KlezCalendar

After many years of singing lush Ladino melodies, Ljuba Davis finally preserves her music in a timeless album, East and West (6/12/12). The Ljuba Davis Ladino Ensemble present their songs with little tugs of musical dominance, which differs from what most would envision as the typical Judaeo-Spanish style.

Led by bouzuki master, Avram Pengas, Davis' ensemble is made up of some of New York’s top Greek, Arab, and Jewish musicians. Their lush Middle-Eastern melodies beautifully compliment Davis' joyous, yet dynamic, voice with an acoustic richness. They will be performing at DROM in New York City on June 15th, 8pm.

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Undercover SF presents Black Sabbath's "Paranoid"
So many bands reinterpreting each cut, curated by Cornelius Boots
Charming Hostess + Friends with Benefits are doing a lilting gamelan version of "Iron Man"

Saturday 19 May, 9PM
The Independent
628 Divisidero
SF, CA
$20

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Charming Hostess, Mike Lai, Friends w/Benefits

Wednesday 16 May, 7PM
Asian Contemporary Art Week
ChoHo will be collaborating with Mike on an all-body a cappella sound score for scenes of Bruce Lee's classic "Fist of Fury."
SoEx
3030 20th St
SF CA

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WordSpoke Festival at the Sixth Street Synagogue presents
Radical Poetics with Charles Bernstein, Hank Lazer, and Erica Kaufman

Sunday, May 6 at 07:00 PM
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665

Milestone publication of the "Radical Poetics & Secular Jewish Culture"—a collection of poetry & criticism—opened a great deal of dialogues, readings, and possibilities for contemporary exploration of Jewish identity. Publication's contributors Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer (on a rare visit from Tuscaloosa, Ala.!) will be joined by Erica Kaufman for a poetry reading and conversation.

Charles Bernstein is an American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets). In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2005, Bernstein was awarded the Dean's Award for Innovation in Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. Educated at Harvard College, he has been visiting Professor of Poetry, Poetics, and Creative Writing at Columbia University, Brown University, and Princeton University. A volume of Bernstein's selected poetry from the past thirty years, "All the Whiskey in Heaven," was published in 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Bernstein's continued commitment to small presses remains strong—In the same year that FSG released his major collection, Chax Press released "Umbra," a collection of Berstein's latest translations of poems from multiple languages. The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein is forthcoming from Salt Publishing. Bernstein will serve as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Poetry, Poetics, and Theory at Princeton University in the Fall Term of 2011. In May of the same year, The University of Chicago Press will release Bernstein's new collection of essays, "Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions."

Hank Lazer has published seventeen books of poetry, including Portions (Lavender Ink, 2009), The New Spirit (Singing Horse, 2005), Elegies and Vacations (Salt, 2004), and Days (Lavender Ink, 2002). He is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at University of Alabama, where he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press.

Erica Kaufman is the author of censory impulse (Factory School 2009). Excerpts from her newest project, INSTANT CLASSIC are available in chapbook form from Least Weasel and Belladonna*, and online in Little Red Leaves and Elective Affinities. kaufman lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Baruch College and is a faculty associate of Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking and Institute for Language & Thinking.

Curated by Jake Marmer

Cover: $5

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events

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Saturday 5 May, 2PM
Flyawyay performs from "Grim Arithmetic of Water" with music by Charming Hostess
Celebrate 10 years of Queseda Gardens!
Lots of other great stuff, esp for kids
1700 block of Queseda
SF CA
$5 sliding scale, no one turned away

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XALAM Project

friday May 4th 7:30 pm
Zinc Bar
(82 west 3rd street) in Manhattan

Brandon Terzic Oud, Ngoni
Matt Darriau Saxaphones, clarinet, Kuval
John Shannon Guitar
Luke Notary Percussion
Keita Ogawa Percussion
Javier Moreno Bass

"For the doctor- the perception of "in" and "out" begins with an inclusion in space and at the same instance the perception is that of being away from or not being in the normal or usual space" -Yusef

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Jim Hobbs-sax, Luther Gray-drums, Mike McLaughlin-accordion and Winston Braman-bass
May 4, 2012, 8pm
Lily Pad
Inman Square
Cambridge, MA
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Yo LATEEF Band!

Wednesday, 2nd, 9pm (1 set)
Part of Barbes 10th Anniverasry - 5 bands this night! -
barbesbrooklyn.com

BARBES
#376 9th st at 6th ave Park Slope, Brooklyn
7th ave stop on F, ph718-965-9177

Matt Darriau - reeds
Zem Rowmez (Brian Drye)
- tbone
Damiel Kelly - keys
Arthur Kell - bass
Rob Garcia - percussion

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Thursday April 26th, 8pm, $10

1st set:
Clinch Mountain
Bluegrass & fiddle tunes, minus the fiddles.
Jeremy Udden (alto sax)
Petr Cancura (tenor sax)
Garth Stevenson (bass)
Richie Barshay (drums)

2nd set:
Kenny Wolleson "Wollesonics"
Sonic explorations with drumming mastermind behind
Tom Waits, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, and John Zorn...

*LOCATION:
The Sanctuary @ Temple Beth Emeth
83 Marlborough Road (at Church Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11226
(subway: Q to Church Ave)

More info: www.facebook.com/DitmasAcoustic

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WordSpoke Poetry Festival
Reading & Writing New Jewish Poetry Workshop

Sunday, Apr 29 at 11:00 AM
Workshop led by Adeena Karasick & Jake Marmer
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665

This summer, KlezKanada festival will be piloting the world's first Jewish poetry retreat, co-hosted by Adeena Karasick and Jake Marmer. Join them for the preview of the upcoming attractions, a sample workshop session.

A few words about methodology and the upcoming retreat:

Poetry’s greatest moments have often been measured by its proximity to music. And so, this year, KlezKanada – legendary festival of Jewish music and culture – is inviting poets world-wide to join the festivities at a week-long writing retreat. Two daily workshop sessions will explore the poetic tradition and anti-tradition across the three millennia of Jewish discourse, with a special focus on the avant-garde and otherwise contemporary work. We’ll look at the ecstatic tradition of poetry-prophecy; Talmud and its dialectic-semiotic heritage; practice of Darshening; Uncreative Writing; Kabbalistic language experiments; Concrete Poetry; Jazz/Klezmer Poetry; Yiddish voices; Modernists – and much more. There will be one-on-one time with the faculty and encounters with internationally celebrated poets, musicians, artists, and academics. Poets will be encouraged to draw inspiration from the numerous concerts, and to collaborate with musicians, dancers, painters and other participating artists, to attend lectures, Yiddish classes, sing, dance, celebrate. Held in the beautiful mountain settings in the heart of the Canadian Laurentians

About the poets:

Adeena Karasick is an internationally acclaimed and award winning poet, media-artist and author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory, most recently, Amuse Bouche: Tasty Treats for the Mouth (Talonbooks 2009) and The House That Hijack Built (Talonbooks, 2004 as well as 4 videopoems regularly showcased at Film Festivals world wide. All her work is marked with an urban, Jewish, feminist aesthetic that continually challenges linguistic habits and normative modes of meaning production. Engaged with the art of combination and turbulence of thought, it is a testament to the creative and regenerative power of language and its infinite possibilities for pushing meaning to the limits of its semantic boundaries. Her writing has been described as "electricity in language" (Nicole Brossard), "plural, cascading, exuberant in its cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory" (Charles Bernstein) "a tour de force of linguistic doublespeak" (Globe and Mail) and "opens up the possibilities of reading" (Vancouver Courier). She is Professor of Global Literature at St. John’s University in New York. This Poem is forthcoming Fall 2012.

Jake Marmer is a poet, performer, and literary critic. His first collection of poems, "Jazz Talmud" was published by the Sheep Meadow Press. It was endorsed by Jerome Rothenberg as "triumph of the Fancy in full flight, comic & serious by turns." He's written for the Forward and Tablet magazines, and performed widely in New York and Jerusalem. Performance videos, latest updates and the schedule of upcoming gigs can be found at http://jakemarmer.wordpress.com.

Cover: $5

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events

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Maoz's (Edom, 9 Volt, John Zorn's Abraxas) presents his wild trio, Crazy Slavic Band, at Modern composer and curator Guy Barash's new music series "Eavesdropping", as it returns to The Tank/ to present some of today's most daring performers and surprising composers.

This installment features: New music with non-western influences
Crazy Slavic Band
Ron Caswell: tuba
Chris Stromquist: drums
Eyal Maoz: guitar and compositions

Miguel Frasconi Guy Barash Duo:
Music for glass instruments and live electronics
http://frasconimusic.com
http://www.guybarash.com
and

Lev-Yulzari duo
Nadav Lev, guitar and Remy Yulzari, double bass

The border-crossing Lev-Yulzari duo explores folkloric materials from different traditions, in a personal approach that derives from various musical genres. The program for this evening revolves around Jewish influences, including Sephardic music, klezmer and more.

This show takes place at the Playroom Theater,¨151 West 46th Street, 8th floor
Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Tickets are $10 at the door / $8 online
Buy tickets for Eavesdropping at Brown Paper Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com

About Eavesdropping:
For artists, Eavesdropping provides a stage for risk-taking and the exploration of the non-conventional in sound, to present a relevant boundary-breaking artistic work. Shows often include multi-media elements, real time electronic processing, and performance art. For our audiences, we are committed to presenting innovative repertoire that is relevant and intriguing. Eavesdropping is cross-genres new music series presented to the city's inquisitive listener. The one that seen it all and heard it all but crave for cultural excitement.

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Wordspoke Festival presents:
Downtown Perspectives: Steve Dalachinsky & Friends

Wednesday, Apr 18 at 19:30 PM
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665

Stellar line-up of downtown New York poets and characters!
Featuring: Hersch Silverman, Bonny Finberg, Ivan Klein, Danny Shot, Eliot Katz, Tsaurah Litzky, Jake Marmer, and Steve Dalachinsky.

Curated by Steve Dalachinsky and Jake Marmer.

Cover: $5

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events

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Jazz Rabbi's Invitational: Ayn Sof Arkestra & Bigger Band

Tuesday, Apr 10 at 08:30 PM
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003

Meet NYC’s newest addition to the canon of new Jewish influenced music and culture, the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, under the direction of saxophonist Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and grammy winning trumpeter Frank London. The Arkestra consists of some of the most innovative artists on the scene today – Pam Fleming, Paul Shapiro, Aaron Alexander, Fima Ephron, Eyal Maoz, and many others. The repertoire includes original compositions and arrangements of the members and guest composers in the great NuJu/Rad Jew/SunRaJoo tradition.

admission: $10 at the door

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events

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Tuesday, Apr 3 at 09:00 PM - Rare As Radium Works in Progress Series
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665

New work by established and up-and-coming artists involved in New York City's vibrant Downtown/Jazz/Jewish music community.

Catherine Sikora - soprano sax
Sara Schoenbeck - bassoon
Sam Bardfeld - violin
Art Bailey, accordion and compositions.

Richly hued, complex tapestries of sound and improvisation-Rare As Radium. A new avant-chamber project from composer/accordionist/pianist Art Bailey, featuring four of the most adventuresome and sympathetic improvisers active today.

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events

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Tziporah's True Blood: The Women of Pesach

Sunday, Apr 1 at 12:30 PM
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665

What has Tziporah, daughter of a Midianite Priest, now wife of the Prophet Moses, gotten herself into? Come experience the spirited and subversive lives of the women of Pesach in text and story, music and dance, puppetry and theater.

Featuring Sydney Schiff, Yitzchak Buxbaum, Carole Forman, Rabbi Jill Hammer, Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky, Bronwein Mullen and Jesse Freedman. Plus: performances by Shoshana Jedwab, Daniel Silverstein, Alisha Desai and Kambi Gathesha

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events

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Charming Hostess and Gramophone & Dynamo

Friday 16 March, 8pm
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom St
SF, CA
$10

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Edom
avant-improv-middle-eastern-jazz

February 16, 2012, 9 - 11 PM
Tea Room
837 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 789-2762
No cover

Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/116584415125619/

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New American Quartet—Jazz Rabbi's Invitational
Thursday, Feb 16 at 08:30 PM
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.

The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10.

New American Quartet
Playing the original jazz compositions of pianist/composer Mitch Schechter, the New American Quartet features Mitch Schechter on the piano, Greg Wall on the saxophone, Takashi Otsuka on the acoustic bass, and Jonathon Peretz on the drums.

Admission is $10
More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events

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Anakronic Electro Orkestra
with David Krakauer

WHERE: Théâtre Romain Rolland
WHEN: Friday, February 10, 2012
TIME: 8:30 PM
TICKETS: 18€ / 12€ - Purchase Tickets

The Anakronic Electro Orkestra will perform with David Krakauer at the Théâtre Romain Rolland in Villejuif, France.

David is joined by the members of the Anakronic Electro Orkestra, MIKAEL CHARRY (sound effects), LUDOVIC KIERASINSKI (bass), CORINNE DUBARRY (Accordion) , PIERRE BERTAUD DU CHAZAUD (Clarinets), and GHISLAIN RIVERA (drums) in an evening of innovative klezmer music.

The music follows traditional Ashkenazi themes, enriched by electronic manipulations. Learn more about Anakronic Electro Orkestra by visiting www.anakronic.com.

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Rob Rudin's Half-Jewish and Naftule's Dream

Tuesday, January 24, 8:00 pm
Johnny D’s, 17 Holland Street, Davis Square, Somerville MA

(617) 776-2004
www.johnnyds.com
$10 cash at door

Half-Jewish, comprised of Rob Rudin, Mark Chenevert, Danny Heath, Sam Dechenne, Gill Aharon, Paul Dilley, Mimi Rabson, and Ted Roland, is influenced by music from India and Turkey, Reggae, songs of revolution, salsa, jazz of all eras and, of course, Klezmer.

The avant garde Jewish instrumental group Naftule’s Dream follows at 9:00 pm. The band started as a creative outlet for the members of the traditional klezmer band, Shirim Klezmer Orchestra.

For more about the bands, see www.myspace.com/robrudin and www.naftulesdream.com.

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Jazz Talmud: Publication Party & Concert!

Thu Jan 19th, 8pm

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

We'll be celebrating publication of Jake Marmer's first poetry collection Jazz Talmud with a jazz-poetry performance ft. Jake Marmer (voice), Frank London (trumpet), Rabbi Greg Wall (sax), Eyal Maoz (guitar), Uri Sharlin (keys).

Jazz Talmud project a new incarnation of the jazz poetry genre. Marmer's poetry is reminiscent of Talmudic rhetoric, while also contemporary, funny, and raw. The musicians provide spontaneous Talmud-style "commentary" on the recited text, as they argue, battle for meanings, riff and mock each other and the text.

Read more about this project in the Jewish Week or here.

Admission $10

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Edom / Electric Balkan Garage / Mangulator
Wednesday, December 28, 2011, 8pm - 11:30pm
Venue: Spike Hill
184 & 186 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Very close to L train Bedford stop.
Facebook event link: www.facebook.com/events/254117461318795/

Don't miss the special show with these 3 bands:
$5 for the whole night!

10pm: Electric Balkan Garage
Psychedelic versions of Albanian, Greek, Bulgarian and Macedonian folk tunes
Jordan Shapiro: keyboards/guitar
Dave Johnsen: bass
Phil Kester: drums

9pm: Edom www.edom.bandcamp.com
avant-improv-middle-eastern-jazz
Eyal Maoz - guitar
Brian Marsella - keyboards
Shanir Blumenkranz - bass
Yuval Lion - drum

8pm: Mangulator
brutal, agitated, dissonant death-prog featuring members of PAK, Flying Luttenbachers and Castevet.
Andrew Hock (guitar)
Weasel Walter (bass)
Keith Abrams (drums)

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Dec 28, 2011, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Rafi Malkiel

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Dec 21, 2011, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Ned Rothenberg solo + Marty Ehrlich and Hankus Netsky

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Dec 14, 2011, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Dan Kaufman and Barbez

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Zoyres & Charming Hostess: Holiday show with winter songs (and sauerkraut!).
Subterranean Arthouse, 2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
Saturday December 10
$15-$30 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Advance tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
http://charminghostess.us
www.zoyres.com

Charming Hostess makes lovely noise about complex ideas is at the intersection of voice, text and diaspora consciousness. Their music is based on the sounding body: voices and winds, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. They are known for their whirl of eerie harmony, hot rhythm, and radical smarts. This holiday show will feature winter songs of darkness, joy and mystery. Charming Hostess is also presenting music from their installation, The Bowls Project (Tzadik, 2010). Based on inscriptions from Babylonian Jewish amulets known as "demon bowls," The Bowls Project sings of sex, ritual and secrets of the home. File under: APOCALYPTIC-INTIMATE

Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment performs original and Eastern European traditional music (klezmer, Balkan, etc.), approaching these from both a “traditional” and stretched out /experimental framework. The name "Zoyres" derives from the Yiddish term for fermented vegetables, "zoyers." These foods have been transformed by culture and community (of the microbial sort) through incredible biochemical fermentation processes. These "cultural" transformations underlie our own cultural development, as humans have relied and reveled in fermented foods for millennia. Zoyres' music represents the geo-social analogue to the biochemical ferment. Our music, of Eastern European origin, brined in the contemporary cultural milieu, is akin to the pickle, still evident in its cucumbral origin, but with a taste and texture transformed.

