KlezCalendar

Sunset Concert: Jews on Vinyl Revue
Produced by the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation

L.A. debut! This intergenerational collaboration of young local musicians and musical legends features international singing star Hedva Amrani, a rare appearance by visionary jazz pioneer and cellist Fred Katz, and Sol Zim (the "Tom Jones" of cantorial music). Backed by a house band led by L.A. guitarist David Green, this evening of song is not to be missed!

"Who were we to kvetch? [The Revue] sounded great. You don't have to be Jewish to dig Jewish music." ~Huffington Post

Part of the Sunset Concert series at the Skirball Cultural Center.

Thursday, August 19, 8:00 p.m.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
FREE; no reservations
Limited seating on a first-come, first-served basis
Plentiful on-site parking: $5 per car carrying three or more people, otherwise $10 per car (cash only)
Street parking strictly prohibited
Or take Metro Rapid Bus 761
Carpooling encouraged!

http://www.skirball.org

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Sunday, Jul 18, 2010, 8pm
Controlled Chaos and Brawny Braininess

Watcha Clan with Charming Hostess
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - Forum

Nomadic genre bending music with Berber, Algerian, Sephardi, Ashkenazi and French influences direct from Marseilles, France. With a Bay Area band renowned for its eerie harmony, hot rhythm and radical braininess. In association with New Frequencies, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

$20 students, seniors, YBCA and JCC East Bay members / $25 general
Tickets: 1-415-978-2787 or www.jewishmusicfestival.org

Nomadic genre bending music fronted by the charismatic Sistah K, with Berber, Algerian, Sephardi, Ashkenazi and French influences direct from Marseilles, France. "... controlled chaos in action" NPR. With a Bay Area band founded by Jewlia Eisenberg, renowned for its eerie harmony, hot rhythm and radical braininess. "... a dazzling diverse palette of influences drawn from the Jewish and African diasporas, with Andalusian cadences and Pygmy polyphony..."—SF Chronicle.

Co-sponsored by Gaia Fund. Presented in association with New Frequencies, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Saturday July 17 - Armando's, Martinez
Armando's is an intimate, close-to-the-music, get-to-know-the-performers, hot-spot for local talent, located at 707 Marina Vista, Martinez, CA [map]. Saturday July 17th, 8-11 pm. $10.

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25th Jewish Music Festival
July 11, 1 and 4pm
World Premiere Dan Plonsey's Bar Mitzvah with Dandelion Dancetheater
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street,
San Francisco
$18 students, seniors, JCC East Bay and CJM members / $22 INCLUDES MUSEUM ADMISSION

For tickets and information: www.jewishmusicfestival.org or 1.800.838.3006

Winner of the prestigious United States Broad Fellow Award, fearlessly experimental Bay Area composer Dan Plonsey and award-winning choreographer Eric Kupers explore what it means to become an adult in today's complicated world through music and dance. Co-sponsored by the East Bay Community Foundation Fund for Artists, Zellerbach Family Foundation and W. and F. Hewlett Foundation. Presented in association with the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2010
12 noon - 5pm
SIMCHA! 25th Jewish Music Festival Anniversary Party
FREE
Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco

Cavort with a clarinet at the Instrument Petting Zoo, add your voice to the Instant Harmony chorus, enjoy the music and make some of your own at this community event for all ages and backgrounds. Bring family, a picnic and instruments!

Co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. In association with the Community Music Center and Zambaleta World Music Institute.

tel: 1 510-848-0237
www.jewishmusicfestival.org

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July 11, 2010 12-6pm
25th Jewish Music Festival
The Bowls Project
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Sculpture Court,
entrance @ Mission & 3rd Street
FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION

Conceived by Jewlia Eisenberg, founder of the band Charming Hostess. The interactive sound installation is based on sex and magic in "demon bowls," amulets common in late-antique Babylon. Musical context for project is drawn from the female body, the rich traditions of the Babylonian Jews, and other diaspora sources, both Jewish and African.

Presented in association with New Frequencies, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
For more information: www.jewishmusicfestival.org
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Saturday, June 26 at 7:30 pm

The Yuval Ron Ensemble in Concert
performing Mystical Music of the Middle East

An inspirational celebration of Sacred Hebrew, Sufi and Armenian devotional music, poetry and story telling

Featuring: the soulful Yemenite singer, Maya Haddi
Armenian woodwind master Norik Manoukia
percussion Jamie Papish
Oud and musical director Yuval Ron

Location: Meditation Mount - 10340 Reeves Rd. Ojai, California 93023.
Admission: $20 advance, $25 at the door
For More Information: 805.646.5508

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Ashkenaz presents The Essentials, starring Stu Brotman and Jim Rebhan

Wednesday, June 23, Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center, Berkeley. Celebrate this first klezmer dance night at Ashkenaz, a venue that features live music and dancing every evening. Enjoy a concert with the world-class klezmer music of Stu Brotman (Veretski Pass & Brave Old World) and Jim Rebhan (Ellis Island Old World Folk Band & California Klezmer). Bruce Bierman will give a dance lesson and lead dancing during the performance. Doors open 7:30pm, dance lesson 8:00pm, show and dancing at 8:30pm. Only $10! See you there! We're hoping for a great turn-out so we can persuade Ashkenaz to schedule klezmer dancing more often!

More info: www.ashkenaz.com
510.525.5054.

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Closing night Performance
San Diego Jewish Arts Festival
Lyceum Stage, San Diego Rep

The city's most exciting klezmer concert returns with heart stopping tango to a Jewish beat. Join top musicians Camarada Ensemble as they bring "Tangele Nuevo", a fabulous show of exotic Jewish-flavored tango from South America and Europe. Live tango dancers and thrilling vocals from
special guest vocalist Elizabeth Schwartz bring tango with a Yiddish twist. Closing the program will be festival favorite a href="/contacts/klezbands_h.html#band.hotpstromi">Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi with klezmer classics from his extensive travels across Eastern Europe.

Tickets $18 (includes KOSHER KNISHES for all!)

San Diego Repertory Theatre
79 Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA 92101

box office: 619-544-1000
administration: 619-231-3586
www.sdrep.org

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Simcha Dance Jam—Free the Jewish dancer within!

Sunday, June 20, 3:00-5:00pm,
JCC East Bay, Berkeley.

Join Jewish dance specialist and choreographer Bruce Bierman for a unique monthly workshop that aims to free the Jewish dancer within! It will begin with guided poses and stretches inspired by the angular shapes of the Hebrew letters. Then, participants will explore the expressive movements and dramatic gestures behind the four main Jewish dance genres: Yemenite, Hasidic, Klezmer and Israeli. Finally, fit the moves of the ancestors to the grooves of your own imagination, as
participants create spontaneous new dances using a treasure box of Jewish dance vocabulary. All levels and dance experiences welcome. $10-$15, sliding scale. Presented by the JCC KlezCalifornia, and Jewish Music Festival. More info: 510.848.0237 or www.jcceastbay.org.

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Friday, June 18, 8:00 PM
Mamma Llama
490 Main Street
WEAVERVILLE, CA

$12-15
www.mammallama.com

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Let's Go Dance@Jessie Series
A Klezmer Wedding Celebration with Kugelplex
Thursday, June 3, 6:00pm-7:30pm, Free
Jessie Square (Mission between 3rd and 4th Streets, San Francisco)

With Kugelplex, the Bay Area's most rockin' purveyor of old world Klezmer, join the wedding procession of Sharon and Amber into a madcap whirl of clapping, stomping and easy to follow dances led by Klezmer dance maven, Bruce Bierman. Enjoy the vocals of celebrated recording artist, Jewlia Eisenberg, and the comic antics of David Rosenfeld-as we celebrate love in a circle of dancing community.

Kugelplex will be celebrating marriage equality for all with a blowout dance party featuring our dear friends, Sharon and Amber, recently married when it was legal, and now very active in the fight for marriage equality. They are both wonderful spokespeople for legalizing same sex marriage. Unable to dance for their wedding ceremony at the time and because klezmer music and dance have their deepest roots in the Jewish wedding celebration, this will be the party we had always wanted to give them.

Let's Go Dance@Jessie is a free monthly open-air dance party in Jessie Square in front of the Contemporary Jewish Museum and next to St. Patrick's Church in downtown San Francisco on the First Thursday of each month from May to October from 6:00pm to 7:30pm. The series offers dance lessons and music from today's best Bay Area artists.

www.ybgf.org

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The Red Hot Chachkas, Kugelplex, and Steven Saxon present an evening of klezmer

Thursday May 20, 8pm
Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
2020 Addison St. (near Shattuck Ave. & Downtown Berkeley BART)
Berkeley, CA

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Sunday, May 16, 3:00-5:00pm,
Simcha Dance Jam,
a monthly Jewish dance workshop with Bruce Bierman, at the JCC East Bay. In this new format, Bruce will teach Jewish dances of all kinds: klezmer/Yiddish, Hasidic, Israeli, Yemenite, and more. Presented by the JCC and KlezCalfornia.

More info: 415.789.7679,
www.jcceastbay.org
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Klezmer Brunch with EXTREME KLEZMER MAKEOVER Sat May 8, 2010 11AM-1PM
The Talking Stick Cafe, 1411 Lincoln Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
NO COVER NO MINIMUM
www.thetalkingstick.net
www.extremeklezmer.com
2 hours of exuberant, whimsical, whining, driving klezmer rhythms & melodies and good eats. Warm comfortable kid friendly atmosphere to kick back, nosh or dance. Featuring Joellen Lapidus, Dan Radlauer, Tom Tally, Dan Dungan and Carlos Hatem.

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Saturday May 1
Doors open 7:30pm, show at 8pm.

Concert at the Red Poppy Art House,
2698 Folsom St.,
San Francisco.

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April 13th, 7PM: "SOULS ON FIRE" A presentation of the
beauty and borrowings from Flamenco, Ladino and Moorish
music from the "Golden Age" of Spain.

Yale Strom - violin,
Elizabeth Schwartz - Ladino vocals
Jeff Pekarek - bass
Jesus Montoya - Flamenco vocals
Marco - cajon
Adam del Monte - flamenco/classical guitar

with special guest flamenco dancer from Spain LAKSHMI
BASILE.

Place: Smith Recital Hall, San Diego State University(Music
Building)

For more information call : 619 594-5327/5185

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Thursday, April 8, 7:30pm,
Heather Klein's Inextinguishable Trio: Hungry for Yiddish,
BJE Jewish Community Library.
San Francisco.
More info: 415.567.3327 X703,
www.bjesf.org/library.htm.

KlezCalifornia is a co-sponsor.

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Klezmer Buenos Aires
Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:30 PM

Order tickets online now for Klezmer Buenos Aires

This brilliant duo presents a stellar blend of klezmer, Argentinean folk music, tango and jazz improvisation. Their stunning virtuosity on flutes, wooden flutes, bagpipe, duduk (wind instrument), clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, harmonica, accordion, piano and percussion sounds more like an orchestra than a duet.

JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut St.
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-848-0237

$15 General/ $12 Members, Seniors, and Students
For more information: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events

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Klezmer Buenos Aires
Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:30 PM

Order tickets online now for Klezmer Buenos Aires

This brilliant duo presents a stellar blend of klezmer, Argentinean folk music, tango and jazz improvisation. Their stunning virtuosity on flutes, wooden flutes, bagpipe, duduk (wind instrument), clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, harmonica, accordion, piano and percussion sounds more like an orchestra than a duet.

JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut St.
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-848-0237

$15 General/ $12 Members, Seniors, and Students
For more information: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events

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Saints and Tzadiks
Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:00 PM

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Through archives and old recordings, Grammy-winning vocalists Susan McKeown and Lorin Sklamberg and band have gathered a rich mix of songs from Jewish and Irish traditions on love, death, betrothal, betrayal and the demon drink. Be prepared to laugh, cry, mourn and rejoice.

Freight and Salvage Coffee House
2020 Addison St.
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 644-2020

$24.50 in advance/ $25.50 at the door

More info at www.thefreight.org

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Saints and Tzadiks
Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:00 PM

Order tickets online now for Saints and Tzadiks

Through archives and old recordings, Grammy-winning vocalists Susan McKeown and Lorin Sklamberg and band have gathered a rich mix of songs from Jewish and Irish traditions on love, death, betrothal, betrayal and the demon drink. Be prepared to laugh, cry, mourn and rejoice.

Freight and Salvage Coffee House
2020 Addison St.
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 644-2020

$24.50 in advance/ $25.50 at the door

More info at www.thefreight.org

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Sunday, March 28, 2010, 7:00 pm

Strings of the Soul
An intimate recital of Sacred Sufi and Hebrew Music\
with International composer, world music artist, educator and Oud player Yuval Ron

Featuring:
the enchanting Harpist, Diana Rowan
Kamanche player, Brad Wright

Location: The enchanting beautiful space of Out of Asia 3249 S La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90016
Admission: $20

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Sunday, March 28
Switchboard Music Festival
The third annual Switchboard Music Festival is an 8-hour, non-stop music spectacle presenting composers and musicians who push the boundaries of their respective genres. No other Bay Area music festival or concert series offers such an eclectic, genre-crossing, convention-breaking, bastardizing group of experimentalists, innovators, and musical omnivores in a single event.
www.switchboardmusic.com

Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
(at Mission and 24th St. BART)
San Francisco, CA 94110

Schedule:
2:00 Thorny Brocky
2:45 Strike Gently: Solo Piano
3:30 Teslim
4:10 Sqwonk
4:55 Luciano Chessa and Jonathan Russell
5:35 Sabbaticus Rex
6:15 Real Vocal String Quartet
7:00 Billygoat
7:45 Matt Small's Chamber Ensemble
8:30 Zoe Keating
9:20 miRthkon

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Saturday, March 27, 2010, 8:00 pm

Finding the Inner Soul
A private home intimate recital of Sacred Music and the Spiritual Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
with The Yuval Ron Ensemble

Featuring:
the enchanting Harpist, Diana Rowan
Kamanche player, Brad Wright
Oud and musical director: Yuval Ron
Poetry reading: Mark Robert Waldman

Location: Olandar, Home of Carla and Leigh McCloskey 6032 Philip Avenue Malibu, CA 90265
RSVP as Space is Limited!
Admission: $20
For more information and RSVP: Please call, 310-457-5398

In addition to the concert, the audience is invited to tour Leigh McCloskey's studio, Hieroglyph of the Human Soul.
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Diaspora Redux - American Premiere
Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 7:00 PM

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A brilliant septet from New York, Berlin and Buenos Aires – three great melting-pots and cradles of contemporary jazz, klezmer, tango, and avant-garde music. Created and directed by Alan Bern of the world renowned band Brave Old World, and including Klezmer Buenos Aires, musical wizardry from Argentina

Freight and Salvage Coffee House
2020 Addison St.
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 644-2020

$30.50 in advance/ $31.50 at the door

More info at www.thefreight.org/diaspora-redux

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Diaspora Redux - American Premiere
Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 7:00 PM

Order tickets online now for Diaspora Redux - American Premiere

A brilliant septet from New York, Berlin and Buenos Aires – three great melting-pots and cradles of contemporary jazz, klezmer, tango, and avant-garde music. Created and directed by Alan Bern of the world renowned band Brave Old World, and including Klezmer Buenos Aires, musical wizardry from Argentina

Freight and Salvage Coffee House
2020 Addison St.
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 644-2020

$30.50 in advance/ $31.50 at the door

More info at www.thefreight.org/diaspora-redux

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Zmiros
Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:00 PM

Service and Concert

Stunning sacred songs for Shabbos and Pesach with Lorin Sklamberg and Frank London, of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics

Temple Beth Sholom
642 Dolores Ave.
San Leandro, CA 94577

FREE

510-357-8505
For more information: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events

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Master class: Improvisation in New Jewish Music
Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:30 AM until 4:30 PM

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A four hour Master class with Alan Bern (Brave Old World), Paul Brody, Cesar Lerner and Martin Lillich.
Freight and Salvage Coffee House
2020 Addison St
Berkeley, CA
(510) 644-2020

$50

Enroll Now!
For more information: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events

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Friday March 26, 7:00-9:00pm, Daphna Rahmil and Bruce Barley play klezmer. Enjoy a full dinner with wine country cuisine or come just for the music and drinks on the patio of the Essanay Café, in the Niles District of Fremont.

No cover charge.
More info: 510.792.0112,
www.essanaycafe.com.

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Zmiros
Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:00 PM

Service and Concert

Stunning sacred songs for Shabbos and Pesach with Lorin Sklamberg and Frank London, of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics

Temple Beth Sholom
642 Dolores Ave.
San Leandro, CA 94577

FREE

510-357-8505
For more information: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events

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Master class: Improvisation in New Jewish Music
Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:30 AM until 4:30 PM

Order tickets online now for Master class: Improvisation in New Jewish Music

A four hour Master class with Alan Bern (Brave Old World), Paul Brody, Cesar Lerner and Martin Lillich.
Freight and Salvage Coffee House
2020 Addison St
Berkeley, CA
(510) 644-2020

$50

Enroll Now!
For more information: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events

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Les Yeux Noirs
Sunday, March 21
7:30pm
Osher Marin JCC
200 N San Pedro Road
San Rafael, CA 94903
Phone: 415.444.8000
$23 members/ $26 general
www.marinjcc.org

This Paris-based sextet offers an irresistible invitation to participate in some of the most rhythmic and emotional sounds emanating from any part of the world. Part gypsy, part klezmer, this is the music that has moved people to sing and dance around the world for centuries.

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Les Yeux Noirs
Sunday, March 21
7:30pm
Osher Marin JCC
200 N San Pedro Road
San Rafael, CA 94903
Phone: 415.444.8000
$23 members/ $26 general
www.marinjcc.org

This Paris-based sextet offers an irresistible invitation to participate in some of the most rhythmic and emotional sounds emanating from any part of the world. Part gypsy, part klezmer, this is the music that has moved people to sing and dance around the world for centuries.

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Yuval Ron: Sacred Jewish and Muslim Music of the Middle East
Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:00 PM

Order tickets online now for Yuval Ron: Sacred Jewish and Muslim Music of the Middle East

Pre-Concert Public talk 7:00 – 7:30 pm

The Yuval Ron Ensemble, with Dervish Aziz, from the Mevlavi Sufi Order

World-music artist, composer, producer, educator and peace activist, Yuval Ron and his ensemble unite the sacred music traditions of Judaism, Sufism and the Armenian Church.

