KlezCalendar

Hip Hop Hoodíos
Jan. 3 - New York, NY
Makor
(tix are $12)
35 W. 67th Street
212.601.1000.
www.makor.org

The upcoming New Year’s Eve and Jan. 3rd concerts from Latino-Jewish urban music collective Hip Hop Hoodíos promise lots of booty-shaking and laughs alike. Comprised of bilingual musicians from Jewish/Latino backgrounds ("hoodÌo is a twist on the word "judio" - Spanish for "Jew"), the members of Hip Hop HoodÌos are linked by a common love for Latin alternative music, or rock and rap "en Espanol". But don't call these guys the Jewish answer to Tenacious D or the Latino respuesta to the Beastie Boys: Hip Hop Hoodíos are out to change the notions and preconceptions of Latin music entirely. Following the group’s recent standing room-only concerts at Joe’s Pub and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (as well as packed dates in Chicago and LA), Los Hoodios perform at Makor in NYC on Saturday, Jan. 3rd, and also have a special New Year’s Eve date at First Night Montclair in New Jersey.

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Dear klezmorim

We are back from KlezKamp, bursting with energy from the week of wonderful Jewish music and culture. We are sure this energy will rub off on everyone who attends our January Jam.

The January jam at the Workmen's Circle is Sunday January 4, 6-8 PM. Our regular jam leader, Michael Winograd, played at the opening night staff concert and at the closing night's festivities with Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars. Michael is out of town January 4, but we'll have a great jam led by Jim Guttmann, bassist with the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and just returned from teaching at KlezKamp.

We have been playing mainly from printed music, which we will have available in C and B-flat. All levels of players are welcome.

The WC is at 1762 Beacon Street in Brookline, about 5 blocks west of Washington Square, which is about 12 blocks west of Coolidge Corner. The Green Line Beacon Street route goes right to the WC (just tell the conductor, "Ich gay in Arbeter Ring," and they'll know where to let you off).

We recommend a contribution of $5-$10, but no one should be kept away on account of money.

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Philadelphia-area readers will be interested in an upcoming concert
of Brave Old World at the Philadelphia Art Museum (main entrance with
seating on the stairs) on Friday January 9. They will be performing two
one-hour sets, the first starting at 5:45 and the second at 7:15; of course
people can come to both or either. Below some info about who they are, in
case you don't know.

Brave Old World brings together four pioneering virtuosi of the klezmer
scene: Michael Alpert, Alan Bern, Kurt Bjorling, and Stuart Brotman.
Vocalist and violinist Michael Alpert, renowned for his native Yiddish and
soulful lyricism, is "the only klezmer artist writing Yiddish songs on
contemporary topics" (New York Newsday). Musical Director Alan Bern,
acknowledged as the leading master of klezmer accordion and piano, brings a
unique and innovative musical vision to the group's arrangements. Kurt
Bjorling inspires audiences with the passion and imagination of the Jewish
clarinet , while the incomparable Stuart Brotman embodies
multi-instrumental virtuosity on bass, percussion, and cimbalom.

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POMEGRANATE - Canada's outstanding all-female klezmer band - will play at
the Tranzac Club (Brunswick Ave. just south of Bloor St.) in Toronto on
Saturday, Jan. 10 - in the front lounge - doors open 9 pm, band at 10 pm.
No cover charge - pay-what-you-can, but come early to get your seats!

For more information: Reena Katz (416) 537-1018 / radiodress@freeze.com

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Jewish/World Music Showcase at APAP 2004
Sunday January 11, 2004
Beginning at 4:00pm
NY Hilton Hotel ­ Concourse F (one level below the lobby)

GOLDEN LAND
CONCERT & CONNECTIONS INC
45 East 33rd Street New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212-683-7816 Fax: 212-213-2033

"PINCUS AND THE PIG" - A Klezmer Tale for Children 4:00 pm
Story by Maurice Sendak. Musical arrangements by The Shirim Klezmer
Orchestra, based on Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Shirim's remarkable re-working of
the score captures the humor of Sendak's playful script.

