KlezCalendar

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and the 350th Anniversary of Jewish Life in America, Paul Taylor has created Klezmerbluegrass, set to a score of traditional Klezmer and Bluegrass music arranged by Margot Leverett and performed by Ms. Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys.

Opening Night
City Center Main Stage
7pm
West 55th Street, between 6th and 7th Ave
the Klezmer Mountain Boys and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s will join the Company to provide LIVE music.

Tickets for the Opening Night performance AND Gala dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street start at $500 and are available by calling the Taylor offices, 212.431.5562 .

Tickets to the Opening Night PERFORMANCE ONLY are also available at $65, $50 and $15 and may be ordered through CityTix , 212.581.1212 or by visiting the box office, 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. (Service charges apply to phone orders.)

www.nycenter.org

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer calls Klezmerbluegrass

a delightful and surprising Jewish hoedown. Commissioned to celebrate 350 years of Jewish life in America, the work artfully blends country steps with intimations of Jewish dance, most notably the hora and Kazatzka or 'Cossack dance.' Set to an enchanting score by Margot Leverett that combines klezmer and bluegrass, the work, by its very structure, embodies the complete integration of Jews into American life.

You’ll have five opportunities to see Klezmerbluegrass when the Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to City Center March 1-20, 2005 for its 50th Anniversary Season of Solid Gold . The first performance is Opening Night, when the Klezmer Mountain Boys and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s will join the Company to provide LIVE music. Tickets for the Opening Night performance AND Gala dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street start at $500 and are available by calling the Taylor offices, 212.431.5562 .

Tickets to the Opening Night PERFORMANCE ONLY are also available at $65, $50 and $15 and may be ordered through CityTix , 212.581.1212 or by visiting the box office, 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. (Service charges apply to phone orders.)

For performances AFTER March 1 (the only show with live music), you can save 20% on tickets normally priced at $75, $65 and $50 (bringing them to $60, $52 and $40, respectively) by using code MUS when you visit or call the box office.

Regularly priced tickets at $15 are also available with no discount. (Service charges apply to phone orders.)

Klezmerbluegrass is coupled either with Esplanade , a Taylor signature work that's one of the most beloved dances ever made, or 'Promethean Fire', acclaimed by The New York Times as one of Mr. Taylor's greatest works and thought by many to be his response to 9/11. Black Tuesday is his very popular look at the valiant Americans who survived the Great Depression, and features such hits as "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Brother Can You Spare A Dime."

Here's the complete schedule of performances with Klezmerbluegrass:

Tuesday, March 1, Esplanade, Syzygy, Klezmerbluegrass
Saturday, March 5, Funny Papers, Klezmerbluegrass, Promethean Fire
Saturday, March 5, Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade
Thursday, March 10, Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade
Sunday, March 20, Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade

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The Survivor - a Recital for mezzo-soprano and piano
Kathryn Whitney, mezzo-soprano
Peter Roper-Curzon, piano
Featuring the premier of a new work by British Composer Dr Susan Wollenberg of Oxford University: The Survivor -six songs to poems by Primo Levi, also Ravel's Melodies Hebra?ques, Berg's Seven Early Songs and piano music by Bach and Beethoven.
Tuesday 1 March
7.30pm St John's, Smith Square, SW1
£15, Students £10
020 7222 0161

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The Kleztraphobix will be playing on Wednesday, March 2 at Guernica in NYC, 25 Ave B (bet. E. 2nd and E. 3rd). We are doing an 8:30 set. Cover is $5.00. Come down and support live Klezmer music right here in New York City!!

The Kleztraphobix are: Mike Cohen, clarinet, sax, vocals ­ Jordan Hirsch, trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals ­ Psachya Septimus, accordion, vocals ­ Rich Melnikoff Huntley, drums, percussion ­ Ron Caswell, tuba, tuba screams.

What people are saying!

"Yeah man." —Frank London, Trumpeter and Musicologist

"What a great band. You guys kick A**! No, you guys are really amazing." —Susan Hoffman Watts, Trumpeter and Vocalist

"I loved it, great musicians and risky Klez behavior—track number fourteen reminds me of a Jewish Version of Ghost Riders in the Sky." ­ —Cookie Siegelstein, violinist

"It’s fresh and exciting, and it sounds great on air. You’ve got a really hot sounding group with a cool name." —Barry Reisman, Program Host, WNRW AM 1540, Philadelphia, PA.

