KlezCalendar

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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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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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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The Klezmatics

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

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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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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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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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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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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

Continue reading "KlezKamp, Kerhonkson, NY, 28 Dec 2009" »

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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

Continue reading "KlezKamp, Kerhonkson, NY, 27 Dec 2009" »

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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

Continue reading "KlezKamp, Kerhonkson, NY, 26 Dec 2009" »

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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

Continue reading "KlezKamp, Kerhonkson, NY, 25 Dec 2009" »

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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

Continue reading "KlezKamp, Kerhonkson, NY, 24 Dec 2009" »

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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

Continue reading "KlezKamp, Kerhonkson, NY, 23 Dec 2009" »

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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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For November, the Workmen's Circle klezmer jam will be Sunday, Nov. 8, 7-9 pm.(instead of Nov. 1).

We play at the Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon Street in Brookline, about 5 blocks west of Washington Square, which is about 12 blocks west of Coolidge Corner, right on the Green Line Beacon Street route. Just tell the conductor, “Ich vel gayn in ArbeterRing.”

We play from printed music, which we will have available in C and B-flat. All levels of players are welcome. There is a piano, though keyboard players are urged to bring a portable keyboard.

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Klezmer workshops and dance party
with The Casco Bay Tummlers Klezmer Band

The Folk Arts Center of New England presents concurrent workshops in klezmer singing and instrumental music, led by members of the Casco Bay Tummlers. A potluck supper follows,
then an evening of klezmer and international dancing with
music by the Tummlers. Beginners are welcome.

Payson Park Congregational Church parish hall,
365 Belmont Street, Belmont, Massachusetts

5:30–6:30 pm Singing and instrumental sessions
6:45–7:45 pm Potluck supper (kosher items welcome)
8:00–11 pm Dance party with dance instruction

Admission:
Singing or instrumental workshop $18, FAC members $15, students $12
Potluck supper no charge
Dance party $18, FAC members $15, students $12
Workshop and dance party $32, FAC members $26, students $20

For more information, facone.org/programs/program/klezmer.htm
Tel: 781-662-7475

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Known for his stirring performance on Broadway as Jean Valjean in LES MISERABLE and as a world famous Israeli cantor, Dudu Fisher brings an exciting and visually stunning show to Boston’s Symphony Hall (303 Mass. Avenue) on Sunday, November 1, at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $45-75 and can be purchased at www.bso.org or by calling 888.266.1200.

Based on his highly successful PBS special, IN CONCERT FROM ISRAEL, Fisher will take the audience on an inspired journey connecting his talent as a Broadway performer, cantor, and contemporary artist with music and stories that celebrate the beauty of Israel's landscape, culture and people.

Fisher has performed on the stages of Broadway, the West End in London, Israel, and throughout the world, including singing with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta, recording an album of show tunes with the London Symphony Orchestra, and performing for Britain's Royal family and Bill and Hillary Clinton. He is the only Broadway performer to receive a Broadway contract allowing him to observe the Jewish Sabbath by not performing on Friday evenings and Saturday matinees, a recognition of his talent and dedication to the role and a constant source of pride and accomplishment in his career.

Fisher'€™s Fall 2009 North American Tour is a celebration of the PBS television special that capitalizes on his incredible vocal and artistic range and features a repertoire that goes well beyond the television show. It tells the story of a cantor who finds success on the stages of Broadway, but who never forgets his home or the musical landscape of Israel. The tour concludes with shows in Toronto on November 5 and in Baltimore on November 7.

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Sixth Street Community Synagogue
presents
"And the Rabbi Wailed..."
Greg Wall's 50th Birthday Mega Concert
and
Installation as Rabbi
Greg Wall

Featuring Sixth Street Synagogue's very own NEW Rabbi Greg Wall performing with Later Prophets, The Unity Orchestra, Klezmerfest, members of Hasidic New Wave, Gary Lucas and Special Guests

DATE: October 31, 2009
TIME: 8:30pm
LOCATION: 325 E. 6th St. (between 1st and 2nd)
Admission: $18 at the door
(to benefit the Sixth Street Synagogue Center for the Arts)

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JEWS AND SUFIS: A Sacred Bridge

Location: Temple Beth Zion in Brookline
Date/Time: Thursday, October 29, 6:30pm
Price of admission: FREE

Since at least the 16th century, the maftirim repertoire--Hebrew devotional poetry set to Turkish makam music for use in the synagogue--demonstrates the deep relationships Ottoman Jews established with members of Muslim mystical brotherhoods. A panel of three scholars will speak on cultural, historical, religious and musical aspects of the topic, followed by dialogue with the audience. The program will conclude with a lively 40-minute recital featuring an ensemble of Jewish, Muslim and Christian vocalists and instrumentalists demonstrating examples of relevant musical repertoire.

Visit www.DunyaInc.org for more information

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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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The Center for Jewish History and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance

Present

The An-Sky Institute for Jewish Culture Series

Curated by Walter Zev Feldman, Ph.D. (New York University/Rubin
Academy of Music, Jerusalem)

October 26 at 7pm Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman: Celebrating a
Lifetime in Yiddish Song.

A conversation and performance featuring America’s leading Yiddish
poet and songwriter, who will be joined by her son Itzik Gottesman,
Associate Editor of the Yiddish Forward. In 2006, Beyle
Schaechter-Gottesman was awarded the prestigious N.E.A. National
Heritage Fellowship, our nation’s highest honor in the traditional
arts.

A reception will follow.

For all reservations and inquiries, please call SmartTix at
212-868-4444 or visit www.smarttix.com.

$15 general, $10 CJH and Center for Traditional Music and Dance Members

www.programs.cjh.org

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KlezmerShack favorites: Ribs & Brisket Revue
New England premiere!

Saturday, October 24, 2009 8pm
Sunday, October 25, 2009 2pm

Ribs & Brisket Revue has been serving up heaping helpings of '40s & '50s-style Jewish jazz, Yiddish swing, and various kosher-style blues to fans everywhere. Ribs & Brisket Revue both entertains and impresses: chicken soup for the weary, postmodern soul. The most fun you’ll have at a concert this year!

Tickets: $25 General; $23 JCC members and seniors

Related events

Ribs and brisket bake-off: Enter your favorite brisket recipe!

A panel of culinary judges, including Firefly’s chef, Steve Uliss and PBS Cookbook authors Sheila and Marilyn Brass, will select the best recipes. Winners will be announced at the Saturday evening show and a taste of the winning recipe will be served.

Winner receives

• Gift Certificate to Firefly Restaurant


• Free tickets to selected JCC events


• JCC gym bag


• Bragging rights!

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KlezmerShack favorites: Ribs & Brisket Revue
New England premiere!

Saturday, October 24, 2009 8pm
Sunday, October 25, 2009 2pm

Ribs & Brisket Revue has been serving up heaping helpings of '40s & '50s-style Jewish jazz, Yiddish swing, and various kosher-style blues to fans everywhere. Ribs & Brisket Revue both entertains and impresses: chicken soup for the weary, postmodern soul. The most fun you’ll have at a concert this year!

Tickets: $25 General; $23 JCC members and seniors

Related events

Ribs and brisket bake-off: Enter your favorite brisket recipe!

A panel of culinary judges, including Firefly’s chef, Steve Uliss and PBS Cookbook authors Sheila and Marilyn Brass, will select the best recipes. Winners will be announced at the Saturday evening show and a taste of the winning recipe will be served.

Winner receives

• Gift Certificate to Firefly Restaurant


• Free tickets to selected JCC events


• JCC gym bag


• Bragging rights!

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General sale $45/$35 | Irish Arts Center and Symphony Space members
$35/$30.

Tickets now on sale at: www.symphonyspace.com or call 212 868.5400

Directed and Hosted by Mick Moloney and featuring an all-star cast of
musicians including: Mick Moloney, Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, Liz
Hanley, String Quartet featuring Dana Lyn, Cantor Kerith Spencer-Shapiro,
Joyce Rosenzweig, John Roberts, Billy McComiskey, Susan McKeown, Niall
O'Leary, Donna Long, Jerry O'Sullivan, The Washington Square Harp and
Shamrock Orchestra and Special Guests.

Join renowned musician-folklorist Mick Moloney for If It Wasn't For the Irish
and the Jews, an all-star concert event celebrating the historic links between
the Irish and Jewish people and their contributions to an important chapter in
American musical history at the 760-seat Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at
Symphony Space.

www.irishartscenter.org

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di bostoner klezmer is happy to be playing a public performance this
coming Thursday on the North Fork of Long Island (not too far from
Queens)

When: Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 7:30 P.M.

Where: Long Island’s Port Washington Public Library

1 Library Dr

Port Washington, NY

516 883 4400

www.pwpl.org/

Cory Pesaturo, our newly crowned Accordion Champion of the World,
Brian Bender and Dena Ressler join forces again to present a varied
klezmer concert of trad and composed pieces (including Dena’s first!)
in this pleasant setting.

And it’s free! Hope to see you there if you’re in the area.

Dena Ressler

di bostoner klezmer www.yiddishmusic.com

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MW Klezmer Trio plays a special concert in Cambridge at the Western Front Club, Presented by the New England Conservatory of Music. celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the NEC Jazz Dept.

Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio:
Michael Winograd - clarinet
Carmen Staaf - accordion
Benjy Fox-Rosen - bass, vocal

also on the bill is Hankus Netsky, with his ensemble

Western Front Club is at 343 Western Ave, Cambridge
$10 for the evening, all proceeds go to the Conservatory

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New England Jewish Labor Committee presents
"AT HOME IN UTOPIA"

Film Screening and Discussion on the Economic Crises

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009

BROOKLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY

361 Washington Street, Brookline, MA
6:00 p.m. - Refreshments
6:30 p.m. - Film Screening

RAFFLE $50 MOVIE TICKETS

During the economic boom of the 1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish factory workers managed to build the house of their dreams, a cooperative apartment complex at the edge of Bronx Park. Then they were hit by the Great Depression. At Home in Utopia bears witness to an epic social experiment across two generations in the Coops - a place the local cops called "little Moscow" - where people tried to change the American dream into one that included racial justice and workers' rights.

The discussion after the screening will use the film, At Home in Utopia, to inspire an intergenerational conversation about collective action in the context of the current economic crisis. The Jewish workers in the Coops fought alongside others to win the social safety net that we're now at risk of losing. Where are our sources of collective identification today and what alliances do we need in order to fight for economic justice for all?

Sponsored by Boston Workmen's Circle, New England Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish Organizing Initiative, Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, and Moishe/Kavod House, with Filmmakers Collaborative; made possible by the Mass. Humanities and Puffin Foundation. At Home in Utopia is a co-production of Michal Goldman and ITVS in association with WGBH.

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There will be a memorial concert to honor the life of Judith Wachs, the founder and artistic director of Voice of the Turtle, who passed away in October 2008.
The Memorial Concert for Judith Wachs will be on:
Sunday, October 18 at 3:00 PM
Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square,
Somerville, MA
Admission is FREE; NO TICKETS NEEDED
The concert will feature Judy’s group, Voice of the Turtle, as well as Libana, the women's world music ensemble for which Judy served as a board member and occasional advisor. There will also be a short film about Judy's life and work with Voice of the Turtle.

Please spread the word and pass on this announcement to anyone you know who might be interested in attending. This memorial concert is free and open to the public.
Hoping you can join us to remember and celebrate the unique contributions that Judy made to music and to our lives.

voiceoftheturtle.com

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Don’t miss a beat. Grab your dancing shoes, and join us Friday, Saturday and Sunday – October 9-11!
Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands 2009
www.honkfest.org
Friday Neighborhood Honks!

October 9, 3pm
We’re taking to your street to start Honk this year! Join us Friday afternoon in Roxbury , Jamaica Plain, East Somerville, East Boston, and at Harvard Yard, and Boston Common. Details posted here – www.honkfest.org/schedule
(and thanks to the MBTA, watch for Honk! posters this week on the T, and listen for the bands starting around 2pm on Friday as they go underground on the red and orange lines!)

7 stages for 8 hours on Saturday
October 10
All in Davis Square! Opening Ceremony at 12noon in 7 Hills Park, Davis Square; then music all day beginning at 1pm at 7 Hills, Statue Park, Davis Square Plaza, Chester Street, VFW Dilboy Hall, Kenney Park, and 406 Highland Street. www.honkfest.org/schedule

Sunday down Mass Ave.
October 11
Anywhere you look from noon ‘till 2pm you’ll see (and hear!) Honkers in parade! Don’t forget to join us afterwards in Harvard Square as bands perform on the streets of Oktoberfest from 2-5pm.
Sunday night blow-out!
More tubas than you’ve ever seen in one place! Plus trumpets, sousaphones, saxophones, and radical cheerleaders!
The beautiful Somerville Theater is hosting the Sunday night blow-out all-band show. Four hours, four hundred musicians, and twenty-four tubas. Don’t miss it! Get your tix now. We guarantee these bands won’t stay on the stage -- there won’t be a bad seat in the house!
Somerville Theater
55 Davis Square
(right next to the T station)
Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm.
Get your tickets at the box office in person, by phone at 617-625-4088, or online.
www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/schedule/events.php

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Don’t miss a beat. Grab your dancing shoes, and join us Friday, Saturday and Sunday – October 9-11!
Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands 2009
www.honkfest.org
Friday Neighborhood Honks!

October 9, 3pm
We’re taking to your street to start Honk this year! Join us Friday afternoon in Roxbury , Jamaica Plain, East Somerville, East Boston, and at Harvard Yard, and Boston Common. Details posted here – www.honkfest.org/schedule
(and thanks to the MBTA, watch for Honk! posters this week on the T, and listen for the bands starting around 2pm on Friday as they go underground on the red and orange lines!)