The Strauss-Warschauer Duo 5:00pm / 7:00pm
The dynamic Strauss/ Warschauer Klezmer Duo offers a panoramic experience of
Eastern European Jewish music, song and culture through virtuoso, accessible,
interactive concert performances and grass roots educational programs. "Pied
pipers who weave magic!" - Ellie Shapiro, co-director, Berkeley Jewish Music
Festival.

Golem 5:20pm / 7:20pm
Named after the legendary Jewish Frankenstein of Prague, Golem
blurs generational and cultural lines to present a unique blend of Eastern
European tunes for the 21st century. The band's explosive onstage attitude
gets klezmer rocking by injecting Old World melodies with ferocious energy,
sexiness and humor.

Mikveh 5:40pm / 7:40pm
Mikveh is a supergroup of the top women in klezmer, including singer Adrienne
Cooper, Klezmatics founder Alicia Svigals on fiddle, and charismatic
trumpeter Susan Watts of the Hoffman klezmer dynasty. Together, they rock out with
sizzling dance music and riveting Yiddish/English songs, both ancestral and
brand new.

Joanne Borts 6:00pm / 8:20pm
Inspired by Fanny Brice, Molly Picon and Bette Midler, this multi-talented
Broadway Dynamo delivers a sexy, humor-filled evening of song and dance that
bridges American musical theatre with her yiddish roots.

Pharaoh's Daughter ­ 6:20 / 8:00
With a background steeped in both Orthodox Ashkenaz and Sephardic culture,
and drawing upon musical lessons learned on her extensive travels throughout
Africa and the Middle East, singer/guitarist, Basya Schechter and her world-beat
ensemble reinterpret classic Biblical and liturgical texts in pulsating,
percussive, global-fusion arrangements that feature her sinuous vocals. Pharaoh's
Daughter crafts music that comforts with its meditative qualities and energizes
with exploding eclectic grooves.

Margot Leverett and The Klezmer Mountain Boys 6:40pm / 8:40pm
Klezmer Clarinetist Margot Leverett joins forces with today's stars of
klezmer and bluegrass to explore the shared musical spirit of two genres literally
worlds apart. The resulting medleys and improvisations are at once raw, funny,
melancholic and foot-stomping.

C' & Noah 8:00pm
Performing in NYC's Lincoln Center, Town Hall to music festivals all over the
world, from Israel to Berlin, their sound is a unique melting pot of Hebrew,
Folk, and Celtic music; an exquisite blend of rock, pop, country, and World
Beat music topped with sweet-as-honey melodies and harmonies.

VOICETheatre's LEGACY 9:15pm
VOICETheatre's award wining play LEGACY, toured to rave reviews in Europe.
The rescue of a Jewish family is enhanced by live Klezmer music, archival
footage and revolutionary voicework. Workshops included. "This beautifully
mounted show is fresh, different and totally absorbing." Irene Backalenick,
Backstage, New York.

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Our first North of Boston Klezmer Brunch was a great success. We had a very
nice instrumental mix-- a couple of violins, a couple of clarinets, a tsimbl
and a keyboard.
And we made some beautiful music, which is what it is all all about!

NEXT NOB Klezmer BRUNCH DATE: Sunday, Jan 11th, 2004!
TIME: around 12:30 PM
PLACE: In the vicinity of our prior Reading, MA location, will update closer
to the date..

As usual, all instruments are welcome, but for this next session I am
especially interested in getting a bass and a singer.
So, please come, and if you cannot make it , pass this along to your
friends.

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We have another jam session coming up this week. Our last one was dazzled by list member Richard Lecharsky's amazing singing! Not to mention some beautiful violin, accordion and miscellaneous percussion. Hope to see more of you this week!

Wednesday, Jan. 14: A FREE monthly klezmer jam session, hosted by clarinetist Margot Leverett, is held at Astoria Center of Israel, 27-35 Crescent Street, Astoria (N or W to 30th Ave) , 7:30-9:30 pm. All levels welcome, feel free to come listen, play or dance! (718) 278-2680.

