Alicia's Klezmer Party, NYC, Apr 1
Saturday, April 1, 2007, 10:30 a.m. at Lucille Lortel Theatre: Theatreworks presents Alicia's Klezmer Party.
Alicia's Klezmer Party brings the joyful sounds of traditional Ashkenazic Jewish dance music to young ears and feet. World-renowned klezmer fiddler Alicia Svigals, accordionist Art Bailey, and Yiddish singer Magda Fishman raise the roof with hot klezmer tunes and get kids and adults clapping and stamping along. Children learn Yiddish words and shtetl-flavored melodies to sing along and bring home to their own holiday celebrations. Alicia's Klezmer Party brings to life the ecstatic and poignant sounds that must have emanated from Chagall's original fiddlers, a magical journey for kids and parents of all backgrounds.
http://www.lortel.org/LLT_theater/g_information/
www.ticketcentral.com
tix 212 279 4200
Violinist Alicia Svigals, considered by many to be the world's leading klezmer fiddler, founded Jewish roots band the Klezmatics and her current group, the all-female Mikveh. As a musician and composer, she's worked with Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, the Ben Folds Five, playwrights Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and Eve Ensler (the Vagina Monologues), poet Allen Ginsburg, violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, Jewish spiritual singer/songwriter Debbie Friedman, cantor Avraham Fried and many others. She has appeared on David Letterman, MTV, Good Morning America, PBS' Great Performances, and NPR's Prairie Home Companion, Weekend Edition and New Sounds. Her solo album Fidl is the world's first klezmer violin CD. She loves to play weddings and bat/bar mitzvahs and can be reached at her website: www.aliciasvigals.com. "...violin playing with depth and urgency..." L.A. Times
Many of the top names in Jewish music will be performing at
the inaugural New Orleans International Jewish Music Festival. The two-day gathering is a
celebration of Jewish culture and rebuilding of the New Orleans Jewish community after Hurricane
Katrina. The festival will be held April 1 starting at 8 p.m. at The Howlin Wolf and April 2 beginning at
noon at Tulane Universitys McAlister Hall.
The 
Slavic Soul Party!
The Chassidic Jazz Project performs at The Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club on April 15-16. Sets are at 8PM & 10:30PM.
The 
DJ So Called
Psychosemitic Presents: 
The Chabot College Foundation presents the world premiere of
"Forbidden Voices," a concert that showcases rarely performed
songs written by Jewish composers whose works were banned by the Nazis.
This monumental event is slated for Sunday, April 23, 2006, between
Passover and Holocaust Remembrance Day, at 3 p.m. at the Chabot College
Performing Arts Center, 25555 Hesperian Boulevard,
Hayward, California 94545.
(Oxford University Press, 2005) was a runner-up in the Holocaust category of the 2005 National Jewish Book Award.
KlezCalifornia 2006 will take place this spring at the Kehilla Jewish High School in Palo Alto. An exciting program is planned in collaboration with The Albert L. Schultz JCC.