KlezCalendar

Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 08:00 PM

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

7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
6 - 7:30PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
8 – 9:15PM Tantshoyz Yiddish Tance Party, $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests

Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture is pleased to present the year's first installment of our popular Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party series, as part of the Sixth Street Community Synagogue's klezmer series.

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Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party
Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:00 PM

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

7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
6 - 7:30PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
8 – 9:15PM Tantshoyz Yiddish Tance Party with Michael Alpert, $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests

Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture is pleased to present the year's first installment of our popular Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party series, as part of the Sixth Street Community Synagogue's klezmer series. Featuring dance leading by Michael Alpert, and a live band.

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Wednesday, Mar 21 at 08:00 PM - Sy Kushner Klezmer Ensemble East Village Klezmer Series

7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
6 - 7:30PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
8 – 9:15PM Sy Kushner Klezmer Ensemble $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests

Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)

The Sy Kushner Klezmer Ensemble, ft. Jeremy Brown, Marty Confurius & Aaron Brown

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ÉVÈNEMENT À NE PAS MANQUER!
DIMANCHE 11 MARS À 17H30

Concert d'Efim Chorny et Susan Ghergus
CHANTS DES PIONNIERS JUIFS D'UNION SOVIÉTIQUE
Création mondiale

Efim Chorny (voix) et Susan Ghergus (piano), venus tout spécialement de Moldavie, proposent un voyage en musique dans l'espace et le temps, à la découverte des chants yiddish et russes des pionniers soviétiques de Crimée (années 1920) et du Birobidjan (années 1930-1940). Efim Chorny et Susan Ghergus sont parmi les meilleures surprises que nous a réservées la chute du Rideau de fer!

Au Passage vers les étoiles
17 cité Joly
75 011 Paris (Métro : Père Lachaise, Rue Saint Maur)

P.A.F : 30 €. Adhérents : 20 €.

Billets en vente à la Maison de la culture yiddish-Bibliothèque Medem.
Renseignements/Réservation : 01 47 00 14 00.

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Klezmatics 25th Anniversary/cd release tour

Sun, 26 Feb, 2012, Two shows: 4pm & 7pm
Old Town School of Folk Music
4544 N. Lincoln
Chicago, IL
www.oldtownschool.org

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Klezmatics 25th Anniversary/cd release tour

Sat, 25 Feb, 2012, 7:30pm
Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts
600 N. East St, Bloomington, Illinois
(309) 434-2777
www.cityblm.org/bcd/page.asp?id=13422&show=main

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She'koyokh

Feb 24th, 8pm
St Mary's C of E School, St Mary's Rd, Tickhill, Doncaster
For more details see www.shekoyokh.co.uk

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Klezmatics 25th Anniversary/cd release tour

Thursday, February 23, 2012, 08:00 PM
Lincoln Theater
769 E. Long Street
Columbus, OH
www.citymusiccolumbus.com

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She'koyokh

Feb 22nd, 9pm
Green Note, 106 Parkway, Camden Town
www.greennote.co.uk

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Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party
Wednesday, Feb 22, 2012 at 08:00 PM

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

7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
6 - 7:30PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
8 – 9:15PM Tantshoyz Yiddish Tance Party with Aviva Moore, $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests

Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture is pleased to present the year's first installment of our popular Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party series, as part of the Sixth Street Community Synagogue's klezmer series. Featuring dance leading by Aviva Moore, and a live band with renowned fiddler Deborah Strauss.

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Klezmatics with Joshua Nelson
Brother Moses Smote the Water
Special appearance by Cantor Daniel Mutlu

Saturday, Feb 18, 8:00 p.m.
Congregation Beth Israel
5600 North Braeswood Blvd
Houston, TX
www.erjcchouston.org/arts/music/

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Edom
avant-improv-middle-eastern-jazz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Margot Leverett Band East Village Klezmer Series

Wednesday, Feb 15 at 08:00 PM
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
6 - 7:30PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
8 – 9:15PM Margot Leverett Band $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests

Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)

Margot Leverett is one of the foremost clarinetists of the klezmer revival. Classically trained at Indiana University School of Music, she was involved in avant-garde music when she first heard klezmer, the dynamic East European music traditionally played at Jewish weddings. Leverett was a founding member of the Klezmatics in 1985 before moving on to establish a solo career. Her first CD, "The Art of Klezmer Clarinet," a tribute to classic klezmer of the 20's and 30's, was released in 2001 on Traditional Crossroads (CD4296) to glowing reviews. Her “Klezmer Mountain Boys” band has delighted audiences around the world. Margot will play in a classic klezmer trio format with Patrick Farrell on accordion and Aaron Alexander on drums.

For more info: visit www.klezmermountainboys.com/content/margot-leverett

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Metropolitan Klezmer: Yiddish film focus

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 4pm
Hutchins Street Square
125 South Hutchins St. Lodi, CA 95240
209-333-6782
$15 - $40
hutchinsstreetsquare.com

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Yair Dalal and Lenka Lichtenberg in concert. Yiddish and Iraqi Jewish music intertwined.
Backed up by Lenka's Fray band.

Sunday, February 12, 2012, 7 pm.
Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre/Chutzpah! Festival
950 West 41st Avenue
Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Tickets: $16-26.
More info: www.chutzpahfestival.com/performances-tickets/music/#M6

org_name: Chutzpah! Festival

tel: 604-257-5117

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East of the River presents “Levantera”

Created and Curated by cellist Jessie Reagen Mann, “6th Street Sundays” is a salon-style world and classical music series currently in its 3rd season.

Sunday, Feb 12 at 02:00 PM
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

3 PM Concert with East of the River
2 PM Workshop/Masterclass

In the spirit of the program’s title “Levantera*”, East of the River explores Medieval music of the Mediterranean and travels eastward through the Balkans to Armenia and the Middle East, exploring the earliest songs of those extrao...rdinary cultures, together with their traditional dances - the origins of which go back centuries.

*a strong easterly wind of the Mediterranean

Nina Stern and Daphna Mor, Recorders
Uri Sharlin, Accordion and Percussion
Shane Shanahan, Percussion

$15 includes admission to both and a free drink

The workshop is open to players of all instruments and those who just want to listen and learn. Some extra percussion instruments will be available.

East of the River was founded by internationally renowned recorder players Nina Stern and Daphna Mor. The project explores haunting and virtuosic melodies from the traditional repertories of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, as well as gems of the Medieval European classical repertory. The music is arranged and interpreted by musicians whose musical backgrounds include Classical, Jazz and World Music. Together they create the unique blend that is East of the River. Stern and Mor early music specialists and “recorder virtuosos”, according to the New York Times, have appeared as a duo with groups as varied as The New York Philharmonic and world music ensemble Pharaoh’s Daughter, in venues including Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. In East of the River they collaborate with acclaimed composer/ accordionist Uri Sharlin, and Yo Yo Ma’s “Silk Road Ensemble” percussionist Shane Shanahan. The group has performed at venues as various as Bargemusic, Joe’s Pub, Zebulon, Le Poisson Rouge, and universities. Their first album “East of the River” was released in 2009.

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Concert: The Three Jewish Argen-Tenors

Come hear three of the best Jewish Argentinean voices in concert together for the first time. The three tenors—cantors Gastón Bogomolni, Elías Rosemberg, and César Beleniski—will sing a cocktail of Jewish world music mixed with Opera, Cantorial, Latin, Sephardic, Yiddish, Broadway, Tango, and good humor. Bogomolni is cantor at Temple Aliyah in Needham; Rosemberg is cantor at Newton’s Temple Emanuel; and Beleniski, known in Argentina as “the Jewish Pavarotti,” is cantor of Temple Beth Torah in Tamarac, Florida. The concert will be held Saturday, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m., at Temple Aliyah, 1664 Central Ave., Needham. Tickets are $18 general admission (online, with no service fee, atwww.brownpapertickets.com/event/220756); $20 at the door; Tango Sponsorship, $54 (name listed in program); and students, $10.

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Anakronic Electro Orkestra
with David Krakauer

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

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

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

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

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Metropolitan Klezmer presented for Tucson’s celebration of Arizona Centennial: FREE to the public

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 8pm
The Rialto Theatre
318 E. Congress St. Tucson, AZ 85701
520-740-1000
rialtotheatre.com/event_pop.php?id=1052

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She'koyokh

Feb 10th, 6pm
St Catherine's College Chapel, Cambridge
www.caths.cam.ac.uk

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Metropolitan Klezmer

Thursday, February 9, 2012
Metropolitan Klezmer makes our Southwest debut!
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
7380 East 2nd Street
Scottsdale AZ

Wonderful theater;
Two full concert sets from 8pm on.
Buy tickets here:
www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/event.php?id=756

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The Levitt Legacy East Village Klezmer Series

Wednesday, Feb 8 at 08:00 PM
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
6 - 7:30PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
8 – 9:15PM The Levitt Legacy, ft. Dave Levitt, $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests

Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)

Dave Levitt learned the music business from his parents. They got him started at age eight in Hollywood, Florida. He went on to appear with his folks at every one of their performances. First it was drums and clarinet. Later it became alto sax before Dave finally settled with the trombone at age fourteen. As a teenager Dave attended the famous Laguardia H.S. of Music and Art in New York. While a student there, he was a cast member in the Elizabeth Swados production "Swing" which had a run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. After completing High School, Dave attended Manhattan School Of Music on a scholarship. As student at MSM, Levitt had the good fortune of appearing with many notable jazz musicians. They included Red Rodney, Al Grey, Clark Terry as well as many others. It was about this time that Dave started to arrange and record Klezmer music with his father. These recordings also included their distant cousin Howie Leess on alto saxophone. After finishing his education, Dave took his artistry on the road which included the U.S. as well as Europe. Two of his European tours were with the Epstein Brothers Klezmer Band. Dave was the youngest member of the group as the brothers were well into their 70's. The eldest brother Max Epstein was in his early 80's. It was about this time that Dave started his own company called Progressive Music. The business operated as a rehearsal/recording studio for thirteen years. The business has since shifted gears and Dave is now involved in publishing as well as operating as a record label. The initial release of the label is called "Marty Levitt's Greatest Hits". It's a series of recordings with two generations in the ensemble. (Marty and Dave Levitt).

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Metropolitan Klezmer

WEDS, FEBRUARY 8, 7:30pm
Northern Arizona University
School of Music
Ashurst Hall
Knoles Drive & Tormey Ave Building 11 Flagstaff, AZ 86011
$20 Adult; discounts available for seniors and NAU Employees, children
NAU/CCC Students with ID FREE
discounted tickets not available online, ordering fees apply
nau.ticketforce.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=162&c=5&pg=

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Yiddishe Cup

Feb 4, 2012, 8pm
The Ark
Ann Arbor, MI
www.theark.org

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CD release party and concert for Heather Klein's Inextinguishable Trio CD release,
"Shifreles Portret: A Yiddish Art Song Project."

Saturday, Feb. 4th at 5 p.m.
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street

The group will perform numerous tracks from the album, including Yiddish classical songs that were written as far back as the 1920s. You will also hear the world-premiere of a newly composed piece by internationally known violinist and composer Steven Greenman. In addition, our trio will be joined at the concert by Bay Area musical group "The Lark" to perform Russian instrumental music, as well as Yiddish theater and folk songs with special guests, and some songs in memory of mentor Adrienne Cooper.

$10 at the door
Tel: 415.292.1200
www.jccsf.org

Shifreles Portret is funded by San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music's Musical GrantProgram (www.sffcm.org), as well as the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (www.actaonline.org).

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Darshan Jazz Rabbi's Invitational

Thursday, Feb 2 at 08:30 PM
7:30 PM Lecture with Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
8:30 PM Darshan Concert
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

Darshan is astral rap, liturgical jazz, audio alchemy. Harmonizing Hebrew chant with hiphop, folk rock with electro-pop, love poetry with kabbalistic psychology, Darshan is a unique and organic weave of world wisdom traditions and modern musical styles.
Shir Yaakov is a Master of Melody who has given birth to hauntingly beautiful liturgical chants, used in havurot and synagogues around the world.

Eprhyme is a Radical Jewish Rennaissance Rapper.

Together, as Darshan, these two combine and connect to create something that is altogether new, and at the same time ancient. Deep and probing rhymes blend with evocative and uplifting melodies in "an uncompromising blend of urban forms and neo-Hasidic spirituality." — The Forward.

admission: $10 at the door

The concert will be preceded by a guest lecture on "Torah and Creativity" by Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, an internationally acclaimed bible scholar and pioneer of Jewish Education on the internet, is well known in the Jewish community for his essays on the weekly Bible portion. His vibrant thematic-analytical approach blends the methods of modern academic scholarship with traditional Jewish approaches to the Biblical text. He is best known for his ability to teach students how to study rather than simply read Biblical passages. As his essays focus on meta-themes in the Bible, his readership has expanded to students of the Bible from all religions and walks of life.

In Israel, Rabbi Leibtag teaches at Yeshivat Har Etzion, Yeshivat Shaalavim, Midreshet Lindenbaum, and at Yeshiva University's Gruss Center.

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Sunday, January 29, 10:30 am
Performance by a children's-choir,
Directed by Alla Teplitsky

Hillel Lodge
10 Nadolny Sachs Pvt
Ottawa, ON
(613) 728-3900
Admission Free

Three of the songs that will be featured are by David Botwinik.
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Anthony Coleman

Solo show
Barbès
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope, Brooklyn 347 422 0248

Sunday, Jan. 29 at 7 PM

no Stylistic, Thematic, Ethnic or Revivalist agenda...
but lots of 0145 Tetrachords, for the serially inclined...

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Di Tsvey

The Greenman/Rushefsky Violin/Tsimbl Duo will be leading klezmer workshops and performing with Cantor Janice Roger and the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation's "65th Street Klezmorim".