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c a n t a l o u p e m u s i c,
the record label created by the founders of Bang on a Can,

presents a special performance of

Phil Kline's ZIPPO SONGS
Protest Music for 2004...A deeply moving, intense look at the poetry that
American GIs inscribed on
their lighters in Vietnam. Plus, songs on texts by Donald Rumsfeld.

at Joe's Pub
Tuesday, January 20 at 7:30 pm

Concert coincides with the 1/13/04 release date of the "Zippo Songs" CD on
Cantaloupe (CA21019), which is already making waves across the country

Admission: $15
Tele-Charge: 212-239-6200 or www.telecharge.com
Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St.: 212-539-8770 or
http://www.joespub.com/">www.joespub.com
Dinner reservations: 212-539-8778

"Zippo Songs" in the Press:

"Best of 2003" - Time Out NY 1/8/04

"Eloquently hits the mark" - Seattle Stranger 12/24/03

"Some of the most disturbing and compelling [songs] I've heard in ages" -
Philadelphia Inquirer 12/21/03

"It is memorable stuff with a pointed sense of humor.... almost cinematic" -
Tucson Citizen 12/25/03

"It all makes for a confused, unsettling and often dizzying atmosphere,
surely appropriate to the texts and the times." - New York Times "Arts & Leisure"
1/11/04
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Passionate, timely, and politically committed, composer Phil Kline's "Zippo
Songs" breathe new life into the tradition of using music as a vehicle for
social protest. "Zippo Songs" sets to music the texts that American GIs scratched
onto their lighters in Vietnam. Kline has set these profound and desperate
poems with a calm and sacred spaciousness, and they echo through the listener
as if the soldiers themselves are singing them.

Coupled with the "Zippo Songs" are Kline's "Rumsfeld Songs," music written to
texts by the blustery current Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. These
texts are taken from an infamous underground email forwarded round the globe,
called "The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld." Kline's plainspoken settings draw a
straight line from the political speech of today back to the Vietnam era. The
performance concludes with "The End," Kline's rewriting of the landmark song by
The Doors, a milestone of Vietnam era protest music.

Kline's All-Star band includes vocalist Theo Bleckmann, percussionist David
Cossin, and violinist Todd Reynolds. Kline performs on guitars.

"A few years ago I read a story about the poems that American GIs inscribed
on their lighters in Vietnam. It seemed to me that buried somewhere in this
small body of literature was the basis for a song cycle. Since military issue
Zippos are highly collectible, they were easy to find and there were hundreds
of poems to work with. Of course, a poem on the side of a lighter can only be
so long, two or three lines, a dozen or sixteen words, and one can only extend
them so far in song. My solution was to group them by theme. Two or three
poems about hell became one lyric, four or five poems about dying became
another. Zippo Songs then began to take shape as a sequence of varied moods and
activities—getting bummed, getting high, getting horny, getting bored, dying,
finding god."
— PHIL KLINE

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

:: THURSDAY! ::

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

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

::: FRIDAY & SATURDAY! :::

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

::: FRIDAY & SATURDAY! :::

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Klezmatics
January 17
Berkshire Museum (rescheduled from 12/03)
Pittsfield, MA
More info:
www.berkshiremuseum.org

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Who: The Afro-Semitic Experience
What: Black/Jewish Jazz
Where: Anshe Emet, 3780 N Pine Grove (Broadway & Grace)
When: 8:00 pm Saturday, January 17, 2004
Tickets: $15
Info: www.kfarcenter.com or call 773.550.1543.

Music: www.kfarcenter.com/afromsemitic.html

KFAR Jewish Arts Center stimulates, promotes and produces the next generation of Jewish expression. Hebrew for village, KFAR builds community by igniting a symbiotic relationship between audiences and artists to give voice to new perspectives on our heritage and create an alternative conduit to Jewish culture. Visit www.kfarcenter.com.

