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3rd Berkshire Summer Celebration of Jewish Music

Tuesday, May 29, 7:30 p.m., Congregation Knesset Israel, 16 Colt Road, Pittsfield.
Special concert: "The Connections Between African-American and Jewish Music" featuring Charles Neville and Celebration co-director Paul Green. Tickets, $18., and can be reserved in advance by calling (413) 442-4360, Ext. 10.

The Celebration opens on Tuesday, May 29, at 7:30 p.m. with a special concert at Congregation Knesset Israel in Pittsfield. Guest artist, saxophonist Charles Neville of the Neville Brothers, will join co-director Paul Green and friends in a concert showing the deep connections between African-American and Jewish music. A wide variety of music illustrating the interaction between the two cultures will include works from the Yiddish Theater that demonstrate an early fusion of Jewish music and jazz, works from the blues and gospel traditions that have incorporated Jewish elements , and pieces that have Jewish roots, such as Klezmer music, which have incorporated African-American elements. Tickets are $18 and can be reserved in advance by calling (413) 442-4360, Ext. 10.

These events are co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires, Hevreh of Southern Berkshire, Congregation Beth Israel, Congregation Knesset Israel, Congregation Ahavath Sholom, Temple Anshe Amunim and The Berkshire Music School. Supported in part by grants from the Harold Grinspoon Foundation and the Pittsfield Cultural Council. The Summer Celebration of Music is also presented in cooperation with the Boston Symphony Orchestra Berkshire Education and Community Program.

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Steven Greenman in collaboration with the Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble

This Saturday May 12th, 2012 at 2:00pm I'll be performing once again with the Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble at the Cleveland Public Library. Ensemble founder and ethnomusicologist David Badagnani has created a fantastic ensemble dedicated to performing traditional Chinese folk music showing once again the bountiful richness and diversity of Cleveland's cultural and ethnic communities. For my participation, I will be performing two pieces from the "classical" Chinese repertoire: 1) excerpts from the beautiful "Butterfly Lover's Violin Concerto" with the brilliant pianist Shuai Wang and "Xin Chun Le" together with David playing the sheng (Chinese mouth organ). I hope you can attend this wonderful event!

Cleveland Public Library Fine Arts Department
presents
"A Celebration of Spring"
featuring
Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble
and
Xue "Snow" Yu, voice
with special guests
Steven Greenman, violin
Shuai Wang, piano
Guangsheng Wang, Chinese painting and calligraphy

2:00 p.m., Saturday, May 12, 2012
Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium
Cleveland Public Library Main Library
325 Superior Avenue Northeast
Cleveland, Ohio
Free

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">Steven Greenman in collaboration with the Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble

Ethnomusicologist David Badagnani has created a fantastic ensemble dedicated to performing traditional Chinese folk music showing once again the bountiful richness and diversity of Cleveland's cultural and ethnic communities. The ensemble has graciously invited me for the finale to create a fusion of both traditional Chinese and traditional East European Jewish folk music.

The Melodies of Mah Jongg
7 p.m., Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
2929 Richmond Road
Beachwood, Ohio
$14 for the general public and $12 for Maltz Museum members; order in advance and save $2. Call (216) 593-0595 to order tickets.

Join the Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble (featuring vocalist Xue "Snow" Yu of Qingdao, Shandong, China) for an intimate evening of graceful and exotic music inspired by the fanciful images seen on mah jongg tiles--the four seasons, flowers, winds, and dragons--played on traditional Chinese instruments.

As an added attraction, interspersed between the pieces will be selected readings (in both Chinese and English) of evocative poems from China's classical antiquity, as well as showings of traditional watercolor flower paintings.

For a memorable finale, the internationally renowned, Cleveland-based klezmer violinist Steven Greenman will join the ensemble for a cross-cultural performance of a Jewish favorite, recreating the kind of musical interaction that could have taken place between Jewish and Chinese musicians in the Lower Manhattan of the early 20th century.

This program is held in conjunction with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage's showing of the "Project Mah Jongg" exhibition, which documents how this Chinese game of chance became a tradition among Jewish Americans beginning in the 1920s. The traveling exhibition, which was developed in New York City in 2010, opened at the Maltz Museum in January 2012.

Article about the concert from Cleveland Jewish News

Article about the concert from ClevelandClassical.com

More information: www.maltzmuseum.org/events/the-melodies-of-mah-jongg-2

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Guitarist Amanda Monaco will celebrate the release of The Pirkei Avot Project, Volume 1 at 92YTribeca on September 17, 2011 at 9 pm. Tickets are $15 and are available at www.92y.org.
Containing over 600 years of rabbinical teachings, the Pirkei Avot was compiled in the third century C.E. and has been traditionally studied ever since. Monaco has composed and recorded a suite of music inspired by these teachings, using excerpts as the lyrics for each piece and singing them in their original languages, Hebrew and Aramaic. Joining her on the recording and at the CD release concert are Ayelet Rose Gottlieb on vocals, Daphna Mor on recorders and ney, Sean Conly on bass, and Satoshi Takeishi on percussion.

http://www.92y.org

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SqueezeBox Slam: Including the Big Stroll & Concert


Saturday, September 17 · 12:00pm - 3:00pm

Be part of the Boston area's first accordion & concertina festival on Sept. 17th! Squeezebox players of all shapes, sizes and musical interests are invited to come to Somerville and play/stroll/set up camp in the city's public spaces and parks from 12-3. No jury, no curation, kind of a flash mob for musicians. We are calling it "The Big Stroll". Then from 3-6 we will be hosting a free concert in Union Square as part of ArtsUnion. Produced by ARTSomerville, the Nave Gallery, and Michael McLaughlin. Made possible because of the awesome support of the Somerville Arts Council.

The Concert at Union Square goes from 3-6.

• Plamen Karadenov from 3-3:30;
• Joao Cerilo from 3:30-4:00;
• Michael McLaughlin 4:00-4:30;
• Mariache Estampa de America 4:30-5:00;
• Peter Bufano 5:00-5:30
• Roberto Cassan 5:30-6:00.

More information about the event, including parking, logistics, etc, can be found via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=245570485470802

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Cirkestra
Sunday, May 29, 2011, 8pm (doors: 7:30pm)
Radio Bean
8 N Winooski Ave.,
Burlington, VT
(802) 660-9346
All Ages, Tickets: Free
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Cirkestra
Saturday, May 28, 2011, 9:pm
Langdon Street Café
4 Landgon St.,
Montpelier, VT
All Ages
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Cirkestra
Friday, May 27, 2011, 9:30pm
Nick's
124 Millbury St,
Worcester, MA 01610
508-753-4030
18+, Tickets: Free
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Cirkestra
Thursday, May 26, 2011, 10:30pm
the lilypad
1353 cambridge st.,
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 395-1393 Set: 10:30 PM
Tickets: $12/$10
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Piccolini Trio w/ Cirkestra
Saturday, May 21, 2011, 8:00 PM
Amazing Things Arts Center
160 Hollis St.,
Framingham, MA
All Ages
Tickets: $12-$18 (buy tix online)

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MILLER THEATRE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

presents a benefit concert for Japan
hosted by JOHN ZORN and featuring
SONIC YOUTH, YOKO ONO, SEAN LENNON, CIBO MATTO
with Mike Patton, Mephista, Marc Ribot, Uri Caine, and Zorn’s Aleph Trio

100% of proceeds will be donated to support Japan earthquake relief efforts

Sunday, March 27, 8:00 PM

Tickets: $50, $100 · Students Tickets: $25

www.millertheatre.com

Concert to Benefit Japan Earthquake Relief

More than a dozen innovative artists at the intersection of indie rock, contemporary jazz, and avant-garde performance will come together at Miller Theatre to present a benefit concert to support recovery efforts in Japan. “The tragedy and devastation is really overwhelming,” says John Zorn, who has organized and will host the evening. “I’ve always felt a strong personal connection to Japan, and I’m just glad to be able to do my part to help. It should be an amazing night.”

The lineup includes feature performances by musician and artist Yoko Ono, and her son Sean Lennon; Japanese-American indie duo Cibo Matto; and the influential band Sonic Youth. Vocalist Mike Patton will appear as a special guest, and Mephista, Marc Ribot, Uri Caine, and John Zorn’s Aleph Trio will also play short sets.

Both the performers and the theater are donating their services, ensuring that 100% of proceeds from ticket sales will go to benefit the victims of the earthquake and tsunami that hit near Sendai on March 11. Funds will be donated to the Japan Society’s Earthquake Relief Fund.

ARTISTS: Sonic Youth
Yoko Ono
Sean Lennon
Cibo Matto (Yuka Honda & Miho Hatori)
Mike Patton, vocals
Mephista (Susie Ibarra, drums; Sylvie Courvoisier, piano; Ikue Mori, electronics)
Marc Ribot, guitar
Uri Caine, piano
Aleph Trio (John Zorn, saxophone; Trevor Dunn, bass; Kenny Wollesen, drums)

Columbia University’s Miller Theatre is located north of the Main Campus Gate
at 116th St. & Broadway on the ground floor of Dodge Hall.

For tickets, the public should call the Miller Theatre Box Office at 212/854-7799, M–F, 12–6PM.
Tickets can also be purchased online at www.millertheatre.com.

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Free Socalled Concert at Columbia University
The ever-amazing Socalled will be performing his mix of old-world and fresh beats.
This event is free, open to the public, and held at the Kraft Center Hillel on 115th and Broadway in Manhattan, New York--easily accesible via subway on the 1 line to 116th Columbia University.
Sunday, January 23 at 10:00pm - January 24 at 1:00am
For information on the venue, see below:
www.hillel.columbia.edu
www.facebook.com/

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The Sway Machinery

Super fun party benefit for our label JDub Records. Hosted by comedian Eugene Mirman and featuring other JDub acts....at Brooklyn Bowl, a venue notable for also housing a bowling alley, for all of you who like throwing things and knocking stuff over.

The Sway Machinery will take it over the top!!!! A night not to be missed!!!!