Sunday January 29th, 2012 @ 3:00pm
Concert: Di Tsvey and Di Tsvey with 65th Street Klezmorim
The Strand Theatre
215 South Harrison Street
Shelbyville, IN 46276
(317)421-ARTS
www.strand-theatre-shelbyville.org/?ec3_days=800

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Klezmania

Sunday January 29th 2:00pm
Globe to Globe Multicultural Festival
Namatjira Park, Spring Road, Clayton South
World Music Stage

There's a big, free, world music festival on Sunday January the 29th in multicultural Clayton on a lovely sunny day.
Klezmania is doing a 45 minute set at 2pm. Come on down and enjoy the klezmer vibe.
There'll be a range of dance and craft workshops, cuisine from around the globe, rides and more.
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Di Tsvey

The Greenman/Rushefsky Violin/Tsimbl Duo will be leading klezmer workshops and performing with Cantor Janice Roger and the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation's "65th Street Klezmorim".

Friday January 27th, 2012 @ 6:00pm
Erev Shabbat service with Cantor Janice Roger and guest artists Steven Greenman and Pete Rushefsky
Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation
6501 North Meridian Street
Indianapolis, IN 46260
(317)255-6647

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

Thursday, Jan 26 at 08:30 PM
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

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

Read the low-down on Ayn Sof in the New York Times

admission: $10 at the door

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Anthony Coleman

Thursday, Jan. 26, 7:30pm
Lilypad
Inman Square
Cambridge, MA

The agenda:
7:30 PM - Short Solo Set!
8:00 PM - Trio!: Anthony Coleman - piano, Michael Attias - alto sax, Satoshi Takeishi - percussion
9:00 PM - Solo Organ Set!
10:00 PM - Lindenbomber Fleet! : Mia Friedman - violin/voice,Lautaro Mantilla - guitar, Beth - McDonald - tuba, Borey Shin - accordion

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Klezwoods with openers Trubaci Balkan Brass Band

January 26th
Johnny D's Uptown
17 Holland St., Somerville, MA (Davis Sq.) 02144
7:30-9:30pm
$10

We are returning to one of our favorite venues, Johnny D's Uptown (Davis Sq., Somerville) for a show that will surely be remembered. We always love to play at this classic Somerville spot and are continuing the tradition of providing stellar and entertaining opening bands for the show. Last Spring we brought the Underscore Orkestra gypsy band from Oregon, this fall we had the Elephant Wrecking Ball, and this time around we are getting the Trubaci Balkan Brass Band! They will start the show off with a blast of brass that will surely get the party started right! They mix traditional eastern european flavors with intense improvisation and tight rhythms and harmonies. Trumpets, saxophones, trombones, tubas and drums will be blowing the roof off. Following Trubaci, Klezwoods will be rocking the house with our usual Klezmer/Eastern European blend of hard grooves, improvisation and melodies.

This is a particularly special show for us, as we will be hitting the studio the very next day to record our next full length album! We will be travelling up to Syracuse, N.Y. for a weekend of recording at More Sound Studios. We are very excited to get rolling on this one, as it will feature a lot of new and original material as well as some classic repertoire that will make for an interesting and fun album to listen to.

So come out and see us off with a night of great music, food, drinks and company! We hope to see you out this Thursday night!

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The Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio

Thursday, January 26, 2012
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20566
Tickets and Information: 800-444-1324 or 202-467-4600

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Wednesday, Jan 25 at 08:00 PM

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

7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
6 - 7:30PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
8 – 9:15PM Tantshoyz Yiddish Tance Party, $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests

Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture is pleased to present the year's first installment of our popular Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party series, as part of the Sixth Street Community Synagogue's klezmer series. Featuring dance leading by popular klezmer pioneer Michael Alpert, and a live band with renowned fiddler Deborah Strauss and CTMD's Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).

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Celebrate the release of "Old Brooklyn" with The Andy Statman Trio
Andy Statman (clarinet, mandolin) Jim Whitney (bass) and Larry Eagle (drums and percussion)
with special guests
Jon Sholle (guitar) AND
Tony Trischka (banjo)

Wednesday 25 January 2012
(le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street NYC NY
doors at 6:30, music at 7:30

also - if you're out of town and can't make the concert, part of the show will stream LIVE (video and audio) - follow us on twitter (@rcanipper) for details!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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LA FOUINE, Y-LOVE & DIWON
8PM : The Colony Theatre 1040 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, FL 33139
Phone: (305) 674-1040

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE

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The Jewish Music Commission of Los Angeles is proud to present SOULS ON FIRE

Three cultures inhabited Spain in the 12th-15th Centuries, each making an indelible contribution to the region's art and music. They lived in harmony until the expulsion of the Jews and Gitanos (Roma, or Gypsies) in 1492. Join us for a musical exploration of Spanish, Sephardic, Gitano and Moorish cultures that will take you on a sonic journey through the passion of Flamenco, the poetry of Sepharad and the rhythm of the Moorish. This world-class ensemble - all renowned in their own right -€“ return to the JMCLA to present the traditional sounds of Spain'€™s Golden Age.

Starring: ADAM DELMONTE - FLAMENCO GUITAR, YALE STROM - VIOLIN, ELIZABETH SCHWARTZ - ARABIC AND LADINO VOCALS, PILAR MORENO - FLAMENCO SINGER, GERALDO MORALES - PERCUSSION, JEFF PEKAREK - BASS

and from Seville, Flamenco Dancer

LAKSHMI "La Chimi"BASILE

Sunday January 22, 2012 3:00 PM

Valley Beth Shalom
15739 Ventura Boulevard Encino, CA 91436
Admission: $10 paid in advance; $15 at the door

For reservations and further information, call Valley Beth
Shalom (818) 788-6000.

Reservations close at 12 Noon on Friday, January 20, 2012.

www.jewishmusicla.org

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Sunday, Jan 22 at 02:00 PM - Layali el Andalus 6th Street Sundays

Created and Curated by cellist Jessie Reagen Mann, “6th Street Sundays” is a salon-style world and classical music series currently in its 3rd season.

3 PM Concert with Layali el Andalus
2 PM Workshop/Masterclass

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

A Judeo-Muslim ensemble that invokes the spirit of ancient Andalusia, Layali el Andalus will play instrumental improvisational taksims, explaining the difference between the music of the Middle East & West. They will also sing songs from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yaman, Andalus, Gharnati and Chaabi, explaining the differences from each region.

Layali el Andalus features:
Rachid Halilal: Oud & Violin
Hadar Noiberg: flute
David Buchbut: Darbouka & Riq
Uri Sharlin: Accordion

The 2pm workshop will focus on the Moroccan Andalusian and shaabi style. Participants will learn the Andalusian rhythms Kuddam and Insiraf Kuddam, the Moroccan 6/8 rhythm, Maqam and the different between Morrocan and Middle East Maqam. Bring your instrument or just listen, all are invited!

$15 includes concert, workshop and drink
www.layalielandalus.com
www.6thstreetsundays.com

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LA FOUINE, Y-LOVE & DIWON
8PM @ Florence Gould Theater 55 East 59th Street, New York, NY 1002
Tel : (212) 355-6160

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE

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One Night Only, a Lively New "Tradition!" "Jazz Fiddler on the Roof" with the Mark Kramer Trio at Temple Emanuel,
Cherry Hill, NJ

Groove with acclaimed Philadelphia pianist Mark Kramer, bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer John Mosemann on Saturday, January 21 at 7 pm performing their renowned and silky interpretations of "Fiddler on the Roof," the hit Broadway and film classic celebrating its 40th year! Songwriter, Hall of Fame and Tony award-winning composer Jerry Bock considers this "the very best jazz treatment of [my] score I've ever heard." Twenty dollar advance registration includes lush hors d'oeuvres and dessert. BYOB. No walk-in tickets.

To RSVP and for more information, call Roberta at 856.489.0029 x 68

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Claire Dickson and her duo.
Jan. 19, 7:00pm
Flora Restaurant
190 Mass. Ave.
Arlington, MA
Tel: 781-641-1664

No cover, reservations recommended
clairedicksonmusic.com

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Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm. City Winery's brunch on January 15, 2012 will feature Eastern Watershed Klezmer.

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

For further info: www.citywinery.com
Purchase tickets online

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Samedi 14 janvier 2012 à 20h
Hotegezugt présente son spectacle de musiques judéo-espagnoles (séfarades) "Palavrikas de Amor"
Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture des Carrés, F-74941 Annecy le Vieux (Savoie, France)

www.mjc-annecylevieux.com

Tél. 0033 450 23 43 48.
Entrée: 8€ (adhérents: 4€).

Expulsés d'Espagne en 1492, les juifs séfarades, porteurs des traditions séculaires d’Al Andaluz, ont essaimé dans tout le bassin méditerranéen et influencé la vie culturelle, en particulier dans des villes comme Tétouan, Fès, Salonique, Izmir, Sarajevo ou Constantinople. Outre leur langue (le judéo-espagnol), ils y ont emmené leurs chants, qui furent ainsi transmis de génération en génération. Ce répertoire, constamment enrichi et renouvelé au contact des musiques populaires indigènes, a permis aux Juifs de la diaspora séfarade d'affirmer leur culture particulière: juive et hispanique. Il fait désormais partie intégrante de l'immense patrimoine culturel du peuple juif. Si la tradition et quelques textes remontent bien à l'Espagne du 15ème siècle, la créativité musicale, elle, est le fruit d'un métissage artistique plus récent. Autant de lieux, autant de musiques et de poèmes inscrits les mémoires. Leurs seuls points communs sont leur éclectisme, leur charme et leur capacité à évoquer toutes les émotions. Et même si la Shoah en a interrompu la transmission orale traditionnelle, les chants judéo-espagnols suscitent maintenant l'enthousiasme des musiciens et des mélomanes du monde entier. Délaissant donc leur klezmer et leur yiddish familiers, Hotegezugt et Anne-Claire Monnier vous proposent un concert de musiques instrumentales et de chants judéo-espagnols et mizrakhim (orientaux) dans une interprétation qui perpétue la tradition sans la figer.

Avec Anne-Claire Monnier (chant), Michel Borzykowski (saxophones et chant), Julien Lapeyre (violon), Pier-Yves Têtu (accordéon), Frédéric Berney (contrebasse) et David Morhain (percussions).

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Eastern Watershed Klezmer Quartet New York City performances:

Saturday January 14 at 7:25 p.m.
The Zlatne Uste Golden Festival, The Grand Prospect Hall,
263 Prospect Avenue, Brooklyn
www.goldenfest.org

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Albanian, Bulgarian, Romany (Gypsy), Macedonian, Serbian, Greek, Turkish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Klezmer, Ukrainian, Georgian music, and more. New York's largest Balkan music event celebrating its 27th year with multiple stages, Balkan & 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 50 bands provide hours of ecstatic listening, dancing and partying.
$25 on Friday 1/13, $50 on Saturday 1/14

www.goldenfest.org - Full LineUp is Posted

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Albanian, Bulgarian, Romany (Gypsy), Macedonian, Serbian, Greek, Turkish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Klezmer, Ukrainian, Georgian music, and more. New York's largest Balkan music event celebrating its 27th year with multiple stages, Balkan & 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 50 bands provide hours of ecstatic listening, dancing and partying.
$25 on Friday 1/13, $50 on Saturday 1/14

www.goldenfest.org - Full LineUp is Posted

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Mosaic Presents New Threads Trio with Kenor

Sunday, January 8, 2012 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)

Lancaster, PA

Order FREE Tickets Here:
http://mosaicpresentsnewthreadstrio.eventbrite.com/
Mosaic (Fulton Elementary School)
255 West Orange Street
Lancaster, PA 17603

To open the show, Christopher Brooks violin and Pete Bainbridge double bass will be playing a set of improvisations based on the work of Jewish song-writers (e.g. Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen) and Jewish liturgical tunes, followed by the acoustic trio, New Threads.

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Yiddishe Cup

Dec 31, 2011, time:tba
First Night
Akron, OH
www.firstnightakron.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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12/27 Soulfarm's 7th Night Hanukah Concert @ Skokie Theatre!

8pm Dec. 27th
Skokie Theatre
all ages show
7924 N. Lincoln Ave,
Skokie IL (map)

$15 adv. / $20 door
Tix: www.ticketweb.com/snl/Search.action?query=kfar

Soulfarm was founded in Israel by Grammy Award winner lead guitarist C Lanzbom and guitarist and lead singer Noah Solomon Chase.

Their uncomparable sound has been dubbed as New American music, full melodic song writing and progressive modern arrangements. Their live shows are full of Mediterranean flavor with captivating guitar leads, Carlebach melodies, dance rhythms and strong percussion breaks.

Soulfarm has a wide range of influences from rock and Latin, to Hebrew and Celtic folk music. Soulfarm has recorded with many well-known musicians such as Perry Farrel and Dispatch; and has opened for Bruce Hornsby, Shawn Colvin and The Wailers George Clinton.

They regularly sell out national venues, such as Whiskey-A-Go-Go, L.A., BB Kings Blues Club, NYC, Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC, The Knitting Factory, L.A., NYC, Fox Theater, Boulder, CO, and Firehouse – St. Louis, MO. Through extensive tours of the U.S. and Europe, the group has gained great popularity.

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Tuesday, December 27 at 7:30 pm
Frank London'€™s Klezmer Brass Band Allstars
CONCERT
Tickets: $45 General Public/ $40 Members
www.thejewishmuseum.org

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Sunday, 12/25/2011, 3:30pm - Congregation Hebrew Tabernacle presents the sixth annual 'Khanike in the Heights' celebration with Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi. This year's concert will include a very special interfaith family celebration in honor of our shared day. 551 Fort Washington Avenue New York, New York 10033. Adults $18, kids and students $10. For advanced reservations and additional information: (212) 568-8304.