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Lukas Ligeti, composer, and his ensemble Kaleidoscope + Molly Thompson, - at Music At First Series

Date: Friday, December 9, 2011
Time: 7:30
Venue: First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Heights Venues
address: 124 Henry St, Brooklyn Heights NY 11201
2/3 to Clark St; A/C to High St; R/4/5 to Court St/Borough Hall

Event URL: http://musicatfirstsite.com

Cover price: $10 suggested donation
Music genre: Modern classical
Artist website: http://eyalmaozmusic.com www.lukasligeti.com

Event description

Music At First is an exciting new concert series that takes place at First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Heights. It features a diverse mix of some of New York City's best new music ensembles, performers, and composers, accessible to a wide audience of both community members and seasoned new music listeners.
Featuring Lukas Ligeti, composer , and his ensemble Kaleidoscope, and Molly Thompson, composer
Concerts take place monthly at First Presbyterian Church and
begin at 7:30 with a $10 admission (at the door).

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Dec 7, 2011, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Tim Sparks

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Join us for a Rare, Intimate Concert featuring composer Steve Reich and cellist Maya Beiser
Honoring Rebecca and David Friedman

Saturday, December 3, 2011
7:30 pm Havdallah, wine & hors d’oeuvres
8:30 pm Concert

Stanton Street Shul
180 Stanton Street
New York City
For tickets, sponsorship opportunities, and more information click here.
FESTIVE ATTIRE
www.stantonstshul.com

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Naftule's Dream Returns!

Dec. 2, 6-8pm
The Lily Pad,
1553 Cambridge St. Inman Square,
Cambridge, MA
Tix: $10
Info: 781-648-4282

Continue reading "Naftule's Dream, Cambridge, MA, 2 Dec 2011" »

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November 23, 2011, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Eyal Maoz

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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November 9, 2011, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Kohane of Newarko

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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November 9, 2011, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Jamie Saft solo

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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November 2, 2011, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Frank London

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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JAZZ RABBI’S THURSDAY NIGHT INVITATIONAL

Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.

The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10 unless otherwise noted.

October 27 - Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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October 26, 2011, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Yoshie Fruchter's Pitom + Aram Bajakian’s Kef

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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October 5, 2001, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Paul Shapiro's Midnight Minyan

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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JAZZ RABBI’S THURSDAY NIGHT INVITATIONAL

Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.

The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10 unless otherwise noted.

September 22 – New American Quartet

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Sep 21, 2001, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring saxophonist Uri Gurvich!

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Jewish Art for the New Millennium: Avant-Garde Poetry, Music and Politics

Sunday, Sept. 18, 7 p.m.
The Living Theater
21 Clinton Street (below Houston St. @ Ave B) New York City
Admission: $15

Marc Ribot, Ammiel Alcalay and Jessica Lurie
Curated by Jake Marmer
Series designed by Dan Friedman

The Jewish Daily Forward presents the third installment in a new series of innovative arts programming. “Jewish Art for the New Millennium” showcases cutting-edge Jewish artists and thinkers who represent their identity in the most original, innovative ways.

Legendary avant-garde guitarist Marc Ribot, multi-instrumentalist Jessica Lurie and writer and poet Ammiel Alcalay team up for an evening of intellectually provocative words and music as each performs separately and then join forces for a collaborative session and conversation with the audience.

Read more: www.forward.com

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JAZZ RABBI’S THURSDAY NIGHT INVITATIONAL

Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.

The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10 unless otherwise noted.

September 15 – Jazz Talmud, featuring Jake Marmer

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Sep 14, 2001, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Basya Schechter's 'Choomesh Lider'

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Tuesday, September 13

The East Village Klezmer Festival Returns!
A Weekly Celebration of Yiddish Culture and Music

6:00 PM Klezmer Masterclass for musicians of all levels and instruments, taught by drummer Aaron Alexander.

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring violin virtuoso Jake Shulman-Ment and Band, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

The series are co-sponsored by Workmen’s Circle/Arbeiter Ring of NY, Living Traditions/Klez Kamp, and Center for Traditional Music and Dance.

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JAZZ RABBI’S THURSDAY NIGHT INVITATIONAL

Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.

The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10 unless otherwise noted.

September 8 – Later Prophets performing ‘HaOrot: The Lights of Rav Kook’

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org
Tel: 212.473.3665

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Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival - June 29 at 9:30 PM
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue and John Zorn's Tzadik Records present six concerts by some of the best and brightest musicians on New York's Downtown Jewish Music scene.

Basya Schechter's Songs of Wonder - June 29
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003

Songs of Wonder is a collection of yiddish poems written by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel in his youth. The poetry explores the philosophical, spiritual and mystical dimensions of love, nature and how to be of service to the world. Composed by Basya Schechter (Pharaoh's Daughter), arranged by Uri Sharlin (piano, accordion, glockenshpiel), and additionally performed and interpreted by Megan Weeder (violin) and Yoed Nir (cello).

Festival event page on Facebook
admission: $18 at the door, includes one drink

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Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival - June 22 at 9:30 PM
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue and John Zorn's Tzadik Records present six concerts by some of the best and brightest musicians on New York's Downtown Jewish Music scene.

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003

Masada Guitars Revisited:
In 1993 John Zorn began composing and performing his 208 tunes that now comprise Book I of the Masada songbook. The vast repertoire has been performed by a mind-blowing variety of ensembles and performers, including a 2003 CD entitled 'Masada Guitars,' featuring guitarists Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell and Tim Sparks. For the Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival, Masada Guitars will be revisited by three guitarists of the younger Radical Jewish Culture generation: Pitom's Yoshie Fruchter, Edom's Eyal Maoz and Rashanim's Jon Madof.

Edom:
Eyal Maoz is a guitarist, bandleader and composer of great intensity and vision. His band Edom pushes Radical Jewish Culture to exciting new places with the addition of keyboard maniac Brian Marsella and Israeli drummer Yuval Lion. Tight, driving and intense, Hope and Destruction presents powerful Jewish rock instrumentals from a cutting edge guitarist who combines the harmonic lyricism of Bill Frisell with the angst and skronk of Marc Ribot.

Festival event page on Facebook
admission: $18 at the door, includes one drink

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Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival - June 15 at 9:30 PM
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue and John Zorn's Tzadik Records present six concerts by some of the best and brightest musicians on New York's Downtown Jewish Music scene.

Frank London
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003

Trumpeter/composer Frank London is a member of the Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave, has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, LaMonte Young, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, Jane Siberry, Ben Folds 5, Mark Ribot, Maurice El Medioni and Gal Costa, and is featured on over 100 cds. His own recordings include Invocations (cantorial music); Frank London?s Klezmer Brass Allstars' Di Shikere Kapelye and Brotherhood of Brass; Nigunim and The Zmiros Project (Jewish mystical songs, with Klezmatics vocalist Lorin Sklamberg); The Debt (film and theater music); The Shekhina Big Band; the soundtrack to The Shvitz; the soundtrack to Perl Gluck's The Divahn and four releases with Hasidic New Wave.

Festival event page on Facebook
admission: $18 at the door, includes one drink

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Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival - June 1 at 9:30 PM
A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue and John Zorn's Tzadik Records present six concerts by some of the best and brightest musicians on New York's Downtown Jewish Music scene.

Hasidic New Wave
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003

When five Downtown New York improvisers with deep roots in the jazz tradition embrace the Hasidic musical legacy and the scintillating rhythms of the holy land, a new voice emerges. Blending together an intense mixture of ethnic and cosmopolitan sounds, Hasidic New Wave fuses spiritual songs from Hasidic dynasties to funk and jazz, Arabic dances with avant-garde rock, and juxtaposes horas and freylekhs with sheer improvisation. Hasidic New Wave's alternatingly ecstatic and meditative performances, imbued (as is consistent with Hasidic tradition) with joy and passion, has led critics to liken the band to Sun Ra meets Jimi Hendrix at a Jewish wedding and exclaim HNW marries Hasidic music to avant-jazz, spinning traditional Jewish celebratory songs into extended Jazz improvisations that incorporate ferocious horn blowing and raucous electric guitar solos.

Festival event page on Facebook
admission: $18 at the door, includes one drink

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Jazz Rabbi’s Invitational - May 26 at 7:30 PM

The New American Quartet
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
please note new time for Jazz Rabbi's Invitational

7:30 PM - Class on Ramchal’s (Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato) 'Derech Hashem' – All welcome, especially first-timers!
8:30 PM - The New American Quartet: Mystical Americana-influenced music.

Jonathon Peretz – dr
Takashie Otsuka – b
Mitch Schechter – p
Greg Wall – s

Cover $10 / Class is free

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Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival
A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music
May 23 - June 29

The Sixth Street Community Synagogue and John Zorn's Tzadik Records present six concerts by some of the best and brightest musicians on New York's Downtown Jewish Music scene.

Rashanim Unplugged - May 25, 9:30pm
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003

Rashanim is an instrumental trio on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records, combining the power of rock with the spontaneity of improvisation, deep Middle Eastern grooves, and mystical Jewish melodies. The self-proclaimed 'Jewish Power Trio' is led by Jon Madof on guitar, with Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz on bass and Mathias Künzli on drums and percussion. The band gets its name from the noisemakers used during the raucous Jewish holiday of Purim.

In 2009 Rashanim released the all-acoustic 'The Gathering,' journeying far beyond their usual electric setting into a world of banjos, exotic percussion, and ethereal voices. Rashanim's concert at the Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival will feature music from this repertoire.

Festival event page on Facebook
admission: $18 at the door, includes one drink

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Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival
A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music
May 23 - June 29
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue and John Zorn's Tzadik Records present six concerts by some of the best and brightest musicians on New York's Downtown Jewish Music scene.

Ayn Sof Arkestra & Bigger Band - May 23, 9pm
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003

Meet NYC’s newest addition to the canon of new Jewish influenced music and culture, the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, under the direction of saxophonist Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and grammy winning trumpeter Frank London. The Arkestra consists of some of the most innovative artists on the scene today – Pam Fleming, Paul Shapiro, Aaron Alexander, Fima Ephron, Eyal Maoz, and many others. The repertoire includes original compositions and arrangements of the members and guest composers in the great NuJu/Rad Jew/SunRaJoo tradition.

Read the low-down on Ayn Sof in the New York Times
Festival event page on Facebook

admission: $18 at the door, includes one drink

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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Music Off The Walls: As Long as the Breath Rattles My Bones - 2PM
In conjunction with the long-term installation: American Identities
Brooklyn Museum
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium
200 Eastern Parkway 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Price: 15 Adults $10 for students, seni

The Brooklyn Philharmonic string quartet and guest artists will perform a program co-curated by renowned composer Randall Woolf and BPO Composer Fellow Jeremiah Lockwood.

The concert will feature Jeremiah Lockwood's world premiere work, inspired by the Brooklyn Museum's special exhibit, American Identities

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The Sway Machinery

@ The 14th Street Y's LABA Festival on May 19
NYC

The Sway Machinery to premiere new song cycle, "Monsters of the Ancient World."
Plus original art, theater, dance and music from the 2010-2011 LABA fellows inspired by the Song of Songs. Complimentary drinks and dessert.

EROS, a festival by LABA will be held on May 19 @ 7:30 and May 21 @ 9:00.
Tickets: $15 for one night; $25 for both nights.
Limited ticket availability at the door.
Buy now at: 14streety.interticket.com/search.php

For more information about the LABA Festival go to www.labajournal.com/festival
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The Nightmares of Children

I [Jeremiah Lockwood] originally imagined The Nightmares of Childern as being a kind of walk-in closet...a place you could enter to be completely submerged in the fairy tale horror and surreptitious pleasure of morbid childhood fantasy. Eventually I dropped the project because it was too disturbing...

I am pleased to be presenting a small part of the project in the form of a song cycle, featuring brand new arrangements of the pieces for voice, cello and piano. The first rehearsal with Aneke Schaul Yoder, cello, and Derin Öge, piano, was really stunning. I hope to be able to share this newly excavated and resucitated project with you all tonight!

Friday, May 18 7PM
Flea Theater
-- in Tribeca at 41 White Street (between Broadway & Church Streets)—accessible from the A/C/E, N/R/Q, 6, J/M/Z to Canal Street or the 1 to Franklin Street.

Part of the Music With a View concert series.
Free admission. Also featuring premieres of music by Anne Goldberg and Gilda Lyons.

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Eyal Maoz's Edom

Thursday May 5 at 9 PM till 11 PM
Tea Lounge
837 Union Street. Park Slope, Brooklyn New York, NY 11217

Telephone: (718) 789-2762
Cover price: Free

Live Edom performance at Tea Lounge. Where Jazz meets New Wave, and echoes of Joy Division are counterposed with John Zorn's Electric Masada, begins the rocking odyssey of Edom. With Eyal Maoz: guitar; Shanir Blumenkranz: bass and Yuval Lion: drums.

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WORLD PREMIERE
“1001 Voices: A Symphony for Queens” is a three-movement symphony that reflects the ideas of transformation, migration and finding home.

Music composed by Frank London. Libretto by Judith Sloan
Visuals by Warren Lehrer with Brandon Campbell

Conducted by Constantine Kitsopoulos, Queens Symphony Orchestra music director
Performed by full orchestra and a 190-voice chorus comprised of the Queens College Choral Society and Queens College Choir, James John, Music Director

Featured Tabla Soloist Deep Singh
Spoken word performed by Judith Sloan in English with additional translations performed live in Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic by Dailyn Despradel, Krussia, Haojie Huang, and Catherine Hanna.

Sunday April 29, 2012
3 pm, FREE!
Colden Auditorium, Queens College, Kupferberg Center for the Arts Commissioned by the Queens Symphony Orchestra
directions!
kupferbergcenter.org/directions.htm

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Psoy Korolenko's Film-Performance
Sat, April 28! $10. Doors open at 7:30.
Fergie's Pub
1214 Sansom Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19107-4913

Moscow’s renowned troubadour, “wandering scholar” and “singing professor,” Psoy Korolenko, presents a film screening and performance of his live sound track & rap style-commentary to the Russian silent movie classic 'Bed and Sofa' ('Tretya Meshchanskaya') by Abram Room and Victor Shklovsky (1927; 75 min).

Please pay cash for the admission. Credit card may be used for
drink and food purchases.

Don’t miss this PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE and opportunity to witness a cine-performance of Bed and Sofa with Psoy Korolenko -- songwriter/performer/'avant-bard' and professor of Literature from Moscow.

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Sunday, April 24 at 9 PM
Nublu
62 Avenue C. New York, NY 10009
Tel: (212) 979-9925

Cover price: $10 for the whole night of both bands!

Rare Edom performance following by Avishai Cohen's group: Where Jazz meets New Wave, and echoes of Joy Division are counterposed with John Zorn's Electric Masada, begins the rocking odyssey of Edom. With Eyal Maoz: guitar; Shanir Blumenkranz: bass and Yuval Lion: drums.

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Jazz Rabbi’s Invitational - April 11 at 7:30 PM

7:30 PM - Class on Ramchal’s (Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato) 'Derech Hashem' – All welcome, especially first-timers!
8:30 PM - The New American Quartet: Mystical Americana-influenced music.

Jonathon Peretz – dr
Takashie Otsuka – b
Mitch Schechter – p
Greg Wall – s

Cover $10 / Class is free

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Jazz Rabbi’s Invitational - April 4 at 7:30 PM
7:30 PM - Class on Ramchal’s (Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato) 'Derech Hashem' – All welcome, especially first-timers!
8:30 PM - Later Prophets
Greg Wall’s Later Prophets, Tzadik recording artists, bring a highly literate Jewish sensibility to the forefront of jazz. Wall, has found the perfect partners in his bandmates keyboard wiz Shai Bachar, drummer extraordinaire Aaron Alexander, and the effervescent David Richards on bass. Together, they are able to simultaneously straddle the gates of the ancient and avant-garde. A leading figure in NY’s downtown music scene, “rabbi and fiery, eclectic Jewish-jazz luminary” (Time Out NY) Greg Wall was ordained in 2006 and may well be the only recording and touring jazz musician who is also a rabbi. His work is “a surprising multicultural collision worthy of Bill Laswell or Kip Hanrahan at their best,” noted Jon Andrews in DownBeat.

Cover $10 / Class is free

More info about Later Prophets

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New York City Opera presents
JOHN ZORN’S MASADA MARATHON
Twelve bands in one night, performed for the first time in the U.S.

Written in a flash of creativity during three months at the end of 2004, the 316 compositions in John Zorn's Book of Angels contain some of his most lyrical and inspiring music. Performed by a wide variety of ensembles over the past seven years, the music has generated 17 CDs to date, with three more scheduled for release in 2011-2012. This special Marathon concert brings together 12 different groups of wildly divergent backgrounds (jazz, rock, classical, world music, jam band, a cappella singing and more) in one spectacular evening of music.