FESTIVAL OF STRIKES!!!!!

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
8PM
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Avenue between North 11th and North 12th Streets

Don't miss the boat!

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Get your tickets now for TINARIWEN, our Tamashek rock heroes from northern Mali. We played on the same stage as them at the Festival of the Desert in January, and we will share the stage again on Sunday at the Bell House in Brooklyn!

Sunday, June 27th, 2010
TINARIWEN in BROOKLYN - 7:30 PM doors -- 8:30PM our set!! don't be late!!!!
The Bell House

149 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-643-6510

tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door...so buy now!!!

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

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

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

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

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Oranges ROCK the Seder Plate
April 4, 2010 from 3pm to 5pm

BooCoo Cultural Center
1823 Church Street
Evanston, IL
Tel: 773.362.4760
Organized By: KFAR Jewish Arts Center

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Lerner y Moguilevsky Duo - Klezmer from Buenos Aires

Saturday, Feb. 27th, 2010, 8pm
Main Synagogue,
1010, Seitenstettengasse
Vienna, Austria

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Sarah Aroeste

Saturday, February 20th NYC 8 PM
Pre-Purim Bash
LOVE REVELATION CONCRETE REVENGE
Synagogue For the Arts
49 White Street (b/w Church & Broadway)
Cabaret! Bands! Art! Food! Costumes!
Featuring Jenny Romaine, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, Jessica Lurie, Rima Fand, Sarah Aroeste, Avi Fox-Rosen, Abigail Levine, Abigail Miller, Aleza Summit, Ariel Federow, Quito Ziegler, Michelle Kay, Gaby Cryan, Xavier, AJ, Killer Sideburns, Zil Goldstein, Rachel Mattson, Gretchen Hildebran, Kate Huh and many more.
$15 (no one turned away for lack of cash or costume)
Presented by: Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, Workmen's Circle, & Great Small Works Spaghetti with official beer sponsorship from Brooklyn Brewery
Click here for more info

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February 6, 2010: Junoon with special guest, violinist Yale Strom, will perform a concert at the 10th Sustainable Development Summit in New Delhi, India entitled "Beyond Copenhagen: New Pathways to Sustainable Development". Participants include the prime ministers of India, Bhutan, Quebec, Greece, Chili, Seychelles, Slovenia, Finland, the Cook Islands, speakers from organizations, universities among others. For full information about this conference, please go to: http://dsds.teriin.org/2010/Prep_Meet2.pdf

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A Relief Benefit Concert for Haiti
A Baltimore/Jewish response - proceeds to American Jewish World Service

Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Congregation Beit Tikvah (First Christian Church)
5802 Roland Avenue
Baltimore, MD

In an evening of music and storytelling, performing artists will donate their time to help the people of Haiti at this time of cataclysmic need.

The performance will feature SONiA & disappear fear, The Alexandria Kleztet with Seth Kibel, Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton, Michael Raitzyk Trio, Howard Markman, Elizabeth Ellis, Mama's Black Sheep and others.

An $18 donation is requested, any and all donations are appreciated. All contributions will be sent to the American Jewish World Service (AJWS).

Doors are 7PM & Showtime is 8PM.

All ages and all religions and all sizes and all colors are welcome.

For more details and info:
410.464.9402 www.beittikvah.org

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NEW YORK, NY Uplifting groove-oriented music that combines hip hop, reggae, folk, and a bit of Hebrew.

The concert takes place on Tuesday November 10, 2009 at 8pm at the Living Room, 154 Ludlow Street, NYC. Cover charge is $12. Chana will be sharing the bill with C Lanzbom and BettySoo. This concert is part of WFUV's "On Your Radar," a live music series sponsored by John Platt, host for WFUV's Sunday Breakfast. For more information about the show, contact (212) 533-7237 or visit www.livingroomny.com.

WFUV will also air an in-studio session on Sunday November 1 from 10-11 a.m., featuring Chana Rothman and C Lanzbom on John Platt's Sunday Breakfast at 90.7 FM in New York and on the web at wfuv.org.

MORE ABOUT CHANA ROTHMAN:

Chana's music, using two languages and ancient texts to address social ills and joys of today, brings a universal appeal. The message is unity through music. Two years as a Head Songleader in Reform Judaism's teen leadership summer camps helped Chana develop a passion for music as a tool to bring communities together.

RICHARD ANTONE of ELMORE MAGAZINE writes: "Rothman's music bubbles with a conscious vibe that's capable of bringing people together. She is adept at using religious imagery and bilingual lyrics as a bridge rather than a wedge."

Chana's debut album, "We Can Rise," (Oyhoo Records) produced by C Lanzbom, was voted "Best Album of 2007" by jewschool.com and she was featured in "Top 5 Women Who Rock" by American Jewish Life and Lilith Magazine. Chana was also featured in the documentary film "Jewish Music: More Than Just Klezmer" produced by Brooklyn College Media Department.
NEW YORK TIMES says of Chana Rothman:"Worth Checking Out"

MORE ABOUT C LANZBOM

C Lanzbom has a very diverse career in performing around the world playing guitar, writing music, producing, and engineering. He has written with Perry Farrell (Janes Addiction), and shared the stage with him and artists such as Dispatch, Bruce Hornsby, Mickey Heart, and many more. C has had his music placed in Movies (When Do We Eat), and many T.V. shows including, MTV's The Real World "Sydney" and Real world "Brooklyn","The City" and various T.V. commercials. A session guitarist for many years, he opened his own recording studio (Sherwood Ridge) in 2002. Since then he has produced, written for, played on, and engineered over 20 full-length album releases, Including 6 solo instrumental albums. Currently he plays and writes with his bands,Soulfarm, Fools For April, and Skyland.

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On October 24, Joseph Vass is premiering eight compositions based on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Artist Robyn Awend has created visual art to work along with the music. Joe has scripted a narration intended to explain, enlighten and entertain.

The Alef Bet Ensemble unites ten of Minnesota’s finest and most versatile musicians:

Bass - Chris Bates

Violin - Carolyn Boulay

Drums - Jay Epstein

Trumpet - Dave Jensen

Cello - Michelle Kinney

Woodwinds - Dale Mendenhall

Viola - Michael Rieff

Violin - Gary Schulte

Woodwinds - Bruce Thornton

Piano - Joseph Vass

Judging by contemporary audience reaction and subsequent history, those who came to previous Vass premieres at the St. Paul JCC, including Gershwin The Klezmer and Klezmerica, were delighted they came. We’re aiming for the same with Alef-Bet: Music Of The Hebrew Letters.

The world premiere of Alef-Bet: Music of the Hebrew Letters is scheduled for Saturday night, October 24, 7:30 PM, at the Jewish Community Center of St. Paul, 1375 St Paul Avenue in Saint Paul. More information is available at (651) 698-0751 or at www.stpauljcc.org/jewish/arts_events.lasso

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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get your dancing shoes primed and ready....

Saturday, September 12th, 2009
NY Gypsy Festival - 9:30 PM - 12:30 AM
Gypsy Boat Party!!!

Pier 17, South Street Seaport
New York, NY

Price: $35

A New York Gypsy Festival first: a true gypsy boat party with The Sway Machinery. Plus global gypsy beats by DJ Pepe on The Clipper City Tallship!!!

Meet us at 9pm on the dock at Pier 17, South Street, Seaport. Boat leaves at 9:30pm for three hours of sailing around Manhattan! Tickets are limited. Buy now at: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/78444

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Friday, September 11, 10pm
Drom, NYC - Avenue A between 5th & 6th
Chase the Devil (Gary Lucas and Dean Bowman)
performs a special concert of spiritual roots music in commemoration of 9/11--dedicated to victims everywhere

Read a feature on Chase the Devil from Tablet Magazine:
www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/music/6607/shades-of-gray/

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Saturday, August 1, 7:30 to 9:30pm
HSA-UWC Ballroom
4 West, 43rd street, New York, NY 10036
(between 5th and 6th avenues, closer to 5th)

COMMON CHORDS Concert for Peace: Common Chords is the musical and spiritual peace project between acclaimed musicians of different faiths (Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Christian) coming together to express their hope for peace and ethnic understanding throughout the world. Sufi Rock Star and U.N. Ambassador Salman Ahmad and klezmer great Yale Strom are joined by Tabla virtuoso Samir Chatterjee, klezmer vocalist Elizabeth Schwartz and others.

Admission is $20 adults, $16 seniors and students with valid ID, $8 children 12 and under.

For more information: www.tabla.org/events.html

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

(Traditional Klezmer, Gypsy Roma and new compositions)

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

in concert
Saturday, July 18
8pm

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

$15 Adults, $5 Kids 12 and under

Light refreshments will be included

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

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Benjamin Laden's The Wild Bohemians
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm
World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-222-1400
Map It

Tickets
$10 + $3 processing fee
Save money! Processing fee is only $1 when you purchase with CASH at the box office BEFORE day of show!

General Admission: Ticket purchase is not a guarantee of seating. Please call 215-222-1400 to reserve seating for dinner.

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b'sd
SUNDAY, February 25, 2007
An All Women's Music & Dance Festival!
SHIR LA MA'ALOTE: Elevating the World Through Music and Dance

A concert for women only to benefit Professional Women's Theater, an organization which seeks to promote all-female performance opportunities, Featuring known and rising stars in the Jewish women's performing world! Singer-songwriters, dancers, vocalists.... Chanale! ~ Debra Landau ~ Rachel Kohl Finegold ~ Emilia Cataldo ~ Gabrielle Orcha ~ The Light Peddler's Band ~ Rena Needle ~ Tziporah Miriam Halperin... And MORE!!!!

Show I: 4:00 pm
Show II: 7:30 pm
Reception & CD Fair: 6:15 - 7:15 pm

Yeshiva University's Schottenstein Cultural Center
239 East 34th St. between 2nd & 3rd Aves. NY, NY 10016
Tickets: pwt-concert.eventbrite.com
$30 in advance, $36 at door / $15 students / all proceeds considered charity
For further information, 646-234-1542.