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Friday 12/23/2011, 7-8pm and 8:30-9:30pm - Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi continue the Khanike festivities at Barbes, 9th Street and 6th Ave. in Park Slope, Brooklyn. (718) 965-9177. PLEASE NOTE that Hot Pstromi will play two separate sets! (7 to 8pm and 8:30 to 9:30).

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Holiday party with Klezmer Brass & Orkestar Sali
Thursday December 22, 9 PM
Subterranean Arthouse, 2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
$15-$30 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Advance tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
www.facebook.com/OrkestarSali

Light Chanukah candles (BYOC - Bring your own Chanukia and candles), nosh, and dance on the third night of the festival of lights. This concert opens with the debut of a new klezmer brass band featuring members of Inspector Gadje. The evening will close with a virtuosic performance of Turkish-Romani/Bulgarian music by drummer and vocalist Rumen 'Sali' Shopov and clarinetist Peter Jaques (of Brass Menazeri). Special edible treats by the extraordinarily effervescent culinary superstar Shayna Marmar (of Honeypie Cooking).

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

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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

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

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Khanike Party with Yale Strom's Hot Pstromi,, Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh. Cover is $15 (drink included)

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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Klezmatics w/Joshua Nelson, 25th Anniversary Tour

Sunday, December 18th, 7pm
Birch North Park Theatre
2891 University Avenue, Suite 1, San Diego, CA 92104-2929
Box Office: 619-239-8836

Tix, info: www.birchnorthparktheatre.net

Tour/CD kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com

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A Chanukah concert presented by vocalist/folklorist Lori Cahan-Simon accompanied by Walt Mahovlich on accordion.

Yiddish songs rarely heard, collected by Lori, with texts by our most beloved poets set to music by the finest Jewish composers, from the 18th through 20th centuries, as well as a story by I.L. Peretz.

You can also purchase the CD at CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/lcahan3

When: Dec. 18th, 2011 at 3pm
Where: The Cleveland Workmen's Circle, at the Rockefeller Pointe building, 2490 Lee Blvd., Suite 300B, Cleveland Heights, OH. This is at the Northwest corner of Lee & Mayfield Roads, entrance at the rear.
How much: only $5 gets you a concert as well as frishe heyse latkes and other refreshments!!

RSVP requested by Dec. 14th.

Call (216) 381-4515 for reservations and information.
We will be accepting donations of non-perishable food items for our Mitzvah Food Pantry at the event.

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Tony-nominated Folksbiene Yiddish
Theatre star, Eleanor Reissa, - along with the Klezmer Fusion Project - will be performing the acclaimed Hip, Heymish & Hanukkah concert at On Stage at Kingsborough on Sunday, December 18th at 3:00 p.m

www.OnStageAtKingsborough.org

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Khanike iz freylekh!

A Chanukah concert presented by vocalist/folklorist Lori Cahan-Simon accompanied by Walt Mahovlich on accordion.

Yiddish songs rarely heard, collected by Lori, with texts by our most beloved poets set to music by the finest Jewish composers, from the 18th through 20th centuries, as well as a story by I.L. Peretz.

You can also purchase the CD at CD Baby.

When: Dec. 18th, 2011 at 3pm
Where: The Cleveland Workmen's Circle, at the Rockefeller Pointe building,
2490 Lee Blvd., Suite 300B, Cleveland Heights, OH.
This is at the Northwest corner of Lee & Mayfield Roads, entrance at the rear.
How much: only $5 gets you a concert as well as frishe heyse latkes and other refreshments!!

Call (216) 381-4515 for reservations and information.
We will be accepting donations of non-perishable food items for our Mitzvah Food Pantry at the event.

Hope to see you there!

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Metropolitan Klezmer

Sunday, December 18: midday!
Metropolitan Klezmer
Rams Head Onstage
33 West Street, Annapolis MD

Metropolitan Klezmer debut at the renowned Rams Head Tavern concert stage. Noon start (brunch menu available).

Tickets:
410.268.4545
ramsheadonstage.com

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Remi Revisited commemorating the universal spiritual legacy of the 13th Century poet rumi will be held at Cafe Orwell in Brooklyn, NY,on December 17, 8:00-11:30 PM. As Sufi's, Jews and Christians attended his lectures and participated in his funeral, we are inviting musicians, dancers and poets from these traditions to participate in an evening of music, dance and spoken word. If interested in attending please visit www.cafeorwell.com.

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Join us for an evening of song, laughter and good times with Theresa Tova and Fern Lindzon
In English, Yiddish and Yinglish
It's Christmekha at the
GREEN DOOR CABARET
Saturday, December 17th
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Lower Ossington Theatre
100A Ossington
Toronto, ON

For tickets click the following link:
www.lowerossingtontheatre.com
ticketwise.ca
or call 416-915-6747

$20 .00 for Arts Industry Patrons
$25.00 General Seating
$60.00 Premium Seating for two

Doors open at 7:30
Show starts at 8:00

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Metropolitan Klezmer

Saturday, December 17, 7:30PM, two sets
BlackRock Center for the Arts
12901 Town Commons Drive
Germantown, Maryland 20874

Back by popular demand! Metropolitan Klezmer concert at lovely BlackRock Center, in Maryland outside Washington, DC.

Advance ticket purchase suggested, last year's show was a full house!
Tel: 301.528.2260
blackrockcenter.org

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Inspector Gadje & True Life Trio
Friday, December 16, 8:30 pm
Subterranean Arthouse, 2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
$15-$30 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Advance tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
www.myspace.com/truelifetrio
http://inspectorgadje.com

Hear the mellifluous True Life Trio (featuring Leslie Bonnett and Briget Boyle of Kitka, & Juliana Graffagna of Janam) weave sumptuous vocal harmonies and sultry rhythms from Eastern Europe, the Americas & beyond. Then dance to the beautiful and bumpin’ big brassy Balkan beats of Inspector Gadje! The evening will also feature collaboration between the two groups.

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ART CLUB vous invite à sa soirée annuelle qui comprendra un repas et une
Initiation aux danses yiddish avec Michel Borzykowski et l'orchestre KlezPedz.

Venez découvrir et pratiquer les danses traditionnelles juives d'Europe de l'Est: Hora, freylekhs, bulgar, sher, patsh tants, etc. Alliant simplicité et spiritualité, comme la musique klezmer, elles sont accessibles à tous, débutants et avancés!

Vendredi 16 décembre 2011 à 19h

Lieu: Esprit3, chemin de la Blanchette 3 CH-1213 Vieil-Onex www.esprit3.org

Covoiturage sur demande depuis le parking de la salle communale d’Onex
Accès en bus: bus 2 partant des Eaux-Vives, arrêt Onex
Coût de la soirée (apéritif, repas, boissons et danses): 50 CHF à payer jusqu'au 8 décembre au CCP 50-243600-0

En collaboration avec les Amis de la Musique Juive www.amj.ch

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She'Koyokh
This fabulously gifted Klezmer band, at ease performing in any environment. Inspired by the confluence of Eastern Europe’s musical cultures and traditions, this international ensemble have forged a sound straight from London’s melting pot - an exceptionally diverse repertoire of exhilarating, soulful Eastern European Jewish, Balkan, Turkish and Gypsy music.

15 December, 8pm
Cafe Mostra, 86 Stoke Newington High Street, London, UK

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Hanukkah: A Story That Still Needs To Be Told

An evening of conversation, music, and food

Thursday, December 15, 2011 6:45 p.m.

Hebrew College, 160 Herrick Rd. Newton, Massachusetts 02459

For thousands of years, the Greek and Jewish worlds have made an indelible impact on each other's history, culture, and faith. Please join AJC Boston and the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston as we explore the historic roots that bind together our peoples and examine how the encounter between Greeks and Jews transformed our world.

Panel discussion with:

Shaye J.D. Cohen, Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Harvard University Fr. George Dragas, Professor of Patristics, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

Also featuring Jewish music performed by Deiskeit, The Brandeis Klezmer Ensemble, and Greek music by Taximi.

Please RSVP by registering online: http://www.ajcboston.org/H anukkah
Light refreshments will be served. Jewish dietary laws observed. Free parking available. T accessible.

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Join Lox & Vodka at the US Botanic Gardens in our annual Holiday Concert.
Thursday, December 15 - 6:00-8:00pm

100 Maryland Ave, SW - just in front of the US Capitol
Free and open to the public.
Each year the audience of adults and kids, Jews and non-Jews sings and dances while enjoying the beauty of the Gardens!

www.usbg.gov

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

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Klezmer Concert: The Philadelphia Folklore Project presents award-winning drummer Elaine Hoffman Watts and her daughter, acclaimed vocalist and trumpeter Susan Lankin Watts in an evening of klezmer music devoted to saying good riddance to all the mishegas (Yiddish for "€œcraziness"€ or "€œinsanity"€) in our world today. Klezmer is the celebratory music of Eastern European Jews. "€œGoodnight Mishegas"€ is a line in the Hoffman family's Goodnight Waltz, composed close to a century ago, with words recently penned by Susan. The Folklore Project invites people to sing along at the concert and, in celebration of family and community traditions, to reflect on possibilities for turning our woes into joy. Visit www.folkloreproject.org for music and words!

Presenter: Philadelphia Folklore Project (PFP)
Date: December 11, 2011
Location: Calvary United Methodist Church, 801 S. 48th Street, Philadelphia
Time: 7:30 pm
Tickets: $20 general admission / $15 PFP members / $5 children under 12
Call 215.726.1106 or visit http://crossroadsconcerts.org/.

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Klezmatics w/Joshua Nelson, 25th Anniversary Tour

Sunday, December 11th, 7pm
Center For the Arts
265 Cache Street, Jackson, Wyoming
Box Office: 307.733.4900

Tix, info: www.jhcenterforthearts.org

Tour/CD kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com

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KLEZMER CONQUEST: A Battle of The Bands

Temple Aliyah

1664 Central Ave-Needham, MA
December 11th at 7 PM
$ 5 ticket

Join our special guest MCs, our Natick neighbors, Cantor Ken Richmond and Rabbi Shira Shazeer for an entertaining evening of Klezmer as four local bands hit the Aliyah bandstand. Having performed klezmer and Yiddish songs up and down the East Coast, in Israel, and in Eastern Europe, Ken and Shira will keep the program moving with their musical taklents, Yiddishkeit, and humor..

Our four Klezmer Kontenders are:

Klezjam who have playing together for nearly 3 years. We play at nursing homes, assisted living centers, and an occasional bar mitzvah and wedding. The band got its name from the fact that we met playing at two regular jams -- the Workmen's Circle jam and the Watertown.jam.

JCC Klezmer ensemble is a class of The JCC in Newton lead by Barry Shapiro. Barry has been along-time member of the Boston music scene and was a founding member of The Klezmer Conservatory Band, Shirim, and the B.S.O. (Barry Shapiro Orchestra).

Shir Madness plays a mix of Yiddish show tunes, folk tunes and hits from the Borscht Belt. The band plays all of the distinctive dances and styles -- bulgars, Terkishes, freylakhs, horas, shers, hongas, waltzes and marches -- all of them popular in Eastern Europe and in the U.S. in the early part of the twentieth century. The band especially loves the wild and swinging music from the golden age of the great bandleaders -- people like Dave Tarras, Abe Schwartz, German Goldenshteyn, Harry Kandel, and Naftule Brandwein. We also play original pieces written by our clarinet player, Richard Yospin.

The Shpilkes Klezmer Band has become a mainstay of the Purim celebrations and congregational events at various synagogues in MetroWest. The name "Shpilkes" ..(שפּילקעס).. is a Yiddish word for "nervous energy". The word is also sufficiently like the Yiddish term "shpil", meaning play, that it can help to think of it as "playing instead of sitting still". That's where Shpilkes Klezmer Band is at, hyperactive, ready to play and certainly not to sit still. No one can listen to Klezmer by Shpilkes without wanting to dance to its lively, living melodies and relating to the instrumental voices that sing of the human experience.

Temple Aliyah
1664 Central Ave.
Needham, MA 02492

ph. 781 444 8522

www.templealiyah.com
www.cantorgaston.com

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Wednesday 12/21/2011, 10pm to Midnight - MARK O'CONNOR CHRISTMAS REVIEW SHOW. Mark O'Connor, 'one of the most talented and imaginative artists working in music - any music - today,' (LA Times), and special guests, including Yale Strom & Elizabeth Schwartz, ring in the holidays. Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street. Seating is limited and on a first come-first served basis. For reservations: (212) 505-FISH.

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10th December, 7.30pm (doors 6.45)
St Ethelburga's Centre, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG.
Tickets: £12.00

St. Ethelburga's are delighted to welcome back She’Koyokh once again. This fabulously gifted Klezmer band, at ease performing in any environment. Inspired by the confluence of Eastern Europe’s musical cultures and traditions, this international ensemble have forged a sound straight from London’s melting pot - an exceptionally diverse repertoire of exhilarating, soulful Eastern European Jewish, Balkan, Turkish and Gypsy music.

Bookings online: http://stethelburgas.org
Tel: 07776136609

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She'koyokh

10 Dec 7.30pm
St Ethelburga's Centre, 78 Bishopshgate.
London, UK
£12.
www.stethelburgas.org.

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

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

Event URL: http://musicatfirstsite.com

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

Event description

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

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Rav Shmuel's Birthday Show
Thursday, December 8, 2011
10:00 PM
Sidewalk Cafe
94 Ave. A corner E6 St.

Rav Shmuel - Guitar
Nick Russo - Guitar
Psachya Septimus - Piano
Tal Ronen - Bass
Yossi Scheinberg - Flute, Sax, and Trumpet

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A Violin Without a Case - Jewish Fiddle Music from Eastern Europe

Thursday, Dec 8 at 8:30 at the Inbal Theater in Tel Aviv, Daniel Hoffman will be premiering a new project with a fantastic band- Gilad Ephrat on contrabass, Boris Martzinovsky on accordion and Yair Salzman on drums and percussion.