Presented in association with the Centers for Jewish Studies and for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Progressive Jewish Alliance and Congregation Sherith Israel

JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, CA 94709

$25 general / $20 seniors, students and JCC members
For more information: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events

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Please join us on Sunday, March 14 for a rare double-header of Yiddish culture

for body and soul (layb un lebn) featuring special guest from New York (and St. Petersburg, Kiev, Berlin, etc.)

Michael Alpert - renowned performer, ethnographer, dance master.

Join us for either or both (2-4 PM and/or 4-6 PM) - special admission for both! (See below for full details

or follow this link: www.yiddishinstitute.org )

Both Events

General Admission: $20, Members: $18, FT Students: $12

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Yale Strom (violin), Mark Dresser (bass) and Elizabeth Schwartz (vocals) in concert at Studio Zero on Feb. 27th 8pm. Location: 789 Orpheus Ave. Encinitas, CA 92024. Free parking at the end of the driveway at Encinitas School of Music. Tickets: General public 15.00 students 12.00. Strom, Schwartz and Dresser will perform traditional and new klezmer tunes mixed with a heavy dose of kinetic improvisation.

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KlezCalifornia & Congregation Etz Chayim present
KlezCalifornia Yiddish Culture Festival

February 12-15, 2010, in Palo Alto (Presidents' Day Weekend)

• Veretski Pass


• Frank London


• Christian Dawid


• Steve Weintraub

Join us for the Yiddish Culture Festival at Congregation Etz Chayim (4161 Alma St, Palo Alto CA, map) over Presidents' Day Weekend. It's all shaping up to be a terrific mini-vacation for all of us this winter.

Get updates from our monthly newsletter, visit our website often, and most importantly PUT THE FESTIVAL DATES ON YOUR CALENDAR AND REGISTER NOW!

Questions? 415.789.7679.
www.klezcalifornia.org

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Veretski Pass
Feb 14, 2010, 8PM, Performance of “The Klezmer Shul”,
followed by Q and A discussion with the musicians and klezmer dance party.

Congregation Etz Chayim,
4161 Alma Street, Palo Alto, CA
Tickets and more info: 415-789-7679

www.klezcalifornia.org

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KlezCalifornia & Congregation Etz Chayim present
KlezCalifornia Yiddish Culture Festival

February 12-15, 2010, in Palo Alto (Presidents' Day Weekend)

• Veretski Pass


• Frank London


• Christian Dawid


• Steve Weintraub

Join us for the Yiddish Culture Festival at Congregation Etz Chayim (4161 Alma St, Palo Alto CA, map) over Presidents' Day Weekend. It's all shaping up to be a terrific mini-vacation for all of us this winter.

Get updates from our monthly newsletter, visit our website often, and most importantly PUT THE FESTIVAL DATES ON YOUR CALENDAR AND REGISTER NOW!

Questions? 415.789.7679.
www.klezcalifornia.org

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KlezCalifornia & Congregation Etz Chayim present
KlezCalifornia Yiddish Culture Festival

February 12-15, 2010, in Palo Alto (Presidents' Day Weekend)

• Veretski Pass


• Frank London


• Christian Dawid


• Steve Weintraub

Join us for the Yiddish Culture Festival at Congregation Etz Chayim (4161 Alma St, Palo Alto CA, map) over Presidents' Day Weekend. It's all shaping up to be a terrific mini-vacation for all of us this winter.

Get updates from our monthly newsletter, visit our website often, and most importantly PUT THE FESTIVAL DATES ON YOUR CALENDAR AND REGISTER NOW!

Questions? 415.789.7679.
www.klezcalifornia.org

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Veretski Pass
Feb 10, 2010, 8PM, Performance of "The Klezmer Shul"

Netivot Shalom, 1316 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702-1711

Tickets: $15 suggested donation at the door
Tel: (510)549-9447

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Veretski Pass
Feb 8, 2010, 8 PM, Bay Area Premiere Performance of "The Klezmer Shul," followed by Q and A discussion with the musicians.

Temple Israel, 3183 Mecartney Road
Alameda, CA 94502-6912
Tickets: $15 reservations, $18 at the door
Tel: (510)522-9355

More info on The Klezmer Shul.

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Beyond the Pale

Monday February 8, 7:30pm - Santa Cruz, CA
Don Quixote's International Music Hall
6275 Highway 9, Felton, CA
$10 / 831-603-2294
www.donquixotesmusic.info

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Sunday, February 7th - 1pm-3pm

Klezmer Brunch at the Red Poppy Art House, SF

Join Kugelplex for music, dancing, and brunch (the way my Grandma used to make it back in Brooklyn)...

Dan Cantrell: accordion
Marguerite Ostro: violin
David Rosenfeld: mandolin
Eugene Warren: bass
Michael Pinkham: percussion
Jason Ditzian: clarinet

With special guests:

Jewlia Eisenberg: vocals
Bruce Bierman: dance leader

$10 - $20 admission ($20 suggested with meal). Performance/brunch from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm.

Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom St.
SF, CA 94110
http://www.redpoppyarthouse.org/

www.kugelplex.com

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Beyond the Pale

Sunday February 7, 8pm - Berkeley, CA
Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison St.
$18.50 in advance / $19.50 at door
510-644-2020
www.freightandsalvage.org

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Beyond the Pale

Sunday February 6, 8pm - San Diego, CA
Dizzy's @ San Diego Wine and Culinary Center
200 Harbour Dr. (Harbour Club Towers, 2nd and J street)
$15 / $10 students
www.dizzysjazz.com

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Beyond the Pale

Thursday February 4, 8pm - Los Angeles, CA
Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd
$30 General / $25 members / $20 students
310-440-4500
www.skirball.org

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Arbeter Ring of California celebration concert, Jan. 31
Janet Hadda To Be Honored in Los Angeles

Honoring our Heroes, Raising our Voices:
Awards Celebration and Concert with Roy Zimmerman

Sunday, January 31, 2010. Reception at 1:30 pm, Program at 2:30 pm

Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City, 12355 Moorpark Street,
Studio City, California 91604

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7 PM: COMMON CHORDS - Salman Ahmad, Yale Strom, Elizabeth Schwartz and Muhammad Saleem present a UnityJam concert to benefit two non-profit organizations: the SALMAN & SAMINA GLOBAL WELLNESS INITIATIVE, working to help Pakistan's million impoverished IDPs (internally-displaced persons),
and ABRAHAM'S VISION, which educates Muslim, Jewish, Palestinian, and Israeli communities in inter- and intra-communal conflict transformation.

Spangenberg Theater
780 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto CA
For tickets and information, go to:
http://www.abrahamsvision.org/unityjam2010

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Join Extreme Klezmer Makeover Band (extremeklezmer.com) at their monthly klezmer brunch on Saturday, Jan 9, 2010, from 11AM-1PM at The Talking Stick Cafe in Venice, CA. There is no cover and no minimum for this event located at 1411 Lincoln Blvd., Venice, CA 90291. Come enjoy the exuberant, rapturous, whining, laughing, moaning, driving rhythms and melodies of Extreme Klezmer Makeover, accompanied by wonderful food and beverages in a warm casual atmosphere.

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Thursday, December 31 2009 at 7pm
Rumi and Sacred Music for the New Year

An intimate evening of Rumi's poetry and sacred Sufi music
with

• Claire Hartley - poetry reading


• Yuval Ron - oud


• Osman Abbasoglu - ney flute

Rising Lotus Yoga
13557 Ventura blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
admission: $15
for more info: (818) 990-0282
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The 17th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant
Dec 24-27, 2009

New Asia Restaurant
772 Pacific Ave (Grant & Stockton)
San Francisco's Chinatown

Come celebrate Christmas the Jewish Way—in a Chinese restaurant with Jewish comedy. Now celebrating its 17th year, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy continues to provide an answer to the age-old question, "What are Jews supposed to do on Christmas?"

This year features:

• Jonathan Katz (Dr Katz, Professional Therapist)


• Brian Malow ("science comedian")


• Hilary Schwartz (NY comic)


• Lisa Geduldig (your hostess)

Tix: Dinner Show ($62) & Cocktail Show ($42)

5pm Dinner Show/8:30pm Cocktail Show
Tix: 925-275-9005 or www.koshercomedy.com

Info: 415-522-3737 or www.koshercomedy.com

Partial proceeds will benefit: National MS Society Northern CA Chapter AND JFCS/East Bay's Refugee & Immigrant Services.

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The 17th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant
Dec 24-27, 2009

New Asia Restaurant
772 Pacific Ave (Grant & Stockton)
San Francisco's Chinatown

Come celebrate Christmas the Jewish Way—in a Chinese restaurant with Jewish comedy. Now celebrating its 17th year, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy continues to provide an answer to the age-old question, "What are Jews supposed to do on Christmas?"

This year features:

• Jonathan Katz (Dr Katz, Professional Therapist)


• Brian Malow ("science comedian")


• Hilary Schwartz (NY comic)


• Lisa Geduldig (your hostess)

Tix: Dinner Show ($62) & Cocktail Show ($42)

5pm Dinner Show/8:30pm Cocktail Show
Tix: 925-275-9005 or www.koshercomedy.com

Info: 415-522-3737 or www.koshercomedy.com

Partial proceeds will benefit: National MS Society Northern CA Chapter AND JFCS/East Bay's Refugee & Immigrant Services.

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The 17th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant
Dec 24-27, 2009

New Asia Restaurant
772 Pacific Ave (Grant & Stockton)
San Francisco's Chinatown

Come celebrate Christmas the Jewish Way—in a Chinese restaurant with Jewish comedy. Now celebrating its 17th year, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy continues to provide an answer to the age-old question, "What are Jews supposed to do on Christmas?"

This year features:

• Jonathan Katz (Dr Katz, Professional Therapist)


• Brian Malow ("science comedian")


• Hilary Schwartz (NY comic)


• Lisa Geduldig (your hostess)

Tix: Dinner Show ($62) & Cocktail Show ($42)

Dec 24-27: 6pm Dinner Show/9:30pm Cocktail Show
Dec 27: 5pm Dinner Show/8:30pm Cocktail Show
Tix: 925-275-9005 or www.koshercomedy.com

Info: 415-522-3737 or www.koshercomedy.com

Partial proceeds will benefit: National MS Society Northern CA Chapter AND JFCS/East Bay's Refugee & Immigrant Services.

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The 17th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant
Dec 24-27, 2009

New Asia Restaurant
772 Pacific Ave (Grant & Stockton)
San Francisco's Chinatown

Come celebrate Christmas the Jewish Way—in a Chinese restaurant with Jewish comedy. Now celebrating its 17th year, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy continues to provide an answer to the age-old question, "What are Jews supposed to do on Christmas?"

This year features:

• Jonathan Katz (Dr Katz, Professional Therapist)


• Brian Malow ("science comedian")


• Hilary Schwartz (NY comic)


• Lisa Geduldig (your hostess)

Tix: Dinner Show ($62) & Cocktail Show ($42)

Dec 24-27: 6pm Dinner Show/9:30pm Cocktail Show
Dec 27: 5pm Dinner Show/8:30pm Cocktail Show
Tix: 925-275-9005 or www.koshercomedy.com

Info: 415-522-3737 or www.koshercomedy.com

Partial proceeds will benefit: National MS Society Northern CA Chapter AND JFCS/East Bay's Refugee & Immigrant Services.

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Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 4 pm

"Eyt Ratzon"
An afternoon of Sacred meditative music, Mystical teachings and Havdalah ritual with Rabbi T'mimah Ickovits and Yuval Ron

Please join us for an introspective performance on the Oud (Middle Eastern Lute, originating from Biblical times and according to legend was invented by Lamech - the 6h grandson of Adam), weaved with Kabalistic teaching for the special time of Shabbat afternoon. Event will commence with Seudat Shlishi (Shabbat's third light meal) - Kiddish and snacks.

Location: Private home in Santa Monica, CA
For Reservations, Address and Directions: Tel: 310-450-8808
Suggested donation after Havdalah: $20

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The 17th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant
Dec 24-27, 2009

New Asia Restaurant
772 Pacific Ave (Grant & Stockton)
San Francisco's Chinatown

Come celebrate Christmas the Jewish Way—in a Chinese restaurant with Jewish comedy. Now celebrating its 17th year, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy continues to provide an answer to the age-old question, "What are Jews supposed to do on Christmas?"

This year features:

• Jonathan Katz (Dr Katz, Professional Therapist)


• Brian Malow ("science comedian")


• Hilary Schwartz (NY comic)


• Lisa Geduldig (your hostess)

Tix: Dinner Show ($62) & Cocktail Show ($42)

Dec 24-27: 6pm Dinner Show/9:30pm Cocktail Show
Dec 27: 5pm Dinner Show/8:30pm Cocktail Show
Tix: 925-275-9005 or www.koshercomedy.com

Info: 415-522-3737 or www.koshercomedy.com

Partial proceeds will benefit: National MS Society Northern CA Chapter AND JFCS/East Bay's Refugee & Immigrant Services.

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The 17th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant
Dec 24-27, 2009

New Asia Restaurant
772 Pacific Ave (Grant & Stockton)
San Francisco's Chinatown

Come celebrate Christmas the Jewish Way—in a Chinese restaurant with Jewish comedy. Now celebrating its 17th year, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy continues to provide an answer to the age-old question, "What are Jews supposed to do on Christmas?"

This year features:

• Jonathan Katz (Dr Katz, Professional Therapist)


• Brian Malow ("science comedian")


• Hilary Schwartz (NY comic)


• Lisa Geduldig (your hostess)

Tix: Dinner Show ($62) & Cocktail Show ($42)

Dec 24-27: 6pm Dinner Show/9:30pm Cocktail Show
Dec 27: 5pm Dinner Show/8:30pm Cocktail Show
Tix: 925-275-9005 or www.koshercomedy.com

Info: 415-522-3737 or www.koshercomedy.com

Partial proceeds will benefit: National MS Society Northern CA Chapter AND JFCS/East Bay's Refugee & Immigrant Services.

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The 17th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant
Dec 24-27, 2009

New Asia Restaurant
772 Pacific Ave (Grant & Stockton)
San Francisco's Chinatown

Come celebrate Christmas the Jewish Way—in a Chinese restaurant with Jewish comedy. Now celebrating its 17th year, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy continues to provide an answer to the age-old question, "What are Jews supposed to do on Christmas?"

This year features:

• Jonathan Katz (Dr Katz, Professional Therapist)


• Brian Malow ("science comedian")


• Hilary Schwartz (NY comic)


• Lisa Geduldig (your hostess)

Tix: Dinner Show ($62) & Cocktail Show ($42)

Dec 24-27: 6pm Dinner Show/9:30pm Cocktail Show
Dec 27: 5pm Dinner Show/8:30pm Cocktail Show
Tix: 925-275-9005 or www.koshercomedy.com

Info: 415-522-3737 or www.koshercomedy.com

Partial proceeds will benefit: National MS Society Northern CA Chapter AND JFCS/East Bay's Refugee & Immigrant Services.

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The 17th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant
Dec 24-27, 2009

New Asia Restaurant
772 Pacific Ave (Grant & Stockton)
San Francisco's Chinatown

Come celebrate Christmas the Jewish Way—in a Chinese restaurant with Jewish comedy. Now celebrating its 17th year, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy continues to provide an answer to the age-old question, "What are Jews supposed to do on Christmas?"

This year features:

• Jonathan Katz (Dr Katz, Professional Therapist)


• Brian Malow ("science comedian")


• Hilary Schwartz (NY comic)


• Lisa Geduldig (your hostess)

Tix: Dinner Show ($62) & Cocktail Show ($42)

Dec 24-27: 6pm Dinner Show/9:30pm Cocktail Show
Dec 27: 5pm Dinner Show/8:30pm Cocktail Show
Tix: 925-275-9005 or www.koshercomedy.com

Info: 415-522-3737 or www.koshercomedy.com

Partial proceeds will benefit: National MS Society Northern CA Chapter AND JFCS/East Bay's Refugee & Immigrant Services.

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Saturday October 3 at Armando's, Martinez

Armando's is an intimate, close-to-the-music, get-to-know-the-performers, hot-spot for local talent. 707 Marina Vista, Martinez. Saturday Oct 3, 8-11 pm. Cover charge is $8, or 2 for $15.

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Balkan Beat Box
Earthdance Peace Festival
@ Black Oak Ranch (50350 North Hwy 101)
Laytonville, CA
September 25, 2009

BBB on at 10 pm

visit www.earthdance.org for more information

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Max Pashm

Sep 25 2009, 8:00P
Baxtalo Drom,
San Francisco, California

The Max Pashm sound is a unique blend of traditional Greek/Balkan/Gypsy & Klezmer music, fused with high energy electronic beats & digitally manipulated fx.
www.myspace.com/maxpashm
Check out Keith Wolzinger's Klezmer Podcast with the band

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Thursday, September 24, 2009, 8 pm

Paniolo Productions Presents:
The Lost Soul of Spain: Music of the Judeo-Arabic tradition of Andalusia

a concert with Yuval Ron Ensemble
featuring the soulful vocalist Maya Haddi

Location: Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Avenue, Venice, CA 90291
Admission: $17.00 advance at panioloproductions.com/paniolo_productions_store.html or $20.00 at the door
$15.00 discount (students, seniors)
For more information: panioloproductions.com/paniolo_productions_events.html
Directions and Parking Information: www.electriclodge.org/contact_us.cfm

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Max Pashm

Sep 24 2009, 8:00P
Hopmonk Tavern,
Sebastopol, California

The Max Pashm sound is a unique blend of traditional Greek/Balkan/Gypsy & Klezmer music, fused with high energy electronic beats & digitally manipulated fx.
www.myspace.com/maxpashm
Check out Keith Wolzinger's Klezmer Podcast with the band

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The Sway Machinery's Musical Extravaganza "Hidden Melodies Revealed: A Secret Celebration of Rosh Hashanah"
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
The Sanctuary at Temple Emanu-el
Hidden Melodies Revealed 2009! - 9 PM open bar/10 PM show
2 Lake Street
San Francisco CA 94118

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“The First Day of Peace”
A Concert of Sufi and Hebrew devotional music, poetry, whirling and teaching stories, in honor of Rosh Hashana - the Jewish New Year’s first Day and the conclusion of the Holy month of Ramadan

with International composer, world music artist, educator and peace activist
Yuval Ron; Master Qawwalli singer and harmonium virtuoso
Sukhawat Ali Khan

With an appearance of the Whirling Dervish – Aziz
And guest percussionist Halim of Sonoma

Do not miss this inspirational intimate evening of inner introspection, sound meditation and ecstatic celebration.