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Klezmatics
January 20
WOW Hall
Eugene, OR
More info:
www.wowhall.org

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

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

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

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

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Klezmatics
January 21
Aladdin Theater
Portland, OR
www.aladdin-theater.com

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

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

On November 5, Lula Lounge & David Buchbinder inaugurated "Feast of the East," an unprecedented series of Wednesday night dance parties that feature funked-up dance rhythms from Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Drawing on the music of the Jews, Arabs, Greeks and Roma, the sound of Feast of the East is the sound of radical roots: traditional, yet filtered through the prism of Toronto, a rainbow of the world’s richest colours. Feast of the East dance-music hybrid features numerous local jazz luminaries and a plethora of globally-grounded musical friends. Feast of the East harmonious intoxication presents a challenge to all those who delight in dance . Join us for our first step into Feast of the East - if you are not moved to dance, we’ll refund your cover charge!

Feast of the East is built around ensembles led by trumpeter and composer David Buchbinder, including the expanded, dance version of his Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band (Eastern European Jewish fusion music), Buchbinder’s Brass (Roma dance music) & Medina (Arabic music), as well as hot world music band Maza Meze performing Greek & Arabic dance music. Feast… will be dedicated to creating not only one of the hottest dance parties in Toronto but a complete event, with visual and olfactory delights to accompany the expected auditory awesomeness.

In addition to the music Feast of the East will feature: The Roulettes-awesomely hip Bellydance troupe led by Roula Said ~ Dance lessons in Jewish, Balkan & Arabic dance ~ the Belly-a-Go-Go pillar dancers ~ the Shisha Smoking Lounge (authentic Middle Eastern hookah experience)

Musicians (for the first two events) include: David Buchbinder, Dave Wall, Marilyn Lerner, Andrew Downing, Daniel Barnes, Bob Stevenson, John Johnson, Stephen Donald, Levon Ickhanian, William Carn, Debashis Sinha, Rick Shadrach Lazar, Mai Kelly, Jeff Wilson, Robert Botos ; Maryem Tollar, Ernie Tollar, Sophia Gregoriadas, Jennifer Moore, Debashis Sinha, , Jayne Brown, John Gzowski Brenna McCrimmon

Toronto DJ MEDICINEMAN is known for his adventurous blends of musical styles and sonic landscapes. For the past two years he has hosted 'No Man's Land' on CIUT radio and has earned a reputation for his on-going exploration into the evolution of world music. His sets flow from soothing ancient rhythms and textures through rippling primitive and progressive beats, always challenging musical boundaries and traditions.

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Thursday, January 22, 2004 at 8 pm
Desert Roots
A concert of traditional Hebrew songs from the Middle East
(music of Yemen, Tunisia and Israel)
with:
Yuval Ron - oud and saz
Dror Sinai - voice and percussion
In a unique intimate setting in a private house.
Wine & Middle Eastern delights' reception to follow concert.

Location: a private house in Studio City, CA 91064
Admission: $20 (children under 13 - half price)
SPACE IS VERY LIMITED!
Please reserve early by sending an email to: info@yuvalronmusic.com

Dror Sinai is an international performer, educator, and guest artist, as well as the founder of Rhythm Fusion, Inc. in Santa Cruz, CA. In 2002, he received the Gail Rich award for supporting the arts, and is a founding member of the World Music Committee for the Percussive Arts Society. Dror has performed as a solo artist and has appeared in ensembles of many different musical styles, with other talented artists, including Yair Dalal, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Yuval Ron, Alessandra Belloni. Dror has presented lectures, clinics, and workshops to diverse audiences, including Universities, schools, community gatherings, children, and adults, and has taught both professionals and amateurs; Dror loves to share his joy of music with all people. His expertise and his warm, joyful approach will help put music-lovers of every experience-level at ease, inspiring a path to musical expression.

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Klezmatics
January 22-23
Residency, University of Washington School of Music
Seattle, WA

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"Inna Barmash & Friends: A New Generation in Old Song"

Performance: Thursday, January 22, at 8:00 PM,

At the monthly Yiddish Kavehoyz at Congregation Beth Elohim (the Garfield Temple) in Park Slope: 274 Garfield Place (corner 8th avenue), Brooklyn. . Admission $5.00 includes kosher pastry and coffee.