He'll be playing traditional klezmer fiddle music as well as many of my own compositions based on the old style. He'll be performing the show on a violin from Tel-Aviv based violin maker Amnon Weinstein's Violins of Hope collection. These are violins that have been rescued from various locations that belonged to klezmorim who perished in the Shoah.

Tickets are 50 shach - tel: 03 5105656 http://www.inbal.org.il/

more info at:
http://www.klezmerfiddle.com
http://www.violinsofhope.org/

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Name of the concert or the event: 9 Volt Live with Rick Parker, Eyal Maoz and Tim Kuhl at Bridge Street Live, CT

Date: December 8
Time : 8pm

Venue: Bridge Street Live
Venues address: 41 Bridge Street, Collinsville, CT

Telephone:
Event URL www.41bridgestreet.com

Cover price: $12
Music genre: New jazz / improvisation
Artist website: www.9voltmusic.com www.toddclouser.com

Event description:

Rick Parker - Trombone + Effects
Eyal Maoz - Guitar + Effects
Tim Kuhl - Drums

8pm 9 Volt

9pm Todd Clouser's a Love Electric
Todd Clouser, Rick Parker, Dred Scott, Tim Kuhl

9 Volt is began as an unlikely collaboration between 2 accomplished band leaders: trombonist and New York City native, Rick Parker and Israeli guitarist Eyal Maoz. Combined, these two musician have released 9 CDs as leaders on such well renowned record labels as Tzadik, Fresh Sound New Talent, Piadrum and Ayler Records. Their own bands have performed at major venues including the Montreal Jazz Festival, Williamsburg Jazz Festival, Red Sea Jazz Festival, Somers Point Jazz Festival, Aguascalientes Mexico Jazz
Festival, the Stone, 55 Bar and Blues Alley to name just a few. In addition, the two are in demand sidemen having performed along side the likes of John Zorn, Tim Berne, John Medeski and Frank Lacy.

9 Volt derives iT€™s unique sound from Parker's use of electronics with the trombone combined with Maoz'€™s unique approach to guitar and effects. Their unique sounds are incorporated into the compositions making a music that is a synthesis of electronic experimental, rock, jazz and neoclassical minimalism. The band is held together by Israeli born drummer Yonadav Halevy who is highly regarded in both funk/hip hop as well as jazz circles.

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

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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The Tufts University Klezmer Ensemble, Jumbo Knish Factory, returns for a night of klezmer music-making, dancing, and a little pre-Chanukah celebration with the noshing of (chocolate) gelt.
Fisher Performance Room in the Granoff Music Center at Tufts University
December 7, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Free!

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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

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

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring The Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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Klezmatics w/Joshua Nelson, 25th Anniversary Tour

Sunday, December 4th
Teatro Manzoni
Milan , Italy

Tour/CD kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com

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

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

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

Continue reading "Steve Reich, Maya Beiser benefit for Stanton St. Shul, NYC, 3 Dec Dec 2011" »

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

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

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

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring Joanne Borts, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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Naftule's Dream Returns!

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

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

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Tennessee Schmaltz, from Knoxville, Tennessee, will perform at the WDVX Blue Plate Special, on Thursday, December 1 at noon EST. The Schmaltz is still active after 16 years and has performed at many concerts, simchas, festivals, and even at Bonnaroo (in 2007--you can look it up). The Blue Plate Special is broadcast from Knoxville every weekday at noon and is available streaming on the web (wdvx.com/webcast.html).

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November 30, 7:30 pm, in Chase Hall at Haverford College, there will be a Yiddish concert featuring the tenor Richard Lenatsky. Richard will be singing Yiddish classics as well as some American classics translated into Yiddish.
Admission is free.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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

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

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring Matt Darriau’s Shabbes Elevator, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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On Thursday night, November 24th at the Mayer Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem there will be a special concert of Yemenite music. "Travels to Yemen," a photography exhibit of the work of Naftali Hilgar is currently displayed at the museum.

Featuring singer Shlomit Levi, percussionist Avi Agababa, and RebbeSoul.

More information is at this link:
www.facebook.com

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

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Yiddish of Greater Washington’s Café Kasrilevke presents:

Fun khurbn tsum lebn – muzik fun Dovid Botwinik
From Holocaust to Life – Music by David Botwinik

Lisa Willson, soprano
and
Dina Malka Botwinik, voice

Accompanied at the piano by Vladimir Ivanov and Alexander Botwinik

featuring
Songs by Vilna-born Montreal Composer David Botwinik and Old Yiddish Favorites

Sunday, November 20, 2011, 7:00 PM
Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD 20852

Admission $5 members/$8 non-members

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Mazzeltov
Sun, Nov 20, 17:30pm
Beauforthuis
Austerlitz, the Netherlands
Tel: 0343 - 49 18 58

more info: www.beauforthuis.nl/podium/pagina/home

Concert in de serie tapasconcerten van het Beauforthuis. Mazzeltov speelt het programma van de nieuwste CD "Mayn Umru" Kaarten kunnen online gekocht worden via de website van het beauforthuis

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Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm. City Winery's brunch on November 20, 2011 features Metropolitan Klezmer

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

For further info: www.citywinery.com

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Saturday, November 19th 8pm

The JEWISH WOMEN of REBETIKA

Glen Echo Town Hall
6106 Harvard Avenue
Glen Echo, Maryland

Songs and Life Stories of Legendary Greek Singers Roza Eskenazi, Amalia Baka, Stella Haskil, and Victoria Hazan

Featuring:

Carol Freeman - Vocals
Beth Bahia Cohen - Violin
Haig Manoukian - Oud

Sponsored by the Folklore Society of Greater Washington

Tickets: Free for FSGW members, all others $25
www.fsgw.org, 301-717-4641
Reservations strongly recommended

NOTE: There will be a participatory workshop the following afternoon, on Sunday, November 20th. More details will be posted when available.

The JEWISH WOMEN of REBETIKA

Within the provocative world of the early twentieth century urban Greek Café Amans, where flamboyant characters sang about desperate love, life and death, and the seedy side of life, there were a surprising number of celebrated Greek Jewish female vocalists. Included among them were Roza Eskenazi, one of the most renowned Greek singers of all time, and Stella Haskil, who sang together with legendary performers such as Vasilis Tsitsanis. On this side of the Atlantic, Jewish women, notably Amalia Baka and Victoria Hazan, found center stage in the immigrant Greek nightclubs and community celebrations of major urban centers, as well as within the American ethnic recording industry.

All four women were held in high esteem for their extraordinary singing of a beautiful and complex repertoire, both during their lifetimes and again in recent years. Their music, making use of Eastern scales and asymmetrical rhythms, lush with intricate embellishment, and profound in its emotional content and depth, found its way into the hears of several generations of devoted listeners.

Although widely embraced for their musical contributions to urban Greek cafe music and Rebetika, their histories as Jewish women are not widely known. Using live performance and excepts from personal and family interviews, acclaimed vocalist Carol Freeman, together with virtuoso instrumentalists Haig Manoukian (oud) and Beth Bahia Cohen (violin), pay tribute to these Greek Jewish singers with a fascinating look into the songs and lives of these extraordinary women.

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Come to a Klezmer Dance Party on Saturday night, 11/19 @ 7:30pm at Appel Commons (Cornell Campus.) Renowned klezmer dance instructor Steve Weintraub will join forces with the Cornell Klezmer Ensemble.

Steve is also planning on hosting some workshops as part of his visit.
Details will be posted on the Facebook event.
www.facebook.com

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Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi: Dave Tarras: The King of Klezmer

Nov. 19th, 7pm
Tifereth Israel
6660 Cowles Mountain Boulevard
San Diego, CA.

The concert will be DAVE TARRAS: THE KING OF KLEZMER featuring the virtuoso clarinetist Leo Chelyapov from LA. for more info. Beth Klareich (619) 697-6001 ext. 108

www.tiferethisrael.com/calendar/

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

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Wednesday, November 16: The Art of Klezmer and Yiddish Song

A Concert, Lecture and Dance, Featuring Hankus Netsky, Michael Alpert, members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and students from the New England Conservatory

Slosberg Hall, Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 8:15PM (pre-concert lecture at 7:30PM)

On Wednesday, November 16, 2011, Center for German and European Studies in cooperation with the program in Yiddish and Eastern European Studies and the department of music at Brandeis University will present "The Art of Klezmer and Yiddish Song." The evening will feature internationally renowned Yiddish singer, fiddler, and dance leader Michael Alpert along with local klezmer revival pioneer, Dr. Hankus Netsky, virtuoso klezmer clarinetist Zoe Christiansen, and members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band.

The program will begin at 7:30 with an introductory lecture entitled "Eastern European Jewish Musical Roots - Still a Vital Wellspring." A concert will follow at 8:15 PM followed by a dance and refreshments for all. People of all ages are welcome to come and celebrate the renewal of traditional Eastern European Jewish culture!

Michael Alpert is a founding member of the klezmer super-group, Brave Old World and a former member of Kapelye. Hankus Netsky is founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and Music Director for Itzhak Perlman's "In the Fiddler's House" and "Soul of Jewish Music" projects. He directs the Discovery Project at the National Yiddish Book Center and is chair of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory. Zoe Christiansen is a student in the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory.

Our Co-Sponsors:
The Department of Music at Brandeis University
The Tauber Institut for the Study of European Jewry
The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University
The National Center for Jewish Film
The Goethe Institut Boston
The Yiddish Committee of Boston Workmen's Circle
The German Embassy in Washington, D.C.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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

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

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring Klezmerfest, w/Greg Wall and Aaron Alexander, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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London Klezmer Quartet
November 11-13

The London Klezmer Quartet plays a weekend of concerts around Dorset. Part of the ARTSREACH rural touring scheme.

Fri 11 Nov, 7.30pm Halstock Village Hall, BA22 9SG
Sat 12 Nov, 8pm Tarrant Gunville Village Hall, DT11 8JN
Sun 13 Nov, 7.30pm Martinstown Village Hall, DT2 9LF

Booking Information to come. Please email Ilana Cravitz for details / keep an eye on www.londonklezmerquartet.com

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London Klezmer Quartet
November 11-13

The London Klezmer Quartet plays a weekend of concerts around Dorset. Part of the ARTSREACH rural touring scheme.

Fri 11 Nov, 7.30pm Halstock Village Hall, BA22 9SG
Sat 12 Nov, 8pm Tarrant Gunville Village Hall, DT11 8JN
Sun 13 Nov, 7.30pm Martinstown Village Hall, DT2 9LF

Booking Information to come. Please email Ilana Cravitz for details / keep an eye on www.londonklezmerquartet.com

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London Klezmer Quartet
November 11-13

The London Klezmer Quartet plays a weekend of concerts around Dorset. Part of the ARTSREACH rural touring scheme.

Fri 11 Nov, 7.30pm Halstock Village Hall, BA22 9SG
Sat 12 Nov, 8pm Tarrant Gunville Village Hall, DT11 8JN
Sun 13 Nov, 7.30pm Martinstown Village Hall, DT2 9LF

Booking Information to come. Please email Ilana Cravitz for details / keep an eye on www.londonklezmerquartet.com

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Ditmas Acoustic/CTMD Presents: Merita Halili & The Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio
Thursday, November 10, 7:00pm
Temple Beth Emeth v'Ohr Progressive Shaari Zedek
83 Marlborough Road,
Brooklyn, NY 11226
(718) 282-1596
www.bethemeth.net

A Fundraiser for CTMD (Center for Traditional Music and Dance)

Merita Halili thrills audiences with her masterful rendition of Albanian folk music. Known in her homeland as the "Queen of Albanian folk songs" and highly esteemed for her stunning voice, range and vocal technique, the award-winning vocalist is accompanied by her husband, Raif Hyseni, whose innovations and compositions for accordion have garnered praise for his "speed demon accordion." With an ensemble that also includes clarinet, guitar, keyboard and percussion, Merita Halili and Raif Hyseni will astound you with their vocal and instrumental artistry.

The Michael Winograd Trio, with Patrick Farrell, Benjy Fox Rosen and Michael Winograd, features three major voices in the international contemporary Klezmer community. Performing new music and reimagined traditional and folk music, this ensemble aims to present a fresh way of listening to and enjoying the rich genre of Yiddish music. Drawing on a variety of influences, Winograd's new trio provides a full and genuine experience of Klezmer and Yiddish song. Dr. Joel Rubin, clarinetist, said, "Perhaps the leading voice of the younger generation of performers and composers within klezmer."

More info: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=229436267101346

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

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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

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

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring Eve Sicular & Isle of Klezbos, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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London Klezmer Quartet & The Amsterdam Klezmer Band

Sunday 6 November, 7.30pm

Rich Mix,
35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road,
London, E1 6LA

LKQ big band supports the Amsterdam Klezmer Band in what promises to be a high octane evening! Part of the London International Festival of Exploratory Music.

More info www.lifem.org.uk/lifem-2011/concerts/london-klezmer-quartet/
A Kazum production (www.kazum.co.uk)
Tickets 020 7613 7498

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Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi: Dave Tarras: The King of Klezmer

Sunday, November 6 at 2 PM
Kligerman-Greenspun Performance Hall
National Yiddish Book Center,
Amherst, MA

The concert will explore the music, history, and stories about musician Dave Tarras—the “Benny Goodman” of klezmer clarinet. Hot Pstromi’s sound—a fusion of traditional klezmer, new Jewish music, Gypsy, hasidic, world beat, and Balkan music—is unique and celebrated. Bandleader Yale Strom (violin) is the world’s leading ethnographer-artist of klezmer music, culture and history. His prodigious klezmer research was instrumental in helping form the repertoire of Hot Pstromi.