Saturday September 19 2009 at 8 pm
Congregation Ner Shalom,
85 La Plaza, Cotati, CA 94931
$20 at the door.
For more info: Robert (Halim) Friedman @ (707) 935-7681 for RSVP

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"Turning Heart"

An Evening of Sufi Devotional Music, Poetry, Teaching Stories and Whirling
with The Yuval Ron Trio: Yuval Ron – oud; Eliyahu Sills – ney; Dror Sinai – percussion
With an appearance by Whirling Dervish Aziz

Space is Limited
RSVP ASAP!

Sunday, September 20, 2009, 7:00 pm
1211 Hazel Drive, Pinole, CA 94564
$20 at the door
RSVP and more information: call 818-505-1355
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The Sway Machinery's Musical Extravaganza "Hidden Melodies Revealed: A Secret Celebration of Rosh Hashanah"
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
The Historic Piness Auditorium at Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Hidden Melodies Revealed 2009! - 8 PM open bar/9PM show
3663 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90010

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 7:30 pm

Towards the Days of Awe: A Journey through Sacred Music & Prayer
with The Yuval Ron Trio
with Dror Sinai - Percussion and voice, Eliyahu Sills - Ney
Special guests: Rachel Valfer of Qadim and the children-singing group of Temple Beth El led by Oren

As we approach the High Holy Days — the Days of Awe — join us on this beautiful evening of sacred music, spiritual dance and story-telling/teaching from the mystical Jewish tradition. Participate in a sound prayer and revel in Hassidic stories about the power of uninitiated prayer.

Location: Temple Beth El, 3055 Porter Gulch Rd. Aptos, CA 95003
Admission: $15, kids under 12 - free. Tickets may be purchased (cash or Check only) at the door and reserved at the Temple via phone (831)479-3444, or at Rhythm Fusion 1541 c pacific ave. Santa Cruz 95060. Tel: (831)423-2048
For more information: Call (831) 479-3444

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Sunday, August 23, 2009, 7:30 pm

Chochmat HaLev Presents:
Towards the Days of Awe: A Journey through Sacred Music & Prayer

with The Yuval Ron Trio
Dror Sinai - Percussion and voice, Eliyahu Sills - Ney and guest dancer Miriam Perez

As we approach the High Holy Days — the Days of Awe — join us on this beautiful evening of sacred music, spiritual dance and story-telling/teaching from the mystical Jewish tradition. Participate in a sound prayer and revel in Hassidic stories about the power of uninitiated prayer.

Chochmat HaLev, 2215 Prince St. Berkeley, CA 94705
Admission: $20 general public, $16 members
Please purchase tickets in advance at Brown Paper Tickets
For more information: visit www.chochmat.org or call 510-704-9687

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Thursday, Aug 20
For an evening of dancing and klezmer/gypsy/world music, join hot local klezmer band Kugelplex at Ashkenaz, followed by Caspian Hat Dance from Amsterdam. The evening begins with a klezmer dance lesson with Bruce Bierman.

Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA
www.ashkenaz.com
All ages all the time. Wheelchair accessible

Doors at 7:30 pm; Show at 8:30 pm
Klezmer dance lesson with Bruce Bierman at 8:00 pm
$10 advance & students / $13 day of show

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One cool summer night in Encinitas = One hot night of music

(Traditional Klezmer, Gypsy Roma and new compositions)

Yale Strom (violin), Elizabeth Schwartz (vocals)
& Lou Fanucchi (accordion)

in concert
Saturday, July 18
8pm

Studio Zero
789 Orpheus Ave
Encinitas 92024
(cross street is Leucadia Blvd. and the I-5)

$15 Adults, $5 Kids 12 and under

Light refreshments will be included

Seating is limited!
Graciously supported by the Encinitas School of Music

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Sunday, June 28, 7:00-9:30pm
Freylekh! at JCC of the East Bay, Berkeley

Join us Sunday June 28th for a dance lesson with Klezmer dance maven Bruce Bierman, 7:00-8:00pm. Live klezmer music and dance party, 8:00-9:30pm, with the acclaimed Heather Klein's Inextinguishable Trio!. Alla Gladysheva on piano and Jonathan Russell on clarinet.with special guest: David Rosenfeld of Kugelplex. $10-$20 adults (sliding scale), $5 kids. Come to dance or just to watch and listen. Bring your friends, too. For more information call 510/848-0237.

Co-sponsored by the Jewish Music Festival and Lehrhaus Judaica.

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Balkan Beat Box
Harmony Music & Arts Festival
@ Sonoma County Fairgrounds
Santa Rosa, CA
June 12, 2009

BBB on at Midnight
All Ages

visit harmonyfestival.com for tickets and information

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Balkan Beat Box w/ Soulico
@ Key Club (9041 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA)

June 11, 2009
Doors 8:30 pm / Show 10 pm
All Ages

$17 advance / $22 day of show
for ticket information visit: www.ticketmaster.com

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Balkan Beat Box
@ Key Club (9041 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA)

June 10, 2009
Doors 8:30 pm / Show 10 pm

All Ages

$17 advance
$22 day of show

for ticket information visit: www.ticketmaster.com

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Balkan Beat Box
@ Crystal Ballroom (1332 W. Burnside, Portland, OR)

June 9, 2009
Doors 7 pm / Show 9 pm
$18 Advance / $22 Day of Show
All Ages

for more ticket information, and for a lower service charge, visit: and log in with username="jdub" and password="tickets"

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Thursday, June 4
Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo, Berkeley CA
Klezmer Céilidh
THE MAD MAGGIES and GO VAN GOGH
Doors at 8:00 p.m.; Show at 8:30 p.m.
$7

A Céilidh (pronounced kay-lee) is a traditional Gaelic dance party, from the days before discos and nightclubs. But the 2 bands tonight are anything BUT traditional, merging Klezmer, Ska, Celtic music and much more into their own unique, high-energy styles.

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Sunday, May 31, 7:00-9:30pm
Freylekh! at JCC of the East Bay, Berkeley

Join us Sunday May 31st for a dance lesson with Klezmer dance maven Bruce Bierman, 7:00-8:00pm. Live klezmer music and dance party, 8:00-9:30pm, with the acclaimed Heather Klein's Inextinguishable Trio!. Alla Gladysheva on piano and Jonathan Russell on clarinet.with special guest: David Rosenfeld of Kugelplex. $10-$20 adults (sliding scale), $5 kids. Come to dance or just to watch and listen. Bring your friends, too. For more information call 510/848-0237.

Co-sponsored by the Jewish Music Festival and Lehrhaus Judaica.

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Sunday May 31 at Anna's Jazz Island

We're planning to debut a batch of new compositions, along with some old favorites at Berkeley's leading jazz club, Anna's Jazz Island, at 2120 Allston Way, between Shattuck and Oxford. It's close to downtown Berkeley BART, and on-street parking is easy on Sunday eves one block west to Milvia, or for $3 with validation use 2061 Allston Way Parking Facility (btwn Shattuck & Milvia). Show at 8 pm; Cover is $12.

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On Sunday May 31, 2009 at 11AM, the band Extreme Klezmer Makeover Band, will perform after a sumptuous bagel & lox buffet brunch, at the Arbeter Ring Workman's Circle at 1525 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035. The cost is $20 for non-members and $15 for members with a $2 discount if reservations are made before May 28. Reservations can be made at 310-552-2007. The band features Joellen Lapidus on clarinet, accordion, dulcimer and vocals, Dan Radlauer on accordion, guitar and mandolin, Novi Novag on viola, Dan Dungan on upright bass and Bruce Millstein on Middle Eastern Percussion.

For further info: tel: 310-552-2007

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Balkan Beat Box listening party at Afro Funke:
Weekly Funk Invocation
Giveaways all night + listen to the entire Nu Made(Remixes) album and dance
the night away

Thursdays @ Zanzibar
1301 5th St. Santa Monica, CA. 90401
9pm | 21+ | 310.451.2221 | $7-$10
zanzibarlive.com

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Di Ershte Frukhten — First Fruits Celebration

Featuring Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi All-Acoustic Concert with Mark Dresser on bass,(UCSD), Elizabeth Schwartz (vocals) and special guest Gypsy virtuoso Peter Stan (NYC) on accordion. Plus the World Premiere Screening of “A Great Day On Eldridge Street”

Wednesday, May 27
7:00pm Film, 7:30pm Concert
Congregation Beth El
8660 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037

Film is at 7pm.

Concert is at 7;30pm.

Film and Concert $20.00

Concert only $15.00

THE FILM: In October 2007 over 100 klezmer musicians and Yiddish singers, from Theo Bikel to John Zorn, gathered at the famous Eldridge Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side. Yale Strom captures the magic of the occasion in a film that celebrates the klezmer revival.

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Elizabeth Schwartz & Hot Pstromi bandmates Lou Fanucchi and Gunnar Biggs with special guests:

"150 Gems: In Celebration of the Yiddish Literary Journal Kheshbon"
Saturday, May 16
7:30 - 10:30 PM
Location: LA Yiddish Culture Club
8339 W. 3rd St., 2nd Fl. (co. Flores)
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Open to the Public; $15 at the door.
tel: (310) 454-3687

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Sunday, April 26, 7:00-9:30pm
Freylekh! at JCC of the East Bay, Berkeley

KlezCalifornia and JCC of the East Bay present the Jewish Dance Theatre's Freylekh! Join us for a dance lesson with Yiddish dance master Bruce Bierman, 7:00-8:00pm, free as part of Bay Area National Dance Week. Live klezmer music and dance party, 8:00-9:30pm, with members of the band Kugelplex, some of the Bay Area's best klezmer musicians. $10-$20 adults (sliding scale), $5 kids. Come to dance or just to watch and listen. Where else can you hear live klezmer music for such a price? Bring your friends, too. For more information, click HERE or call 510/848-0237. Co-sponsored by the Jewish Music Festival and Lehrhaus Judaica. The dance party after this one will be Sunday, May 31. Put in on your calendar now!

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Sunday, April 26, 5:00pm,
Partisans Armed With Music: Songs of Holocaust.
Musician/singer/guitarist/storyteller Daniel Lev sings spiritual and military resistance songs of Jews and non-Jews, those who survived and those who didn't, partisans and their inspired children, in Yiddish, Polish, German, and English. English translations will be provided along with stories and a brief history of that time.

Congregation Ner Tamid,
San Francisco.
Suggested donation $10.
For more information, click HERE.

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Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi

Saturday April 25 at 3pm
headliners at the 36th Annual Adams Avenue Roots & Folk Festival
Saturday & Sunday, April 25 and 26, 2009

About the 2009 Roots & Folk Festival:

The Adams Avenue Business Association proudly presents the 36th Annual Adams Avenue Roots & Folk Festival to be held Saturday and Sunday, April 25 & 26 2009. Over 40,000 visitors attended this FREE two-day festival last year. This is truly an event that provides both enjoyment and cultural enrichment for the whole family.

Adams Avenue Roots & Folk Festival is a FREE two-day extravaganza which focuses on the promotion, preservation
and performance of local and nationally touring musical acts.

The genres highlighted include the rich traditions of music styles such as Folk, Old Time String Bands, Cowboy,
Cajun, Rockabilly, Roots-blues, Bluegrass, Celtic, Roots Rock, Honky-tonk, etc.

Come join us for a weekend of fun and excitement as we offer over 100 Food and Arts & Craft Vendors, 2 Beer
Gardens (sponsored by Stone Brewing Company and Karl Strauss Brewing Company) along with over 50 live music
performances on six stages.

San Diego, CA
www.adansaveonline.com

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Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi

Saturday April 25 at 3pm
headliners at the 36th Annual Adams Avenue Roots & Folk Festival
Saturday & Sunday, April 25 and 26, 2009

About the 2009 Roots & Folk Festival:

The Adams Avenue Business Association proudly presents the 36th Annual Adams Avenue Roots & Folk Festival to be held Saturday and Sunday, April 25 & 26 2009. Over 40,000 visitors attended this FREE two-day festival last year. This is truly an event that provides both enjoyment and cultural enrichment for the whole family.

Adams Avenue Roots & Folk Festival is a FREE two-day extravaganza which focuses on the promotion, preservation
and performance of local and nationally touring musical acts.

The genres highlighted include the rich traditions of music styles such as Folk, Old Time String Bands, Cowboy,
Cajun, Rockabilly, Roots-blues, Bluegrass, Celtic, Roots Rock, Honky-tonk, etc.

Come join us for a weekend of fun and excitement as we offer over 100 Food and Arts & Craft Vendors, 2 Beer
Gardens (sponsored by Stone Brewing Company and Karl Strauss Brewing Company) along with over 50 live music
performances on six stages.

San Diego, CA
www.adansaveonline.com

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"DANCES & SONGS OF REMEMBRANCE, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE"
Featuring The Ruth Botchan Dance Company with singer Betty Albert-Schreck in excerpts from "Mothersongs," and klezmer artist/ethnographer Yale Strom and klezmer vocalist Elizabeth Schwartz of Hot Pstromi, celebrating the 66th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Sunday, April 19th, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.
Western Sky Studio,
2525 Eighth St. #13A, at Dwight, Berkeley

Tickets: $15-25 (sliding scale). Reception follows.
Information/Reservations: (510) 848-4878. Limited seating; reservations strongly recommended.

Sponsored by: The Workmen's Circle of No.CA, KlezCalifornia., and Tri-Valley Cultural Jews
www.berkeleymovingarts.com

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April 11, 7pm,
Hungarian Club Recital Hall,
Balboa Park, San Diego.
Hungarian Rom virtuoso Kalman Balogh and his band with special guests Yale Strom & Elizabeth Schwartz.
Tickets are available at the door for $15, but reservation is recommended at (858) 457-3136

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Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 8:00 pm
Congregation Beth Am
26790 Arastradero Rd., Los Altos Hills
$12 students/seniors/JCC members, $14 general
Tickets: Click HERE!

Direct from Berlin, Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird's second CD Partisans & Parasites is an explosive mix of klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk folk.

recent press about Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird.
"Kahn writes like the rainy ghost of Woody Guthrie hitched a ride with Tom Waits to New Orleans, spilling accordions, ukuleles, busted pianos, and broken dreams all over the road from Brooklyn to the bayou." —Detroit Metro Times

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Family Music Day & Finale Dance Party

Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:00 AM

Order tickets online now for Family Music Day & Finale Dance Party

Family Music Day & Finale Dance Party

Sunday, March 29


Activities throughout the day:

11:00am Family Music Day Children’s concert

Folk-rocker Elana Jagoda, Instrument Petting Zoo, workshops and performances with Festival artists 
including special teen program with beatboxer Yuri Lane

4:00pm Finale Dance Party with Brass Menažeri

The Bay Area’s award-winning, powerhouse Klez-Balkan brass machine, closes 
the festival with wild rhythms, soulful vocals and hot licks.

Presented in association with Freight and Salvage Coffee House

Co-sponsored with the San Francisco Foundation, the Gottesman-Biddle 
Family and the Anisman/Sherman Family, in memory of Ursula Sherman

JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley

$25 family (2 adults and 2 children), $10 general

Listen to Modeh Ani by Elana Jagoda

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Order tickets online now for The Sisters of Sheynville and Gaucho

West Coast Premiere

Inspired by the legendary Barry Sisters of the 1930s and 1940s, this all-female Swing-Klez sextet was voted Canada’s top folk vocal group in 2008. Their airtight three and four part vocal harmonies in Yiddish positively sizzle with seduction. You’ll think you’re in Paris when Gaucho opens with the Gypsy Swing sounds that recall legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt.

Presented in association with the Eugene & Elinor Friend Center for the Arts, JCCSF

Co-sponsored with the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture

JCCSF, 3200 California St., San Francisco

$18 students, $24 seniors/JCC East Bay & JCCSF members, $28 general

Listen to Ketsele Broyges by Sisters of Sheynville

The Sisters of Sheynville and Gaucho Website

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Wednesday, March 25, 7:30pm: COMMON CHORDS III, THE NEXT GENERATION.

A celebration of Jewish and Muslim Music, featuring Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad, Yale Strom, Samir Chatterjee, Elizabeth Schwartz and others. San Diego Jewish Music Festival, Lawrence Family JCC, La Jolla, California. For tickets and information call the JCC box office: (858) 362-1348

www.lfjcc.org

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Sunday, March 22, 2:00 PM
8339 W. 3rd St., 2nd Floor (co. Flores)
Los Angeles, CA 90024

The California Institute for Yiddish Culture & Language and The Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club present
GILGULIM: Metamorphoses: Dramatic Readings from Yiddish Literature

By Guest NY Performer, Shane Baker

An unforgettable opportunity to hear masterful renditions of works by an array of Yiddish culture’s best modern creative minds: (In Yiddish with English Translations)

Works by Kadia Molodowsky, Y.L. Peretz, Anna Margolin, Itzik Manger, Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Y.-L. Teler, Joseph Buloff, H. Leivick

Admission: $10 Gen’l/$8 Sr.
Further info: 310-745-1190

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24th JMF OPENING NIGHT:
KOSHER GOSPEL featuring Joshua Nelson & Special Guests, Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir
Saturday, March 21, 8:00 pm
First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison Street, Oakland
$24 Students/Seniors/JCC Members
$28 General
Tickets available online

Grammy-nominated Joshua Nelson sings with a voice that recalls Mahalia Jackson and counts Oprah Winfrey and Maya Angelou among his biggest fans. He has sung with Wynton Marsalis, Aretha Franklin, and The Klezmatics. This extraordinary "Prince of Kosher Gospel" combines African-American spiritual styles with Jewish liturgical music. Special guests, the renowned, 55-voice Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, directed by Terrance Kelly, open the evening.

