KlezCalendar

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July 23, 7:00pm
Cape Cod Synagogue, Hyannis, Cape Cod
508-775-2988, www.ccsynagogue.org
The Bart Weisman Klezmer Swing Group in concert

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Isle of Klezbos

Thursday, Jul 21
Spiegeltent
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson NY
8:30pm

We're thrilled to play this fantastic Old World cabaret setting in New York's Hudson Valley!
The glittering "Mirror Tent" is glamorous fun, with food & drink available before and after performance.
fishercenter.bard.edu/spiegeltent/2011/

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The amazing SIMPLY TSFAT are on tour in the U.S. and will be performing on July 4th at 4pm in Portland, Maine - in Shaarey Tphiloh, 76 Noyes St. (website www.mainesynagogue.org)
Simply Tsfat is a band of musicians from Tsfat, Israel, who perform Breslov Chassidic music, which is full of joy and mystical magic.
This is going to be a great event, with music, singing, dancing, storytelling.
Free event, sponsored by Beth Israel of Old Orchard Beach, and generous donations of a number of individuals.
For questions, call 207-934-2928
Website: www.simplytsfat.com

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The Somerville Symphony Orkestar will release their self-titled debut album on June 22nd at Church of Boston. They will be playing with Mighty Tiny and the Klezwoods. Tickets can be purchased online. The SSO is also offering a discounted preorder CD/ticket combination at Ticketfly which gets you the copy of the CD for a 50% discount.

June 22, 2011, 8:30pm
Church of Boston
69 Kilmarnock St.
Boston, MA
Tel: 617-236-7600.

"This one is promised to be loud, rowdy and super fun!"

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Wednesday, June 22
7PM

Location: Yes Oui Si
19 Vancouver St (off Huntington Ave.)
Boston, MA

Zoe Christiansen - Clarinet
with
Hankus Netsky - Accordion
Zach Para - Drums
Dave Cordes - Bass

Klezmer music a la maestro Dave Tarras for your listening AND DANCING enjoyment.

http://yesouisispace.com/

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Metropolitan Klezmer

Tuesday, June 21, 7pm rain or shine
CHIRP concert series
Ridgefield CT
FREE
Outdoors in Ballard Park, or (in case of inclement weather) Ridgefield Playhouse
chirpct.org

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June 18, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Arts Alive, Falmouth, Cape Cod
The Bart Weisman Klezmer Swing Group in Concert

www.artsfalmouth.org/artsalive

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Meshugene Divas blends contemporary classical music, modern Jewish culture and innovative theater in a laid-back cabaret setting. The concert includes new music by Boston-based composers Derek David and Osnat Netzer and features two singers and a 20-piece chamber orchestra with singers Kimberly Soby (soprano) and Seth Gilman (baritone), Andres Lopera, conductor

Scenes from the operas Ophelia [East-coast premiere] and The Wondrous Woman Within [world premiere]
Israeli-Jewish inspired chamber music

General admission: $15
Students and seniors: $10
Club Oberon | 2 Arrow Street | Cambridge, MA
Sunday, June 12th, 2011 at 8:00pm
Doors open for drinks at 7:00pm
Tickets available at:
http://www.cluboberon.com

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New World Premieres and Old World Chestnuts

Concert by The The Casco Bay Tummlers klezmer band
Saturday, June 4th at 7 p.m.
at the Frontier Cafe, 14 Maine St - Fort Andross, Brunswick, Maine

Join us in the casual atmosphere of the Frontier Cafe where you can enjoy supper or a drink and share new and old music with The Casco Bay Tummlers. The Casco Bay Tummlers have been playing Jewish music from around the world in their personal, engaging style to audiences in Maine and well beyond for over twenty years. It's been a while since they've performed in the mid-coast area so they are happy to be presenting a concert of new repertoire - including a film score by flutist/guitarist Carl Dimow - along with some of the classic klezmer tunes that have endeared them to their fans.

You can look forward to hearing colorful instrumentation - Carl on flute, bass flute, electric and acoustic guitars, Phil McGowan on drum set and ethnic percussion, Julie Goell on bass and vocals, Nancy 3. Hoffman on accordion and vocals and Steve Gruverman on sax and clarinet - and contrasting styles: jazzy improvisation, witty show tunes, Middle Eastern grooves and, of course, soulful klezmer interpretations, some reflective and some that will tempt you to get up and dance.

The Tummlers are pleased to note that Carl's film compositions were funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Food, wine and beer for sale at concert.
Phone for tickets or info: (207) 725-5222

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Klezwoods

June 2, 2011, 6pm
Give Liberty A Hand Gala 2011
138 St. James Ave.
Box office: 617-350-5480.
Buy tickets

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Klezwoods

May 30, 2011, 9:30pm
Atwoods Tavern
877 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, MA
(617) 864-2792.
Admission: Free.

"The best klezmer bar Band in Boston"—Ari Davidow

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Alicia Jo Rabins' "Girls in Trouble"

May 29, 2011, 7pm
Dreamaway Lodge
Beckett, MA

Tour to celebrate the launch of the new CD, "Half You Half Me"

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Cirkestra
Sunday, May 29, 2011, 8pm (doors: 7:30pm)
Radio Bean
8 N Winooski Ave.,
Burlington, VT
(802) 660-9346
All Ages, Tickets: Free
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Cirkestra
Saturday, May 28, 2011, 9:pm
Langdon Street Café
4 Landgon St.,
Montpelier, VT
All Ages
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Alicia Jo Rabins' "Girls in Trouble"

May 28, 2011, 8:30pm
Thorne's Marketplace event space downstairs!
Northampton, MA

Tour to celebrate the launch of the new CD, "Half You Half Me"

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Shpilkes Klezmer Band brings the sound of Klezmer & Sephardic music to the Amazing Things Arts Center in
Framingham, Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 8:00 PM. Come, bring your friends and family, and share an evening of Yiddish and Ladino song, dance, and the restless energy that defines shpilkes.

Amazing Things Arts Center, 160 Hollis St, Framingham MA.
www.amazingthings.org
tel:508-405-ARTS (2787)

Tickets: $15, student/senior $14, members of Amazing Things Arts Center $12

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Cirkestra
Friday, May 27, 2011, 9:30pm
Nick's
124 Millbury St,
Worcester, MA 01610
508-753-4030
18+, Tickets: Free
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Alicia Jo Rabins' "Girls in Trouble"

May 27, 2011, 9pm
SEABA Center
Burlington, VT

Tour to celebrate the launch of the new CD, "Half You Half Me"

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Cirkestra
Thursday, May 26, 2011, 10:30pm
the lilypad
1353 cambridge st.,
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 395-1393 Set: 10:30 PM
Tickets: $12/$10
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Klezwoods

May 23, 2011, 9:30pm
Atwoods Tavern
877 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, MA
(617) 864-2792.
Admission: Free.

"The best klezmer bar Band in Boston"—Ari Davidow

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Piccolini Trio w/ Cirkestra
Saturday, May 21, 2011, 8:00 PM
Amazing Things Arts Center
160 Hollis St.,
Framingham, MA
All Ages
Tickets: $12-$18 (buy tix online)

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Klezwoods and the Underscore Orkestra!

5/17/11, 9pm
Johnny D’s
17 Holland St.
Somerville, MA
www.johnnyds.com/

All Ages. The Underscore Orkestra is agian joining forces with Klezwoods for a night to remember. Come out, bring your friends and get ready to party!!!

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Songs of Imagined Migrations: The Guy Mendilow Band's Ladino Project

May 8th, 2011, 8:00pm

Club Passim
47 Palmer St.
Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA

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Guy Mendilow Band

May 8th, 2010, AM
Club Passim
47 Palmer St.
Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA
Children's Concert

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A Night of Klezmer Music and Dance
The Jumbo Knish Factory, Tufts Klezmer Orchestra, continues to celebrate their 10th Anniversary. The evening will include special guest performers and dancing. As part of the festivities, the Jumbo Knish Factory and audience participants will perform a hora in honor of President Larry Bacow and his wife, Adele, as they complete their tenure at Tufts. A reception, including knishes, will follow. The concert is free and open to the public, no tickets required.

May 4, 2011, 8pm
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center,
Tufts University.
Free; no tickets required.

www.tufts.edu/music/musiccenter

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On Sunday April 17th, 2011, roots reggae ensemble The Temple Rockers will be performing an ages, early show at Castaways in Ithaca, NY to celebrate the Tzadik Records CD release of David Solid Gould vs. Bill Laswell: Dub of the Passover.

2 sets
Castaways- Ithaca, NY
special guests: the Cornell Klezmer Ensemble
7pm showtime
ALL AGES!
$10 Cover

For more info: www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=158363770886510

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Klezmer dance and jam at the New England Folk Festival
Sunday April 17, 2011
Mansfield High School, Mansfield MA

At 11 AM, join us for an open klezmer jam. Sheet music will be provided.

And at 2:30 PM, Jacon Bloom will lead easy dances to klezmer music, which can be followed with a minimum of teaching. Mostly circle dances, such as the freylakhs, bulgar, slow hora, chusidl, and terkisher.

Both events will have live music by the band Shver un Shviger.

For festival information, see http://neffa.org

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Monday, Jan 24
The Afro-Semitic Experience

April 16, Saturday, 8 pm concert at Adath Israel 8 Broad Street, Middletown,
CT 06457-3203, for reservations and more info (860) 346-4709

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The Zamir Chorale of Boston will present Middle East Harmonies at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge at 2:00 pm on Sunday, April 10. Conducted by Northeastern Professor and Zamir's founder and Artistic Director Joshua Jacobson, the concert will feature a meeting of the musical minds of the Middle East. Zamir will perform coordinated choral selections in both Arabic and Hebrew. We are thrilled to present as our special guests original members of Bustan Abraham in reunion. From 1991 until they disbanded in 2003, these Arab and Jewish musicians pioneered a unique form of instrumental music, combining elements of east and west, and Bustan was considered the finest ensemble of its kind.

The following evening, Monday, April 11, 7:30 pm at the Fenway Center, Northeastern University will host a symposium in conjunction with Middle East Harmonies. Presenters, including renowned ethnomusicologist Benjamin Brinner, will address the use of music to increase empathy and mutual understanding among people who have been separated by borders of various kinds and alienated by conflicting politics.

Cosponsoring and cooperating groups include: the Consulate General of Israel to New England, Northeastern University Departments of Music and Jewish Studies, Northeastern University's Middle East Center for Peace, Culture, and Development, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Harvard Hillel, the American Jewish Committee, the New Center for Arts and Culture, and Hebrew College.

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Lost and Found - Jewish Musical Treasures

Sunday April 3, 2011, 3PM
Temple Beth Israel
25 Harvard St
Waltham, MA

Temple Beth Israel will present "Lost and Found—Jewish Musical Treasures," directed by Hankus Netsky, featuring members of the world renowned Klezmer Conservatory Band and students from the New England Conservatory. Netsky has selected a program of old favorites and recent discoveries. The concert will feature Yiddish, Hebrew, and Hassidic repertoire, including little-known melodies gathered from diverse sources such as the Frydman family, Esther-Leah Marchette, the Barsh family klezmer band, and TBI member Morris Hollender. There will be dancing and kosher refreshments for all. All ages are welcome to come and celebrate the spring season and the renewal of Jewish culture!

Music director Hankus Netsky is founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and Music Director for Itzhak Perlman's "In the Fiddler's House" and "Soul of Jewish Music" projects. He heads the Discovery Project at the National Yiddish Book Center and is chair of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory.

$20 General
$15 Temple Members/Seniors/Students
$5.00 for children under age 15

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2nd Annual Jonah Maccabee Memorial Concert
Saturday, April 2, 8:00pm
Westchester Reform Temple (255 Mamaroneck Rd, Scarsdale, NY 10583)
Remembering Jonah, Katie Dreskin, Billy Dreskin

An evening of contemporary Jewish music featuring CRAIG TAUBMAN. Doing what Jonah loved ... making music and making friends. Proceeds from ticket sales will support scholarships to URJ summer camps and NFTY events.

TICKETS NOW ON SALE (AND GOING FAST)!
wct.org/jonahmaccabeememorialconcert

We will not be selling tickets at the door, so please make sure you follow the link above if you're planning on joining us.

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DOVID BOTWINIK AF DER RADIO-PROGRAM "DOS YIDISHE KOL" - 30 Marts 2011
7:30 in Ovnt - Af WUNR 1600 AM un yiddishvoice.com

Dem mitvokh, dem 30stn Marts 2011, 7:30 ovnt, vet men hern ba der radio-program "Dos Yidishe Kol" (WUNR 1600-AM, Boston) an intervyu (af yidish) mit Dovid Botwinik vegn zayn lebn un shafn, vegn zayn muzik, un spetsyel vegn dem aroyskum fun bukh "Fun Khurbn Tsum Lebn: Naye Yidishe Lider" ("From Holocaust to Life: New Yiddish Songs"). Dovid Botwinik iz geborn gevorn in Vilne. Nokh dem vos er hot durkhgemakht di tsveyte velt-milkhome, hot er shtudirt muzik in Roym, un hot zikh bazetst in Montreal, vu er iz a profesyoneler muziker. In bukh prezentirt er zayn lebns shafung: 56 originele lider zayne. Me vet oykh hern in program Botwiniks muzik, gezungen un geshpilt fun farsheydene zinger un muziker. Nokh vayterdike informatsye vegn Dovid Botwinikn vendt zikh tsum vebzaytl zayns: www.botwinikmusic.com.

"Dos yidishe kol" iz di vekhntlekhe bostoner yidishe radio-program vos vert transmitirt ale mitvokh 7:30-8:30 ovnt un eyntsaytik durkhn vebzaytl www.yiddishvoice.com. Khapt a kuk afn vebzaytl oder shtelt zikh in farbindung elektronish afn adres oder telefonish mitn numer 617/730-8484, nokh vayterdiker informatsye vegn der program.
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DAVID BOTWINIK ON THE "YIDDISH VOICE" - March 30, 2011
7:30 PM - On WUNR 1600 AM and yiddishvoice.com

This Wednesday, March 30, 2011, at 7:30 PM, the "Yiddish Voice" radio program (WUNR 1600-AM, Boston) will feature an interview (in Yiddish) with David Botwinik about his life and work, about his music, and especially about the publication of his new book "From Holocaust to Life: New Yiddish Songs" ("Fun Khurbn Tsum Lebn: Naye Yidishe Lider"). David Botwinik was born in Vilna. After surviving the war, he studied music in Rome and later settled in Montreal, where he's since worked as a professional musician. The book presents his life's work: 56 original songs. Listeners will hear not only about the book, but will also get to hear Botwinik's music, sung and played by various singers and musicians. For further info on David Botwinik visit: www.botwinikmusic.com.