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כנורkēnòr will be performing at the

Lancaster Jewish Community Center, Oregon Pike

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

November 6th 2011, 2:00pm

כנורkēnòr is four musical listeners, playing violin, double bass, guitar and drums.

Together, they will be performing a selection of jazz standards and Jewish tunes, following contemporary jazz practice, including tastefully performed heads, sensitive ensemble, and insightful improvised solos.

Members

Christopher Brooks, violin, is former concertmaster of Orquesta Bética Filarmónica de Sevilla (Spain) and the Harrisburg Symphony, and violinist with the Susquehanna String Quartet. Brooks draws from deep classical and Jewish roots in his thoughtful and soulful improvisations.

Pete Bainbridge, bass ‘viol, supports the ensemble with a solid harmonic and rhythmic foundation as well as offering tantalizing, free-ranging solos.

Jon Kunkle’s classically-trained and jazz-inspired electric guitar engoldens the sound of the ensemble, both while tastefully supporting the melody and during his elegant solos.

Dave Young has played drums with every important jazz musician in the region. Young has the rare ability to stitch an ensemble together, creating a whole much more than its parts.

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Concertus Saisonnus présente:

GOYLEM !

Musique Klezmer

Patrice Mugny: accordéon
Bianca Favez: violon
Michel Borzykowski; saxophones
David Morhain: Percussions

Mercredi 2 novembre 2011 à 20h30
Au Manège d’Onex
127 Route de Chancy
1213 Onex (Genève, Suisse)

Réservations: tél 0041 22 879 59 99
Billets en vente à l’entrée dès 19h30: 20 CHF / Etudiants, AVS: 15 CHF.

Le klezmer est la musique que les baladins juifs ont colportée de fête en fête et de shtetl (bourgade) en ghetto dans toute l’Europe de l’Est depuis le Moyen Âge.

Bercé dans la liturgie, nourri de mélodies extatiques hassidiques et de chants profanes, il s'est encanaillé dans les auberges et enrichi de théâtre et de danses populaires. En symbiose avec les musiques slaves, tsiganes et ottomanes, il a acquis une diversité et une richesse d'expression incomparables.

Avec ses variations de rythme, ses dissonances, ses ornementations et une touche d’improvisation, le klezmer incite à la spiritualité et à la danse en exprimant toutes les émotions: joie et tristesse, recueillement, amour ou ivresse, sans oublier l'humour… juif!

Extirpé d’Europe, par le nazisme et le stalinisme, il s'est bouturé au jazz en Amérique avant de redevenir populaire dans le monde entier.

Perpétuant la tradition sans la figer, GOYLEM ! joue depuis 1996 ses compositions originales et de nombreux thèmes klezmer, arrangés à sa façon et parfois métissés de chants séfarades, de musique classique et de swing…
www.borzy.info

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

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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

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

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring Lisa and Sruli’s Family Band, featuring Zach Mayer, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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A rarer than rare Yiddish concert this Sunday.
To find out why, read to the bottom.

The concert:
Libndike, laydndike, lakhndike - balibte yidishe folkslider
[Love, Loss, Laughter - Favorite Yiddish Folk Songs]

Who:
The Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC, thejppc.org
with Conductor / Dirigent Binyumen Schaechter

When:
This Sunday, October, 30, 2011, 3:00 PM

Where:
Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center
3301 Bainbridge Avenue (corner 208th Street), Bronx, NY 10467

What:
Afn pripetshik, Der Rebe Elimeylekh, Tum balalayke, Bulbes.
and a great bouquet of less-known Yiddish folksongs,
in modern choral arrangements.
Also:
Works by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Avrom Sutzkever, Josh Waletzky.

So what makes this concert rarer than rare?
Not only will all of the songs be in Yiddish.
The printed program will be entirely in Yiddish.
The commentary between numbers will also be in Yiddish.
Only a brief English translation will be given between songs.
It's a Yiddish immersion concert par excellence!
Only at the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center!

Click here for the additional specifics about the concert,
including ticket prices:
http://thejppc.org/id3.html

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JAZZ RABBI’S THURSDAY NIGHT INVITATIONAL

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

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

October 27 - Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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She'koyokh

26 Oct 9pm (doors 7pm)
The Green Note,
106 Parkway, Camden.
£10 adv.
www.greennote.co.uk.
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Tuesday, Oct 25

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

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

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Jim Guttman's Bessarabian Breakdown, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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Vagabond Opera
October 23, 2011, 7pm
Skokie Theatre
7924 N. LIncoln Ave.
Skokie, IL

Bohemian Cabaret ensemble Vagabond Opera is described by the Washington Post as "A band of ceaseless charisma, boundless energy, impeccable musicianship and more than a little touch of both the naughty and exotic."

The group delivers passionate offerings of Bohemian cabaret for young and old. Paris hot jazz, gut bucket swing, tangos, Ukrainian folk-punk ballads, klezmer and vigorous originals meet a world of riverboat gambling queens, Turkish belly dancers, and the enigmatic Marlene Dietrich. Weaving elements of Kurt Weil, Duke Ellington and Edith Piaf with absurdist flair, theatrics and an old world mood, Vagabond Opera presents the new wave of opera–lusty voices singing in 13 languages and presenting a cabaret of rich musical phrasing, sparkling lyrics and indomitable stage presence, all played with exuberance, skill and a gritty Vagabond edge. This is Opera liberated and reinvented for everyone!

Sponsored by Kfar Jewish Arts Center

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Do you like klezmer music? Dancing? Fun?

We have all three!

We also have:
A special musical project of Mr. Jonathan Cannon's, documenting his recent studies in Moldova, and featuring several impeccably credentialed colleagues;
Lots of new music, and also some '90s covers;
A heretofore, and still, unannounced special guest who will rock your socks off;
And a fantastic new fiddler - our fifth wheel - in Abigale Reisman. Welcome to Boston, Abigale!

If you'd like to come, and I suspect you might, RSVP to https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=274365689251923and we'll send you the full details!

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Saturday 22 October - The Queen's Head, Landgate, Rye, starts 8.30pm. We return to this lovely old pub, reports of whose demise have turned out to be unfounded.

http://www.the-moors.com
http://www.facebook.com/themoorsband

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She'koyokh

22 Oct 7.30pm
Whitchurch Canonicorum Church, Dorset
Tickets £15 (to include light supper). T: 01297 489629.
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Yiddishe Cup

Oct 20, 2011, 7:15pm, FREE
Park Synagogue
Simchat Torah holiday
Cleveland Heights, OH
www.parksyn.org

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Yiddishe Cup

Oct 19, 2011, 7pm, FREE
Fairmount Temple
Simchat Torah holiday
Beachwood, OH
www.fairmounttemple.org

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SHEMSPEED'S CMJ SHOWCASE 2011!
Oct 18, 2011 - Doors: 7pm
Littlefield
622 Degraw St, Brooklyn, NY 11217
PRICE: $10 with RSVP | $15 at the door | Free with CMJ Badge

MAIN STAGE: LIVE performances by;

Israeli's SHI 360 (Israeli MC / CD Release Party)
Khaled M (Libyan MC)
Y-Love, Kyle Rapps & Diwon (Debut of Hood Samaritan)
Moshe Hecht (CD Release Party)
Max Jared (Folk Fantastic)

special guest performances by Kosha Dillz, Yellow Red Sky & Tj Di Hitmaker.

FRONT ROOM (DJS): DJs all night;

Tes-Uno (Boundless/BK)
Geng Grizzly (PTP/NYC)
DJ Mondee (NJ)
DJ Teddy King (Boundless/BK)
DJ Lifeone (FYC/BK)
Tron (InVaderZ)

This line up includes, a CD Release party for Shi 360 from ISRAEL one night engagement only, Libyan MC, Khaled M, Kyle Rapps who will be premiering his new video with Talib Kweli and Y-Love who will premiere his new video with Andy Milonakis. The show will also be the debut live performance of Hood Samaritan the CD release party for indie folk artist Moshe Hecht, a special guest performer by dancehall champ, Tj Di Hitmaker and freestyle champ, Kosha Dillz.

The evening will also feature a front room with our favorite DJs; Tes, DJ Teddy King, Geng Grizzly, DJ Mondee, DJ Lifeone, & Tron

For info, please visit:
www.cmj.com/marathon
www.littlefieldnyc.com
www.shemspeed.com/cmj

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Tuesday, Oct 18

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

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

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Sukka Bash! Dmitri Slepovitch, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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An evening of Yiddish Song and Stories Hy Wolfe in concert, with Herbert Kaplan at the piano

Monday, October 17th at 6:30 at YIVO, 15 west 16th street.Tickets $10,
YIVO member $7 Smarttix - tel: 212-868-4444 Online www.smarttix.com

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SIMCHAS BAIS HA SHOEVAH
SUKKOT PARTY

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2011
8:00-10:00 pm
WITH
PETE SOKOLOW, piano
KEN MALTZ, clarinet
KLEZMER AND YIDDISH THEATRE MUSIC
$10.00 Suggested Admission

Old Broadway Synagogue
1/2 Block East of Broadway between 125th and 126th Streets, New York, NY
212-662-9767
www.oldbroadwaysynagogue.blogspot.com

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Sunday, October 16th, 2011, 10am - 5pm

TESLIM performs at the incredible day-long event put on by the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music: CHAMBER MUSIC DAY

de Young Museum, San Francisco

We'll be performing in the lobby of the Textile Gallery, where the current exhibit is The Art of the Anatolian Kilim: Highlights from the McCoy Jones Collection which looks amazing!

Other groups performing through the museum include:

Alexander String Quartet - Classical Revolution - Del Sol String Quartet martha & monica - The Nice Guy Trio + strings - Quartet San Francisco Quinteto Latino - Real Vocal String Quartet and many more!

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October 16, 2011, 4pm: Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi present DAVE TARRAS: THE KING OF KLEZMER. This concert will explore the music, history and stories about the 'Benny Goodman' of klezmer clarinet - Dave Tarras.

Temple Israel of Great Neck, 108 Old Mill Road, Great Neck, NY 11023 - for information and reservations: (516) 482-7800

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Sunday 16 October - Porters Wine Bar, 4-6pm. Our first appearance at this popular venue in Hastings Old Town. Hope we'll all fit into the tiny space. We have a couple of mellow yet lively sets lined up for this.

http://www.the-moors.com
http://www.facebook.com/themoorsband

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Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm. City Winery's brunch on Oct 16, 2011 features Isle of Klezbos

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

For further info: www.citywinery.com

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Jewish Songs and Piano Music by 20th Century Russian Composers:
Achron, Gnesin, Krein, Milner, Veprik, Weinberg, Basner, Shostakovich

Sofie van Lier (Sovali), soprano and David Holzman, piano

Saturday, October 15th at 8 PM at Hofstra Cultural Center, Joseph J. Astman
International Concert Series
Location: The Helene Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center, California
Avenue, South Campus, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549-1180

Tickets: $15, $12 senior citizen (65 or older)

For further information please call HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER: 516-463-5669 Monday
through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
www.hofstra.edu/culture

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Friday, October 14, 9:00pm, Red Hot Chachkas and Cradle Duende at Subterranean Arthouse, Berkeley. Tickets: $15-$30 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds.

More info: subterraneanarthouse.org.

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JuMu présente l’Artichaut Orkestra (Toulouse)

L’AVENIR DE LA MUSIQUE KLEZMER

L’ARTICHAUT ORKESTRA : T for Teresa

International album lauching party!! (Tzadik), en partenariat avec TSF JAZZ

Le Jeudi 13 octobre 2011 19h00 (doors à 18h00)
LE STUDIO DE L’ERMITAGE
8 rue de l’ermitage 75020 PARIS

Location : fnac, Digitick

Brillant quatuor toulousain instigué par le clarinettiste Camille Artichaut (disciple talentueux de David Krakauer) et par l'accordéoniste Pierre-Emmanuel Roubet. Tout commence par une compilation de thèmes Yiddish-Klezmer des années 30 qui s'impose comme une source d'un avenir musical à créer. Depuis cet héritage de hasard, les projets pleuvent pour les jeunes artistes : d'écoles de jazz (Music-Halle à Toulouse où ils rencontrent Frédéric Petitprez), en excellence ("Voix Mêlées", premiers contacts avec Sébastien Rideau), de rencontres de maîtres (Camille Artichaut suit David Krakauer à New York où Frédéric Petitprez accompagne Leon Parker), en tournées françaises (celles de Magyd Cherfi chanteur de Zebda) et Music Hall (Camille Artichaut joue sur le spectacle "Cabaret" de Sam Mendes aux Folies Bergères à Paris).

Voici donc quatre musiciens déterminés à faire vivre une création ancrée dans l'esprit de ces mélopées intemporelles. Leur goût pour cette musique ne peut que résider dans la mixité extrême qui à été fatalement imposée à cette culture. Depuis 3 ans l'Artichaut Orkestra a joué dans de multiples festivals (31 notes d'été, Marciac...), clubs (Mandala, Triton, Délirium) et théâtres (Limoges, Toulouse, Paris...).

Camille Artichaut – clarinette
Frédéric Petitprez – Batterie
Sébastien Rideau – Guitare électrique
Pierre-Emmanuel Roubet – Accordéon / Voix

www.artichautorkestra.com

Concert préfacé par Estelle Goldfarb & special guests : Ezra (beatbox) et Olivier Koundouno (cello)

Estelle Goldfarb fait corps avec son violon. C’est ainsi depuis toute petite. Elle eût pu rester dans le giron du classique, la destinée naturelle
d’une violoniste, ou bien enflammer les mariages, les baptêmes, bref, les fêtes, orientales, juives, tziganes... ou encore jammer avec tout ce qui groove. Mais voilà, Estelle chante. Pas elle, son violon, en fait, ça revient au même... Ses notes ont le poids des mots. Tout l’inspire, ses humeurs, ses
élans, son monde. Et LE monde, surtout. Elle travaille à façon : elle dessine les mélodies, coud les rythmes, brode les arrangements. Des envolées souvent lyriques sur canapé électro, pour tisser pleins et déliés du violon sur tapis synthétique. Histoire de mailler éternité et futurisme. Estelle Goldfarb prend son envol solo, que les cieux lui soient cléments
Rémy Kolpa Kopoul (Radio Nova)

www.estellegoldfarb.com
www.ezra.fr
thefirebyrdstringquartet.com/Site/Olivier_Koundouno.html

JuMu : le son des nouvelles musiques juives

JuMu, label et agence musicale, « plug' » le passé au présent, branche le klezmer sur l’électro, arrange des mariages entre les rappeurs en papillote
et la clarinette yid, et métisse le judéo-arabe au latino hip hop.