"Elevating the world through music and dance"

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Ljova with the Vjola Contraband at Joe's Pub
DATE: January 17, 2007
LOCATION: Joe's Pub | New York, NY
TIME: 9:30 pm

Back by popular demand - Ljova and the Vjola Contraband returns to Joe's Pub for a return engagement, sharing the bill with friends and bandmates Romashka!

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Untchak Attak
septet klezmer aux olives grecques
Wednesday 25th October 9 p.m
le Trois Arts, 21 rue des Rigoles 75020 Paris, Metro Jourdain
Tickets : 1 € minimum
la.toute.folle.free.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=4

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KAL
Serbian Urban Gypsy Band
Friday Sept 22
Gooski's, 3117 Brereton Street
Polish Hill (Pittsburgh), PA 15219
(412) 681-1658
www.rockpaperscissors.biz/index.cfm/fuseaction/current.press_release/project_id/267.cfm

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Join in the excitement of the Mitziut Shiviti Drum Circle at Chcago's Jewish fest on Sunday. Join us from 3:00-3:30 PM near the Jewel Foods Model T car, near the food area. Bring your own drum, borrow one of ours, clap your hands, dance or just hang.

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The Sway Machinery
Saturday, May 13th, 2006
Mendy: A question of faith--opening party!!!
Mendy, a film by Adam Vardy, and with a score composed by Jeremiah Lockwood and performed by The Sway Machinery, is opening for a two week run at Cinema Village on May 12th. Come celebrate with a live performance by The Sway Machinery. Venue and exact time to be announced.
mendythemovie.com

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BLEWS is an organization of African Americans and Jewish Americans committed to promoting increased understanding between Black and Jewish communities in Baltimore. BLEWS' Market Music at The World Family Lexington Market, featuring Bolton Street Synagogue's Klezzazz Band and the Eubie Blake Jazz Band on Wednesday, May 17, 2006, from 7:30 – 10:00 p.m. An evening of music, dancing, fun and food. Desserts, beverages and cash bar will be available. Free parking in Lexington Market garage. Non-member ticket $20; $30 for couples. Member ticket: $20; $25 for couples. Make check payable to BLEWS and mail to BLEWS, 2500 W. North Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21216. Tickets will be mailed to you. Call 410-951-4199 for additional information.

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March 24 Sunday
Bohemian Nights
Wyreena Arts Centre, Croydon
Bookings Essential 9294 5590

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March 19 Sunday
Bohemian Nights
BENDIGO Commonwealth Games Arts Festival in concert and with Gorgeous Voices choir

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JDub & Heeb present American Shmidol Karaoke Showdown
Judged by Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black & David Wain of STELLA

Mon, March 13th, 8PM
The Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey Street
$14 ADVANCE, $20 Day of Show
18+, American Shmidol begins at 9 SHARP with special guest, DJ Steinski

GET TICKETS!
American Shmidol will have winners. And winners will get prizes. Like limited edition MATISYAHU CDs & Heeb and JDub Tshirts. JDub's Purim events have a history of selling out. Get your tickets early.

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Sunday 12th March 7pm – late Harem Nights

Jongleurs, Middle Yard, Camden Lock, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AB
Price: £15 including mask
To book 0870 78 70707 or online at www.jongleurs.com (booking conditions apply)

Enter the realm of the senses... Harem Nights is a masquerade, full of Eastern promise, shadows, free-flowing wine, snakes, veils, spices, dance, music and more. A visually dazzling Persian carnival of circus sleaze and club concert, including sizzling live music from sultry oud players and snaky oriental saxophone solos, wandering performers, jewel-encrusted belly dancers and DJs.

Artists include Fantazia, Ghetto Plotz, DJ Max Reinhardt, bellydancers, stiltwalkers, actors and jugglers.

Dress: Arabian Nights.
A Jewish Community Centre for London event produced by YaD Arts
www.jongleurs.com or www.jewishcommunitycentre.org.uk
For other Jewish Community Centre events check out their website…

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The Bridge Institute
www.nycbridge.com
Presents
M-SOUL - Motzei Shabbat Openmic of Univeral Language
Saturday night, March 4th, 2006, 8 pm
Featuring: Guitar Great! Melvin Sparks

In the international city of NYC, a new program designed to promote the art of improvisation, uniting all citizens from every walk of life.

If you would like to perform, please send and email., or sign-up when you arrive, 1st come, 1st serve basis.

at: Congregation Washington Heights
179th and Pinehurst
take the "A" train to 181, make a right at 179th, entrance in on the side.

Admissions - $10 at the door

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The Bridge Institute
Presents M-SOUL - Motzei Shabbat Openmic of Univeral Language

Saturday night, January 28, 8 pm.
Featuring: saxophonist, Andrew Lamb

In the international city of NYC, a new program
designed to promote the art of improvisation, uniting
all citizens from every walk of life.

A night of improvisational music featuring
professional and local musicians from all over NYC.
All are welcome to come and perform with the house
band or with new people. The only requirement is to
speak universal language, there is no singing, its all
about the music! All styles of music are encouraged,
including blues, jazz, klezmir, funk, etc.

With house band - drummer- Shawn Hill (P-Funk),
bassist- Alvin, and guitarist - Jason Caplan
(Naqshon’s Leap)

If you would like to perform, please e-mail NYC Bridge,
or sign-up when you arrive, 1st
come, 1st serve basis.

at: Congregation Washington Heights
179th and Pinehurst
take the “A” train to 181, make a left 10 179th and
make a right to the shul, on the corner, entrance on
the side.

Future shows will showcase major recording artists
from the jazz industry. Check out www.nycbridge.com
for past shows under “Galleries”

Admissions - $10 at the door

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Chava Alberstein from Israel and Les Yeux Noirs from France
in a double bill at the George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto
Saturday January 21st 2006, 7:30pm
Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St,
Toronto, Ontario.
Tickets ranging from $25-$75

Ashkenaz Foundation
tel: 416-979-9901
fax: 416-979-0459
www.ashkenazfestival.com

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The Sway Machinery with The Antibalas Horns!!!
a new sensory experience-not to be missed on your life!!!

Wednesday, January 18, 10pm
The New York Jewish Film Festival Director's Party
MAKOR
35 West 67th Street
cover $10

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Oen Kennedy and Glenn Dickson perform @ the Brookline Tai Chi Center on Friday, January 6, 8-10pm in Boston's only balanced energy performing space.

Oen Kennedy (voice, guitar, percussives and sounds) and Glenn Dickson (clarinet, loops) will attempt to match the balanced energy of the space with an evening of meditative and ambient music, calling on their combined knowledge of birdsong, stardust, kestral, microtones, overtones, undertones, and all manner of music of and by the world.

Please come and journey through the sounds.
January 6, Friday, 8-10pm
Brookline Tai Chi (www.brooklinetaichi.com)
1615 Beacon St. (on the corner of Washington St.)
Brookline, MA
Suggested donation: $5, kids; $10, adults.

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The Leevees
12/28 Wed
World Cafe

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Tues, Dec 27
JDub, JFJ, and PJA Present:
Jewltide
Featuring THE LEEVEES
And special guests

Paradise Rock Club
967 Commonwealth Ave, Boston
Doors open 7pm
$12 in advance, $14 at the door, 18+

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Mon, Dec 26
JDub, Brooklyn Jews, JFJ, and PJA Present:
Jewltide
Featuring THE LEEVEES
And special guests
Part of the Festival of Rights

The Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey Street @ Bowery
8PM, $15, tickets at boweryballroom.com, 16+

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Sat, Dec 24
JDub, Brooklyn Jews, JFJ, and PJA Present:

Jewltide
Featuring BALKAN BEAT BOX and special guests
Part of the Festival of Rights

Southpaw
125 5th Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15 advance, $20 day of show, 18+
Tickets at spsounds.com

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Wed Dec 21
JDub, JFJ, & PJA Present:

Vodka Latka: Festival of Rights

Featuring Balkan Beat Box
Special guest DJ Garth Trinidad of Chocolate City on KCRW

The Knitting Factory
7021 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles
8PM, $12 advance, $15 at the door

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18
"Helsinki Hanukah Klezmer Festival," featuring klezmer/Yiddish band GOLEM
and SETH ROGOVOY's ROCKIN' THE SHTETL; dinner at 5:30; concert at 7; Club
Helsinki, 284 Main St., Great Barrington, Mass., 413.528.3394;
www.clubhelsinkiweb.com.

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Sunday, December 18 at 2 PM - Music, poetry, wine, festivity!

Experience the vibrant environment of an early 20th-century Lower East Side wine cellar. Musicians Peter Rushefsky, Jake Shulman Men, and Jeffrey Wollock and poets Celena Glenn and Bob Holman pay tribute to the sweet gypsy sounds and improvisational poetry once featured at these popular gathering places.

The Eldridge Street Project's Wine Cellar Cabaret will take place at the Eldridge Street Synagogue, 12 Eldridge Street (between Canal and Division Streets). By subway: F to East Broadway; B or D to Grand Street. Admission: $18 adults; $15 students and seniors. For more information, please call the Eldridge Street Project at 212.219.0888 x 302.

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The Leevees
Jewish Community Center
Washington, DC
Dec 17

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The Bridge Institute
Presents The 2nd performance of - M-SOUL -
"Motzei Shabbat Openmic of Univeral Language"

Saturday night, December 17th, 7:30 pm.

In the international city of NYC, a new program
designed to promote the art of improvisation, uniting
all citizens from every walk of life. A night of
improvisational music featuring professional and local
musicians from all over NYC. All are welcome to come
and perform with the house band or with new people.
The only requirement is to speak universal language,
there is no singing, its all about the music!

All styles of music are encouraged, including blues,
jazz, klezmer, etc. Audience is encouraged to bring
percussive instruments for the collective drum section
of the evening. With house band - drummer Shawn Hill
(P-Funk), bassist Dan Ehrlich, and Jason Caplan
(Naqshon's Leap) If you would like to perform, please
e-mail NYC Bridge to reserve to a time. at:
Congregation Washington Heights 179th and Pinehurst
take the "A" train to 181, make a left 10 179th and
make a right to the shul, on the corner, entrance on
the side. Future shows will showcase major recording
artists from the jazz industry.

