KlezCalendar

TALK | The Essential Klezmer, with Seth Rogovoy

Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 2pm
Yiddish Book Center
1021 West St.
Amherst, MA 01002

MEMBERS | $8 GENERAL ADMISSION | $10
Lecture tix/more info

Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock's artistic director and the author of The Essential Klezmer, takes the audience on a multimedia journey through klezmer, from Old World shtetls to New World stages, providing historical context for the music you will hear during the weekend.

Yidstock 2017: The Festival of New Yiddish Music
Thu July 13, 2016 - Sun July 16, 2016

Festival info from the Yiddish Book Center website

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TALK | The Music of the Hassidim, with Hankus Netsky

Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 4pm
Yiddish Book Center
1021 West St.
Amherst, MA 01002

MEMBERS | $8 GENERAL ADMISSION | $10
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Since the early 1960s, Hassidic music has become increasingly central to both mainstream and alternative Jewish religious practice. Since the 1980s, it's also become a crucial component of the klezmer and Yiddish music revival. Hankus Netsky explores the evolution of Hassidic music, from its inception in the late 1700s to today.

Yidstock 2017: The Festival of New Yiddish Music
Thu July 13, 2016 - Sun July 16, 2016

Festival info from the Yiddish Book Center website

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Thurs, Jul 13, 2017, 8-11pm
The Harrison,
28 Harrison Street,
London WC1H 8JF

2nd Thursday of each month: Balkan, gypsy, klezmer, Russian music - even a bit of Turkish or Greek.... come and share your tunes at the 2nd Thursday East European jam, downstairs at The Harrison from 8pm every month with house band 'Bucimis Trio' (Susi Evans, Matt Bacon and Chrisina Borgenstierna).

All instruments welcome, including brass and percussion

Free / Donation
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Eleanor Reissa & Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars

Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 8pm
Yiddish Book Center
1021 West St.
Amherst, MA 01002

MEMBERS | $45 GENERAL ADMISSION | $50
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Two of the leading lights of the Yiddish music renaissance join forces in this program based on their recent joint album, Vilde Mekhaye (Wild Ecstasy). The soulful and inimitable vocalist Eleanor Reissa - known as the queen of Yiddish cabaret - and trumpeter-composer Frank London - the mystical high priest of New Wave avant-klez jazz - have been inspiring each other for more than a decade. Together with the great Klezmer Brass Allstars, they explore the world of Yiddish song, from the obscure to the chestnuts, from the sacred to the profane, fueled by the best brass band in the land.

Yidstock 2017: The Festival of New Yiddish Music
Thu July 13, 2016 - Sun July 16, 2016
The Joan A. Backman Memorial Concert

Festival info from the Yiddish Book Center website

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