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Tuesday, Oct 11

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

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

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring Joel Rubin and Pete Rushefsky, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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Beats to Break Fast

October 10, 2011, 8pm
Martyrs,
3855 N. Lincoln
Chicago, IL

Armed with his Akai MPC, heritage and love for genre-bending music, Socalled, aka Josh Dolgin, is a Yiddish rapping, accordion wielding hip-hop maestro. Heralded by Klezmer and hip hop musicians alike, he builds Jewish music from the bottom-up. Previous albums Hiphopkhasene (Piranha), Socalled Seder (2005, JDUB), Ghettoblaster (2007, JDUB ) and now Sleepover (2011, Dare to Care) reached into the past to mine an amalgamation of traditional and contemporary influences.

more info: www.kfarcenter.org/events/broadway-bar-mitzvah-or-shalom

Sponsored by Kfar Jewish Arts Center

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She'koyokh

7 Oct 8pm
Music in quiet places, Oundle, Northamptonshire.
Nassington - St Mary the Virgin and All Saints Church
£12.50/£10.50.
www.oundlefestival.org.uk.
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An adventurous and banging blend of Middle Eastern music mashed with contemporary hip-hop and electro samples w/ Diwon (Brooklyn, Shemspeed)

Thursday, October 6th – Babylon, (317 Bank St)
Ottawa, Canada
19+ – 10pm Doors – $8 before, $10 at the door

Sponsors:
Embassy of Israel, Vered Israel Cultural & Educational Program, Canadian Friends of Tel Aviv University

More info: www.diwonmusic.com

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Thursday, October 6, 7:30pm, Moscow's Klezmasters in "Razzle Dazzle Yiddish" at Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto. Tickets: 24 hours in advance: $20 JCC members, $25 non-members; $30 at the door, space permitting. More info: 650.223.8621, paloaltojcc.org.

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

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Duo De Cecco-Jeszensky
Tuesday, October 4 at 9:30pm
Nardis Jazz Club
Kuledibi Sok. N. 14 Galata
Istanbul, Turkey

More info: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=287583124591546

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Tuesday, Oct 4

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

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

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring Lisa Gutkin, trio w/Pete Rushefsky and Remy Yulzariviolin, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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Geoff Berner with Rhubarb Whiskey, and the Sour Mash Hug Band
Oct 2, 2011, 9:30pm
The Layover
1517 Franklin St.
Oakland, California
Tel: 510-834-1517

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Tarras Band
Barbès
376 9th St.
(corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope
Brooklyn, NY
Tel: 347 422 0248

Tarras Band is a five-piece ensemble dedicated to the music of Yiddish-American Klezmer great Dave Tarras and the classic mid-20th century American klezmer sound. Featuring longtime Tarras accompanist Pete Sokolow on piano as well as Dave Licht (drums) and Jim Guttmann (bass), the group is fronted by Ben Holmes (trumpet) and Michael Winograd (clarinet). This show is to celebrate the release of their debut self-titled record, also available for download through iTunes

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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 at 4:00 PM

The World Festival of Sacred Music in LA presents:

The Soul of Spain

Gypsy Flamenco meets Sephardic Jewish music
Yuval Ron Ensemble in concert with the Gypsy Flamenco artists

Oscar-winning composer and oud master Yuval Ron leads a fiery evening of music and dance, bringing gypsy flamenco and Sephardic Jewish traditions from Andalusia to Santa Monica and the Westside. The 499-seat Broad comes alive with spinning flamenco dancers, undulating belly dancers, passionate singing, and the lightning-fast fingers of Spanish guitar - a night of musical virtuosity in an intimate setting. Featuring gypsy flamenco singer Jesus Montoya, dancer Briseyda Zarate, guitarist Jose Tanaka and the Yuval Ron Ensemble:

Maya Haddi: vocals; Norik Manoukian: woodwind; Jamie Papish: percussion; David Martinelly: percussion; Maya K. G: Middle Eastern dance; Yuval Ron: oud and artistic director

with a video created by Moshe Hacmon.

Location: Broad Stage: 1310 11th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Admission: $47 - $75 Broad Stage members receive 10% off their order.
More Info and Box office: Tel: 310-434-3200, or, thebroadstage.com

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Geoff Berner with Rhubarb Whiskey, and the Sour Mash Hug Band
Oct 1, 2011, 9:30pm
The Starry Plough
3101 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, California

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Geoff Berner
30 Sep 2011, 8pm
Genghis Cohen
740 N. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
Tel: 323 653 0640

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Klezwoods and Elephant Wrecking Ball w/Belly Dancers!

Sep 28, 8:00pm
Johnny D's Uptown
17 Holland St.
Somerville, MA
Tix: $10

If you daven in the shul of dance music, you may choose to ignore the beginning of Rosh Hashannah and catch this show. Many of us will be in shul, so this is clearly a show for the rest of the community….
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Klezmatics 25th Anniversary Tour

Tuesday, September 27th
Plac Akropolis
Prague , Czech Republic

Tour/CD kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com

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Tuesday, September 27

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

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

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring KlezmerFest, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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KlezEd!

24-25 September
Edinburgh, Scotland

On the road from Klezfest London, the Klezmer Karavan alight in Edinburgh

Ilana Cravitz, Polina and Merlin Shepherd, and Guy Schalom present a participative weekend of vibrant music, singing and dancing. A klezmer house party on the Saturday evening, followed by a day of workshops for singers, dancers and musicians—something for everyone.

Online tickets at 2outoftheblue.org.uk/page10.htm#klezmer

Saturday 24 September, doors open 7.30, Edinburgh: Leith's Welcome to the Klezmer Karavan. A sizzling night of riotous Eastern European celebratory music and songs to make you laugh, cry, and dance.
The Village, 16 South Fort Street, Edinburgh EH6 4DN.
Tickets @ £12 from 2outoftheblue.org.uk/page10.htm#klezmer

25th September, 10am ? 5pm, Edinburgh: Klezmer and Yiddish song workshops. Bring an instrument or come and sing. No experience of klezmer needed.
Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 36 Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh EH6 8RG.
Tickets @ £40 (£33 concs): 2outoftheblue.org.uk/page10.htm#klezmer

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Klezmatics 25th Anniversary Tour

Sunday, September 25th
Bratislav Castle
Bratislava , Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

Tour/CD kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com

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Monajat, A commissioned multimedia work by Galeet Dardashti
Grand Performances
350 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
September 25, 2011, 8 pm

Further venue info/tix: www.grandperformances.org/en/gp/

Monajat is inspired by Selihot, the poetic prayers of forgiveness recited during the month preceding the Jewish High Holidays according to Middle Eastern tradition. This period of deep reflection and spiritual preparation serves as a backdrop for Dardashti’s time-specific concert and program. The first-time U.S. presentation of Monajat combines participatory workshops, talks, prayer services, and other educational programs to enhance the spiritual and cultural experience. Dardashti, a performer and anthropologist of Iranian descent, re-imagines the Selihot ritual in collaboration with an acclaimed ensemble of Jewish and Muslim musicians, an electronic soundscape, and dynamic video projections by video artist and designer Dmitry Kmelnitsky.

Dardashti’s acclaimed ensemble of musicians includes Omer Avital (oud, bass, vocals), Amir ElSaffar (santour, vocals), Tal Ronen (bass, vocals) and Dafer Tawil (percussion, violin, ney, oud, vocals).

The Foundation for Jewish Culture and its league of performing arts presenters have commissioned Monajat (Fervent Prayer), a multimedia concert by composer, singer, and scholar Galeet Dardashti which will tour the United States in September 2011. Monajat, an evening of Middle Eastern musical poetry, inaugurates the New Jewish Culture Network, an initiative to create and deliver outstanding Jewish music and other art forms to audiences in the U.S. and beyond.

For further info: jewishculture.org/music-touring-network/

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Alicia Jo Rabins' "Girls in Trouble"

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 7pm
Largehearted Lit (hosted by LargeheartedBoy)
WORD bookstore, 126 Franklin St, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
with authors Steve Brezenoff and Libba Bray

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The Shondes tour to support their new CD, Searchlights + Schande + Wild Assumptions

Sun., Sep 25, 2011, 8pm, $10, 21+
Cafe Du Nord
2170 MARKET STREET
San Francisco, CA

More info: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177337035670107

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Dimanche 25 septembre à 18h, Salle des Abeilles, 2 rue de l’Athénée à Genève:
Le Trio d’Eduardo Kohan vous proposera un tango-jazz mêlé des musiques juives d’Argentine.
www.amj.ch/WPR110925.htm

Réservations: tél 022.755 41 23
www.amj.ch

Sunday, September 25
6 pm
Salle Des Abeilles
2 rue de l’Athénée
Geneva, Switzerland
The Eduardo Kohan Trio will perform a mixture of tango and jazz from the Jewish music of Argentina for you.

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Dimanche 25 septembre à 18h, Salle des Abeilles, 2 rue de l’Athénée à Genève:
Le Trio d’Eduardo Kohan vous proposera un tango-jazz mêlé des musiques juives d’Argentine.
www.amj.ch

Réservations: tél 022.755 41 23
www.amj.ch

Sunday, September 25, 2011
6:00 pm
Salle des Abeilles
2 rue de l’Athénée
Genève, Switzerland

The Eduardo Kohan trio will perform a tango-jazz mix of Argentinian-Jewish music.

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Yiddish Cowboys
September 25, 1:30-3:30pm
The Kosher Store
7025 Village Center Drive,
Austin, TX

Back to The Kosher Store: With High Holy Days almost upon us, Yiddish Cowboys will be performing at The Kosher Store at H-E-B on Sunday, September 25, 2011 from 1:30 to 3:30pm.

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Mama Doni Free Family Concert "Dip Into Fall," a free family concert for the whole community with celebrated international entertainer Mama Doni, on Sunday morning, September 25, at Bnai Keshet, Montclair, NJ. Everyone is invited to come at 10:00 a.m. for apples and honey to welcome the New Year, holiday card-making and other activities. The concert, "funky music with a Jewish twist," as Mama Doni (Doni Zasloff Thomas, a Montclair resident and member of Bnai Keshet) calls it, begins at 11 a.m.

http://www.bnaikeshet.org

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The Shondes tour to support their new CD, Searchlights

Sat., Sep 24, 2011, 3pm
Garth's Jelly Donut presents No Stairway! A benefit for LB Cinematheque
MADhaus LBC
624 Pacific Ave.
Long Beach, CA

More info: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=235568739814038

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KlezEd!

24-25 September
Edinburgh, Scotland

On the road from Klezfest London, the Klezmer Karavan alight in Edinburgh

Ilana Cravitz, Polina and Merlin Shepherd, and Guy Schalom present a participative weekend of vibrant music, singing and dancing. A klezmer house party on the Saturday evening, followed by a day of workshops for singers, dancers and musicians—something for everyone.

Online tickets at 2outoftheblue.org.uk/page10.htm#klezmer

Saturday 24 September, doors open 7.30, Edinburgh: Leith's Welcome to the Klezmer Karavan. A sizzling night of riotous Eastern European celebratory music and songs to make you laugh, cry, and dance.
The Village, 16 South Fort Street, Edinburgh EH6 4DN.
Tickets @ £12 from 2outoftheblue.org.uk/page10.htm#klezmer

25th September, 10am ? 5pm, Edinburgh: Klezmer and Yiddish song workshops. Bring an instrument or come and sing. No experience of klezmer needed.
Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 36 Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh EH6 8RG.
Tickets @ £40 (£33 concs): 2outoftheblue.org.uk/page10.htm#klezmer

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Sunday 9 October
The Boot,
116 Cromer Street, Kings Cross,
London, WC1H 8BS

Monthly London Klezmer Session

Come along and play your favourite klezmer tunes, and pick up more from fellow enthusiasts. Children welcome. Info and tunes are online at www.ilanacravitz.com/play.htm and www.ilanacravitz.com/resources.htm.

The workshop this month will be taught by Emma Stiman (clarinet)

Workshop 12.15-1.15pm
Jam 2-4pm Free

Next date Sunday 13 November

Transport: Kings Cross/St. Pancras tube

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Monajat, A commissioned multimedia work by Galeet Dardashti
The Hub at the San Francisco JCC
3200 California St.
San Francisco, CA
September 24, 2011, 8 pm

Further venue info/tix: www.jccsf.org/arts-ideas/the-hub

Monajat is inspired by Selihot, the poetic prayers of forgiveness recited during the month preceding the Jewish High Holidays according to Middle Eastern tradition. This period of deep reflection and spiritual preparation serves as a backdrop for Dardashti’s time-specific concert and program. The first-time U.S. presentation of Monajat combines participatory workshops, talks, prayer services, and other educational programs to enhance the spiritual and cultural experience. Dardashti, a performer and anthropologist of Iranian descent, re-imagines the Selihot ritual in collaboration with an acclaimed ensemble of Jewish and Muslim musicians, an electronic soundscape, and dynamic video projections by video artist and designer Dmitry Kmelnitsky.