The Kavehoyz is cosponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture and Congregation Beth Elohim.
Take the #2,3 trains to Grand Army Plaza, the Q to 7th ave or F to 7th avenue.
information: 718-768-3814 ext. 218.

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Klezmatics
January 22-23
Residency, University of Washington School of Music
Seattle, WA

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Klezska! Live @ Sugar Bar
Sat. Jan. 24th @9PM
254 W. 72nd St. (across from Douggie's)
New York City
$10 cover
Hope you can make it.
Skavanagila Baby!

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Klezmatics
January 24
Sky Church
Seattle, WA
More info:
www.emplive.com

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Judith Cohen & Tamar Cohen Adams, Chansons judéo-espagnoles et des régions crypto-juives du Portugal, du Moyen-Àge, de la diaspore sépharade....

Judeo-Spanish songs, songs from Crypto-Jewish regions of Portugal, medieval songs, songs of the Sephardic diaspora...(including bits of Balkanalia)

Saturday/samedi 24-1- 2004 , 20h
Gelber Conference Centre, 1 Cummings Square
$3 /$5
information, (514) 345-2627 ext. 3017
www.jewishpubliclibrary.org

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Mark your calenders for January 24 and 25 when Beyond the Pale will record our long-awaited next CD, live, in 2 concerts at the Al Green Theatre (Bloor JCC) in Toronto.
750 Spadina, at Bloor

Tickets $15 ($12 students)
Call Central Box Office at 416 504 PLAY or order online at www.torontoboxoffice.ca

These shows will include special guest Josh Dolgin, and others, and we will debut new compositions from each band member for the CD project. Please join us and be a part of our next CD.

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

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

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

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

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

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FIDDLERS 3

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

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

Call 860-346-4709 for information

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

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Mark your calenders for January 24 and 25 when Beyond the Pale will record our long-awaited next CD, live, in 2 concerts at the Al Green Theatre (Bloor JCC) in Toronto.
750 Spadina, at Bloor

Tickets $15 ($12 students)
Call Central Box Office at 416 504 PLAY or order online at www.torontoboxoffice.ca

These shows will include special guest Josh Dolgin, and others, and we will debut new compositions from each band member for the CD project. Please join us and be a part of our next CD.

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The Workmen's Circle Announces New Series of Klezmer Workshop Sessions with
Jeff Warschauer

Special 4 week series of sessions begins Tuesday, January 27, 2004, 7:00 PM,
and continues through February 17, 2004.

Study with an internationally recognized master instructor
Learn tunes from the diverse klezmer tradition
Work in ensembles with other instrumentalists
Develop tools for improvisation
Guest instructors from the cutting edge of the contemporary klezmer scene

Open to players of any instrument who play and read music at at least an
intermediate level

Course Fee:
Member: Per session $25
Non-member: Per session $30

Please note that the next free open house will take place on February 24,
2004 at 7:00. More information about the open house to follow!

For information or registration call: 212 889 6800 x270

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Dear Friends,
I am going to have a concert in Babylon, Istanbul on next Tuesday, 27.1.04, 21:30 (tickets: standing 12 MTL, Student 8 MTL, sitting near Table 15 MTL).

The Concert is devoted to the repertoire, mostly in Ladino, from my album YAHUDIJE.
Yurdal Tokcan - Ud
Goksel Baktagir - Kanun
Selim Guler - Kemence
Emrulla Senguller - Cello
Yinon Muallem - Percussion
Hadass Pal Yarden - Vocal and music arrangement

Stelyo Berber, Selim Guler, Amit Pal and will sing there as well so prepare to some surprises. I will be more than happy to see you all there and feel free to spread the rumor to all your friends!!!!!!

for more details visit my web site www.hadasspalyarden.tk
or Babylon's site

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A Very Special Night of Latin/Middle Eastern Soul