'The Yiddish Voice' (dos yidishe kol), Boston's weekly Yiddish-language radio show, is heard on WUNR 1600 AM every Wednesday evening from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM and live-streamed on the Internet at www.yiddishvoice.com. For more information, visit www.yiddishvoice.com, email us, or call 617-730-8484.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Sunday, March 20, 7pm

Finding Harmony
The Best of A Cappella
Gann Academy
333 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452
(781) 642-6800

Enjoy the harmonies and show-stopping energy when the best high school, collegiate, and professional a cappella groups of the region strut their stuff. Hosted by Gann Academy’s ShenaniGanns, this year’s event also features Boston University’s Kol Echad, Binghamton University’s Kaskeset, and Six13, an award-winning New York-based vocal band that brings an unprecedented style of Jewish music to the stage.

Tickets: In advance $10 students, $18 general admission. $20 at the door. Purchase tickets by clicking HERE.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Saturday, March 19, 8pm

The Ultimate Purim Party pt. 2, with Roberto Juan Rodriguez and his Cuban Jewish Jazz Allstars
Acacia at Indian Meadow Country Club
275 Turnpike Rd
Westborough, MA 01581
Tel: (508) 366-6526

You’ll want your dancing shoes when some of NYC’s top Latin and Israeli jazz musicians join forces. Imagine a klezmer band jamming with Santana and you’ll have some idea of the fun. Percussionist Rodriguez is a Tzaddik recording artist who has toured with Paul Simon, Joe Jackson and others.

Tickets: In advance $18, $25 at the door. Cash bar. To purchase tickets click HERE.

Cosponsored by Jewish Family Service of MetroWest and The Boroughs JCC.
This program is supported in part by a grant from CJP’s MetroWest Planning Committee.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Thursday, March 17, 8pm

The Ultimate Purim Party pt. 1 w/SoCalled and Klezwoods
Veronique Ballroom
20 Chapel St
Brookline, MA 02446
Tel: (617) 854-5000

Check out the musical madness Montreal DJ/musician/sound artist SoCalled creates with his band. Come prepared to dance. Boston’s own Klezwoods will open the evening with their own creative take on contemporary klezmer. A wild and crazy time will be had by all.

Tickets: In advance $15 general admission, $20 at the door. Cash bar. To purchase tickets click HERE.

Cosponsored with GesherCity and Prism.
This program is supported in part by a grant from CJP’s Innovation Grants Committee.

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Michael Winograd Trio
MW - clarinet
Patrick Farrell - accordion
Benjy Fox-Rosen - bass, vocal

Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University
20 Talbot Ave.
Medford, MA
8pm

Tickets are free with a Tufts I.D. card (limit two per ID) and $10 for general admission. Call 617.627.3679 for tickets. This concert has been made possible by the Granoff Music Fund.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Wednesday, March 16, 7:30pm
A Showcase of Russian Talent
Makor Center/Temple B’nai Moshe, Brighton
1845 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02135-5497
(617) 254-3620

Experience the diverse musical talents of our Russian Jewish neighbors. Featuring the Niggun Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Yelena Neplok; Jazzmates; singer Alex Prokhorov; Classica Chamber Ensemble; Ellena Prizant and Serge Khanukayev, piano duo; and Maya Korsunskaya and Boris Fogel, vocals/piano.

Tickets: $15 General Admission. $20 at the door. To purchase tickets click HERE.
Cosponsored by Center Makor.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Tuesday, March 15, 7:30pm
Kol B’Seder and Friends
Rashi School
8000 Great Meadow Road
Dedham, MA 02026
Tel 617-969-4444

Cantor Jeff Klepper and Rabbi Dan Freelander have been pioneers in creating Jewish liturgical music with a pop style. Celebrate their 40th anniversary of singing together, with “Koleinu, Boston’s Jewish Community Chorus,” Rabbi David Paskin, Peter and Ellen Allard, and the Rashi and Solomon Schechter School Choirs.

Tickets: $18 General Admission, $10 Students in advance. At the door, $25. To purchase tickets click HERE.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Monday, March 14, 7:30pm

"Jewish Luck" with One Ring Zero
Regent Theater
7 Medford Street, Arlington, MA
Tel: {781} 646-4849

Experience “gypsy-klezmer circus-flea-cartoon-music” when One Ring Zero performs a live musical score for one of silent cinema’s greatest treasures. Solomon Mikhoels is brilliant as Sholem Aleichem’s daydreaming hero whose calamitous strike-it-rich schemes are by turns hilarious and tragic. Directed by Alexander Granovsky and shot by Eduard Tisse, this 1925

Russian classic has been beautifully restored with new English intertitles by The National Center for Jewish Film. The band will do a mini-set after the film.

Tickets: $15 in advance, $18 at the door. To purchase tickets click HERE.

Co-presented by Jewishfilm.2011 The National Center for Jewish Film’s 14th Annual Film Festival.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival

March 13, 2011, 7:30 pm
Neshama Carlebach with a Gospel Choir

Temple Emanuel
385 Ward Street
Newton, MA 02459
(617) 558-8100

A soul stirring concert as Neshama and her band with Rev. Roger Hambrick and The Green Pastures Baptist Choir present dynamic new arrangements of Carlebach favorites. At her request, a portion of the proceeds will go to the post-Katrina restoration of Congregation Beth Israel in New Orleans.

Tickets: $20 general admission, $25 at the door. To purchase tickets click HERE.

Cosponsored with Temple Emanuel, Newton.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
March 13, 3:00 pm
The Israel Folk Dance Festival

Kresge Auditorium, MIT
Building W16, 48 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge,MA

Hundreds of performers will take to the stage in the Israel Folkdance

Festival for an exuberant afternoon of color and culture. Children and teens, college students and adults will present an exciting array of traditional and new dances with enthusiasm that’s infectious. Fun for all ages.

Tickets: $15 and ONLY AVAILABLE at www.bostonfestival.org

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March 13, 2011
3:00 pm
Congregation Kol Ami in Elkins Park, PA

A Yiddish concert
This is an exceptional opportunity to hear the original Yiddish music of David Botwinik performed by acclaimed singers Richard Lenatsky, tenor, and Lisa Willson, soprano, accompanied by pianist Elena Berman. The concert celebrates David Botwinik’s new book From Holocaust to Life (Fun khurbn tsum lebn). Also performing will be Alexander Botwinik, Dina Malka Botwinik and Emma Gantard. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Admission free. Refreshments will be served.
For more information, look at this website: http://www.botwinikmusic.com
and click on the word "here" in "Upcoming Events."

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Sunday, March 13, 2:00 pm

Totally Bernstein
With Zamir Chorale of Boston and Brookline Chorus

Sanders Theater, Cambridge
45 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 496-2222

Two great choral ensembles join together to salute and celebrate the compositions of Leonard Bernstein.

Tickets: $20 General admission, $15 Seniors/students in advance. At the door, $25. Purchase tickets by clicking HERE. Also available at the Sanders Box Office.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival

Divine Sparks, the centerpiece of this year’s festival, is a unique exploration of Jewish spiritual music with an amazing range of singers and musicians. It also offers you an opportunity to support the Festival. By purchasing special $72 seats, you can enjoy the post-concert celebration with the evening’s artists and Festival friends and supporters.

Saturday, March 12, 8pm
Divine Sparks

Berklee Performance Center
1140 Boylston St
Boston, MA

A once-in-a-lifetime event when world class singers and musicians use chazzanos and religious song as the springboard for musical improvisation and spiritual expression. With an all-star ensemble led by Frank London of the Klezmatics on trumpet, Anthony Coleman on keyboards, 26-year-old Orthodox cantorial sensation Yaakov Lemmer, and Moroccan Cantor/Oudist Aaron Bensoussan. The program will also feature local cantors Gastón Bogomolni and Elias Rosemberg and Hebrew College rabbinical student, Jessica Kate Meyer.

Tickets: $72 (including post concert reception with the performers) $54, $36, $25, $18. Available at ticketmaster.com and at the Berklee Box Office. Purchase by clicking HERE.

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Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh in Providence—at the Brooklyn Coffee Tea House, Lively Klezmer & Moving Hassidic tunes in a cozy coffee house setting. Six Sat night performances, continuing Mar 12th, 8PM. At 209 Douglas Ave, just across rt 95 from the Marriott, near downtown Providence.

More info: www.projothebeat.com

Funded in part by a Folk Arts Fellowship grant from the RI State Council on the Arts.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Sing Songs of Shabbat
Friday night, Mar 11, 2011, Various Locations

While Jewish music runs the gamut from the Balkans to Broadway, from the mournful to the madcap, there is no denying its roots are based in prayer melodies. This year, BJMF is proud to offer an innovative exploration of Jewish spiritual music in synagogues and on stage. No matter what your level of observance or practice, we think you’ll find inspiration at this very special weekend of divine musical sparks.

Another first! And not just for Boston, but for Jewish Music Festivals around the country. We’re proud to invite the public to attend one of four festive Kabbalat Shabbat Programs. What better way to experience the eclectic history of Jewish ritual music.

• Cantor Yaakov Lemmer will be davening at the Chabad of the North Shore, 44 Burrill Street, Swampscott.
• Cantor Aaron Bensoussan will lead a Sephardic service at Temple Aliyah, 1664 Central Ave, Needham.
• Neshama Carlebach will be a special Shabbaton guest and participate in Temple Emanuel’s Shabbat Alive! services, 385 Ward Street, Newton.
• A Baroque Italian Kabbalat Shabbat, composed by Salamone Rossi of Mantua in the 1630’s, will be performed by Cantor Louise Treitman and her ensemble at Congregation B’nai Torah, 225 Boston Post Road, Sudbury.

All services are free but space is limited at each temple. Reservations for each event can be made via the email links below:
Yaakov Lemmer at Chabad of North Shore
Aaron Benssousan at Temple Aliyah
Neshama Carlebach at Temple Emanuel
Baroque Italian at Congregation B’nai Torah

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Thursday, March 10, 8pm

Yemen Blues
Somerville Theater
Somerville Theater
55 Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144
(617) 625-5700

Former lead singer from the Idan Raichel Project, Ravid Kahalani’s Yemen Blues creates an exciting reinterpretation of his musical roots that is gaining international acclaim at concerts across Europe and Canada. Don’t miss their New England Premiere.

Tickets: $30 Orchestra, $25 Front Balcony, $20 Rear Balcony. To purchase tickets click HERE. Also available at the Somerville Theater Box Office.

Presented in cooperation with Friends of The IDF and the Israeli Consulate.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Wednesday, March 9, 7:30pm

Yasmin Levy
Somerville Theater
55 Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144
(617) 625-5700

A passionate, dynamic voice in Ladino music, Israeli star Yasmin Levy is a spellbinding performer of music that is romantic, ancient and still contemporary.

Tickets: $25 through the New Center for Arts and Culture

Presented with World Music/CRASHarts and the New Center for Arts and Culture.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
March 6, 4:00 pm

"The Cloth From Which We Are Cut"
A Besere Velt Yiddish Community Chorus with Hankus Netsky and Cantor Roy Einhorn

Temple Israel
477 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617.566.3960

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Historical narrative and Yiddish folk music are woven together in a stirring account of the fire that changed America and left its mark on a Jewish immigrant community struggling to build a better life. Boston’s popular Workmen’s Circle Yiddish Chorus, the largest in the world, creates an unforgettable new work about this seminal event.

Tickets: $18 in advance, Seniors $15, $25 at the door. To purchase tickets click HERE.

Co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council, The Jewish Women’s Archive, and the Jewish Labor Committee.

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Sunday, March 6, 2:00pm, $20.00
Bart Weisman Klezmer Swing Group
Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cape Cod
508-428-0669
cotuitcenterforthearts.org

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Sunday, March 6, 1:00 pm
Maurice Sendak’s Pincus and The Pig
A Very Special Concert by the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra

Leventhal-Sidman JCC
333 Nahanton Street
Newton, MA 02459
Tel:617-558-6522

Bring your stuffed bears, your rubber duckies, and your bubbes and zaydes to "Pincus and The Pig," Maurice Sendak’s unique version of Peter and Wolf, by the amazing Shirim Klezmer Orchestra with special guest, Fishel Bresler. A fun introduction to Yiddish and klezmer, with pre-concert mask-making and a musical petting zoo.

Tickets: Kids (under 16) $10, Adults $15, Seniors $12, Special Family Ticket $40 (direct family only, please), add a bubbe or zayde to family ticket for just $10. To purchase tickets click HERE.

JCC Members save 10% on tickets purchased at the Box Office in advance.

Presented with the Ryna Greenbaum Center for the Arts, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston.
This program is made possible in part by a grant from CJP’s Innovation Grants Committee and support from the New England Foundation of the Arts.

Further information: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org. See you there.

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Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute Choir conducted by Cantor Naftali Herstik
special guest: Cantor Dr. Brian J. Mayer

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011, 7:30pm
Temple Emanu-El
99 Taft Avenue
Providence, RI
FREE and open to the public

The Benton A. Odessa Memorial Concert

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Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh in Providence—at the Brooklyn Coffee Tea House, Lively Klezmer & Moving Hassidic tunes in a cozy coffee house setting. Six Sat night performances, continuing Feb 26th, 8PM. At 209 Douglas Ave, just across rt 95 from the Marriott, near downtown Providence.

More info: www.projothebeat.com

Funded in part by a Folk Arts Fellowship grant from the RI State Council on the Arts.

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Free Concert at Jordan Hall, Thursday, February 24 at 8PM

Another Realm and Wild Garden Chamber Ensemble feature renowned musicians Hankus Netsky, Linda Chase and Sarah Jarosz, with performance artist Sue Murad.

On Thursday February 24 at 8PM, FREE of charge, New England Conservatory's Contemporary Improvisation chair and Hankus Netsky along with Contemporary Improvisation faculty member Linda J Chase, will perform with two exciting groups.

Another Realm is a quintet of creative musicians that performs original interpretations of jazz, folk, and world music, along with their own original music. Featured are multi-instrumentalist Hankus Netsky, flutist and bass clarinetist Linda J Chase, bassist Chris Rathbun, world percussionist Jerry Leake, and Grammy-nominated vocalist, mandolinist, and songwriter Sarah Jarosz.

Wild Garden Chamber Ensemble is known for its incorporation of composition, improvisation, poetry, movement, and visual art. This program will include collaborations with multimedia performance artist and 2008 Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow Sue Murad. Included will be selections from Reflections on Rumi (commissioned with a Berklee College Faculty Fellowship Grant) and Tannabata Star Festival, the first-prize winner in the inaugural Kaji Aso Gallery "Tannabata" composition competition. The music for both of these unique works was composed by Chase.