Check out www.nycbridge.com "Calendar" for past shows
and "Galleries" Admissions - $5 at the door

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Chanukah Klezmer Extravaganza:
benefit concert and Chanukah party for
the Jewish Dialogue Group and
Congregation Kol Tzedek, West Philly's new synagogue

The Rotunda, 4012 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, December 17, 7:00pm to 9:30pm

For more information: Visit www.jewishdialogue.org,
e-mail The Jewish Dialogue Group, or call 215-266-1218.

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This Friday 16th 10pm in The Shamrock, Dunmanway.... The Fireflies complete with our new drummer Neil and some flashing lights. Come down for a rocking night of Klezmer madness!!

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The Leevees open for Bare Naked Ladies
Nob Hill Masonic Center
San Francisco, CA
Dec 14

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The Leevees open for Bare Naked Ladies
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Santa Monica, CA
Dec 13

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The Leevees open for Bare Naked Ladies
Tucson Convention Center
Tucson, AZ
Dec 12

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The Leevees open for Bare Naked Ladies
Chicago Auditorium Theatre
Chicago, IL
Dec 7

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The Leevees open for Bare Naked Ladies
Xcel Energy Center Bowl
St. Paul, MN
Dec 8

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The Leevees open for Bare Naked Ladies
Chicago Auditorium Theatre
Chicago, IL
Dec 7

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The Leevees
Adat Shalom Synagogue
Farmington Hills, MI
Dec 6

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Songs of the Spirit: A Musical Celebration of Unity Among Diverse Faiths and Cultures with:
Nine-Time Grammy Nominee Meshell Ndegeocello; "The Mother Empress of Folk and Blues" Odetta; DJ Spooky; The Klezmatics with Joshua Nelson; Sekou Sundiata; Sussan Deyhim; Craig Harris & Friends; Tibetan Monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery

Tuesday, December 6 at 7:30pm,br /> The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
112th Street & Amsterdam Avenue, NYC
$45 reserved seating; $30 and $16 general admission - tickets available at ticketweb.com or 866.468.7619
For more information visit www.parallelvoice.net/songs.html

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The Leevees open for Bare Naked Ladies
Youngstown Convocation Center
Youngstown, OH
Dec 5

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The Klezmer-Keilidh of THE YEAR...

Hanuke-Hopkele!

Sunday 4th December 2005
7-11pm

Featuring Internationally Renowned Specialist Klezmer
Dance Leaders:

Andreas Schmitges - All the way from Cologne, Germany!
With Live Klezmer from "FDT Klezmorim"
Vivi Lachs and a Live Klezmer set from "Klezmer Klub"

Central Synagogue, 40 Hallam Street, London W1
(nearest tubes: Oxford Circus/Regents Park)

£12.50 (£7 concs) including a bagel! Advance Tickets - £1
discount!!

All ages and dancing abilities welcome. Call 020 8985 3724
or email: icravitz@hotmail.com

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Interfaith concert of Psalms and sacred music coming to Temple Beth Zion on Sunday December 4th. The concert will begin at 5:00 pm and will be followed by refreshments and an opportunity to talk with the musicians.
This concert will feature sacred and liturgical Muslim, Jewish and Christian music in an inspirational musical exploration.
Through music and spirituality, we celebrate the similarities between our faiths and continue to build bridges of understanding and trust.

Sunday, December 4, at 5 PM
Temple Beth Zion, 1566 Beacon Street, Brookline.

Tickets: $18; $16 for seniors and full-time students.
$2 discount if tickets are purchased by November 30.
To purchase tickets, contact the RUAH office at 617-277-0036, or mail your check, made out to RUAH, to RUAH at 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02445.
http://www.ruahspirit.org

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NEIGHBORS from MANY NATIONS

Music and Stories of the
IRISH, ASIAN & JEWISH
Immigration Experience

Sunday, December 4, 2005
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Lawrence School Auditorium
27 Francis St, Brookline [Handicapped Accessible]

Robbie O’Connell, Internationally renowned singer/songwriter
A Besere Velt, (A Better World) Yiddish Community Chorus of the Workmen’s Circle
Odaiko New England & in vivo Productions, Asian drumming, dance, and theatre.

$8.00 admission, $5.00 students and seniors (advance purchase recommended)

Mail check to Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon Street, Brookline 02445.
For more info call 617-566-6281 or TTY 617-730-2327

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Saturday 3rd December 8pm
Gogol Bordello@ DASH 05
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
SOLD OUT – tickets still available for the screening and Q+A

***DASH ARTS and the ICA are proud to produce a special screening of the new Warner Brothers film lsquo;Everything is Illuminated’ at 4pm on 3rd December which will be followed by a Q&A with the star of the film and also leader of Gogol Bordello, Eugene Hutz.***

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Sylvie Braitman:
On NOVEMBER 21st, 7pm I'll be performing some amazing Cabaret Songs from the
Ghetto of Terezin. This repertoire in German, Czech and English
(translations/explanations provided) is witty, superbly clever and almost
unknown.

I'll be accompanied by Stuart Rabinowitsch on the piano.
This special lecture/performance is part of the Berkeley Rep Theater
lectures around their presentation of Brundibar (Kushner and Sendak version
of this children's opera performed in Terezin)
And it's FREE!

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Saturday Nov 19th
Tubapalooza with Slavic Soul Party, The Beat Circus and the East River
Orchestra!
@ ZEBULON
258 Wythe Ave
Williamsburg Brooklyn
http://www.zebuloncafeconcert.com

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MIchael Winograd will be playing Klezmer Duo Improvisations and Experiments with Pianist Carmen Staaf (the two comprise 1/3 of the wonderful new Yiddish music ensemble, Khevre) this Thursday, nov 17th, at the 'Stain Bar' in Brooklyn (www.stainbar.com)

They're on at 8pm

take the L to Grand

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In conjunction with the Jewish Community Center of Mid Westchester in Scarsdale, NY, I am excited to announce that on Sunday October 23rd from 2 till 6 in the afternoon, the Sukkah Jam for New Orleans will take place.

So far, a number of individuals have stepped forward to donate their time, talent and money. This includes many musicians as well as organizations like WWOZ - (one of the greatest radio stations on the planet broadcasting live on the internet at www.wwoz.org) - The Backbeat Fund (see below) plus a variety of sponsors.

Please join us any way you can. If you are a musician and would like to perform contact or If you would like to get involved in any way, please email Glenn Tamir

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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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Once again, Ron Caswell's TUBAPALOOZA part TROIS!
SLAVIC SOUL PARTY CD Release!
Saturday, Spetember 24th 2005 9pm - very late!@
Zebulon 258 Wythe Avenue (betwixed Metropolitan Ave.
and N. 3rd) Brooklyn, NY 11211 (Williamsburg)
L train to the Bedford Stop
A FREE night of nothing but great TUBA bands!
roncaswell.com

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Push! Push!

Saturday, September 24th
Makor
35 W. 67th St
8:00 PM
Tickets: $12
www.makor.com

...A frenetic monthly international music, dance and noise-art circus rave-up!
Luminescent Orchestrii celebrate their new CD release with...
Hungry March Band, Outernational & surprise DJs

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come checkout Yosi Piamenta and the Heavenly Jams Band @
Mexicali Blues in Teaneck Thursday 9/22. Should be a
great show, as Mike mattison, and Yonrico scott of the
Derek Truck Band join Yosi for an eclectic mix of
musical improvisation and exploration. Expect the
unexpected, as HJB plans to present an amazing blend
of rock classics, Oriental based Hebrew and Arabic
rockers, jazz, blues, and Eastern influenced music.

Great music, great venue, a great night out.....DIG IT!

Yosi Piamenta's
Heavenly Jams Band
Featuring:
Mike Mattison & Yonrico Scott
of the Derek Trucks Band
&
Dave Stoltz
of Dickey Betts and Great Southern (2000-2004)

9/22 Mexicali Blues Cafe
1409 Queene Anne Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
201-833-0011
Showtime: 9:00 PM
21+, Tickets $15
www.mexicalibluescafe.com (for tickets)

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Cafe Mozart located at 1331 H Street NW Washington DC, will present an Opera/Cabaret/Klezmer Night on Wednesday Sept 21 2005 at 7 PM. Featured peformers will be Washinghton Opera tenor Michael Blaney and soprano Jennifer Jellings. They will perform musical selections from opera, operetta and musical theater. Pianist Felicia Weiss and clarinetist Steven Rosenthal will also present Klezmer music selections! The Cafe serves German/Austrian cuisine.

No entertainment cover charge if dinner is ordered. For more information please visit the website www.cafemozartgermandeli.com To reserve by phone 202 347-5732 or email Cafe Mozart.