Dardashti’s acclaimed ensemble of musicians includes Omer Avital (oud, bass, vocals), Amir ElSaffar (santour, vocals), Tal Ronen (bass, vocals) and Dafer Tawil (percussion, violin, ney, oud, vocals).

The Foundation for Jewish Culture and its league of performing arts presenters have commissioned Monajat (Fervent Prayer), a multimedia concert by composer, singer, and scholar Galeet Dardashti which will tour the United States in September 2011. Monajat, an evening of Middle Eastern musical poetry, inaugurates the New Jewish Culture Network, an initiative to create and deliver outstanding Jewish music and other art forms to audiences in the U.S. and beyond.

For further info: jewishculture.org/music-touring-network/

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Klezmatics 25th Anniversary Tour

Saturday, September 24th
Uherske Hradiste
Uherske Hradiste , Czech Republic

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The Shondes tour to support their new CD, Searchlights

Friday, 9/23/2011, 7pm
Bellyflop Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
More info: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188441877893937

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JAZZ RABBI’S THURSDAY NIGHT INVITATIONAL

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

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

September 22 – New American Quartet

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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קאַוועהויז מיט די קלעזמאָגראַפֿערס
Kavehoyz with the Klezmographers

DATE: Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
TIME: 7 PM
LOCATION: Temple Beth Emeth of Brooklyn
83 Marlborough Road
Brooklyn, NY 11226
(Near the B/Q stop at Church Avenue)

MORE: Donation $10, children and students free

Presented by
Congress for Jewish Culture, CYCO Books, and New Yiddish Rep
with support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency,
and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of New York

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Mazzeltov
Thu, Sep 22, 20:15pm
Catharinakapel
Harderwijk, the Netherlands

more info: www.catharinakapel.nl

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

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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She'koyokh

21 Sept 8pm
HOMA restaurant,
71 Stoke Newington Church Street,
London N16.
£5 on the door.
www.homalondon.co.uk.

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Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 7:00 PM

International Day of Peace Concert
with Yuval Ron Ensemble presenting: Sacred Music of the Middle East
featuring the stunning Arabic singer Najwa Gibran, Armenian woodwind master Norik Manoukian, master Qawwali singer Sukhawat Ali Khan
And Special guest dancer: Jamila Ali

Arab, Jewish, Muslim and Christian artists come together to unite the sacred musical traditions of Judaism, Sufism (Islamic mystical tradition) and the Christian Armenian Church. Composer and world-music record producer Yuval Ron imparts the ancient and deep intercultural connection between these three traditions and the musical influences they share.

Address: Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library, 40 E. St. Clair Street (Central Library at Clowes Auditorium)
Parking: Parking is available in the Central Library garage off of Pennsylvania Street (for a fee). There is also street parking available.
Tickets: No tickets required. FREE and open to everyone. Limited seating.
Info lines/email: For more information, call 275-4099.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Seeker of Truth and the Legend of Bal Shem
Celebrating the musical traditions of the Middle East and the Hassidic spirit

A Concert by The Yuval Ron Ensemble featuring the stunning Arabic singer Najwa Gibran, Armenian woodwind master Norik Manoukian, master Qawwali singer Sukhawat Ali Khan
And Special guest dancer: Jamila Ali Sukhawat

Arthur M. Glick Jewish Community Center, 6701 Hoover Rd. Indianapolis, IN 46260
Parking: Surface lot parking available
Tickets: $8 JCC members/$12 non-members/$6 all children under 13. Register at jccindy.org or by calling (317) 251-9467, or visit one of the JCC membership desks
Info: Larry Rothenberg (317) 715-9233
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Tuesday, September 20

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

6:00 PM Klezmer Masterclass for musicians of all levels and instruments, taught by drummer Aaron Alexander, $25.

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch, $20.!

8:00 PM Concert featuring violin virtuoso Alicia Svigals with accordionist Christina Crowder and bassist Ari Folman-Cohen, $15.

9:30 PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Margot Leverett, Pete Rushefsky, Aaron Alexander and guests, with Yiddish dance instruction by Lisa Mayer, Deborah Strauss, or Adrianne Greenbaum and guests. $5

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

Tix: $15 for show only, or $35 for full evening pass (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink)

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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Monajat, A commissioned multimedia work by Galeet Dardashti
Congregation Brith Shalom
4610 Bellaire Blvd
Houston, TX
September 18, 2011, 7 pm

Further venue info/tix: www.jcchouston.org

Monajat is inspired by Selihot, the poetic prayers of forgiveness recited during the month preceding the Jewish High Holidays according to Middle Eastern tradition. This period of deep reflection and spiritual preparation serves as a backdrop for Dardashti’s time-specific concert and program. The first-time U.S. presentation of Monajat combines participatory workshops, talks, prayer services, and other educational programs to enhance the spiritual and cultural experience. Dardashti, a performer and anthropologist of Iranian descent, re-imagines the Selihot ritual in collaboration with an acclaimed ensemble of Jewish and Muslim musicians, an electronic soundscape, and dynamic video projections by video artist and designer Dmitry Kmelnitsky.

Dardashti’s acclaimed ensemble of musicians includes Omer Avital (oud, bass, vocals), Amir ElSaffar (santour, vocals), Tal Ronen (bass, vocals) and Dafer Tawil (percussion, violin, ney, oud, vocals).

The Foundation for Jewish Culture and its league of performing arts presenters have commissioned Monajat (Fervent Prayer), a multimedia concert by composer, singer, and scholar Galeet Dardashti which will tour the United States in September 2011. Monajat, an evening of Middle Eastern musical poetry, inaugurates the New Jewish Culture Network, an initiative to create and deliver outstanding Jewish music and other art forms to audiences in the U.S. and beyond.

For further info: jewishculture.org/music-touring-network/

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Klezmatics 25th Anniversary Tour

Sunday
September 18th, 8pm
World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-222-1400

Tix, info: tickets.worldcafelive.com
Tour/CD kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com

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KFAR Jewish Arts Center presents:
Who: Nuriya & Gerard Edery Ensemble
What: 2011 Chicago World Music Festival
Where: Mayne Stage, 1328 W. Morse Ave., Chicago (Rogers Park)
When: Sunday, September 18th, 7:00pm
Tickets: $15

Tix and more info: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199082410153785

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Next weekend, during the Hastings Seafood & Wine Festival, Winkle Island in Rock-a-Nore is being converted into a Fantasy Island, with acts performing from 10am on both Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th September, including

The Moors at 3pm on Sunday

We'll be doing a set of around 45 minutes.

Meanwhile, check out our latest video, taken at the Jenny Lind on 2nd September. This is our Sephardic number "Si Verias", where we stretch out a bit - until the video memory runs out!

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The Sway Machinery is doing a surprise show this afternoon at about 3PM on the upper west side of manhattan. I'm told there's going to be a flash mob of people blowing shofars@mdash;we'll see what actually happens, but Sway will definitely be doing a FREE OUTDOOR show. near the corner of 76th and Amsterdam. should be fun and chaotic!

here's a facebook thing about it: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=217804294942416

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Mazzeltov
Sunday, September 18, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Oude Slot
Heemstede, the Netherlands

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Shpilkes Klezmer Band brings Klezmer & Sephardic music to the Southern Massachusetts Arts Festival on the South Common in Mansfield. MA September 18th, 2011. Come share in the restless energy, songs, and dancing rhythms that defines shpilkes amidst wonderful art, open and juried art shows, and children's activities. FREE

For more information:
508-339-2822 or 508-261-9553
mmas.org
www.myspace.com/shpilkes

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Annual Member's Day
Sunday, September 18, 11 AM - 4 PM
National Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, MA
More info: www.bikher.org

SARAH ROSE LAZARUS CONCERT
2 PM - Workmen’s Circle Chorus: The Cloth From Which We Are Cut
The 92-member Boston Workmen’s Circle Yiddish Community Chorus will present a multi-media performance commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. “The Cloth From Which We Are Cut” weaves together historical narrative and the Yiddish folk music that came out of the sweatshops. Appropriate for adults and children over 12.

11 AM - 4 PM: The Yiddish Book Center’s 1st annual Used Book Sale

Exhibit opening: new family exhibit
The Nancy B. Weinstein Kinder-vinkl
You Know More Yiddish Than You Think!
How much Yiddish do you know? Probably more than you think. Some English words have made their way into Yiddish. Many Yiddish words are now commonly used in English. And a surprising number of Yiddish and English words are related – they sound almost the same in both languages. Our four lively games give you a chance to show off the Yiddish you didn’t even know you know. This exhibition is made possible by Nancy and Stephen (Skippy) Weinstein with additional support by Leo and Eda Rabinovitz, and Chana and Yechiel Schachner in memory of Malky Toby Schachner.

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

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

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

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

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

Read more: www.forward.com

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Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm. City Winery's brunch on September 18, 2011 features Metropolitan Klezmer

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

For further info: www.citywinery.com

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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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Pianist ROGER DAVIDSON debuts “ON THE ROAD OF LIFE” September 17 at DROM
Jewish artist will be performing at New York Gypsy Festival.

Sep 17, 8pm
Drom
85 Ave. A, NYC
Tix: $15 adv/$20 door

DROM, located in East Village, will be celebrating with Roger Davidson and Frank London playing Jewish music and klezmer during the 7th annual New York Gypsy Festival. The event is on September 17 but the
festival starts Sept. 9.

More info:
www.dromnyc.com

Pianist and composer Roger Davidson's work in classical choral music, jazz, Brazilian music, and tango, introduces "On the Road of Life,"—a recording of original songs in klezmer style. Klezmer is an instrumental music tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. It's a mostly festive music, originally performed for dancing at weddings and other joyful events. It shouldn't surprise then that for Davidson—born in Paris to a family with American, French, and German roots, raised in New York, and curious since childhood about the big world outside klezmer "might suggest both, honoring old bonds but also a world of possibilities."

On the Road to Life is not a traditional klezmer music recording. For Frank London, trumpeter, bandleader, and the album's arranger and producer. It represents the sound of klezmer distilled through Roger Davidson.

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Kaila Flexer and Shira Kammen
Playing for Change
Sept. 17, 2011, 7pm
Skyline Community Church
12540 Skyline Boulevard Oakland, CA 94619

Bay Area Sound and Music Healers and Artists Play for Change. Music, Dancing and other acts from: Spridessence, Japa Kaur, Kevin Dunning, Adrienne Shamzad and more! Proceeds raised will benefit the PFC Ntonga School in Gugulethu! PEACE THROUGH MUSIC!
More info: playingforchangeday.org

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Saturday, September 17, 7:00-9:00 pm, >Ellis Island Old World Folk Band performs at High Street Station in Alameda. Klezmer, Yiddish vocals, American tunes from vaudeville to swing, and tunes from Eastern Europe, Greece, Russia, Italy and Mexico. Cover charge $5-$15, sliding scale. More info about the band: 510.433.2900, musikers.com; about the venue: 510.995.8049, highstreetstationcafe.com.

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Fleet Street Klezmer@Hyde Park Street Fair
Saturday, September 17, 7:30pm - 10:30pm
Community Stage, Hyde Park Street Fair
Boise, Idaho

FINALLY! Hyde Park Street Fair is not on a major Jewish holiday, so we can come out and perform for one of Boise's best 'known' secrets! Hyde Park Street Fair is one of the most fun late summer events around with excellent music, dance, vendors and probably more patchouli than you could shake a stick at! But hey, that's cool with us! Come see us, 7:30pm on Saturday Sept. 17th at the Community Stage as we klez up Hyde Park!

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The Unternationale feat. Daniel Kahn, Psoy Korolenko & Michael Alpert

Thursday, September 22,
Skokie Theatre
7924 N. Lincoln Ave.
Skokie, IL 8:00pm - 10:30pm

The Unternationale is Detroit born, Berlin transplant singer-songwriter Daniel Kahn and legendary Moscow avantgarde song bard Psoy Korolenko, performing songs in that draw on obscure Russian folk tunes, Hasidic niggunim and Yiddish workers marches from first quarter of the 20th Century and the last quarter of the 19th.

More info: www.kfarcenter.org/events/the-unternationale

Sponsored by Kfar Jewish Arts Center

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Monajat, A commissioned multimedia work by Galeet Dardashti
Granoff Music Center
Tufts University
Medford, MA
September 15, 2011, 8 pm

Monajat is inspired by Selihot, the poetic prayers of forgiveness recited during the month preceding the Jewish High Holidays according to Middle Eastern tradition. This period of deep reflection and spiritual preparation serves as a backdrop for Dardashti’s time-specific concert and program. The first-time U.S. presentation of Monajat combines participatory workshops, talks, prayer services, and other educational programs to enhance the spiritual and cultural experience. Dardashti, a performer and anthropologist of Iranian descent, re-imagines the Selihot ritual in collaboration with an acclaimed ensemble of Jewish and Muslim musicians, an electronic soundscape, and dynamic video projections by video artist and designer Dmitry Kmelnitsky.

Dardashti’s acclaimed ensemble of musicians includes Omer Avital (oud, bass, vocals), Amir ElSaffar (santour, vocals), Tal Ronen (bass, vocals) and Dafer Tawil (percussion, violin, ney, oud, vocals).

Presented by: Boston Jewish Music Festival and New Center for Arts and Culture
Co-sponsored by: Jewish Women's Archive

The Foundation for Jewish Culture and its league of performing arts presenters have commissioned Monajat (Fervent Prayer), a multimedia concert by composer, singer, and scholar Galeet Dardashti which will tour the United States in September 2011. Monajat, an evening of Middle Eastern musical poetry, inaugurates the New Jewish Culture Network, an initiative to create and deliver outstanding Jewish music and other art forms to audiences in the U.S. and beyond.