The Concert will take place in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Admission is Free.

For more information and tickets please contact:
Jordan Hall Box Office
617-585-1260 or
www.necmusic.edu/concerts-events

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Shpilkes Klezmer Band
Saturday, February 19, 2011, 8:00pm
UnCommon Coffeehouse
First Parish Framingham
24 Vernon Street
Framingham, MA

Tickets are available only at the door:
$7 for adults and $4 for children under 14.

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Alicia Jo Rabins will be performing
Girls In Trouble

February 18
ROSE LIVE
345 Grand Street
(btwn Havemeyer/Marcy)
Williamsburg, NY

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Klezwoods
February East Coast Tour!
02/17/11, 9:30pm
The Beehive
541 Tremont St.
Boston, MA
Admission: Free!. Age restrictions: No Minors.

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Klingon Klezmer
Sunday, Feb 13, 2010, 7pm

Fasten your seat belt ! Prepare for warp drive! Drive away the winter blues by leaving the planet ! Bring the family !

KLINGON KLEZ: good old-fashioned, heartwarming, rompin’, stompin’, fun-for-the-whole-family traditional klez/funk fusion!

This is a family-friendly event!

Our only concert in Philly for this season will be presented by the Philly Folk Song Society on Sunday February 13 at 7:00 PM. Open to the public, free for members, $10 for non-members and associate members. Located at The Elkins Estate, 1750 Ashbourne Road in Elkins Park, PA.

for more info: www.pfs.org/cal_eventinfo.php?id=18892

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On Sunday, February 13th, Jacob Bloom will be calling a family dance at the Parish Center For The Arts in Westford, with music by OH CONTRAire, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM.

Fee: $5 adults, $3 kids, maximum $12 per family
See westford.com/pca/?page_id=314 for more information.

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Alicia Jo Rabins will be performing
Girls In Trouble

February 11
Dead Herring
141 South 5th St, Apt 1E
Williamsburg, NY

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On Sunday, February 6th, Jacob Bloom will be calling a family dance, "New England Barn Dances and World Dances" at the Concord Scout House, along with Judith Stames-Hamilton, with music by Cal Howard and friends, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. See www.neffa.org/family_flyer.pdf for more information.

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Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh in Providence—at the Brooklyn Coffee Tea House, Lively Klezmer & Moving Hassidic tunes in a cozy coffee house setting. Six Sat night performances, continuing Jan 29th, 8PM. At 209 Douglas Ave, just across rt 95 from the Marriott, near downtown Providence.

More info: www.projothebeat.com

Funded in part by a Folk Arts Fellowship grant from the RI State Council on the Arts.

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Klezwoods
01/29/11, 7pm
Phillips Academy
180 Main St.
Andover, MA

Admission: free!. All Ages. Klezwoods will be performing as part of an educational weekend at the Phillips Academy

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Claire Dickson and her trio.
Jan. 29, 3:30pm
Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Cambridge, MA (617) 492-5300
Tickets: $12/ $10

www.myspace.com/clairedickson

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Klezmer Dance Party
Sunday January 23 2011, 2 - 4 pm
Temple Beth Israel, 25 Harvard Street, Waltham
Live music by Shver un Shviger. Dance instruction by Jacob Bloom.
Beginners welcome.

For more information:
http://tbiwaltham.org
(781) 894-5146

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The 5th Annual A Capella Fest

Saturday, January 22
Congregation Kehillath Israel
384 Harvard Street, Brookline
$20

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for Gift of Life Bone Registry Drive; concert begins at 8:00 p.m.

All proceeds to benefit Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation. Join the registry at the concert and you might save a life. Volunteers will be on hand to do a quick voluntary cheek swab, which is all that is needed to join the registry. Featuring performers from Barnard, Brandeis, Boston University, Gann Academy, Solomon Schechter Day School, Temple Emanuel, the Klezwoods. The past 4 years of A Cappella Fest were filled to capacity - buy your tickets early!

Purchase tickets by phone at 617-277-9155 or on-line.

Presented by Congregation Kehillath Israel & Temple Israel of Boston

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Guy Mendilow Band

January 22nd, 10:30am
Around the World in Song: A Children's Concert

Lesley Ellis School
41 Foster St.
Arlington, MA
Info: (781) 641-5987

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Jews and Sufis: A Shared Musical Tradition
Musical Performance by Dunya and Panel Discussion

January 17, 7:30pm Congregation Beth El, Sudbury

Beth El of Sudbury is pleased to host JEWS AND SUFIS: A Shared Musical Tradition on Monday evening January 17 at 7:30. The evening’s program will include a panel discussion and concert exploring the historical interaction of Jews and Muslim mystics in Turkey.

A panel of scholars led by Dr. Edwin Seroussi, director of the Jewish Music Research Center in Jerusalem, will speak on cultural, historical, religious and musical aspects of Jewish-Sufi collaborations in Turkey from the 16th to the 20th centuries, followed by a dialogue with the audience. The program continues with a concert by Dunya, an ensemble of vocalists and instrumentalists performing examples of Turkish Maftirim (Hebrew sacred poetry set to Ottoman sacred and secular music), Sufi devotional music and improvisations.

From the earliest days of Islam, some Muslims have been attracted to mystical interpretations of their religion. In Turkey, at least since the thirteenth century, Islamic mysticism has been expressed through participation in Sufi brotherhoods that serve as centers of spiritual and social life.

Similarly, mysticism and mystical experiences have been a part of Judaism since the earliest days. Examining the mystical aspects of both the Jewish and Muslim cultures can serve as a useful platform for exploring everyday interconnections among the communities.

The program, which is free and open to the public, is being sponsored Beth El’s Cantor’s Fund and Dunya www.dunyainc.org. For more information contact Congregation Beth El at 978-443-9622, or www.bethelsudbury.org.

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On Sunday, January 16th, Jacob Bloom will be calling a family dance at the Concord Scout House, along with Sarah Gregory Smith, with music by Cal Howard and friends, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. See www.neffa.org/family_flyer.pdf for more information.

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Jazz Rabbi’s Invitational: The Ayn Sof Arkestra Plays for Haitian Relief

NOTE THAT THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD OFF-SITE, at the Stephen Wise Synagogue, as part of The Jewish Artists for Haiti Benefit Concert in conjunction with the Workmen’s Circle.
Monday, Jan 10, 2011

7:00pm: Class on the Jewish response to world crisis
8:00pm: The Jewish Artists for Haiti Benefit Concert

Stephen Wise Synagogue
30 West 68th Street, New York, NY US 10023
Cost: : $18.00, : $36.00, : $75.00, : $100.00

More info: www.swfs.org/event/2011-01-10-jewish-artists-for-haiti-benefit-concert/

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Come check out the return of Kafana (featuring many Klezwoods members) at
Atwoods Tavern
877 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Sunday 9 Jan at 9:00pm.

Tel: 617.864.2792

The all-acoustic ensemble Kafana derives its name from a common term in the Balkans, meaning a place to happily gather to eat, drink, and listen to music. The group developed its repertoire over 3 years of weekly performances at a restaurant in Somerville, MA and play music from the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey in their own unique way. Kafana seek to combine elements from these musical cultures with their own varied backgrounds to create modern American folk music: a cultural mash-up of styles….

Also, please visit the new Klezwoods webpage to check out the details of the upcoming tour.
www.klezwoods.com

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KlezKamp 2010 will be held December 26-31, 2010 at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in New York's Catskills Mountains.

"Our theme this year, Gilgulim/Transmigrations, celebrates not only the diverse and dynamic history of Yiddish culture on the move, but also Living Traditions' "transmigration" into the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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KlezKamp 2010 will be held December 26-31, 2010 at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in New York's Catskills Mountains.

"Our theme this year, Gilgulim/Transmigrations, celebrates not only the diverse and dynamic history of Yiddish culture on the move, but also Living Traditions' "transmigration" into the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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KlezKamp 2010 will be held December 26-31, 2010 at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in New York's Catskills Mountains.

"Our theme this year, Gilgulim/Transmigrations, celebrates not only the diverse and dynamic history of Yiddish culture on the move, but also Living Traditions' "transmigration" into the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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KlezKamp 2010 will be held December 26-31, 2010 at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in New York's Catskills Mountains.

"Our theme this year, Gilgulim/Transmigrations, celebrates not only the diverse and dynamic history of Yiddish culture on the move, but also Living Traditions' "transmigration" into the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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KlezKamp 2010 will be held December 26-31, 2010 at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in New York's Catskills Mountains.

"Our theme this year, Gilgulim/Transmigrations, celebrates not only the diverse and dynamic history of Yiddish culture on the move, but also Living Traditions' "transmigration" into the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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KlezKamp 2010 will be held December 26-31, 2010 at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in New York's Catskills Mountains.

"Our theme this year, Gilgulim/Transmigrations, celebrates not only the diverse and dynamic history of Yiddish culture on the move, but also Living Traditions' "transmigration" into the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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KlezKamp 2010 will be held December 26-31, 2010 at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in New York's Catskills Mountains.

"Our theme this year, Gilgulim/Transmigrations, celebrates not only the diverse and dynamic history of Yiddish culture on the move, but also Living Traditions' "transmigration" into the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Please check out our online registration. Or, if you are not on our mailing list and would prefer a good old-fashioned in-your-mailbox registration brochure, drop us a line or call our office at (212) 532-8202 with your name and address. Please hurry, though: space is limited and we are already swamped with many more requests than we have seen in a number of years.

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Fishel Bresler's Klezmer Hassidic Ensemble
Sat 7:30 PM, December 25th,
Cong Ohawe Shalom
671 East Ave, corner of Glenwood
Pawtucket, RI

$10 for adults, $7 for (quiet) children under b-mitzvah
Refreshments for sale. Plenty free parking.

Lively & Moving Music, world class musicians, a comfortable environment, a little humor thrown in.

funded in part by a Folk Arts Fellowship grant from the RI State Council on the Arts.

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Saturday, December 25, Annual Family and Community Concert of Jewish Music at 5:30 p.m., with the Nu Haven Kapelye and many guest vocalists. Congregation Mishkan Israel, 785 Ridge Road, Hamden, CT. For further information, call (203) 288-3877

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This event has been canceled.

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Judith Cohen ~ Sephardic Song

Saturday, December 18 · 7:30pm
Newton, MA

Canadian ethnomusicologist Judith Cohen offers a wide-ranging repertoire of Jewish song, mixed with the stories behind the songs from her decades of field research in Spain,Portugal, and around the world.

This is a house concert. Light kosher refreshments will be provided. For address info, email Ari Davidow. Shuttle to/from Chestnut Hill T stop available.

More info: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135347699857415

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Klezmer Celebration at the New School of Music.
$10.00 in advance / $15 at the door / seniors $5.00
Free to New School students, and children under 6.
$5.00 for seniors

Wednesday, December 15, 7 pm,
New School Of Music,
25 Lowell St,
Cambridge Ma
cambridgemusic.org

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This month we'll meet the second Sunday instead of the first. That is Dec. 12

.Workmen's Circle building, 1762 Beacon St., Brookline
7:00 - 9:00pm

A wonderful place to enjoy the wonderful legacy of Klezmer music in an
informal and
friendly atmosphere. We play from music, available at the jam. We have a
variety of instruments, and welcome players at all levels. Keyboardists
should bring electric keyboards if possible.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 8 pm
"The Art of Yiddish Song"

In celebration of the ensemble's 10th anniversary, the Jumbo Knish Factory (Tufts Klezmer Ensemble) will present a concert of Yiddish folk songs and Yiddish theater numbers new and old with special faculty guests Barbara Grossman and Leon Gunther.

Distler Performance Hall,
Tufts University
Medford, MA

Free; no tickets required.

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Wednesday, December 8 2010, 5:30 pm

Hanukkah Dance Party with the Mount Holyoke Klezmer Band,
Adrianne Greenbaum, director.
Warbeke Room, Pratt Hall, Mt Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA
Free

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Shirim Klezmer Orchestra
Klezmer Nutcracker

Sun, Dec 5, 2010, 4:30pm
Club Passim
47 Palmer St.
Cambridge, MA

Early Booking for Members available. Tickets go on Sale for Members on 10/27/2010 at 12:00 pm EST and for Non-Members on 11/3/2010 at 12:00 pm EST

For more info: Club Passim

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Fifth Annual Open Sing: Handel and Bloch w/Zamir

Sunday, December 5, 3:00 pm, at Temple Reyim, 1860 Washington St, Newton.You've sung Messiah, now sing Handel's other great oratorio, Judas Maccabaeus, and the first three movements of the most sublime setting of the synagogue liturgy, Ernest Bloch's "Sacred Service." Open to all interested singers and listeners. Tickets: $10; $8 for seniors and students and GBCC members; available at the door only. Free admission for conductors and conducting students. Musical scores will be provided. Zamir is grateful to Phyllis and Michael z"l Hammer and the Newton Cultural Council for underwriting the Open Sing.

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Eatala: A Life In Klezmer: New documentary premiere & concert honors Elaine Watts and four generations of Philadelphia Jewish musicians
WHO: Elaine Hoffman Watts, Susan Lankin Watts & band
WHAT: Premiere of new documentary about a ground-breaking woman & concert of klezmer music from waltzes to freylechs, representing the legacy of four generations of Jewish musicians (Hoffman family) renowned in Philadelphia
WHEN: December 4, 2010 at 7:30 PM (Tickets: $10 - $30 through http://crossroadsconcerts.org)
WHERE: Crossroads Music / 801 S. 48th Street (Produced by the Philadelphia Folklore Project)

Tickets ($10 - $30) are available through Crossroads Music (http://crossroadsconcerts.org/)

“The documentary Eatala: A Life in Klezmer is a loving portrait of Elaine Hoffman Watts, a renowned klezmer percussionist. The film shows how Elaine (her Yiddish name is “Eatala”), a feisty and determined musician, has broken barriers—as a musician, a working mother, and in her persistent devotion to her family’s klezmer music. Drawing on performance footage, family movies, historic photographs, and interviews, Eatala traces a klezmer tradition sustained over four generations in a single family— with a good dose of humor and joy. Eatala features performances by Elaine Hoffman Watts, Susan Lankin Watts and an all-star klezmer band with Josh Dolgin, Jay Krush, Rachel Lemisch, Hankus Netsky, Henry Sapoznik, and Carmen Staaf. Directed by Barry Dornfeld and Debora Kodish. Produced by the Philadelphia Folklore Project.

A klezmer concert featuring Elaine and Susan Watts and other musicians follows the screening. A special reception with refreshments for Chanukah will conclude this evening celebrating the accomplishments of some extraordinary Philadelphia musicians.