Sarah Aroeste Band & Bat-Sheva
Celebrating a Unique Mixed Heritage

Tuesday, January 27th

8 PM & 10 PM
Satalla:Temple of World Music, NYC
37 West 26th Street (b/w 6th & Broadway)
Tickets: $12
212-567-1155 or www.satalla.com

Sarah Aroeste Band

A funky blend of traditional ladino music mixed with rock and blues

Featuring:
Sarah Aroeste: vocals, percussion
Yoel Ben-Simhon: musical director, oud, piano, guitar & backup vocals
Alan Cohen: electric guitar
Emmanuel Mann: electric fretless bass
Liron Peled: drums, percussion

Joined by Bat-Sheva
Blending R&B grooves, Middle Eastern rhythms & moves, and hot Latin beats
Featuring:
Jeff Peretz: guitar/vocals; Rob Siebert: keyboards; Miriam Sullivan: bass; Mal Stein: drums; Toni Devivo: percussion

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The Chassidic Jazz Project
New York Debut
featuring Felipe Lamoglia, Ed Schuller, Tom Lippincott, Reuben Hoch
Thursday January 29, 2004
Satalla - 30 W. 26th Street (between 6th and Broadway)
8 & 10 pm
212-576-1155 www.satalla.com

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The Seth Nadel Band and Pey Dalid Live!

Thursday Jan. 29th @ 7:30pm
The Seth Nadel Band and Pey Dalid play their Jewish rock n'
roll for the soul.
@ the Gin Mill
442 Amsterdam Ave.(bet.81st and 82nd)
$10
for more info: www.sethnadel.com

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Klezmatics
January 29
Centre Pierre-Péladeau
Montréal
More info:
www.centrepierrepeladeau.com

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The upcoming Los Angeles and San Diego concerts from Latino-Jewish urban music collective Hip Hop Hoodíos promise lots of booty-shaking and laughs alike. Comprised of bilingual musicians from Jewish/Latino backgrounds ("hoodÌo is a twist on the word "judio" - Spanish for "Jew"), the members of Hip Hop HoodÌos are linked by a common love for Latin alternative music, or rock and rap "en Espanol". But don't call these guys the Jewish answer to Tenacious D or the Latino respuesta to the Beastie Boys: Hip Hop Hoodíos are out to change the notions and preconceptions of Latin music entirely. Following the group’s recent standing room-only concerts in New York, Los Hoodios perform at the Conga Room in LA on Thursday, Jan. 29th, and also make their San Diego debut on Friday, Jan. 30th at Canes Bar & Grill.

NY Newsday calls the 'Raza Hoodia' album "an empowering fusion of New York urban cultures", while Volkswagen recently picked up Hoodios' new song 'Gorrito Cosmico' for a national ad campaign. Response to Hip Hop HoodÌos' musical mayhem has brought about national and international airplay for their video for "Ocho Kandelikas" (complete with Hoodia Honeys in bagel bras!), which has aired nationally on networks like MTV-Espanol, CNN, and Telemundo/Mun2. Hip Hop HoodÌos have also been the subject of two profile segments in the past six months on National Public Radio (NPR).

"Hoodios is a pun on the Spanish word for Jews, Judeos, and it's only the first bilingual twist for a band that sees the humor and the possibilities of stirring together Latin alternative rock, hip-hop and the members' Latin Jewish backgrounds. Latin alternative was already scrambling the definitions of musical categories, and Los Hoodios throw in humor and ethnicity for added confusion. THE JOKES ARE SMART AND THE MUSIC TAKES CHANCES." -Jon Pareles, NEW YORK TIMES

"Attention pop ethnomusicologists in search of dissertation topics: Hoodios in da house. A local Jewish/Latino hip hop crew that drops rhymes like "my sound is fresh/like a pound of flesh" over old-school beats and rock en Espanol guitars, these guys are funny, but only half-joking. They ain't 2 Live Jews, they for real." - THE VILLAGE VOICE

"Hip Hop Hoodios are a collective of Latino Jews and Jewish Latinofiles who are out to give the Beastie Boys and Tenacious D a run for their scratch. The result is a hilarious, if not inventive set of bilingual rap songs that mesh traditional Jewish tunes with popular Latin rhythms." - CMJ NEW MUSIC REPORT

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Naftule’s Dream will play the Artists-At-Large Gallery (37 Everett St., corner of Hyde Park Ave., Hyde Park, Boston, 617-276-3223 on January 30, 8:00pm. Suggested admission donation is $8.