Co-sponsored by Forest Creatures Entertainment and Leonard Kurz in memory of Ursula Sherman

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UCLAlive presents the Grammy Award-winning The Klezmatics, live in concert at Royce Hall.
Thursday, March 5
Begins at 8:00 pm
Royce Hall at UCLA

Tickets are available for $60, $45 or $38 ($15 for UCLA students)
Purchase tickets on the UCLAlive website or by calling the UCLAlive box office at (310) 825-2102.

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The Klezmatics

2/22/2009
California Polytechnic State University, Cohan Ctr
San Luis Obispo, CA
(805) 756-2787
www.calpolyarts.org

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Cantor Sharon Bernstein and Friends in Concert
Yiddish, Ladino, Musical Theater, and More . . .
$10 Members / $15 Non-Members, children 12 & under free
childcare available, please RSVP

Saturday, February 21, 2009, 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Congregation Sha'ar Zahav
290 Dolores Street (corner of 16th and Dolores)
San Francisco, CA

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If you have friends or relatives in Southern California they won’t want to miss THE only West-Coast Appearance
Tuesday evening, February 17, 2009
The SHEKHTER-TEKHTER ("The Schaechter Daughters") and BINYUMEN
in OUR ZEYDES AND BUBBES AS CHILDREN

A musical revue about kids, young and older, and their relationships with each other, with their parents, and with the world around them.

The songs are in Yiddish. / Translations are provided.
For young, old, and everyone in between!
For the Yiddish-fluent, Yiddish-challenged and Yiddish-ignorant!
Bring your kids and grandkids for a truly inspirational evening!

The performers:
BINYUMEN ("BEN") SCHAECHTER
REYNA SCHAECHTER (age 14)
TEMMA-LEEBA SCHAECHTER (age 9)
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 7:30 P.M.
Sinai Temple
10400 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA

Admission: $18 Students: $8 Children under 6: Free
contact: Miriam Koral @ California Institute for Yiddish Language and Culture
(310) 745-1190

Made possible by support from the Ruth/Allen Ziegler Foundation, Luis and Lee Lainer, Chic Wolk

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Bukharan Jewish Folk Ensemble
Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 7:30pm
JCC East Bay 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
$18 General, $15 Seniors, Students, JCC members
Tickets: Click here.

A riveting blend of Central Asian, Sephardic Jewish and Arab elements, Bukharan Jewish music reflects a community with roots in Central Asia going back to the seventh century BCE. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear the leading proponents of an ancient musical tradition saturated with unique rhythms and entrancing tone colors.

Born in 1938 in Uzbekistan, and now based in Queens, NY, ensemble leader Cantor Izra Malakov is a descendent of a long line of rabbis. He has devoted his life to preserving Bukharan Jewish music, and recently published Musical Treasures of the Bukharan Jewish Community.

Izra Malakov: singer, chazzan and director
Ochil Ibragimov: rubab, violin
David Davidov: tar
Tamara Kataeva: sozanda, singer and dancer
Osher Baraev: doira

Co-sponsored with Silk Road House
Presented in association with Afsaneh Art and Culture Society

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February 8, 4-5pm.
"A Book and Music Afternoon with Yale Strom".

Yale Strom will perform with accordionist Lou Fanucchi
Kaplan Theatre - IW Marks Theatre Center,
5601 S. Braeswood, Houston.

For information, contact Naomi Barancik, 713-729-3200, ext. 3258.

The concert coincides with the opening of Strom's solo photo exhibit, "Klezmorim: The Jewish and Roma Musicians of Eastern Europe", at the JCC's Deutser Art Gallery.
www.jcchouston.org

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KLEZMERATA FIORENTINA

Thursday, February 5, 8:00 p.m.
$25 General; $15 Full-Time Students
at the Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles (map)

* SPECIAL OFFER FOR YIDBITS SUBSCRIBERS:
Enjoy $5 off General and Student-priced tickets to the U.S. premiere of acclaimed ensemble Klezmerata Fiorentina at the Skirball Cultural Center. Limit 4 discounted tickets per transaction. Code: 99558

Advance tickets: Available online (skirball.org), onsite, or by phone at (877) SCC-4TIX or (877) 722-4849

U.S. premiere! Hear acclaimed klezmer chamber music ensemble Klezmerata Fiorentina perform Zai Gezunt, Kalinindorf. Based on the reinterpretation of music from the southern frontier of Ukraine, the program is named for the shtetl Kalinindorf, a Jewish community destroyed by the Nazis. The work pays musical tribute, both joyful and sorrowful, to those lost lives. Varied and exciting, it is influenced by Balkan, gypsy, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Yiddish traditions, which coexisted over the centuries in vast territories along the shores of the Black Sea. The melodies are also derived from the family heritage of Klezmerata Fiorentina's founder, Igor Polesitsky.

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Sunday, February 1, 3:00pm. An Afternoon of Yiddish Songs & Klezmer Music, performed by vocalist Alby Kass, accompanist Sonia Tubridy, and members of the Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble: Paul Alexander, Phil Lawrence and Mark Peabody. Admission: $10 Tickets for all ArtsLive! events may be purchased at the door starting half hour before the performance. The Petaluma Arts Center is located at 230 Lakeville Street, at the corner of Lakeville and East D Streets. For more information, call PAC Executive Director Michael Fontaine at 707-762-5600, x101, or visit www.petalumaartscouncil.org.

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Saturday January 31, 7:00pm.
Alby Kass presents a program of Yiddish music, assisted by Sonia Tubridy and Jubilee Klezmer members Paul Alexander, Phil Lawrence, and Mark Peabody. It will be held at the Tubridy residence in Guerneville (directions by request) Bruce DancingThese events are fundraisers for the Russian River Jewish Community and the River Choir. Donation of $10-$30 requested. Space limited to 25 so reserve early. For more information, call Sonia Tubridy, 707/869-3273

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January 31, 43rd Annual Local Authors Exhibit.

Yale Strom will be honored by the city of San Diego for his new children's book "The Wedding That Saved A Town" (Kar-Ben) at the San Diego Public Library, Main Branch, 6:30-8:30pm.
820 E Street, downtown San Diego.

RSVP: 619 236-5825

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Leave Me Alone!: A New Jazz Opera by 2009 JMF Artist Dan Plonsey & Harvey Pekar

Composer and saxophonist Dan Plonsey, one of our festival artists this season, priemeres Leave Me Alone!, a new jazz opera with a libretto by Harvey Pekar (American Splendor), to be performed on January 31 at Oberlin College, OH, and streamed live to an international online audience.

The story of the opera revolves around conversations between the composer and librettist held from their respective living rooms in the Bay Area and Cleveland. Dan and Harvey, the two primary interlocutors, played by themselves, engage in discussions about music, the life of the artist as householder, finding time to work, the current state of the avant garde, and the opera itself.

Please help realize this vision by watching the opera here for free at 8 PM on January 31, 2009. More information available online.

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Los Angeles Jewish Symphony & BODYTRAFFIC
World Premiere of "Transfigured Night"
Wednesday, January 28th at 8PM
Sinai Temple, 10400 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Free Parking Available: Enter on Ashton Avenue

Price: $100 Patron of Dance (includes dessert reception with performers)
$36 Reserved Seating
$25 General Admission
$18 Students & DRC Members
$15 Preview (Tuesday, January 27th at 8PM)
Tickets: www.bodytraffic.org
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/51001
(424) 204 - 9097

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The Guitar Music of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
A Performance with Commentary by Emanuele Segre
Tuesday, January 27
Reception at 6:30 pm, Concert at 7:30 pm
BJE Jewish Community Library, 1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco
Free

Esteemed Italian classical guitarist Emanuele Segre performs the work of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, a prolific composer who fled Italy in 1939 and wrote more than one hundred film scores as a staff composer for MGM. He composed operas, chamber, orchestral, choral, and vocal music, finding inspiration in Jewish liturgical music and in the Bible, and combining the sacred and the secular in his work.

Reception provided by the Italian Cultural Institute.
Co-sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, the Museo ItaloAmericano, the Judah L. Magnes Museum, and the 24th Annual Jewish Music Festival.

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THE FREYLEKH---a mad hot klezmer dance party
Sunday January 25th /
7pm Yiddish dance lesson, 8:00pm Live music and dance party
JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut St.
Berkeley, CA
(510) 848-0237

Featuring: David Rosenfeld and members of the shtetl rock band, Kugelplex and Bruce Bierman--Yiddish dance maven who 'fits the moves of the ancestors to the grooves of your imagination'

$10-20 sliding scale.

presented by Klez California and co-presented by the Jewish Music Festival

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Linda Hirschhorn and Gary Lapow
Saturday January 24, 8:00 pm
$12
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley
510-849-2568

These two seasoned Bay Area performers have been writing songs for over 30 years. They'll share old and new compositions. Linda will also read from her memoir "Running Into Myself", and Gary will summon up Coney Island in song and projected images.

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The Andy Statman Trio at the Getty Center
Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, January 17, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 18, 3:00 p.m.

Free; reservations required. Call (310) 440-7300 or use the "Make Reservation"
buttons at www.getty.edu/visit/events/sounds_la_2009.html. Limited to
four seats per reservation.

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Musical History of The Yiddish Theater

Join Zalmen Mlotek, the Artistic Director of the country's only National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene, in a multi-media historical edu-tainment about the Yiddish Theater with interactive audience participation.

Presentation follows full bagel breakfast.

Sunday, January 18, 2009, 9:30am - 12pm
at Valley Cities JCC
14701 Friar St., Van Nuys, CA 91411
$8 VCJCC/ Yiddishkayt/ CIYCL members; $10 public
More info at www.yiddishkayt.org

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The Andy Statman Trio at the Getty Center
Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, January 17, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 18, 3:00 p.m.

Free; reservations required. Call (310) 440-7300 or use the "Make Reservation"
buttons at www.getty.edu/visit/events/sounds_la_2009.html. Limited to
four seats per reservation.

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Gerry Tenney: Music for Kids Young and Old
Saturday, January 17, 2009, 10:30am
Adults $5, Children $4, Family $12
La Peña Community Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley
Tickets: 510-849-2568

Don't miss Gerry Tenney's first concert of 2009. Always a La Peña and local favorite, Gerry's concerts are always a wonderful mix of original and traditional music. Whether it's "King Kong the Gorilla playing ping pong with Godzilla," or an old Yiddish folksong about potatoes, his shows are a treat for the whole family. Gerry's song, "The Haunted House" has been sung by many, but only Gerry does the full version.

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SHABBAT FARBRENGEN
Ghetto Tango w/Adrienne Cooper & Zalmen Mlotek
Friday, January 16, 2008
8:00 p.m. in Lopaty Chapel
Led by Cantor Herschel Fox
Kabbalat Shabbat
& Festive Oneg

15739 Ventura Boulevard
Encino, CA 91436
(818) 788-6000 Web site: www.vbs.org

In the Jewish ghettos of Poland and Lithuania during World War II, a world of dislocation, terror and death, cabaret music thrived. Jewish audiences gathered in makeshift clubs and theaters to hear newly-created Yiddish songs, rooted in Jewish folk and liturgical music as well as European operetta, American ragtime and Argentine tango.Jewish performers tuned these cosmopolitan songs in a local key: satirical and elegiac, political and personal, angry and heartsick.Together they created something rare, scarcely conceivable: art at the edge of the abyss.

Adrienne Cooper, one of the world's most acclaimed singers of Yiddish vocal music, and Zalmen Mlotek, a leading figure in Yiddish musical theater, here present ghetto songs collected during and after the war.

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Sunday, 11 Jan 2009, 1-3pm
Klezmer Brunch
Red Poppy Art House
San Francisco

Klezmer brunch is back! Come on out and help make this a regular event.

We’ll have bagels and other tasty brunch delights for sale. Special guests include dance maven Bruce Bierman and diva vocalist Jewlia Eisenberg.

$10-$20 sliding scale.
www.RedPoppyArtHouse.org

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Good For The Jews
the 2nd annual "Putting the Ha! in Hannukah" tour.
(Our promise to you: No songs about dreidels. And no Israeli folk dancing.)

Friday, Dec 26: Red Devil Lounge, San Francisco CA
Doors at 7 pm, show at 8 pm
Red Devil Lounge, 1695 Polk St.
San Francisco, CA 94109
Buy tickets at the RDL box office, online at www.reddevillounge.com, or by calling (866) 468-3399.

MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews

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Good For The Jews
the 2nd annual "Putting the Ha! in Hannukah" tour.
(Our promise to you: No songs about dreidels. And no Israeli folk dancing.)

Thursday, Dec 25: Echoplex, Los Angeles CA
Doors at 7 pm, show at 8 pm
Echoplex, 1154 Glendale Blvd. (between Scott and Park Avenues, in Echo Park)
Los Angeles, CA 90026
All ages show.
Buy tickets at Ticketweb.com
Featuring special guest musicians and comedians to be announced

MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews

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2nd Annual Community-wide
Yiddish Culture Festival

A Great Alternative to Chinese Food and a Movie
on December 25, 2008

Program by KlezCalifornia

To be held at Congregation Netivot Shalom
1316 University Avenue, Berkeley

Live Klezmer Music! Yiddish Singing! Yiddish Dancing with instruction! Yiddish Kibbitzing (instruction provided, if you need it!) Yidishe Kinder Programming for the kids! Have a nosh - Kosher Yiddish delicacies by Lois Cooks including: kugel, kasha varnishkes, latkes with applesauce and sour cream, bagels and cream cheese, babka, mandlebrot. seltzer, coffee, and tea will be available for purchase from 12:30 to 3:30. A fantastic family event: bring Bubie, Zeydie and the eyniklekh (Grandma, Grandpa and the grandkids).

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Fishel Bresler's Klezmer & Hassidic Ensemble will perform their 18th annual concert on
on Wednesday, December 24th - 7:30 PM at Congregation Ohawe Shalom Coffee House, Pawtucket RI. .

671 East Ave in Pawtucket (corner of Glenwood, nr where Blackstone meets Hope St)
Doors open 7:00PM $10 adults, $7 children (under B-Mitzvah).
Special sponsor seating in the front rows $18 per seat
Funded in part by a grant from the RI State Council on the Arts

In honor of Chanukah, Latkes will be on sale, along with other snacks & beverages.
For questions 401 273-9814

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The Sway Machinery with DeLeon and PJA's Festival of Rights

San Francisco, CA
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 - 6PM Doors
111 Minna Gallery -
http://www.jccsf.org/hub_web/NewJewishRit.aspx?catid=625
Sponsored by the Hub
Super 8: Hub Hanukkah Party
111 Minna Street
(415) 974-1719
Price: $8 Members/Advance $12 at the door

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Come celebrate the 1st night of Chanukah and the Winter Solstice with two sets by Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment.

December 21, 2 sets starting at 8pm; $10
Anna's Jazz Island, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley
(just east of Shattuck Avenue & downtown Berkeley BART)

Great sit-down listening spot in downtown Berkeley.

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The Sway Machinery with DeLeon and PJA's Festival of Rights

Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, December 20th, 2008 - 8PM doors
The Troubador - www.troubadour.com
9081 Santa Monica Blvd
Price: $12
Jewltide-sponsored by JDub Records

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Happy Hanukah!
Pomegranates & Figs: A Feast of Jewish Music
featuring

• Teslim with Kaila Flexer & Gari Hegedus


• Klezmer Band, the Gonifs


• Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble

Sat., Dec 20, 8pm
Zellerbach Hall (UC Berkeley Campus)
Tickets start at $20

For further info

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Kugelplex
Thursday, December 18th – Amnesia, San Francisco
9pm. We’re back for our annual Christmas vs, Channukah blowout featuring us vs. perennial adversaries, The Shut-Ins.

Amnesia
853 Valencia St. bet. 19th & 20th
San Francisco
www.amnesiathebar.com

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KLEZMANIA!
Its Annual Public Chanukah Concert at the Oakland City Centre

December 17, 2008
12 PM to 1 PM

Admission: FREE Outdoor Concert Nice Price :-)
Location: Downtown Oakland at 12th and Broadway.
Klezmer, Israeli, and Don't Forget, Chanukah Music!

Brought to you By Entire Productions and the City of Oakland

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December 13, 2008, 7:30pm:

Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi return for the annual Khanike in the Heights concert and party at Hebrew Tabernacle, 551 Fort Washington Avenue (at 185th Street). For tickets and information, 212 568-8304
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December 7, 2008,
1:30-2:30

Awards Celebration and Gala Concert with Elizabeth Schwartz, Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi celebrating 101 years in Southern California. For tickets and information (310) 552-2007
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Klezmer Conservatory Band
Dec 6, 2008, 8pm
San Francsico Jewish Community Center
3200 California St.,
San Francisco, CA
(415) 292-1233

Tickets: www.jccsf.org

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Miriam's Well

Saturday, November 22, 8:30 pm
Julia Morgan Theater
2640 College Ave, Berkeley
Tickets: $24 in advance, $28 at the door

Created by Miriam Peretz. In collaboration with Qadim Ensemble, Ya Elah, Salokhiddin Fakhriev, Manar Azriek, Wan-Chao Chang and Hannah Romanowsky

Interweaving dance, live music, poetry and sacred text; the stories of three visionary women gather communal waters from the universal well. These stories of Mary, Maryam, and Miriam from the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish traditions illumine the commonality and interconnectedness of these three traditions through a shared story and archetype. Drawing on traditional expressive arts and ritual, as well as contemporary theater and dance technique, Miriam's Well emotionally engages the audience in a rich image of shared heritage.

Advance sales tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets' 24/7 ticket hotline: 800-838-3006, or online at www.brownpapertickets.com

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Miriam's Well

Saturday, November 22, 8:30 pm
Julia Morgan Theater
2640 College Ave, Berkeley
Tickets: $24 in advance, $28 at the door

Created by Miriam Peretz. In collaboration with Qadim Ensemble, Ya Elah, Salokhiddin Fakhriev, Manar Azriek, Wan-Chao Chang and Hannah Romanowsky

Interweaving dance, live music, poetry and sacred text; the stories of three visionary women gather communal waters from the universal well. These stories of Mary, Maryam, and Miriam from the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish traditions illumine the commonality and interconnectedness of these three traditions through a shared story and archetype. Drawing on traditional expressive arts and ritual, as well as contemporary theater and dance technique, Miriam's Well emotionally engages the audience in a rich image of shared heritage.