"This is real New York klezmer with attitude: tight, loud, driving, and delightful. " —Ari Davidow, Klezmershck

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Charming Hostess
CD Release party for new Tzadik release, "Sarajevo Blues"
Thursday March 3
5pm
Starry Plough
3101 Shattuck @ Prince
Berkeley

"Their voices radiate female energy and their singing transforms the spirit." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Eisenberg's songs are hilarious and touching-they run the gamut from hard-edged and powerful to sweet and soulful." —New Yorker

Charming Hostess celebrates the release of their astonishing new album, Sarajevo Blues (Tzadik): a tour de force of NERDY-SEXY-COMMIE-GIRLIE brains and brawn. Drawing on work by Bosnian poet Sem Mehmedinovic, Sarajevo Blues tells of love and resistance, the nature of evil, and laughter by any means necessary. Jewlia's boldly original compositional voice brings the sexy, soulful sound of 60's girl groups to the 21st century avant-garde, rocking out along the way. Some songs explicitly speak of war, and others of cafe culture, underground sexuality, and freedom under extreme constraint. It sounds heavy, but we swear it's mostly about the triumph of the human spirit. Charming Hostess is Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Cynthia Taylor.

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Massel-Tov 85521 Dachau, Friedenskirche, Uhde/Herzog-Albrecht-Str., 19.30h, 08131-86808

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Thursday, March 3rd
NYC Klezmer-Rock Band Golem and Comedy-Burlesque Show Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
The Fold presents...at Tangier
2138 Hillhurst Ave.
Los Angeles 90027
323-666-8666
8:00 PM, $12

Advance ticket purchase highly recommended. Click here for tickets.

Avada - A Revolution in Yiddish
Yiddishkayt Los Angeles
phone: 323-692-8151
web: www.yiddishkaytla.org
E-mail Avada.

Hold onto your hats Cali, one of New York's hottest bands is blowin your way! Brooklyn's very own Klezmer-Rock band, Golem, is gathering up some East coast energy that's gonna explode upon arrival. The young, hip and widely acclaimed, Golem (named after the legendary Jewish Frankenstein of Prague) transforms the music of its Jewish grandparents, making it modern, edgy, sexy and brash. Golem has infused the World Music scene with a breath of fresh air from Eastern Europe. Their explosive onstage attitude gets Klezmer to rock.

The Band is hard at work and has just released their new CD, Homesick Songs, a Jewish party in a box. The CD includes updated versions of Yiddish chestnuts and lesser- known tunes, all love songs to the towns of Eastern Europe. Homesick Songs will wake the golem itself. From Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park to the rock clubs of the Lower East Side, Golem seduces audiences of Klezmer fans and rockers alike.

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad is a refreshing mix of comedy, music, spoken-word and show-stopping burlesque, told by the gals who got drunk at their Bat-Mitzvahs and would rather have more chutzpa than chupah.

Be prepared for a night of hilarious theater and an intimate, memorable musical experience with Golem.

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Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys
Mar 3 8:00pm
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
Rotunda of Margaret Walter Hall
Tickets are $5 for students and $8 for Adults.
Call 592-1173 for more info or stop by Hillel at 21 Mill Street.

www.ohio.edu

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Golem
Thursday March 3rd
LOS ANGELES
The Fold presents... at Tangier
2138 Hillhurst Ave.
(323) 666-8666
8pm, tickets $12

www.foldsilverlake.com

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Ensemble DRAj
3. März 2005
20.00 h
Wolfsburg Mülheim, Falkenweg 6, 45478 Mülheim/Ruhr

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9. Internationales Klezmer Festival Fuerth

Kroke, Budowitz, Leopold Kozlowski, Baith Jaffe, Andre Ochodlo, Bente Kahan, Helmut Eisel, Frank London, Flygande Bokrullen u.a.

Everything you need to know: www.klezmer-festival.de

Kulturforum Fuerth
tel: 0911/973840
fax: 0911/9738416
Fuerth, Bayern 90762
Germany
www.kulturforum.fuerth.de
E-mail Kulturforum Fuerth.