Naftule’s Dream features musicians from a diverse list of bands prominent on the local music scene including Brandon Seabrook (electric guitar) and Jim Gray (tuba), Michael McLaughlin (accordion) , Gary Bohan(trumpet); Eric Rosenthal (drums), and bandleader/clarinetist Glenn Dickson.

"(Naftule’s Dream) stretch the limits of densely composed and then freely jammed-out music of deep emotional resonance. It’s a crazy-ass circus one minute, a funeral procession another, and everything in between the rest of the time." -Richard Gehr, The Villiage Voice

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Who: Naftule’s Dream When: January 30, 8:00 p.m.Where: Artists-At-Large Gallery, 37 Everett St., corner of Hyde Park Ave., Hyde Park, Boston, 617-276-3223 Tickets: $8 donation

Naftule’s Dream at Artists-At-Large
Gallery, January 30, 2004

Boston’s "best underappreciated band," Naftule’s Dream will play the Artists-At-Large Gallery (37 Everett St., corner of Hyde Park Ave., Hyde Park, Boston, 617-276-3223 on January 30, 8:00pm. Suggested admission donation is $8. Photos and recordings available: 617-522-2900.

Naftule’s Dream has been universally recognized for intense concert performances which draw on elements of traditional Jewish klezmer music, hardcore rock and free jazz with compositional brilliance and virtuosic execution. The "deep emotional resonance" which marks their live performances has made them a must-see on the Boston scene and has won them converts on their travels through Europe as well as the strongholds of new music in New York and Chicago.

The band’s fourth CD, "Live in Florence" has just been released by Innova, and it features a live concert recorded in Italy last year.

Naftule’s Dream features musicians from a diverse list of bands prominent on the local music scene including Brandon Seabrook (electric guitar) and Jim Gray (tuba), Michael McLaughlin (accordion) , Gary Bohan(trumpet); Eric Rosenthal (drums), and bandleader/clarinetist Glenn Dickson.

"(Naftule’s Dream) stretch the limits of densely composed and then freely jammed-out music of deep emotional resonance. It’s a crazy-ass circus one minute, a funeral procession another, and everything in between the rest of the time." -Richard Gehr, The Villiage Voice

"This is without a doubt the most startlingly original, audacious music I’ve heard…What else can you say about a band that combines klezmer music and free jazz with feedback guitar into an organic, fully realized whole? It’s a remarkable balancing act of discipline and unabashed noise, technical brilliance and a completely contrary punk/no-wave aesthetic... Imagine Albert Mangelsdorf, Ivo Papasov, Jimi Hendrix, and Ran Blake jamming with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band at a Hassidic wedding and you’ll get a piece of the idiosyncratic picture here." -Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times

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Hip Hop Hoodíos

Canes Bar & Grill (Jan. 30th show – San Diego) - $8 - 3105 Ocean Front Walk, San Diego – (858) 488-1780 - www.CanesBarAndGrill.com

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Abby Rosenblatt will be performing a repertoire of classic yiddish and American folk songs at Montreal's historic Yellow Door Coffee House. If you would like to here some clips of my mother singing you can check out www.shtreiml.com. Click on Fishelach in Vasser or Oifn Veg Shteyt a Boim in the listen section.

The Yellow Door (3625 Aylmer south of Pine)
Saturday January 31st @ 8PM

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Klezmatics
January 31
Satalla: The Temple of World Music
NYC, NY
More info:
www.satalla.com

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

See you there!

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Jan. 31 at the FAU Auditorium in Boca Raton will be Soulfarm, Golem, and the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band... sure to be a great show (and warm weather).
For ticket info: 561-297-3737

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