7 stages for 8 hours on Saturday
October 10
All in Davis Square! Opening Ceremony at 12noon in 7 Hills Park, Davis Square; then music all day beginning at 1pm at 7 Hills, Statue Park, Davis Square Plaza, Chester Street, VFW Dilboy Hall, Kenney Park, and 406 Highland Street. www.honkfest.org/schedule

Sunday down Mass Ave.
October 11
Anywhere you look from noon ‘till 2pm you’ll see (and hear!) Honkers in parade! Don’t forget to join us afterwards in Harvard Square as bands perform on the streets of Oktoberfest from 2-5pm.
Sunday night blow-out!
More tubas than you’ve ever seen in one place! Plus trumpets, sousaphones, saxophones, and radical cheerleaders!
The beautiful Somerville Theater is hosting the Sunday night blow-out all-band show. Four hours, four hundred musicians, and twenty-four tubas. Don’t miss it! Get your tix now. We guarantee these bands won’t stay on the stage -- there won’t be a bad seat in the house!
Somerville Theater
55 Davis Square
(right next to the T station)
Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm.
Get your tickets at the box office in person, by phone at 617-625-4088, or online.
www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/schedule/events.php

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Don’t miss a beat. Grab your dancing shoes, and join us Friday, Saturday and Sunday – October 9-11!
Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands 2009
www.honkfest.org
Friday Neighborhood Honks!

October 9, 3pm
We’re taking to your street to start Honk this year! Join us Friday afternoon in Roxbury , Jamaica Plain, East Somerville, East Boston, and at Harvard Yard, and Boston Common. Details posted here – www.honkfest.org/schedule
(and thanks to the MBTA, watch for Honk! posters this week on the T, and listen for the bands starting around 2pm on Friday as they go underground on the red and orange lines!)

7 stages for 8 hours on Saturday
October 10
All in Davis Square! Opening Ceremony at 12noon in 7 Hills Park, Davis Square; then music all day beginning at 1pm at 7 Hills, Statue Park, Davis Square Plaza, Chester Street, VFW Dilboy Hall, Kenney Park, and 406 Highland Street. www.honkfest.org/schedule

Sunday down Mass Ave.
October 11
Anywhere you look from noon ‘till 2pm you’ll see (and hear!) Honkers in parade! Don’t forget to join us afterwards in Harvard Square as bands perform on the streets of Oktoberfest from 2-5pm.
Sunday night blow-out!
More tubas than you’ve ever seen in one place! Plus trumpets, sousaphones, saxophones, and radical cheerleaders!
The beautiful Somerville Theater is hosting the Sunday night blow-out all-band show. Four hours, four hundred musicians, and twenty-four tubas. Don’t miss it! Get your tix now. We guarantee these bands won’t stay on the stage -- there won’t be a bad seat in the house!
Somerville Theater
55 Davis Square
(right next to the T station)
Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm.
Get your tickets at the box office in person, by phone at 617-625-4088, or online.
www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/schedule/events.php

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Wacha Clan
"Diaspora Remix" tour

Sep 30 2009 8:00P
North Adams (MA)
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
www.mcla.edu

For more information: www.myspace.com/watchaclan
Also check out Keith Wolzinger's Klezmer Podcast interview

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FleytMuzik, with guest artist Michael Alpert, will perform on September 26, at 7:30pm for a free concert on the Mount Holyoke College Warbeke Series. Please try to come if you're within, say, 500 miles or so. We want to show these kinds of series that such concerts belong on them!

Pete Rushefsky, cimbalom, Jake Shulman-Ment, fiddle, Brian Glassman, bass, me on flutes, Michael Alpert vocals and poyk and dance-leading

Mount Holyoke College
McCullough Auditorium
South Hadley, MA

www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/about/directions.shtml for general directions.

Take a right from 116 northbound, or a left southbound, onto Morgan Street (flashing light into the campus), then your first left into the campus.
Building is on your right, but parking is across the street!
So, if not letting someone off, travel on Morgan and park on in the large parking lot on the right, walk across the street....

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The kids are in school and now It's time for the adults to have fun together!

We are happy to announce that after a long summer siesta Israeli Folk dancing @ Temple Shir Tikvah will resume on September 17th from 7:30-9:30 p.m.

• Repertoire includes original oldies to more modern dances.
• Bring your requests.
• No partner necessary. Friends are always welcome.
• Please wear soft soled shoes.
• Light refreshments.

Angela Schatz, the instructor, has more than thirty years of experience teaching Israeli Folk dance both in Israel and the U.S.

Starting September 17th Thursday
7:30-8:30 - Beginners
8:30-9:30 - Intermediate/Advanced

34 Vine Street, Winchester, MA
For directions: www.shir-tikvah.org

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Thursday, September 17, 2009, 7:30 pm

Between Jews and Sufis: Celebrating Peace in Fez
a lecture by Yuval Ron
An engaging talk with slides and live music on the recent Yuval Ron Ensemble tour to Morocco.

Last June The Yuval Ron Ensemble completed its first peace mission tour to a Muslim country—Morocco, bringing to tears both Muslim and Jewish audiences. Hear the story from musical director Yuval Ron who will share slides and music from the musical meetings with the tribal Sufi musicians and dancers of Morocco, and the search for the disappearing Jewish life in Todra, Marakech and Fez.

The Yuval Ron Ensemble became a media sensation at the Sacred Music Festival in Fez, Morocco. CNN, National Geographic, Mundomix.com and French TV Channel 5 all focused their stories about the Fez Festival on the Yuval Ron Ensemble. See the CNN special report.

Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90035-2657
one block west of Crescent Heights ample street parking
Suggested donation $10 Limited seating, please RSVP to 310-657-5511

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Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird

Sept 16 10:00 PM
The Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts
With David Symons & The Salt Wives

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Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird

9/15/09 - Langdon Street Cafe, Montpelier, VT

Daniel Kahn - vocal, accordion, plucked things
Michael Tuttle - bass
Michael WInograd - clarinet
Daniel Blacksberg - trombone
Hampus Melin - drum

w/special guests wherever we go!
www.langdonstreetcafe.com

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The Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture (www.vilnashul.org) and Boston Workmen's Circle Center for Jewish Culture and Social Justice are both historically significant and vibrantly active Jewish organizations in Boston with roots in the Yiddish language. On Tuesday, September 15, from 6:30pm - 8:00pm at the Vilna Shul in Beacon Hill, they will be teaming up to present "The Richness of Yiddish - Language, Literature and Lider"

Whether you're hearing Yiddish for the first time or you speak it often, this interactive workshop aims to increase your understanding of Yiddish through music, poetry, and film. Led by Debra Caplan, a young Yiddish scholar, singer, and lover of Yiddish theater, this workshop promises to be a dynamic learning experience and a great way to learn about other Yiddish programs in the Boston area. Tours of the historic Vilna Shul, Boston's last immigrant era synagogue, will be available.

The Vilna Shul is located at 18 Phillips Street in Beacon Hill, and is accessible by public transportation. Discounted parking is available for $10 at the Charles River Plaza parking garage. Pre-registration is requested

Suggested donation $5-$10. Snacks will be provided.

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As we do each year, we start the year with our September Workmen's Circle klezmer jam on Sunday, Sept. 13, 7-9 pm because the first Sunday, Sept. 6, is on Labor Day weekend when many people are away.

We play at the Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon Street in Brookline, about 5 blocks west of Washington Square, which is about 12 blocks west of Coolidge Corner, right on the Green Line Beacon Street route. Just tell the conductor, “Ich vel gayn in ArbeterRing.”

We play from printed music, which we will have available in C and B-flat. All levels of players are welcome. There is a piano, though keyboard players are urged to bring a portable keyboard.

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Yiddish Songs and Stories at Caffé Lena with Yosl Kurland
Sunday, September 13th at 3:00 pm
47 Phila Street, Saratoga Springs, NY
Tickets www.caffelena.org/calendar.htm#13a
1-800-838-3006
Information: 518-583-0022

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10th Annual Jewish Music & Cultural Event of Central New York
Sunday, September 13, 2009, 12Noon to 6 pm
Jewish Community Center of Syracuse
5565 Thompson Road, Syracuse, New York 13214
Free Admission
www.syracusejewishfestival.com
315-446-7810 or 315-682-8489
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This year's festival will celebrate its 10th Anniversary. The festival will have music from Susan Watts and Elaine Watts with the Fabulous Shpielkehs, Love & Knishes, West of Odessa and other groups featuring a variety of Jewish Music. There'll be va'ad ha'ir Kosher food, arts & crafts vendors, a Children's Activities Tent, Jewish community organizations and synagogues. This cultural community event is open to the general public with free admission.

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Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird

9/13/09 - National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst
Members Day!

Daniel Kahn - vocal, accordion, plucked things
Michael Tuttle - bass
Michael WInograd - clarinet
Daniel Blacksberg - trombone
Hampus Melin - drum

w/special guests wherever we go!
www.bikher.org

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Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird

9/12/09 - Colony Cafe, Woodstock, NY

Daniel Kahn - vocal, accordion, plucked things
Michael Tuttle - bass
Michael WInograd - clarinet
Daniel Blacksberg - trombone
Hampus Melin - drum

w/special guests wherever we go!
www.colonycafe.com

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Pharaoh's Daughter

Sunday, August 23, 2009
Valhalla, NY
Kensico Dam Plaza Bronx River Parkway
Westchester Yiddishfest
YIDDISH HERITAGE CELEBRATION
6:00pm
www.westchestergov.com/events_heritagefestivals.htm

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Pharaoh's Daughter

Hempstead, NY (Port Washington)
7:00p.m.
Yiddishfest with Mike Burstyn!
free!!!!
www.templechaverim.org for more information!

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Tum Balalaika

Another night of fun in Mundelein.
Thursday, August 20 @ 7 p.m.
at Dover Straits restaurant
890 E Rt.45
(For reservations 847-949-1550)
Free admission!

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From David Chevan—I've seen the band live and intend to be there if I can:

The Afro-Semitic Experience will be in Watertown this Tuesday evening for one of our all-too-rare Boston area concerts. We are going to be in Watertown at the Arsenal Center for the Arts to give a concert at 7:30 that evening. Here is some info about the Arsenal Center: Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, Massachusetts for more information please call 617-923-0100 or visit www.arsenalarts.org

We are going into the recording studio on Thursday and Friday of this week so we will be trying out some of those pieces at this concert. I hope that you can make it. We'd love to have a good turnout at this event.

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The largest free folk festival in the nation is happening once again this summer, from July 24-26, 2009 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Lowell Folk Festival has brought an international array of folk music, ethnic foods, craftspeople and artisans to New England every summer for more than 20 years! One of the featured bands at this year's festival is Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars.

For more information see the festival website at www.lowellfolkfestival.org

Fri 7/24, 6:40-10pm; Sat 7/25, 12-10pm; Sun 7/26, 12-6pm at the Lowell National Historical Park in downtown Lowell.
tel: 978-970-5000

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The largest free folk festival in the nation is happening once again this summer, from July 24-26, 2009 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Lowell Folk Festival has brought an international array of folk music, ethnic foods, craftspeople and artisans to New England every summer for more than 20 years! One of the featured bands at this year's festival is Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars.

For more information see the festival website at www.lowellfolkfestival.org

Fri 7/24, 6:40-10pm; Sat 7/25, 12-10pm; Sun 7/26, 12-6pm at the Lowell National Historical Park in downtown Lowell.
tel: 978-970-5000

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The largest free folk festival in the nation is happening once again this summer, from July 24-26, 2009 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Lowell Folk Festival has brought an international array of folk music, ethnic foods, craftspeople and artisans to New England every summer for more than 20 years! One of the featured bands at this year's festival is Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars.

For more information see the festival website at www.lowellfolkfestival.org

Fri 7/24, 6:40-10pm; Sat 7/25, 12-10pm; Sun 7/26, 12-6pm at the Lowell National Historical Park in downtown Lowell.
tel: 978-970-5000

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20th Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival
July 12-16, 2009
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY

Click to download: Festival Brochure (PDF)
Hotel Reservation Form (PDF)

For more information, contact (212) 870-3335
www.zamirfdn.org

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20th Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival
July 12-16, 2009
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY

Click to download: Festival Brochure (PDF)
Hotel Reservation Form (PDF)

For more information, contact (212) 870-3335
www.zamirfdn.org

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20th Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival
July 12-16, 2009
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY

Click to download: Festival Brochure (PDF)
Hotel Reservation Form (PDF)

For more information, contact (212) 870-3335
www.zamirfdn.org

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20th Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival
July 12-16, 2009
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY

Click to download: Festival Brochure (PDF)
Hotel Reservation Form (PDF)

For more information, contact (212) 870-3335
www.zamirfdn.org

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20th Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival
July 12-16, 2009
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY

• Celebrate the joys of Jewish music with hundreds of singers, and the finest conductors and clinicians from across North America (and beyond)


• Enjoy daily "community singing" and participate in an "instant choir"


• Hear outstanding ensembles in nightly evening concerts featuring the best in Jewish choral music


• Attend daily workshops focusing on a wide array of musical topics with outstanding clinicians


• Jewish Hallelujah Chorus Festival Tradition - Singing the "Jewish Hallelujah Chorus" (Lewandowski's Psalm 150)

Click to download: Festival Brochure (PDF)
Hotel Reservation Form (PDF)

For more information, contact (212) 870-3335
www.zamirfdn.org

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Shpilkes Klezmer Band
FREE CONCERT

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Time: 6:30 PM

Oakes Ames Hall
Ames Free Library
3 Barrows Street
North Easton, MA

Contact: 508-238-2000
www.amesfreelibrary.org

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Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm.

City Winery's brunch on May 31, 2009 features the Michael Wingrad "Hot 7" Klezmer Ensemble, woohoo!

Michael Winograd - clarinets
Judith Berkson - voices
Joey Weisenberg - mandolins
Patrick Farrell - accordions
Dan Blacksberg - trombones
Nick Cudahy - basses
Richie Barshay - drums

General Admission: $10 / Children Under 13 - Free
City Winery
155 Varick Street
New York, New York 10013
(212) 608-0555

For further info: www.citywinery.com

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The Israeli String Orchestra of Arad comes to Newton for one performance

In an unusual visit outside of Israel, the 13-member string orchestra of Arad arrives at Temple Reyim, Newton, for one concert, Wed. evening, June 17. 7:30 pm. Long considered by many to be one of the best in Israel, the orchestra is performing its first concert outside of Israel since 2006, when it toured Canada.