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Shtetlbusters: A Smorgasbord of Music and Performance

14th street Y
344 E. 14th St @ 1st Ave
7:00pm
Tickets: $8 BUY TIX

For One Night Only! Shtetlbusters features an unlikely coupling of the irreverent and the pious. Hosted by Scotty the Blue Bunny, who will guide you on a journey into the shtick sensibility. With performances by Shoshi, Corie Feiner, Michael Feldman and more. Gypsy dance DJ set by Nat Rahav aka DJ Busquelo.

www.14StreetY.org

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The NYJMHF & Heeb Magazine present:
The 1st Annual Jewish Music Awards
The Museum of Jewish Heritage
Tickets $30 - Admission includes party - 36 Battery Place (MAP)
7pm
BUY TIX

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Golem and Balkan Beat Box
Wild Hare, 3530 N. Clark
Chicaco, IL
8:00pm Doors, Sunday September 18th, 2005
$12 (tickets online
Presented by KFAR Jewish Arts Center and the City of Chicago World Music Festival
www.kfarcenter.org or 773.550.1543
E-mail Adam Davis, Director, KFAR Jewish Arts Center

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Friday, September 16, 2005
Charming Hostess

time: 8:00p

location: Rm 54-100 (Green Bldg)

Performance from the female ensemble's new CD, "Sarajevo Blues" (Tzadik), which draws on Bosnian poetry of love and resistance, celebrating the triumph of the human spirit. In "Sarajevo Blues," Charming Hostess takes history and news as a context, but steers towards poetry as a way to focus on daily life under siege. Some songs explicitly speak of war, and others of cafe culture, underground sexuality, freedom and the nature of evil.The ensemble includes Katzenstein Lecturer Jewlia Eisenberg (see Sept 15) whose music is rooted in the body?voices and vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. "Charming Hostess makes music like no other? Thrown in with lively North African wedding songs and Eastern European folk songs are originals that display a proudly feminist, radical-Jewish, pro-sex sensibility," wrote the New York Times.
See http://web.mit.edu/arts/announcements/prs/2005/0901_eisenberg2.html
open to: the general public cost: free

web site: web.mit.edu/gcws/events/index.html#jewlia

sponsor: Office of the Arts Student and Artist-in-Residence Programs, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies

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On Sunday, September 11, Golem will take part in a special benefit concert in association with the organization Brooklyn Jews, at Soda Bar in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. All proceeds will go to hurricane relief. Please see details of the event below.

Golem will perform at 9pm.
Suggested donation - pay what you wish.
Hope to see you there.
Much love,
Golem

Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005
7pm–11pm

Soda Bar
629 Vanderbuilt Ave
Prospect Hts., Brooklyn
(718) 230-8393
Cross Street: Between Prospect Place and St Marks Avenue
Directions: 2, 3 at Grand Army Plz.

www.brooklynjews.org

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Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge St. Cambridge
Thursday, July 21, 7-9 PM $10

Hankus Netsky, Linda Chase and Friends

An evening of original compositions, conversational improvisations, jazz, world music, and poetry.

Linda Chase, flute/ Hankus Netsky, piano/ Tany a Jacobs, vocals

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Vessels of Song Festival
July 5-6 and July 8-10

Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St.
Greenwich Village, NY 10014

Saturday July 9, 9:00pm & 10:30pm
LUMINESCENT ORCHESTRII
—music to make you dance, kiss and scream

(Sarah Alden, violin; Rima Fand, violin; Kaia Wong, violin; Sxip Shirey, resophonic guitar, melodica, bullhorn harmonica; Aaron Goldsmith, Guitarron)

All shows are $10, get a 3 shows discount card: $25

Tel: 212-989-9319 / Fax: 212-243-4207
Web: corneliastreetcafe.com

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Vampire Suit will be playing as part of the 'Vessels of Song' festival, a celebration of Klezmer and Gypsy music curated by Jay Vilnai taking place at the Cornelia St. Caf@eacute;, July 5th-10th. Vampire Suit will share the bill with Ribs & Brisket, on July 8th, starting at 10:30pm (Ribs & Brisket at 8:30pm). Cornelia St. Caf@eacute; is located at 29 Cornelia St., NYC. Festival tickets are $10 per night, or three for $25. More details at www.corneliastreetcafe.com

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Vessels of Song Festival
July 5-6 and July 8-10

Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St.
Greenwich Village, NY 10014

Wednesday July 6, 8:30pm Gypsy (Roma) & Jewish Music Jamboree
featuring members of Romashka, Village Klezmer, Max & Minka
(Jeff Perlman, clarinet & saxophone; Jake Shulman-Ment, violin; Jeanette Lewicki, accordion; Ron Caswell, tuba; Timothy Quigley, drums & percussion; plus special guests)

All shows are $10, get a 3 shows discount card: $25

Tel: 212-989-9319 / Fax: 212-243-4207
Web: corneliastreetcafe.com

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Vampire Suit draws on Jay Vilnai's unique musical heritage as a Russian- Romanian-Polish descendant raised in Jerusalem around a mix of contemporary and traditional Jewish and Arab music, with a soul for rock n'roll and a BFA in jazz. Couple that with a passion for Bartok and Stravinsky and you end up with all original music that draws on all those influences to create something akin to traditional music for a generation that has so many traditions it calls his. Balkan and Middle-Eastern rhythms are prominent, backed by 20th century composing concepts and jazz improvising. Vampire Suit will be playing June 17th, at 8:00pm at Barbes, corner of 9th St. and 6th Ave. in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

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In the Catskills mock wedding tradition...
Golem gets married!

Klezmer-rock sensation Golem
requests the honor of your presence at its wedding
on Thursday, the ninth of June
at the Knitting Factory Tap Room
Ceremony at 7pm sharp
Immediately followed by the most insane reception you have ever witnessed... it's a real Golem wedding, and you don't even have to bring a gift!

Drink and dance your tuches off to a wild hora, plus Golem's versions of the covers you've always wanted to hear us play, from Brick House to the Tide is High, Superfreak to Stand By Your Man... and you never know whom you might meet???

R.S.V.P. www.knittingfactory.com, tel. 212-219-3132. Wedding cake included!
Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door: reserve now!
*******Formal Attire please

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BALLIN' THE JACK plays Music from The Marx Brothers.
with Roy Nathanson, words, voice and sax.

Sunday June 5th
at Zebulon
258 Wythe Ave
(between N. 4th St. & Metropolitan)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
No Cover!
10PM
(718) 218-6934
Subway: L to Bedford

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The The Sway Machinery will be appearing as part of an evening of entertainment produced by the Mima'amakim poetry journal. Take a look at the flyer here:

Mima'amakim Presents: Telos vs. Tahlis
featuring THE SWAY MACHINERY
Sunday June 5th 7PM
at The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
(just north of Houston,accross the street from CBGBs)
$10 admission for all acts

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A Bintl-Lebns (A Bundle of Lives), an event of the First Person Festival; June 2-12, 2005

Multi-media event of readings, poetry music, dancing, and noshing

WHO: Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein, Strauss/Warschauer Klezmer Duo, Leah Walton, Davy Raphaely

WHEN: Sunday, June 5, 2:00pm

WHERE: Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine St.

Celebrate Yiddish life and culture at a special event featuring autobiographical readings, letters, poetry, and music by the Strauss/Warschauer Klezmer Duo. Rising stars Leah Walton and Davy Raphaely enact selections from The Forward's hilarious and heartwarming advice column, "A Bintl Brief." Penn professor and Yiddish expert Dr.Kathryn Hellerstein hosts and reads selections in English and Yiddish. Dancing and noshing follow. In collaboration with Free Library of Philadelphia.

TICKET INFO: $15.00 - Tickets for this event can be purchased through UpStages at 215-569-9700 or at the Prince Music Theater box office. For complete event listings and other ticketing information, go to www.firstpersonfestival.org or call 267-402-2057 to request a Festival brochure.

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The Mesopotamian Arts Council presents..
A Night of Music and Dance
Eclectic music from around the globe....

Ismail Butera - accordion
Michael Hess - violin and nai flute
Haig Manoukian - oud
Mal Stein - percussion
Tomer Tzur - percurssion
Annette Ezekiel - vocals
Dalia Carella - dance

Thursday June 2nd, 8pm
Lafayette Grill & Bar
Franklin Street between Broadway and Lafayette
Tickets $12, call 212-732-5600 for reservations

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HEART/BEAT: SECULAR MUSIC'S JEWISH SOUL:

Three evening lecture concert series
with Joshua Jacobson
Jack Gottlieb
Hankus Netsky
Josh Dolgin
The Zamir Chorale

MAY 25; JUNE 1 AND 19, 2005
7:30 p.m.
Berenson Hall

Jack Gottlieb
Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish: Unexpected undertones of Broadway and Hollywood music
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 7:30 P.M.

Programs are $12 advance paid registration, $15 at the door, $30 advance paid registration for all three programs. Matriculated students receive a 50 percent discount.

REGISTER ONLINE NOW AT: www.hebrewcollege.edu/selreg or call 617-559-8709 to register by phone with a credit card.

FOR FULL DETAILS, go to www.hebrewcollege.edu/heartbeat

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Jeremiah Lockwood: Guitar and vocals
Tomer Tzur: Percussion

(Take the G train to the Greenpoint Ave stop; Tommy's is on the corner of Manhattan Avenue and Green Street)

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YALE STROM and Klezmer "Con" Fusion with special guests Spanish phenom VICTOR PRIETO (accordion), NORBERT STACHEL (clarinet, sax, flute) & SPROCKET (bass). Violinist and Hot Pstromi leader, Yale Strom, composes his own "New Jewish" music, which combines klezmer with Hasidic nigunim, Rom, jazz, classical, Balkan and Sephardic motifs. He is also an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and is one of the world’s leading ethnographer-artists of klezmer music and culture. $10 Barbes is located at 376 9th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. 718-965-9177 www.barbesbrooklyn.com

Directions: Take the F TRAIN to 7th Ave and exit to the southwest corner. Make a U-Turn and walk uphill on 9th St. towards 6th Ave. Barbes will be on the left - a couple of stores in from the corner of 6th Ave.

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Thursday, May 26
Sanda Weigl
European / Romanian Music
7:30pm
Admission $15 - Please purchase tickets at the door

SATALLA
37 W 26th St Btwn 6th Ave & Broadway
212.576.1155
www.satalla.com

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Oi Va Voi and friends present

Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism

Sunday 15th May 6pm – 1am
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
6pm – 1a.m. @pound;5.

After March’s total roadblock, Radio Gagarin is back with the second in a series of regular Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer socialist shakedowns at the NHAC. The Commissar pledges exclusive new music from Oi Va Voi plus special guest musicians Moshikop and Pinedrop, Siberian throat singer, Chyskyyrai, straight from the steppes, sound/art/poetry/circus/puppet theatre/video installations for the Proletariat featuring state artists Adrian Philpott, Zoe, Liz, Josephine and Sara; frozen vodka & rakiya galore and resident DKs (Dancefloor Komissars) Lemez Lovas, Max Reinhardt, Starets & special Siberian guest DK Heretic sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til’ the road of excess has led us to the place of wisdom. Early evening come to feed your soul with borscht 'n' blinis in the Soviet kitschen and take a rest from your fight for Revolutionary Determinism, for a few counter-rev moments in the Kinodrom with award-winning Czech, Russian and Bosnian shorts plus a feast of new and classic animation in the legendary Jan Svankmajer style. Long live the memory of our fallen comrades at Kronstadt...