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Ensemble DRAj
4. März 2005 20.00 h Kulturzentrum GREND, Westfalenstr. 311, 45276 Essen-Steele

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Frank London Klezmer Brass AllStars in
TUBAPALOOZA, Friday March 4th, 2005 9pm - very late!
@ Zebulon
258 Wythe Avenue (betwixed Metropolitan Ave. and N. 3rd)
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (Williamsburg)
A FREE night of nothing but great TUBA bands!
4 bands 4 FREE!
roncaswell.com

9pm - The KNOBS!
"The KNOBS, polished and turned on!"
Chris Kennealy - vox and guitar
Wet Levi Nayman - 2nd vox and drums
Keith Yaun - guitar
Ron Caswell - electric tuba
theknobs.us

10pm - Romashka
"A lethal does of gypsy firewater, Romashka will kick you in the ass and sing about it"
Inna Barmash - vocals
Ben Holmes - trumpet
Jeff Perlman - sax and clarinet
Stevhen Iancu - accordian
Katy Cox - violin
Joey Weisenberg - guitar and mandolin
Timothy Quigley - drums and percussion
Ron Caswell - tuba
romashka.net/gypsy

11pm - Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars
"Trumpeter Frank London leads the best Klezmer brass blowout this side of the 1900's"
Frank London - trumpet
Susan Watts - trumpet
Curtis Hasslebring - trombone
Jacob Garchik - trombone
Matt Darrieu - sax and clarinet
Alex Kontorovich - sax and clarinet
Aaron Alexander - drums
Ron Caswell - tuba
franklondon.com

12am (midnight!)
Slavic Soul Party!
"New York's #1 official brass band for Balkan beats" - with bellydancer Kristina Melike
Matt Moran - bass drum
Take Toriyama - snare drum
Oscar Noriega - clarinet and sax
Ben Holmes - trumpet
Shane Endsley - trumpet
Peter Stan - accordian
Brian Drye - trombone
Jacob Garchik - trombone
Ron Caswell - tuba
slavicsoulparty.com

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9. Internationales Klezmer Festival Fuerth

Kroke, Budowitz, Leopold Kozlowski, Baith Jaffe, Andre Ochodlo, Bente Kahan, Helmut Eisel, Frank London, Flygande Bokrullen u.a.

Everything you need to know: www.klezmer-festival.de

Kulturforum Fuerth
tel: 0911/973840
fax: 0911/9738416
Fuerth, Bayern 90762
Germany
www.kulturforum.fuerth.de
E-mail Kulturforum Fuerth.

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To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and the 350th Anniversary of Jewish Life in America, Paul Taylor has created Klezmerbluegrass, set to a score of traditional Klezmer and Bluegrass music arranged by Margot Leverett and performed by Ms. Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys.

City Center Main Stage
2pm with Funny Papers, Klezmerbluegrass, Promethean Fire
8pm with Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade
West 55th Street, between 6th and 7th Ave

You can save 20% on tickets normally priced at $75, $65 and $50 (bringing them to $60, $52 and $40, respectively) by using code MUS when you visit or call the box office.

Regularly priced tickets at $15 are also available with no discount. (Service charges apply to phone orders.)

www.nycenter.org

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer calls Klezmerbluegrass

a delightful and surprising Jewish hoedown. Commissioned to celebrate 350 years of Jewish life in America, the work artfully blends country steps with intimations of Jewish dance, most notably the hora and Kazatzka or 'Cossack dance.' Set to an enchanting score by Margot Leverett that combines klezmer and bluegrass, the work, by its very structure, embodies the complete integration of Jews into American life.

You’ll have five opportunities to see Klezmerbluegrass when the Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to City Center March 1-20, 2005 for its 50th Anniversary Season of Solid Gold.

For performances AFTER March 1 (the only show with live music), you can save 20% on tickets normally priced at $75, $65 and $50 (bringing them to $60, $52 and $40, respectively) by using code MUS when you visit or call the box office.

Regularly priced tickets at $15 are also available with no discount. (Service charges apply to phone orders.)