Consisting of young talented musicians, the orchestra plays classical and modern pieces, including pieces by Israeli composers. Some pieces feature vocals in Hebrew, Yiddish, or English. Much of its repertoire is played by the finest orchestras all over the world.

The orchestra comes from Arad, Israel, a small town that lies at the border of the Negev and Judean deserts, between Beersheva and the Dead Sea. The modern town sits near the site of Tel Arad, an ancient city of the same name. While visiting Newton, the orchestra will be hosted for two nights in the homes of Temple Reyim members.

The only performance by the orchestra in Newton will be Wed., June 17, at 7:30pm at Temple Reyim, 1860 Washington St. The cost is $10 for adults; free for students and children. Temple Reyim is handicapped accessible with plenty of free adjacent parking and easy access from the Woodlawn MBTA stop (Green line, D train). For more information contact the Temple Reyim office, 617-527-2410

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Yiddishe Cup

June 7
Kadimah School,
Hyatt Regency,
Buffalo, N.Y.
5:30 p.m.
www.kadimah.org

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A Saturday Night Post-Shavuot Special

Sing-Along -- Erev Zemer
of Hebrew & Yiddish Folksongs

To celebrate
the 61st Birthday of Israel,
Yom Yerushalayim & Shavuot

Led by Master Musician

SHLOMO SHAI

Followed by
A Marathon of
Classic Israeli Folk Dancing
to Songs of the Beautiful Land of Israel

Saturday May 30
9:30pm - ??

Contribution: $15

Bridge for DANCE
2726 Broadway at 104th St.

Information: 917-207-0093
Web: www.rikud.net

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Nussbaum - Smidl - Ougaard
Fredag d. 29. maj kl. 21:00
Café Blågårds Apotek, Blågårds Plads 2, 2200 N
(Entré kr. 20,-)

Lang tid er gået, siden trioen sidst gæstede det legendariske spillested på Blågårds Plads. Men nu skal det være!

Og det betyder, at "Kroteket" igen vil komme til at syde og koge af
klezmer, som vor mor lavede den, når der skulle sættes lidt ekstra fyr under kedlerne.

På basis af Mette Smidl´s virtuositet, kompetence og troværdighed kan Øyvind Ougaard tillade sig at tage chancer og pludselige ryk, mens Diva Channe Nussbaum kun kan betegnes som værende "udenfor kategori". Måske lyder det indviklet. Men det bliver bestemt ikke er kedeligt ... Et lille tip før kampen: Kom i god tid, hvis du vil have en siddeplads.

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Shirim

Klezmer at the Lilypad, with a special emphasis on the Romanian roots of klezmer- some great Romanian tunes will be thrown into the mix. Also, we will be the Shirim Klezmer Quartet this month—core members Glenn Dickson, Michael, Eric & Jim, who have been playing together for longer than we can remember will be holding the klezmer fort alone this time. It should be a lot of fun. Bring your kids, bring your grandmother! The last show was packed, there was kozatski dancing and a line dance that went out onto the sidewalks of Cambridge! A real party! Let’s do it again!

Here are the details:

May 24, 2:00pm at the Lilypad, 1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square, Cambridge, MA Suggested donation, $10, $7/kids.

This special performance will feature the four members who have been with the band the longest: Glenn Dickson, clarinet; Michael McLaughlin, accordion; Jim Gray, tuba; and Eric Rosenthal, drums. They have been playing together for over 15 years and have a rapport and tightness that only comes with such experience together.

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Introducing "Nigunim"—a Festival of New Improvised Jewish Music that will feature a series of quality low cost performances.

The festival performance dates are :
Saturday March 21st at 8pm - The Oren Neiman Quartet
Saturday April 18th at 8pm – Koby Hayon's Israeli Jazz Project
Saturday May 16th at 8pm – Pilpel : What is Israeli Music?

Festival Location Westchester Reform Temple 255 Mamaroneck Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583.

For full information about the performances, how to buy tickets, and any other festival information please visit our website www.nigunimfest.org

So come see some great live music, plus many other surprises. Get your tickets while they are still available as the venue does have limited seating...

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Sunday, May 10th - Concert
2:00 p.m. Cost: $10

New Old Klezmer with Amit Arieli (clarinet), Brian Bender
(trombone), Cory Pesaturo (accordion)

The National Yiddish Book Center
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building
1021 West Street
Amherst MA 01002

Tel: 413-256-4900

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The April Workmen's Circle klezmer jam is Sunday, Apr. 5, 7-9 pm at the Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon Street in Brookline, about 5 blocks west of Washington Square, which is about 12 blocks west of Coolidge Corner, right on the Green Line Beacon Street route. We play from printed music, which we will have available in C and B-flat. All levels of players are welcome. There is a piano, though keyboard players are urged to bring a portable keyboard.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8pm

Salomon Center (on the Main Green, accessible from Waterman and George streets)
22nd Annual Eric Adam Brudner '84 Memorial Concert

The Brown University Wind Symphony performs under the direction of Matthew McGarrell, conductor, and Aaron D. Jones '09, assistant conductor, featuring Margot Leverett, clarinetist.

Program to include:
Rossini - Prelude, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Band
Leverett/McGarrell - Klezmer Fantazi for Clarinet and Band
Free and open to the public.
To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh [401.863.3234] as far in advance of the event as possible.

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 6pm
Klezmer Workshop: Margot Leverett, clarinetist

Margot Leverett, clarinetist, will lead a Klezmer workshop. Please bring your instrument or, if you prefer, simply come to observe. Free and open to the public.

Grant Recital Hall (behind the Orwig Music Building on the corner of Hope St and Young Orchard Ave)
Grant Recital Hall is newly renovated and accessible. To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh [401.863.3234] as far in advance of the event as possible.

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Concert of Klezmer bands from Harvard (RecKlez), Brown (Yarmulkazi), and MIT (KlezMITron)
April 26th at 4 pm
Temple Israel of Sharon, 125 Pond Street, Sharon, MA
For more information,
tel: 781-784-3986
www.tisharon.org/CulturalArts

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Moments of Hope: Yiddish Folk and Theatre Music of the Holocaust

April 21, 2009 7:30p-8:30p
MIT campus, room 4-145
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
tel: 617-253-2982
Cambridge, MA
mit.edu/hillel

For a thousand years, the Jews of Europe poured out their deepest feelings and chronicled the events of their times through Yiddish folksong. In this program, we will explore how Jewish poets and musicians continued to tell their story through song, even as the almost incomprehensible events of the Holocaust period unfolded around them, A multi-instrumentalist, composer, and ethomusicologist and scholar, Hankus Netsky is chair of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory, Vice President for Education at the National Yiddish Book Center, and founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internationally renowned Yiddish music ensemble. He has composed extensively for film, theater, and television, and has collaborated extensively with such artists as Itzhak Perlman, Robin Williams, Joel Grey, and Theodore Bikel. Hankus has produced numerous CDs on the Rounder and Vanguard labels and co-produced two CD's with Itzhak Perlman on EMI.

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Holocaust Memorial Event. The Afro-Semitic Experience and Cantor Erik Contzius join the Southern Connecticut State University in Charles Garner Recital Hall on Tuesday, April 21 at 3:30 p.m. (the Charles Garner Recital is located in Engleman Hall, room 112-C, at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut) in an event to commemorate the Holocaust. Cantor Contzius will be singing memorial music and songs from the Holocaust accompanied by the Afro-Semitic Experience. There will also be readings by SCSU Faculty members. This event is sponsored by the SCSU Judaic Studies Program in conjunction with other SCSU organizations and is part of a week long series of activities to mark the Holocaust. For more info on this event please visit the Southern Connecticut State University web site, www.southernct.edu.

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THE "SHEKHTER-TEKHTER" ("The Schaechter Daughters") AND BINYUMEN
with their show: "Our Zeydas and Bubbas as Children"
a revue about kids, young and older, and their relationships with each other, with their parents, and with the world around them.

The songs are all in Yiddish.
**Translations are provided.**

BINYUMEN SCHAECHTER and the "Shekhter-tekhter" REYNA SCHAECHTER (age 13) and TEMMA-LEEBA SCHAECHTER (age 9)

Sunday, April 19th, 2009, 2:00 P.M.
Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester
1200 Edgewood Avenue, Rochester, New York,
performing the full hour-long show
contact: Phyllis Kasdin, 585-461-2000, ext. 239

The Shekhter-Tekhter on You-Tube: www.youtube.com/user/ShekhterTekhter

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Drama! Intrigue! Scandal! Yiddish! Take a trip back to the Lower East Side and come see the only Yiddish theater show in Boston!

Two performances only!
April 18, 8 PM
April 19, 2 PM

Leverett Old Library (11 Mill Street, Cambridge)
$8 general admission, $5 students and seniors
Tickets are available from the Harvard Box Office:
By phone: 617-496-2222
Online: ofa.fas.harvard.edu/tickets/details.cfm?EVENT_ID=40090
Or at the door.

Di Gantse Velt iz a Teater is a evening of scenes from six famous Yiddish plays, performed in the original Yiddish with English supertitles. From melodramatic domestic dramas to slapstick physical comedy; from turn-of-the-century Jewish brothel romance to the coming of the Messiah, experience all that the Yiddish stage has to offer.

Don't know Yiddish? Don't worry! ENGLISH SUBTITLES are provided throughout!

Directed by Debra Caplan
And Starring....
Janet Buchwald, Matt DaSilva, Meryl Federman, Vardit Haimi-Cohen, Cecelia Raker, Michaela Ross, Richard Samuels, Molly Singer, Nick Taft, Sarah Winawer-Wetzel, Julia Winn, Michael Yashinsky

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KlezFactor (America)

Saturday, April 18th, 10pm
Lilypad
1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

$10 cover

KlezFactor (America) will feature Mike Anklewicz and Jaro Dabrowski with some of the east-coast's top young jazz and klezmer musicians, including the Lovely and Talented Lilli Klotz of Philadelphia, the Lovely and Talented Carmen Staaf, currently based in New York, and the Lovely and Talented Matt Temkin, of Brooklyn.

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Osnat Netzer
Hebrew Songs

Jared Burrell, Trumpet
Tyson Stubelek, drums
Tal Gamlieli, bass
Osnat Netzer, voice and piano

Saturday April 18th, 8:00pm
Rutman's Violins
11 Westland Ave
Boston

Suggested donation $10

Note: this is not my "concert music" but my pop-folk-art-jazz-singer-songwriter songs. There will be a lot of improvising and ad libs.

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Introducing "Nigunim"—a Festival of New Improvised Jewish Music that will feature a series of quality low cost performances.

The festival performance dates are :
Saturday March 21st at 8pm - The Oren Neiman Quartet
Saturday April 18th at 8pm – Koby Hayon's Israeli Jazz Project
Saturday May 16th at 8pm – Pilpel : What is Israeli Music?

Festival Location Westchester Reform Temple 255 Mamaroneck Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583.

For full information about the performances, how to buy tickets, and any other festival information please visit our website www.nigunimfest.org

So come see some great live music, plus many other surprises. Get your tickets while they are still available as the venue does have limited seating...

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Richárd Bernard's OY!Stars in concert
University of California Santa Barbara
MultiCultural Center Theater
Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 8:00 PM
$5 students $15 general

tel: 805-893-8411
www.sa.ucsb.edu/mcc/

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Drama! Intrigue! Scandal! Yiddish! Take a trip back to the Lower East Side and come see the only Yiddish theater show in Boston!

Two performances only!
April 18, 8 PM
April 19, 2 PM

Leverett Old Library (11 Mill Street, Cambridge)
$8 general admission, $5 students and seniors
Tickets are available from the Harvard Box Office:
By phone: 617-496-2222
Online: ofa.fas.harvard.edu/tickets/details.cfm?EVENT_ID=40090
Or at the door.

Di Gantse Velt iz a Teater is a evening of scenes from six famous Yiddish plays, performed in the original Yiddish with English supertitles. From melodramatic domestic dramas to slapstick physical comedy; from turn-of-the-century Jewish brothel romance to the coming of the Messiah, experience all that the Yiddish stage has to offer.

Don't know Yiddish? Don't worry! ENGLISH SUBTITLES are provided throughout!

Directed by Debra Caplan
And Starring....
Janet Buchwald, Matt DaSilva, Meryl Federman, Vardit Haimi-Cohen, Cecelia Raker, Michaela Ross, Richard Samuels, Molly Singer, Nick Taft, Sarah Winawer-Wetzel, Julia Winn, Michael Yashinsky

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If you're up in the Boston area next week Perry and I do a workshop at Longy University, 1 Follen St. in Cambridge (free to the public) from 12:30PM to 2 PM on April 10, and a concert at Outpost 186, 186½ Hampshire St., also in Cambridge.
$8--10 donation.

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UVA Klezmer Ensemble
Come enjoy an evening of instrumental klezmer and hasidic music

McIntire Department of Music, UVA
Sunday, April 5, 2009
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Old Cabell Hall - The Lawn - University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Tel: 434 924 3984
$10 / $5 students / 5 ARTS$ call 434-924-3984

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Jake Shulman-Ment in Concert in Hastings-on-Hudson

Brooklyn-based violinist Jake Shulman-Ment is among the leaders of a new generation of Klezmer and Eastern European folk music performers. In his brand new project, he leads an all-star band presenting ecstatic, soulful original compositions and improvisations as well as old Jewish and Gypsy songs and melodies, inspired by his extensive travels in Romania and Hungary, always maintaining his deep roots in Jewish music. This concert is a special fundraising event which will benefit the current recording of his debut album, a project which integrates years of travel, research, and varied musical inspiration.

With:
Jake Shulman-Ment - violin, vocals
Ben Holmes - trumpet
Benjy Fox-Rosen - bass, vocals
Art Bailey - accordion
Pete Rushefsky - tsimbl

The concert will take place SUNDAY, APRIL 5 from 4pm-6pm at:

Comfort Lounge
583 Warburton Ave.
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706

Easily accessible from NYC by Metro-North to Hastings station, or by car.