The concert will include two 90-minute sets with one intermission.

MASADA MARATHON – THE BOOK OF ANGELS
Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 8:00 p.m.

Masada Quartet: John Zorn, saxophone; Dave Douglas, trumpet; Greg Cohen, bass; Joey Baron, drums; Mark Feldman, violin; Sylvie Courvoisier, piano

Banquet of Spirits: Cyro Baptitsta, percussion; Brian Marsella, keyboard; Tim Keiper, drums; John Lee, bass; Jason Fraticelli, bass

Mycale; Basya Schechter, voice; Ayelet Gottlieb, voice; Malika Zarra, voice; Sofia Koutsovitis, voice

Medeski, Martin and Dunn: John Medeski, keyboards; Billy Martin, drums; Trevor Dunn, drums

Bar Kokhba: Mark Feldman, violin; Erik Friedlander, cello; Marc Ribot, guitar; Greg Cohen, bass; Joey Baron, drums; Cyro Baptista, percussion

INTERMISSION
Secret Chiefs 3: Trey Spruance, guitars; Timb Harris, violin; Jai Young Kim, keyboards; Jason Schimmel, guitar; Trevor Dunn, bass; Ches Smith, drums; Erik Friedlander, solo cello

The Dreamers: Marc Ribot, guitar; Kenny Wollesen, vibes; Jamie Saft, keyboards; Trevor Dunn, bass; Joey Baron, drums; Cyro Baptista, percussion; Uri Caine, solo piano

Masada String Trio: Mark Feldman, violin; Erik Friedlander, cello; Greg Cohen, bass

Electric Masada: John Zorn, saxophone; Mike Patton, vocals; Marc Ribot, guitar; Jamie Saft, keyboards; Trevor Dunn, bass; Kenny Wollesen, vibes; Joey Baron, drums; Cyro Baptista, percussion;
Ikue Mori, electronics

TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased through CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, online at nycOpera.com, or in person at the David H. Koch Theater Box Office (63rd St. & Columbus Ave)

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Jazz Rabbi’s Invitational - Mar 28 at 7:30 PM
Ayn Sof Arkestra & Bigger Band
7:30 PM - Class on Ramchal’s (Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato) ”Derech Hashem”
8:30 PM - Ayn Sof Arkestra & Bigger Band upstairs in the Sixth Street Community Synagogue’s historic sanctuary!

Meet NYC’s newest addition to the canon of new Jewish influenced music and culture, the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, under the direction of saxophonist Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and grammy winning trumpeter Frank London. The Arkestra consists of some of the most innovative artists on the scene today – Pam Fleming, Paul Shapiro, Aaron Alexander, Fima Ephron, Eyal Maoz, and many others. The repertoire includes original compositions and arrangements of the members and guest composers in the great NuJu/Rad Jew/SunRaJoo tradition.

Cover $10 / Class is free

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Boston Jewish Music Festival

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

Saturday, March 12, 8pm
Divine Sparks

Berklee Performance Center
1140 Boylston St
Boston, MA

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

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

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Sunday, March 6, 7:00pm
Ditmas Acoustic @ The Sanctuary
83 Marlborough Road (@ Church Ave). Q train to Church Ave
Brooklyn, NY

7pm Petr Cancura's Down Home
8pm Matt Darriau's Paradox Trio

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

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

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

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

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

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Eyal Maoz (NYC, Tzadik) Trio with Gabriel Meir and Asaf Sirkis.

January 8th at 10 PM
Milestone Jazz Club
Gan Shmuel, Road 65, in the Bowling Hall.
Israel

Cover price: 60 NIS
Music genre: Jewish-jazz-rock-new wave

Eyal Maoz: guitar, Gabriel Meir: bass, Asaf Sirkis: drums.
Performing original Jewish rock & jazz avant-garde music by Eya Maoz. Eyal Maoz is a Tzadik and Ayler Records artist

Tel: 04-6222366
More info: www.shuni.co.il/shows.asp
music URL: www.edom.bandcamp.com

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Eyal Maoz (NYC) with Amos Elkana and Eran Sachs
improvised guitars and computer music.

January 2nd at 10 PM
Tsimer
7 Agdud Aivri. Tel Aviv, Israel

suggested donation

Event description: Eyal Maoz (NYC) with Amos Elkana and Eran Sachs—improvised guitars and computer music. Live guitar with effects, along with MAX MSP live manipulations and composition.

Music URL: www.electronics.bandcamp.com

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Eyal Maoz (NYC) and Asaf Sirkis (London) Duet. Celebrating their Ayler Records release Elementary Dialogues
Daniel Sarid, Assif Tzahar and Ariel Armoni will follow.

December 30 at 9:30 PM
Studio Salon 22
Yahuda Ayamit 22
Yaffo. Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel Aviv, Israel

Cover price: 40 NIS
More info:

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Eyal Maoz (NYC) and Asaf Sirkis (London) Duet. Celebrating their Ayler Records release Elementary Dialogues
Daniel Sarid, Assif Tzahar and Ariel Armoni will follow.

December 29 at 8 PM
Levontin 7
7 Levontin St.
Tel Aviv, Israel

Cover price: 40 NIS
Telephone: +972-0(3)5605084
More info: agenda.nana10.co.il/220/forum/615478

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Lyrebird
This Tuesday, December 28th at
Barbes (6th ave @ 9th st BROOKLYN)
7pm (one set)

Matt Darriau - multi reeds/winds/loops/sugar plums
Katie Down - flute/glass instruments/loops/ornaments
with special guest percussionist Shane Shanahan
www.shaneshanahan.com
www.myspace.com/mattdarriau

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Sat Dec 25th, 8.30pm
Tzadik /East Village Jewish Music Festival
Ayn Sof Arkestra & Bigger Band, Hasidic New Wave, Midnight Minyan, Pitom, Rashanim and poet Jake Marmer

Admission $25 ($20 students/advance sales).
Reserve Now!

For more info: hsixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events/#tfest

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Eyal Maoz (acoustic guitar) / Avi Avital (mandolin)—solos and duets. Curated by Marc Ribot and Marco Cappelli

Tuesday, December 14 at 10 PM
Watty and Meg Restaurant
248 Court St. Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: 718- 643 0007
www.wattyandmeg.com

Cover price: $10

Curated by Marc Ribot and Marco Cappelli, Eyal Maoz is invited to perform a solo set at this intriguing concert series that brings two acoustic guitarists into a 30 minutes solo set each, and a duet session, that may be joined by Ribot or Cappelli.

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Tzadik Records Guitar Night with Edom and Rashanim

Monday, December 13 between 8:30 to 10:30 PM., $10
Community Synagogue/Max D. Raiskin Center.
325 E. Sixth Street (between 1st Ave. and 2nd Ave.)
East Village, New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

Two of the most interesting bands join forces in this
special night of music.

Edom: Where Jazz meets New Wave, and echoes of Joy Division are counterposed with John Zorn's Electric Masada, begins the rocking odyssey of Edom. With Eyal Maoz, guitar; Brian Marsella, keyboards; Shanir Blumenkranz, bass and Yuval Lion, drums.

Rashanim: Rashanim ('noisemakers' in Hebrew) combines the power of rock with the spontaneity of improvisation, deep Middle Eastern grooves, and mystical Jewish melodies. With Jon Madof, guitar; Shanir Blumenkranz, bass and Mathias Kunzli, drums.

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9 Volt Circuistry Live

Saturday, December 5th at 8 PM, FREE
Shrine.
2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. (133-134 St)
New York, NY 10030
Telephone: 212-690-7807
Event URL shrinenyc.com/schedule.php

9 Volt Circuistry is an unlikely collaboration between 2 accomplished band leaders: trombonist, New York City native Rick Parker and Israeli guitarist Eyal Maoz. Parker's use of electronics with the trombone combined with Maoz's unique approach to guitar and effects results in a music that is a synthesis electronic experimental, rock, jazz and neoclassical minimalism. The trio is usually completed by drummer Yonadav Halevy or Ziv Ravitz, both of whom can be found crossing genres of music and the globe with their unique rhythmic talents.

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Maoz, Ligeti and Muskatel Trio

Friday, December 4th at 9 PM, $5
The Freedom Garden
294 Troutman St. 1L, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Event URL: bushwickbackyards.com

Eyal Maoz, guitar, is a downtown guitarist and composer. Band leader and cooperator in numerous original music projects.

Lukas Ligeti, percussion, is a composer, drummer, percussionist and electronic music artist. He is the leader of the renown African pop band Burkina Electric and numerous ensembles.

Elad Muskatel is a renowned bassist and composer.

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No Net Trio—Thomson, Maoz, Ligeti

Tuesday, November 30 at 10 PM
Jalopy
315 Columbia Street Brooklyn, New York 11231
Tel: 718.395.3214
www.jalopy.biz/performance_show.php?eventid=1630

Cover price: $5

About No Net Trio
An extreme avant garde power trio in rare appearance. Ken Thomson (Gutbucket) is a Brooklyn-based clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer.

Eyal Maoz, guitar, is a downtown guitarist and composer. Band leader and cooperator in numerous original music projects.

Lukas Ligeti, percussion, is a composer, drummer, percussionist and electronic music artist. He is the leader of the renown African pop band Burkina Electric and numerous ensembles.

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Eyal Maoz Film Band

This Thursday, Oct 14, at 10 PM.

At The Stone
NW corner of Ave C and 2nd St, east village
$10

with:
Uri Sharlin - keys (www.urisharlin.com)
Leah Paul - flutes
Elad Muskatel - Bass
Mathias Kunzli - drums (mathiaskunzli.com)
Eyal Maoz - guitar (www.eyalmaozmusic.com)

World premiere of films and video art inspired songs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 Apr 4, 2010 features Talat

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

Order tickets online now for Diaspora Redux - American Premiere

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

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

$30.50 in advance/ $31.50 at the door

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

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

Order tickets online now for Diaspora Redux - American Premiere

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

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

$30.50 in advance/ $31.50 at the door

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

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

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

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

$50

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

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

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

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

$50

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

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Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band on March 22nd

The Max Raiskin Center for the Arts at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue, in Manhattan’s historic East Village, is proud to announce the March 22 premier of NYC’s newest addition to the canon of new Jewish influenced music and culture, the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, under the direction of saxophonist Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and grammy winning trumpeter Frank London.The Arkestra consists of some of the most innovative artists on the scene today, such as Pam Fleming, Paul Shapiro, Aaron Alexander, Fima Ephron, Eyal Maoz and many others. The repertoire will consist of original compositions and arrangements of the members and guest composers, in the great NuJu/Rad Jew/SunRaJoo tradition. It all kicks off on March 22, at 9PM

Admission:$15 including one free libation

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Eyal Maoz's EDOM

Edom is a pop-rock-klez-jazz band led by Eyal Maoz. It is where Jazz meets New Wave, and echoes of Joy Division are counterposed with John Zorn's Electric Masada.

Pianos: Tuesday Dec 22 at 11 PM.
All concerts that night in one ticket, including
EDOM 11 PM
THE CROWN VANDALS (MONTREAL) 10PM
SAVANTES 9PM
JAMIE AND HIS BOYFRIENDS 8PM
Ticket TBA. Check www.pianosnyc.com/showroom

Pianos is at 158 Ludlow Street, New York City
212.505.3733

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Eyal Maoz's EDOM, Greg Wall's Later Prophets, Jake Marmer & Friends
Radical Jewish Music & Poetry Fest!

Thursday, December 24, 2009
Time: 8:00pm - 10:30pm
Location: 6th Street Shul, 325 East 6th Street New York, NY

$15 DO/$12 with RSVP to Sixth St Shul

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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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Malasartes Musique is happy to announce the launch of three new CDs on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 8:30pm at the Sala Rossa (4848 St. Laurent) in Montreal. Tickets: $10 at the door.

Amy Horvey, well known as a contemporary music and klezmer trumpeter, will present her debut solo CD "Interview". The product of several years of research and live performance, "Interview" represents a collaboration featuring composers Cecilia Arditto, Anna Hostman, Ryan Purchase (renowned as the trombonist of the Lithuanian Empire) and Jeff Morton.

"Migration", by the string trio Cordame, combines musical explorations of sonic images with an unusual sensuality and sensitivity. Featuring Jean Falix Mailloux (double bass), Marie-Neige Lavigne (violin), and Julie Odile Gauthier-Morin (cello), accompanied by Rami Giguare (guitar) as well as Pierre Tanguay and Ziya Tabassian (percussion).

In the new CD by Nozen, a quartet of "ultraspace surfers" ride a wave of Jewish music and contemporary jazz, formed by Damian Nisenson (sax/composition), Bernard Falaise (guitar), Jean Falix Mailloux (bass), and Pierre Tanguay (drums).

Selections from the CDs to be launched will be performed on October 28th. Performances by other artists from the Malasartes Musique label will also take place, including Ironiko Orchestra, Bomata, and the Jean-Marc Habert Quartet.

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Eyal Maoz's Edom (Tzadik records) live at Zebulon

Monday, August 24 at 10 PM
Edom live at Zebulon
http://www.zebuloncafeconcert.com/
258 Wythe Ave at Metropolitan Ave.
Williamsburg, NY.

No cover

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Eyal Maoz's Edom (Tzadik records) live at Pianos

Sunday, August 16th, at 11PM at Pianos
158 Ludlow St (at Stanton St.)
New York, NY 10002
(212) 505-3733
pianosync.com

No cover.

Edom live at Pianos.
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The Washington Jewish Music Festival - 6/4-6/11

Feinsmith Quartet
Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater, Washington DCJCC
1529 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
June 9, 7:30 pm

Composer Daniel David Feinsmith constructs his original classical compositions using the gematria (numerology) of Jewish holy texts, including the Tanakh and ancient Kabbalistic writings, turning the written word into beautiful and astonishing arrangements. The music crosses the boundaries of tradition, evoking the exhilaration of mystical Judaism and interpreting the words of Torah anew. Each member of Feinsmith Quartet—cellist Jennifer Culp, bassist Michael Manring, classical guitarist Gyan Riley and pianist Christopher Taylor—has received critical acclaim for their unique talents.

This evening is sponsored by the United Jewish Endowment Fund
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Study Center
If you'd like to attend this event you can purchase tickets online.

Presented in partnership with Teev Events, Inc.
Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel

For information: 202-777-3251 or wjmf.org.

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The Washington Jewish Music Festival - 6/4-6/11

Pitom
Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater, Washington DCJCC
1529 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
June 8, 8:00 pm

Pitom is guitarist and composer Yoshie Fruchter's musical experiment and exploration into the music that has inspired him. Taking cues from the punk/avante rock aesthetic of the experimental downtown Jewish scene, including John Zorn and Hassidic New Wave, this manic foursome plays wild and frenetic melodies, supported by a mixture of dreamlike tones and driving distortion. Maryland-native Yoshie Fruchter joins Jeremy Brown on violin, Noah Jarrett on bass and Kevin Zubek on drums to produce the next step in Jewish sound. Pitom’s first CD, released on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records, was noted as one of the best debut albums of the year by The Wall Street Journal.

“Yoshie combines influences from Frank Zappa, Sonic Youth and Masada into a rocking band performing catchy, hooky compositions that both pay tribute to and challenge the Jewish tradition…Pitom is a hard-edged new addition to the legacy of Radical Jewish Culture.”
—John Zorn

This evening is sponsored by Ralph and Louie Dweck
If you'd like to attend this event you can purchase tickets online.

Presented in partnership with Teev Events, Inc.
Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel

For information: 202-777-3251 or wjmf.org.

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PARADOX TRIO - ENJA CD release!
May 29th at Drom, 7:30 pm (to 10pm) in NYC!
DROM,
85 Avenue A, NYC.
(212) 777-1157,
dromnyc.com

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Levontin 7 in London
Tuesday 12th May, from 7pm
Levontin 7 logo
Tel Aviv's hippest live music, Levontin 7, visits London for one night only in residence at the Barfly in Camden. Come and listen to some of the best and most adventurous sounds from London-based Israeli musicians Koby Israelite and Noam Inbar, Oy Division and HaBiluim, and singer-songwriter Lail Arad.

Barfly, 49 Chalk Farm Road NW1
www.barflyclub.com

£10
Book online on JCC for London or call 020 7431 9866

Produced by www.yadarts.com for JCC London

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Eyal Maoz's Edom (Tzadik Records) in a concert.
New Middle eastern experimental jazz-rock.

With:
Eyal Maoz-guitar and compositions
Brian Marsella - organ
Shanir Blumenkranz - bass
Yuval Lion - drums

New Jewish Rock-Jazz

Brooklyn Library.
Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, 718-230-2100
Thursday, May 7th 7PM.
Free concert !

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Monica Acosta
Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 APRIL 2009 7:30 P.M.