Klezmerbluegrass is coupled either with Esplanade , a Taylor signature work that's one of the most beloved dances ever made, or 'Promethean Fire', acclaimed by The New York Times as one of Mr. Taylor's greatest works and thought by many to be his response to 9/11. Black Tuesday is his very popular look at the valiant Americans who survived the Great Depression, and features such hits as "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Brother Can You Spare A Dime."

Here's the complete schedule of performances with Klezmerbluegrass:

Tuesday, March 1, Esplanade, Syzygy, Klezmerbluegrass
Saturday, March 5, Funny Papers, Klezmerbluegrass, Promethean Fire
Saturday, March 5, Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade
Thursday, March 10, Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade
Sunday, March 20, Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade

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Concert/Dance Party at Bolton Street Synagogue

featuring the klezmer, yiddish and israeli music of
Klezzazz
Saturday Night, March 5th
6:30 Dairy Potluck and Havdalah Service
7:30 Music and Dancing

Jay McCrensky of The Machaya Klezmer Band will lead Israeli and Klezmer Dance

Bolton Street Synagogue
212 W. Cold Spring Lane
Baltimore

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March 5th
Klezzazz
a new band playing klezmer, yiddish songs and Israeli Dance music will hold a free Concert/Dance party with dancing led by Jay McCrensky of the Machaya Klezmer Band.

Bolton Street Synagogue
212 W. ColdSpring Lane
Baltimore, MD

There will be a dairy potluck dinner at 6;30, with a Havdalah Service, followed by the Concert and dance party at 7:30. Children are welcome. E-mail Michael Checknoff for more information.

Check www.boltonstreet.org for directions.

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Omar Faruk Tekbilek & his Ensemble

Peace of Music

World Famous Sufi Musician, Turkish Virtuoso Omar Faruk Tekbilek & his Ensemble with Grammy Award Wining, Keyboardist, Arranger, Composer Don Grusin Don Grusin & the Hang will be in town for one night only in an evening of contemporary Jazz, traditional Sufi, folk and contemporary music from the Middle East

Robert Frost Auditorium
Culver City High School
4401 Elenda St.
Culver City, CA 90230

Saturday, March 5, 2005
Don Grusin & the Hang: 6:45PM
Omar Faruk Tekbilek & his Ensemble: 8:30PM

Tickets available at:
Hear Music: 1429 3RD Street promenade - Tel: 310-319 9527
Aron's Records: 1150 N. Highland Ave. - Tel: 323-469 4700
Musicall: 517 No. Fairfax - Tel: 323-951 0111
12450 Burbank - Tel: 818-980 9848

Info: 310 - 842 4200 ext. 6064 $12 presale by March 3 -- $15 at the door -- Children under 12 are free

The Omar Faruk Ensemble:
Omar Faruk Tekbilek - Nay, Vocals, Baglama, Zurna, Percussion Chris Rosser - Keyboards Anthony Mazzella - Guitars Chris Wabich - Percussion Dror Sinai - Percussion Murat Tekbilek - Percussion

www.omarfaruktekbilek.com

Don Grusin & the Hang:
Don Grusin - Keyboards
Walfredo Reyes JR - Drums
Rene Camacho - Bass
Ricky-Z - Guitar
Charlie Bisharat - Violin
Katisse Buckingham - Sax
voice Natali Rene - Vocal

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Golem
Saturday, March 5th
SANTA CRUZ
The Attic
931 Pacific Ave.
(831) 460-1800
Two shows: 7pm & 9pm
Tickets $15

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9. Internationales Klezmer Festival Fuerth

Kroke, Budowitz, Leopold Kozlowski, Baith Jaffe, Andre Ochodlo, Bente Kahan, Helmut Eisel, Frank London, Flygande Bokrullen u.a.

Everything you need to know: www.klezmer-festival.de

Kulturforum Fuerth
tel: 0911/973840
fax: 0911/9738416
Fuerth, Bayern 90762
Germany
www.kulturforum.fuerth.de
E-mail Kulturforum Fuerth.