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Hankus Netsky and Friends … A Chanukah Celebration

Saturday, December 4, 8:00pm
Temple Beth Israel
25 Harvard St
Waltham, MA

The program will feature vocalists Lisa Jacobs and Jessica Kate Meyer, along with six of the areas finest instrumentalists. This lively performance will include Yiddish and Hebrew repertoire, including little-known eastern European Chanukah music gathered from Temple Beth Israel member and Holocaust survivor Morris Hollender. This joyous evening will offer Menorah lighting, an exquisite concert performance, as well as dancing and refreshments for all. All ages are welcome to come and celebrate the season!

Hankus Netsky is founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and Music Director for Itzhak Perlman's "In the Fiddler's House" and "Jewish Roots" projects. He is the director of the Discovery Project at the National Yiddish Book Center and chair of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory.

Tickets are $15 for Temple Members, $20 for Non-members.
For more info: 781-894-5146
or visit their website www.tbiwaltham.org to buy tickets online.

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Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh in Providence—at the Brooklyn Coffee Tea House, Lively Klezmer & Moving Hassidic tunes in a cozy coffee house setting. Six Sat night performances, continuing Nov 27th, 8PM. At 209 Douglas Ave, just across rt 95 from the Marriott, near downtown Providence.

More info: www.projothebeat.com

Funded in part by a Folk Arts Fellowship grant from the RI State Council on the Arts.

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East of the River
Sunday, November 21 · 2:00pm - 4:30pm
Community Synagogue Max D Raiskin Center
325 E. Sixth Street (between 1st Ave. and 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY

3pm concert
2pm workshop/masterclass (free with admission!)

A new early/world music project by internationally recognized recorder soloists Nina Stern and Daphna Mor. Mor and Stern have appeared playing as a duo with groups as varied as The New York Philharmonic and world music group Pharaoh's Daughter and on stages as varied as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Joe’s Pub. In this band they collaborate with leading jazz and world musicians including composer/accordionist Uri Sharlin, and Yo Yo Ma's "Silk Road Ensemble" percussionist Shane Shanahan. Their new self-titled album, produced by renowned word music producer Jamshied Sharifi, includes traditional music from the Balkans, Armenia, and Medieval Italy, arranged and interpreted by the musicians. The combination of these foremost musicians from classical, jazz and world music backgrounds creates the unique blend that is East of the River.

The workshop will focus on world music, for all instrumentalists and percussionists. Bring your own instrument and join in!

www.6thstreetsundays.com

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"Upward" with the Mystic Chorale

Saturday, November 20, 8:00 pm, and Sunday, November 21, 3:30 pm. Zamir is delighted to perform as special guests of Nick Page's 200-voice Mystic Chorale for "Upward," a musical extravaganza at Converse Hall, Tremont Temple, 88 Tremont St, Boston. The weekend concerts will showcase the best of Jewish choral music as well as songs from diverse traditions. Tickets: $28; $15 for seniors and students. For more information, visit www.mysticchorale.org, or call 781-316-2500.

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"Upward" with the Mystic Chorale

Saturday, November 20, 8:00 pm, and Sunday, November 21, 3:30 pm. Zamir is delighted to perform as special guests of Nick Page's 200-voice Mystic Chorale for "Upward," a musical extravaganza at Converse Hall, Tremont Temple, 88 Tremont St, Boston. The weekend concerts will showcase the best of Jewish choral music as well as songs from diverse traditions. Tickets: $28; $15 for seniors and students. For more information, visit www.mysticchorale.org, or call 781-316-2500.

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Students, faculty members, and guests of the Department of Music present a lecture and four concerts that reflect upon the Holocaust of European Jews in the 20th century.

The music events of the Echoes of the Holocaust series feature pieces written by composers who died in Hitler's concentration camps, works written in the camps and performed by prisoners themselves, and
contemporary compositions inspired by these tragic events.

www.unh.edu/

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Songs of Imagined Migrations: The Guy Mendilow Band's Ladino Project

November 5th, 8:00pm
Unity Church of God
6 William St. (corner College Ave., near Davis Square)
Somerville, MA

Presented by Notlob Concerts
Reservations strongly suggested.
For reservations: notlobreservations[AT]gmail.com

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Guy Mendilow Band

November 4th, 7:30pm
Jewish Center and Federation of the Twin Tiers
1008 West Water St
Elmira, NY
Reservations: 607-734-8122

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Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh in Providence—at the Brooklyn Coffee Tea House, Lively Klezmer & Moving Hassidic tunes in a cozy coffee house setting. Six Sat night performances, beginning Oct 30th, 8PM. At 209 Douglas Ave, just across rt 95 from the Marriott, near downtown Providence.

More info: www.projothebeat.com

Funded in part by a Folk Arts Fellowship grant from the RI State Council on the Arts.

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Szelrozsa

Saturday, October 30, 7:30pm
The Falcon
1348 9W, Marlboro, NY

Halloween Eve, and we play music from Transylvania!. Plus we're opening for a really good Columbian harpist at at the Falcon, a really high class joint. www.liveatthefalcon.com. And they have food.

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Sunday, October 24, 3:00 pm. Zamir will perform what Zamirniks lovingly call a "synagig" at the Charter Oak Cultural Center of Beth El Temple at 2626 Albany Ave, West Hartford, CT. A "synagig" encompasses the very best of Zamir--a taste of the traditional mixed with jazz, folk, Yiddish, and liturgical favorites. We'd love to see our Connecticut friends there! For ticket information, call Beth El Temple directly at 860-233-9696.

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After a long wait, the great Israeli entertainer, Yehoram Gaon, was able to free up his schedule and return to the U.S. for an exciting tour of his new musical show – at Baker School Auditorium Chestnut Hill, MA October 23rd, 2010.
We hope that those who were looking forward to his show, and have been awaiting and hoping for him to return, will join us for this truly outstanding performance!The concert incorporates current affairs, entertainment and acting, accompanied by a band, and two singers/dancers. In this show, managed by the musician David Kriboshe, and band members Nadav Remez – Guitar: Uri Gurvich - Saxophones, Clarinet, Flute: Daniel Ori – Bass: Ziv Ravitz – Drums: Dani Danor – Percussion.

He will perform his greatest hits including "Here I am" (Hineni Kan), "The Last War" (Hamilchama Ha'achrona), "Way to Go" (Kol Hakavod), "Roza", "There is a Place" (Yesh Makom), in addition to great new songs. In between songs, Gaon tells the audience about his personal life and his long career stories which relate to these songs.

Video:
www.youtube.com
More information: www.hakesheronline.com
And even more information: www.yehoramgaon.co.il to learn more about Yehoram Gaon.
Music samples: www.israel-music.com/yehoram_gaon/
Ticket inquiries: www.hakesheronline.com

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Laura Wetzler

10/22-23/10, 8pm
Leominster, Ma
Agudas Achim

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Klezwoods

Friday, October 22 · 7:30pm
Woodfords Church
202 Woodford Street
Portland, ME

Presented by Portland Conservatory of Music
Klezwoods will be continuing their celebration of the release of their new CD "OY, Yeah" With Joe, Dan, Tev, Michael and Grant

$15.00/$12.00 students and elders

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Laura Wetzler

10/22-23/10, 8pm
Leominster, Ma
Agudas Achim

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Klezmer music and contra dancing with caller Jacob Bloom and ContraKlez
On Tuesday, October 19th
8:00 to 10:30 PM
MIT Student Center, room 407
More information at
mit.edu

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Klezmer dancing at MIT!

Sunday October 17, 2010, 8 pm
Lobdell Dining Hall
MIT Student Center, 2nd floor
84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA
Admission by donation

Dance leader: Jacob Bloom
Music by Shver un Shviger

Jacob Bloom will teach some easy traditional dances, such as the freylakhs, bulgar, slow hora, chusidl, Yiddish sirba, and grand march. No experience necessary!

For more information, see:
mit.edu
www.facebook.com
gis.net
www.neffa.org

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Halleluyah/Alleluia: Psalms of Praise

Sunday, October 17, 2010, 4:00-6:00 pm, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. Don't miss this celebration of the sesquicentennial of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church and the fifth anniversary of Boston Jewish Spirit. Emmanuel Center"Halleluyah/Alleluia" presents Jewish and Christian musical interpretations of psalms of praise from ancient to modern times, including works by Salamone Rossi, Louis Lewandowski, and Leonard Bernstein. Zamir joins with the Orpheus Singers, directed by James Olesen; and the Spectrum Singers, directed by John Ehrlich. Reverend Pamela Werntz and Rabbi Howard Berman will offer historical commentary. Tickets: $20; $10 for students with ID.
Tickets are available at the door or online.

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Hankus Netsky, Linda J. Chase in "Klezmer and Beyond"
Temple Reyim
Newton, MA
Saturday, October 16.

Actress/singer Jessica Kate Meyer, composer/flutist Linda J. Chase, and fiddler Yaeko Miranda Elmaleh join Klezmer Conservatory Band leader Hankus Netsky for a cafe-style concert—"Klezmer and Beyond."

8:00 p.m.
All tickets $18
Purchase tickets online: www.reyim.org

Temple Reyim
1860 Washington Street
Newton MA 02466
617-527-2410 ext 11

Plenty of free parking; short walk from Woodland T stop on D line.

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Abayudaya: the Music of the Jews of Uganda
7:00 PM Thursday, October 14, 2010
WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, The University at Albany, SUNY

After adopting Judaism a century ago, Uganda’s Abayudaya began creating a musical tradition marrying the rhythms and harmonies of Africa with Jewish celebration and traditional Hebrew prayer. Musician Mike Cohen, who has spent time among the Abayudaya in the village of Putti, will take the audience on a musical tour of this singular African community of people who live Jewish lives, have survived persecution, and assert, “We have been saved by our music.”

www.albany.edu

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Laura Wetzler

10/13/10, 1pm
Springfield, MA
JCC

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Shirim is playing this Saturday night October 9 at the Amazing Things Arts Center, 160 Hollis St. Framingham, MA (508-495-2787). Tickets are $18 (Stu/Sen $17, Mem $15). Bring the kids, bring your grandmother! Be ready to move! The band will be joined by special guest vocalist Claire Dickson. We got a great tip in today's Globe:

"The spirited klezmer outfit, a Boston area treasure for a quarter century, has performed internationally and collaborated with Maurice Sendak and Woody Allen, among others. Clarinetist Glenn Dickson, trumpeter Gary Bohan, accordionist Michael McLaughlin, tubist Jim Gray, and drummer Eric Rosenthal will be joined by amazing young singer Claire Dickson, a recent Downbeat magazine Student Jazz Award Winner, who will sing several classic Jewish jazz tunes." —Kevin Lowenthal, Globe Correspondent

What: Shirim Klezmer Orchestra
When: Saturday, October 9, 2010, 8:00pm
Where: Amazing Things Arts Center, 160 Hollis St, Framingham. MA 01702
508-405-ARTS (2787)
Why: For fun!

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Laura Wetzler

10/3/10, 2pm
Danbury, Ct.
United Jewish Center

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Yid Vicious at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
Joseph G. Astman International Concert Series
Saturday, Oct. 2, 8 pm
$19

Yid Vicious escapes the heartland for a series of concerts in NY state. Check for additional tour dates & updates at www.yidvicious.com.

http://www.hofstra.edu/

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THE OTHER EUROPEANS
7 Klezmer and 7 Gypsy virtuosos with roots in Europe.
Bandleader Alan Bern.

Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant and Music Club
17 Holland St. Somerville MA 02144
Davis Square, across from the Davis T stop

Cost: $15

(617) 776-2004
Further info: www.johnnyds.com

Enjoy Klezmer and Roma in musical dialogue with anachronistic harmonies, barrier-breaking and devil-may-care tone.

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THE OTHER EUROPEANS
7 Klezmer and 7 Gypsy virtuosos with roots in Europe.
Bandleader Alan Bern.

Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
National Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, MA

Cost: $18/general admission; $9/student
Further info: www.bikher.org

Enjoy Klezmer and Roma in musical dialogue with anachronistic harmonies, barrier-breaking and devil-may-care tone.

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THE OTHER EUROPEANS
7 Klezmer and 7 Gypsy virtuosos with roots in Europe.
Bandleader Alan Bern.

LECTURE WORKSHOP
This presentation by The Other Europeans Band will take you on a journey into a fascinating past and present, with live music, a film of the band's research trip to North Moldova, and comparisons of klezmer and lautari (Roma) repertoire and style, and musical fireworks.

Cost: $10/general admission; $5/student

Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
Further info: www.bikher.org

Enjoy Klezmer and Roma in musical dialogue with anachronistic harmonies, barrier-breaking and devil-may-care tone.

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The Afro-Semitic Experience

August 19
Willimantic Street Festival,
at the Uptown Stage from 7:45 PM until 9:00 PM,
The stage address is 866 Main Street, Willimantic.

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Cantors and soloists of the North Shore Cantorial Association will be performing ensemble and solo pieces of High Holiday music on Wednesday evening, August 18 at 6:30 pm at Temple Beth Shalom, 489 Lowell St, Peabody, MA.

$18 adults. Proceeds will go to the Jewish Family Services Food Bank.

http://www.jewishjournal.org/

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Cantors and soloists of the North Shore Cantorial Association will be performing ensemble and solo pieces of High Holiday music on Wednesday evening, August 18 at 6:30 pm at Temple Beth Shalom, 489 Lowell St, Peabody, MA.

$18 adults. Proceeds will go to the Jewish Family Services Food Bank.

http://www.jewishjournal.org/

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Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010

The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.

The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.

For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com

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Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010

The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.

The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.

For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com

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Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010

The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.

The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.

For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com

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Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010

The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.

The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.

For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com

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Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars
7:30–9pm
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Museum of Fine Arts
Calderwood Courtyard
Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue

"The mystical high priest of New Wave Avant-Klez jazz" (All about Jazz), Frank London exposes solid musical commonalties among Gypsy, Jewish, and Arabic music. Fusing aspects of jazz, Gypsy brass band music, and klezmer, Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars combine their knowledge, history, and talent to create magical and thrilling sounds together.

Tickets: $30
MFA members, seniors, and students $24 (Members save 20% on ticket prices!)

www.mfa.org

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Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010

The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.

The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.

For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com

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Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010

The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.

The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.

For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com

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Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010

The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.

The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.