Contemporary Music

The Space
Part of the Enterprise 2009 festival
Isle of Dogs - 269 West Ferry Road
London E14 3RS
Tube: Mudchute DLR

Tickets £10/£6 conc. on the door
£8 discount tickets available in advance from box office 0207 515 7799 (password GOLD)

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Lyrebird
Matt Darriau (clarinet, sax, Bulgarian kaval, gaida, flutes, toys)
Katie Down (steel cello, glass instruments, flutes, lithophone, ukulele, toys)

The Stone this Friday, March 27th
10PM slot!

The Stone is on the corner of Avenue C and 1st Street in Manhattan.
www.thestonenyc.com

a duo exploring unusual acoustic instruments of wind, water, earth and metal that employs live looping and sampling to intricate atmospheres of texture and groove. Down, a downtown theatrical sound designer and composer also known for her musical antics in the Ukuladies, plays flute, glass harp and glass objects, steel cello, lithophone, and other assorted toys. Darriau, of Klezmatics and Paradox Trio, is noted for his expertise on Bulgarian instruments, world flutes, and reeds.

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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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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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Clare Burson
Silver and Ash
Clare will be performing her Six Points project, a collection of ambient songs with soulful American roots investigating the interplay of individual and collective Jewish identity through one woman’s experience. At this debut of Clare's multi-media performance piece, audience members will receive a sampler of the album as well as a collaborative artist book created in response to the songs.

Thursday, February 26, 7:30pm
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette Street, New York City
www.joespub.com

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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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"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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"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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The Sway Machinery
opening for ANTIBALAS

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 - 8 PM doors/9PM show
Southpaw
125 Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217

718 230 0236
spsounds.com ;
Price: $18 advance/$20 night of show

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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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Radio Wonderland with guest Jeremiah Lockwood
January 14, 2009 10:10pm

92nd Street Y – Tribeca
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
212.415.5500

Front man of The Sway Machinery and frequent collaborator with Balkan Beat Box, Jeremiah Lockwood, joins award-winning downtown composer Joshua Fried’s RADIO WONDERLAND project, famous for pulling dance beats out of thin air with nothing but a boombox, laptop, steering wheel and some old shoes. For this one of a kind duet, expect real-time media mashups, digitally-damaged groove-ology and soaring cantorial vocals.

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Gary Lucas Performs the Golem
January 13, 2009 9:00PM

92nd Street Y – Tribeca
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
212.415.5500

"Gary Lucas is the Semitic reincarnation of Jimi Hendrix" (Hamburg Morgenpost) ... "One of the best and most original guitarists in America" (Rolling Stone)... "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero" (The New Yorker). Legendary guitarist Gary Lucas plays sold-out shows all over the world with this fantastic music and film project!

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Andrea Dezso
The Demon Bridegroom and Other Stories (Featuring Original Score by Jeremiah Lockwood)

The Demon Bridegroom is a stop motion puppet animation that has its origin in the mystical tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. The story deals with inner freedom, the choices of the individual who lives in an oppressive system, and the illusory nature of time, place and human experience.

Part of LABAPALOOZA at St. Ann's Warehouse
38 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Wednesday, January 7, 8pm
Friday, January 9, 8pm
Saturday, January 10, 2pm
Tickets $20, available here

For more information, a.parsons.edu/~dezsoa/

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Andrea Dezso
The Demon Bridegroom and Other Stories (Featuring Original Score by Jeremiah Lockwood)

The Demon Bridegroom is a stop motion puppet animation that has its origin in the mystical tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. The story deals with inner freedom, the choices of the individual who lives in an oppressive system, and the illusory nature of time, place and human experience.

Part of LABAPALOOZA at St. Ann's Warehouse
38 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Wednesday, January 7, 8pm
Friday, January 9, 8pm
Saturday, January 10, 2pm
Tickets $20, available here

For more information, a.parsons.edu/~dezsoa/

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David Griffin
"Hebrew School"
David Griffin will be rocking out with "Hebrew School", an exploration of the disaffection of Jewish youth in an urban center. The collection includes biblical narratives, deconstructed prayers, atheist rants, summer camp songs gone wild, noisy love songs, and good old fashioned indie-rock.

Thursday, January 8, 7:30pm
Featuring Joemca & the Poets and the Wailing Wall
Union Hall
702 Union Street @ 5th Ave, Brooklyn
Tickets $8, click here for more info

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Come celebrate Independence day a bit early with Klezcentricity's participation in the Chanukah Feast LIVE at Strathmore event is fast approaching and there are a few tickets left. This will be a great concert in one of the best concert halls in the Mid-Atlantic—Bethesda's Strathmore Hall (www.strathmore.org)

We'll be performing with our great friend Marc Glickman and sharing the bill with Robyn Helzner, The Alexandria Kleztet and more—all in celebration of Chanukah and support of Hungry for Music.

For Tickets and more information see:
www.strathmore.org

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Andrea Dezso
The Demon Bridegroom and Other Stories (Featuring Original Score by Jeremiah Lockwood)

The Demon Bridegroom is a stop motion puppet animation that has its origin in the mystical tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. The story deals with inner freedom, the choices of the individual who lives in an oppressive system, and the illusory nature of time, place and human experience.

Part of LABAPALOOZA at St. Ann's Warehouse
38 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Wednesday, January 7, 8pm
Friday, January 9, 8pm
Saturday, January 10, 2pm
Tickets $20, available here

For more information, a.parsons.edu/~dezsoa/

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A Match Made on the Bowery
Yiddish Princess and The Avi Fox-Rosen Band live at BPC

Saturday, Jan 3, 2009, 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Bowery Poetry Club
Bowery between Houston + Bleeker
New York, NY

2 bands united as they could only be at Bowery Poetry Club. 2 bands with a mission to bring you joy through your ears. A MATCH MADE ON THE BOWERY.

YIDDISH PRINCESS
Looking to reconcile your love of 80s power pop with your love of traditional Yiddish music? Your search is over. Behold, Yiddish Princess in all its Yiddish belting, guitar wailing, synthed out glory. Yiddish Princess is: Sarah Mina Gordon, vocals; Michael Winograd, synths; Avi Fox-Rosen, guitar; Jon Singer, drums; Yoshie Fruchter, guitar; Ari Folman Cohen, bass.

THE AVI FOX ROSEN BAND
Absurdist Rock Cabaret. Whisper to wail singing accompanied by screaming accordion, junk yard razor blade guitar playing, cantankerous marimba, grooves that make your backside weep. Various friends take the stage and escort you through a universe populated by hot girls on bikes, religious fundamentalists who worship themselves, 10 foot monkeys in heels, and renegade criminal bankers. Sound familiar ?

a mere $10
presented by The Organization For Unfunded Culture (OFUC)

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Michael Winograd's Infection @ GSW Spaghetti Dinner!!

GREAT SMALL WORKS end-of-the-year SPAGHETTI DINNER bash!
Tuesday, December 30th, 7:30pm
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, NYC

including...
MICHAEL WINOGRAD'S INFECTION - skeleton mambo with a twist!
Michael Winograd, Jessica Lurie, Petr Cancura, Jeremy Udden - reeds
Joe Moffet, Frank London - trumpets
Dan Blacksberg - trombone
Patrick Farrell - accordion
Avi Fox-Rosen - guitar
Jorge Roeder - bass
Jon Singer - xylophone, percussion
Jason Nazary, Kenny Wollesen - percussion
Kristin Slipp - vox

FLIGHT - a shadow theater piece depicting the journey of a person displaced - shadows created & performed by Erik Ruin, with assistance from Leslie Rogers & live violin score by Katt Hernandez

a GREAT SMALL WORKS Festival of Lights Shadow Show

special new year sonic massages performed by WOLLESONIC

and, excerpts from Bread & Puppet Theater's
DIRT CHEAP OPERA, after Bertolt Brecht

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

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

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ROULETTE
Thurs. Oct. 30, 8:30 PM

Spring events are at 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets).
Performances begin at 8:30pm, unless otherwise noted.
Reservations/Tickets: 212.219.8242
Admission: $15 / Harvestworks and DTW members, Students & Seniors: $10
Roulette members / Location One members: free.

Anthony Coleman: Confronting The Current Paradigm

Something happened and a lot of new work came out of it. Please come and find out what. Tonight's program includes Artifacts for String Quartet, The Other of Language for Violin and Cello, Six Short Pieces For Piano,...it was in a Hotel...and More!

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

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

For tickets visit tickets.jccsf.org.

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

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

For tickets visit tickets.jccsf.org.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Paradox Trio Trio!
Monday, Oct 13th
Barbes (6th ave @ 9th st BROOKLYN)
7pm (one set)

Matt Darriau - reeds+
Seido Salifoski - percussion +
Greeg Heffernan - cello +

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Our dear friends.
It's just one more week until the The Sway Machinery premieres Hidden
Melodies Revealed 2008—a secret celebration of Rosh HaShana. We
desire your attendance … get your tickets now!

This year, our explosive and emotive presentation of the Cantorial
Music tradition will be accented by the world premiere of an animated
film by the brilliant artist Andrea Dezsö, entitled Scenes From the
Life of Ben Zion Kapov-Kagan. The film, which was specially created
for this event, is based on stories by Jeremiah Lockwood.

New music, ancient worlds revived, dreams vivified and barn-storming
action are in store!

This year the new and expanded Hidden Melodies Revealed will be
presented on both nights of Rosh HaShana: Monday, September 29 and
Tuesday, September 30, both nights at 10PM at the beautiful Le
Poisson Rouge.

Click here to buy tickets for the first night
Click here to buy tickets for the second night

The Sway Machinery—Hidden Melodies Revealed 2008
at Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street (at Thompson)
10PM $10 admission (we encourage you to buy in advance!)

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Our dear friends.
It's just one more week until the The Sway Machinery premieres Hidden
Melodies Revealed 2008—a secret celebration of Rosh HaShana. We
desire your attendance … get your tickets now!

This year, our explosive and emotive presentation of the Cantorial
Music tradition will be accented by the world premiere of an animated
film by the brilliant artist Andrea Dezsö, entitled Scenes From the
Life of Ben Zion Kapov-Kagan. The film, which was specially created
for this event, is based on stories by Jeremiah Lockwood.

New music, ancient worlds revived, dreams vivified and barn-storming
action are in store!

This year the new and expanded Hidden Melodies Revealed will be
presented on both nights of Rosh HaShana: Monday, September 29 and
Tuesday, September 30, both nights at 10PM at the beautiful Le
Poisson Rouge.

Click here to buy tickets for the first night
Click here to buy tickets for the second night

The Sway Machinery—Hidden Melodies Revealed 2008
at Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street (at Thompson)
10PM $10 admission (we encourage you to buy in advance!)

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The The Sway Machinery
will be playing at Union Pool tomorrow night, having some fun and trying out some new material before our MASSIVE show at Celebrate Brooklyn on July 20.

Union Pool
Thursday, June 26 9PM
484 Union Avenue on the corner of Union and Meeker
(just by the Lorimer L train stop)
$5 admission

We can't wait to see you!!! We're seriously stomping these days, fresh from our Canadian adventure recording our upcoming album and generally rushing headlong into abysses of pleasure/memory/terror.

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Come get out of the heat tonight and listen to the first solo set by Glenn Dickson, of Shirim and Naftule's Dream in quite a while at the Piano Factory, 791 Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts, on June 10, 8:00pm (*Entrance is through the back parking lot on Northampton). Admission is by donation ($5-10). The space is AIR CONDITIONED. Glenn's set will be ethereal and microtonal and, depending on his mood, go into some adventurous places. He will be playing for about 30 minutes. The rest of the concert is not for the faint of heart:

Stillbirth - (ex-Craniopagus), frustrated and painful harsh electronics.
www.razorsandmedicine.com

Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton - electro-acoustic mayhem using toys, guitars, computers, broken speakers, unidentifiable stuff with cables curling out of it.
www.elizabethtaylorandrichardburton.com

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

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

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

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

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Vampire Suit is excited to announce the imminent release of 'A New Song', a follow up to 'Gaze at Your Omphalos', its debut release from 2004. In support of the new release, Vampire Suit will perform at Barbes, 376 9th St., Brooklyn on March 27th at 10:00 pm.

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Miller Theatre at Columbia University
presents the final installment of the 3-year project
to commission 12 composers to write 12 concertos

POCKET CONCERTOS: YEAR THREE
Thursday, March 27, 8:00PM

This year's world premieres:

Laura Elise Schwendinger's Chiaroscuro Azzurro (for violin and chamber orchestra)
Performed by Jennifer Koh

Ichizo Okashiro's The Starry Night (for piano and chamber orchestra)
Performed by Christopher Taylor

John Zorn's The Prophetic Mysteries of Angels, Witches, and Demons
Performed by flutist Tara Helen O'Connor

Single Tickets: $25
Students $15 w/ valid ID

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Tue | 3.18 | 2008 | 8:00PM
counter)induction
Coleman, Kagel, Kurtág
Merkin Concert Hall
129 W. 67th St.
New York, NY

The dynamic composer-driven ensemble counter)induction is committed to demonstrating musical parallels in what might otherwise seem to be opposing forms; immersing audiences in the world of contemporary music through high energy performance and a razor-sharp aesthetic. counter)induction will premiere a new work by featured composer Anthony Coleman alongside the music of absurdist auteur Mauricio Kagel and Hungary's greatest living composer György Kurtág.

"An uncommon combination of precision, suppleness and an almost choreographed interpretive approach." —New York Times

This is a joint concert with composer/performer Anthony Coleman; c)i will premiere a new work, as well works by Boyce, Kurtág and Kagel. The first half of the concert will feature Coleman and friends performing Kagel's rarely heard Der Schall, quite possibly a once in a life time opportunity.

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3/15
michael winograd's infection
southpaw, brooklyn
125 Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718 230 0236
www.spsounds.com

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Ars Nova Workshops present:
Tuesday, March 4 | 8pm
Daniel Blacksberg's Yiddish Sextet featuring Frank London
with
Daniel Blacksberg, trombone
Frank London, trumpet
Michael Winograd, clarinet
Brandon Seabrook, guitar/banjo
Ron Caswell, tuba
Ritchie Barshay, percussion

Society Hill Synagogue
418 Spruce Street

$12 General Admission

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Monday, March 3 at 9pm
Rashanim + Dogcat
NO COVER
Zebulon
258 Wythe Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718.218.6934
zebuloncafeconcert.com

'NYC's baddest Jewish power trio' Rashanim returns to Zebulon for a set of new material along with selections from their three releases on John Zorn's Tzadik Records. NPR Weekend Edition Sunday's Liane Hansen has said of Rashanim: "[L]ike you've invited Dick Dale to do the music at your bar mitzvah."

Uri Sharlin's Dogcat opens the show at 9pm.

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The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band

Norman Rothstein Theatre
Sunday, March 2 at 8:30 pm

Tickets: $20 Adults / $18 JCC Members & Seniors / $12 Students
For more information and to purchase tickets, click here or call (604) 257-5145.

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Ars Nova Workshops present:
Sunday, March 2, 8pm
presented with International House
An evening featuring John Zorn’s Masada songbook
with performances from John Zorn’s Electric Masada, Jamie Saft Trio and Erik Friedlander
with
Cyro Baptista, percussion
Joey Baron, drums
Trevor Dunn, bass
Ikue Mori, electronics
Marc Ribot, el. guitar
Jamie Saft, keyboards
Kenny Wollesen, drums
Erik Friedlander, cello
John Zorn, alto saxophone

International House Philadelphia
3701 Chestnut Street

$28 Members + Seniors
$26.25 Students
$35 General Admission

Purchase Tickets

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Found In Translation
Sunday, 2 March 2008 at 4pm
JCC in Manhattan
76th & Amsterdam - New York, NY
Free

Join interpreters and translators of visionary Israeli literature, from Rav Kook to the present day, for a performance and reading of Israeli poetry and prose in English translation. Featuring the debut of Itzhak Marmorstein's settings of Rav Kook's mystical poetry to music (featuring a full band, including Greg Wall), as well as readings by Zeek translations editor Adam Rovner, Adriana X. Jacobs, and Jessica Cohen.

Bonus: Come early (1-3pm) for hummous sampling or stay after for wine tasting (6-7:30pm) - both free!

Hear the words of the holy land come alive. Co-presented by Zeek Magazine.

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

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JOHN ZORN'S
Sefer Shir Shel Shir Ha-Shirim / The Song of Songs

February 22 and 23 at 8pm At The Abrons Arts Center /Henry Street Settlement 466 Grand St. at Pitt St. on the Lower East Side - 212-598-0400

Featuring Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson.

Opening act--John Zorn's trio--Marc Ribot, Carol Emanuel & Trevor Dunn

Scored for five female voices and two narrators, Shir Ha-Shirim is John Zorn's lush and sensitive setting of the Song of Songs, the world's first erotic verse. Featuring the expressive voices of two of the world's greatest storytellers, Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, this is a romantic and lyrical project evoking feelings of love, eroticism and spirituality. With Martha Cluver, Lisa Bielawa, Kathryn Mulvihill, Abby Fischer, and Kirsten Sollek.

www.henrystreet.org/arts

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JOHN ZORN'S
Sefer Shir Shel Shir Ha-Shirim / The Song of Songs

February 22 and 23 at 8pm At The Abrons Arts Center /Henry Street Settlement 466 Grand St. at Pitt St. on the Lower East Side - 212-598-0400

Featuring Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson.

