Joel Rubin & Pete Rushefsky, Charlottesville, VA, Jan 29, 2008
Internationally acclaimed clarinetist Joel Rubin and tsimbalist Pete Rushefsky will be offering a rare evening of klezmer and hasidic duets Tues., Jan. 29, 2008, 7:00 pm, at the Gravity Lounge in Charlottesville.
The duo will perform Eastern European Jewish instrumental klezmer music and hasidic nigunim (religious melodies of spiritual elevation), including material from Midnight Prayer, recorded in Budapest with the 8-piece international Joel Rubin Jewish Music Ensemble for the New York label, Traditional Crossroads (2007), the forthcoming Nign of Reb Mendel Futterfass, and other projects.
For more information, see www.gravity-lounge.com