For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com

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The Afro-Semitic Experience

July 25 Unity in the Community, NMS
Neighborhood Music School Presents
Unity in the Community: A full-day Workshop with members of the Afro-Semitic Experience involving the study of music and culture (includes workshops, drum making)

Sunday July 25, 10am-4pm
Concert following at 5 PM with Afro –Semitic Experience at NMS

Open to ages 10 and up
Cost: $90 for workshop (includes ticket to concert)
Concert tickets $10 each (seniors and students $5)
Financial Aid is available

Neighborhood Music School
100 Audubon Street
New Haven, CT 06510
ph: 203.624-5189

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Kleztone Records and the Acton Jazz Cafe are proud to present the music from Jim Guttmann's recent CD "Bessarabian Breakdown".

When:
Friday, July 16
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (the dinner set)

Where:
Acton Jazz Cafe
452 Great Road
Acton MA 01720
(978) 263-6161
www.actonjazzcafe.com

Admission:
$10 in advance
$12 at the door
Children up to age 14, half price.

Reservations are recommended.

Who: Jim Guttmann, bass with -
Mike Cohen - clarinet and tenor sax
Daniel Ian Smith - baritone sax
Mark Berney & Gary Bohan - trumpet & cornet
Mark Hamilton - trombone
Mimi Rabson - violin
Michael McLaughlin - piano & accordion
Brandon Seabrook - guitar, banjpo, mandolin
Grant Smith - drums & percussion
Ernesto Diaz - percussion

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One of the most special New England events occurs not during the Fall leaf-gawking season, but in mid-July—starting today, in fact—when the National Yiddish Book Center opens its annual "Paper Bridge" festival, a week-long celebration of Yiddishkeit with lectures, workshops, film screenings, and of course, Jewish music new and old.

This year features two special exhibits, Mayer Kirshenblatt's paintings in a traveling exhibit titled: "They Call Me Mayer July" (so what more appropriate month!??). I am a major fan of the exhibit, and of his pictures, which capture life in pre-Holocaust Poland in a way that is both sweet and yet eschews the shmalzification of the period. Kirshenblatt's exhibit is balanced by a look at "Esn! Jews and Food in America. It's a hard combo to beat. [Off-topic, I note that the Jewish Women's Archive, where I work, has recently begun featuring regular guest blogs—is that an oxymoron?—on food and new kosher recipes. Yummy!

The festival finale, and another absolutely-must-see evening is the East Coast premiere of Veretski Pass's new piece, The Klezmer Shul. "Inspired by the synagogues of pre-war Eastern Europe, The Klezmer Shul is rooted in Jewish liturgical melodic principles and emotionals intonations. This four-movement instrumental suite transmits the emotional power of synagogue singing without the use of words, incorporating elements of jazz, avant-garde, classical, klezmer, and folk music."

National Yiddish Book Center
1021 West Street
Amherst, MA
www.yiddishbookcenter.org

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One of the most special New England events occurs not during the Fall leaf-gawking season, but in mid-July—starting today, in fact—when the National Yiddish Book Center opens its annual "Paper Bridge" festival, a week-long celebration of Yiddishkeit with lectures, workshops, film screenings, and of course, Jewish music new and old.

This year features two special exhibits, Mayer Kirshenblatt's paintings in a traveling exhibit titled: "They Call Me Mayer July" (so what more appropriate month!??). I am a major fan of the exhibit, and of his pictures, which capture life in pre-Holocaust Poland in a way that is both sweet and yet eschews the shmalzification of the period. Kirshenblatt's exhibit is balanced by a look at "Esn! Jews and Food in America. It's a hard combo to beat. [Off-topic, I note that the Jewish Women's Archive, where I work, has recently begun featuring regular guest blogs—is that an oxymoron?—on food and new kosher recipes. Yummy!

Tonight two documentaries, "The Peretzniks" and "Paint what you remember," the latter featuring Mayer Kirshenblatt talking about his work and pre-war Poland.

National Yiddish Book Center
1021 West Street
Amherst, MA
www.yiddishbookcenter.org

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One of the most special New England events occurs not during the Fall leaf-gawking season, but in mid-July—starting today, in fact—when the National Yiddish Book Center opens its annual "Paper Bridge" festival, a week-long celebration of Yiddishkeit with lectures, workshops, film screenings, and of course, Jewish music new and old.

This year features two special exhibits, Mayer Kirshenblatt's paintings in a traveling exhibit titled: "They Call Me Mayer July" (so what more appropriate month!??). I am a major fan of the exhibit, and of his pictures, which capture life in pre-Holocaust Poland in a way that is both sweet and yet eschews the shmalzification of the period. Kirshenblatt's exhibit is balanced by a look at "Esn! Jews and Food in America. It's a hard combo to beat. [Off-topic, I note that the Jewish Women's Archive, where I work, has recently begun featuring regular guest blogs—is that an oxymoron?—on food and new kosher recipes. Yummy!

Tuesday night is a re-interpretation "The Firebird." Double Edge Theatre's interpretation of the classic Russian tale draws from the work of Mark Chagall and uses both the indoor and outdoor spaces of the Book Center to transport the audience into the imagination of the famous painter.

National Yiddish Book Center
1021 West Street
Amherst, MA
www.yiddishbookcenter.org

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One of the most special New England events occurs not during the Fall leaf-gawking season, but in mid-July—starting today, in fact—when the National Yiddish Book Center opens its annual "Paper Bridge" festival, a week-long celebration of Yiddishkeit with lectures, workshops, film screenings, and of course, Jewish music new and old.

This year features two special exhibits, Mayer Kirshenblatt's paintings in a traveling exhibit titled: "They Call Me Mayer July" (so what more appropriate month!??). I am a major fan of the exhibit, and of his pictures, which capture life in pre-Holocaust Poland in a way that is both sweet and yet eschews the shmalzification of the period. Kirshenblatt's exhibit is balanced by a look at "Esn! Jews and Food in America. It's a hard combo to beat. [Off-topic, I note that the Jewish Women's Archive, where I work, has recently begun featuring regular guest blogs—is that an oxymoron?—on food and new kosher recipes. Yummy!

What matters most to KlezmerShack readers, of course, is that there will be music. Amazing music. New music. Tonight its Hankus Netsky's new ensemble, Branches, "… that uses Jewish musical tradition as a point of departure for creative exploration, performing repertoire drawn from klezmer, Yiddish theater, and cantorial traditions, along with new compositions and improvisations based on Yiddish poetry and other sources."

National Yiddish Book Center
1021 West Street
Amherst, MA
www.yiddishbookcenter.org

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Di Folksbiene Troupe

Sunday evening
July 11, 2010
Circle Lodge (Hopewell Junction, NY)
Information: 845-221-2771 ext. 110

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Metropolitan Klezmer

Sunday, July 11
Fleischmanns (Catskills/Woodstock area)
Summer shul
Congregation B'nai Israel
Fleischmanns NY 12430
2PM concert
Co-presented by Roxbury Arts Group
roxburyartsgroup.org

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Join Nat Seelen, Jon Cannon, Kirsten Lamb, and Pete Fanelli for an awesome klezmer tour kickoff at Inman Square's favorite venue!

The Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Doors at 10:00 PM
Suggested donation $10

check us out at myspace or facebook!

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Klezwoods, an exciting Boston-based klezmer band, perform an energetic mix of klezmer, balkan, and arabic music with bass heavy grooves and eclectic instrumentation. Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica Mini opens.

Wed, June 30, 2010, 9pm
Johnny D's
17 Holland St. Somerville MA
Davis Square, across from the Davis T stop

(617) 776-2004
www.johnnyds.com

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Dinner and Klezmer Dance Party

Sunday, June 27, 6:00-9:30pm, Tannourine Restaurant, San Mateo. Delicious Lebanese food, klezmer music by "The Mavens of Klezmer"(Jeanette Lewicki on accordion, Mike Perlmutter on clarinet, and Richard Saunders on bass) and dancing with Bruce Bierman. If you missed similar terrific events at Tannourine in 2008 or 2009, this is your chance! $25 for a large meal (with vegetarian options) of appetizers, entree, coffee, tea, or soft drink, and the entertainment.

Dinner begins at 6:00pm, music at 6:30pm, dancing at 7:30pm. Co-sponsored by KlezCalifornia. Reservations: 650.638.1960.

More info: www.tannourinecuisine.com.

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ROB RUDIN'S HALF-JEWISH
The “There Will Be Cake” biennial
plus Dirty Water Brass Band
serving up eclectic music with dessert
Thurs., June 24, 10 pm
Lily Pad
Cambridge, MA

(Cambridge, MA) Rob Rudin's Half-Jewish: the “There Will Be Cake” biennial; plus Dirty Water Brass Band. Thurs., June 24, 10 pm. $10 suggested donation; includes dessert. Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St., Inman Sq., Cambridge. For information log onto www.lily-pad.net or call 617-395-1393.

It's been two years since drummer Rob Rudin served up a nice piece of cake along with original music on the eve of his birthday. He may or may not be two years wiser, but he does have experience throwing a lively party at the Lily Pad venue. This year's concert features Rudin's new Jewish compositions and pieces by Jewish composers John Zorn and Leonard Cohen. Rudin will also premiere the suite Number 37 based on the life of world-champion athlete, jai-alai player Joey Cornblit, whose player number was 37.

"I put together the group Half-Jewish in order to play with some of my favorite musicians and to show that klezmer is not theonly Jewish music," says Rudin. The musicians include two Hot Tamale Brass Band members, clarinetist and saxophonistMark Chenevert and Danny Heath on trombone and vocals. Gill Aharon, who plays piano with his trio every Sunday at the Lily Pad, is along for the ride, as is trumpeter Sam Dechenne of John's Brown Body, HUMANWINE bassist Paul Dilley, violinist Mimi Rabson of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and multi-reedman Ted Roland.

Continue reading "Rob Rudin's Half Jewish, 18 July 2010" »

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Greetings klez fans, be advised that there is a special show taking place in Inman Square at the Lily Pad, featuring the music of Klezwoods' own Tev Stevig, with fellow klez-mates Joe Kessler, Alec Speigelman, Michael McLaughlin, Greg Loughman, and Margaret Glaspy... Ladies and gentlement, Kafana!

The Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square,
Cambridge, MA
Sun, June 20, 7pm
www.lily-pad.net

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Yiddish Princess
CD Release Tour

6/20 - National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA, 2pm
1021 West Street, Amherst
www.yiddishbookcenter.org

6/20 - Buttonwood Tree, Middletown, CT 8pm (w/Tom Monaghan's WESLEY WILLIS HAPPY TIME FUN BIG DANCE EXPERIENCE POWER BLASTER EXERCISE VOLTRON DWIGHT YOKAM BEHAVIOR MODIFIER YOGRIT )
605 Main Street, Middletown, CT
www.buttonwood.org

Further info: www.myspace.com/yiddishprincess

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Yiddish Princess
CD Release Tour

6/19 - North End Studio, Burlington, VT, 9pm
294 North Winooski Avenue, Burlington

Further info: www.myspace.com/yiddishprincess

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Yiddish Princess
CD Release Tour

6/18 - Main Street Museum, White River Junction, VT, 8pm (following "The Only Good Corporation is an Undead Corporation"...puppet theater!)
58 Bridge Street, White River Junction,
www.mainstreetmuseum.org

Further info: www.myspace.com/yiddishprincess

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Yiddish Princess
CD Release Tour

6/17 - Redtail, 9pm
369 Congress St., 7th Floor,
Boston, MA

Further info: www.myspace.com/yiddishprincess

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Tim Sparks
Sunday, Jun 13, 2010

Workshop: 4:00-6:00pm
Cost: $30 and includes admission to the following concert. Space is limited so signing up in advance is encouraged.

Concert: 7:00-8:30pm, $10 (free to workshop attendees)
I will be playing things from Little Princess and Masada Guitars as well as some of my Blues and Ragtime stuff.

The Music Emporium
165 Mass Avenue
Lexington, Massachusetts
www.themusicemporium.com

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Sing Out, Rebuild!

A concert to benefit the work of Partners in Health in Haiti
A Besere Velt
El Shaddai, A Haitian Choir
Irish Ensemble

Thursday, June 10, 2010
7:30 PM
All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA
circleboston.org

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June Jam time at the Workmen's Circle building,
1762 Beacon St.,
Brookline, MA
Sunday June 6, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Come play klezmer in an informal and friendly atmosphere. We play from
music, available at the jam. We have a variety of instruments, and welcome players at all levels. Keyboardists should bring electric keyboards if possible.

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Klezwoods, an exciting Boston-based klezmer band, perform an energetic mix of klezmer, balkan, and arabic music with bass heavy grooves and eclectic instrumentation.

Don't miss original Klezwoods Jeremy Gustin (drums) and Alec Speigelman (clarinet) as they return from Brooklyn for this special show!

Friday 6/4. 10pm.
Toad
1912 Massachusetts Ave (Porter Square)
Cambridge, MA
No cover

617 497 4950
www.toadcambridge.com/

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JaZZamir at Sanders

Sunday, June 6 at 8:00 pm, Sanders Theatre, Cambridge: Mark your calendars (or program your phones) NOW because you won't want to miss JaZZamir, our annual spring concert. JaZZamir features jazz music from Israel, the Yiddish theater, the Broadway stage, and the synagogue. Zamir will be joined by guest performers Hankus Netsky, piano; Taki Masuko, percussion; and Amir Millstein, flute. Highlights include tunes by Dave Brubeck, Kurt Weill, Jef Labes, Ziggy Elman, as well as George Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" and selections from Porgy and Bess, "A Yidisha Charleston," "Venezuela," "Niga El Ha-Chalom," and "Java Jive" (in Hebrew). This concert honors Peter and Nancy Finn, and Alan Teperow and Suzanne Hanser, devoted board members who work tirelessly on behalf of the Chorale.

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Klezwoods, an exciting Boston-based klezmer band, perform an energetic mix of klezmer, balkan, and arabic music with bass heavy grooves and eclectic instrumentation.

Sunday, May 23, 9pm
Atwoods Tavern
877 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
617.864.2792

www.myspace.com/klezwoods1

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Come join us for the 4th iteration of The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Klezmer Jam In New York (In Boston). Charts will be available online for download following your RSVP.
For more information, contact us through our facebook page.
Porter Square, Cambridge, MA
5/23/2010
6:30-9:00 PM

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WC klezmer jam is rescheduled to this Sunday at 1762 Beacon St, Brookline, 7-9 pm
Keyboardists should bring electric keyboards if available
1762 Beacon Street Brookline, MA
circleboston.org

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Sunday, May 16 at 3:00 pm: Zamir brings its popular road show to the First Parish Church Unitarian Universalist, 842 Tremont Street, in Duxbury, Mass., where our longtime (and fabulous) accompanist, Edwin Swanborn, is Music Director. We hope to see our South Shore and Cape Cod friends for a fantastic afternoon of the best in Jewish choral music. Stay tuned for ticket details.

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Cookie Segelstein and Joshua Horowitz invite you to join them for a concert in this historic building in the woods!