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

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Avada/Yiddishkayt Los Angeles, Progressive Jewish Alliance and Spaceland Productions present

Doikayt, A Los Angeles Passover, April 21 at 9:00 PM

Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 9:00 PM (doors open at 8:30 PM)
The Vanguard, 6021 Hollywood Blvd. (just east of Gower)
Hollywood 90028
Free parking in adjacent lots or on the street.
$15 general; $10 students. Volunteers: Free

To volunteer, or for more info, call 323-692-8151 or e-mail Yiddishkayt LA

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SUNDAY, APRIL 17 AT 3 PM: DULCIMER FEST!
A unique musical program that will showcase the dulcimer as played by the diverse immigrant groups who have lived on the Lower East Side ­ from the East European Jews and Irish of a century ago to the Chinese and Ukrainian communities of today.

Dulcimer Fest!
will take place on at the Eldridge Street Synagogue, the first great house of worship built in New York by East European Jews. The Eldridge Street Synagogue is located on the Lower East Side, at 12 Eldridge Street, between Canal and Division Streets. By subway: F to East Broadway; B or D to Grand Street. Tickets are $12 adults; $10 students and seniors. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED. For more information, please call the Eldridge Street Project at 212.219.0888 x 302.

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Klezmatics with Joshua Nelson, Kathryn Farmer and special guests.

"Brother Moses Smote The Water"
CD release celebration at
Satalla
37 West 26th Street NYC
212-576-1155
www.satalla.com
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Two shows: 7:30pm and 10pm
Admission $25 in advance/$30 at the door

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Sunday 20th March 4pm – 1am

Oi Va Voi present

Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism

Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
4pm – 1a.m. Free before 5pm, £5 after.

Oi Va Voi & friends proudly present the second in a series of regular Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer shakedowns at the NHAC. Exclusive new music from Oi Va Voi plus other live acts on stage, special guest musicians, sound/art/poetry/circus/puppet theatre/video installations for the Proletariat featuring state artists Moshikop, Adrian Philpott, Zoe Klinger and Liz Strachan; frozen vodka & rakiya galore and resident DKs (Dancefloor Komissars) Lemez Lovas, Max Reinhardt, Starets & Siberian DK Heretic sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til the phat politburo sings. Early evening come to feed your soul with borscht 'n' blinis in the Soviet kitschen, explore Marxist dialectic over the chess boards and escape the capitalist running dogs for a few revolutionary moments in the Kinodrom with award-winning Czech, Russian and Bosnian shorts plus a feast of new and classic animation in the legendary Jan Svankmajer style. All Power to the Soviets... and it's free before five...

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

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Klezmer & Latin jazz double bill reprise at Makor
Wednesday, April 6
8:00 pm ::: Los Mas Valientes,
9:30 pm ::: Metropolitan Klezmer
35 W 67 St, NYC
www.makor.org
212-601-1000
$12 for both dynamic, versatile eight-piece bands!

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Yiddishkayt Los Angeles & Spaceland Productions present
Klezmatics with guest Joshua Nelson.
Monday, April 4 at 8:00 PM (doors open at 7:00 PM)
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
4800 Hollywood Blvd. (between Vermont and Edgemont)
Hollywood, CA 90027
General Admission: $25
Tickets available at TicketWeb or by calling 866-468-3399.

Web: www.napavalleyoperahouse.org

Yiddishkayt Los Angeles
tel: 323-692-8151
web: www.yiddishkaytla.org

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Wednesday, June 23 at 7:00 pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust presents:

SILENT FILM/LIVE MUSIC His People (Director: Edward Sloman - 1925, 91 min, 16mm) World Premiere score written by Paul Shapiro. Performed live by an all-star band. Restored 16mm print courtesy of the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University

Shapiro's band: Paul Shapiro (woodwinds), Steven Bernstein (trumpets), Tomas Ulrich (cello), Brian Mitchell (piano), David Hofstra (bass), and Tony Lewis (drums)

Advanced Ticket Price: $15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 members/students Door Price: $18, $15, $12

PURCHASE TICKETS: On-line at www.mjhnyc.org or via phone at 646.437.4202

SUBWAY: 4/5 to Bowling Green, W/R to Whitehall, 1/9 to South Ferry BUS: M1, M6, M9, M15

Edmond J. Safra Hall at the Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place in Lower Manhattan - 646.437.4200

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The Jewish Music & Cultural Festival (formerly KlezFest)
will take place on Sunday, June 20, 2004 at Clinton Square
in Syracuse, NY. It is FREE! Headliners are "Margot
Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys," "Simply Tsfat" from
Israel, and "Sruli and Lisa's Children's Workshop," plus
outstanding regional performers. Children's Workshop
starts at 10 AM; the festival runs to 5 PM. Vendor items
and ethnic, kosher food will be for sale.

Syracuse Jewish Federation
tel: 315-445-0161
klezfest@yahoo.com

www.sjfed.org/klezfest

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June 6th -Sunday, 5:30 pm
Brentwood, CA
Wadsworth Theatre
Theodore Bikel: The First 80 Years
An evening of song, dance and spirit in his honor
Featuring Divahn and
legendary performers including:

Peter Yarrow - Leonard Nimoy
The Klezmatics - Mike Burstyn
Larry Miller - Ed Asner
Billy Jonas - Mare Winningham
Ornili Azulay - Pastor Andrae' Crouch
Divahn

All proceeds benefit
Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
Tickets and info: www.bravobikel.com

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PIEROGIES AND PO-BOYS:
A NIGHT OF EASTERN EUROPEAN AND NEW ORLEANS DANCE MUSIC AT
THE BAGGOT INN, NEW YORK

May 6
7 pm - The Village Klezmer Quintet; 8 pm � The Gold
Sparkle Brass Band; 9 pm � Romashka, the NYC Gypsy Dance
Party Band.

Baggot Inn, 82 W. 3rd Street, bet. Thompson and Sullivan
tel: (212) 477-0622
www.baggotinn.com/baggot.html

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Casco Bay Tummlers

Klezmer, Old & New
Balkan, Jewish, Greek & Israeli Dancing

All Asia Cafe
334 Mass Ave.
Central Sq.
Cambridge, MA
May 2, 2004
2:00 � 4:30
$5 (suggested)
For more information:
(617) 497-1544 (cafe)
gruve@maine.rr.com (band)

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Beyond Fiddler:
Jewish Tradition & Transformation
April 2�May 2, 2004

In celebration of Jewish Heritage Month, BAM presents the Fourth Annual Brooklyn Jewish Film Festival, live music, panel discussions, and special guests�all highlighting the innovation and diversity of Jewish-American culture.

Saturday, April 10 at 9pm
The Seder-Matzochism Tango: A Jewcy Passover

BAMcafé
No cover. $10 food/drink minimum.
718.636.4100
30 Lafayette Avenue . Brooklyn, NY
www.bam.org/film/beyondfiddler.aspx

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New Shoots from old roots...

It's coming up, the exciting dual concert by Klezcentricity
and Shalshelet (http://shalsheletmusic.com),
two of the most exciting groups in New Jewish music.

Monday, March 29, 8:00 PM
Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring
$12 advance/$15 door

Produced by the Institute for Musical Traditions

You can purchase tickets securely on-line (see URL below)
or call the IMT office at 301-754-3611
www.imtfolk.org/html/imt_shalshelet.html

We're excited about this concert and hope to see you there!

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the Institute of Musical Traditions presents

a double-header concert of Jewish music with

Shalshelet and Klezcentricity

Monday, March 29, 2004 at 8 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring
10309 New Hampshire Ave
(3 blocks north of the Beltway).

$12 in advance, $15 at the door

Tickets & information:
www.imtfolk.org
301-754-3611

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DIVAN DOUBLE-BILL CONCERT + +
THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 10:30pm and Midnight

10:30pm: Basya Schechter, featured in DIVAN, performs with her band
PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER
+
12:00am: assorted Hungarian members of
ELET FA

TONIC
107 Norfolk St. (between Delancey and Rivington)
$10 (or $5 with a Divan ticket stub)

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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
Call today for a brochure!

Ronnie Gilbert: A Radical Life with Songs

Sunday, March 21 4:00pm

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center

1414 Walnut Street (at Rose), Berkeley

$15-$20

A one-woman show that celebrates the life of a singer, actor, writer and community activist.

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DIVAN PREMIERE PARTY AND CONCERT + +
SATURDAY MARCH 20, 8:30pm

FRANK LONDON (composer of DIVAN) & HIS KLEZMER BRASS ALLSTARS
performs live at: MEHANATA
416 Broadway (corner of Canal)
BEER SPONSOR: Shmaltz Brewing Company/He'Brew: The Chosen Beer

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Joel Rubin Group residency at Cornell
March 16-19:

The trio consisting of Joel Rubin, clarinet, Claudio Jacomucci, accordion,
and David Chernyavsky, violin, will be in residency at Cornell from March
16-19, 2004. This event is co-sponsored by the Cornell Council for the Arts,
the Department of Music, the Jewish Studies Program, the Cornell Society for
the Humanities, the Institute for European Studies, and Cornell Hillel.

March 19
1:25-4:25 Composers Forum, Contemporary Accordion Techniques, Claudio
Jacomucci, 316 Lincoln Hall (in Cox Music Library).

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Joel Rubin Group residency at Cornell
March 16-19:

The trio consisting of Joel Rubin, clarinet, Claudio Jacomucci, accordion,
and David Chernyavsky, violin, will be in residency at Cornell from March
16-19, 2004. This event is co-sponsored by the Cornell Council for the Arts,
the Department of Music, the Jewish Studies Program, the Cornell Society for
the Humanities, the Institute for European Studies, and Cornell Hillel.