For further info: jewishculture.org/music-touring-network/

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Alicia Svigals Fiddle Express
with accordionist Patrick Farrell and bassist Jim Whitney

Thursday, September 15, 7:30 PM
Performing Arts Center, Recital Hall
University at Albany, SUNY
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222
Directions: www.albany.edu/pac/directions_&_parking.shtml
More info: www.albany.edu/pac/11-12_press_releases/alicia_svigals.shtml

Tickets are $15 for the general public, $12 for seniors and UAlbany faculty & staff and $10 for students and are available by calling the Box Office at (518) 442-3997. This program is presented by the UAlbany Performing Arts Center in conjunction with the Center for Jewish Studies as a prelude to its year-long series Jews Along the Hudson. More information on the series can be found at www.albany.edu/jewishstudies. Additional support has been provided by the UAlbany Foundation, Alumni Association and Holiday Inn Express.

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JAZZ RABBI’S THURSDAY NIGHT INVITATIONAL

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

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

September 15 – Jazz Talmud, featuring Jake Marmer

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Thursday September 15
12:30--Lunchtime
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Mission btw 3rd and 4th
San Francisco, CA

Grab a picnic blanket and venture out into the freezing fog, as we reprise the Bowls Project at Yerba Buena Gardens. So awesome to be back there around the harvest moon for more apocalyptic intimate good times! BYOHotchocolate or dance with us to stay warm!

Peace,
Charming Hostess

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

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Klezmatics 25th Anniversary Tour

CD release party
Wednesday, September 14th, 8pm
Highline Ballroom
431 W 16th St
New York, NY 10011
between 9th and 10th Ave
(212) 414-5994

Tix, info: www.highlineballroom.com
Tour/CD kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com

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The Andy Statman Trio

Bill Monroe's 100th's Birthday Celebration!
Tuesday 13 September, 9pm
The Charles Street Synagogue
53 Charles at West 4th Street
Greenwich Village, NYC

fresh videos from our recent show on Cape Cod @ www.youtube.com/derechamuno

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Yaeko Miranda Elmaleh CD Release Show
Club Passim in Harvard Square
September 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM

KCB's violinist celebrates her first klezmer CD release with Michael McLaughlin, Brandon Seabrook and Ariel Friedman.
yaekoplaysviolin.com

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Klezmatics 25th Anniversary Tour

Tuesday, September 13th, 7:30pm
Regattabar at the Charles Hotel
Cambridge MA

Tix, info, directions: www.getshowtix.com/regattabar/moreinfo.cgi?id=2406
Tour/CD kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com

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Tuesday, September 13

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

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

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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

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Klezcentricity

Sunday, September 11, 2011, 2PM to 3PM on the World Stage at the Takoma Park Folk Festival
Takoma Park Middle School
7611 Piney Branch Rd.
Takoma Park, MD 20912

This year we'll debut a set of new arrangements of traditional and recently composed klezmer music.
We always love playing the TPFF; always a good time with lots of great music, crafts, arts and idead. We look forward to seeing you there.

For more information (directions, complete program, etc) on the festival: www.tpff.org

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Lori Cahan-Simon will be giving a concert there this Sunday, accompanied by Walt Mahovlich (Harmonia) on accordion, performing a program of Yiddish favorites, theater and folksongs, as well as songs for the Fall holidays, mostly from my repertoire of virtually forgotten material from the secular schools in the U.S., Canada, Russia, Poland, Argentina and Mexico.

Sunday, September 11, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Sabes JCC Auditorium
4330 S. Cedar Lake Road
Minneapolis, Minnesota

admission $5 (tickets at the door)
Dessert reception follows event
Call Annalee Odessky at 952.544.5423 with questions.

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Branford Folk Music Society
Sept. 10, 2011, 8:30pm
Strauss/Warschauer Duo

Deb Strauss and Jeff Warschauer's performances are an integrated and intimate blend of songs, translations and instrumental music ­ grounded in tradition, yet thoroughly contemporary. They draw from Klezmer, Yiddish, Hasidic and liturgical music and culture, adding their own original compositions and song settings. As they sing and play in shifting combinations of violin, guitar, mandolin and accordion, they create a dynamic atmosphere with an exceptional range of feeling ­ from delicate and refined to exuberant and foot-stomping. Deborah Strauss will be leading dancing for all who wish to join in! Hank Savin, Teller of Jewish stories opens the show.

Admission: $15 for nonmembers, $12 for members, $5 for kids 12 and under

Branford Folk Coffeehouse
First Congregational Church of Branford
1009 Main Street, Branford, CT.
Special start time for this concert only - 8:30 pm
Hall is wheelchair accessible.

For more information call 203-488-7715 or 203-248-0291.
Email Branford Folk Coffeehouse
Web: folknotes.org/branfordfolk

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SOCALLED at NY GYPSY FEST (Sleepover Record Launch)

Saturday, September 10 · 8:00pm

DROM
85 Avenue A
New York, NY

check out the record: socalledmtl.bandcamp.com/album/sleepover
tix at: www.boomset.com/apps/eventpage/356
info: www.dromnyc.com/events/1056/socalled-cd-release-concert
more on Gypsy Fest: www.nygypsyfest.com

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Klezmatics 25th Anniversary Tour

Saturday, September 10th
Take Me To The River Festival
Hastings-On-Hudson NY

Directions, tix, more info: klezamtics.com
Tour/CD kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com

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Friday, September 9, 7:30-10:00pm, Klezmer Brass performs outdoors at Off the Grid, Fort Mason, San Francisco. Street food fair with 30+ food trucks and tents. No charge for the music.

More info: offthegridsf.com/.

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The Andy Statman Trio with Special Guest Will Holshouser (accordionist-about-town with everyone from Regina Carter to David Krakauer)

Thursday 8 September, 10pm
Barbés in Brooklyn
376 9th St Brooklyn NY 11215
barbesbrooklyn.com

fresh videos from our recent show on Cape Cod @ www.youtube.com/derechamuno

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London Klezmer Quartet

Thursday 8 September
Doors open 7pm; Concert starts 9pm
The Green Note, Camden
106 Parkway, London NW1 7AN

All welcome for the London Klezmer Quartet's concert of new arrangements & compositions plus old favourites at the Green Note. Come early and dine at this fine vegetarian cafe and music venue.

Tickets £10 from www.wegottickets.com/evenue/480
Transport: Camden Town tube

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Thursday Sept 8 "Hardly Strictly Klezmer," also featuring a capella singers Vocolot, at the Freight & Salvage, 2020 Addison St. near Shattuck, Berkeley CA (near Berkeley BART). Show at 8 PM
www.thefreight.org/event/2011/09

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JAZZ RABBI’S THURSDAY NIGHT INVITATIONAL

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

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

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

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

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org
Tel: 212.473.3665

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Mishkalé
Sep 7, 2011, 21:30
La Piazza dei Mestieri
via J. Durandi
Torino, Italy

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July 9th, 7pm: Yale Strom, Jeff Pekarek and Elizabeth Schwartz in concert at Templar's Hall in Poway, CA for a klezmer concert as part of the SD Folk Song Society. The concert will include traditional and original klezmer and Yiddish music, as well as rare compositions by Dave Tarras, "The Benny Goodman of Klezmer". For more info. go to www.sdfolkheritage.org

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The Andy Statman Trio with Special Guest Will Holshouser (accordionist-about-town with everyone from Regina Carter to David Krakauer)

Tuesday 6 September, 9pm
The Charles Street Synagogue
53 Charles at West 4th Street
Greenwich Village, NYC

fresh videos from our recent show on Cape Cod @ www.youtube.com/derechamuno

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The Bay Area-based Jewish Music Festival is pleased to announce that the Ger Mandolin Orchestra, 2011 project that we commissioned and premiered as part of the 26th JMF will perform in Poland, as part of the Y.B Singer festival:

Warsaw: Sept. 4th, Sunday, 5 PM at the Nozyk Synagogue
A workshop & a BYOM (bring your own mandolin)on Sunday in the Nozyk Synagogue 11AM- 2:30PM

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The Bay Area-based Jewish Music Festival is pleased to announce that the Ger Mandolin Orchestra, 2011 project that we commissioned and premiered as part of the 26th JMF will perform in Poland, as part of the Y.B Singer festival:

Gora Kalwaria: Sept. 3rd, Saturday, 8PM (after Shabbat) at the Tzadik Synagogue.

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THE MOORS continue their summer/autumn gig schedule at

The Jenny Lind, High Street, Hastings Old Town

on Friday 2nd September, starting at 8:30pm

http://www.the-moors.com

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Yiddishe Cup

Aug 25, 2011, 7pm, FREE
Wiley Middle School lawn
University Heights, OH
www.universityheights.com

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The Breslov Bar Band is celebrating ONE YEAR of HAVE NO FEAR with an
anniversary show at Drom in NYC on Tuesday, August 23rd. We're including a
copy of the CD with the $10 cover charge.

Also on the bill is Egypt 2000 playing the music of Oum Kalthoum.

Show info:

www.dromnyc.com

www.BreslovBarBand.com

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The Not Yet Ready For Prime Time Players, featuring father and son fiddlers Peter and Isaac Ohring, Charlie Cahn and Jay Kaplan on clarinet and Sam Markind at the keyboard. Performing August 21, 12:00pm to 6:00pm at Congregation B'nai Israel's 6th annual SummerFest. This Jewish family festival
also features homemade kosher food, Israeli folk dancing, and children's activities.

Congregation B'nai Israel
193 Clapboard Ridge Road (Route #39)
Danbury, CT 06811

www.mybnaiisrael.org

Admission is free.
Free parking and shuttle service at St. Ann'€™s Melkite Church, 18 Clapboard Ridge Road

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FREE Concert at the Putnam Valley Firehouse, 7 PM

This Thursday night, the town of Putnam Valley presents internationally renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals, with klezmer luminaries Christina Crowder on accordion, Aaron Alexander on drums, Brian Glassman on bass, and a special appearance by saxman John Tendy.

Where:

Putnam Valley Firehouse
12 Canopus Hollow Road
(Located in the Town Hall Complex off Oscawanna Lake Road)
Putnam Valley, NY 10579
phone: (845) 526-2879

When: Thursday, August 18, 7 PM

Admission: FREE

The concert is sponsored by the Anne Anastasi Charitable Foundation.

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The Andy Statman Trio
(Andy Statman, Jim Whitney, Larry Eagle)

Thursday 1st September at 7:30 PM
The Montreal Jewish Music Festival
The Rialto Theatre
5723 Parc Ave. Montreal, QC

www.AndyStatman.org

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August 7, 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Pops By The Sea
www.artsfoundation.org/pops-tickets

Bart Weisman Klezmer Swing Group opening for the Boston Pops.

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Yemen Blues
Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 8PM
FREE; no reservations
Parking is $10, cash only
The Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

Celebrate musical traditions from around the globe! Kick back and groove or get up and dance to a diverse line-up of leading musicians who represent the best in world music. Founded by rising star and charismatic Yemenite Israeli vocalist Ravid Kahalani and arranger/bassist Omer Avital, the nine-member Yemen Blues plays an ebullient mix of traditional Yemenite Jewish melodies, American blues, jazz, funk, and West and North African grooves. The electrifying musicianship of this ensemble must be seen to be believed!

www.skirball.org

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Thursday, August 4
Hazmat Modine
Hazmat Modine draws from American music of the 1920s and 30s through the 50s and early 60s, blending elements of early blues, hokum jugband, swing, klezmer, New Orleans R & B and Jamaican rocksteady.

SummerNights 2011 is the 14th annual summer concert series featuring live music and great art. Concerts begin at 7:30 pm in the Museum's Scheuer Auditorium. Seating is general admission.

Tickets: Members $10; General $15; and Students/Seniors
(65+) $12. Link:
www.museumtix.com
thejewishmuseum.org

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Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm. City Winery's brunch on July 31, 2011 will feature Michael Winograd.

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

For further info: www.citywinery.com
Purchase tickets online

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Thursday, July 28
Michael Winograd Trio
This ensemble offers a fresh approach to klezmer music that blends traditional Yiddish songs with new compositions.

Tickets: Members $10; General $15; and Students/Seniors(65+) $12

Concerts begin at 7:30 pm in the Museum's Scheuer Auditorium. Seating is general admission.

Part of the Jewish Museum's Thursday Nights SummerNights concert program. SummerNights 2011 is the 14th annual summer concert series featuring live music and great art.

thejewishmuseum.org

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Thursday, July 28
Michael Winograd Trio
This ensemble offers a fresh approach to klezmer music that blends traditional Yiddish songs with new compositions.

Tickets: Members $10; General $15; and Students/Seniors(65+) $12

Concerts begin at 7:30 pm in the Museum's Scheuer Auditorium. Seating is general admission.

Part of the Jewish Museum's Thursday Nights SummerNights concert program. SummerNights 2011 is the 14th annual summer concert series featuring live music and great art.

thejewishmuseum.org

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Veretski PassZoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment & Veretski Pass!
+ klezmer dance led by Bruce Bierman!
+ homemade pickles by Mike Perlmutter!

at Yoshi's SF Lounge

1330 Fillmore San Francisco
Wed, Jul 27 9:00PM - 12:30 AM ; $10

Dance and listen to two very distinctive and adventurous takes on Eastern European folk music!

Klezmer music was made for dancing. Join Klezmer dance maven Bruce Bierman as he fits the moves of the ancestors to the grooves of your own imagination.

Zoyres performs original and Eastern European traditional music (klezmer, Balkan, etc.), approaching these from both a "€œtraditional"€ and stretched out /experimental framework.

Veretski Pass offers a unique and exciting combination of virtuosic musicianship and raw energy that has excited concertgoers across the world. The trio plays Old Country Music with origins in the Ottoman Empire, once fabled as the borderlands of the East and the West. . . .

Presented by Bay Vibes Global Movement and co-sponsored by KlezCalifornia

www.yoshis.com

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Join Us For An Exciting Evening of Music With Great Israeli Band Shabate at Johnny D's in Somerville, Wed., July 27th