Four Seasons Plus presents Klezmer Music Concert
with Cookie Segelstein and Joshua Horowitz

Date: Friday, May 14th, 2010
Time: 8 PM
Place: Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Church in the Wilderness
50 Emmanuel Church Rd.
Killingworth, CT 06419
www.churchinthewilderness.org/

Phone: 860-663-1800
Tickets: $20

Reception follows concert.

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Jazz pianist Carmen Staaf, winner of the 2009 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Pianist Competition (and alumna of must-missed klezmer jazz band Khevre, will perform with her trio at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. on May 20th as a headliner of the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival.

Staaf will preview the concert material with her trio at shows in New York and Boston:

Brookline Public Library
May 11th, 6 pm (no cover)
Hunneman Hall
361 Washington Street
Brookline, MA 02445
www.brooklinelibrary.org

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The Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB), joined by CB Calloway, conductor of the Cab Calloway Orchestra, will perform on Mother's Day, May 9, at 3 p.m. at the Regent Theater in Arlington. This lively show will feature music that celebrates both klezmer and swing, highlighting the intersection of the two musical styles. True to his legacy, CB Calloway performs in full zoot suit with the style and flair of his legendary grandfather, Cab Calloway. Calloway and KCB vocalist Susan Hoffman Watts will trade scat and Yiddish licks, and everyone will jam together in this unique and exciting event. Tickets to the May 9 concert are $36 and are available from Temple Emunah and the Regent Theater. For more information, contact Temple Emunah at 781-861-0300, or the Regent Theatre at 781-646-4849.
further info: www.emunahlex.org

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Budzyn, the Play

A tribute to Holocaust victims
Celebrating the World Day of prayer 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010, 8:00 P.M.
Sanders Theatre at Harvard University
45, Quincy Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Tickets: $12; students: $8

Ticket Reservations: 617-496-2222

http://www.budzyntheplay.com

This first-ever performance is being produced as a tribute to Holocaust victims and to mark the World Day of Prayer 2010, celebrating unity in diversity and working for a world of peace and justice. The production will feature survivors, performers, musicians and dancers featuring music composer Edwin Geist performed by The Irving Fine Society Singers & Ensemble.

“Budzyn” awakens our consciences to the question of theatrical representation dealing with religious identity. The story takes place at the Nazi controlled Budzyn labor camp in Poland, where the commander was well known for subjecting the prisoners to particularly cruel tortures and told as seen through the eyes of one of its survivors, Henry S. Newman,

The commander, knowing that the young Mr. Newman had studied dramatic arts in order to become a director, asks him to organize a small performance with the prisoners in order to entertain him. The catch, however, was that if the Commander didn't laugh, he would humilate Henry in front of the other prisoners before cutting his throat and assuring that he die in slow agony.

Visionary director Guila Clara Kessous uses all forms of art to transmit the testimony of this survivor while overcoming the simple reference to the Shoah by attacking the crucial question of theatrical representation.

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ANOTHER REALM feat. HANKUS NETSKY, LINDA CHASE, SARAH JAROSZ, CHRIS RATHBUN & JERRY LEAKE

A quintet of creative musicians well known in the Boston area, Another Realm performs their own irresistible blend of jazz, folk, Jewish, and world music. Consisting of multi-instrumentalist Hankus Netsky,
flutist/bass clarinetist Linda Chase, grammy-nominated vocalist/mandolinist Sarah Jarosz, bassist/composer Chris Rathbun, and world percussionist Jerry Leake, the group has a contemporary sound that's all it's own, whether drawing on familiar sources or taking musical journeys into uncharted territory - don't miss it!

Thursday, May 6, 2010
Show: $18 ($15 w student ID)
Dinner & Show: $56
Show: 8pm

Scullers Jazz Club at the DoubleTree Guest Suites Boston
400 Soldiers Road - Boston, MA 02134
For Tickets and Information: 617.562.4111
www.scullersjazz.com
Ticket purchases are non-refundable.

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Western Suburbs and South Shore, Here We Come!

Sunday, May 2 at 7:30 pm: The winning combination of the Zamir Chamber Chorus and the Jazz Tuber Trio will appear at Temple Shir Tikva, 141 Boston Post Road, in Wayland. Thanks to our newest board member, Robert Snyder, for sharing his appreciation for this special partnership with his synagogue! Watch your email for ticket information.

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At the Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon St., Brookline, MA
3:00-6:00 PM
http://circleboston.

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Students, faculty members, and guests of the Department of Music present a lecture and four concerts that reflect upon the Holocaust of European Jews in the 20th century.

The music events of the Echoes of the Holocaust series feature pieces written by composers who died in Hitler's concentration camps, works written in the camps and performed by prisoners themselves, and
contemporary compositions inspired by these tragic events.

This concert will be free and open to the public.

www.unh.edu/

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At the Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon St., Brookline, MA
3:00-6:00 PM
http://circleboston.org

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Free concert by Shir Madness Klezmer Band this Sunday, April 25, at 3:00 pm at the Framingham, MA, Public Library, 49 Lexington Street, Framingham. A mix of klezmer tunes, new and old, and swing and
Yiddish theater songs, plus one world premiere will be featured.

The library opens at 2:00. Our last concert there was packed, and seating is limited, so get there early.

We are Richard Yospin (clarinet and guitar), Gary Abramson (voice and tambourine), Bill Hollman (violin), Eric Myrvaagnes (flute), Sari Gazda (baritone horn and fiddle), Peter Barrer (accordion), Henry Morris (piano), Glen Orenstein (percussion), and Aaron Orenstein (sound engineer and percussion).

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Klezmer dance and jam at NEFFA
Sunday April 25, 2010
Dance at 10 AM, jam at 1 PM
Mansfield High School, Mansfield MA

The New England Folk Festival will include two klezmer events.

At 10 AM, there will be a klezmer dance led by Jacob Bloom, with music by Shver un Shviger. It will feature easy traditional Yiddish dances, which can be followed with a minimum of teaching: mostly circle dances, and one or two couple dances, such as the freylakhs, bulgar, slow hora, chusidl, and grand march.

At 1 PM, the band will lead an open klezmer jam. Bring your instruments (or your voice)! No experience necessary, and sheet music will be provided.

For more info, see
www.neffa.org or
Shver un Shviger .

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The Klezmatics

Apr 24, 2010
Tarrytown Music Hall
Tarrytown, NY
(877) 840-0457
www.tarrytownmusichall.org

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Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio "Big Fancy Tour" in April

Apr 23, 8:30pm
Radio Bean Coffeehouse
8 N. Winooski
Burlington, VT
www.radiobean.com

Clarinetist Michael Winograd
Accordionist Patrick Farrell
Bassist/singer Benjy Fox-Rosen

This Brooklyn trio features three of the busiest musicians playing Klezmer music in New York today. Blending traditional Yiddish songs, and new Klezmer compositions with chamber-like improvisations and spontaneous arrangements, this ensemble creates a new program for each individual audience.

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Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio "Big Fancy Tour" in April

Apr 22, 8:00pm
Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton
41 Union St.
Easthampton, MA
www.pioneerarts.org

Clarinetist Michael Winograd
Accordionist Patrick Farrell
Bassist/singer Benjy Fox-Rosen

This Brooklyn trio features three of the busiest musicians playing Klezmer music in New York today. Blending traditional Yiddish songs, and new Klezmer compositions with chamber-like improvisations and spontaneous arrangements, this ensemble creates a new program for each individual audience.

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Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio "Big Fancy Tour" in April

Apr 21, 8:00pm
The Nave Gallery
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church
155 Powderhouse Blvd.,
Somerville, MA
www.artsomerville.org

Clarinetist Michael Winograd
Accordionist Patrick Farrell
Bassist/singer Benjy Fox-Rosen

This Brooklyn trio features three of the busiest musicians playing Klezmer music in New York today. Blending traditional Yiddish songs, and new Klezmer compositions with chamber-like improvisations and spontaneous arrangements, this ensemble creates a new program for each individual audience.

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Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio "Big Fancy Tour" in April

Apr 20, 8:00pm
Tazza
250 Westminster St.
Providence, RI
www.tazzacaffe.com

Clarinetist Michael Winograd
Accordionist Patrick Farrell
Bassist/singer Benjy Fox-Rosen

This Brooklyn trio features three of the busiest musicians playing Klezmer music in New York today. Blending traditional Yiddish songs, and new Klezmer compositions with chamber-like improvisations and spontaneous arrangements, this ensemble creates a new program for each individual audience.

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Yiddish Dance Party to Live Klezmer Music! with Judy Bressler, Hanuks Netsky, and Dena Ressler

It's easy and great fun to learn to dance some communal Jewish folk dances of Eastern Europe including the circle freylekhs and slow Rumanian horas, the also circling Patsh Tants (hand clapping, foot stamping) and the lesser known but wonderful bulgar and sher.

Sunday April 18, 2010
2-3:30 p.m.
Arlington Senior Center
27 Maple Street, Arlington MA
Maple is off Pleasant Street (Route 60) in Arlington Center.

FREE

Yiddish dance leader and teacher Judy Bressler, founding member and long time vocalist with the Klezmer Conservatory Band, has performed and taught Yiddish song and dance around the world.

Hankus Netsky, KCB's founder and musical director, is a multi-instrumentalist with a recent Ph.D. in ethnomusicology.

Clarinetist Dena Ressler is co-founder of di bostoner klezmer.

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Sunday April 11th at 5PM Firelech gives a performance
dedicated to The Barry Sisters at Newton South High School
(140 Brandeis rd, Newton, MA).

For more info please visit
firelech.com/theater/calendar/afisha_pop_up.htm

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Jazz pianist Carmen Staaf, winner of the 2009 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Pianist Competition (and alumna of must-missed klezmer jazz band Khevre, will perform with her trio at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. on May 20th as a headliner of the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival.

Staaf will preview the concert material with her trio at shows in New York and Boston:

The Lily Pad
April 9th, 10 pm ($8 suggested donation)
1353 Cambridge St
Cambridge, MA 02139
www.lily-pad.net

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Eliyahu & the Qadim Ensemble
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 8:00 PM
Johnny D's Restaurant & Music Club
17 Holland St., Davis Square, Somerville, MA

The Qadim Ensemble, a cross-cultural group of Jewish and Arabic musicians, has joined forces to play for peace on a new CD and concert tour. Produced by celebrated neyzen Eliyahu Sills and Six Degrees' artist Jef Stott, and released by Embarka Records, "Eastern Wind" debuted last summer at #7 on the Billboard World Music Charts. The peacemaking musicians will play one Boston area concert on this East Coast tour at Johnny D's in Davis Square, Somerville, April 7th.

The Johnny D's performance will feature Gari Hegedus on oud and saz, Faisal Zedan on Arabic, Moroccan, Persian & Indian perrcussion, Rachel Valfer Sills on lead vocals and oud, and Eliyahu Sills on ney, bansuri and oud.

"Eastern Wind" masterfully mixes the sounds of Middle Eastern instruments to create a collection of traditional and original songs that celebrate the shared musical and spiritual heritage of a region now deeply divided by ethnic and religious differences. Featuring folk tunes, improvisations, and songs of love and devotion from the 12th century onward, the eclectic ensemble uses traditional instruments to travel on a musical journey through Arabia, Armenia, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Turkey and Yemen.

Jef Stott's digital production brings to life ancient acoustic instruments, including the ney, oud, saz, bansuri flute, kemanche, tablas, doira, qarqaba, bendir, daf, zarb, riqq, darbuka, dhola, and upright bass. "Eastern Wind" features accomplished multi- instrumentalists and vocalists Bouchaib Abdelhadi, Eliyahu Sills, Evan Fraser, Faisal Zedan, Fares Hedayati, John Villa, and Rachel Valfer, the group's lead vocalist.

Tickets: $12 advance / $14 at the door
For Tickets: 617-776-2004 or www.johnnyds.com

More Information and Samples: www.qadimmusic.com
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CD Release Party for Jim Guttman's "Bessarabian Breadown"
Tuesday April 6, 2010
8 PM
Johnny D's
17 Holland Street, Somerville, MA 02144
Davis Square T Stop
www.johnnyds.com/

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Hebrew College's Jewish Choral Festival

Sunday, March 21: Musicians and educators are invited to attend Hebrew College School of Jewish Music's Jewish Choral Festival, to be held at the Wellesley College Chapel. Free workshops will be offered in the afternoon, including "Unlocking the Cantillation Code," with Professor Joshua Jacobson, and more TBA soon! In the evening, Hebrew College's four choirs in residence, Zamir; Koleinu and Shir Tziyon (both directed by Carol Marton); and Kol Rinah (high school students directed by Avi Wolf), will perform in concert. For more information, contact Barbara Cassidy.

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At the Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon St., Brookline, MA
3:00-6:00 PM
http://circleboston.org

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A Jewish Music Medley

Sunday, March 21, 2010
Wellesley College, Houghton Memorial Chapel
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA

Your Turn to Learn
An Afternoon of Hands-on Workshops with School of Jewish Music faculty

2:30-4:45 p.m.
Free admission; Registration required
Register now

2:30-3:30 p.m.

Unlocking the Cantillation Code
Learn the how’s and why’s of cantillation trope from Dr. Joshua Jacobson, author of the definitive work, Chanting the Hebrew Bible: The Art of Cantillation (JPS, 2002)

Sing Along with Jeff Klepper
Meet the composer of new synagogue classics such as Shalom Rav and other popular modern liturgical compositions.

3:45-4:45 p.m.

A Cappella from Alef to Tav
Learn or refine your ability to develop a repertoire for your a cappella group, to create special arrangements, and more. Or just come and listen! Workshop presented by members of Honorable Menschen, Boston’s premiere Jewish a cappella group.

Open Wide the Tent: Pedagogy of B’nai Mitzvah for Special Needs Students
Gain an overview of teaching strategies to enable special needs students to achieve this Jewish milestone, with Cantor Scott Sokol, PhD, and Cantor Louise Treitman.

Hebrew College Jewish Choral Festival

7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $10 in advance; $15 at the door, $5 for children 17 and under
Purchase tickets now
featuring

Zamir Chorale of Boston
Shir Tzion, the Hebrew College Cantorial Choir
Koleinu, Boston’s Jewish Community Chorus
Prozdor’s Kol Rinah, the Jewish Youth Chorus of Greater Boston
Honorable Menschen

Please visit: hebrewcollege.edu/events

Cosponsored by the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life at Wellesley College
Free parking for all events in the Founders Lot on the Wellesley campus; see wellesley.edu/CampusMaps for directions.