Tickets are $20, all other donations are welcome
Advance copies of the CD will also be available for only $15!

Light snacks will be provided, cash bar will be open.

For more information, visit: www.myspace.com/jakeshulmanment

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Hankus Netsky Presents The Music of Morris Hollender

On Sunday, April 5th at 4PM Temple Beth Israel of Waltham will sponsor a concert featuring nigunim, klezmer tunes, cantorials, and Yiddish folk songs from the repertoire of Morris Hollender, the temple’s long-time baal t’file (lay cantor) and baal korey (Torah reader). The concert, organized by local musician, ethnomusicologist, and Temple member Hankus Netsky, will feature prominent local singers and the twenty-piece New England Conservatory Jewish Music Ensemble.

Originally from Carpato-Ruthenia, Morris Hollender’s father, uncle, and brothers were all renowned for their singing and their knowledge of nigunim (melodies) from local and legendary Hassidic rabbis and traditional cantors. A survivor of Auschwitz and a former resident of postwar Czechoslovakia, Mr. Hollender emigrated to America with his wife, Edith (also a survivor) in 1968. The April 5th concert is the result of Hankus Netsky’s ongoing work with the Mr. Hollender through the National Yiddish Book Center’s “Discovery Project,” an activist Jewish cultural recovery project that he directs. “It is extraordinary to have the opportunity to bring this precious Jewish musical legacy back to life, and to be able to pass these treasures on our students and to the general public,” says Netsky.

Temple Beth Israel is located at 25 Harvard St.
in Waltham, one block from Main St. on the 70 bus line. Tickets are $10 (a special $5 rate is available for Beth Israel members). The synagogue is fully handicapped accessible. For more information call 781 894 5146, or contact the temple at www.tbiwaltham.org. Group discounts are also available.

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Wholesale Klezmer Band

Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Heath Elementary School
18 Jacobs Road, Heath, Mass.
Join us for a delightful evening of music, dancing, and stories
Admission is FREE
Donations will benefit the Heath Strings Program
Information and directions 413-337-5307
www.heath.mtrsd.k12.ma.us

Presented by Heath Elementary Parent Teacher Partnership together with the Heath Strings Program. Our Clarinetist and Fiddler, David Tasgal, teaches stringed instruments at the Heath Elementary School. The school community is sponsoring this event to support the continuation of David's work in the Heath Strings Program.

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Balkan Beat Box w/The Sway Machinery

Paradise Rock Club
967 Commonwealth Ave.,
Boston, Massachusetts
$15 - 7PM Doors / 8PM Show / 18+

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Shirim returns to the Lily Pad in Cambridge on March 29, 2:00pm for another fun afternoon of great klezmer music! Last month we had a great crowd and the audience danced—including one dynamite kozatsky dancer! The Lily Pad is right across Cambridge St. from the S&S Deli, so you can grab a nosh before or after the show!

www.lily-pad.net

Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, masters of the klezmer universe, perform a fun and infectious concert of klezmer and beyond on Mar. 29, 2:00pm at the Lilypad, 1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square, Cambridge, MA . Suggested donation, $10, $7/kids. Bring the kids, bring your grandmother! Be ready to move. This is music for the soul.

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Klezmer Music and Dance, with Hankus Netsky, Dena Ressler, and Judy Bressler

Sunday March 29, 2009
1:00 - 2:30 pm
Springstep, 98 George P Hassett Drive, Medford MA

Pre-register: $6 Youth / $8 Adult + 50 cent fee
At the door: $8 Youth / $10 Adult

Part of a series: Spring Sundays Workshops for Families & Children

Get ready to dance at your great grandparents' wedding! Join Hankus Netsky, clarinetist Dena Ressler, and dance caller Judy Bressler and learn line, circle, and set dances from the "Old Country"! Join in the fun and learn dances such as the Freylakhs, Bulgar, Hora, and Sher!

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Boston Workmen's Circle.

tel: 781-395-0402
springstep.org

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Yale Klezmer Band & Yale Women's Slavic Chorus - 8:00 PM
Saturday, Mar. 28, 8:00 PM
Slifka Chapel
Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale
80 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Yale Klezmer Band will be in concert with the Yale Women's Slavic Chorus, featuring members of the undergraduate and New Haven communities performing Russian, Ukrainian and Croatian music.

Telephone: (203) 432-1134
Fax: (203) 432-8690
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Klezamir in concert
Sat., 3/28, 8 PM
Pioneer Art Center of Easthampton
www.pioneerarts.org

41 Union St
Easthampton, MA 01027
(413) 527-3700
$12 general admission, $10 for P.A.C.E. members

KLEZAMIR, New England's premier roots rockin' klezmer band, presents a rousing, danceable concert of thrilling new takes on old Yiddish favorites and Israeli dances, as well as original Klezmer barnburners. Multi-instrumentalists Jim Armenti, Jason Moses and Amy Rose on clarinet, flute, violin, guitar, mandolin, accordion, trombone and piano are backed up by Keith "Klezmer Drums of Passion" Levreault and "Downtown Joe" Blumenthal on the bass. We'll teach you some of the easy dances and some Yiddish, too!

Supported by a grant from the Harold Grinspoon Foundation

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The Jewish Theatre of New England at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center
Presents
THE THREE YIDDISH DIVAS

Saturday, March 21, 8pm Sunday, March 22 2pm

Theresa Tova (Jazz-Cabaret Diva), Joanne Borts (Theatre Diva) and Adrienne Cooper (Concert Stage Diva) blend their multilingual repertoire and phenomenal talents into a sophisticated, emotionally charged and stunningly powerful concert.

These outstanding stars of Yiddish cabaret pour passion and artistry into Yiddish jazz, cabaret and theatre songs—including an unforgettable repertoire of the Yiddish theatre greats who inspired modern Broadway.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009 Honoring women in Yiddish and Klezmer through history, song, and dance - for Women's History Month.

Student participation featured. Norwich Arts Council's Donald Oat Theater at 2:00pm. (Their website is currently under construction...) Sunday Heritage Afternoons, sponsored by the Norwich Cultural Arts and History Project.

Christina Crowder accordion, Fraidy Katz, vocals, Adrianne Greenbaum, flute and dance-leading, Rayhan Pasternak, violin

Donald L. Oat Theater
62 Broadway
Norwich, CT 06360

Directions
Exit 81 off 395 towards Norwich. Turn right at the end of the highway onto Washington street. Proceed on Washington Street through 4 lights. At the 5th light turn left onto Church Street. At the stop sign take a sharp right around the corner onto Broadway. Go through the light and 62 Broadway is on your immediate right, flanked by the two NAC Galleries. The theater is on the third floor. Handicap access is off Church Street, which is to the rear of the theater.

Come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please!!!!!!!!!!!
If it's a beautiful day, you can spend it with us!
If it's a rotten weather day, you can still come and spend it indoors with us!!!!!!

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Musica Sacra presents:
Give Ear To Thy People: Choral Music from the Jewish Tradition
Sat. March 21, 2009, 8:00 PM
First Church Congregational
11 Garden St.
Cambridge, MA
tickets: $10 - $40
free parking for all regularly priced tickets

Musica Sacra presents Jewish choral repertoire that juxtaposes the sacred and secular, the ancient and contemporary, the traditional and innovative. The concert will feature Paths of Stone and Water, a world premiere written for Musica Sacra by Osnat Netzer, Israeli composer and pianist. The concert also includes Aaron Copland's In the Beginning, which sets the Genesis creation story, music by Noam Elkies, Yiddish choral music from the early 20th century, and other selections from the Jewish diaspora.

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Introducing "Nigunim"—a Festival of New Improvised Jewish Music that will feature a series of quality low cost performances.

The festival performance dates are :
Saturday March 21st at 8pm - The Oren Neiman Quartet
Saturday April 18th at 8pm – Koby Hayon's Israeli Jazz Project
Saturday May 16th at 8pm – Pilpel : What is Israeli Music?

Festival Location Westchester Reform Temple 255 Mamaroneck Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583.

For full information about the performances, how to buy tickets, and any other festival information please visit our website www.nigunimfest.org

So come see some great live music, plus many other surprises. Get your tickets while they are still available as the venue does have limited seating...

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The Jewish Theatre of New England at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center
Presents
THE THREE YIDDISH DIVAS

Saturday, March 21, 8pm Sunday, March 22 2pm

Theresa Tova (Jazz-Cabaret Diva), Joanne Borts (Theatre Diva) and Adrienne Cooper (Concert Stage Diva) blend their multilingual repertoire and phenomenal talents into a sophisticated, emotionally charged and stunningly powerful concert.

These outstanding stars of Yiddish cabaret pour passion and artistry into Yiddish jazz, cabaret and theatre songs—including an unforgettable repertoire of the Yiddish theatre greats who inspired modern Broadway.

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Wholesale Klezmer Band

Saturday Evening, March 21at 7 pm
Concert and 100th Anniversary Celebration
at Temple Bnai Israel
345 Jackson Street
Willimantic, Connecticut
Phone: 860-423-3743

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"dazzling violin phenom" (Boston Globe) MIMI RABSON (former violinist with the Klezmer Conservatory Band) premieres a bold new collection of newly commissioned solo repertoire for 21st century violin in four Boston-area concerts, Feb. 16 - March 14th.

The Berklee College of Music composers commissioned by Rabson, who is Jewish, include jazz great Joanne Brackeen, Latin vibraphonist Victor Mendoza, interactive composer Neil Leonard, turntable guru Stephen Webber, jazz/funk bassist Winston Maccow, and guitar luminary Norm Zocher. The works draw from jazz, funk, rock, Latin, hip-hop and contemporary classical music, and utilize improvisation, effects pedals, new performance techniques, and interactive computer performance.

Saturday, March 14
South Shore Conservatory
1 Conservatory Drive
Hingham, MA
5 - 6 p.m.
Free to SSC students; non-SSC students: $10.
(781) 749-7565
Part of Conservatory's First ever String Workshop Day, SSC.

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Two Choruses, One Voice
Newton Choral Society and Zamir Chorale of Boston
DATE: Sunday, March 8, 2009
TIME: 3:00 pm
LOCATION: Sanders Theatre, Cambridge
TICKETS: $36 (preferred seating) and $18
Tickets will go on sale at the end of January, www.zamir.org

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Two Choruses, One Voice
Newton Choral Society and
Zamir Chorale of Boston

Leonard Bernstein Chichester Psalms; Mordecai Seter Festivals
Eric Whitacre Five Hebrew Love Songs; Randall Thompson The Peaceable Kingdom

DATE: Sunday, March 8, 2009
TIME: 3:00 pm
LOCATION: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
TICKETS: $36 (preferred seating) and $18
www.zamir.org

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Friday March 6th 10-12
Axis:tropes at the Lilypad
1353 Cambridge St. in Inman Sq., Cambridge
A new, "new music" group on the block will be featuring a piece for 12 hands and one piano, but even more importantly, a premier of a piece written for violin, accordion and piano by John McDonald and guess who gets to play the accordion part!!!

Featuring: Phil Acimovic, Elliot Cless, Jason Coleman, Peter D'Elia, Claire Maiers, Michael McLaughlin.

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In Providence at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House,

Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh play Klezmer & Hassidic Music

5 Saturday Evenings 8 – 10 PM $9
Oct. 25, Nov. 29, Dec. 20, Jan. 31 & Feb. 28

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 first right 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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Simply Tsfat

Thursday February 26th @6:30pm
Holyoke, MA
The Canal Gallery at Holyoke
380 Dwight street
www.thecanalgallery.com
sponsors: The HGF and The Israel Desk
contact Tali Edry
413-736-6419 or 413-231-4689

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"dazzling violin phenom" (Boston Globe) MIMI RABSON (former violinist with the Klezmer Conservatory Band) premieres a bold new collection of newly commissioned solo repertoire for 21st century violin in four Boston-area concerts, Feb. 16 - March 14th.

The Berklee College of Music composers commissioned by Rabson, who is Jewish, include jazz great Joanne Brackeen, Latin vibraphonist Victor Mendoza, interactive composer Neil Leonard, turntable guru Stephen Webber, jazz/funk bassist Winston Maccow, and guitar luminary Norm Zocher. The works draw from jazz, funk, rock, Latin, hip-hop and contemporary classical music, and utilize improvisation, effects pedals, new performance techniques, and interactive computer performance.

Monday, Feb. 23
The Boston Conservatory
8 The Fenway
Boston, MA
7 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
(617) 536-6340
www.bostonconservatory.edu

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Sunday, February 22, 2009
6:00pm - 11:00pm
The lilypad
1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square,
Cambridge, MA

Michael McLaughlin's Fine Foreign Film will be playing as part of Gillypad from 7-8. The evening starts with Gil Aharon on piano and Nat Mugavero on drums. Then we're on, followed by Gil Aharon trio.

Fine Foreign Film plays the music from the classic Italian films of the 50s to present. Not your average rep band, we take the great works of Piero Piccioni, Benedetto Ghighlia, Carlo Rustichelli and more, and use it as a launching pad for a great evening of high energy improvised music.

This concert we will include the bluesy, seductive works of Alex North's score to "A Streetcar Named Desire."

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Shpilkes Klezmer Band

February 21, 2009 at 8:00 PM

The UnCommon Coffeehouse
First Parish Framingham
24 Vernon Street
Framingham, MA
www.uncommoncoffeehouse.org

Tickets are $7 at the door

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World Music Benefit Concert
with
Casco Bay Tummlers klezmer band quartet
Branach – featuring celtic flutist Nicole Rabata
Rwandan music group – Jesus First Ministry

Friday, February 20 – 7:30 pm
Trinity Episcopal Church, 520 Forest Ave., Portland, ME

Benefit for: The Kayenet Children’s Home in Kenya

Admission: $10, children under 12 - $5, families of four or more - $25
For more info or advance tickets: 207-767-4057

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Thurs Feb 19th 10pm-1AM
Klezwoods plays the Beehive
541 Tremont St, Boston (617)423-0069
Part of the Boston Center for the Arts

Fine dining, drinking and klezmer music will be at hand at Boston's newest performance venue The Beehive in the South End.
Michael McLaughlin will be joined by some or all of the following (the rhythm section is the question mark): Joe Kessler on violin; Alec Spiegelman on reeds; Sam Dechenne on trumpet; Tev Stevig on guitar; Greg Loughman on bass and Jeremy Gustin on drums.