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Hebrew College and Temple Emanuel to present

Songs of Praise -- Connecting with Community
Sunday, March 6; Workshops 1:15 - 3:30 p.m.
Choral Concert 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward Street, Newton

The workshops will be led by Matthew Lazar, founder and director of the Zamir Choral Foundation; Brother Dennis Slaughter, director of the Boston Community Choir and Jonathan Singleton, music director of Twelfth Baptist Church. The concert will showcase local Jewish choirs, including Koleinu and Kol Rinah. Cost is $20 for the workshops and $10 for the concert.

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Sarah Aroeste
Sunday, March 6th 2 PM (doors open at 1:30)
Joe’s Pub, NYC
425 Lafayette Street
Benefit Concert for the Village Temple, NYC
Tickets: General $36; Students: $18
Tickets/Info: call 212-674-2340 or visit www.joespub.com

Featuring:
Sarah Aroeste: vocals
Yoel Ben-Simhon: oud, guitar, piano, back-up vocals
Yaron Eilam: electric guitar
Yuval Liron: drums, percussion
Emmanuel Mann: bass

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Sun., 3/6/05
2 - 3 PM
Klezamir
at the National Yiddish Book Center
1021 West St., Amherst, MA
413-256-4900, x116

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"Zun mit a regn" (sun and rain) - Jewish themes in the music of the three composer-friends Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) & Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).

Sovali - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano

6 March, 3 PM Synagogue, Koornmarkt 12, Delft.
Info/res: + 31-(0)15-256 3371 / 257 7611

More information: JMP, c/o Sofie van Lier, T: +31-(0)20-662 3675, E-mail JMP.

Laugther through tears (sun and rain) are inseperable elements of Yiddish music. Not only Jewish composers, but also Shostakovich occupied themselves deeply with this subject. Jewish Music Projects Foundation (JMP) presents a program with works in this style by Shostakovich and his friends Weinberg and Basner during a concert series in the Netherlands. WWII and the Stalinistic terror in the Soviet Union had a deep impact on the composers. They expressed themselves in their music. The music of the persecuted Jewish people was their source of inspiration - an act of courage in a period that open pronouncements could have fatal consequences. It often took years before these works could be premiered. Now these extraordinary and intense works will be presented in the Netherlands by an ensemble of specialised musicians.

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Zun mit a regn (sun and rain)—laughter through tears is part and parcel of Yiddish music. Jewish composers devoted a great deal of attention to it and so did Shostakovich.

Jewish Music Projects Foundation presents works in this style by Shostakovich (1908-1975) and his friends Weinberg (Vainberg) (1919-1996) and Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) in a series of concerts in the Netherlands.

World War Two and the reign of terror in the Soviet Union had a deep impact on the composers. They expressed themselves in their music. The music of the persecuted Jewish people was their source of inspiration - an act of courage in a period when open pronouncements could have fatal consequences. It was often years before the works could be premiered. Now these extraordinary and intense works will be performed in the Netherlands by an ensemble of specialised musicians:

Sovali (Sofie van Lier) - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano

Concerts:

24 October 2004, 7:30, Enschede Synagogue. Tel. +31(54) 432 4507
6 February 2005, 2:30, Nijmegen Synagogue. Tel. +31(24) 345 2572
6 March 2005, 3:00, Delft Synagogue. Tel. +31(15) 256 3371
18 March 2005, 8:15, De Nieuwe Veste, Breda. Tel. +31 (76) 529 9600
10 April 2005, 2:30, A.A. Brediusstichting, Hernen Castle. Tel. +31(487) 531 387
4 May 2005, 9:00, Uilenburger Synagogue, Amsterdam. Tel. +31 (20) 662 3675
8 May 2005, 11:30, De Lawei, Drachten. Tel. +31 (512) 513 344
29 May 2005, 7:00 u. De Buitenplaats Museum, Eelde. Tel. +31 (50) 309 2072

The concerts are supported by the VSB Fund, the SNS Reaal Fund and the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Foundation.

For more information, please call Sofie van Lier, tel. 020-6623675; or email her.