March 18
9:00-11:00 am: Chamber Music Master Class, David Chernyavsky (St. Petersburg
String Quartet), B-20 Lincoln Hall.

12:30-1:15 pm: Midday concert Claudio Jacomucci, Contemporary accordion
music by Berio, Tedde, Kurtág, Zorn, Garau, and Piazzola, B-20 Lincoln Hall

7:00-10:00 pm: Klezmer music workshop/master class Joel Rubin (with special
guest Peter Rushefsky, Syracuse, tsimbl [Eastern European hammered
dulcimer]), as well as Claudio Jacomucci, accordion), 124 Lincoln Hall.

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Khevre Wedsday, March 10th live @ Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge, MA 7:30 PM only $5!! www.zeitgeist-gallery.org

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Khevre live @ Emanuel Synagogue in West Hartford, CT Purim Family concert and party 11:30 am Free and open to the public!!! www.emanuelsynagogue.org

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La Regla - Berlin’s famous Latin Party comes to London

Tuesday 24 February

Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JQ

Free before 8pm, £5 after, £3 concessions

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Sunday, February 22nd, 2004 at 4 pm:
A special interfaith sacred music concert in honor of Black Heritage Month
SACRED SOUL

� Mystical Music & Dance of the Middle East �
Meets the
� The African-American tradition of Spirituals �

Performed by:
The Yuval Ron Ensemble featuring Najwa Gibran
and
The Gwen Wyatt Chorale
with:
a 40 piece African-American chorus directed by Ms. Gwen Wyatt,
Maya Haddi - vocals, Najwa Gibran � vocals, Norik Manoukian - woodwinds,
Jamie Papish - percussion, David Martinelli - percussion, Virginie Alumyan - kanoun,
Carolyne Aycaguer-Ron - harmonium, keyboards, Yuval Ron - oud, saz
guest dancers: Aziz, Maya Karasso
guest MC: Titus Levi

Location: Wilshire United Methodist Church at: 4350 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010 (on the corner of Wilshire Blvd. and Plymouth, next to the Whilshire Ebel Theater)

Admission: $10 tickets, pay at the door (cash only).
Advance ticket sale via mail: Please mail a check payable to Yuval Ron Music, to: 3812 Carpenter Ave. Studio City, CA 91604.
Tickets purchased by mail will be held at Will Call at church entrance on the day of the show.
For more info: Tel: 818 505 1355 or email: info@yuvalronmusic.com

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Jack Falk writes:

About 10 years ago I was drafted as music director for a
puppet theater production of "The Dybbuk" here in Portland.
(Since then I've worked on two other productions of the same
play, leading me to speculate that while possession might
not actually be 9/10 of the law, it was certainly approaching
9/10 of my musical activity.)

After all this time, "Between Two Worlds/The Dybbuk" has been remounted, and this time it's going on the road. In New York, there are three performances: Thu 2/19 8 pm, Sat 2/21 8 pm, and Sun 2/22 3 pm at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St. For ticket info: (917) 606-8200.

Here's a link to the article in playbill.com:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/print/83609.html

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Wednesday February 18
DAVID BUCHBINDER & LULA LOUNGE PRESENTATION
FEAST OF THE EAST
Dance your ass off�guaranteed!

Doors Open @ 7:00 pm Balkan, Jewish+ Arabic Dance Class @ 8pm
Concert @9pm
Admission $15 Student $12
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas Street West
Dinner Reservations Recommended 416.588.0307
www.lula.ca
LIVE CONCERT + COMMUNITY EVENT + DJ MEDICINEMAN + ROULETTES DANCE + DANCE CLASS + SHISHA LOUNGE

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Hi all, for those in The Netherlands and the western part of Germany,
Janet and Jak Esim form Turkey will be performing in februari 15 in
Enschede (near the German border)

www.podiumtwente.nl

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The Workmen's Circle presents:
Pete Siegel and Friends in Concert

Saturday, February 7 at 8pm
1762 Beacon Street in Brookline

TICKETS:
$8 in advance $10 at the door. Mail check (payable to the Workmen's Circle)
to the Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon Street, Brookline MA, 02445. Advance
ticket orders must be received by 5pm on February 6th.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
contact the Workmen's Circle at 617-566-6281 or
circle@workmenscircleboston.org

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Please Join Seth and friends for an intimate evening of original music as well as plenty of Carlebach songs- bring your voices!
Sat. Jan. 31st. @9:00 p.m.
The Carlebach Shul
W. 79th St. & West End Ave.
(212)580-SHUL

See you there!

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FIDDLERS 3

A concert of Classical, Klezmer and Traditional American Fiddle Music
Cookie Segelstein, Stacy Phillips and Netta Hadari
with Jim Guttmann

Jan 25, 2004 (rescheduled from Jan 18)
3PM
Congregation Adath Israel
46 Old Church Street
Middletown, CT

Call 860-346-4709 for information

[Note: Cookie Segelstein is in the highly regarded Veretski Pass and Klezical Tradition; Stacy Phillips has been reviewed on the KlezmerShack for his solo work, and for his work with jazz bassist David Chevan, and Jim Guttman, when not teaching, is bass player for the Klezmer Conservatory Band. ari]

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"Tohu ve Bohu"
Concert trans-culturel
Dimanche 25 janvier 2004 à 18h

avec
Hotegezugt - musique klezmer:
Michel Borzykowski (saxophones)
Christine Niggeler (accordéon)
Alain Ruaux (contrebasse)
Bianca Mihaies-Favez (violon)

Nomades - musique arabo-andalouse:
Adel Degaichia (percussions, violon)
Amar Toumi (percussion, oud,chant)
Claude Jordan (flûtes)

Renaissance - musique de la Renaissance
Cecilia Knudtsen (viole)
Laura Mendy (virginal)
Patricia Esteban (flûtes, percussions)
Julie Mazille (flutes, chant)

Prix des places: 20 et 15 frs
Théâtre du Galpon (Artamis)
21, bd. Saint Georges
Réservations au 079 2570441
Dans le cadre du cycle Giordano Bruno

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Wednesday January 21
DAVID BUCHBINDER & LULA LOUNGE PRESENTATION
FEAST OF THE EAST
Dance your ass off�guaranteed!

Doors Open @ 7:00 pm Balkan, Jewish+ Arabic Dance Class @ 8pm
Concert @9pm
Admission $15 Student $12
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas Street West
Dinner Reservations Recommended 416.588.0307
www.lula.ca
LIVE CONCERT + COMMUNITY EVENT + DJ MEDICINEMAN + ROULETTES DANCE + DANCE CLASS + SHISHA LOUNGE

Continue reading "Feast of the East, Toronto, Ont, CA, Jan 21" »

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Michael Winograd and Carmen Staaf (of Khevre) with vocalist Tanya Jacobs live at the Western Front Club, this wedsday, Jan. 21 at 9:00 PM. The Western Front Club is located at 343 Western Ave, Cambridge. (617.492.7772)

With Michael- clarinet, Carmen- Accordion
Klezmer Duo and French Trio music with Vocalist Tanya Jacobs

"Michael's an idiot, but Carmen's a great musician. It's lucky for him, that
she lets him tag along"- sarah gordon

I think the price is $5... alrightee-- hope some can make it

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Don't miss the biggest Balkan music event of the year! Shake off the cold with two great nights of spirited music, energetic dancing, crazy people and plenty of good eats and drinks. 36 bands! And get ready for the all the whoopla at a pre-party with New York's Own Lively Balkan Brass Band: The Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar, also known as The Official Balkan Brass Band of Brooklyn (the Zagnuts will be playing for the Reopening of Brooklyn Museum's Grand Staircase on April 17th and has just received a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council to play music and teach dancing in Prospect Park this spring). Anywhoooooo....the Zagnuts invite you to join them at NuBlu on the night before Golden Festival starts, Thursday, January 15th. NuBlu is so Nu that I haven't been there yet. In fact, I hear that there is no sign out front, just a Blu light. So look for the Blu light and get down there and party party party like it's start of a Nu year. Or something like that. Hmm...just get there, okay?

::: FRIDAY & SATURDAY! :::

Two nights of Balkan music, dance and border-crossing celebration

The Golden Festival is New York's largest Balkan music event, with multiple stages, Balkan and Middle Eastern refreshments, Balkan arts vendors, as well as beautiful Balkan textiles on display. From international stars to local musicians, modern Balkan stylists to folk traditionalists, over 20 bands provide hours of ecstatic listening, dancing and partying.

Friday, Jan 16 at Hungarian House
213 E 82nd St. (btw 2nd & 3rd Ave's)
Manhattan, New York
Lobby phone: (212)650-1974
Donation: $16, students $12, children (6-12) $5
7:30-8:45 pm: Balkan dance workshop with Michael Ginsburg and members of Zlatne Uste
8:45 pm-12 am: Ethnic snacks and great live music

Saturday, Jan 17 at Good Shepherd School
620 Isham (near 207th St. and B'way)
Manhattan, New York Directions
Donation: $27, students $18, children (6-12) $8

6 pm-until 3 am: The whole deal - multiple music venues, snacks, party, etc. 36 bands!

Information:
zufestival@zlatneuste.org
(718) 859-4759
www.zlatneuste.org

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Don't miss the biggest Balkan music event of the year! Shake off the cold with two great nights of spirited music, energetic dancing, crazy people and plenty of good eats and drinks. 36 bands! And get ready for the all the whoopla at a pre-party with New York's Own Lively Balkan Brass Band: The Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar, also known as The Official Balkan Brass Band of Brooklyn (the Zagnuts will be playing for the Reopening of Brooklyn Museum's Grand Staircase on April 17th and has just received a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council to play music and teach dancing in Prospect Park this spring). Anywhoooooo....the Zagnuts invite you to join them at NuBlu on the night before Golden Festival starts, Thursday, January 15th. NuBlu is so Nu that I haven't been there yet. In fact, I hear that there is no sign out front, just a Blu light. So look for the Blu light and get down there and party party party like it's start of a Nu year. Or something like that. Hmm...just get there, okay?