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"dazzling violin phenom" (Boston Globe) MIMI RABSON (former violinist with the Klezmer Conservatory Band) premieres a bold new collection of newly commissioned solo repertoire for 21st century violin in four Boston-area concerts, Feb. 16 - March 14th.

The Berklee College of Music composers commissioned by Rabson, who is Jewish, include jazz great Joanne Brackeen, Latin vibraphonist Victor Mendoza, interactive composer Neil Leonard, turntable guru Stephen Webber, jazz/funk bassist Winston Maccow, and guitar luminary Norm Zocher. The works draw from jazz, funk, rock, Latin, hip-hop and contemporary classical music, and utilize improvisation, effects pedals, new performance techniques, and interactive computer performance.

Thursday, Feb. 19
Berklee College of Music David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston Street in the Uchida Building
Boston, MA
7:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
(617) 266-1499
www.berklee.edu

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Simply Tsfat

Wednesday February 18th
Syracuse, NY
4313 East Genesee Street
sponsored by:
Shaarei Torah Orthodox Congregation of Syracuse
contact: 315-446-6194

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Simply Tsfat

Tuesday February 17th @8pm
Binghamton University, NY
Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life
420 Murray Hill Rd, Vestal NY
www.chabadofbinghamton.com
contact: Rabbi Aaron Slonim
(607) 797-0015

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Monday, February 16, 2009 at 7:30pm
Slifka Cennter and the Council on Middle Eastern and North African Studies presents:
"Muslim, Jewish and Christian Harmony in The Golden Age of Spain"
a lecture/demonstration with Yuval Ron Ensemble with dancer Maya Karasso

Slifka Center
FREE
More information: Nathaniel DeLuca (203) 231-1617
www.yale.edu/chaplain/yuvalronensemble.html

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Monday, February 16, 2009 at 3:30pm

Yale Divinity School presents: "Music as a Catalyst for Sacred Prayer and Ecstasy"

a workshop with Yuval Ron Ensemble
with Whirling Dervish Aziz and dancer Maya Karasso

Yale Divinity School
FREE
More information: Nathaniel DeLuca (203) 231-1617
www.yale.edu/chaplain/yuvalronensemble.html

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"dazzling violin phenom" (Boston Globe) MIMI RABSON (former violinist with the Klezmer Conservatory Band) premieres a bold new collection of newly commissioned solo repertoire for 21st century violin in four Boston-area concerts, Feb. 16 - March 14th.

The Berklee College of Music composers commissioned by Rabson, who is Jewish, include jazz great Joanne Brackeen, Latin vibraphonist Victor Mendoza, interactive composer Neil Leonard, turntable guru Stephen Webber, jazz/funk bassist Winston Maccow, and guitar luminary Norm Zocher. The works draw from jazz, funk, rock, Latin, hip-hop and contemporary classical music, and utilize improvisation, effects pedals, new performance techniques, and interactive computer performance.

Monday, Feb. 16
Longy School of Music Jewett Hall of First Church
Cambridge, MA
10 a.m. President's Day.
Free and open to the public.
617-876-0956
www.longy.edu

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Simply Tsfat

Sunday February 15th @7pm
Teaneck, NJ
Mexicalli Blues
1409 Queen Anne Road
mexicalilive.com/directions.html
contact: 201-833-0011

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Yale University, CT
Sunday, February 15, 2009, 5pm

The Yale University Chaplain’s Office Presents
The Yuval Ron Ensemble in Concert: "Mystical Music of the Middle East"

Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
Yale University,
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
FREE
More information: Nathaniel DeLuca (203) 231-1617
www.yale.edu/chaplain/yuvalronensemble.html

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Shirim

Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, 2:00pm
The Lilypad,
1353 Cambridge St.,
Inman Square, Cambridge, MA

Wash away your midwinter blues with some klezmer music, this Sunday afternoon, Feb. 8, 2:00-4:00pm at the Lilypad, 1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square, Cambridge, MA . Suggested donation, $10, $7/kids. Bring the kids, bring your mother! Be ready to move. This is music for the soul. Come see us, you won’t regret it in this intimate venue. This performance will be more music, less talk, with a few non-klezmer gems thrown in for good measure.

The band will feature: me on clarinet; Gary Bohan, trumpet; Michael Mclaughlin, accordion & piano; Dan Fox, trombone; Jim Gray on tuba; Eric Rosenthal on drums!

The Lilypad is not big, so get there a little early to make sure you get in (and parked).

See you soon!

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ANOTHER REALM FEATURING HANKUS NETSKY AND LINDA CHASE
Wednesday eve, Feb. 4, 9:30pm - midnight
THE FIREPLACE RESTAURANT
1634 beacon street
brookline, massachusetts 02446
Tel: 617.975.1900

It's a great restaurant (if you've never been there), but be sure to make a reservation if you plan to have dinner...

Another Realm, a World Music/Improvisation ensemble based in the Boston area, consists of four of the area’s most adventurous and creative musicians, flutist Linda Chase, pianist and reed player Hankus Netsky, bassist Chris Rathbun, and percussionist Tupac Mantilla. Together they explore a repertoire that includes pieces inspired by South American, Eastern European, Asian, and Jewish traditions, jazz standards, music of romantic and impressionst European composers, poetry-based improvisations, and original compositions.

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The February Workmen's Circle klezmer jam is Sunday, Feb. 1, 7-9 pm at the Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon Street in Brookline, about 5 blocks west of Washington Square, which is about 12 blocks west of Coolidge Corner, right on the Green Line Beacon Street route. We play from printed music, which we will have available in C and B-flat. All levels of players are welcome. There is a piano, though keyboard players are urged to bring a portable keyboard.

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3rd Annual A Cappella Fest

A night of great music to benefit Boston inner-city at-risk youth, and victims of terror in Mumbai and Israel.

SATURDAY, January 31, at 8:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)
Congregation Kehillath Israel (KI), 384 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA

The event will feature top A Cappella groups from Boston University, Boston College, Brandeis, Harvard, Tufts, and Yale, plus Gann Academy, Noble and Greenough School, Temple Emanuel, plus a South Indian group, Blue Hill Club of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston, Joyful Voices of Inspiration Gospel group, and more to be announced.

This is a rare opportunity to enjoy  a dozen Jewish and other a cappella groups from many great institutions. And all money raised will go to charity.

Purchase tickets ($20) online at www.cjp.org/ki or call 617-277-9155.

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In Providence at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House,

Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh play Klezmer & Hassidic Music

5 Saturday Evenings 8 – 10 PM $9
Oct. 25, Nov. 29, Dec. 20, Jan. 31 & Feb. 28

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 first right 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 Afro-Semitic Experience

Thursday Jan 29 master class w. 12:30-2
URI nighttime concert with the entire band, 7:00pm

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The Afro-Semitic Experience

Wed Jan 28 University of Rhode Island lecture workshop with Baba, Warren and
me

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Megitza Quartet
Sunday January 25 8pm, $10 donation
119 Gallery
119 Chelmsford St, Lowell

www.119gallery.org

Malgorzata Babiarz - vocals,
Andreas Kapsalis - guitar,
Marek Lichota - accordian
James Gallagher - drums

Megitza Quartet, based out of Chicago, performs energetic renditions of Roma and Eastern European folk music. Beautiful melodies and rhythmic variations on their debut album “Boleritza,” turn the listening experience into a fascinating journey.

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Si Kahn
Saturday, Jan 23
Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon St. Brookline

Celebrating the release of his 16th CD, Courage, and his retirement after 30 years as director of Grassroots Leadership.

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The Coolidge Corner Theatre presents THEREMIN: AN ELECTRONIC ODYSSEY, the 1994 documentary about the unusual electronic instrument and the strange life of its inventor and namesake, Leon Theremin, on Monday, Jan. 19 at 7:00 p.m. Before the film, MIT Professor of Music and Media Tod Machover will discuss his pioneering work as a composer and inventor of new technologies for music. This program will also feature Q&A with Machover after the movie and a short performance by orchestral thereminist Dalit Hadass Warshaw.

Admission: $9.75 general public; $7.75 for students and Museum of Science members; free for Coolidge members.
available in advance at the Coolidge box office, located at 290 Harvard Street in Brookline, or online at www.coolidge.org/showtimes
tel: 617/734-2500

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The Afro-Semitic Experience

Sunday, January 18, 11am
University Presbyterian Church
Buffalo NY

The Afro-Semitic Experience share their music at an MLK service at University Presbyterian Church in Buffalo NY.

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The Afro-Semitic Experience

Saturday, January 17, 7:30pm
Canisius College Montante Center
Buffalo, NY

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A JEW AMONG THE INDIANS
for orchestra and narrator
based on COKBOY by Jerome Rothenberg

Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Gil Rose - conductor Matti Kovler - narrator

Jordan Hall, Boston January 17th 2009 08:00 PM

details: www.bmop.org/season/concert_detail.aspx?cid=91

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The Afro-Semitic Experience

Friday, January 16, 7:30pm
Service commemorating birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr
Temple Beth Zion
Buffalo, NY

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Klezphonics

Monday January 12th 7:00 PM at the Warwick Public Library
600 Sandy Lane
Warwick, Rhode Island 02889
Call 401 739 5440 for more details
FREE

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The Shondes
Jan 11 2009, 8:00P
The Milky Way
401 Centre St
Boston, MA 02130
(617) 524-3740

9:00pm Doors
Cost: $5

www.myspace.com/theshondes

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Klezphonics

Sunday January 11th 2:00 PM at the Barrington Public Library
201 County Road
Barrington, Rhode Island 02806
Call 401 247 1920 for more details
FREE

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World Premiere of Lera Auerbach's "Prayer" for solo Bass Clarinet
Sunday, January 11, 2009
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Henry Street Settlement
466 Grand Street
New York, NY

Tel: 212 598 0400

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On Sunday Jan. 11, 2009 at 1:30pm, Friends of Scranton Library invite you to
kick off the new year with an energetic musical program by The
Horowitz-Segelstein Duo at Scranton Library, 801 Post Rd., in Madison, CT. Cookie
Segelstein and Josh Horowitz, both accomplished and celebrated local
musicians, carry on the ancient tradition of klezmer in an unbound,
energetic village style playing Jewish instrumental music of historical
Eastern Europe. These two musicians represent a new generation of players of
Klezmer music which reaches back at least 125 years in time to Eastern
European Jews and traditional folk music using familiar and possibly
unfamiliar instruments—the tsimbl, a 19th century Button Accordion and a
violin. Program is free and open to the public of all ages. Light
refreshments will be served. Handicapped accessible. For directions to
Scranton Library or to RSVP, please call (203) 245-7365.

www.scrantonlibrary.org/

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The January Workmen's Circle klezmer jam is Sunday, Jan. 4, 7-9 pm at the Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon Street in Brookline, about 5 blocks west of Washington Square, which is about 12 blocks west of Coolidge Corner, right on the Green Line Beacon Street route. We play from printed music, which we will have available in C and B-flat. All levels of players are welcome. There is a piano, though keyboard players are urged to bring a portable keyboard.

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Birthright Israel NEXT & JDUB Records present: Hanukkah Worldwide in Boston
featuring DJ Joro Boro & Golem & The Wailing Wall

Saturday, Dec 27, 2008 8:30 PM @ TT the Bear's
Doors 8 pm / Show 9 pm
$8 advance / $10 day of show

tickets here
   

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December 25, 2008

2pm: A Freylekhe Family Khanike! with Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz, National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst Massachusetts.

A great event for the entire family! For tickets and information, contact 413-256-4900.

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David Chevan
This Thursday I will be hosting the annual Family and Community Concert at
Mishkan Israel in Hamden, Connecticut. If you have nothing to do that
afternoon (it starts at 5:00) or need a break from whatever you and your
family are up, please join us. There will be some new singers and some old
friends. It is always a lot of fun, plus there are tasty treats to eat. If
you come, please bring a non-perishable item for the food pantry.

Here's the info in great detail (just the way I send it to the press!!)
Thursday, December 25, Annual Family and Community Concert of Jewish Music
at 5: 00 p.m., featuring Cantor Arthur Giglio, Isaiah Cooper, Richard Gans,
Stacy Phillips, and the Greater New Haven Kapelye led by David Chevan,
Congregation Mishkan Israel, 785 Ridge Road, Hamden, CT. There is a small
admission charge and please bring a non-perishable food donation for the
food pantry. For further information, call (203) 288-3877

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Prozdor Hosts Community Klezmer Night

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Hebrew College
Berenson Hall

Free and open to the public

Celebrate the second night of Hanukah with the Prozdor Klezmer Band—an evening of music in conjunction with the Leventhal-Sidman JCC Klezmer Band and the Newton Kids Klezmer Band. The three bands will perform lively and celebratory music after a candle-lighting. More...

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Casco Bay Tummlers
Monday, Dec. 22
Henry and Marty's Restaurant,
Brunswick, ME

Chanukah dinner with music by the tummlers. Call 721-9141 for times and reservations.

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Klezwoods present Santa Klez
Monday, Dec 22, 9pm
Atwoods Tavern
877 Cambridge st. between Inman and Lechemere.
Cambridge, MA
www.atwoodstavern.com

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Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
December 21 @8pm
Cyber Cafe West
176 Main st.
Binghamton, NY
607-723-2456
$15

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Casco Bay Tummlers
Sunday, Dec. 21, 5pm
Temple Etz Chaim
Bacon Street, Biddeford, ME

Looking for a good klezmer dance party? Look no further. This annual dinner and dance party is always a favorite.

