KlezCalendar

AN HISTORICAL ENCOUNTER!

For the first time, the major Jewish arts organizations of the world are coming together in New York City, at one time. Eight days and nights jam-packed with great plays, concerts, films, and lectures to inspire and entertain you! Presented by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene at Museum of Jewish Heritage in collaboration with UJA-Federation of New York.

A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

The award-winning National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, the longest running Yiddish theater in the world, has defied all odds to survive and has flourished for the past 100 years. We invite everyone from around the world to celebrate this milestone with us.

100 EVENTS, ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, SCHOLARS

We will present theater performances, outdoor concerts, films, dance, a symposium, nightly Klezkabarets, exhibits, lectures, and workshops. Theatre artists, musicians, and scholars in participation will represent over 30 countries across the globe.

More info: kulturfestnyc.org/

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Seth Kibel Quartet

Wednesday, May 6m 7 - 9pm
New Deal Cafe
113 Centerway
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770

No cover, although tips (and suggestions) are encouraged!

We'll be featuring a bunch of tunes from my new album, "No Words," as well as some favorites from the worlds of jazz, swing, klezmer, and more.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/890270937703882/

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The annual Workmen's Circle Taste of Jewish Culture Street Fair!

Sunday, Jun 21, 11am - 6pm
6th Avenue & 46th Street.
NYC

We're partnering with dozens of top food vendors including Baz Bagel & Restaurant, Breads Bakery,Brooklyn Seltzer Boys, Brooklyn Sesame, Dassara Brooklyn Ramen, The Gefilteria, Katz's Delicatessen, Kossar's Bialys, Mile End Deli, Shelsky's Smoked Fish and more.
Food isn't the only thing on the menu -- the Street Fair will also feature klezmer music by Paul Shapiro's Ribs and Brisket Revue and Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars, as well as a Judaica gift shop curated by The Jewish Museum. This Street Fair is presented in partnership with Folksbiene's KulturfestNYC

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Join together with dozens of fellow violinists in a unique expression of the beauty of klezmer. Alicia Svigals, widely regarded as one of klezmer’s greatest exponents, will lead a group of violinists of all ages and of varied experience levels in a free, outdoor event on the summer solstice.

Sunday, June 21, 2015. 3:00 pm
Joe's Pub
The Public Outdoor Stage
425 Lafayette St Astor Place and Lafayette
New York, NY 10003
FREE EVENT

Co-Presented with Make Music New York and the Museum of Jewish Heritage – Living Memorial to the Holocaust

Svigals has written a suite of tunes that will take players and listeners on a tour of the basic klezmer forms: horas, bulgars, freylekhs, and more. Playing the piece will start you on the path to the secrets of an authentic Yiddish playing style – the timbres and rhythmic feel, the modes and dance beats, slides, trills and krekhzn that make a violinist sound like a bonafide klezmer.

For more information or to sign up to perform in the event, please fill out the form here.

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Inna Barmash

Sunday, June 21at 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Museum at Eldridge Street
12 Eldridge St,
New York, New York 10002

Raw, beautiful and elegant. Chanteuse Inna Barmash presents a repertoire of Yiddish lullabies, love ballads, and songs of love gone wrong including rarely heard treasures of old Soviet-era anthologies collected in the shtetls of Ukraine in the early 20th century. Performed in one of the most visually stunning and acoustically beautiful sacred treasures of New York, the Museum at Eldridge Street in Chinatown.

Tix: $18 per person, available online

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/737781236350077/

Part of #KulturfestNYC week-long international Jewish performing arts festival (100+shows)

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MELANCHOLY, A COMEDY

Written &am; Performed by Sara Felder
Directed by Michael Moran

Runs: June 7 – June 28

San Francisco
Saturdays at 5pm | Sundays at 7pm

The Marsh San Francisco
1062 Valencia,
SF, CA 94110

Tix/more info: themarsh.org/melancholy/sara-felder/

What happens when the woman you just fell in love with leads you to the edge? What happens when the soon-to-be President of the United States is so mired in melancholy that he can’t get out of bed? Clearly, this is terrain that can only be navigated by a clown. Circus artist and solo theater veteran Sara Felder leads us from the Civil War to a Lincoln look-alike convention to the top of UC Berkeley’s Campanile in her new comedy about love, war and coloring outside the lines.

Sara Felder is “wry, funny, smart and lovable,” (Washington Post,) a “local performance treasure” (S. F. Chronicle,) and someone who has “chutzpah up the wazoo.” (S.F. Weekly)

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