Opening act--John Zorn's trio--Marc Ribot, Carol Emanuel & Trevor Dunn

Scored for five female voices and two narrators, Shir Ha-Shirim is John Zorn's lush and sensitive setting of the Song of Songs, the world's first erotic verse. Featuring the expressive voices of two of the world's greatest storytellers, Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, this is a romantic and lyrical project evoking feelings of love, eroticism and spirituality. With Martha Cluver, Lisa Bielawa, Kathryn Mulvihill, Abby Fischer, and Kirsten Sollek.

www.henrystreet.org/arts

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Jeremiah Lockwood of the Sway Machinery: Hidden Melodies Revealed
a work-in-progress showing
Feb. 20, 7pm
Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St, NYC, $10
Tickets at www.ticketweb.com or 917.606.8200

Jeremiah Lockwood will be performing solo, playing pieces from The Sway Machinery repetoire and new works-in-progress from the Hidden Melodies Revealed project. His performance will be followed by a scholarly discussion of the history of Cantorial music with Peter Rachefsky, Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, and Cantor David Lefkowitz, of the Park Avenue Synagogue.

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The 2008 People's Commissioning Fund (PCF) Concert, New York City

BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS
with special guest IVA BITTOVÁ
Wednesday, February 13, at 8pm
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023

Bang on a Can All-Stars make their annual return to Merkin for the 2008 People's Commissioning Fund concert. Three world premieres commissioned by the people! The All-Stars premiere work by two inventive New York composers Tristan Perich and Ken Thomson and Turkish electroacoustic composer Erdem Helvaciaglu; then welcome avant-gypsy-folk singer-violinist Iva Bittová from the Czech Republic for a rare NY performance of their riveting live collaboration.

This annual concert at Merkin has become a mob scene in recent years and we enourage you to get your tickets early! Purchase tickets here. With a palette as wide-ranging as audio-sculpture, electronica, punk-jazz-fusion, eastern European experimental folk and more set upon the virtuoso musicians of Bang on a Can, this promises to be a super special concert. The PCF is a radical partnership between artists and audiences to commission works from adventurous composers. More info at our site.

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Frantic Turtle greets you neuro-rasta-snow-howl stylee! We got a show coming up on Feb 10th, with a sweet singer of Zion, Chana Rothman and a few wonderful writers of the Drisha Arts Fellowship program.

The Turtle will appear in a revamped minimalistic setup doing anxious situps/crunches on the King's Throne of fish.

The show's on Sunday Feb 10th, 7.30pm @ the Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston (b/n Ave B & C). No cover!

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

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

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

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

Complete Schedule Information
Tickets

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

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

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Zeitgeist Outpost * 186 1/2 Hampshire St., Cambridge
Friday, February 1, 8 PM * Suggested donation: $5

Liquid Life

Woodwinds - Jim Warshauer
Oud - Gregory White
Acoustic bass - Sven Larson
Percussion - Grant Smith

Liquid Life is a four-way collaboration featuring the unusual instrumentation of oud, woodwinds, string bass, and percussion. The band came together out of a desire to play fiery, rhythmic, improvisational music at low acoustic volumes. Performances can flow from jazz to funk grooves to distinctly middle eastern feels, all seamlessly and organically. These skilled musicians create a musical empathy in the moment that audiences can immediately relate to. Fans of acoustic music, jazz, world fusion, and collective improvisation will all connect with this exciting music.

www.liquidlifemusic.com
www.myspace.com/liquidlifemusic

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Friday, Jan 25th, there is a concert of acoustic ambient ensemble music, with 100 glasses tuned in just intonation, bowed cymbals, and a host of talented instrumentalists. The concert is at Church of the Advent, corner of Mt Vernon & Brimmer sts, Beacon Hill—close to Charles Street & Arlington T stops.

Ricardo Donoso- percussion, cymbals etc
Thadd Comstock- glass & cymbals
Heather Townsend- glass
Peter Warren- cymbals etc
Jane Wang- bass etc
Joe Burgio (with 2 other movers)
Bill Barclay- cymbals and glass etc
Glenn Dickson- clarinet
Adam Foam- glass
Heather Kuhn- violin, glass, voice
Matt Samolis- flute, cymbals, percussion, etc

Show is at 8 pm, voluntary donations always welcome.

www.myspace.com/metalandglass

Directions to the church: theadvent.org/geninfo/direct.htm

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Friday Night, January 18, at 8:00:

at Outpost 186
186 Hampshire st, Cambridge- near the corner of Prospect Street,
Central Square T
$5.00

The Vortex Series for new and improvised music presents:

Solo, duo and quartet improvised music!

Glenn Dickson clarinet--Shirim, Naftule's Dream
Todd Brunel clarinets-- Rivera Brunel Method
Matt Samolis flute--Uncle Shoe, Bowed Metal
Robert Rivera cello--Rivera Brunel Method

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Ayelet Rose Gottlieb - Mayim Rabim (Great Waters)
Monday, January 14, 2008
9:30pm - 10:30pm
Drom
85 Avenue A, between 5th & 6th Streets
New York City | View Map
Phone: 212.777.1157

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BrechtForum
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets, New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 242-4201 - Email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org

ANTHONY COLEMAN

Saturday, January 12
9:00 pm
NEUES KABARETT
Anthony Coleman
Featuring the world premiere of a Brecht Forum-commissioned piece by one of today's most exciting composer/pianists
Jennifer Choi & Cornelius Dufallo (violins), Stephanie Griffith (viola), Alex Waterman (cello), Anthony Coleman (piano & organ), Chris McIntyre (trombone), Gareth Flowers (trumpet)

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A Single Eye of Fire--The Sway Machinery celebrates the first night of
Chanukah at Joe's Pub

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 9:30 PM
Joe's Pub -
425 Lafayette Street between East 4th and Astor Place
New York, NY 10003
212-967-7555
Tickets: $12

Celebrating the first night of Chanukah, The Sway Machinery burns the single eye of fire into the night, raging like ancient history poured out of the fantasy life of a child. The first full band TSM show since our barn-raising stomp Hidden Melodies Revealed. We are thinking that this may be a sold out event, so we would encourage everyone to get your tickets now.

Tickets available on the web: web.joespub.com/caltool/index.cfm?fuseaction=detail&performanceID=3578

The DVD of Hidden Melodies Revealed, which would make an ideal holiday present for almost anyone, will be offered for sale.

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Sun November 4th, 7-10, The Lilypad 1353 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Fine Foreign Film with Special Guests Novelty Act.

FFF is still frolicking with the Classic Italian film music from the 50s on up to today.

with Rick Stone on reeds, Andrew Stern guitar, Michael McLaughlin on piano, Andrew Blickenderfer on bass and other strings, and Eric Platz on drums

Novelty Act: Lead by composer and singer/songwriter Colin Stack, his music is an eclectic mix of rock, bluegrass, R&B, jazz, folk and vaudeville. I've always said he draws from the days when song writing actually told stories. Members include Colin on vox, guitar and piano, Jonathon Kooper on piano, Carmen Staff on piano and accordion, Mark Coheo on lead guitar, Rick Stone on sax, Kendal Eddy on bass, Jorge Perez and Mark Levy on Percussion

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Oyhoo Festival

Mima'amakim Journal of Jewish Art
in conjunction with New York Jewish Music Festival present:

The New Jewish Music & Poetry
Definitive Collective

Featuring: Rashanim, Frantic Turtle, Steve Dalachinsky, Adam Schechter, Matthue Roth, Dan Sieradsky, Yerra Sugarman, and more!

Wednesday, Oct 24th 7.30 pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, b/n Bleecker and Houston
Cover: $7

upcoming.yahoo.com/event/286314

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Oct. 24th, 8pm
John Madof's Rashanim
Bowery Poetry Club, NYC

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October 21, 2007 08:00PM

Highline Ballroom
431 W 16th St, (btwn 9th and 10th Ave.)
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Two great Israeli bands on one bill: Teapacks with their song “Push the Button” was Israel’s entry for the Eurovision contest. It raised a Brou-Ha-Ha by the European organizers, as it referred indirectly to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The YouTube video featuring the hit song instantly was viewed by over a million people.

Teapacks is:
Kobi Oz – Lead Vocal
Gal Peremen – Bass & vocals
Rami Yosifov – Guitar & vocals
Moti Yosephe – Drums
Noaam Yankelevitch – Keyboards, accordion & vocals
Danny Aberjel – Guitar

Izabo’s music has been described as a “Brilliant, action packed combination of Psychedelic Rock, Disco, Punk and Arabic spices”, or, if we are to name-drop, like an unlikely cross between Led Zeppelin, the Talking Heads, and Om Koltom.

Spinning between sets is dj handler, the founder and director of Shemspeed, Modular Moods, an independent record label, and the Sephardic Music Festival. As the brains behind Modular Moods and many of the hyped parties in and around NYC, dj handler defies musical stereotypes.
Oyhoo Festival

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Edom
October 21 at 11PM
Zebulon Cafe Concert
$5 Sugested
258 Wythe Ave. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Edom brings its innovative fusion of avant-garde jazz and Israeli Jewish music to Brooklyn. Edom is led by Israeli-born, composer/guitarist Eyal Maoz, and features Brian Marsella on organ, Shanir Blumenkranz on bass, and Yuval Lion on drums. The group's self-titled debut album was released in 2005 by John Zorn's Tzadik Label as part of its Radical Jewish Culture series and has performed at the 2006 Montreal Jazz Festival.

spikehill.com

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Julie Silver
October 21, 2007 02:00PM

The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street
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Described as a "one-woman Indigo Girls with a voice as smooth as Karen Carpenter," soulful folk rocker Julie Silver weaves together melodies that delight all ages. A star of contemporary Jewish music, this is her first concert for families at the Museum.

Ages: 5 and up
Oyhoo Festival

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Bagels and Bongos
October 21, 2007 11:00AM

Highline Ballroom
431 W 16th St, (btwn 9th and 10th Ave.)
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This show will feature Jewish Cuban Gypsy sounds of Roberto Rodriguez with special guests, including the legendary Irving Fields, Salsa great Larry Harlow, Frank London, Aaron Halva-Tres and others.

Nosh on Bagels and Lox with a choice of Margarita or Mojito and Hebrew Beer. (Not included in the ticket price)
Oyhoo Festival

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Edom
October 9 at 8 PM at
Spike Hill
184 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211

Phone: (718) 218-9737

Edom brings its innovative fusion of avant-garde jazz and Israeli Jewish music to Brooklyn. Edom is led by Israeli-born, composer/guitarist Eyal Maoz, and features Brian Marsella on organ, Shanir Blumenkranz on bass, and Yuval Lion on drums. The group's self-titled debut album was released in 2005 by John Zorn's Tzadik Label as part of its Radical Jewish Culture series and has performed at the 2006 Montreal Jazz Festival.

spikehill.com

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Glenn Dickson writes:

I have an exciting show next week curated by my friend and amazing clarinetist, Todd Brunel. I will be doing my solo "Clarinetrics" material, dreamy soundscapes and microtonal tone poems. Todd will also be playing new and improvisational music with Robert Rivera, cello. Should be a delightful evening of beautiful music.

It is Oct. 5 at 8:00pm, admission by donation, all ages, at the Outpost: 186 Hampshire St., Inman Sq., Cambridge.

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MATT DARRIAU PARADOX TRIO

BARBES ~Thurs 4th - 8pm (1 set).
#376 9th st at 6th ave Park Slope, Brooklyn
7th ave stop on F,
718-965-9177
barbesbrooklyn.com

Matt Darriau - reeds
Brad Shepik - guitar
Richie Barshay - perc.
Rufus Cappadocia - cello

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Edom brings its innovative fusion of avant-garde jazz and Israeli Jewish music to Brooklyn. Edom is led by Israeli-born, composer/guitarist Eyal Maoz, and features Brian Marsella on organ, Shanir Blumenkranz on bass, and Yuval Lion on drums. The group's self-titled debut album was released in 2005 by John Zorn's Tzadik Label as part of its Radical Jewish Culture series and has performed at the 2006 Montreal Jazz Festival.

Edom
September 28 at 8pm at Tilles
corner of Vanderbilt and DeKalb,
Brooklyn, New York City.

www.tilliesofbrooklyn.com/tilliepages/music.html

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Alicia Svigals
A collaboration with pianist Uli Geissendoerfer, whose imaginative responses to Alicia's klezmer fiddling offers a fresh perspective on this old and beautiful tradition. At 9 p.m., after Alicia and Uli's set, raga singer Steve Sandberg and his band perform -- and Alicia and Uli will sit in.

Friday, June 29 at 8 pm
Sideshow Gallery
319 Bedford Avenue
718-486-8180
$10
On the L Train.
Sideshowgallery.com

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Ne(x)tworks: At The Stone
Sunday, June 24 @ 8pm & 10pm

The Stone: Corner of Ave C & 2nd St
Tickets: $10 at the door

Innerlogics I
Works by
* Andrew Byrne - "Dragnet"
* Anthony Coleman - "Seven At The Golden Shovel"
* Joan La Barbara - "in the shadow and act of the haunting place"
* Iannis Xenakis - "Keren"

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After a long break spent pursuing other activities, the members of Vampire Suit reunite at their favorite venue. The band will play on June 22nd at Barbes, 376 9th St., Park Slope, Brooklyn, at 8pm.

As the group's leader and composer, Jay Vilnai brings to Vampire Suit his wide palette experiences as a musician in New York, having shared the stage with such diverse figures as Klezmer great Frank London, saxophonist Roy Nathanson, and having played anything from traditional jazz to Balkan music, Klezmer to Schoenberg, free improv to cabaret shows.

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Two Generations of Jewish Avantgarde:
Frank London & Friends Meets Frantic Turtle

Grammy-winning downtown legend Frank London brings together a band of seasoned improvisers. Opening for him is the new avant-punk-poetry outfit Frantic Turtle. The culminating collaboration session will rip through age-roofs and convention-chairs!!

Sun May 17th at 7.30pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (b/n Bleecker & Houston)
$6

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/29 Sunday
8 pm
Romanian Bent—Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi featuring Elizabeth Schwartz
Yale Strom (violin) Sprocket (bass) Peter Stan (accordion) David Licht (drums) Elizabeth Schwartz (vocals)
Schwartz is fresh from her concert tour of Romania and Hungary (singing with Muzsikas), which was filmed for an upcoming documentary by Radu Gabrea.

10 pm
Grassi/Filiano/Lerner
Lou Grassi (drums) Ken Filiano (bass) Marilyn Lerner (piano)

For more info: thestonenyc.com

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/28 Saturday
8 pm
Andy Biskin and friends
Andy Biskin (clarinet, compositions) with special guests

10 pm
Terry Dame's Electric Junkyard Gamelan
Terry Dame, Lee Frisari, Mary Feaster, Kim Garey, Julian Hintz (invented instruments)
Original rhythm driven music on invented instruments. Funky basslines, searing modal melodies and layers of interlocking rhythms played on musical contraptions such as the Rubarp, Sitello, Kacapitar and the Big Barp. It's far out and in the pocket! www.terrydame.com

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/27 Friday
8 pm
Alicia Svigals and Marilyn Lerner: Klezmer Unfettered
Alicia Svigals (violin) Marilyn Lerner (piano)
Alicia Svigals is klezmer's most celebrated violinist; Marilyn Lerner is a jazz keyboard virtuoso who resides in Canada. They join forces at the Stone to take on the klezmer tradition and twist it into shapes hitherto unimagined, spinning symphonies on the fly out of sounds from the Eastern European Jewish past.

10 pm
Shake My Heart Like a Copper Bell—the poetry of Anna Margolin
Adrienne Cooper (voice) Marilyn Lerner (piano) with special guests
Lerner’s song cycle to amazing Yiddish poet Margolin, translations and vocals by the legendary Adrienne Cooper with everything from lieder to freeform….

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Columbia University School of the Arts announces that

JOHN ZORN
is the 2007 recipient of the William Schuman Award

Columbia's MILLER THEATRE hosts concert and award ceremony
Thursday, April 26, 8:00PM

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/26 Thursday
8 pm
Lerner/Alexander Quartet
Marilyn Lerner (piano) Aaron Alexander (drums) Greg Wall (sax) Jim Guttmann (bass)
Premiere performance of this all-star jazz/jewish ensemble…

10 pm
Percussia
Ingrid Gordon (xylophone, marimba, percussion) Ljova (viola) Demetrius Spaneas (reeds) and others
This unlikely instrument combination cooks up a set of xylo-powered, wind-driven world fusion featuring tunes by überviolist Ljova, along with assorted balkan and klez faves.

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/25 Wednesday
8 pm
The Sheryl Bailey 3
Sheryl Bailey (guitar/pen) Brian Charette (organ) Shingo Okudairu (drums)
The Sheryl Bailey 3 carries on the tradition of the Hammond B3/Guitar trio into modernity with a contemporary harmonic approach and a captivating pulse.