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In Providence at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House,

Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh play Klezmer & Hassidic Music

5 Saturday Evenings 8 – 10 PM $9
Oct. 25, Nov. 29, Dec. 20, Jan. 31 & Feb. 28

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 first right 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 Art of Jewish Music, à la Russe
A Centennial Celebration of the Society for Jewish Folk Music

Klára Móricz

Thursday, December 18, 2008
7:30 p.m., Berenson Hall
Hebrew College, 160 Herrick Rd., Newton, MA

$15 general admission; $10 students
Advanced registration required; seating is limited

Reserve Now

Questions? 617-559-8733

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December 14, 1pm:

Yale Strom, Elizabeth Schwartz and Ismail Butera in concert at the Hudson River Museum 511 Warburton Avenue in Yonkers.

For information, call 917 963-4550.
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The December Workmen's Circle klezmer jam is Sunday, Dec. 14 (the second Sunday for this month) , 7-9 pm at the Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon Street in Brookline, about 5 blocks west of Washington Square, which is about 12 blocks west of Coolidge Corner, right on the Green Line Beacon Street route. We play from printed music, which we will have available in C and B-flat. All levels of players are welcome. There is a piano, though keyboard players are urged to bring a portable keyboard.

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The Klezmatics
A Happy Joyous Hanukkah: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie

12/7/2008,
Colonial Theatre
Pittsfield, MA
(413) 997-4444
www.klezkanada.com

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STAND UP, SING OUT!

A double anniversary concert celebrating 10 years with

A Besere Velt (A Better World)
Yiddish Community Chorus of the Workmen's Circle

and 20 years with

The Klezmatics
2006 Grammy Award winner for their innovative
recording of long lost Woody Guthrie songs

Somerville Theatre
55 Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144

For further info:
Please contact the Boston Workmen’s Circle office at 617-566-6281
www.workmenscircleboston.org

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In Providence at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House,

Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh play Klezmer & Hassidic Music

5 Saturday Evenings 8 – 10 PM $9
Oct. 25, Nov. 29, Dec. 20, Jan. 31 & Feb. 28

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 first right 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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BOSTON AND JERUSALEM
DATE & TIME: Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: The Fenway Center at Northeastern University (corner St. Stephen and Gainsborough Streets)
(click here for directions)
COST: NU Students with ID free; Adults: $20. To buy tickets: www.gonu.com/tickets/

Northeastern University will present the only Boston appearance by the renowned Jerusalem Academy Chamber Choir, under the direction of Prof. Stanley Sperber. The Academy Choir, now in its 40th season, is considered one of Israel's finest vocal ensembles, performing frequently with the Israel Philharmonic and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. This will be the first concert on the choir's American tour.

Also on the program will be the Northeastern University Chamber Chorus and the Zamir Chorale of Boston, conducted by Prof. Joshua Jacobson. The program includes Daniel Pinkham's Wedding Cantata, Yehezkel Braun's Song of Songs, and other works by American and Israeli composers.

In a grand finale the three choirs will join forces, over one hundred voices strong.

For more information, call (617) 373-2671.

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In Providence at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House,

Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh play Klezmer & Hassidic Music

5 Saturday Evenings 8 – 10 PM $9
Oct. 25, Nov. 29, Dec. 20, Jan. 31 & Feb. 28

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 first right 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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Sunday 10/19 @ Lily Pad in Cambridge, MA

the return of the WInograd/Staaf Duo

MW - clarinet
Carmen Staaf - piano
10pm

please come!!!

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The All Newton Music School, 321 Chestnut Street
West Newton, Massachusetts, is proud to present
Hankus Netsky & Another Realm
Sunday, October 19 at 4:00pm.

A reception will follow.

Perhaps best known for fronting the Klezmer Conservatory Band - the internationally renowned Yiddish music ensemble – Netsky showcases his musical diversity with his latest band Another Realm as part of our 2008-2009 Wolf Concert Series.

Tickets for this family event are $25.
Seniors and ANMS adult students $15.
Registered ANMS students 18 and under are admitted free with a paying adult.

Seating is limited so order your tickets now by calling 617.527.4553 x101.

Click here for complete Wolf Concert Series information cts.vresp.com/c/?AllNewtonMusicSchool/e8a4baa3ec/TEST/27dc92bd78

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Saturday Oct 18th 9-12
Mini Klezwoods
w/Joe Kessler, Michael McLaughlin, and Kendall Eddy
Klez, Balkan and whatever else fits our fancy
Sabur Restaurant - great Balkan food!
212 Holland St., Teele Square Somerville
www.myspace.com/klezwoods1

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Casco Bay Tummlers
Saturday, October 18, 7 p.m.,
Center Theater, 20 East Main St in downtown Dover-Foxcroft
Contact Person: Russ Page 207-564-8943
Chamber of Commerce phone: 564-7533

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Fine Foreign Film is back!!!!
Friday October 17th, 8PM
Church of the Advent, Beacon Hill, Boston
entrance on Mt. Vernon St., near Brimmer
Charles St. (red line) Arlington St. (green line)
617 623 6739

Rick, Andrew, Andy, Eric and I come together after nearly a year to play some pieces from the immortal score (well we want to help make it immortal,) A Streetcar Named Desire, by the great Alex North. We'll also pull out some of our favs from the Italian Film world, including the all to addictive "Autoradio," and transgendered "La Princessa", (okay now I'm getting silly, you'll have to see the movie to get that one.)

We will be sharing the evening with the modern music virtuosos The LaCrosse Trio.

Visit us at:
www.myspace.com/fineforeignfilm

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Sanda Weigl, Romanian Gypsy Jazz Singer and her Trio/Gypsy In A Tree
Potent Contemporary interpretations of Gypsy music.

SANDA WEIGL, Vocals
Shoko Nagai - Piano, Accordion, Arrangements
Stomu Takeishi - Bass
Satoshi Takeishi - Percussion

Oct 14, 8:00pm
MIT, Cambridge MA, WONG AUDITORIUM, MIT Tang Center
70 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139

Admission: $15.00 at door
artscal.mit.edu

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Pharaoh's Daughter stripped down, with Chana Rothman opening

Sunday, October 12th 8p.m. $18

A fall show on Sunday night at the lovely, intimate, great food venue:
Club Helsinki in Great Barrington.

CLUB HELSINKI
20 Railroad Street
Great Barrington, MA

So those, with summer/fall homes in tanglewood, Great Barrington, Connecticut, or enroute to sukkahfest, or in MA for Columbus day wekeend, or who just want to take a 3 hours drive to see the leaves change, would love to see you!

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Hello friends,

With great excitement, I wish to invite you to the first concert of my new original songs.

The songs are all set to texts by Israeli poet Leah Goldberg. They are written in styles ranging from jazz and Israeli light music, to art-song, bossa nova and klezmer.

With me will be performing Tal Gamlieli on double-bass, Jared Burrell on trumpet and Tyson Stubelek on drums.

For those of you who need a sample of what we're playing, you're welcome to visit my myspace page at www.myspace.com/osnatnetzer

The concert will take place on October 5th, 7:00pm at the Lily Pad, Inman square, 1353 Cambridge st., Cambridge MA.

Suggested donation is $10.

Under the same cover, you can listen to an amazing jazz trio right after us, at 8:30. The trio includes Tal Gamlieli on double-bass, Michel Reis on piano and Mike Gleichman on drums. They will play original music by Michel Reis and Tal Gamlieli. Their style is jazz, influenced by classical music, with rhythms from South America and the Middle East. don't miss it!

Please join us, and invite all of your friends as well.

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The October Workmen's Circle klezmer jam is Sunday, Oct. 5 , 7-9 pm at the Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon Street in Brookline, about 5 blocks west of Washington Square, which is about 12 blocks west of Coolidge Corner, right on the Green Line Beacon Street route. We play from printed music, which we will have available in C and B-flat. All levels of players are welcome. There is a piano, though keyboard players are urged to bring a portable keyboard.

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Veretski Pass

Oct. 4: Veretski Pass at the Greater Middletown Concert Association, 7:30pm
Middletown High School's auditorium, 370 Hunting Hill Ave, Middletown, CT
For tickets (860) 347-4887 or 346-3369

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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Inaugural Celebration

October 4-5(rain-date), 2008
New Center is Coming Together 12-4pm

On October 4th, 2008 the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy will celebrate the official inauguration of the Greenway parks in Boston with free live concerts, classes, rides, and food from all around the world.Once a highway and now a series of parklands throughout the downtown core, the Greenway will host this once-in-a-lifetime opening featuring local and international artists, highlighting Boston's rich cultural heritage and celebrating a vision of city life & sustainability completed. The New Center for Arts and Culture will present New Center is Coming Together-an exciting program with performances by David Buchbinder's Odessa/Havana and Brian Bender & Little Shop of Horas. To be held on a stage across from the Boston Harbor Hotel, these diverse and dynamic performers will entertain with a range of musical styles—appealing to audiences of all ages and backgrounds. This will be a lively and fun program that will entertain, delight, and educate. For more information, please visit the New Center for Arts and Culture website at www.ncacboston.org.

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Cape Cod Mandolin Camp offers a klezmer music ensemble taught by Seth Austen, plus workshops in klezmer and other musical styles. Study, jam, rehearse and perform with mandolinists on Cape Cod -- Sept. 26-28, 2008.

New England Mandolin Ensemble
617 306 8055
East Sandwich Beach, MA 02537
To register, visit nemandolins.com/CCMC.html
or email New England Mandolin Ensemble

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Cape Cod Mandolin Camp offers a klezmer music ensemble taught by Seth Austen, plus workshops in klezmer and other musical styles. Study, jam, rehearse and perform with mandolinists on Cape Cod -- Sept. 26-28, 2008.

New England Mandolin Ensemble
617 306 8055
East Sandwich Beach, MA 02537
To register, visit nemandolins.com/CCMC.html
or email New England Mandolin Ensemble

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Veretski Pass

Sept 26: at the University of Vermont in Burlington, 7:30pm
pre concert talk at 6:30
UVM Recital Hall,
Tickets $25 adult / $20 student

www.uvm.edu/laneseries/veretski_pass.php

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Cape Cod Mandolin Camp offers a klezmer music ensemble taught by Seth Austen, plus workshops in klezmer and other musical styles. Study, jam, rehearse and perform with mandolinists on Cape Cod -- Sept. 26-28, 2008.

New England Mandolin Ensemble
617 306 8055
East Sandwich Beach, MA 02537
To register, visit nemandolins.com/CCMC.html
or email New England Mandolin Ensemble

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Rebecca Kaplan & Pete Rushefsky
National Yiddish Book Center
Sunday, September 14, 2008 2 PM
Admission $10

Rarely heard folksongs sung by Rebecca Kaplan and accompanied by tsimblist Pete Rushefsky, along with a variety of old and new klezmer tunes and Yiddish songs composed by Kaplan, Rushefsky, and others.

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building
1021 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002

Phone: 413-256-4900
www.bikher.org

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Come, Listen, Dance! Leading klezmer flutist and dance leader Adrianne Greenbaum will join Shir Madness Klezmer Band of Newton, Massachusetts, in a rollicking evening of Jewish music and Yiddish and Israeli dancing. Refreshments, of course. Free and open to the public. Saturday evening, September 13, 2008, 7:30 pm, at the Lutheran Church of the Newtons, corner of Center and Cypress Streeets in Newton Center.

Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Havurah
617-965-6862
www.jrf.org/shirhadash

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The Alexander Fiterstein Trio presents the music of the East European Jewish wedding, featuring both display and dance music. Its musical approach and instrumentation (with clarinet, cimbalom and accordion) represents a blend of traditional European klezmer and classical performance practice.

Music Mountain in Falls Village, CT, on Saturday, Sept. 6 at 6:30pm. and features clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein along with the maestro of the tsimbl, Zev Feldman, and the avatar of the accordion, Christina Crowder. Ignore the rain, I say. This is not to be missed if you are anywhere within a few hours of the event.

musicmountain.org

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YUGNTRUF presents our year's week-long retreat, where we strive to speak only Yiddish, will be held WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 through TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2008 at the Berkshire Hills Emanuel Adult Vacation Center in Copake, New York.

yiddishweek.com

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YUGNTRUF presents our year's week-long retreat, where we strive to speak only Yiddish, will be held WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 through TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2008 at the Berkshire Hills Emanuel Adult Vacation Center in Copake, New York.

yiddishweek.com

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YUGNTRUF presents our year's week-long retreat, where we strive to speak only Yiddish, will be held WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 through TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2008 at the Berkshire Hills Emanuel Adult Vacation Center in Copake, New York.

yiddishweek.com

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YOU ARE INVITED!!
24 August 2008, 3 p.m., Improvisational Violinist Yael Bat-Shimon at
The Nave Gallery, $10

The Nave presents violinist Yael Bat-Shimon in a performance of her
unique brand of soulful, inventive, sometimes playful improvisations.
She is joined in several duo improvisations by guest guitarist Ariel
Burger, who brings his own imagination and deep sensitivity to the mix.
www.myspace.com/yaelbatshimon

The Nave Gallery
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church
155 Powderhouse Blvd., Somerville, MA
www.artsomerville.org/upcoming.html
sponsored by ARTSomerville

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YUGNTRUF presents our year's week-long retreat, where we strive to speak only Yiddish, will be held WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 through TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2008 at the Berkshire Hills Emanuel Adult Vacation Center in Copake, New York.

yiddishweek.com

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YUGNTRUF presents our year's week-long retreat, where we strive to speak only Yiddish, will be held WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 through TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2008 at the Berkshire Hills Emanuel Adult Vacation Center in Copake, New York.

yiddishweek.com

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YUGNTRUF presents our year's week-long retreat, where we strive to speak only Yiddish, will be held WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 through TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2008 at the Berkshire Hills Emanuel Adult Vacation Center in Copake, New York.

yiddishweek.com

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Basya Schechter

August 21 ­ August 24th
4 day Songwriting Workshop
Isabella Friedman/ Eilat Chayim
Falls Village, CT

This workshop is for musicians who want to generate inspired raw material, refine a creative path or emerge with a roadmap for a new musical project. Participants will explore new genres of music, rhythms and exotic scales, and learn about different instruments and writing exercises. Singer-songwriters who write in English will be encouraged to explore new territory and to emerge with fresh ways of looking at spiritual songwriting. Instrumentalists will explore new directions as they learn how to notice and improvise on their natural motifs as a springboard toward a personal compositional style.
www.isabellafreedman.org/music

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YUGNTRUF presents our year's week-long retreat, where we strive to speak only Yiddish, will be held WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 through TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2008 at the Berkshire Hills Emanuel Adult Vacation Center in Copake, New York.

