KlezCalendar

Adrienne Cooper, Yiddish song innovator, joins forces with legendary piano improviser Marilyn Lerner and violin diva, Alicia Svigals. Cooper has inspired a generation of audiences and performers of Yiddish—touring, teaching and recording at the heart of the Yiddish song revival. Lerner, a mainstay of the Vancouver and Montreal Jazz Festivals, has performed with luminaries Steve Lacy, Tito Puente, Paquito d'Rivera and Gerry Hemingway, and has just won W. Canadian Music Awards Best Jazz Recording 2004 for her Special Angel duo with guitar legend Sonny Greenwich. Svigals, considered by many to be the world's leading klezmer fiddler has worked with Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, Tony Kushner, Eve Ensler, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.

Violinist Alicia Svigals, considered by many to be the world's leading klezmer fiddler, is a founder of the Klezmatics and of her current group, the all-female Mikveh. As a musician and composer, she has worked with Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, Tony Kushner, Eve Ensler, Allen Ginsburg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, Debbie Friedman, 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. She also leads a sizzling wedding and bar/bas mitzvah band, and can be reached at her website, www.aliciasvigals.com