Advance sales tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets' 24/7 ticket hotline: 800-838-3006, or online at www.brownpapertickets.com

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Alberto Mizrahi

Sunday, November 16, 8:00 pm
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street, San Francisco
$28.00 Member / $32.00 Public / $25 Student

Affectionately known as the "Jewish Pavarotti," Greek-born tenor Alberto Mizrahi has thrilled audiences worldwide in recitals, symphony concerts and operas. Mizrahi's unique and captivating repertoire spans nine languages and confirms his status as one of the world's leading interpreters of Jewish music.

"A phenomenal solo voice...He hits ear-stinging B-flats and Cs [and] conveys power and fervor as few other singers do." - Chicago Tribune

Presented by the JCCSF in Association with the 24th Annual Jewish Music Festival

For tickets visit tickets.jccsf.org.

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Alberto Mizrahi

Sunday, November 16, 8:00 pm
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street, San Francisco
$28.00 Member / $32.00 Public / $25 Student

Affectionately known as the "Jewish Pavarotti," Greek-born tenor Alberto Mizrahi has thrilled audiences worldwide in recitals, symphony concerts and operas. Mizrahi's unique and captivating repertoire spans nine languages and confirms his status as one of the world's leading interpreters of Jewish music.

"A phenomenal solo voice...He hits ear-stinging B-flats and Cs [and] conveys power and fervor as few other singers do." - Chicago Tribune

Presented by the JCCSF in Association with the 24th Annual Jewish Music Festival

For tickets visit tickets.jccsf.org.

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Divahn
November 16, 2008 @ 7 pm
Integrating Sephardi and Mizrachi Studies Conference
Stephen S. Wise Temple
Los Angeles, CA
213.765.2191

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Divahn
November 16, 2008 @ 7 pm
Integrating Sephardi and Mizrachi Studies Conference
Stephen S. Wise Temple
Los Angeles, CA
213.765.2191

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The Red Hot Chachkas
Noe Valley Music Series at the Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez St. near 24th St., San Francisco. Doors open 7:45 pm; Show 8:15 pm.
www.noevalleymusicseries.com

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DON'T MISS THIS CONCERT - RARE OPPORTUNITY.

ON NOV. 6 @ 7:30PM AT DIZZY'S ENJOY THE KINETIC, HAUNTING and
INNOVATIVE KLEZMER MUSIC IN AN INTIMATE SETTING FROM:

THE ORIGINAL "HOT PSTROMI" (ORIGINALLY ZMIROS) - FRED BENEDETTI (guitar,mandolin), JEFF PEKAREK (bass) & Yale Strom (violin), with special guest Elizabeth Schwartz (vocals).

$15.00 COVER

DIZZY'S IS LOCATED AT 2ND & J STREET. FOR FURTHER INFO. CLICK ON THE WEBSITE BELOW.

Dizzy's - Where the Music Matters Most
San Diego Wine & Culinary Center Harbor Club Towers ground floor
2nd & J Street

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The Jewish Theory of Everything: Negotiating Jewish Identity in Italy
A Talk with Slides and Musical Examples by Francesco Spagnolo

Wednesday, November 5, 7:30 pm
FREE
BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco

Italy is home to one of the oldest communities in the Jewish diaspora. It is also a place where Jews settled from the four corners of the world to meet at the heart of Christianity. Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Italian Jews lived together, clashing and blending cultural identities, negotiating their status with the changing ruling powers, and keeping a line of communication with the global Jewish diaspora. Francesco Spagnolo will talk about daily and synagogue life, literature, music, and visual culture inside and outside the Italian ghettos.
For more information please call 415.567.3327 x703.

"There is just about nobody more worth listening to, and more fun to listen to, than Francesco Spagnolo" —Ari Davidow

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The Jewish Theory of Everything: Negotiating Jewish Identity in Italy
A Talk with Slides and Musical Examples by Francesco Spagnolo

Wednesday, November 5, 7:30 pm
FREE
BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco

Italy is home to one of the oldest communities in the Jewish diaspora. It is also a place where Jews settled from the four corners of the world to meet at the heart of Christianity. Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Italian Jews lived together, clashing and blending cultural identities, negotiating their status with the changing ruling powers, and keeping a line of communication with the global Jewish diaspora. Francesco Spagnolo will talk about daily and synagogue life, literature, music, and visual culture inside and outside the Italian ghettos.
For more information please call 415.567.3327 x703.

"There is just about nobody more worth listening to, and more fun to listen to, than Francesco Spagnolo" —Ari Davidow

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Sunday, November 2, 2008, 7pm

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Sunday, October 26, 6:00 -- 9:00pm
The Klezmakers at Yaya Cuisine
Come for dinner, stay for music and dancing. When you combine Middle Eastern cuisine with live klezmer music, you're in for a crazy good time! Come see (and hear and taste) for yourself. Enjoy your fill of phyllo dough, then dance it off! No cover charge. For reservations, 650/344-2860. YAYA Cuisine & Bar, 1108 Burlingame Ave., Burlingame, CA 94010 or www.klezmakers.com/contact.htm
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October 26, 2008 The XII IAYC Conference, La Jolla, CA

Yale Strom, Elizabeth Schwartz and Hot Pstromi, grand finale concert, International Association of Yiddish Clubs conference, La Jolla, California.
For further info. and event time, call 650-349-6946.
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The Sway Machinery
Saturday, October 25, 9:30pm
Elbo Room
647 Valencia St. San Francisco
Tickets: $15

Presented by The Hub in partnership with the 24th Annual Jewish Music Festival

For tickets visit tickets.jccsf.org.

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The Sway Machinery
Saturday, October 25, 9:30pm
Elbo Room
647 Valencia St. San Francisco
Tickets: $15

Presented by The Hub in partnership with the 24th Annual Jewish Music Festival

For tickets visit tickets.jccsf.org.

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¡Fiestaremos! Judy Frankel and the Sephardic Music Tradition
A Film Screening and Talk by Kate Regan

Thursday, October 23, 7:30pm
FREE
BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco

¡Fiestaremos! presents the inspiring work of the late Bay Area musician, singer, and researcher Judy Frankel. This thirty-minute documentary captures some of the loving relationships Judy fostered with members of the Sephardic community, and her dedication to preserving the Ladino musical heritage.

Kate Regan is associate professor of Spanish language and literature at the University of Portland, where she was named the university's outstanding teacher in 1999. Born in Chicago, she moved with her family to Cuernavaca, Mexico when she was nine. Professor Regan is the recipient of the 2000 Carnegie and Case Foundations U.S. Professor of the Year award.

For more information please visit the Library website.

Co-sponsored by the BJE Jewish Community Library, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, San Francisco State University, and the 24th Annual Jewish Music Festival

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¡Fiestaremos! Judy Frankel and the Sephardic Music Tradition
A Film Screening and Talk by Kate Regan

Thursday, October 23, 7:30pm
FREE
BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco

¡Fiestaremos! presents the inspiring work of the late Bay Area musician, singer, and researcher Judy Frankel. This thirty-minute documentary captures some of the loving relationships Judy fostered with members of the Sephardic community, and her dedication to preserving the Ladino musical heritage.

Kate Regan is associate professor of Spanish language and literature at the University of Portland, where she was named the university's outstanding teacher in 1999. Born in Chicago, she moved with her family to Cuernavaca, Mexico when she was nine. Professor Regan is the recipient of the 2000 Carnegie and Case Foundations U.S. Professor of the Year award.

For more information please visit the Library website.

Co-sponsored by the BJE Jewish Community Library, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, San Francisco State University, and the 24th Annual Jewish Music Festival

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Paper Promises: Presented by Jewish Dance Theater
Sunday October 19, 8:00pm
$15 member, $20 general
JCC East Bay
1414 Walnut St., Berkeley

Come join visionary performance artist Melusina Gomez and experimental Klezmer musician David Rosenfeld for an evening of danced thoughts, quiet reflections and wild wishes, inspired by the letters, poetry and stories of women through six centuries, including , 'Ariake-Poems of Love and Longing' ,'The Girl Who Loved the Wind'.and 'The Finger' penned by the legendary Kabbalist Rabbi, Issac Luria. Paper Promises glides through a landscape of visual art, soundscape, resigned absurdity, and butoh inspired imagery and dance, ultimately asking the question: What does life promise us?

Presented by the Jewish Dance Theatre and co-presented by the JCC of the East Bay
Tickets available at the door.

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The BREW: Aaron Novik's Samuel Suite & Dirty Dan, Eval Dan

Saturday October 18, 8:00pm
$10 member, $15 general
JCC East Bay
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
Aaron Novik's ten-piece band presents an avant chamber-jazz rumination on the life of Novik's grandfather, who immigrated to America from a small village in WWI Poland. Samuel and Aaron passionately debated music-the grandfather particularly loved Bach's cantatas, a curious irony, that being a Jew, his favorite music was about Jesus. This religious oxymoron serves as the impetus for the sad and loving suite, in which Novik employs Jewish scales in the chorale style to create a sort of Jewish equivalent to Bach's Christian ones.

He uses different variations on the harmonic minor scale, the backbone of most klezmer and Jewish songs, with especially intriguing-and practically never used-scales starting on the second, third, sixth and seventh degrees.

To kick off the show, Dan Fries and Dan Cantrell of Dirty Dan, Eval Dan trek down another heretofore unexplored path for klezmer, combining the evocative rhythms and melodies of flamenco with traditional klezmer idioms. This fresh fusion melds beautifully, resulting in a crisp and irresistible sound hovering somewhere between Zaporozhye and Málaga.

Co-presented by the Jewish Music Festival, Berkeley Hillel, Polish Arts and Culture Foundation and the Jazzschool
Tickets available at the door

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On Sunday October 12, 2008 at 2 PM the Yiddish Culture Club will present the opening of our Yiddish cultural season. The topic of the event will be "Yiddish Folk Songs in Word and Sound". Participants in the program will be Ms. Fan Magid Shalin, Cantor of the Temple Beth Chaim Chadashim, and Mrs. Lilke Majzner.

The event will take place at The Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club located at 8339 W. 3rd St. Los Angeles CA. 90048.

Refreshments will be served.
Members free. Guests $4.

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"Degenerate Music": The Music of Weimar Berlin

JCC East Bay
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
Sunday October 5, 7:30pm
$15 members/seniors/students, $20 general

The music of Kurt Weill, Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler showcases the freedom and brilliant experimentation that masked the sense of impending doom in Weimar Berlin. Denounced by Hitler as "degenerate" and forced into exile, such artists helped to bring Weimar modernity to the rest of the world. Includes vintage film footage and images.

• Susan Waterfall, piano and narrator
• Mary Chun, conductor
• Erin Neff, soprano, San Francisco Opera
• The Mendocino Music Festival Chamber Players including: Roy Malan, violin, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra & Members of the San Francisco Symphony and Philharmonia Baroque

Presented in association with The Goethe-Institut San Francisco and The Mendocino Music Festival

For tickets: 1.800.838.3006 or jewishmusicfestival.org

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THE FREYLEKH: Klezmer Dance Party & Cabaret

Sunday, September 28
JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley
Yiddish Dance: 7:00 pm
Live music & cabaret: 8:00 pm
$10 members, $15 general,
$5 Kinder 12 and under
Noshes served

Ring in 5769 with the Bay Area's hottest new klezmer dance party and cabaret featuring members of the shtetl rock band KUGELPLEX. Get ready to stomp, shvitz and boogie down for an evening of Yiddish dancing led by master dance leader Bruce Bierman with special New Year's guest vocalist, Heather Lauren Klein and the Heather Lauren Klein Trio.

Co-presented by the Jewish Music Festival and KlezCalifornia

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June 29 - The Freylech: Dance Parties at the JCC
Get ready to stomp, shvitz and boogie down for an evening of Yiddish dancing led by master dance leader Bruce Bierman. Some of the Bay Area's best klezmer groups will perform live music for all ages.

The Jewish Dance Theatre, directed by Bruce Bierman, is now an artistic company in residence at the JCC East Bay. Bruce will lead dance classes pulling from different Jewish traditions, and the JDT will host monthly dance parties at the JCC throughout the course of the summer. Look forward to a slate of stellar fall productions from this ensemble. Co-presented by KlezCalifornia and the Jewish Music Festival. For complete details, click HERE.

Sundays June 29, July 27, August 31
Dance lesson: 7:00-8:00pm
Live music/group dance: 8:00-10:00pm
$10/evening

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8/24 Los Angeles Jewish Symphony premieres
The Sephardic-Latino Connection

Sunday, August 24
7:30 pm
Ford Ampitheater
2580 Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood

Tickets are $36 & $25; $12 for full-time students and children under 12.

Purchase tickets from the Ford online or call the box office at (323) 461-3673.

The Los Angeles Jewish Symphony premieres The Sephardic-Latino Connection, celebrating the similarity of impassioned cries of the cantors and those of the flamenco artists whose roots originate from Spain, as part of the Ford Summer 2008 Series. Conducted by the symphony's founder/artistic director, Dr. Noreen Green, accompanied by flamenco guitarist Adam del Monte and harpist Marcia Dickstein. Also with Argentinean Cantor Marcelo Gindlin and special guests, The Mariachi Divas.

For more information, visit the LA Jewish Symphony website.

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Go Van Gogh
Socha Cafe
3235 Mission (at Valencia)
San Francisco

Friday, Aug 22, 8-11pm

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Petaluma :: 7:30 PM Friday August 15

Petaluma Summer Music Festival
Cinnabar Theater,
3333 Petaluma Blvd. N.
Directions & Map
Advance Tickets 707-763-8920

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8/10 Arbeter Ring/Workmen's Circle presents
Far Yugnt/For Youth: the Yiddish Songbook of S. Polonski

Sunday, August 10
2:00 pm
The Workmen's Circle
1525 S Robertson Blvd
Free admission, reservations not required.

Yiddishkayt is proud to participate in the annual commemoration of of Soviet Yiddish Writers. Fifty-six years ago, on August 12, 1952, the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin executed fourteen prominent Yiddish writers and Jewish communal officials in an attempt to wipe out Jewish culture.

This year, we recognize Soviet Jewish composer S. Polonski, who contributed several well-known songs to the Yiddish repertoire. The Mit Gezang Yiddish Chorus of the Workmen's Circle will delve deeper into Polonski's musical legacy, performing the entirety of his songbook written for Yiddish-speaking schoolchildren in the Soviet Union, published in 1931. This unique program will be in Yiddish and English.

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Concord Acoustic Tuesdays :: 6:30 PM, July 29. 2008 Summer Community Concert Series presents free evening outdoor concert at Todos Santos Plaza, Willow Pass Road & Grant St., Concord. Map

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JDub's Slivovitz and Soul with Soulico and Golem
July 27 2008, 8:00 PM

New York-based JDub Records brings artists performing innovative Jewish music that crosses cultures and breaks down barriers. Soulico, the four-member DJ crew from Tel Aviv with guest vocalists, delivers an original blend of Middle Eastern folk songs with hip hop beats using turntables, mixers and samplers. Golem takes listeners on a journey from Eastern Europe to the the Lower East Side. These folk-punk auteurs will electrify dance floors with their globetrotting goulash of Jewish, Slavic and Roma songs and stories.

FREE event!
Grand Performances
California Plaza
Los Angeles, CA

tel: 213.687.2190
www.grandperformances.org

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June 29 - The Freylech: Dance Parties at the JCC
Get ready to stomp, shvitz and boogie down for an evening of Yiddish dancing led by master dance leader Bruce Bierman. Some of the Bay Area's best klezmer groups will perform live music for all ages.

The Jewish Dance Theatre, directed by Bruce Bierman, is now an artistic company in residence at the JCC East Bay. Bruce will lead dance classes pulling from different Jewish traditions, and the JDT will host monthly dance parties at the JCC throughout the course of the summer. Look forward to a slate of stellar fall productions from this ensemble. Co-presented by KlezCalifornia and the Jewish Music Festival. For complete details, click HERE.

Sundays June 29, July 27, August 31
Dance lesson: 7:00-8:00pm
Live music/group dance: 8:00-10:00pm
$10/evening

JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, CA 94709

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Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment

Thursday July 24th 8-10pm
Smiley's Schooner Saloon
41 Wharf Road
Bolinas, Ca

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"Degenerate Music": Jewish Music of Weimar Germany
The Mendocino Music Festival
Thursday, July 17, 8:00 pm
Susan Waterfall & The Mendocino Music Festival Chamber Players
Erin Neff, vocalist

After World War I, Weimar Berlin was a cauldron of artistic ferment as avant-garde artists and intellectuals, most of them Jewish, struggled to create a modern German culture. Exuberant freedom and hectic experimentation masked a sense of impending doom. After 1933, Hitler denounced them all as "degenerate" and their forced exile carried Weimar modernity to the rest of the world. A re-creation of this fascinating and pivotal era with cabaret and chamber music of Weill, Schoenberg, and Eisler, photographs and film.

Presented by The Mendocino Music Festival in association with the Jewish Music Festival

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Palo Alto Twilight Concert :: 6:30 PM Tuesday July 8. City of Palo Alto's Twilight and Brown Bag Concert Series 2008: free public concert, 6:30-8pm, at Rinconada Park Bowl, 777 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. Map

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Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi with Gustavo Bulgach & Klezmer Juice.

8th Annual Klezmer Summit
SAN DIEGO JEWISH ARTS FESTIVAL

Monday, June 30, 7:30pm
Lyceum Stage, San Diego Rep
79 Horton Plaza
San Diego, CA 92101-6144
Reserved seating: $18
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June 29 - The Freylech: Dance Parties at the JCC
Get ready to stomp, shvitz and boogie down for an evening of Yiddish dancing led by master dance leader Bruce Bierman. Some of the Bay Area's best klezmer groups will perform live music for all ages.

The Jewish Dance Theatre, directed by Bruce Bierman, is now an artistic company in residence at the JCC East Bay. Bruce will lead dance classes pulling from different Jewish traditions, and the JDT will host monthly dance parties at the JCC throughout the course of the summer. Look forward to a slate of stellar fall productions from this ensemble. Co-presented by KlezCalifornia and the Jewish Music Festival. For complete details, click HERE.