10 pm
Adrienne Cooper, Friends and Relations
Adrienne Cooper (voice) Michael Winograd (clarinet, piano) Dan Blacksberg (trombone)
Vocalist Adrienne Cooper is joined by clarinetist Michael Winograd, trombonist Dan Blacksberg, Yiddish Princess Sarah Gordon and others for an intergenerational Yiddish intervention.

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/24 Tuesday
8 pm
Martha Mooke's Viola X-Treme
Martha Mooke (electric violas/violins) Randolph A. Hudson, III (electric guitars) Jim Mussen (electronic drums)
Music for Strings, Percussion and … Rollover Bartok! Support the future of music at The Stone!

10 pm
The Lisa Parrott Trio
Lisa Parrott (saxophones) Chris Lightcap (double bass) Gerald Cleaver (drums)
Lisa & Chris have been performing in NY together for over 10 years, playing harmolodic inspired original improvised music. Their Stone debut! www.parrottmusic.com

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/22 Sunday
8 pm
Susan Pereira and Sabor Brasil
Susan Pereira (vocals, piano, percussion), Vanderlei Pereira (drums), Rodrigo Ursaia (sax, flute), Cliff Korman (piano), Itaiguara (bass)

10 pm
Edison Woods
"Truly beautiful, slowly meandering soundscapes… A beautiful voice and a talent for melodies."—Rolling Stone
Strange, haunting, and romantic, Edison Woods revels in luscious, sad songs. Singer Julia Frodahl’s heavenly vocals layered on the bands’ moody chamber pop create “a beautiful cross between the sounds of Elysian Fields and the sentiments of David Lynch” (Flavorpill NYC). Live, their musical passages, spoken word, and discreet gestures sweep the audience into their dreamlike world. www.edisonwoods.net

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/21 Saturday
8 pm
Jessica Lurie Ensemble
Jessica Lurie (sax, accordion, vocals) Erik Deutsch (piano, electric keyboard) Brandon Seabrook (banjo, guitar) Todd Sickafoose (bass) Marc Dalio (drums)

10 pm
Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh
Aaron Alexander (drums) David Licht (drums) Fima Ephron (bass) Jay Vilnai (guitar) Alex Kontorovich (clarinet) Greg Wall (tenor sax, clarinet) Rob Henke (trumpet) Curtis Hasselbring (trombone)

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/20 Friday
8 pm
Juanito Pascual and Friends
Jonathan "Juanito" Pascual (flamenco guitar) Rohan Gregory (violin) Stan Strickland (flute, soprano sax, vocals) Jerry Leake (world percussion).
Flamenco guitar virtuoso Jonathan "Juanito" Pascual presents an evening of original flamenco music and beyond, with his quartet featuring 3 of the East Coast's finest improvisational and world-music players. "One of the hottest flamenco guitarists to emerge in recent years" -National Public Radio jpascual.com

10 pm
Stephane Wrembel Electric
Stephane Wrembel (guitar) Jared Engel (bass) Mathias Bublath (organ) Julien Augier (drums)
Monster Guitarist Stephane Wrembel and his new electric band presents the music of Django Reinhardt and his compositions in a totally new way, blending their unique Gypsy jazz touch with a psychedelic world rock sound. www.stephanewrembel.com

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/19 Thursday
8 pm
Michael Winograd Quintet
Michael Winograd (clarinet, alto clarinet) Kristin Slipp (voice) David Bryant (casio keyboards) Michael Bates (bass) Michael Evans (drums)

10 pm
Bangalore Breakdown
Uli Geissendoerfer (piano, keys, percussion) Premik Russel Tubbs (sax, flute, windsynth) Gino Sitson (vocals) Beat Kaestli (vocals) Steve Sandberg (leadsynth, vocals) Naren Budhakar (tabla) Gilad Dobrecky (percussion) Nathan Peck (bass) Lev Zhurbin (viola)

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/18 Wednesday
8 pm
Mark Sganga and Friends
Mark Sganga (guitar) and friends
Acoustic improvisations with a Brazilian accent. www.marksganga.com

10 pm
Stephane Wrembel Acoustic
Stephane Wrembel (guitar) Jared Engel (bass) David Langlois (washboard)
Monster Guitarist Stephane Wrembel and his band perform the music of Django Reinhardt in their own special way, blended with compositions and colors from India and Africa; each show is a different trip! www.stephanewrembel.com

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/17 Tuesday
8 pm
Greg Wall's Later Prophets
Greg Wall (saxophones) Shai Bachar (keyboards) David Richards (bass) Aaron Alexander (drums)
Simultaneously Straddling the Gates of the Ancient and the Avant-garde….

10 pm
Quartetto Cui Bono
Art Bailey (accordion, piano) Peter Van Huffel (sax) Ernesto Cervini (drums) Michael Bates (bass) special guest Alicia Svigals (violin)
An evening of new music.

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/15 Sunday
8 pm
Mimi Rabson and Bruno Raberg
Mimi Rabson (violin) Bruno Raberg (bass)
Compositional Improvisation and Improvised Compositons

10 pm
The Ingrid Jensen Quartet
Ingrid Jensen (trumpet and electronics) and band

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/13 Friday
8 pm
Lily White and Follicle
Lily White (saxes) Rob Garcia (drums) Greg Jones (bass)
Crazy music from the mind of saxophonist Lily White in her most compact group yet. www.lilywhitemusic.com

10 pm
Cynthia Hilts & Lyric Fury
Cynthia Hilts (composer, piano, voice) Jack Walrath (trumpet) Lily White
(tenor and alto sax) Lisa Parrott
(baritone and soprano sax) Debra Weisz
(trombone) Martha Colby (cello) Ratzo Harris (bass) Gene Jackson (drums)
New jazz that nods at the traditions,swings like hell and searches the deepest harmonic zones. Howls and lullabies, ice and predators are all in there, the perfect answer to a listener's natural raving desire for organic and furious lyricism.

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/12 Thursday
8 pm
Ghetto Tango
Adrienne Cooper (voice) Zalmen Mlotek (piano)
Adrienne Cooper and Zalmen Mlotek bring electrifying theatricality to the unknown satiric, down and dirty, and heartbroken repertoire of World War II European Jewish cabarets庸rom Yiddish to Weill & Eisler.

10 pm
Socalled and guests
Socalled (accordion, mpc, melodica, piano, vocals) Susan Hoffman-Watts (trumpet) Allen Watsky (guitar, bass) Micheael Winograd (clarinet) and Special Guests.
Josh Dolgin aka Socalled and his rag tag group of friends, will raise the Stone's roof with a klez-funk party unlike anything else. www.socalledmusic.com

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/11 Wednesday
8 pm
Michael Winograd's Klezmer Ensemble
Michael Winograd (clarinet, alto clarinet) Daniel Blacksberg (trombone) Carmen Staaf (piano, accordion) Joey Weisenberg (mandolin) Nick Cudahy (bass) Richie Barshay (percussion)

10 pm
Alicia Svigals and Uli Geissendorfer, with special guest Iliya Magalnyk / Stone Benefit
Alicia Svigals (violin) Uli Geissendorfer (piano) Iliya Magalnyk (accordion)
Musicians from three points on the globe take a sidelong look at klezmer.

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/10 Tuesday
8 pm
Alex Kontorovich's Deep Minor
Aaron Alexander (drums) Brandon Seabrook (guitar/banjo) Reuben Radding (bass) Alex Kontorovich (clarinet, sax, compositions)
All original music from Kontorovich (sideman to Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars and Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh) mixes downtown klezmer, jazz, and other influences.

10 pm
Michael Winograd's Infection
Michael Winograd, Jessica Lurie, Petr Cancura, Jeremy Udden (reeds) Daniel Blacksberg (trombone) Jon Singer (xylophone) Brandon Seabrook (guitar) Jorge Roeder (bass) Jason Nazary (drums) Patrick Farrell (accordion) Frank London (trumpet)

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"Fine Foreign Film," Michael McLaughlin's (Naftule's Dream, Shirim) latest music project, will be performing its second show this Sunday evening at the Lilypad. Sharing the slot will be the Andy Voelker Quartet. It will be an evening of burning jazz and scrumptious lounge music. Hope to see you folks there.

The Lillypad is in Inman Square Cambridge.
1353 Cambridge St.
Show starts at 7-10

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/8 Sunday
8 pm
Songs Your Grandmother Might Know, If Your Grandmother is Hip: The Matt Glaser Quintet.
Matt Glaser (violin) Matt Munisteri (guitar) Sonny Barbato (accordion) Heather Masse (vocal) Jim Whitney (bass)

10 pm
Pablo Aslan's "Anda Cantale"
Pablo Aslan (bass)and his ensemble
The Argentine bassist explores the repertoire of the great tango singer Carlos Gardel.

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/7 Saturday
8 pm
John Zorn Improv Night / Stone Benefit
John Zorn (sax) Ikue Mori (electronics) Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) Mark Feldman (violin) Erik Friedlander (cello) Okkyung Lee (cello) Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) Cyro Baptista (percussion) and many surprise guests
Come out and support The Stone! TWENTY DOLLARS

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/6 Friday
8 pm
Noriko Ueda Jazz Orchestra
Noriko Ueda (composition, bass) 16 piece band

10 pm
Ivan Milev Band
Ivan Milev (accordion) Entcho Todorov (violin) Maria Koleva (vocals) Panagiotis Andreou (bass) Vasko Angelov (guitar) Seido Salifovski (drums)
Monster accordionist Ivan Milev and his band perform Bulgarian-Balkan folk music. Check out: myspace.com/ivanmilev

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/5 Thursday
8 pm
KJ Denhert有ucky 7, The New CD Concert
KJ Denhert (guitar, vocals, songwriter) Mamdou Ba (bass) Ray Levier (drums) ATN (keys) plus special guests from the CD!
Urban folk and jazz artist KJ Denhert makes her first NY appearance in 2007 with a brand new CD called Lucky 7. All CDs one night only to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of KJ痴 label and her seventh release

10 pm
Steve Sandberg and friends
Steve Sandberg (voice)
Spoken word, raga-influenced vocals, breath-controlled keyboard, loops plus friends tba - "music from a country I've never been to but always wanted to visit."
www.myspace.com/stevesandberg

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/4 Wednesday
8 pm
Mawwal
Jim Matus (vocals, laouto, saz) Jill O達rien (vocals) Joe O達rien (bass, vocals) Mike Keys (drums) Bill Buchen (tabla, percussion)
Record release party for MAWWAL担 new CD 釘lack Flies� on Ancient Record. MAWWAL (formerly PARANOISE) performs original World Fusion and arrangements of traditional Middle Eastern music in what has been called 殿 new genre� by Progression Magazine.

10 pm
Violin-Clarinet Multi-Night
Mari Kimura (violin) Kinan Azmeh (clarinet)
multi-cultural, multi-media duos and solos

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/3 Tuesday 8 pm
Olivier Manchon's Orchestre de Chambre Miniature
Olivier Manchon (violin) John Ellis (clarinet, sax) Alan Hampton (bass) Beth Meyers (viola) Christopher Hoffman (cello)

10 pm
Teletextile
Pamela Martinez (violin, vocals, piano) Brian Hamilton (piano, keyboards) John Somers (guitar, electronics)
Textural Instrumentals and Visceral songs, www.teletextile.com

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April 2007 at the Stone
curated by Alicia Svigals
@ the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street

4/1 Sunday
8 pm
The Carmen Staaf Quintet
Carmen Staaf (piano) Dana Sandler (voice) Dan Blake (tenor sax, soprano sax)
Kendall Eddy (bass) Austin McMahon (drums)
The NYC debut of the Carmen Staaf Quintet will feature Latin-jazz-influenced originals, new takes on swing and bebop tunes, free conversations and other explorations.

10 pm
Ben Goldberg: New Music for Quintet
Carla Kihlstedt (violin) Rob Sudduth (tenor saxophone) Devin Hoff (bass) Kenny Wollesen (drums) Ben Goldberg (clarinet, composition)
angle and particle.

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Naftule's Dream
March 29, 8:00pm
Rutman's Violin Shop
11 Westland Ave., Boston (next to Symphony Hall)
Tix: by donation
617-522-2900

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Concert - EDOM - Thursday, March 22, 8 pm

Edom brings its innovative fusion of avant-garde jazz and Israeli Jewish music to the Museum for a one-night only concert in conjunction with the Dateline Israel exhibition. Edom is led by Israeli-born, composer/guitarist Eyal Maoz, and features Brian Marsella on organ, Shanir Blumenkranz on bass, and Yuval Lion on drums. The group's self-titled debut album was released in 2005 by John Zorn's Tzadik Label as part of its Radical Jewish Culture series and has performed at the 2006 Montreal Jazz Festival.

Tickets: $15 general public; $12 students/over 65; $10 Jewish Museum members

The Jewish Museum
Tel: 212-423-3298
www.thejewishmuseum.org

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BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS with special guest MEREDITH MONK
The 2007 Peoples Commissioning Fund (PCF) Concert
Thursday, March 1, at 8pm
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023

Tickets are $20 in advance/$25 day of show - get 'em now!:
click here to buy tickets

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Dialectics of Distortion
The New Jewish Avant-garde

Thursday Feb 8th, 7.30pm
Frantic Turtle, Plain Hex, and special guests.
Exploring the logic of distortions: in poetry, jazz, and theater.

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery b/n Houston and Bleecker
$6

For more info: www.myspace.com/franticturtle
www.yoshiefruchter.com

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Frantic Turtle and Rashanim: the Lonely Avantgarde Jew on Christmas

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
New York NY
6pm
All info: upcoming.org/event/129939

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Naftule's Dream
Rutman's Violins, Sept 30, 8pm

Naftule's Dream, whose seminal recordings in the early 1990's helped create the Radical Jewish Culture movement and jumpstart John Zorn's Tzadik label, will be performing September, 30 2006, 8:00pm at Rutman's Violin Shop (11 Westland Ave., Boston, MA 02115). Admission is by donation, phone 617-522-2900 for info.

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Paul Brody's Sadawi
Chicago, IL
Fri September 15th
$10 / 9pm
Chicago World Music Festival
Cassidy Theater

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Eyal Maoz's Edom
Thursday Sept 14 at 10pm. No cover

Zebulon Cafe Concert
258 Wythe Ave. Williamsburg. Brooklyn
B/w N.3rd + Metropolitan

www.zebuloncafemusic.com

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Paul Brody's Sadawi
Knoxville, TN
Thu September 14th, 8 pm
Performing Arts and Lecture Series
Universalist Church
2931 Kingston Pike

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Charming Hostess
Thursday 14 September
6:30 PM
Talking and singing about Walter Benjamin
Magnes Museum
2911 Russell Street
Berkeley

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Paul Brody's Sadawi
New York City
Wed September 13th, 8 pm
Jewish Heritage Museum
Oyhoo - Festival of Jewish Heritage

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Paul Brody's Sadawi
Santa Cruz, CA
Sun September 10th, 7:30 pm
Cayuga Vault
1100 Soquel Avenue
www.cayugavault.com

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Paul Brody's Sadawi
Berkeley, CA
Sat September 9th, 7:30 pm
The Jazz School
2087 Addison Street
between Shattuck and Milvia
www.jewishmusicfestival.org
Info at 510/ 848 0237

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Charming Hostess

Friday 8 September
8 PM
with Fred Frith, Yuka Honda and eRikm
(AMAZING, NOT-TO-BE-MISSED PEOPLE)
Mills College Concert Hall
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland

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Paul Brody's Sadawi
Ashland (OR)
Thu September 7th, 7.30 pm
JCC of Ashland

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Paul Brody's Sadawi
San Francisco
Wed September 6th, 8.30 pm
Rasselas Jazz Club
1534 Fillmore Street near Geary
www.rasselasjazzclub.com

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Vjola Contraband
Wednesday July 12 at 9:30 PM
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY

$15.00

Tickets available at The Public Theater box office or through Telecharge:
http://www.telecharge.com or 212.239.6200 .

http://www.joespub.com

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BIG BENEFIT BASH, BANQUET & CONCERT
honoring JOSEPH V. MELILLO Executive Producer of The Brooklyn Academy of Music
featuring performances by LAURIE ANDERSON, DON BYRON, SUSAN MARSHALL & COMPANY, and the BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2006
Angel Orensanz Foundation 172 Norfolk Street (just below Houston)
6 PM Cocktails and Dinner
8-10:30 PM Cocktails and Concert

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Alex Kontorovich's Deep Minor

The Knitting Factory, in the Old Office:
74 Leonard St., NYC
Sunday, April 23, 6:30pm

Tickets are $8 in advance and at the door.
212.219.3132
www.knittingfactory.com

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Naftule's Dream is at Ruttman's again this Friday. Again, Andrew Stern will be guest guitarist, with the regular gang. Eric Rosenthal is hot off the road after playing a couple of weeks in Poland with Paul Brody. He heard a student band out in the middle of nowhere, Poland, up near Lithuania, which had transcribed Naftule tunes off the CDs and was playing them on a concert! The Naftule sound has travelled far!