For more information:
Barbara Cassidy, 617-559-8643

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PLEASE JOIN US
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 2010 -- 7:30 PM

AS B'NAI OR OF BOSTON
PRESENTS IN CONCERT
LINDA HIRSCHHORN & VOCOLOT

FINALISTS AT THE 2009 INTERNATIONAL JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL IN AMSTERDAM
For more information about Vocolot: www.vocolot.com

This evening of joyful music will be held at Temple Ohabei Shalom, 1187 Beacon St., Brookline. Tickets can be purchased on-line at www.bnaior.org or at the door the evening of the concert.

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Isle of Klezbos

Sunday, March 14
Isle of Klezbos
The Linda Auditorium at WAMC, Albany
Performance studio concert 3pm $15.
339 Central Avenue, Albany NY
518-465-5233 x4
wamcarts.org

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Zamir Chorale of Boston

Sunday, March 14 at 4:00 pm: Zamir teams up with Chorus Pro Musica, under the direction of Betsy Burleigh, and the New England Philharmonic for a performance of Ernst Bloch's magnificent Sacred Service at Boston's John Hancock Hall, 180 Berkeley Street, Boston. For ticket information, call 617-267-7442 (M,W, F, 10:00-2:00) or contact Chorus Pro Musica.

www.zamir.org

Co-sponsored by the Boston Jewish Music Festival

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World Music/CRASHarts is also excited to present the Klezmatics with special guest Joshua Nelson in “Brother Moses Smote the Water” on Saturday, March 13th, 8pm at the Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville. Tickets are $28. For tickets and information, call World Music/CRASHarts at 617.876.4275 or visit www.WorldMusic.org.

The Grammy Award–winning Klezmatics and African-American Jewish gospel singer Joshua Nelson team up to create a vibrant, rousing live performance just in time for Passover. Brother Moses Smote the Water features age-old Hebrew Passover songs, Nelson’s own brand of “kosher gospel” and traditional Yiddish Klezmatics anthems.

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Isle of Klezbos

Saturday, March 13
Keshet Cabaret
Temple Israel
Boston MA

Isle of Klezbos plays the Keshet Cabaret annual extravaganza, taking place this year at Temple Israel of Boston.
For more about Keshet, the grassroots group for LGBT Jews in Greater Boston & across the country, and this show, please see keshetonline.org
Tickets & info from Keshet: 617.524.9227
Performance venue, with Isle of Klezbos special dance quartet finale:
477 Longwood Ave, Boston MA 02215
Event location here www.tisrael.org

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Klezmatics with Joshua Nelson
Brother Moses Smote the Water

March 13, 2010
Somerville Theatre
Somerville, MA
(617) 876-4275
www.worldmusic.org

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The Klezmatics

Mar 11, 2010
SUNY Oswego
Oswego, NY
(315) 312-2500
residency
www.oswego.edu/academics/opportunities/artswego/arts/

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The Klezmatics

Mar 10, 2010
SUNY Oswego
Oswego, NY
(315) 312-2500
www.oswego.edu/academics/opportunities/artswego/arts/

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The Klezmatics

Mar 7, 2010
Greenwich Library, Cole Auditorium
Greenwich, CT
(203) 622-7917
free concert 3:30 pm
www.greenwichlibrary.org

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World Music/CRASHarts is pleased to present Idan Raichel & Friends: a Special Acoustic Performance on Sunday, March 7th, 7:30pm at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston. Tickets are $50, $40, $30. For tickets and information, call World Music/CRASHarts at (617) 876-4275 or visit www.WorldMusic.org.

With an enchanting blend of African, Latin American, Caribbean and Middle Eastern sounds coupled with a spectacular live show, the Idan Raichel Project thrillingly bridges the traditional and the modern.

World Music/CRASHarts is happy to offer you group rates at reduced prices. Groups of 20 or more will receive a 20% discount off regular ticket prices! Tickets will be reduced to $40, $32, $24 each.

If you are planning to bring a group to this show, please let me know as soon as possible and I will do my best to put aside a good block of tickets. Group tickets must be purchased in advance through World Music/CRASHarts at (617) 876-4275.

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Klezwoods, an exciting Boston-based klezmer band, perform an energetic mix of klezmer, balkan, and arabic music with bass heavy grooves and eclectic instrumentation.

Thurs Feb 25th 9pm-1AM
Klezwoods plays the Beehive
541 Tremont St, Boston
(617)423-0069
Part of the Boston Center for the Arts

www.myspace.com/klezwoods1

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Thursday February 25, 8:30 PM
Karoun Restaurant
839 Washington Street, Newton, MA
$20 per person
Arrive early for dinner

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The Klezmatics

Feb 25, 2010
Skidmore College, Zankel Hall
Saratoga Springs, NY
(518) 580-5590
free to public
www.skidmore.edu/odsp

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Enjoy a cozy evening of Klezmer &o; Hassidic music
in Providence, at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House,

Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh play Klezmer & Hassidic Music

Saturday Evening 8 – 10 PM,
Feb. 23 2010
$9

209 Douglas Ave, 5 minutes from the Providence Marriot, (down the hill from Staples & Whole Foods): Go right on Orms along side the Marriot, over rt 95, then take right fork onto Douglas Ave. We're 1/2 mile down on the right, just past the rt 95 S entrance.
For more specific directions go to www.BrooklynCoffeeTeaHouse.com

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Once again, the Super Bowl halftime show will feature the Delancey Street Third Line Herring and Whitefish Klezmer Ensemble. Early reports indicate they will be playing “Ven kumn arayn di tsadikim.” So, we’re staying home to listen. Hence the February jam will be Feb 14 instead of Feb 7 - 7-9 pm at Workmen’s Circle 1762 Beacon St, Brookline, MA.

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The Hebrew Institute of White Plains presents a Café Night & Concert
Of Jews and Jazz: An Evening with Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and Friends
Rabbi Greg Wall, of the 6th Street Synagogue in the East Village, celebrates his jazz roots.

Rabbi Greg Wall: saxophones; Dave Richards: bass; Aaron Alexander: drums; with special guest Michael Cochrane: piano

Saturday, February 13
8:30pm doors / 9:00pm concert

Hebrew Institute of White Plains
20 Greenridge Avenue (enter on Rutherford St.)
White Plains, NY

$20 in advance (Mastercard and Visa only)
Call the office at 914.948.3095 to reserve
please make your reservations by February 5

$23 at the door
Checks only, no cash at the door
Make checks out to Hebrew Institute of White Plains

Coffee and light refreshments served / BYOB

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Gerard Edery

The Gerard Edery Ensemble, these gifted musicians bring an ancient repertoire to the contemporary stage, while fueling the evolution of Sephardic music with new arrangements and original compositions.

February 13, 2010, 8pm
First Congregational Church of Branford
1009 Main Street, Branford, CT

To get there, take I-95 Cedar St. exit #54, go south on Cedar St. to the en
d (crossing Route 1), turn left on Main St., the Congregational Church is
the brick church on the green (on the right).

Wheelchair Accessible

For more information call: 203-488-7715

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Ezekiel's Wheels is playing at the Lily Pad, and you're all invited! Dance the night away on Valentine's Eve with us in everyone's favorite Inman Square venue, the Lily Pad.

Featuring: Nat Seelen, Jon Cannon, Pete Fanelli, and Kirsten Lamb
2/13/2010
10:00 PM-1:00 AM
The Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02141
Suggested donation $10
lily-pad.net

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Yehoram Gaon concert, scheduled for Thursday February 11th 2010 Temple Emanuel Newton, MA

has been postponed due to illness in the family.

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Josh Nelson in Concert
Sunday afternoon, January 31, 2010 @ 4 PM
Temple Emanuel, Newton

Great entertainment for all ages! Producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Josh Nelson is one of the most popular young talents in the modern Jewish musical world. Accompanied by his group, he performs exciting, spirited music, blending tradition with innovation. His new CD, Lift, was released in 2009.

Tickets are $12-$20, with a $60 family maximum. For more information and reservations: visit www.templeemanuel.com, or contact 617-965-2468.
Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward Street, Newton.

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Boston Kleztet at the Newton Free Library
Sunday January 31 2010, 2:00 pm
330 Homer Street, Newton Center, MA
Free

The Boston Kleztet combines piano, clarinet, violin, string bass, banjo, mandolin, drums and vocals to present programs of music from around the Jewish world. Their performance will include traditional klezmer tunes, Israeli melodies, Russian tunes, wedding music and Yiddish folksongs.

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THE 4TH ANNUAL A CAPPELLA FEST - now a 2 day event!
All proceeds to benefit Ethiopian Early Childhood Education in Haifa & Mitzvah Heroes Fund.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2010
Congregation Mishkan Tefila
300 Hammond Pond Parkway
Chestnut Hill, MA
10 am (doors open at 9:30)
Tickets $15 (children - $2 suggested tzedakah)

Come hear all ages of performers, Elementary School to Post-College, including groups from:
Gann, Schechter, MIT, Harvard, JCDS, Temple Emanuel, DeScribe and Diwon, and more!
Presented by Congregations Kehillath Israel and Mishkan Tefila. Co-sponsored by Gann Academy, Jewish Community Day School, Temple Aliyah, Temple Emanuel, Temple Emeth, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston.

PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT www.cjp.org/acappella. For more information, call 617-277-9155.

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THE 4TH ANNUAL A CAPPELLA FEST - now a 2 day event!
All proceeds to benefit Ethiopian Early Childhood Education in Haifa & Mitzvah Heroes Fund.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2010
Congregation Kehillath Israel
384 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA
8 pm (doors open at 7:30)
Tickets $15
Featuring both new groups and returning favorites, including groups from:
Berklee, Brandeis, Brown, BU, Harvard, UMass, Zamir Chorale of Boston Chamber Singers, and more!

PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT www.cjp.org/acappella. For more information, call 617-277-9155.

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Enjoy a cozy evening of Klezmer &o; Hassidic music
in Providence, at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House,

Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh play Klezmer & Hassidic Music

2 more Saturday Evenings 8 – 10 PM
Jan. 30 & Feb. 23 2010
$9

209 Douglas Ave, 5 minutes from the Providence Marriot, (down the hill from Staples & Whole Foods): Go right on Orms along side the Marriot, over rt 95, then take right fork onto Douglas Ave. We're 1/2 mile down on the right, just past the rt 95 S entrance.
For more specific directions go to www.BrooklynCoffeeTeaHouse.com

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The Boston Workmen's Circle Center for Jewish Culture and Social Justice presents:

Si Kahn in Concert

Saturday, January 23 - 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:30)
Boston Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon St., Brookline

Celebrate the release of Si's 16th CD, Courage, and his retirement after 30 years as director of Grassroots Leadership, while enjoying his songs of family, community, work and freedom!

Si Kahn is an acclaimed organizer, author, musician, and the executive director of Grassroots Leadership, the Southern-based social justice organization. This tour marks not only his farewell to Grassroots Leadership after 30 years at its helm (and more than 44 years in the movement for civil and economic justice) but also the release of his 16th album. His songs have been recorded by many artists, including Pete Seeger and Jane Sapp, Hazel Dickens, Planxty, Dry Branch Fire Squad, and Dick Gaughan.

To purchase tickets, call 617-566-6281. Advance sales: $12 for Workmen's Circle members/$15 for non-members. At the door: $15/$18

The Boston Workmen's Circle is a vibrant secular Jewish community and cultural center in Greater Boston.

http://circleboston.org/

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Habanot Nechama

Jan 10 2010, 7:30P

Temple Aliyah
1660 Central Avenue,
Needham, MA

Tickets: $18, from templealiyah.tix.com

Take fun, quirky songwriting in both Hebrew and English, mix in some incredible harmonies from three talented women, and you get an Israeli super group whose first album went platinum in Israel. Don’t miss their first Boston appearance in this community concert presented by Temple Aliyah, Temple Beth Shalom, the Boston Jewish Music Festival, and the Israeli Consulate.

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Living Traditions is proud to announce it's 25th annual KlezKamp: A Fertl Yur
Hundert KlezKamp/A Quarter Century of KlezKamp to be held December 23-
29th at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, New York.
In honor of this historic anniversary, this year's KlezKamp will offer a special
6 night/5 day program which will run over shabbos, which, in addition to the
world class staff of over 50 world class instructors in Yiddish language,
culture, music and art, will feature the incomparable traditional khazn Barry
Black, who, in addition to offering a survey class on the history of khazones,
will also lead the Orthodox shabbos congregation accompanied by the
KlezKamp Geklibene Shtimes ("Chosen Voices") under the direction of Josh
Dolgin.

For a full schedule and program information please visit our website
www.livingtraditions.org

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Living Traditions is proud to announce it's 25th annual KlezKamp: A Fertl Yur
Hundert KlezKamp/A Quarter Century of KlezKamp to be held December 23-
29th at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, New York.
In honor of this historic anniversary, this year's KlezKamp will offer a special
6 night/5 day program which will run over shabbos, which, in addition to the
world class staff of over 50 world class instructors in Yiddish language,
culture, music and art, will feature the incomparable traditional khazn Barry
Black, who, in addition to offering a survey class on the history of khazones,
will also lead the Orthodox shabbos congregation accompanied by the
KlezKamp Geklibene Shtimes ("Chosen Voices") under the direction of Josh
Dolgin.

For a full schedule and program information please visit our website
www.livingtraditions.org

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Living Traditions is proud to announce it's 25th annual KlezKamp: A Fertl Yur
Hundert KlezKamp/A Quarter Century of KlezKamp to be held December 23-
29th at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, New York.
In honor of this historic anniversary, this year's KlezKamp will offer a special
6 night/5 day program which will run over shabbos, which, in addition to the
world class staff of over 50 world class instructors in Yiddish language,
culture, music and art, will feature the incomparable traditional khazn Barry
Black, who, in addition to offering a survey class on the history of khazones,
will also lead the Orthodox shabbos congregation accompanied by the
KlezKamp Geklibene Shtimes ("Chosen Voices") under the direction of Josh
Dolgin.

For a full schedule and program information please visit our website
www.livingtraditions.org

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Enjoy a cozy evening of Klezmer &o; Hassidic music
in Providence, at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House,

Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh play Klezmer & Hassidic Music

3 more Saturday Evenings 8 – 10 PM
Dec. 26 2009, Jan. 30 & Feb. 23 2010
$9

209 Douglas Ave, 5 minutes from the Providence Marriot, (down the hill from Staples & Whole Foods): Go right on Orms along side the Marriot, over rt 95, then take right fork onto Douglas Ave. We're 1/2 mile down on the right, just past the rt 95 S entrance.
For more specific directions go to www.BrooklynCoffeeTeaHouse.com

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Living Traditions is proud to announce it's 25th annual KlezKamp: A Fertl Yur
Hundert KlezKamp/A Quarter Century of KlezKamp to be held December 23-
29th at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, New York.
In honor of this historic anniversary, this year's KlezKamp will offer a special
6 night/5 day program which will run over shabbos, which, in addition to the
world class staff of over 50 world class instructors in Yiddish language,
culture, music and art, will feature the incomparable traditional khazn Barry
Black, who, in addition to offering a survey class on the history of khazones,
will also lead the Orthodox shabbos congregation accompanied by the
KlezKamp Geklibene Shtimes ("Chosen Voices") under the direction of Josh
Dolgin.