Sundays June 29, July 27, August 31
Dance lesson: 7:00-8:00pm
Live music/group dance: 8:00-10:00pm
$10/evening

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival :: 12:30 PM Thurs. June 26. Free open-air lunch-hour concert in San Francisco, presented by the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. Between Mission & Howard, 3rd and 4th Sts., San Francisco. Map. More info

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Mosh Ben Ari: With Yossi Fine & DJ Cheb I Sabbah
Tue, Jun 24, 8:00 PM
The Independent
628 Divisadero Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
$30 advance tickets $50 VIP
Click here to purchase tickets.

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June 24 to August 12: Klezmer Ensemble Workshop
Want to cut your klezmer chops with an ensemble? Seasoned teacher Dave Rosenfeld will teach all levels of musicians the art and joy of playing together in a band. Rosenfeld has successfully taught this course at both the Peninsula JCC, the Albert Shultz JCC, and the JCC East Bay. He is a multi-instrumentalist, ethnomusicologist, and composer who has been playing stringed instruments for over 25 years, and teaching for almost as long.

Tuesdays, June 24-August 12; 7:30-9:00pm
$100 general, $80 members

Classes held at the JCC of the East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA 94709.
Call 510-848-0237 to register

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SONGS OF SURVIVAL: MUSIC OF THE HOLOCAUST

San Francisco Choral Artists invite you to join us in celebrating the power of music to sustain hope in times of despair. We remember those who perished in the Holocaust as well as those who survived, and how music kept many alive. With songs from the period and new works to celebrate light in times of darkness. Magen Solomon, Artistic Director.

OAKLAND:
Sunday, June 22, 2008; 4 PM
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
114 Montecito Avenue

Tickets: $9-28
San Francisco Choral Artists
www.sfca.org
415-979-5779

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SONGS OF SURVIVAL: MUSIC OF THE HOLOCAUST

San Francisco Choral Artists invite you to join us in celebrating the power of music to sustain hope in times of despair. We remember those who perished in the Holocaust as well as those who survived, and how music kept many alive. With songs from the period and new works to celebrate light in times of darkness. Magen Solomon, Artistic Director.

PALO ALTO:
Saturday, June 21, 2008; 8 PM
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
600 Colorado Avenue

Tickets: $9-28
San Francisco Choral Artists
www.sfca.org
415-979-5779

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Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment and Sqwonk

Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 8:00pm, $7-$15 sliding scale
At the Climate Theater
285 9th Street @ Folsom, San Francisco, CA
www.musicboxseries.com

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June 15 - Klezmorim in Burlingame
Naomi Zamir and Friends will play for dancing and listening at the YaYa Cuisine restaurant in Burlingame on Sunday, June 15 from 6:30 to 9:00pm. Her program includes vibrant melodies, dances and songs from the Yiddish klezmer tradition. Bruce Bierman, Yiddish and Israeli dance teacher, will lead (and show) how easy it is to dance to klezmer tunes.

YaYa Cuisine restaurant recently opened at this new location in downtown Burlingame, across the street from the train station. Its Mesopotamian-Californian menu of seafood, meat and vegetarian dishes is varied and satisfying. There is a full bar and interesting wine list - all reasonably priced. Come and join us for a freylakhn evening of music, food, dance and friends.

Yaya Cuisine
1108 Burlingame Ave
at California Drive (near the train station)
Burlingame - 650-344-2860 (for reservations)

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SONGS OF SURVIVAL: MUSIC OF THE HOLOCAUST

San Francisco Choral Artists invite you to join us in celebrating the power of music to sustain hope in times of despair. We remember those who perished in the Holocaust as well as those who survived, and how music kept many alive. With songs from the period and new works to celebrate light in times of darkness. Magen Solomon, Artistic Director.

SAN FRANCISCO:
Saturday, June 14, 2008; 8 PM,
St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church
500 De Haro Street

Tickets: $9-28
San Francisco Choral Artists
www.sfca.org
415-979-5779

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You are Invited to Klezmer Caberet
Temple Beth David
In the Social Hall

Sunday April 27th, 2008
6:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M.
Cost: $10.00 minimum donation

Featuring:
South Coast Simcha Band
Cantorial Soloist Nancy Linder

Special Guest:
Stuart Warshauer- Violinist with the Naples Klezmer Revival Band
And many more musical surprises

Desserts and drinks will be served during the event

For Reservations, please call the Temple Beth David Office 714- 892-6623
To perform in the cabaret, please email Renah Wolzinger

www.templebethdavid.org

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Grammy winners The Klezmatics

4/24/2008
Birch North Park Theatre
San Diego, CA
(619) 239-8836
www.birchnorthparktheatre.net

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The Ash Grove 50th Anniversary Legend and Legacy
A weekend-long festival at UCLA
APRIL 18-20, 2008
Presented in collaboration with the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

Free daytime concert: Sunday, April 20

12:30, outside Schoenberg Hall - Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi Klezmer music

For other events and more info: www.ashgrovemusic.com

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The Ash Grove 50th Anniversary Legend and Legacy
A weekend-long festival at UCLA
APRIL 18-20, 2008
Presented in collaboration with the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

UCLA Live Concerts - 8pm, April 18 & April 19

Royce Hall, Sat. night, April 19: Bernice Reagon and the Freedom Singers, Taj Mahal, the Bernie Pearl Blues Band and Barbara Dane, Dwight Trible, Michelle Shocked, The Watts Prophets, and a Tribute To George Smith with James Harman, Johnny Dyer, Rod Piazza and others.

Dr. Demento (Barry Hansen) and Anna DeLeon will mc.

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The Ash Grove 50th Anniversary Legend and Legacy
A weekend-long festival at UCLA
APRIL 18-20, 2008
Presented in collaboration with the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

UCLA Live Concerts - 8pm, April 18 & April 19

Royce Hall, Fri. night, April 18: Dave Alvin; Ramblin' Jack Elliott; Laura Love; a tribute to Old Time Music with Mike Seeger, Roland White and Ry Cooder; Culture Clash; Holly Near, with Emma's Revolution; Ashley Maher, and Barry Fisher's Ellis Island Band and friends tribute to world-music great Mike Janusz, with Michael Alpert, John Bilezikjian, Ethel Raim, Stuart Brotman, Catherine Foster, Selaidin Sal Mamudoski and more.

For other events and more info: www.ashgrovemusic.com

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Common Chords
The concert will take place at San Diego State University at Smith Recital Hall (M101) at 7pm on April 10th.

Admission is free.

"Common Chords" with Salman Ahmad & Junoon and Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi. The concert will consist of Sufi/Qaawali music and klezmer and the mixing of both Muslim and Jewish folk music traditions. "Common Chords" is an ongoing series of concerts and collaborations between these two world renowned artists and their ensembles.

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Community Dance Party 2008
Sun, Mar 30, 2008 4:00 PM

JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709
$12 JCC East Bay members, seniors, students $15 general

Get down as the artists of the Ark take off! Jewish dance specialist Bruce Bierman fits the moves of the ancestors into the grooves of your imagination.

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Join hundreds of young Jews (ages 21-45) for learning, eating, and rocking out!

Bureau of Jewish Education's 3rd Annual YOUNG ADULT Feast of Jewish Learning "Movement of the People"

Sunday, March 30, 4:00 - 9:30 p.m.
at the JCCSF at 3200 California Street in San Francisco

Everything is FREE!

• Join your friends for 23 free workshops on Jewish thought, texts, philosophy, spirituality, culture, love and yoga
• Taught by professors, rabbis, artists, and educators from all walks of Jewish life
• Each participant can attend two 90-minute workshops

For the All Star Line up and to get the full scoop, visit www.bjesf.org/feast

PLUS: Kosher catered food, music by Kol Creation - Jewish reggae, flowing He'Brew Beer and hundreds of young adults!

co-presented with The Taube Center for Jewish Life at JCCSF

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The Ark presents CYCLICAL RITUALS (part 1): Spring
Sat, Mar 29, 2008 8:00 PM
JCC San Francisco
3200 California Street, San Francisco 94118

TICKETS: $24 members and seniors; $28 general $18 students

The Ark is a new ensemble of internationally-renowned artists defying the limits of Jewish music. This concert is a World Premiere, the first in a series of ritual performances that explore tradition, creativity, time, environment, and their expression through art and music.

The Ark: Avi Avital (Israel); Mariana Sadovska (Ukraine); Frank London, Aaron Alexander (New York); Glenn Hartman (New Orleans); Jewlia Eisenberg, John Schott, Stuart Brotman, Jessica Ivry (Bay Area).

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Israel @ 60
Thu, Mar 27, 2008 7:30 PM
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
St. John's Presbyterian Church
2727 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705

TICKETS: $20 members, students and seniors; $24 non-members

To celebrate Israel's 60th birthday, Israeli percussionist Chen Zimbalista will focus the night's energy on contemporary Israeli composers with pieces by Weisenberg, Shemer, Gronich and a few of his own. The program will also feature pieces by Gershwin, Bloch and Sichon.

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Golem
Wed, Mar 26, 2008 9:00 PM
The Rickshaw Stop
155 Fell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Tickets: $18

Contrary to popular belief, Golem is neither a towering Jewish Frankenstein who defended the Jews of 17th Century Prague, nor a creature from Lord of the Rings. Golem is a six piece Eastern European folk-punk band.

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Ladder of Gold
Tue, Mar 25, 2008 7:30 PM
First Unitarian Church
684 14th Street, Oakland, CA

Teslim (TesLEEM) means both 'commit' and 'surrender' in Turkish and features violinist Kaila Flexer and Gari Hegedus on various (mostly plucked) strings including Turkish saz, Iraqi oud, Greek lauoto and hand drums. This potent duo performs traditional music from Greece, Turkey and the Middle East as well as original music (by Flexer, Hegedus and others) inspired by these traditions. Ladder of Gold is the fruit of a City of Oakland grant and will feature Sephardic, Mizrahi and original music.

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The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
Sun, Mar 23, 2008 4:00 PM
Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, San Francisco

Osvaldo Golijov, composer, performed by The Bridge Players.

"… a musical expression … of a mystical Jewish belief in a constant state of communion in which human consciousness nurtures and renews itself through meditation. The piece deftly blends prayer and dance and leaves the listener in a state of grace that is all-too-rare in modern music." —Gregg Cahill, Strings Magazine

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Benzion Miller
Sun, Mar 23, 2008 7:30 PM
Netivot Shalom
1316 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702

$21 JCC East Bay/Netivot members, seniors and students $25 non-members

The world-renowned Hasidic Cantor, featured on the PBS special: Cantors: A Faith in Song, captivates audiences with his brilliant tenor voice, virtuosic technique and deep spirituality. Accompanied by Daniel Gildar, pianist.

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The Red Hot Chachkas

JSOF/JCCSF Purim Dance Party, San Francisco :: 8-11 PM, Saturday March 22

Dancing, costumes, food, wine with "Jewish Singles Over Forty" at Kanbar Hall, JCCSF, 3200 California St. at Presidio Ave., San Francisco. More info and tickets

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Frank London's A Night in the Old Marketplace
Sat, Mar 22, 2008 8:00 PM
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 8:00pm
Roda Theatre of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre:
2025 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94704

Opening Night of the 23rd Annual Jewish Music Festival – West Coast Premiere

Klezmer giant Frank London has teamed up with acclaimed lyricist Glen Berger and conceiver and director Alex Aron to create twenty-one unique songs based on the legendary 1907 Yiddish play by I.L. Peretz. The groundbreaking score mixes Jewish music, jazz, classical, rock, and world beats with a dose of Kurt Weill and Tom Waits. A stellar group of international musicians come together to spin this magical tale of villagers who wrestle with ghosts in order to right a past wrong, in a fantastic journey to rediscover the meaning of faith.

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Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment

Tuesday March 18th
at Climate Theater
285 9th St. (at Folsom)
San Francisco
$10

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CineMingle: "You Never Know"
JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
Thursday, March 13, 7:30
$6 JCC members, $8 non-members
Buy tickets now.

At the 1966 Berkeley Folk Festival, a young rabbi took the stage, humbly sandwiched between higher profile acts Pete Seeger and Jefferson Airplane. Armed with a guitar, he began to sing. Shlomo Carlebach was a brilliant young Talmudic scholar who had been sent by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to bring the Torah to the hippies of San Francisco. But when his love for them transgressed the boundaries of halacha (Jewish Law), he was shunned by the Orthodox establishment. This documentary, screened at the 2007 Jerusalem Film Festival, features Carlebach's friends, doubters and followers as they discuss the counterculture rabbi's life and works. Though he passed away thirteen years ago, his influence is felt far and wide in eponymous minyanim around the world.

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Music Salon at the Magnes Museum
A Festival of Faith: The Musical Legacy of Cantor Reuben Rinder
The Judah L. Magnes Museum
2911 Russell Street, Berkeley
Thursday, March 13, 4:00 pm
$6 for Magnes members, $8 non-members
info: 510.549.6950

Cantor Roslyn Barak of Congregation Emanu-El in conversation with Francesco Spagnolo. Cantor Reuben Rinder (1887-1966) whose tenure spanned 50 years was a renowned cantor as well as an impresario and composer. Cantor Rinder was most noted for the influence he had on the careers of young artists such as Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin, as well as for his commitment to the commissioning of liturgical works.

Cantor Roslyn Barak has served at Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco since 1987 and Dr. Francesco Spagnolo is Head of Research at the Magnes.

Co-Sponsored by the 23rd Jewish Music Festival and Congregation Emanu-El

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Jewish Music Festival "forshpeis" or appetizer:
Mayn Yiddishe Velt, Heather Lauren Klein

JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
March 13, 2:00 pm
$12 members/seniors/students, $15 general
For tickets and music samples click here.

The soprano voice of this emerging Bay Area artist soars on the wings of classic Yiddish art song and repertoire from operetta, cabaret and theater in Yiddish and English.

Heather Klein has charmed audiences throughout the United States, Canada and Europe with her beguiling stage presence and versatile soprano voice. Ms. Klein comes to the Jewish Music Festival hot off the release of her first album, Mayn Yiddishe Velt, a compilation of theater music from the late 1800's and early 1900's. In performance and on record, Heather celebrates the music brought to the New York's Lower East Side by immigrants as well as the innovative work written in the United States at that time for theater and concert halls including art songs, folk, and opera.

Heather will also appear at Temple Beth Sholom in San Leandro on March 14th at 8:00 pm and the San Francisco Public Library on March 12th at 6:00 pm.

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Jewish Music Festival "forshpeis" or appetizer:
Mayn Yiddishe Velt, Heather Lauren Klein

Temple Beth Sholom
San Leandro
Mar 14, 8:00pm

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Jewish Music Festival "forshpeis" or appetizer:
Mayn Yiddishe Velt, Heather Lauren Klein

San Francisco Public Library
March 12th at 6:00 pm

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The Andy Statman Trio (Andy on clarinet and mandolin, Jim Whitney on bass and Larry Eagle on drums and percussion) will be performing in California this Sunday night, March 9th at 8 PM:

Congregation Beth Am
26790 Arastradero Rd.
Los Altos, CA 94304
(650) 493-4661

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Glenn Hartman & The Klezmer Playboys
The Dance Palace
Pt. Reyes Station
Sunday, March 9, 4:00 pm
$18 general, $16 seniors and DP members
Tickets and info: www.dancepalace.org or 415.663.1075

Glenn Hartman, front man for the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars—a group heralded by the Village Voice as, "easily the funniest and wildest of the klezmer new wave"—brings the animated energy to his new group, The Klezmer Playboys. The band infuses traditional klezmer melodies with a plus-sized dose of funk and rock 'n roll, creating a potent musical concotion sure to heat up the dance floor.

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John Schott's Dream Kitchen
Black Pine Circle School
2027 7th Street, Berkeley
Sunday, March 9, 3:00 pm
$10 adults, children free

Did you miss out on John Schott's Dream Kitchen at the Brew last month? Want to check out the local trio of John Schott (guitar), Marc Bolin (tuba) and John Hanes (drums) before John Schott takes the stage as part of the Jewish Music Festival finale The Ark presents Cyclical Rituals (part 1): Spring? Well this is your chance to bring along the kids and enjoy Dream Kitchen's spectrum of silly and serious songs, innovation and endearing banter.

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The Orange County Klezmers will be playing a concert for Chapman University's 9th Annual Holocaust Arts and Writing Contest on Friday March 7th at 10 AM. They will be playing music from their CD "Echoes of Vilna" in the beginning of the event and conclude with joyous frailachy music at the end.

For further information: www.chapman.edu/holocausteducation/events/contest2008.asp.

This event is FREE.

Chapman University
One University Drive, Orange, CA
Phone: 714-997-6815

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Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment

Friday February 29th 9pm
at Amnesia with Fishtank Ensemble (great Roma style fusion music)
853 Valencia St.
Between 19th & 20th
San Francisco
$8

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Bang on a Can All-Stars on Tour
February 28 - LSU Union Theater, Baton Rouge, LA, 6-11PM
BANG ON A CAN MARATHON with Iva Bittová and Don Byron
Buy Tickets Here

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HOT, HIP AND HEYMISH
with the Queen of Yiddish Soul
Congregation Sinai presents
ELEANOR REISSA SINGS YIDDISH SOUL
Piano Accompaniment by GRANT STURIALE

DIRECT FROM A SOLD OUT RUN AT THE HOUSEMAN THEATRE IN NY!
Sunday, February 24th at 2:00 PM at Congregation Sinai, 1532 Willowbrae Avenue in San Jose

Tickets for 2pm Eleanor Reissa performance are $36. each, in support of her brother's San Jose shul. For reservations and more information, please contact the Sinai office (1532 Willowbrae Avenue, San Jose or 408-264-8542). CDs will be available for purchase at the concert as well. Reservations required by February 22nd.

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Workshop on the Revival of Sephardic Music
Temple Sinai
2808 Summit Street, Oakland
Sunday, February 24 2:00-4:30
$12 members of JCC East Bay and Temple Sinai, $15 non-members
For info call 510.848.0237.

How do tradition and revival co-exist? Musical scholar Francesco Spagnolo traces the history of the revival of Sephardic music since the 19th century. Illustrated with musical demonstrations by duo Teslim (Kaila Flexer on violin and Gari Hegedus on oud and lauoto).

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THE BREW: Dream Kitchen and Craig Ventresco, Meridith Axelrod & Rob Reich
JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
Saturday, February 23, 8:00 pm
$10 members, $12 non-members
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Craig Ventresco, Meredith Axelrod, and Rob Reich fashion music utterly unconcerned with the modern era. Concentrating on early 20th century vaudeville, ragtime, and popular songs as recorded on obscure 78s from the dawn of the recorded music era, their sound travels backwards across time, pleasantly rumbling down the dirt roads of an America that once was.

