Extreme Klezmer Makeover, Venice, CA, 9 January 2010
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.
April 13th, 7PM: "SOULS ON FIRE" A presentation of the 
Thursday, December 31 2009 at 7pm
Balkan Beat Box
Max Pashm
Sunday, June 28, 7:00-9:30pm
Di Ershte Frukhten — First Fruits Celebration
"DANCES & SONGS OF REMEMBRANCE, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE"
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
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.
24th JMF OPENING NIGHT:
UCLAlive presents the Grammy Award-winning 
Cantor Sharon Bernstein and Friends in Concert
Bukharan Jewish Folk Ensemble
KLEZMERATA FIORENTINA
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 
Leave Me Alone!: A New Jazz Opera by 2009 JMF Artist Dan Plonsey & Harvey Pekar
The Guitar Music of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Featuring: David Rosenfeld and members of the shtetl rock band, 
Linda Hirschhorn and Gary Lapow
The 
Musical History of The Yiddish Theater
Gerry Tenney: Music for Kids Young and Old
Good For The Jews
Fishel Bresler's Klezmer & Hassidic Ensemble will perform their 18th annual concert on
Miriam's Well
Alberto Mizrahi
The Jewish Theory of Everything: Negotiating Jewish Identity in Italy
¡Fiestaremos! Judy Frankel and the Sephardic Music Tradition
Paper Promises: Presented by Jewish Dance Theater
The BREW: Aaron Novik's Samuel Suite & Dirty Dan, Eval Dan
"Degenerate Music": The Music of Weimar Berlin
THE FREYLEKH: Klezmer Dance Party & Cabaret
JDub's Slivovitz and Soul with Soulico and Golem
June 15 - Klezmorim in Burlingame
Jewish Music Festival "forshpeis" or appetizer: 
The 
Bang on a Can All-Stars on Tour
HOT, HIP AND HEYMISH
Annette Brodovsky Memorial Benefit Concert
Bang on a Can Marathon - Next Stop: SAN FRANCISCO!
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."
JEWMONGOUS!
Odessa/Havana CD Release tour
The Fishtank Ensemble, 
A Shirtwaist Tale 
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, 
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]
Yiddish Folk Festival
SoCalled
Sunday, May 20, 2007 Northwest Auditorium 1 PM
This year’s Festival will be held from March 8-25 and feature concerts throughout the Bay Area. Performers include Aires de Sefarad; Michael Alpert; Peter Apfelbaum; Avi Avital; Steven Bernstein; Dan Cantrell; Kitka; Klezmer Buenos Aires; Pharaoh's Daughter and more!