So, here is the dope, you can hear it right here in Boston, or travel to Poland, take your pick:
April 21, 8:00pm-9:30pm, Rutman’s Violin Shop (11 Westland Ave., near Symphony Hall, Boston, call us at 617-522-2900 for info)
Suggested admission donation is $5.

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Naftule's Dream
March 10, 8-9:30 p.m.
Rutman's Violin Shop
5 Westland Ave. (near Symphony Hall)
617-522-2900
Tickets: $5 donation

The incomparable Andrew Stern is once again filling in on the guitar chair, (while Brandon sips tea in some Viennese Coffee shop in the old world.) Please come join us as we continue to work up new repertoire and "remap" the old.

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Alex Kontorovich's Deep Minor

MAKOR March 7th, 2006: 9:30pm
New York, NY: Makor (35 West 67th street)
Beginning at 9:30pm the evening will include the premiere performance of Alex Kontorovich's Deep Minor.

Tickets are $12 online or at the door. Call Y-Charge at 212.415.5500 or visit www.makor.org for more information and online ticket purchase.

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Rashanim performs at The Stone
Thursday February 23, 2006
10pm

Rashanim returns to The Stone for a set of music recently described by NPR's
Liane Hansen as "Dick Dale [playing] the music at your bar mitzvah." The Jewish
Power Trio is fresh off a six-country European tour following the release of
'Masada Rock,' their second full-length release on John Zorn's Tzadik Records.
Rashanim features Jon Madof (guitar), Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass), and
Mathias Kunzli (drums).

The Stone
artistic director John Zorn
Corner of Ave. C & 2nd St.

$10 per set
students 13 to 19 admitted half price
children 12 and under free

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Sunday February 5th
Kane Street Family KlezFest, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn NY
2 pm featuring:
Metropolitan Klezmer, Golem
and guest artist & soloist David Krakauer

Tickets: $20 adults/$10 kids 13+ under
Fantastic triple bill, wonderful acoustics
In a beautiful 150-year-old sanctuary building
Kane Street Synagogue, 236 Kane St btw Court & Clinton St's, Bklyn
Info: www.kanestreet.org or 718-875-1550 >

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The Tradition Continues on the Lower East Side: Experimental Music and the American Jewish Imaginary in 1990s New York City

Tamar Barzel (Wellesley College)
Respondent: Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan)

Friday, January 20
10 A.M.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY

For information on this or other events of the Jewish Music Forum, please see the website: www.jewishmusicforum.org, call 212-294-8328 or email the Jewish Music Forum.

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December 31st
Sephardic Music Festival
closing night; NYE Party! DJ Shotnez & dj handler of Balagan Boogaloo @ Makor all night / $65 (adv) or $75 (door) 35 West 67th st b/w Central Park West and Columbus Ave
www.modularmoods.com/smf/31st.html

For further information, contact:
Erez a.k.a. dj handler
Barzilai Productions
718.290.5372
E-mail dj handler
www.sephardicmusicfestival.com

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December 29th
Sephardic Music Festival
Anthony Coleman's Sephardic Tinge (8pm)
dj handler (b/w sets)
Uri Caine, Ben Perowsky & guests (10pm)
@ Tonic
8pm / $12 - 10pm / $12
107 Norfolk st
b/w Delancy & Rivington st
www.modularmoods.com/smf/29th.html

For further information, contact:
Erez a.k.a. dj handler
Barzilai Productions
718.290.5372
E-mail dj handler
www.sephardicmusicfestival.com

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The Rabbinical School Dropouts will be performing 2 concerts, Dec. 26 and Dec 27th, at the Quail Botanical Gardens Garden of Lights in Encinitas, CA. Enjoy klezmer originals from their Tzadik release Cosmic Tree, as well as traditional standards in one of California�s most beautiful locations. Each night will feature 2 sets of klezmer music, and the concerts are both from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Admission is $6 for non-members of the Gardens, $4 for members, and $2 for children under 12. You can reach the Garden at qbgardens.com and at 760.436.3036 x206. The Quail Botanical Gardens are located at 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas CA

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The Rabbinical School Dropouts will be performing 2 concerts, Dec. 26 and Dec 27th, at the Quail Botanical Gardens Garden of Lights in Encinitas, CA. Enjoy klezmer originals from their Tzadik release Cosmic Tree, as well as traditional standards in one of California�s most beautiful locations. Each night will feature 2 sets of klezmer music, and the concerts are both from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Admission is $6 for non-members of the Gardens, $4 for members, and $2 for children under 12. You can reach the Garden at qbgardens.com and at 760.436.3036 x206. The Quail Botanical Gardens are located at 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas CA

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Midrash Mish Mosh double bill with Judith Berkson's East River Orchestra at
Barbes
376 9th St, Brooklyn NY
Dec. 23

8PM - Judith Berkson's East River Orchestra
10PM - Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh

featuring
ERO: Judith Berkson, AK, Ben Holmes, Jacob Garchik, Ron Caswell, Brandon Seabrook, and Dan Weiss
MMM: Aaron Alexander, Greg Wall, AK, Ben Holmes, Jacob Garchik, Jay Vilnai, and David Licht

www.barbesbrooklyn.com

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Naftule's Dream
December 9, 8-9:30 p.m.
Rutman's Violin Shop
5 Westland Ave. (near Symphony Hall)
617-522-2900
Tickets: $5 donation

Michael McLaughlin has written some excellent new tunes which we will premiere and we will have a special guest on guitar, Andrew Stern, who is filling in for Brandon Seabrook. Andrew plays with Fat Little Bastard and is quite excellent. Otherwise, it is the regular gang: Jim Gray (tuba), Michael McLaughlin (accordion) , Gary Bohan(trumpet); Eric Rosenthal (drums), and yours truly on clarinet.

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November 19, 2005 at 8pm
Springstep Arts Center
Shirim Klezmer Party double bill w/Naftule's Dream
98 George P. Hassett Dr.
Medford, MA
Tickets $18, Students $15
781-395-0402, www.Springstep.org

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After a long summer spent composing and arranging new music, Jay Vilnai will once again take over Barbes with his Vampire Suit and with a brand new project ­ The Ethnoeccentric String Trio. The evening will commence at 7:00pm at Barbes, 376 9th St., Brooklyn, on September 30th, 2005.

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The Afro-Semitic Experience with special guest Frank London with Cantor Jack Mendelson
Saturday, September 24
Midnight Selichot Services
midnight
Temple Israel Center of White Plains
280 Old Mamaroneck Road
White Plains, New York
914-948-2800.

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Sunday the 18th, the Klez Dispensers play Lincoln Center's, Damrosch Park!!! It's free and the party starts at 6 PM. Also appearing: klezmer legend David Krakauer, yiddish legend Joanne Borts, and many other klezmer/yiddish legends. Not to be missed!

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Sunday 18th September 6pm – 1am
Oi Va Voi and friends present
Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
6pm – 1a.m. £5.

After their third successive roadblock, Radio Gagarin is back with the latest in a series of regular Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer mash-ups at the NHAC.

Co-Produced by Adrian Philpott/ Oi Va Voi / Taskovski Films / YaD Arts / Ziggurat.

www.yadarts.com

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Naftule's DreamOnly $5 cover!
Early show in an intimate setting!
September 16, 2005, 8-9:30pm
Rutman's Violins
11 Westland Ave., Boston, MA (Near Symphony Hall)

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David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness! & dj Socalled play CMJ

Nublu
62 Avenue C - between 4th & 5th Streets

10pm; Tickets are $5 at the door. For more information visit www.cmj.com/marathon or www.nublu.net

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michael winograd's Klezmergasm part II
with:
Daniel Blacksberg: trombone
Andrew Stern" Banjo
Karl Doty" Bass
MW: clarinet
guests possibly—we'll see...

9pm, $5
zeitgeist gallery
1353 Cambridge Street in Inman Square
Cambridge
617-876-6060
www.zeitgeist-gallery.org/

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Double Bill:

Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh &
Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars

at Knitting Factory, Tap Bar,
74 Leonard Street
June 22, 2005. 7:30PM - 9:30PM
$12 at the door
tel: 212 219 3006
www.knittingfactory.com

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Guitar night at the Stone!
Monday June 20 2005, 8pm
THE STONE
Avenue C & 2nd St.
Rashanim 8:00pm
Marc Ribot solo 10:00pm
$10 per set

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The Young Philadelphians: Marc Ribot, Anthony Coleman, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Calvin Weston at 8pm & 10pm, $12 per set With Anthony Coleman (keyboard / piano), Marc Ribot (guitar), Jamaaladeen Tacuma (bass) & Calvin Weston (drums). Four professional, harmelodic noise improvisers with an uncommon love of Philly soul and hard groove. Sometimes backing, sometimes fronting, sometimes ignoring, but always rockin' the house. Forever young, forever Philadelphian, forever fixated on the moment before dance went digital. Ladies and Gentlemen... the hardest working men inn punk/funk/soul/noise: The Young Philadelphians!!!

TONIC
107 Norfolk Street
(Between Delancey & Rivington)
212-358-7501
www.tonicnyc.com

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Vampire Suit is very proud to be part of a special new Jewish music bill, featured alongside Greg Walls' Later Prophets. The performance will take place at Makor, 35 W. 67th St., on Thursday, May 11th, at 9:30pm (Later Prophets at 8:00pm). Tickets are $12 in advance/students at the door, $15 at the door.

www.makor.com

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Sunday, May 1st- Aaron Alexander's New Klezmer Quintet, featuring music from his latest release on TZADIK records, "Midrash MishMosh"

with Michael Winograd - clarinet
Alex Kontorovich - tenor sax
J. Granelli - bass
Jay Vilnai - guitar
Michael Sarin - snare drum
Aaron Alexander - poyk

at Tribeca Shul -- two sets at 10AM & 12:30PM
67 Hudson Street / 1 Jay St.
tel: 212.608.0555

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Wednesday April 27th- One Night, Two Bands (Winograd/Moffet Variety Hour, and the Rebels of Slobia w/ Jon Singer, Patrick Hay and Bridget Kearny) @ Western Front Club, Cambridge, MA—sets at 8pm and 9:30pm

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Proud to be part of the celebration
The Birth of The Stone
A New Artists' Space in the East Village

4/20 Wednesday 8 pm

Anthony Coleman Chamber Music
Anthony Coleman (piano) Doug Wieselman (clarinet, sax, guitar) Jim Pugliese (percussion) Marco Cappelli (guitar)
Music from upcoming Tzadik Composers Series CD, hopefully including a new piece...

for more info go to:

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Proud to be part of the celebration
The Birth of The Stone
A New Artists' Space in the East Village

4/17 Sunday 10 pm Frank London and Party

Playing music from his Tzadik releases "Scientist At Work", "Invocations", and the upcoming "Hazonos", trumpeter Frank London and special guests will celebrate The Stone's opening with compositions and improvisations ancient to the future, music that is at turns meditative introspective and celebratory exuberant.

Frank London - trumpet
Anthony Coleman - piano & harmonium
Ken Filiano - bass
Newman Baker - percussion

THE STONE is located at the corner of avenue C and 2nd street
ADMISSION $10 per set
students 13 to 19 admitted half price, children 12 and under free
there are no advance ticket sales all admissions are at the door prior to each performance

for more info go to:

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Wednesday, April 13, 8 p.m.
At the Center for Jewish History,
15 West 16th Street, New York City.

'Avant-premiere' of Z'vi, an opera-in-progress by Richard Teitelbaum. It is based on the true story of Shabbetai Z'vi, a 17th-century rabbi in the Ottoman Empire who was widely hailed throughout Europe and the Middle East as the Messiah. After adopting Islam in addition to Judaism, he went on to develop a syncretic faith and practice incorporating elements of both religions. The opera explores issues of cross-cultural engagement, tolerance, dialog, and understanding. Performers include: Cantor Jacob Ben-Zion Mendelson (tenor), Omar Faruk Tekbilek (ney, voice, zurna, percussion), David Krakauer (clarinet, bass clarinet), Richard Teitelbaum (sampling keyboard) and others.

More information is available at (917)606-8200 (phone)
www.cjh.org/pdf/april13.pdf.

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Saturday, April 2, 2005, 9:00pm

BAMcafe Tribute to Alicia Svigals

The first show of BAMCafe's Too Cool For Shul series. Featuring special guests including singer Adrienne Cooper and clarinet superstar David Krakauer! On the bill: Alicia's Klezmer Rock Project (Alan Watsky, Jay Granelli, Aaron Alexander), her duo with Canadian jazz keyboard virtuoso Marilyn Lerner, a traditional fiddle band roots set w/fiddler Rohan Gregory, and a quartet with Krakauer, electronic violist Martha Mooke and tango bassist Pablo Aslan. The quartet will perform new works, including Rocketekiya, an Osvaldo Golijov composition originally commissioned for them. Documentary filmmaker Judith Helfand (Blue Vinyl, A Healthy Baby Girl) will be MC/interlocuter for the evening.

BAMcafe
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street
9pm
Admission: FREE w/$10 food/drink minimum

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KLEZFEST ST. PETERSBURG 2004

The Center for Jewish Music of the Jewish Community Center of St.
Petersburg is proud to announce "KlezFest St. Petersburg 2004,"
an international seminar on the traditional music of Eastern
European Jewry, to be held June 12-16, 2004 in St. Petersburg,
Russia.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of
St. Petersburg via fax at (+7-812) 314-5117, or e-mail Alexander Frenkel.

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Tzadik Records artists Rashanim and Naftule's Dream perform on June 10 at 8pm as part of Makor's Crakow Festival

Thu, Jun 10, 2004, 8:00pm
$15
Makor Steinhardt Building, 35 West 67th Street
(between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)
Subway: 2/3 to 72nd Street, 1/9 to 66th Street

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Khevre New Jewish and Yiddish Music to the Max live @ Zeitgeist Gallery Cambridge, MA

Thursday, May 6th
10PM (late show), $5
www.zeitgeist-gallery.org

We will be playing new material, including even more 20th century yiddish poetry set to music. We will also be performing music from our upcoming record.

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BARD�S JEWISH AND MUSLIM STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS PRESENT THE
ENVISION PEACE CONCERT
AT BARD COLLEGE ON APRIL 15
8:00pm, Olin Hall
$10 admission; free to Bar students, faculty, staff

Atzilut, a 10-person Arab and Jewish ensemble, will perform in concert with an opening and closing chant for peace by Rabbi Shefa Gold

A Meet the Artists Middle Eastern reception for Bard students will be held in Village Dorm A Sacred Space at 6:00 p.m. For further information, e-mail Rabbi Goldie Milgram at rebgoldiem@aol.com or call 845-758-6822.

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I am doing another of my Clarinetrics performances, this time in a
double-bill with the very excellent Oen Kennedy. It will be at the
Congregational Church of West Medford, Saturday, April 3, at 8:00pm. The
church is located at 400 High St., West Medford and admission is by
donation. Call me at 781-648-4282 for information. The Labyrinth will be
open for walking or you can just listen to the music which will be
meditative but an unusual sort of meditative. Oen will not be doing his
regular singer-songwriter show but a set of meditative music on piano,
tongue drum, bells, maybe some singing and guitar. Who knows what the muse
will bring? I will be playing my clarinet with electronics, ala Robert
Fripp. Hopefully Oen and I will also play together. It will be a very
unique evening. Please come.
I will print some background info below in case you are interested in more.
Peace,
Glenn Dickson

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Naftule�s Dream CD Release Party for "Live in Florence" at Ryle�s March 24

Naftule�s Dream will celebrate the release of their latest CD, "Live in Florence" (Innova) with a performance at Ryle�s Jazz Club (212 Hampshire St., Cambridge, 617-876-9330, www.rylesjazz.com) on March 24, at 8:30p.m., tickets are $7. "Live in Florence" captures the Boston-based Naftule�s Dream before a packed house in Italy at the end of a European tour and documents the band�s intense live energy at its very best. Opening up the evening will be the eclectic guitar trio, Fat Little Bastard.(FLB).

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19th Annual Jewish Music Festival

March 20 - 27, 2004

a program of the Berkeley Richmond
Jewish Community Center

Box Office tickets & info 925-866-9599 or www.brjcc.org
Tickets on sale March 1 BRJCC members.
March 4 general public. Call today for a brochure!

David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness!
with guest DJ So-Called

Saturday, March 20, 8:00pm
Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley
$20-$25

Jazz and klezmer collide in a dazzling display of clarinet virtuosity spiced with hip hop.

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The Rabbinical School Dropouts
When: 8:00 pm Sunday, March 7, 2004
Where: HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo, Chicago
Tickets: $15 at the door $12 in advance
Info: www.kfarcenter.com or call 773.550.1543

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Celebrate Purim with funky esoteric space klezmer
by The Rabbinical School Dropouts
When: 8:30 pm Saturday, March 6, 2004
Where: Lakeside Congregation, 1221 County Line, Highland Park.
Tickets: $15 at the door $12 in advance
Info: www.kfarcenter.com or call 773.550.1543

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Klezmatics
Monday, February 23
Takoma Theatre
Washington, DC
More info:
www.imtfolk.org

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Klezmatics
Sunday, February 22
Live Arts presented by the Prism Coffeehouse
Charlottesville, VA
www.theprism.org

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Klezmatics
Saturday, February 21
Cultural Center Theater
Charleston, WV
www.footmad.org

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Who: Naftule�s Dream When: January 30, 8:00 p.m.Where: Artists-At-Large Gallery, 37 Everett St., corner of Hyde Park Ave., Hyde Park, Boston, 617-276-3223 Tickets: $8 donation

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Naftule�s Dream will play the Artists-At-Large Gallery (37 Everett St., corner of Hyde Park Ave., Hyde Park, Boston, 617-276-3223 on January 30, 8:00pm. Suggested admission donation is $8.