Dream Kitchen presents a radical reevaluation of early Jazz, showing its roots in ragtime and folk music and its implications for improvisation. Compositions by Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington are thrashed, trashed and smashed by a tuba-guitar-drums trio of John Schott, Marc Bolin, and John Hanes. The trio, whose members have won countless accolades in pretty much every musical genre, will also indulge in an investigation of the works of early Jewish Jazz composers.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 8pm

"Mystical Music of the Middle East"

with The Yuval Ron Ensemble featuring
singer Najwa Gibran
Whirling Dervish Aziz
and dancer Maya Karasso

Location: Shannon Center for the Performing Arts at Whittier College
13406 E. Philadelphia St.Whittier, CA 90608

Admission: $10 (students: $8)

Reservations and information: By phone 562-907-4203

For further info: Email Yuval Ron Ensemble, or Calendar page at www.yuvalronmusic.com

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What: A Time for Peace - An Inspirational evening of sacred Sufi music from the Turkish and Pakistani traditions and devotional music from the Moroccan-Jewish and Yemenite-Jewish music heritages.

Who: The Yuval Ron Ensemble, featuring Najwa Gibran, vocal soloist, with appearance by Whirling Dervish of the Melevi Order-Aziz.

Where: Islamic Center of Southern California 434 S. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90021. The Location of the Concert is a sacred space! The public is asked to attend dressed in a manner, which is respectful and appropriate for a place of worship.

When: Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 7:30pm

Money: tickets are $20 at the door, no advanced sales.

Info: Tel: 310-415-6747, e-mail Yuval Ron Ensemble, or Calendar page at www.yuvalronmusic.com

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Annette Brodovsky Memorial Benefit Concert
Sunday, February 10, 2008, 3pm-5pm
Congregation Bet Haverim /Jewish Fellowship of Davis, Sanctuary
1715 Anderson Road, Davis, CA 95616
(Synagogue phone number 530-758-0842)
Suggested Ticket Donation: $20 (payable at the door)

The Annette Brodovsky Memorial Benefit Concert will take place on Sunday, February 10, 2008, 3pm-5pm, in the sanctuary of Congregation Bet Haverim /Jewish Fellowship of Davis, 1715 Anderson Road, Davis, CA 95616. The all-klezmer program features (in order of appearance) The Davis Klezmer Orchestra, The Freilachmakers Old-Time String Band, and The Red-Hot Chachkas. The suggested ticket donation price is $20.

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Bang on a Can Marathon - Next Stop: SAN FRANCISCO!
In honor of our double-decade anniversary we're packing up hours of amazing music and taking them on the road. On February 9 we'll celebrate with 10-HOURS of live ear-bending border-crossing music from around the corner and around the globe. Musicians and composers from all over the world will descend on the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for a remarkable all-day concert.

Saturday, February 9, 12 noon - 10pm
The Bang on a Can Marathon at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Performances By:
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Iva Bittova, Don Byron, Cheb i Sabbah, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Carla Kihlstedt, Lisa Moore, Njuton (from Iceland), Edmund Welles Clarinet Quartet, Pamela Z

Music By:
Iva Bittova, Cornelius Boots, Don Byron, Fred Frith, Michael Gordon, Annie Gosfield, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Carla Kihlstedt, David Lang, Paul Lansky, Lukas Ligeti, Alvin Lucier, Thurston Moore, Cheb i Sabbah, Julia Wolfe, Pamela Z, Evan Ziporyn

Complete Schedule Information
Tickets

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Saturday Feb. 8, 2008 :: 8:30 pm

Concert-Dance-CD Release Party at Sweetwater's charming Larkspur Cafe Theater, 500 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur (415-924-6107).

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Bang on a Can All-Stars on Tour
February 7 - Amoeba Records, San Francisco CA, 7PM
If you're in the Bay Area and you love innovative music then you can't possibly turn down this killer pairing of Bang on a Can All-Stars LIVE at Amoeba Records. The All-Stars perform an intimate yet explosive set of music by Don Byron, Michael Gordon, Thurston Moore, Evan Ziporyn and more. It's FREE!

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Bang on a Can All-Stars on Tour
February 6 - The Other House, La Jolla, CA, 7:30PM
The All-Stars perform works by Don Byron, Fred Frith, Paul Lanksy, Lukas Ligeti, Alvin Lucier, Evan Ziporyn. More Information & Tickets

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Back by popular demand! Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi
Barbes,
Park Slope, Brooklyn
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.)
Saturday, February 2, 8pm.

CD release concert for their new ARC recording, "Borsht with Bread, Brothers".

The lineup: Strom (fiddle), Elizabeth Schwartz (vocals), Peter Stan (accordion), Sprocket (bass), Norbert Stachel (reeds), David Licht (percussion).

718.965.9177
www.barbesbrooklyn.com

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The KLEZMAKERS in concert!
Saturday, Feb. 2nd, 7:30pm

The mid-peninsula's very own (eight piece!) klezmer band will perform in Santa Clara. Come for a rollicking evening of dance tunes, Yiddish theater songs, some Israeli folk music, and the debut of a few of their original pieces. You can even enjoy a light dinner during the show (sandwiches, soups, pasta, etc.)

Mission City Coffee Roasting Company
2221 The Alameda, Santa Clara, 95050
admission: $8, Ph: 408-261-2221

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Sharon Bernstein
Cantor Unplugged

Yiddish, Ladino, Italian, Classical, and Jazz
Free admission
Reception to follow

Saturday, January 19, 2008
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Congregation Sha'ar Zahav
290 Dolores Street (corner of 16th Street)
San Francisco
View Map

415.861.6932

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Thursday Jan. 10, 2008
7:30/8:30 pm
Concert-Dance-CD Release Party at Ashkenaz
1317 San Pablo Ave. at Gilman, Berkeley.

Dance lesson with Bruce Bierman and Julie Egger at 7:30 pm. Music starts at 8:30pm.

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Margot Leverett & Friends, including Suzy and Eric Thompson
acclaimed clarinetist

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Freight and Salvage
1111 Addison St.
Berkeley, CA
Door 7:30 P.M., Music 8:00 P.M.
Purchase advance tickets $18.50

www.thefreight.org

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Margot Leverett & Friends, including Suzy and Eric Thompson
acclaimed clarinetist

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Freight and Salvage
1111 Addison St.
Berkeley, CA
Door 7:30 P.M., Music 8:00 P.M.
Purchase advance tickets $18.50

www.thefreight.org

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Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."

We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.

Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."

12/14
Knitting Factory,
Los Angeles CA
www.knittingfactory.com
(323) 463-0204

www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews

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Za'atar: Music of the Jews of Arab & Muslim Lands
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
7:30 PM Doors Open
8:00 PM Performance Begins

Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Ave. (just south of Gilman St.), Berkeley, CA
Entrance: $10.00

(510) 524-5054
www.ashkenaz.com

Sample Za'tar's CD: cdbaby.com/cd/zaatarband2

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Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."

We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.

Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."

12/12
Great American Music Hall,
San Francisco CA
www.musichallsf.com
(415) 885-0750

www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews

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CONGREGATION BETH EL PRESENT
Yiddish Arts Festival

"Oy Khanike: A Celebration of Yiddish Culture"
Dec 7-9, 2007

Congregation Beth El of La Jolla presents a full weekend of activities that will be fun, entertaining and enlightening for the whole family. Join us for an entire weekend celebrating different elements of Yiddish culture, including music, literature, food, film and storytelling.

Please call or go online for information and to make your reservations:
RSVP online for any program at www.congregationbethel.org/form-rsvp.html
tel: 858 452 1734
www.congregationbethel.org
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EXTENDED BODY:
Presenters include
Yale Strom, Peter Riegert, Thane Rosenbaum, Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, Craig Parks.

Friday, Dec. 7th @ 6:15pm
Khanike Dinner/Happy Minyan w/Keynote Presentation by Yale Strom, "The influence of klezmer music on the revival of Yiddish culture in the United States"

Sat., Dec. 8th @ 9:30am
Shabbat Services followed by Presentation on Yiddish literature by Thane Rosenbaum (author of The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, The Myth of Moral Justice)

Sat., Dec. 8th @ 12:00pm
Luncheon and presentation of a Yiddish Story (TBA) by Thane Rosenbaum

Sat., Dec. 8th @ 7:30pm
Concert by Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi

Sun., Dec. 9th @ 4:00pm
Family Khanike Party and Puppet Show with Storyteller/Musician Craig Parks

Sun., Dec. 9th @ 7:00pm
Movie Presentation, King of the Corner, Directed by & Starring Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancy, Animal House, Local Hero and TV's Damages), who will lead a discussion following the presentation.
NOTE: This film is for mature audiences and not appropriate for children

Pricing:
Program Sponsors: Includes all events & program recognition:
$75.00 per person, $25.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

All Inclusive Ticket: Includes all events—$60.00 per person, $20.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Separate Event Ticket Pricing:
Friday Dinner: $20.00 per person, $8.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Saturday Lunch: $20.00 per person, $8.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Saturday Eve: Concert : $13.00 per person, $5.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Sunday: Chanukkah Party: $7.50 per person, $5.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Sunday Eve: Movie Presentation: $3.50 per person

Children under 5 FREE for all programs

Congregation Beth El
8660 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA

Please call or go online for information and to make your reservations:
RSVP online for any program at www.congregationbethel.org/form-rsvp.html
tel: 858 452 1734
www.congregationbethel.org

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KLEZMER BRUNCH/CONCERT with Extreme Klezmer Makeover Band: A feast of original, traditional and progressive Klezmer with a 21st Century, R&B, Jazz, Cajun, Middle Eastern twist. Culver City at the SYNERGY CAFE & LOUNGE, Dec 9 11AM-1PM

FREE CONCERT 4437 Sepulveda Blvd (corner of Sepulveda and Braddock). Some hungry, come thirsty and support this wonderful small intimate community arts venue. Celebrate the release of their 2nd CD: RAISING THE ROOF.

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CONGREGATION BETH EL PRESENTS
Yiddish Arts Festival

"Oy Khanike: A Celebration of Yiddish Culture"
Dec 7-9, 2007

Congregation Beth El of La Jolla presents a full weekend of activities that will be fun, entertaining and enlightening for the whole family. Join us for an entire weekend celebrating different elements of Yiddish culture, including music, literature, food, film and storytelling.

Please call or go online for information and to make your reservations:
RSVP online for any program at www.congregationbethel.org/form-rsvp.html
tel: 858 452 1734
www.congregationbethel.org
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EXTENDED BODY:
Presenters include
Yale Strom, Peter Riegert, Thane Rosenbaum, Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, Craig Parks.

Friday, Dec. 7th @ 6:15pm
Khanike Dinner/Happy Minyan w/Keynote Presentation by Yale Strom, "The influence of klezmer music on the revival of Yiddish culture in the United States"

Sat., Dec. 8th @ 9:30am
Shabbat Services followed by Presentation on Yiddish literature by Thane Rosenbaum (author of The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, The Myth of Moral Justice)

Sat., Dec. 8th @ 12:00pm
Luncheon and presentation of a Yiddish Story (TBA) by Thane Rosenbaum

Sat., Dec. 8th @ 7:30pm
Concert by Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi

Sun., Dec. 9th @ 4:00pm
Family Khanike Party and Puppet Show with Storyteller/Musician Craig Parks

Sun., Dec. 9th @ 7:00pm
Movie Presentation, King of the Corner, Directed by & Starring Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancy, Animal House, Local Hero and TV's Damages), who will lead a discussion following the presentation.
NOTE: This film is for mature audiences and not appropriate for children

Pricing:
Program Sponsors: Includes all events & program recognition:
$75.00 per person, $25.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

All Inclusive Ticket: Includes all events—$60.00 per person, $20.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Separate Event Ticket Pricing:
Friday Dinner: $20.00 per person, $8.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Saturday Lunch: $20.00 per person, $8.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Saturday Eve: Concert : $13.00 per person, $5.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Sunday: Chanukkah Party: $7.50 per person, $5.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Sunday Eve: Movie Presentation: $3.50 per person

Children under 5 FREE for all programs

Congregation Beth El
8660 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA

Please call or go online for information and to make your reservations:
RSVP online for any program at www.congregationbethel.org/form-rsvp.html
tel: 858 452 1734
www.congregationbethel.org

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Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment with Sandor Elix Katz!

Saturday, 12/8/07 7:30 pm
SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally)
1236 23rd Avenue at International Blvd., Oakland, CA
oaklandsol.org/wp/

Admission by donation; no one turned away for lack of funds. Bring a jar to fill, some veggies to chop, a cutting board, knife, and grater.

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THE EIGHT: (Eight Hanukah shows taking place, all on December 8)

San Francisco, CA - The Independent
$12 in advance /$14 at the door // 8:30 PM //$21+
www.theindependentsf.com

Apollo Sunshine - Boston neo-psychedelic/indie rock trio take conventional songs and filter them through a pop underground sound that's reminiscent of Cheap Trick and the Flaming Lips.
myspace.com/apollosunshine

Festival of Rights - A unique menorah lighting with local social justice activists.

Co-sponsored by: Progressive Jewish Alliance, Reboot, and Bay Area Tribe

For more information, please contact Dave Cirilli: 212.246.7044 or email.

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THE EIGHT: (Eight Hanukah shows taking place, all on December 8)

Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex
$15 advance /$20 day of show // 8 PM // 18+
attheecho.com

Balkan Beat Box - Balkan Beat Box imagines a Middle East with out borders and makes connections that politics often keep separate. Jewish, Gypsy, Arabic, and American cultures united by hip hop beats, dancehall toasts, dub and electronica. myspace.com/balkanbeatbox

Dengue Fever - Psychedelic surf rock and Cambodian pop are a heady blend, as Dengue Fever demonstrates. "…original material that shatters the language barrier with mildly psychedelic, blissed out pop." -Pitchfork www.myspace.com/denguefevermusic

Festival of Rights - A unique menorah lighting with local social justice activists.

Co-sponsored by Progressive Jewish Alliance and Reboot, with support from Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and Jewish Venture Philanthropy Fund of LA

For more information, please contact Dave Cirilli: 212.246.7044 or email.

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CONGREGATION BETH EL PRESENTS
Yiddish Arts Festival

"Oy Khanike: A Celebration of Yiddish Culture"
Dec 7-9, 2007

Congregation Beth El of La Jolla presents a full weekend of activities that will be fun, entertaining and enlightening for the whole family. Join us for an entire weekend celebrating different elements of Yiddish culture, including music, literature, food, film and storytelling.

Please call or go online for information and to make your reservations:
RSVP online for any program at www.congregationbethel.org/form-rsvp.html
tel: 858 452 1734
www.congregationbethel.org
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EXTENDED BODY:
Presenters include
Yale Strom, Peter Riegert, Thane Rosenbaum, Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, Craig Parks.

Friday, Dec. 7th @ 6:15pm
Khanike Dinner/Happy Minyan w/Keynote Presentation by Yale Strom, "The influence of klezmer music on the revival of Yiddish culture in the United States"

Sat., Dec. 8th @ 9:30am
Shabbat Services followed by Presentation on Yiddish literature by Thane Rosenbaum (author of The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, The Myth of Moral Justice)

Sat., Dec. 8th @ 12:00pm
Luncheon and presentation of a Yiddish Story (TBA) by Thane Rosenbaum

Sat., Dec. 8th @ 7:30pm
Concert by Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi

Sun., Dec. 9th @ 4:00pm
Family Khanike Party and Puppet Show with Storyteller/Musician Craig Parks

Sun., Dec. 9th @ 7:00pm
Movie Presentation, King of the Corner, Directed by & Starring Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancy, Animal House, Local Hero and TV's Damages), who will lead a discussion following the presentation.
NOTE: This film is for mature audiences and not appropriate for children

Pricing:
Program Sponsors: Includes all events & program recognition:
$75.00 per person, $25.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

All Inclusive Ticket: Includes all events—$60.00 per person, $20.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Separate Event Ticket Pricing:
Friday Dinner: $20.00 per person, $8.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Saturday Lunch: $20.00 per person, $8.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Saturday Eve: Concert : $13.00 per person, $5.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Sunday: Chanukkah Party: $7.50 per person, $5.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)

Sunday Eve: Movie Presentation: $3.50 per person

Children under 5 FREE for all programs

Congregation Beth El
8660 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA

Please call or go online for information and to make your reservations:
RSVP online for any program at www.congregationbethel.org/form-rsvp.html
tel: 858 452 1734
www.congregationbethel.org

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Thursday Dec. 7, 2007
7 pm
Concert at Beth Chaim Congregation
1800 Hollbrook Dr.,
Danville, CA
(925-736-7146)

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Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment with Smyrna Time Machine

Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, CA
Doors at 7:00 pm; Show at 8:30 pm
Balkan dance lesson at 7:30 pm
$10
www.ashkenaz.com

December 5th we make our debut at Ashkenaz in Berkeley where we will be sharing the evening with the local Greek Rebetica band Smyrna Time Machine. Ashkenaz has a great dance floor, so we expect your bootaaaaaaaaays to be shakin'.
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December 5, 2007
The Sephardic Temple Young Leadership (STYL) presents
"Dancing with the Sephards"

Celebrate the first night of Hanukkah at Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel with candlelighting, holiday treats, and a unique Sephardic dance workshop taught by Maya Karasoo of the Yuval Ron Ensemble. For young professionals, ages 21-39.

Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, Synagogue 10500 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024 Admission: Free admission.

Reservations and information: Reservations required by Friday, November 30 Call the Temple office at 310-475-7311

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JEWMONGOUS!

Sun. Dec. 2, '07
Red Devil Lounge
San Francisco, CA
415-921-1695,

$17 advance, $20 day of show,
7pm doors for 7:30 show,
1695 Polk St..

www.ticketweb.com. Special duet guest Greg Lee (yes; really Greg Lee).