The Yiddish-Vokh is a real community, in which our members give the lectures, lead discussions and workshops. Our members include professors, activists, writers and musicians, who share their knowledge, talent and love of mame-loshn.

There's a swimming pool and a beautiful lake. All activities are in Yiddish, including sports, folk-dancing, lectures, discussions, literary reading, campfire singing, talent show, concerts, films, Yiddish classes for advanced beginners and organized programs for children. The food is kosher, with vegetarian options. On Shabes, services will be available.

Register now at yiddishweek.com

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Brian Bender & Little Shop of Horas

Original and traditional Jewish/Klezmer melodies blended with Latin, Caribbean, African and Middle Eastern rhythms.

Concert/Dance.
Monday, August 18, 7:30 p.m.
$10 per person, prepaid in advance; $15 at the door.
At Congregation Knesset Israel, 16 Colt Road, Pittsfield, MA.

Co-sponsored by Jewish Federation of the Berkshires.
Contact: (413) 445-4872, ext. 11

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Westchester Yiddishfest Concert

Sunday, August 17, 2008, 6:00 PM

Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla

The all-star concert is an evening of Yiddish song and Klezmer music. Featured performers will include: Eleanor Reissa, Rebecca Garfein with musical director Dan Rosengard, and the Klez Dispensers. The concert is free.

It will be proceeded by folk dancing beginning at 5:00 PM.

Yiddishfest was founded in 1969 as the first free ethnic music festival in the New York City parks in a collaboration between Joseph Papp, Mayor John Lindsay and Joseph Mlotek for The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring. It is supported by public and private sector funding. The 2008 Yiddishfest concert schedule includes concerts in Battery Park in Manhattan, Cunningham Park in Queens, Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla, Westchester; and Bar Beach in Hempstead Harbor in Port Washington, Long Island.

The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring
212-889-6800
www.circle.org

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Shirim

Maudsley Arts Center
Maudslay State Park, 95 Curzon Mill Rd
Newburyport, MA
Saturday night, August 16, 7pm
Cost : $18-$20.

This is an outdoor concert at the state park and looks to be a great time for the whole family. Check out their web site: www.maudslayartscenter.org/maudslayarts/

The concert will move inside the barn if it rains.
We will be trying out some new material, including a love song played by Jim Gray on the tuba, so don’t miss it!

Hope to see you there!
Glenn

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Klezmer Music fills the air, as the Lower East Side returns to Providence, but at a NEW time and location:
a Wednesday, August 13th 5 - 8PM, Sessions Street Park behind the JCC

Music by Fishel Bresler's Klezmer Ensemble featuring 5 musicians: Fishel, Shelley Katsh, Dave Harris,Taki Masuko and special guest Jim Guttmann, founding member and manager of the Klezmer Conservatory Band,
and by the Klezphonics.

Food for sale by Divine Providence Catering Services, Daniel Gourmet Kosher Catering, Accounting For Taste
Children's activities and more.

For more information contact the Jewish Community Center at 861-8800

Sponsored by:
* Mayor David N. Cicilline, the City of Providence,
* the Department of Art, Culture + Tourism,
* the Department of Public Parks,
* the Department of Recreation &
* the Jewish Community Center of Rhode Island

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The Yiddishkeit Klezmer Ensemble

Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 2PM
National Yiddish Bookcente
(Amherst, MA, USA)

Admission $10
Phone 413-256-4900 / Fax 413-256-4700
www.bikher.org

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The Afro-Semitic Experience
August 9, 6:30 p.m.,
Music Mountain,
225, Music Mountain Road,
Falls Church, Connecticut,
for more info and tickets please call 860-824-7126 or go to www.musicmountain.org

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Metropolitan Klezmer

July 24, 2008, 8pm
Sullivan County Community College
Seelig Theatre
Loch Sheldrake, NY 12759

$20 - general admission
$18 - seniors/students
Tickets: Call Campus Box Office at: (845) 434-5750 x4303 Monday-Friday between 9am and 4pm

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Klezperanto's back in town in an exciting double bill with The Wiyos - WHAT A SHOW!

SUNDAY JULY 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the STUART STREET PLAYHOUSE, corner of Charles and Stuart Streets in the heart of Boston's theater district, www.stuartstreetplayhouse.com with very special guests, THE WIYOS, "Vaudevillian Ragtime-Blues and Hillbilly Swing"

You can read all about them at truthfacerecordings.com/wiyos where you can see pictures, check out their tour schedule and press stuff, and hear samples, but it's even BETTER to see this amazing ensemble LIVE!

Price: $15.00 in advance, $20.00 day of concert

To purchase tickets online visit Tele-Charge Online
To purchase tickets by phone call 800-447-7400*
*Service fees may apply
To purchase tickets in person visit the Stuart Street Playhouse Box Office 200 Stuart Street (in the Radisson Hotel Boston).
Box Office Hours: Monday through Friday: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Saturday, Sunday, Holidays: Closed (except on performance days)

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Free concert by di bostoner klezmer on Thursday, 7/17, 6:30 p.m. at New Bedford Whaling National Park, 33 William Street, New Bedford (for directions: www.nps.gov/nebe/planyourvisit/directions.htm

There's a Jewish connection to this area's whaling—a shnayder (shoemaker) supplied materials, and after the demise of the industry, the whaling captains used to hang around his shop and reminisce. We'll play original tunes composed by all three members (a world-premier of one of them!) and promise mostly rollicking and a couple of reflective moments.

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The Afro-Semitic Experience
Wednesday, July 16, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday Folk Traditions at P
orter-Phelps-Huntington Museum,
130 River Drive
Hadley, Massachusetts,
for more information please call 413 584-4699.

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CHALLAHPALOOZA, the third annual Klezmer music festival in the Berkshires (Western Massachusetts, USA), offers an evening of music and inspiration with the Yiddishkeit Klezmer Ensemble and Sruli and Lisa. Seth Rogovoy calls Yiddishkeit "one of the top Klezmer bands on the East Coast."

Call to order tickets: $22/$36/$100(sponsor)

Sunday, Jul 13, 7:00 PM
Duffin Theater
Lenox High School
197 East Street
Lenox, MA
(413) 499-9899
www.jewishberkshires.com

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The Afro-Semitic Experience with special guests
Sunday, July 13, 2-6 pm
Jewish Festival on the green in
Guilford Connecticut.

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Sunday, July 13, 2008, 12-6PM
Jewish Festival on the green in Guilford, Connecticut.
East Rock Klezmer is on from 5:00 - 6:00

Sponsored by: Chabad of the Shoreline
tel: 203-488-2263
web: www.jewishoreline.org

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Thursday, July 10, 2008
A Treasury of Sephardic Song
Gerard Edery

8pm show time
Sullivan County Community College
Seelig Theatre
Loch Sheldrake, NY 12759

$20 - general admission
$18 - seniors/students

Buy Tickets
Call Campus Box Office at: (845) 434-5750 x4303 Monday-Friday between 9am and 4pm.

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Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores
At Home in Utopia
(by filmmaker Michael Goldman, of "A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden" fame)
2:15 pm
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Remis Auditorium

with filmmakers Michal Goldman, Ellen Brodsky

MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $9.
Tickets

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Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores
At Home in Utopia
(by filmmaker Michael Goldman, of "A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden" fame)
6:30 pm
Thursday, June 22, 2008
Remis Auditorium

with filmmakers Michal Goldman, Ellen Brodsky, and special guest: Jeff Crosby, President IUE-CWA Local 201

MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $9.
Tickets

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We are dancing at the Stamford JCC (1035 Newfield Avenue, Stamford, CT) !!

Israeli Dancing with Leng & Yigal! Did you think you can't dance? Think again!!

We are pleased to announce our new Wednesday evening session, starting July 2 at the Stamford JCC in the dance studio!

We’ll be dancing from 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM. We worked very hard to get this session organized and started. Those who asked us to open another session and were enthused about an evening session, please be sure to come and show your support so that the JCC will know that there is enough interest to sustain this class. If there is not enough support, we will have to close it. We would like to be able to continue this session in the Fall, either on a Wednesday, or another week night, depending on the availability of the studio.

Beautiful hardwood floors, very good sound system, very friendly dancers, delicious light refreshments ... what more can we ask for?

Listen to beautiful Israeli music & live drumming! It's also a great way to exercise!

We get dancers from New York City, local Connecticut towns (Stamford, Norwalk, Westport, Trumbull), in addition to Westchester and New Jersey!

www.ctisraelidance.com, or call 203.912.4086

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We are dancing every Sunday at the Stamford JCC (1035 Newfield Avenue, Stamford, CT) !!

Israeli Dancing with Leng & Yigal! Did you think you can't dance? Think again!!

Join our beginner session for basic steps and you are on your way!

Beginner's class: 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Intermediate/Advanced: 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Only $10! Special discount for Stamford JCC Members ($8)!

Beautiful hardwood floors, very good sound system, very friendly dancers, delicious light refreshments ... what more can we ask for?

Listen to beautiful Israeli music & live drumming! It's also a great way to exercise!

We get dancers from New York City, local Connecticut towns (Stamford, Norwalk, Westport, Trumbull), in addition to Westchester and New Jersey!

Inquire about an upcoming Wednesday evening session!

www.ctisraelidance.com, or call 203.912.4086

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Hello Tummler fans.

We want to let you know that our good friend Mark Tipton, (occasional sub with the Tummlers and central member of Zhok Therapy), has written an original score for the 1920 silent film, The Golem. It's going to be shown, and performed, this week, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, at One Longfellow Square. This is going to be a rare and exciting event. We hope you can make it.

Weds 6/25 and Thurs 6/26 | The Golem w/the Tipton Chamber Players
One Longfellow Square www.onelongfellowsquare.com
8pm | $8

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Hello Tummler fans.

We want to let you know that our good friend Mark Tipton, (occasional sub with the Tummlers and central member of Zhok Therapy), has written an original score for the 1920 silent film, The Golem. It's going to be shown, and performed, this week, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, at One Longfellow Square. This is going to be a rare and exciting event. We hope you can make it.

Weds 6/25 and Thurs 6/26 | The Golem w/the Tipton Chamber Players
One Longfellow Square www.onelongfellowsquare.com
8pm | $8

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The Afro-Semitic Experience
Wednesday, June 25, 5:30 p.m.,
Arts and Ideas Festival
New Haven Green, New Haven, Connecticut,
for more info please call (888) ART-IDEA (278-4332)

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We are dancing every Sunday at the Stamford JCC (1035 Newfield Avenue, Stamford, CT) !!

Israeli Dancing with Leng & Yigal! Did you think you can't dance? Think again!!

Join our beginner session for basic steps and you are on your way!

Beginner's class: 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Intermediate/Advanced: 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Only $10! Special discount for Stamford JCC Members ($8)!

Beautiful hardwood floors, very good sound system, very friendly dancers, delicious light refreshments ... what more can we ask for?

Listen to beautiful Israeli music & live drumming! It's also a great way to exercise!

We get dancers from New York City, local Connecticut towns (Stamford, Norwalk, Westport, Trumbull), in addition to Westchester and New Jersey!

Inquire about an upcoming Wednesday evening session!

www.ctisraelidance.com, or call 203.912.4086

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Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores
At Home in Utopia
(by filmmaker Michael Goldman, of "A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden" fame)
12:20 pm
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Remis Auditorium

with filmmakers Michal Goldman, Ellen Brodsky, and special guest: Author Vivian Gornick

MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $9.
Tickets

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Koleinu, The Jewish Community Chorus of Boston presents
Sephardic Dreams
A concert of Jewish Choral Music highlighting Spanish, Romani and Arabic influences

On Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 8 pm, Koleinu, The Jewish Community Chorus of Boston, will present a concert of Jewish choral music, featuring a variety of Sephardic music at Temple Shalom, 175 Temple Street, West Newton, MA. Included in the concert are pieces in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) and Hebrew, many of which show the literary and musical influences of Spanish, Romani, and Arabic cultures.

General admission tickets are $10 for advance purchase and $12 at the door. Donor seats in special section are $25. To purchase tickets or for more information visit www.koleinu.org or call 617-559-8649.

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Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores
At Home in Utopia
(by filmmaker Michael Goldman, of "A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden" fame)
2:15 pm
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Remis Auditorium

with filmmakers Michal Goldman, Ellen Brodsky, and special guest: Dr. Alvin Poussaint, Psychiatrist, Media Consultant, Author

MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $9.
Tickets

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THE "SHEKHTER-TEKHTER" AND BINYUMEN
with their show

OUR ZEYDAS AND BUBBAS AS CHILDREN

a revue about kids, young and older, and their relationships with each other, with their parents, with the Rabbi, with the world.

The songs are all in Yiddish.
Translations are provided.

The performers:
BINYUMEN SCHAECHTER
and the "Shekhter-tekhter"
(the "Schaechter Daughters"),
REYNA SCHAECHTER (age 13) and
TEMMA-LEEBA SCHAECHTER (age 8)

Sunday, June 15th, 2008, 2:00 P.M.
Clinton Square,
Erie Blvd and Salina St, Syracuse, New York
as part of the
Syracuse Jewish Federation's
9th Annual Jewish Music & Cultural Festival

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We are dancing every Sunday at the Stamford JCC (1035 Newfield Avenue, Stamford, CT) !!

Israeli Dancing with Leng & Yigal! Did you think you can't dance? Think again!!

Join our beginner session for basic steps and you are on your way!