For a full schedule and program information please visit our website
www.livingtraditions.org

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Living Traditions is proud to announce it's 25th annual KlezKamp: A Fertl Yur
Hundert KlezKamp/A Quarter Century of KlezKamp to be held December 23-
29th at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, New York.
In honor of this historic anniversary, this year's KlezKamp will offer a special
6 night/5 day program which will run over shabbos, which, in addition to the
world class staff of over 50 world class instructors in Yiddish language,
culture, music and art, will feature the incomparable traditional khazn Barry
Black, who, in addition to offering a survey class on the history of khazones,
will also lead the Orthodox shabbos congregation accompanied by the
KlezKamp Geklibene Shtimes ("Chosen Voices") under the direction of Josh
Dolgin.

For a full schedule and program information please visit our website
www.livingtraditions.org

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Fishel Bresler’s Klezmer Hassidic Ensemble
The quartet will perform their annual lively concert this Thursday, December 24th, 7:30 PM
at Congregation Ohawe Shalom
671 East Ave, corner of Glenwood, in Pawtucket, RI

at the door: adults $10 / children $7
kosher refreshments for sale
For directions Email us.

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Zamir Chorale of Boston

Thursday, December 24, 7:30 pm at Temple Emanuel in Newton.

Celebrate the 20th annual Hanukkah Happens concert with Zamir's favorite selections from past seasons, as well as the premiere performances of two works commissioned for the occasion: Kodesh Hem by noted composer Nick Page, with Cantor Elias Rosemberg, soloist; and Hallel Shir V'Or by 16-year-old composer Jeremiah Klarman. For more information, contact Temple Emanuel.

www.zamir.org

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Living Traditions is proud to announce it's 25th annual KlezKamp: A Fertl Yur
Hundert KlezKamp/A Quarter Century of KlezKamp to be held December 23-
29th at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, New York.
In honor of this historic anniversary, this year's KlezKamp will offer a special
6 night/5 day program which will run over shabbos, which, in addition to the
world class staff of over 50 world class instructors in Yiddish language,
culture, music and art, will feature the incomparable traditional khazn Barry
Black, who, in addition to offering a survey class on the history of khazones,
will also lead the Orthodox shabbos congregation accompanied by the
KlezKamp Geklibene Shtimes ("Chosen Voices") under the direction of Josh
Dolgin.

For a full schedule and program information please visit our website
www.livingtraditions.org

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Living Traditions is proud to announce it's 25th annual KlezKamp: A Fertl Yur
Hundert KlezKamp/A Quarter Century of KlezKamp to be held December 23-
29th at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, New York.
In honor of this historic anniversary, this year's KlezKamp will offer a special
6 night/5 day program which will run over shabbos, which, in addition to the
world class staff of over 50 world class instructors in Yiddish language,
culture, music and art, will feature the incomparable traditional khazn Barry
Black, who, in addition to offering a survey class on the history of khazones,
will also lead the Orthodox shabbos congregation accompanied by the
KlezKamp Geklibene Shtimes ("Chosen Voices") under the direction of Josh
Dolgin.

For a full schedule and program information please visit our website
www.livingtraditions.org

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Klezwoods, an exciting Boston-based klezmer band, perform an energetic mix of klezmer, balkan, and arabic music with bass heavy grooves and eclectic instrumentation.
12/22, 9 pm @ Atwoods Tavern, 877 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
www.myspace.com/klezwoods1

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The Casco Bay Tummlers
This coming Saturday! Soulful, Groovin, Klezmer tunes and Wailin' Balkan gyration from Eastern Europe and beyond. Dancing encouraged!
8pm only $5

This will be our first appearance at a new music club in Freeport, VENUE. We'll be stretching out on klezmer tunes and rocking out on our growing balkan repertoire. We'd love to get a good turnout. Come celbrate Chanukah, the solstice, the end of the semester, or just having a good time on a Saturday night. Did I mention that it's only $5? Hope to see you there!

Saturday, December 19th- 8pm--only $5
VENUE Music Bar
5 Depot St.
Freeport, ME 04032

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Temple Hillel, Temple Beth El and Congregation Sons of Israel present

A CHANUKAH CONCERT

featuring

THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CHORUS

and

BINYUMEN SCHAECHTER, CONDUCTOR

Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 7:30 PM

Temple Beth El, 46 Locust Ave (near Broadway), Cedarhurst, NY 11516
516-569-2700

Admission Free

A Concert of Yiddish and Chanukah Music
Including Handel in Yiddish! is it possible? Come hear for yourselves!
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS PROVIDED

Visit http://thejppc.org for more info about the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus

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Margot Leverett and her Klezmer Mountain Boys
Klezmer clarinetist Margot Leverett joins forces with today's stars of klezmer and bluegrass to explore the shared musical spirit of two genres worlds apart. The resulting medleys and improvisations are at once raw, funny, soulful and footstomping.

Dec 12, 2009, 8pm
First Congregational Church of Branford
1009 Main Street, Branford, CT

To get there, take I-95 Cedar St. exit #54, go south on Cedar St. to the en
d (crossing Route 1), turn left on Main St., the Congregational Church is
the brick church on the green (on the right).

Wheelchair Accessible

For more information call: 203-488-7715

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Pharaoh's Daughter

Sunday, December 12, 2009
Pharaoh's Daughter
Briarcliff Manor, NY Congregation Sons of Israel

8pm

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The Dec, 6 at Showcase Live, Foxboro Ma has been cancelled due to lack of sufficient advance ticket sales. If we want klezmer in the Boston Area, we have to support it!

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A century after the death of the Father of Yiddish Theater, Avrom Goldfaden, a group of Harvard University students is preparing a revival of his most famous Yiddish operetta – Shulamis. This landmark bilingual production of Shulamis will premiere in Harvard’s historic Agassiz Theater December 2 - 6, 2009, nearly seventy years after Shulamis opened as the very last production of interwar Yiddish theatre in Warsaw.

While wandering thirsty through the desert, beautiful young Shulamis is rescued by handsome Avsholem, who swears to marry her upon his return from Jerusalem. When Avsholem fails to come for her, Shulamis pretends to go mad in order to keep her vow to him, yearning both for his return and for revenge. Her choice is at the center of this timeless Yiddish operetta of love and deception, of the price of revenge and the power of forgiveness.

Featuring a new English translation by renowned Yiddish translator Nahma Sandrow, a haunting musical score compiled by Folksbiene artistic director Zalmen Mlotek, a live orchestra, masks, and innovative choreography, Shulamis will charm and inspire both Yiddish theater aficionados and those who are new to the Yiddish theater.

Performance dates:

December 2, 3, 5, and 6 at 8 PM

Matinee December 6 at 2 PM

All performances will take place in Harvard's historic Agassiz Theater in picturesque Radcliffe Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Agassiz Theater is located just a few blocks from the Harvard Square T Station at 5 James Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Tickets: $15 general, $10 students/seniors. Discounts are available for groups of ten or more.

Tickets on sale now at the Harvard Box Office: 617-496-2222 or online at www.shulamis.org.

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Sunday, December 6
Instant Klezmer Workshop
with Hankus Netsky, 1pm-2:30pm
$15 Advance, $20 Door
Learn to play Klezmer music in a flash! Come one, come all, with any instrument, any level, all ages!

To register or for more information, visit http://www.springstep.org or call 781.395.0402

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Klezmer & Beyond
Saturday, December 5 at 8pm

featuring Hankus Netsky, Linda Chase, Yaeko Miranda Elmaleh,
Andy Blickenderfer and vocalist Jessica Kate Meyer

Springstep, 98 George P. Hassett Drive, Medford, MA

Medford - On Saturday, December 5, the Springstep Performance Series is proud to present Klezmer & Beyond, an evening of joyous, contagious klezmer music featuring multi-instrumentalist Hankus Netsky & friends. Netsky, founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, has been one of the primary figures in the klezmer revival, and is not only a master of tradtional klezmer styles but takes Jewish music into new territories by fusing it with contemporary jazz influences and much more. This pre-holiday celebration follows a musical journey from traditional Yiddish melodies to jazz-infused versions of the classics , with a taste of dancing for all! Noshing is encouraged - latkes and other festive fare will be available.

TICKETS:
Springstep Members: $19 Adults, $16 Students/Seniors
Non-members: $22 Adults, $19 Students/Seniors
All tickets at the door: $25
To purchase tickets call 781.395.0402 or visit www.springstep.org

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A century after the death of the Father of Yiddish Theater, Avrom Goldfaden, a group of Harvard University students is preparing a revival of his most famous Yiddish operetta – Shulamis. This landmark bilingual production of Shulamis will premiere in Harvard’s historic Agassiz Theater December 2 - 6, 2009, nearly seventy years after Shulamis opened as the very last production of interwar Yiddish theatre in Warsaw.

While wandering thirsty through the desert, beautiful young Shulamis is rescued by handsome Avsholem, who swears to marry her upon his return from Jerusalem. When Avsholem fails to come for her, Shulamis pretends to go mad in order to keep her vow to him, yearning both for his return and for revenge. Her choice is at the center of this timeless Yiddish operetta of love and deception, of the price of revenge and the power of forgiveness.

Featuring a new English translation by renowned Yiddish translator Nahma Sandrow, a haunting musical score compiled by Folksbiene artistic director Zalmen Mlotek, a live orchestra, masks, and innovative choreography, Shulamis will charm and inspire both Yiddish theater aficionados and those who are new to the Yiddish theater.

Performance dates:

December 2, 3, 5, and 6 at 8 PM

Matinee December 6 at 2 PM

All performances will take place in Harvard's historic Agassiz Theater in picturesque Radcliffe Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Agassiz Theater is located just a few blocks from the Harvard Square T Station at 5 James Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Tickets: $15 general, $10 students/seniors. Discounts are available for groups of ten or more.

Tickets on sale now at the Harvard Box Office: 617-496-2222 or online at www.shulamis.org.

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Klezwoods, an exciting Boston - based klezmer band, perform an energetic mix of klezmer, balkan, and arabic music with bass heavy grooves and eclectic instrumentation.
www.myspace.com/klezwoods1

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Metropolitan Klezmer

Saturday, November 21
Temple Tikvah / New Hyde Park NY
8PM show (7PM pre-concert talk: Meet The Composer event pending)
Temple Tikvah A Center for Reform Judaism
3315 Hillside Avenue
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Info: (516) 746-1120

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Veretski Pass in CT Nov 13-15

Temple Beth Tikvah in Madison, CT and

THE PHYLLIS SILIDKER ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Presents

Veretski Pass
Cookie Segelstein, Joshua Horowitz and Stuart Brotman

Friday, Nov 13, Music in the service with Rabbi and Cantor

Saturday, Nov 14th
7:30pm Havdalah Celebration

8:00 pm -- Concert/Lecture including a performance of the "Klezmer
Shul" followed by a Dance Party
hors d’oeuvres and wine
(Admission Free )

Sunday, Nov 15
12:15, Lunch and learn for adults, Ask Drs. Kez

Temple Beth Tikvah
196 Durham Rd. (Route 79)
Madison, CT 06443
For further information, contact Cantor Goldberg at 203-245-7028, ext.
209.

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The Afro-Semitic Experience

Saturday, November 14, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, 7:30 pm, World Premiere of The Road That Heals The Splintered Soul, Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106, p 860.249.1207 Big night, come hear what we spent the past year working on, our new composition

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The Afro-Semitic Experience

November 13, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, Friday night service, Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester, 2125 Westchester Avenue East, Rye, New York, for more please call 914-967-4382

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Veretski Pass in CT Nov 13-15

Temple Beth Tikvah in Madison, CT and

THE PHYLLIS SILIDKER ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Presents

Veretski Pass
Cookie Segelstein, Joshua Horowitz and Stuart Brotman

Friday, Nov 13, Music in the service with Rabbi and Cantor

Saturday, Nov 14th
7:30pm Havdalah Celebration

8:00 pm -- Concert/Lecture including a performance of the "Klezmer
Shul" followed by a Dance Party
hors d’oeuvres and wine
(Admission Free )

Sunday, Nov 15
12:15, Lunch and learn for adults, Ask Drs. Kez

Temple Beth Tikvah
196 Durham Rd. (Route 79)
Madison, CT 06443
For further information, contact Cantor Goldberg at 203-245-7028, ext.
209.

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NEW YORK, NY – On Wednesday, November 11, 2009, Jewish and Muslim artists from the Tug of War Tour and Shemspeed will come together at New York’s SOBs at the Hip Hop Sulha. Performers include Israeli and Iranian rap duo Most Hated, DeScribe, spoken word artist Tahani Salah, beat boxer J. Stone, Dash Speaks, TJ Di Hitmaker, NSR and a special DJ set by Electro Morocco.

Founded by American-Israeli producer, Diwon, The Hip Hop Sulha reinvents the concept of the traditional Arab sulha (reconciliation) by bringing leading Jewish and Muslim hip-hop musicians together to celebrate peace and religious tolerance via the performing arts. In the past, the series has hosted Hadag Nachash, Saz, Sagol 59, and DJ Spooky to name a few. This evening will feature Chassidic Hip Hop, Reggae, and R&B, artist, DeScribe, Jamaican Dancehall artist, TJ Di Hitmaker, and NYC-based Israeli expatriates, Electro Morocco.

The Tug of War Tour is a thought-provoking and multi-dimensional artistic endeavor that explores narratives of conflict and co-existence between Muslims and Jews. The brainchild of Israeli-American M.C. Sneakas and M.C. Serch (of Third Bass fame and VH1’s White Rapper Show), the tour features the controversial rap group ‘Most Hated’ (consisting of Sneakas and Muslim-Iranian rapper Mazzi), in addition to spoken word poets Vanessa Hidary and Tahani Salah (both of whom have been featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam).

Be a part of this unique opportunity to see Muslim and Jewish creativity together on one stage on Wednesday, November 11th at SOBs - 204 Varick Street. Doors open at 8pm; tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Stay for the after-party with Diwon spinning.

For more information, visit:
www.shemspeed.com/sulha

Venue: SOBs
204 Varick St New York
NY 10014
(212) 243-4940
www.sobs.com

www.shemspeed.com

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