC

More info: cjs.utoronto.ca/events/calendar/global-yiddish-culture-1938-1948

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Litvakus
closes the Brooklyn Folk Festival (runs Apr 17-19)

April 19, 2015, 9:45pm
Brooklyn Folk Festival
St. Anne's Church,
157 Montague St,
Brooklyn, NY 11201

More info: www.brooklynfolkfest.com

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