Beginner's class: 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Intermediate/Advanced: 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Only $10! Special discount for Stamford JCC Members ($8)!

Beautiful hardwood floors, very good sound system, very friendly dancers, delicious light refreshments ... what more can we ask for?

Listen to beautiful Israeli music & live drumming! It's also a great way to exercise!

We get dancers from New York City, local Connecticut towns (Stamford, Norwalk, Westport, Trumbull), in addition to Westchester and New Jersey!

Inquire about an upcoming Wednesday evening session!

www.ctisraelidance.com, or call 203.912.4086

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Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores
At Home in Utopia
(by filmmaker Michael Goldman, of "A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden" fame)
2:15 pm
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Remis Auditorium

with filmmakers Michal Goldman, Ellen Brodsky, and special guest: Matt Thall, Housing and Community Activist

MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $9.
Tickets

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9th Annual Jewish Music & Cultural Event of Central New York

Sunday, June 15, 2008, 11 am to 6 pm
Clinton Square, downtown Syracuse
Free Admission

www.syracusejewishfestival.com
315-446-7810 or 315-682-8489

This year's festival will celebrate Israel at 60. A special Israel at 60 Ceremony will start the festival at 11am with area rabbis, cantors, choir, and dignitaries. The festival will have music from Israel including Simply Tsfat and Hananel Edri along with Binyumen Schaechter's Generation to Generation Yiddish music and other groups featuring a variety of Jewish Music. There'll be Jewish & Israeli food, arts & crafts vendors, a Children's Activities Tent, Jewish community organizations and synagogues. This cultural community event is open to the general public.

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From the Balkans to Turkey - to Portland, Maine
Concerts with Zhok Therapy and Okbari

Saturday, June 14th, 8pm, $10
One Longfellow Square
Double bill featuring Zhok Therapy and Okbari
www.onelongfellowsquare.com or 761-1757 for tix and info

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Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores
At Home in Utopia
(by filmmaker Michael Goldman, of "A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden" fame)
8 pm
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Remis Auditorium

with filmmakers Michal Goldman, Ellen Brodsky, and special guest: Yiddish Community Chorus of the Workmen's Circle

MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $9.
Tickets

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Thursday, June 12th, 3:30 - 9:00 pm - free
The Bridge Festival
Lyman Moore Middle School
171 Auburn St., Portland
Casco Bay Tummlers perform from approx. 6:15 - 6:45

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upcoming concert of new Sephardic music group in Chicago

Please join us at the exciting premier performance of Chicago's newest Sephardic music group:

"Ladder of Gold"

Laurie Sucher, mezzo-soprano
Jonah Gaster, percussions
Ruby Harris, strings
Todd Hill, acoustic bass

We will be at the

North Lakeside Cultural Center
6219 North Sheridan Road
Chicago (at Granville)

on Sunday, June 8 at 4 PM

Donation requested $8
Parking available at school across the street
$3 with RSVP to this email
concert partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council

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FleytMuzik - In Kontsert!
With Adrianne Greenbaum, vintage flutes
Pete Rushefsky, tsimbl
Jake Shulman-Ment, fiddle
Brian Glassman, bass

Energy provided as well by audience (Audience will "participate" by singing Greenbaum's Nign)
Energy received by musicians
CD sign-up with reduced price
A great equation to sum up a great day!

May 18, 2008
2 shows and Dance Party
2:00 and 7:30 with Dance Party with instruction 4:00
Fairfield Theatre Company
70 Sanford St.
Fairfield, CT 06824

VERY easy to get to if driving. But even easier by train if coming from NYC. Just get off the Fairfield, CT stop and in you go!

Tickets: $22 ($17 for Fairfield Theatre Company members) + $3 surcharge
(203) 259-1036
www.fairfieldtheatre.org

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Michael Winograd Klezmer Ensemble

5/11
National Yiddish Book Center
Hampshire College,
Amherst, MA

Neo-traditional klezmer music, conceived by clarinetist Michael Winograd and performed by some of the finest rising stars in the New York City klezmer scene, including vocalist Judith Berkson.
Reservations suggested.
2:00 P.M. Cost: $10

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Isle of Klezbos
Sunday, April 13 (2008)
Vassar College, 3pm - 5pm
Parents Weekend block party
sponsored by the Office of Religious & Spiritual Life
Poughkeepsie NY
www.vassar.edu

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Pharaoh's Daughter
April 12, 2008
Ithaca, NY 8pm at Cornell University
World Music Series

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Grammy winners The Klezmatics

4/12/2008
The Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
(413) 458-2303
www.clarkart.edu/museum_programs

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Pharaoh's Daughter
March 30, 2008
Boston, MA 8pm,
Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center
Mayyim Hayyim Spring Benefit more info

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Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh & their Klezmer Hassidic Music,
return to the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House in Providence!

Mar. 29
8:30 - 10 PM - Admission $9

Very easy to get to, the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House is at 209 Douglas Ave, 5 minutes from the Providence Marriot: Right on Orms, across the bridge over 95 , first right onto Douglas Ave. We're one half mile down on the right, just past the 95S entrance. For more specific directions go to www.BrooklynCoffeeTeaHouse.com or call 575-2284 weekday mornings.

We hope to see you there, and bring a friend too!

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Shir Madness Klezmer Band, Saturday evening March 29, 8:00 pm, at Temple Beth Torah, 2162 Washington Street, Holliston, MA. General admission $18; checks may be made payable to Temple Beth Torah Sisterhood, P.O. Box 6527, Holliston, MA. Refreshments will be served.

Program will include old favorite Yiddish songs and traditional and contemporary klezmer tunes. The band that night will include voice, clarinet, flute, violin, keyboard, baritone horn, and drums.

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The Folk Arts Center of New England and the Beebe Estate are doing a series of jam sessions on 4th Wednesdays, 7:30-9:30pm, at the Beebe Estate, 235 W. Foster St., Melrose, MA.

Steve Rauch will be leading a Jam Session of Klezmer music on Wednesday night, March 26, 2008 at the Beebe Estate in Melrose, MA. No experience is necessary, enthusiasm for a good time is the only requirement. Musicians of any level and listeners ("appreciators"!) are all welcome.

This is a monthly event, free of charge and supported by a grant from the Melrose Cultural Council. The Beebe Estate is located at 235 West Foster Street, Melrose.

One does not need experience to participate in and enjoy this session. Sheet music will be supplied and Steve will lead and encourage participation by all who attend. To sweeten the deal, pastries will be supplied by the Bohemian Coffeehouse!

The Folk Arts Center of New England is a non-profit arts organization, with offices in Melrose, dedicated to promoting the participation in and appreciation of the traditional folk arts of many cultures, particularly music and dance.

For more information, contact the Folk Arts Center: 781-662-7475, www.facone.org

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One of the most popular performers and songwriters on the Israeli cultural scene, Danny Sanderson, along with his band will perform at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center on Monday, March 24 at 8pm. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased by calling the JCC Box Office at 617-965-5226 or online at www.lsjcc.org The Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center is located at 333 Nahanton Street in Newton.

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Fishel Bresler's Klezmer & Hassidic Trio
will be performing concert # 3, (out of 4) in the multi-site JCC Jewish Music Festival

at Temple Shalom
223 Valley Rd,
MIDDLETOWN, RI

Sunday, March 23rd, 4 PM $8 ($5 for members of the JCC or Temple Shalom)

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Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 2pm

The Celluloid Closet of Yiddish Film: "A yingl mit a yingl hot epes a tam?"
Lesbian & Gay Subtext from a Cinema of Diaspora
video clips/lecture program presented by Eve Sicular
at Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival
at The National Yiddish Book Center
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building
1021 West Street
Amherst MA
on the campus of Hampshire College
Info: 413-256-4900
bikher.org
pvjff.org

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On Saturday evening, March 22, 8:00-11:00 pm, Temple Aliyah in Needham will be holding a Purim Dinner Dance featuring JDub recording artists, Golem. Based in New York, Golem applies an energetic rock 'n' roll attitude to Yiddishkeit and klezmer music.

Tickets for the general public are $45 and include buffet deli dinner catered by the Butcherie. Costumes are urged but not required.

It will be on Chelm of a Party!
www.templealiyah.com

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Saturday, March 22:
The Gragger/Noisemaker, Workmen's Circle's first annual Radical Purim Party!

This is not just another Purim party. It's a cultural happening:
A concert, dance, and celebration of progressive culture and community!

Saturday, March 22
8pm-1am
565 Boylston Street, Boston ( Community Church )
Cover: $10-20 sliding scale

Continue reading "Zili Misik, What Cheer Brigade @ Workmen's Circle Purim, Mar 22, 2008" »

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גלאט אזוי (Alan Fendler [fleyt, drehleir], Stacey Cretekos [skripke]. Roger Reid [tsimbali, kompiutr])
will be privileged to be m'sameach klal as the house band for
די מגילה פין אסתר of Greenburgh Hebrew Center, Dobbs Ferry, NY USA
(www.g-h-c.org
14 אדר II 5768 / 20 March 2008 7:30 PM
Playing favorite country hits of the 90's and the 00's
(their favorites, the old country, the 1890's and 1900's).
With special guests
Chane Moldova & The Jewness Brothers: "Worst of Both Worlds"
King Billy Ray Cyrus: "(My Steel Town Queen Esther Found) The Kosher Part of Me"
Shaini Winoheis: "Rehab"
No charge.  Opportunity to fulfill Machatzit HaShekel available.
Please respect k'dusha of the evening with strict adherence to creative costuming.

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JENNY ROMAINE AND FRIENDS DECLAIM, PROJECT, AND CRITICALLY ROUSE THE PASSIONS!

6pm, March 12th
Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT
cavs.mit.edu/artists.html?id=264,628

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I'd like to invite those local enough to come to our program at the Yiddish Book Center on March 9, coming up in a couple of weeks.

Fleytmuzik
Sunday, Mar 9, 2pm
The National Yiddish Book Center
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building
1021 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
phone: 413-256-4900

Tickets are $8.
For additional information or reservations, please phone us at 413-256-4900.

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Conversations, Connections and Culture
our monthly caual KFAR gathering …

Sunday, March 9, 2008
4:00pm - 6:00pm
KFAR HQ
1807 W. Sunnyside #2e
Chicago, IL
View Map

Tel: 773-362-4760

Our next 'Conversation' is up at the KFAR HQ in Ravenswood. In addition to talking about what's coming up, we can show off our snazzy new digs and rooftop deck (if its warm enough). Libations provided.

We have a parking lot. We're right off the Brown line at Montrose (just 3 stops from Belmont) and 3 blocks from Ashland, if you're coing from the north or south.

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Brave Old World
Song of the Lodz Ghetto

World-renowned music quartet Brave Old World, the super group of the Klezmer revival, brings forth a breathtakingly original program combining the soulfulness of Yiddish tradition, the finesse of classical music and the vitality of jazz.

Performances are Saturday, March 8 at 8pm and Sunday, March 9 at 2pm and will take place at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, 333 Nahanton Street in Newton. Tickets are $28 general; $26 student/senior and can be purchased by calling the JCC Box Office at 617-965-5226 or online at www.lsjcc.org/home/cultural_jewish.html.

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Brave Old World
Song of the Lodz Ghetto

World-renowned music quartet Brave Old World, the super group of the Klezmer revival, brings forth a breathtakingly original program combining the soulfulness of Yiddish tradition, the finesse of classical music and the vitality of jazz.

Performances are Saturday, March 8 at 8pm and Sunday, March 9 at 2pm and will take place at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, 333 Nahanton Street in Newton. Tickets are $28 general; $26 student/senior and can be purchased by calling the JCC Box Office at 617-965-5226 or online at www.lsjcc.org/home/cultural_jewish.html.

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March Workmen's Circle klezmer jam is 7-9 pm on March 2, 2008 at the Workmen's Circle, at 1762 Beacon Street in Brookline, about 5 blocks west of Washington Square, which is about 12 blocks west of Coolidge Corner, right on the Green Line Beacon Street route. We play from printed music, which we will have available in C and B-flat. All levels of players are welcome. There is a creaky piano, though keyboard players are welcome to bring a portable keyboard in case more than one pianist shows up

Below is the likely order of music for this week (though we may not get to them all). This way people can practice if they want, and also have it sorted in order. There may be new pieces handed out as well

1. Bobover Wedding March
2. Sadegurer Khosidl/Mazel Tov
3. Gasn Nign
4. Freilachs Dm #1 and #2/Alte Tsiganer
5. Eli Ata/Vos Vet Zayn
6. Varetsky Pass medley-Tiraspolar Bulgar/ Fanfara Suceava/ Stanislaver Bulgar
7. Naches fun Kinder
8. SB24/SB6/Bender’s Bulgar
9. Merlin 1,2,4
10. Miserlou
11. Gypsy/Hora Fetelor/German's Freilachs
12. Gut Nacht Vals/Shapiro's Korochod
13. Waltz medley: Mazel/Oi Shloimele/All My Love
14. Tantz,Tantz

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Sunday, March 2nd - Concert
Yiddish Music of Peace, Justice, and Celebration
The Wholesale Klezmer Band performs Yiddish songs, Hebrew liturgical music, Jewish wedding dance music, and original compositions.
Reservations suggested.
2 p.m. Cost: $8

The National Yiddish Book Center
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building
1021 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
phone: 413-256-4900

Tickets are $8.
For additional information or reservations, please phone us at 413-256-4900.

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The Afro-Semitic Experience
Sunday, March 2, morning workshop and an afternoon concert, workshop at 10:00 a.m., and concert at 1:00 p.m., Temple Beth Tikvah, 196 Durham Road, Madison, Connecticut, for more information please call (203) 245-7028.

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The Klezphonics in Concert

Saturday March 1, 2008
7:30 PM (Dinner, 6:30)
Temple Am David
40 Gardiner St, Warwick, RI 02888

Concert only Admission: $5 for JCCRI and Temple Am David members, $8 for non-members
Fundraising kosher dinner + concert: $11/adults; $9/kids 3-13. Children under 3 are free.

(401) 463-7944, x108
www.templeamdavid.org

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