::: FRIDAY & SATURDAY! :::

Two nights of Balkan music, dance and border-crossing celebration

The Golden Festival is New York's largest Balkan music event, with multiple stages, Balkan and Middle Eastern refreshments, Balkan arts vendors, as well as beautiful Balkan textiles on display. From international stars to local musicians, modern Balkan stylists to folk traditionalists, over 20 bands provide hours of ecstatic listening, dancing and partying.

Friday, Jan 16 at Hungarian House
213 E 82nd St. (btw 2nd & 3rd Ave's)
Manhattan, New York
Lobby phone: (212)650-1974
Donation: $16, students $12, children (6-12) $5
7:30-8:45 pm: Balkan dance workshop with Michael Ginsburg and members of Zlatne Uste
8:45 pm-12 am: Ethnic snacks and great live music

Saturday, Jan 17 at Good Shepherd School
620 Isham (near 207th St. and B'way)
Manhattan, New York Directions
Donation: $27, students $18, children (6-12) $8

6 pm-until 3 am: The whole deal - multiple music venues, snacks, party, etc. 36 bands!

Information:
zufestival@zlatneuste.org
(718) 859-4759
www.zlatneuste.org

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Don't miss the biggest Balkan music event of the year! Shake off the cold with two great nights of spirited music, energetic dancing, crazy people and plenty of good eats and drinks. 36 bands! And get ready for the all the whoopla at a pre-party with New York's Own Lively Balkan Brass Band: The Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar, also known as The Official Balkan Brass Band of Brooklyn (the Zagnuts will be playing for the Reopening of Brooklyn Museum's Grand Staircase on April 17th and has just received a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council to play music and teach dancing in Prospect Park this spring). Anywhoooooo....the Zagnuts invite you to join them at NuBlu on the night before Golden Festival starts, Thursday, January 15th. NuBlu is so Nu that I haven't been there yet. In fact, I hear that there is no sign out front, just a Blu light. So look for the Blu light and get down there and party party party like it's start of a Nu year. Or something like that. Hmm...just get there, okay?

:: THURSDAY! ::

Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar
Playing at NuBlu
Thursday, Jan 15, 11 pm
62 Ave C, NYC
between 4th and 5th Streets
www.zagnutcirkus.com
www.nublu.net

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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)

Continue reading "Jewish/World Music Showcase, NYC, Jan 11" »

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Wed, Dec 24th: Jewltide: A Hannukah Bash

8PM @ Southpaw $10 presale www.ticketweb.com

125 5th Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn

Q Train to 7th Ave. M/N/R to Union Street 2/3 to Bergen St. F to 4th Ave.

JDub is teaming up with Brooklyn Jews to present a healthy alternative to the Chinese food and movie theater experiences of years past. When Hannukah and Christmas collide, we can�t help but throw down. Eric Drysdale from The Daily Show, musical performances by the Bialyrockers (featuring Annette Ezekiel of Golem & Jeremy Parzen of Les Sans Culottes), other surprise guests (good ones!), and JDub�s own Mattissyahu. Plus free donuts and beer specials. Now doesn�t that beat fruitcake?

Jewltide will sell out. Don�t be left at your neighborhood Matzah Ball. Get tickets early!

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!!!Hey- Check Out Seth Glass at MAKOR!!!

This Sunday Dec. 21st @8:00 pm (also appearing: Neshama Carlebach).

MAKOR: 35 W. 67th St. (Col./C.P.W.)
(212)601-1000
www.makor.org

See you there...

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Tuesday 9th December
UNITED NATIONS OF LONDON

TERRY HALL AND MUSHTAQ
World Roots Gig of the Year

DJs: Charlie Gillet + Rita Ray

Cargo
83 Rivington Street, London EC2 (Old Street/Liverpool Street tubes)
Tel: 020 7739 3440
7pm – 1am, Tickets on door £10

Advance tickets available from ticketweb.co.uk

YaD
0207 535 0251
www.yadarts.com

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Wed 3 Dec 8pm
Crakow Klezmer Band
Crakow Klezmer Band is a Polish quartet composed of the young virtuosos
Jaroslaw Bester (accordion), Jaroslaw Tyrala (violin), Oleg Dyyak
(accordion, clarinet and percussion instruments) and Wojciech Front (double
bass). Their original, dynamic and rich arrangements have earned the band a
reputation as one of the most interesting groups of the jewish contemporary
music scene, exploring the rich links between jewish and gypsy music.
Releasing their first two albums on John Zorn's acclaimed NYC based Tzadik
label has helped them establish themselves at the forefront of the current
Jewish musical renaissance.

The Spitz, live music, gallery, bar & bistro
109 Commercial Street, Old Spitalfields Market, London E1 6BG
box office & info 020 7392 9032
mail@spitz.co.uk
www.spitz.co.uk

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Wednesday December 3
DAVID BUCHBINDER & LULA LOUNGE PRESENTATION
FEAST OF THE EAST
Wednesdays Monthly November 5. December 3. January 21 2004. February 18 2004
Dance your ass off�guaranteed!

Doors Open @ 7:00 pm Balkan, Jewish+ Arabic Dance Class @ 8pm
Concert @9pm
Admission $15 Student $12
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas Street West
Dinner Reservations Recommended 416.588.0307
www.lula.ca
LIVE CONCERT + COMMUNITY EVENT + DJ MEDICINEMAN + ROULETTES DANCE + DANCE CLASS + SHISHA LOUNGE

Continue reading "Feast of the East, Toronto, Ont, CA, Dec 3" »

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Alex Lubet writes to the Jewish-music list:

If you're anywhere near the Twin Cities, you may want to check out my
next gig 12/3, 730 pm, at Beth Jacob Synagogue in Mendota Heights, a
performance with my long-time collaborator, dancer/choreographer Judith
Brin-Ingber. I'll be doing my Ani Maamin and Maoz Tzur for guitar and
Shabbat Ha-Malkah for bass. Together, J and I will perform Hannelore
and our newest collaboration, Footnotes. Judith will perform Bari
Simone and Sarah, the latter featuring vocalist Amy (Yes, she's Jewish!)
Olson.

Most of the program is a tribute to Jewish women, a project-in-progress
that will eventually include exclusively original repertoire devoted to
our moms, sisters, partners, and female friends. Proud to say that the
dude of the duo came up with the idea (while watching a Seinfeld rerun
and getting tired of the way Jews are depicted in American pop culture
exclusively as something less than we are, a position I think hurts
women even more than men).

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Wednesday 26th November

BERLIN ROAD BLOC
RUSSENDISKO featuring ROTFRONT
Russian cabaret disko fever

DJs: Yuriy Gurzhy + Lemez Lovas (Oi Va Voi)

Madame JoJo’s
8-10 Brewer Street, London W1 (Piccadilly Circus/Leicester Square tubes)
Tel: 020 7734 3040

8pm – 1am, Tickets £10

YaD
0207 535 0251
www.yadarts.com

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Glenn Dickson, of Shirim and Naftule's Dream, writes:

I have another Clarinetrics Concert, Nov. 22, 7:30, at the West Medford Congregational Church, 400 High St. Solo Clarinet with electronic sound processing. Spiritual, emotional, and meditative without being vacuous. Plus, the Labyrinth will be kept open for meditative walking. Admission by donation. Call 781-648-4282 with questions, visit www.ccwm-medford.org for driving directions. Hope to see you there.

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Wednesday 19th November

DAKAR-PARIS CONNECTION
DAARA J

Here come the Senerap Warriors
DJs: Rita Ray + Eric Soul

Cargo
83 Rivington Street, London EC2 (Old Street/Liverpool Street tubes)
Tel: 020 7739 3440

7pm – 1am, Tickets on door £10
Advance tickets available from ticketweb.co.uk

YaD
0207 535 0251
www.yadarts.com

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Wednesday 3rd December
CRAKOW TZADIK SESSION

CRACOW KLEZMER BAND
UK debut – the Klezmer Kings

DJs: Max Reinhardt + Lemez Lovas (Oi Va Voi)

The Spitz
Old Spitalfields Market, London E1 (Aldgate East/Liverpool Street tubes)
Tel: 020 7392 9032

8pm – 12am, Tickets £10
In association with the Polish Cultural Institute.

YaD
0207 535 0251
www.yadarts.com

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Wednesday November 05
DAVID BUCHBINDER & LULA LOUNGE PRESENTATION
FEAST OF THE EAST
Wednesdays Monthly November 5. December 3. January 21 2004. February 18 2004
Dance your ass off�guaranteed!

Doors Open @ 7:00 pm Balkan, Jewish+ Arabic Dance Class @ 8pm
Concert @9pm
Admission $15 Student $12
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas Street West
Dinner Reservations Recommended 416.588.0307
www.lula.ca
LIVE CONCERT + COMMUNITY EVENT + DJ MEDICINEMAN + ROULETTES DANCE + DANCE CLASS + SHISHA LOUNGE

Continue reading "Feast of the East, Toronto, Ont, CA, Nov 5" »

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Golem Rocks! w/ Black Bear Combo
Thursday, February 11, 2010, 8:00pm - 11:55pm
Martyrs
3855 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago, IL

Adv. Tickets: $10 until 12/30 then $12 until 1/15 $15
www.ticketweb.com

presented by KFAR Jewish Arts Center * Martyr's * Global Groove Chicago

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Mardi Gras Concert and Party with The Wild Bohemians at World Cafe Live
Tuesday February 16, 2010 8pm - Midnite

World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia Pa..

26th Annual Mardi Gras Concert and Party with The Wild Bohemians with guests James Day and Fish Fry. Join us for a raucous night at World Cafe Live featuring a 20 piece Mardi Gras Band. Great authentic Mardi Gras music, food, booze, beads and more.

Experience Mardi Gras in Philly with The Wild Bohemians - Philadelphia's longest running Mardi Gras tradition.

$15 - All Ages Show
Tickets available at tickets.worldcafelive.com
215-222-1400

HAPPY MARDI GRAS!

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