JEWMONGOUS "Taller Than Jesus" CD Release Tour
JEWMONGOUS, a solo comedy song concert with occasional guests, is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN: the golden-voiced, song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew and the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella. Sean was featured in Time Out New York's cover story "The New Super Jews," (with Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman) and in the New York Times feature about "the Jewish Hipster Movement." He debuted JEWMONGOUS in 2006 and has garnered press accolades coast to coast (see them below).

jewmongous.com

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Odessa/Havana CD Release tour
Saturday, December 1
SAN FRANCISCO, USA
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
8:00pm

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YIDDISH THEATER: A LOVE STORY
A new film by Award winning director Dan Katzir
November in Manhattan (NY), Los Angeles (CA) and Tel Aviv (Israeli)

Los Angeles
November 30
Laemmle Theaters
The film will play in various Laemmle theaters. For specific date, time and location please check the Laemmle chain website

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Odessa/Havana CD Release tour
Thursday, November 29
LOS ANGELES, USA
Skirball Cultural Center
8:00pm

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The Fishtank Ensemble, Charming Hostess and Daniel Kahn
853 Valencia Street, San Francisco
November 18, 8:00
$12-$15 sliding scale at the door
For more info: 510-848-0237 x119

Direct from Berlin, Daniel Kahn, likened to the young Bob Dylan, hits nerves as he juggles sensibilities in the one-night only showcase of Jewish music that rides the edge on Sunday, November 18th at Amnesia in San Francisco. Joining him are the blazing Fishtank Ensemble, now based in Los Angeles, and the Bay Area's own brilliant nerdie-commie-girl band Charming Hostess.

Presented by The Jewish Music Festival and The Hub

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Golem
Thursday, November 15th
Los Angeles @ Echo
8:30 pm // $10 / 18+
tickets - http://www.ticketweb.com/user?region=socal&query=schedule&venue=echo

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Golem
San Francisco
12 Galaxies
9:30 pm / 21+
$12 Advance / $15 Day of Show
tickets - 12galaxies.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=20537

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A Shirtwaist Tale

A Shirtwaist Tale tells the true story of 30,000 young, mostly Jewish, immigrant women that changed the face of the labor movement by striking for better wages and shorter hours in 1909. Oakland playwright Judith Offer teams up with renowned composer Arkadi Serper to restage this delightful musical seven years after its initial debut. Accompanied by an onstage klezmer band, this vital document of the immigrant history is not to be missed.

Saturday, November 3, 8:00pm
Sunday, November 4, 5:00pm
Saturday, November 10, 8:00pm
Sunday, November 11, 5:00pm

$15 members, $20 public

JCC East Bay
510-848-0237 / fax: 510-848-0170
Berkeley, CA
www.jcceastbay.org

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Dror Sinai at Kehilla Synogogue
Sunday, November 4
Kehilla Community Synagogue
1300 Grand Avenue
Piedmont, CA 94610

Drumming Workshop with Dror Sinai: Intro to the Dumbek
5:00-6:30 pm
$25 in advance, $35 at the door
Come explore the ancient sound of the Doumbek, also called Durbuka, Durbaky and Tabla. This class is for those who would like to gain experience and knowledge of this unique hand-drum of the Middle East. Learn to create a basic variety of sounds, open yourself to the concepts of rhythm, find your own personal rhythms, and communicate with others.

Concert: "Desert Roots"
7:30 pm
$15 in advance, $20 at the door
Featuring Dror Sinai singing Jewish songs from Israel, Yemen, Morocco and more in Hebrew, Ladino and Tunisian. Dror will be joined by Rachel Valfer, a singer and oud player. Equally comfortable in Greek, Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic and Farsi, her rich, earthy vocals evoke longing, love, strength and ultimately a sense of vastness and grace.

Participate in both the workshop and concert for the special rate of $30 (advance payment required)

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Help us celebrate our 27th year playing klezmer music; lively freilachs, soulful doinas, danceful bulgars, old world waltzes, Yiddish vocals. At this concert you will be guests at a shtetel wedding as band enacts a traditional Jewish village wedding in Eastern Europe, 1900. Ellis Island will have you dancing down the aisles!

Wisteria Ways
Sunday, Nov. 4, 3pm
383 61st St.,
Oakland 94618
510.655-2771

www.wisteriaways.org/events.html

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If you are a fan of Michael Wex (which is to say, if you have ever met him, heard him speak, or read his previous best-seller), and you live in San Francisco, you will be quite pleased to know that the new book, Just say nu is out.

Today, he appears at the San Francisco Jewish BookFest
2pm

Why is Wex so funny? I blame it on Alberta, or at least the Calgary Hebrew Day School, which we both attended (me for just a few early years, insufficient for an adequate humor education, in the early 1960s). [ari]

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A Shirtwaist Tale

A Shirtwaist Tale tells the true story of 30,000 young, mostly Jewish, immigrant women that changed the face of the labor movement by striking for better wages and shorter hours in 1909. Oakland playwright Judith Offer teams up with renowned composer Arkadi Serper to restage this delightful musical seven years after its initial debut. Accompanied by an onstage klezmer band, this vital document of the immigrant history is not to be missed.

Saturday, November 3, 8:00pm
Sunday, November 4, 5:00pm
Saturday, November 10, 8:00pm
Sunday, November 11, 5:00pm

$15 members, $20 public

JCC East Bay
510-848-0237 / fax: 510-848-0170
Berkeley, CA
www.jcceastbay.org

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Saturday, November 3, 2007

The Wechsberg Educational Foundation of Congregation Ner Tamid presents
A Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Concert
" A Musical Odyssey" featuring

The Yuval Ron Ensemble

Admission: For tickets contact Ticket Alternatives at
www.ticketalternative.com
or call (877) 725-8849

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A Shirtwaist Tale

A Shirtwaist Tale tells the true story of 30,000 young, mostly Jewish, immigrant women that changed the face of the labor movement by striking for better wages and shorter hours in 1909. Oakland playwright Judith Offer teams up with renowned composer Arkadi Serper to restage this delightful musical seven years after its initial debut. Accompanied by an onstage klezmer band, this vital document of the immigrant history is not to be missed.

Saturday, November 3, 8:00pm
Sunday, November 4, 5:00pm
Saturday, November 10, 8:00pm
Sunday, November 11, 5:00pm

$15 members, $20 public

JCC East Bay
510-848-0237 / fax: 510-848-0170
Berkeley, CA
www.jcceastbay.org

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A Shirtwaist Tale

A Shirtwaist Tale tells the true story of 30,000 young, mostly Jewish, immigrant women that changed the face of the labor movement by striking for better wages and shorter hours in 1909. Oakland playwright Judith Offer teams up with renowned composer Arkadi Serper to restage this delightful musical seven years after its initial debut. Accompanied by an onstage klezmer band, this vital document of the immigrant history is not to be missed.

Saturday, November 3, 8:00pm
Sunday, November 4, 5:00pm
Saturday, November 10, 8:00pm
Sunday, November 11, 5:00pm

$15 members, $20 public

JCC East Bay
510-848-0237 / fax: 510-848-0170
Berkeley, CA
www.jcceastbay.org

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Grammy winners The Klezmatics, world-renowned superstars of the klezmer world. Their music is steeped in Jewish spiritualism and Eastern European tradition while incorporating more provocative themes such as social rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic musical influences such as gospel, punk, and Arab, African, and Balkan rhythms.

San Diego
Birch North Park Theater

"Traditional and innovative? It must be The Klezmatics." —Los Angeles Times

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Shemspeed.com
CALIFORNIA Launch Party! (Oct 28th)
@ The Joint
Doors7:30pm
$15
www.jconnectla.com
* Email rsvp[at]shemspeed.com to ensure getting in!

with performances by Y-Love, Jake Break, dj handler and many more TBA

8771 west pico ave
Los Angeles, CA
310.275.2619
www.myspace.com/thejoint

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Grammy winners The Klezmatics, world-renowned superstars of the klezmer world make their Friend Center debut. Their music is steeped in Jewish spiritualism and Eastern European tradition while incorporating more provocative themes such as social rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic musical influences such as gospel, punk, and Arab, African, and Balkan rhythms.

Saturday, October 27, 8:00 PM
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street

$28.00 Member / $32.00 Public / $25.00 Student
FOR TICKETS: 415-292-1233
www.jccsf.org

"Traditional and innovative? It must be The Klezmatics." —Los Angeles Times

Co-sponsored by the Jewish Music Festival, a project of the JCC East Bay

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Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 1:45 pm and 4:00pm

The Getty Villa presents

Yuval Ron
Oud Prayers
Sacred and Folk Music of the Middle East
with percussionist Jamie Papish

Inner Peristyle at the Getty Villa in Malibu 17985 Pacific Coast Highway Pacific Palisades, California 90272

Reservations and information: Call (310) 440-7300

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Yiddish Sing-Along: Lullabies, Wake-up Calls, and Songs in the Night
Jillian Tallmer and accompanist

Shlof Mayn Kind ... Vakht Oyf! ... Shtil, Di Nakht

Yiddish abounds in dark songs, edgy lullabies, and lyrical calls to action. Jillian will introduce a dozen familiar and less well-known songs, providing transliterated songsheets. To enter the world of Yiddish songs -- ironic, down-to-earth, poignant -- is to feel their irresistible spirit. Whether you're new to this music or already hooked, you will come away inspired. No previous familiarity is required to enjoy this sing-along experience!

Sunday, October 21, 1 - 3 pm
BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street
San Francisco, CA 94115

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Dan Cantrell & Friends and Eliyahu & Qadim
Berkeley-Richmond JCC
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
Saturday, October 20, 2007, 8:00 pm
$12 members, $15 general
More info at the Brew website.

Buy tickets NOW!
Co-produced by the Jewish Music Festival

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Una Noche Idishe/An Argentine Yiddish Experience
At the REDCAT
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
In The Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex
631 W. 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Sat Oct 20 | 8:30 pm
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
General Admission Seating
Validated Parking for the event is $8.
For more info: www.redcat.org (213)237-2800.

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Comedian Michael Showalter's album Sandwiches & Cats is set to release this November! Catch our newest addition on tour with friend and accomplice Michael Ian Black all around the U.S:

October, 15 2007 - 7:00P

House of Blues
1055 5th Avenue
San Diego , CA 92101
Cost: $20

myspace.com/michaelshowalter

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Teapacks in Concert
Monday, October 15, 7:30 pm
Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley
$5 students, $15 Tzavta members, $25 general

Teapacks' unique sound can be best described as a Middle Eastern-Rock fusion, which has brought the band to the top of the charts in Israel numerous times during its almost two decades of action. The band, which as a headliner of Israel in the Ballpark 2004 made the local Jewish and Israeli community dance for two hours, returns to the Bay Area.

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Comedian Michael Showalter's album Sandwiches & Cats is set to release this November! Catch our newest addition on tour with friend and accomplice Michael Ian Black all around the U.S:

October, 13 2007 - 7:00P

Ivar Theatre
1605 N. Ivar Ave
Hollywood , CA 90028
Cost: $25

myspace.com/michaelshowalter

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Comedian Michael Showalter's album Sandwiches & Cats is set to release this November! Catch our newest addition on tour with friend and accomplice Michael Ian Black all around the U.S:

October, 12 2007 - 8:00P

The Fillmore
1805 Geary
San Francisco , CA 94115
Cost: $25

myspace.com/michaelshowalter

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The South Coast Simcha Band
October 7, 2007 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Event Price: $10 / $12

The South Coast Simcha Band will perform their lively brand of
Yiddish and Klezmer Music at this special public concert. This
performance is part of the Fifth Annual Daniel Peral Music Days,
a global network of concerts using the universal language of music to teach respect of differences and reach out in friendship.

William Bristol Civic Auditorium
16600 Civic Center Drive
Bellflower, CA 90706

Sponsor: Bellflower Concert Association

Contact: Friends of Bellflower Concert Association
Web Site: www.bellflower.org
Phone: 562-804-1424 ext2212

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Veretski Pass
Jewish Music from the Carpathian Bow

With a new program from soon to be released second CD, "Dov the Cow Swimmer"
Cookie Segelstein: Violin
Joshua Horowitz: Button Accordion, Tsimbl
Stuart Brotman: Cello, Tilinca, Baraban

Sunday, October 7, 2007, 8 PM
California State University, Sacramento
Recital Hall of Capistrano Hall on the Sacramento State campus
Admission is $15 general and $8 for students
Information Page: www.csus.edu
Tickets and Parking: www.csus.edu/music/tickets.htm

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Veretski Pass
Jewish Music from the Carpathian Bow

With a new program from soon to be released second CD, "Dov the Cow Swimmer"
Cookie Segelstein: Violin
Joshua Horowitz: Button Accordion, Tsimbl
Stuart Brotman: Cello, Tilinca, Baraban

Saturday, October 6, 2007, 8 PM
Freight and Salvage
1111 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA
8 PM -- doors open at 7:30 PM
$ 18.50 advance / $ 19.50 door
(510) 548-1761
www.freightandsalvage.org
Tickets at the door or online:

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Yiddish Folk Festival
Sunday, September 30th - 3:00 to 7:00 pm

San Geronimo Valley Community Center
6350 Sir Frances Drake Blvd., San Geronimo
9 miles west of San Rafael in Marin

Klezmer Music from: The Red Hot Chachkas, Freilachmakers Old-Time String Band, Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble, Yiddish Singing and Dancing with Gerry Tenney and Bruce Bierman.

Participatory Workshops: dancing / singing / storytelling / children's activities / food / art / select vendors / fun for all ages! Don't forget to Bring Your Instruments!

Tickets: $15 adults, $5 kids, and $30 family of 3 or more
More Info: (415) 488-8888 or www.svgcc.org

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Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 3pm
Magdalene Cultural Arts Center presents:

Music as a Catalyst for Sacred Prayer and Ecstasy
A Workshop of Divine Ecstasy in Sufi and Hassidic Music
facilitated by
Yuval Ron

Magdalene Cultural Arts Center
4822 Vineland Avenue, North Hollywood, CA 91601
Admission: $25
For more information: Please call 818-760-0531

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Balkan Beat Box
9/29/2007 9:00 PM
Great American Music Hall
859 O'Farrell St.
San Francisco, CA
Cost : $15.00

Doors at 8pm / All AGES

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Balkan Beat Box
9/28/2007 8:00 PM
2007 All Roads Film Festival
Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA

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Extreme Klezmer Makeover Band High energy, foot stomping, put-a-smile-on-your-face traditional and progressive klezmer. Wonderful small intimate 50 seat venue in Altadena (near Pasadena) Sunday, September 23, 2007 at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N. Lake St., Altadena, CA 91001. 7PM $15

Reservations: 626-398-7919
Directions: www.coffeegallery.com

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in Los Angeles: Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 7 pm

Concert for the Days Of Awe
Selihoth (prayers of forgiveness) and Sacred Music from the Middle East

Yuval Ron Ensemble

in a special concert of Spiritual Preparation for Yom Kippur

Yuval Ron, in a collaborative project with R. Haim Ovadia has arranged traditional Yerushalmi, Iraqi, and Sephardi prayers for the High Holidays in a meditative spiritual musical presentation.

with special guests:
Eliyahu Sill - ney Nimrod Nol - violin and members of R. Ovadia's family.

This event will be hosted by the Iraqi, Persian, Indian, Indonesian and Sephardic Jewish community of Kahal Joseph. The concert will take place in the sanctuary decorated with vivid stained-glass artwork and containing a repository of ornate, old Sephardic Torah scrolls from Asia, North Africa and the Middle East

Location: 10505 West Santa Monica Blvd.West Los Angeles, CA 90025
Admission: General Admission $25. VIP $75, Group discounts available to organizations.
For more information: Please call Dafna at (310) 474-0559

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The South Coast Simcha Band
September 9, 2007
Procession of Light (formerly Interfaith Day Celebration)
Presented by the Huntington Beach Interfaith Council, all faiths and religions come together to celebrate life with a candlelight (battery-operated candles) walk to the end of the Huntington Beach Pier.

Participants can join in this celebration with songs, hymns and prayers.

3:30 p.m.
Free.
Pier Plaza at the Huntington Beach Pier.
Cross street Pacific Coast Highway and Main, Huntington Beach, CA 92648.
Call: (714) 914-9797.

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EXHIBITION OPENING
September 9th
11:30-2:00 Members Only Preview Event
2:00-4:00 Open to the public: Conversation with Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
2911 Russell Street, Berkeley, CA 94705
Contact: Lauren Karas 510-549-6950 ext. 340.
The exhibition will run through January 13, 2008. It is open to the public Sun-Wed 11-4, Th 11-8.
www.magnes.org
They Called Me Mayer July is being co-presented at the MAGNES with The Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco and the Holocaust Center of Northern California. This project has been made possible through a grant from the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture and the generosity of Jean and Sandy Colen, Varda and Irving Rabin, and Katie and Amnon Rodan.

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Sharon Bernstein and Stu Brotman
Sunday, September 8, 8:30pm
JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street
$10 members, $12 non-members

www.jcceastbay.org
Info: 510-848-0237

Yiddish singer Sharon Bernstein (voice & piano) and klezmer pioneer Stu Brotman (bass, tsimbl & percussion) join forces in a unique performance set to paintings by self-taught Toronto artist Mayer Kirshenblatt. Kirshenblatt's vibrant portraits of his home town Apt, Poland before the Holocaust inspire a rich blent of traditional song and contemporary sound. Projected images of the paintings connected with the songs complete this experience that recalls Polish shtetl life. Presented in conjunction with the book They Called me Mayer July: Painted Memories of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust by Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (University of California Press, forthcoming September 2007) and exhibition with the same title at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, Septermber 10, 2007 - January 13, 2008.

Co-presented by the Judah L. Magnes Museum

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They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust, the result of 40-year collaboration between Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and her father, Mayer Kirshenblatt, has appeared!
www.mayerjuly.com

BOOK LAUNCH
JCC, San Francisco
Wednesday, September 5th
8:00 PM
Jewish Community Center, San Francisco
$8.00 JCC Member, $10 Public
www.jccsf.org/content_main.aspx?catid=19#1815

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The Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band
Monday Sept. 3rd, noon-12:45 pm and 1:30-2:15 pm
Ethnic Village Stage
Gold Rush Days in Old Sacramento
Sacramento, CA
More information: www.discovergold.org/goldrush/

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Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment
9.02.07 at Hotel Utah.
500 4th St. @ Bryant,
San Francisco, CA 94612.
With Seth Augustus and O Lucky Man. 8:30 PM. $6.

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