KlezCalendar

NY Klezmer Series Presents:
Aaron Alexander & The Klez Messengers CD Release: w/Michael Winograd & Patrick Farrell

Wed, Dec 2, concert begins 8:15pm; events 6-10:45pm
Zeb's Place
223 W.28th St., 2nd Floor (above plumbing supply store)
NYC

Concert begins at 8:15pm - $15
Klezmer Instrumental Music Workshop 6pm-7:30 $25 per class
Jam Session follows Concert 9:30-10:15
Full night pass – $35 (includes Workshop, Concert & Jam Session)

More info: www.NYklezmer.com

Aaron Alexander has a long history of performing Klezmer music (and Jazz) on a high level with many of the renowned artists in the genre. He has been playing Klezmer music for over 27 years, and he finally decided to make a traditional Klezmer recording as a leader, (having appeared on dozens as a sideman). Alexander invited two of the finest young(ish) Klezmorim in the world to join him: Michael Winograd on clarinet, and Patrick Farrell on accordion. The three have some experience playing together. This recording was done by design without extensive rehearsal, in order to capture the feeling of playing “tunes we know” without overly self-conscious tentativeness.

Together they have made a CD here that reflects their deep experience with this music and has a feeling of spontanaeity and joy, the love of this music, the party music of the Jewish People of Eastern Europe and Brooklyn and Hell’s Kitchen.
Please come help us celebrate this trio’s new CD!

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Judith Berkson

Wed, Dec 2, 2015, 7pm
YIVO
15 W. 16th St.,
NYC

Acclaimed singer-musician Judith Berkson presents arrangements of cantorial music from YIVO’s sound archives, including unreleased and rare recordings from Eastern Europe’s golden age of cantorial singing. Berkson, Frank London, Lana Cencic, and Cleek Schrey reinterpret the sounds of Berele Chagy, Yechiel Karniol, and Sophie Kurtzer, and perform original works by Berkson inspired by the YIVO sound collections.

More info: hyivo.org/berkson

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National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
the golden bridge (di goldene kale)

Wed, Dec 2, 2015, 7:30pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place
NYC

Tix: web.ovationtix.com/

Sure to be a cultural cornerstone of the season, don't miss this rediscovered and restored classic operetta masterpiece. Performed with a cast of 20 and 14-piece orchestra, The Golden Bride will debut to an audience for the first time in 70 years!
More info: www.facebook.com/folksbiene/

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Andy Statman Trio

Wed, 2 Dec, 2015, 8pm
Barbés
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave)
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NYC

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The London Klezmer Quartet

Wednesday 2 December, 2015, 8pm
Benslow Music,
Benslow Lane,
Hitchin, Herts. SG4 9RB, UK

More info/tix: www.benslowmusic.org/index.asp?PageID=1377

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