Naftule�s Dream features musicians from a diverse list of bands prominent on the local music scene including Brandon Seabrook (electric guitar) and Jim Gray (tuba), Michael McLaughlin (accordion) , Gary Bohan(trumpet); Eric Rosenthal (drums), and bandleader/clarinetist Glenn Dickson.

"(Naftule�s Dream) stretch the limits of densely composed and then freely jammed-out music of deep emotional resonance. It�s a crazy-ass circus one minute, a funeral procession another, and everything in between the rest of the time." -Richard Gehr, The Villiage Voice

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c a n t a l o u p e m u s i c,
the record label created by the founders of Bang on a Can,

presents a special performance of

Phil Kline's ZIPPO SONGS
Protest Music for 2004...A deeply moving, intense look at the poetry that
American GIs inscribed on
their lighters in Vietnam. Plus, songs on texts by Donald Rumsfeld.

at Joe's Pub
Tuesday, January 20 at 7:30 pm

Concert coincides with the 1/13/04 release date of the "Zippo Songs" CD on
Cantaloupe (CA21019), which is already making waves across the country

Admission: $15
Tele-Charge: 212-239-6200 or www.telecharge.com
Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St.: 212-539-8770 or
http://www.joespub.com/">www.joespub.com
Dinner reservations: 212-539-8778

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Jewish/World Music Showcase at APAP 2004
Sunday January 11, 2004
Beginning at 4:00pm
NY Hilton Hotel � Concourse F (one level below the lobby)

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Tues., Dec. 30th 8pm, 10pm & 12midnight $15
FRANK LONDON'S KLEZMER BRASS ALLSTARS plus SPECIAL GUESTS

Late night jam with FLKBAS and DJ SoCalled
at a brand new joing: SATALLA
37 West 26th St.
(6th/Broadway)
212.576.1155

- photos are at www.franklondon.com
- A big klezmer party with "Di Shikere Kapelye" (The Inebriated
Orchestra,) featuring the best klezmer brass players from around the
world throwing down Balkan - Jewish brass band style. Featuring
Klezmatics trumpeter Frank London and his posse: Philadelphia's Susan
Watts Hoffman (KlezMs), London's Merlin Shepherd, Austin's Mark Rubin
(Bad Livers), Curtis Hasselbring (Golem), David Licht (Klezmatics,
Shockabilly), Matt Darriau (Ballin the Paradox - matics) and a who's
who' of special guests from the international klez scene, all in town
for this insane blow-out. On their first recording they channeled the
legendary "Di Shikere Kapelye" (The Inebriated Orchestra,) and then
blasted the roof off with Boban Markovic's Orkestar and Cairo's
Hassaballa Brass Band on "Brotherhood of Brass."

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Makor Open House
Christmas Eve / Hanukkah Blowout Party
Hasidic New Wave

When five downtown New York improvisers with deep roots in the jazz tradition embrace the Hasidic musical legacy and the scintillating rhythms of the Holy Land, a new voice emerges. Blending together an intense mixture of ethnic and cosmopolitan sounds, Hasidic New Wave fuses spiritual songs from Hasidic dynasties to funk and jazz, Arabic dances with avant-garde rock. HNW alternates ecstatic and meditative performances, imbued with joy and passion. Join leaders Frank London (The Klezmatics) and Greg Wall their all-star band for this sixth-night-of-Hanukkah celebration.

Open Bar!


Date & Time: Wed, Dec 24, 2003, 8:00pm
Location: Makor, 92St. Y,
West Side at 35 West 67th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue.
Price: $35.00 All Sections

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Tues., Dec, 2nd 10pm $10
SoCalled & FRANK LONDON
- Freeform Hip Hop Gypsy Klezmer jam with Klezmatics trumpeter Frank
London and Hip-Hop Khassene's DJ SoCalled. The brotherhood of
bass-tastic brass-tactic boombastics, down to brass tack-tics.
Eastern-European Klezmer techno jam: come shake your booty to a brass
band getting Beat up.
- Guests Aaron Alexander, Ori Kaplan, Ron Caswell, and more...

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Pharaoh's Daughter
Thursday, Nov. 20
8PM, Res. tix $16

Basya Schechter combines her religious jewish spiritual music with a world beat. See them live at The Regent before their appearance on the ABC documentary in December, "Sacred Voices". Special host Pnina from WERS's Chagigah.

The Regent Theatre
7 Medford St., just off Mass. Ave.
Arlington Center
Info: www.fireflyatnight.com
Box office: 781.646.4849
Purchase tix online: www.regenttheatre.com/events

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Frank London and Lorin Sklamberg (both of The Klezmatics) will be performing in an intimate coffeehouse setting. During the second half of the evening, they will host an open klezmer jam session.

Saturday, November 15th at 8pm
Workmen's Circle
1762 Beacon Street
617-566-6281
Brookline MA 02445

Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at the door ($2 discount per Workmen'sCircle member). Mail check (payable to the Workmen's Circle) to the Workmen's Circle. Advance ticket orders must be received by 5pm on November 14th.

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At SATALLA - The Temple of World Music: in Manhattan

Thurs., Nov. 13th 10 pm & midnight $10
HASIDIC NEW WAVE & YAKAR RHYTHMS
- Frank London & Greg Wall's psychedelic Jewish Jazz group meet Alioune
Faye's Senegalese Sabar ensemble for a night of Afro-Semitic sonic
explorations.
- The Hasidic New Wave start with traditional Hasidic nigunim -
spiritual melodies - as a foundation for searing improvisations; Yakar
Rhythms are the top Senegalese Sabar drummers in NYC and have played
with everyone from Youssou N'dour to Stevie Wonder. Together, they have
toured internationally and were highlight at last year's Montreal Jazz
Festival. The two groups perform music from their CD, "From the Belly of

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Helsinki Klezmer Festival, the festival of traditional instrumental music of the Yiddish-speaking people is organized for the third time already in Finland. Savoy Theatre as its venue, the event aims to make klezmer music better known in general and to give people a possibility to get to know one of the Europe�s most interesting cultural traditions. Klezmer music has its roots in the medieval Europe, where the Jewish people of the Eastern Europe traveled from town to town in order to play in weddings and other events. By the end of the 18th century klezmer music had become a well-developed music style, gathering influences from the Jewish culture and from outside of it.

Nowadays klezmer music is played almost all around the world, but mostly in the United States and in Europe. Klezmer music is constantly evolving and mixing with other music styles such as jazz and pop music. In order for the style to survive it is still important that there are also bands trying to find out the origins of klezmer music and ways to maintain it as authentic as possible. The authenticity of the music will not bring back the culturally rich community that once lived in the Eastern Europe but will give the listeners a possibility to get a bit closer look at the life of the society that lived at that time.

Sat 25 October 2003 at 7 p.m.
David Krakauer �Klezmer Madness!� (United States)

Virtuoso clarinet player David Krakauer from New York is one of the most influential names in the new Klezmer music scene, blending contemporary jazz into his music.

The concerts will be performed at the Savoy Theatre (Kasarmikatu 46-48). In addition to concerts the program of Helsinki Klezmer Festival will include evening clubs that are held at Kunsthalle Helsinki (Nervanderinkatu 3) right after the music performances.

Freilach mit Kneidlach will be the house band in the evening clubs.

More information at: www.popzoo.fi/klezmer

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Who: Pharaoh�s Daughter
What: Eclectic Jewish Middle Eastern Fusion
Where: HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo (South Loop)
When: 8:30 pm* Sunday, October 19, 2003 *1 hour after end of Simchat Torah
Admission: $10 in advance or for Spertus Institute members, $12 at the door

Advance tickets available at www.ticketweb.com, or at retail outlets: HotHouse, Rosenblum�s Judaica, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies.

KFAR Jewish Arts Center stimulates, promotes and produces the next generation of Jewish expression. Hebrew for village, KFAR builds community by igniting a symbiotic relationship between audiences and artists to give voice to new perspectives on our heritage and create an alternative conduit to Jewish culture. Visit www.kfarcenter.com or call 773.550.1543.

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Feast of the Leviathan: From Chassidic Reggae to Avant-Garde Psalms. Celebration of Jewish Art organized by the Mima'amakim Journal, featuring published poets and writers, as well as Mattissyahu (King of Chassidic Reggae) and The Seth Nadel Band (Jewish Folk Rockers), drum circle and open mic. October 13th, 7 pm at Makor, 35 W 67th Street, $12 (complimentary copy of the journal included). This event is part of the Second Annual Daniel Pearl Music Day network. For more info email feast@mimaamakim.org.

Source: www.jewschool.com

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The Klezmatics - Rise Up! CD Release Party

Thursday, Oct 9, 2003 at 7:00pm and 9:30pm
Purchase Tickets Online
or call Tele-Charge 212-239-6200
Reservations: 212-539-8778

Tickets to events at Joe's Pub, located at 425 Lafayette Street (between East 4th Street and Astor Place), can be purchased at The Public Theater box office Tuesday-Saturday from 1:00PM, to 7:30PM, Sunday and Monday from 1:00PM, to 6:00PM, or via Tele-charge, 212-239-6200, or online at www.Telecharge.com, unless otherwise noted. For dinner reservations, please call 212-539-8778, and for further show information please call 212-539-8770.

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The Kaufman Center and the Polish Cultural Institute present Cracow Klezmer Band - An Ensemble with a New Approach based on the Klezmer Tradition Evoking an "Alluring Portrait of Eastern European Life and Culture"

CD-Release concert presenting Bereshit, the CKB�s third CD on the John Zorn�s Tzadik label

Merkin Concert Hall on Thursday, October 9, at 8 pm
129 W. 67th St. (between Broadway and Amsterdam)

Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 8 pm

Tickets are $25; Call 212 5013330 or purchase online at www.kaufman-center.org

New York, NY, 9/23/03-- The Kaufman Center presents an evening with the critically acclaimed Polish ensemble, The Cracow Klezmer Band, on Thursday, October 9 at 8 PM in Merkin Concert Hall. One of the most creative and innovative music groups in Poland, The Cracow Klezmer Band, founded in 1997 by arranger and accordionist Jaroslaw Bester, will perform original compositions and improvisations based upon particular elements of klezmer tradition. In a recent concert review, The Chicago Tribune proclaimed, "Of all the ensembles that have emerged in recent years to explore the meaning of klezmer in a new era, few have reached as high as the Cracow Klezmer Band, and fewer still have attained comparable results. Every composition whether exploring ebullient, age-old dance forms or investigating ancient cantorial melody painted an alluring portrait of Eastern European life and culture." The Cracow Klezmer Band is: Jaroslaw Bester, accordion; Jaroslaw Tyrala, violin; Oleg Dyyak, accordion, clarinet and percussion; and Wojciech Front, double bass.

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The Cracow Klezmer Band in Boston

CD-Release concert presenting Bereshit, the CKB�s third CD on the John Zorn�s Tzadik label

Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 8:30 and 10:00 PM

Johnny D�s, Somerville
17 Holland Street, Davis Square, Somerville, MA 02144
located across the street from the Davis Square T Station Tickets are $10; Call (617) 776-2004, www.johnnyds.com

Somerville, MA 9/23/03 �� Johnny D�s, in association with the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, presents first Boston�s concerts of The Cracow Klezmer Band, on Wednesday, October 8 at 8:30 pm and 10:00 pm. This innovative ensemble from Cracow, Poland takes the traditions of klezmer music, with all its wild and festive roots, and turns it into thoughtful and virtuostic performance art. In an era in which many bands exaggerate and vulgarize, this group is headed in the other direction, creating original compositions and intricate inprovisations based on particular elements of klezmer. This will be their first time in Boston! "Of all the ensembles that have emerged in recent years to explore the meaning of klezmer in a new era, few have reached as high as the Cracow Klezmer Band, and fewer still have attained comparable results."- Chicago Tribune.

The Cracow Klezmer Band is: Jaroslaw Bester, accordion; Jaroslaw Tyrala, violin; Oleg Dyyak, accordion, clarinet and percussion; and Wojciech Front, double bass.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 7 P.M.
JEWISH MUSIC IN JAZZTIME
With Steven Bernstein�s Diaspora Soul, El Septeto Roberto
Rodriguez featuring David Krakauer, and Paul Shapiro�s
Midnight Minyan
Co-sponsored by the Young Friends of the Museum

Join us for a triple-bill jazz concert with Tzadik Records�
recording artists Steven Bernstein, Roberto Juan Rodriguez,
and Paul Shapiro. This special event showcases some of the
most exciting and accessible Jewish music to emerge from
NYC in recent years. A jam session with performers from
all three bands closes the show.
Steven Bernstein has worked as musical director for Hal
Wilner, John Lurie's Lounge Lizards, and leads several of
his own bands. Bernstein has released two albums with
Tzadik Records, Diaspora Soul and Diaspora Blues.

Roberto Juan Rodriguez plays regularly with Joe Jackson and
Marc Ribot�s Postizos. Rodriguez�s Tzadik Records debut,
released in 2003, is El Danzon de Moises and features
clarinet virtuoso David Krakauer.

Paul Shapiro was a founding member of Brooklyn Funk
Essentials. Shapiro�s Tzadik Records debut in 2003 is
Midnight Minyan.

$15 adults, $12 members/seniors, $10 students, with
advanced reservation
($18, $15, $12 at the door)

Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
tel: 212.945.0039
www.mjhnyc.org

For a radio article on the artists performing, check out the audio link for the "All Things Considered" profile discover.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.jhtml?prgDate=09/29/2003&prgId=2
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click to listen on "Jazz Gets a Jewish
Twist"

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Arab-Jewish Peace Concert

Sunday September 28th, 2003
9:00pm
Musical Director: Yoel Ben-Simhon

Join us for the Second Annual Arab-Jewish Peace Concert, featuring Jewish and Arab musicians committed to promoting peace and co-existence within and between our communities. The concert features performers of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian background from Morocco, Senegal, Israel, Egypt, Argentina, Lebanon, and the United States. In contrast to the violence of the past year, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the American war in Iraq, Storahtelling brings together a diverse community in a non-political setting, to invoke unity, acceptance, and the prevailing art forms of peace.

Performers include: Frank London (The Klezmatics), Basya Schechter (Pharoah�s Daughter), Raquy Danziger, Yoel Ben-Simhon, Mor Dior Bamba, Rashid Halihal, George Mordechai, Hicham Chami, Emmanuel Mann, Sarah Oroeste, Rami El-Aasser, Osama Veadan, Osama Faruk, Tomer Tzur, Brian Gelfand, Dorit Konig, and others.

All tickets: $12 at the door At the Actors Temple, 339 West 47th St. (btw 8/9), NYC, NY

This is the first in a series of two peace concerts in 2003-2004 season that will facilitate dialogue, understanding, and peace between the Arab and Jewish communities through music and tradition.

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The DAVID BUCHBINDER SEXTET
New York debut
Friday, August 22, 2003

Festival of New Trumpet Music at

TONIC
107 Norfolk Street (between Delancey & Rivington)
(212) 358-7501
$10 cover, 1 drink minimum

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Glenn Dickson, renowned clarinetist and bandleader of Shirim Klezmer Orchestra and Naftule�s Dream, will be debuting his new solo project, Clarinetrics, at the Congregational Church of West Medford August 15 at 7:30pm. The church is located at 400 High St., West Medford and admission is by donation. Call 781-648-4282 for information.

In a solo clarinet performance, Glenn will process his sound with techniques used by rock icons Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, creating an emotional and mesmerizing soundscape of orchestral dimensions. His Clarinetrics compositions reflect an appreciation for minimalism, electronica, and his extensive experience playing klezmer, jazz, and Greek music. He will perform at the church Labyrinth, keeping it open for the audience to walk during the performance if they choose.

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Crakow Klezmer Band will be making its debut appearance here on the West Coast as part of the Skirball Center's Zeitgeist Festival. Here's how it works:

Cracow Klezmer Band
SPIRIT OF THE TIMES: A FAMILY CELEBRATION

Sunday, August 10, 2003, 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, Ca. 90049
310/440-4500

Admission:
$8 General,
$6 Students and Seniors
Free to Members and Children under 12

Advance Tickets and Reservations: (323) 655-8587

Making their West Coast debut, the Cracow Klezmer Band (CKB) is considered to be the greatest Polish reinterpreter of the European klezmer tradition. CKB is considered to be the finest reinterpreter of the European klezmer tradition.
Enjoy a festive daylong program of international performances, food, and family fun.

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