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Khevre
March 6th @ brockton symphony
Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 3:30 PM
War Memorial Building
156 West Elm Street
Brockton, MA 02301
General Admission
$15, $13, $10

TRADITIONAL Selection of Klezmer tunes to be announced from the stage
OSVALDO GOLIJOV The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind

Khevre, Klezmer Ensemble
Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
Jupiter String Quartet

lots more info at http://www.brocktonsymphony.org/khevre.php">www.brocktonsymphony.org/khevre.php

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Golem
Sunday, March 6th
SAN FRANCISCO
Cafe du Nord
2170 Market Street
(415) 861-5016
Two shows, 6:30pm & 9:30pm
tickets $15
www.cafedunord.com

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L'Association des Amis de la Musique Juive
vous propose une création musicale originale dans une interprétation magnifique:

Dimanche 6 mars 2005 à 17h
Centre Musical Robert Dunand,
9 rue du Marché, Carouge (Genève)
Switzerland

Le Trio ELEONORE
A n a t K O L O D N Y: clarinette
M i - K y u n g K I M : violoncelle
I v a n i V E N T U R I E R I : piano

Joachim STUTSCHEWSKI (1891-1982) : Kaddish pour violoncelle et piano (1938) Youth Trio (1955)
Nimrod BEN-ZEEV (1978- ) : Trio en sol mineur (2003) (création en public, en présence du compositeur)

Informations et réservations: tel 022 734 71 93. E-mail AMJ. Tarif: 25.- / 15.- (réduction supplémentaire de 5.- aux membres AMJ)

Le Trio Eléonore est né à Genève en 1999. Unique, cet ensemble l'est par la variété des origines culturelles de ses membres - Israël, Corée du sud et Brésil - mais aussi et surtout par l'ampleur de son répertoire, qui va du romantique (Beethoven, Brahms, Zemlinsky) à la musique Suisse (Juon) en passant par la musique israélienne contemporaine (Engel, Stutschewsky, Ben-Zeev).

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The Yiddish Vinkl Club
proudly presents
"Di Tsvey" (The Duo)

world-renowned violinist
Steven Greenman
and Peter Rushefsky
in a presentation of Jewish music for violin and tsimbl

Selections to include original compositions from Steven's new double-CD Stempenyu's Dream plus other traditional East European Jewish music.

Sunday, March 6th, 2005
7:30pm
Workmen's Circle Center, 1980 South Green Rd.
South Euclid, OH 44121
$1.00 for Vinkl Club members - $3.00 for Non-Club members

Questions? Call Steven Greenman (216)382-5644 or the Workmen's Circle (216)381-4515

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9. Internationales Klezmer Festival Fuerth

Kroke, Budowitz, Leopold Kozlowski, Baith Jaffe, Andre Ochodlo, Bente Kahan, Helmut Eisel, Frank London, Flygande Bokrullen u.a.

Everything you need to know: www.klezmer-festival.de

Kulturforum Fuerth
tel: 0911/973840
fax: 0911/9738416
Fuerth, Bayern 90762
Germany
www.kulturforum.fuerth.de
E-mail Kulturforum Fuerth.

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March 8 KLEZMER WORKSHOP - SESSION Tuesday eve CERES Brunswick

www.ceres.org.au

E-mail Ernie Gruner for dates, times, information

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9. Internationales Klezmer Festival Fuerth

Kroke, Budowitz, Leopold Kozlowski, Baith Jaffe, Andre Ochodlo, Bente Kahan, Helmut Eisel, Frank London, Flygande Bokrullen u.a.

Everything you need to know: www.klezmer-festival.de

Kulturforum Fuerth
tel: 0911/973840
fax: 0911/9738416
Fuerth, Bayern 90762
Germany
www.kulturforum.fuerth.de
E-mail Kulturforum Fuerth.

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Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar is a quartet consisting of accordion, violin, mandolin and bass that highlights both well-known and more obscure Klezmer tunes, as well as Bailey's own original compositions. Reminiscent of an earlier time in the history of recorded Jewish music, the result is fresh, unique, and thoroughly engaging.

Barbes
Tuesday, March 8, 7-9pm
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.), Park Slope, Brooklyn
718-965-9177
www.barbesbrooklyn.com

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A 4 session class in Yiddish Folk Songs will be presented in Danbury, CT beginning on March 8th from 7 to 9 p.m. at Danbury Continuing Education. Morton Morrison will make every effort to make sure that those with limited knowledge of yiddish will understand the meaning of each selection presented as well as the socio-economic background of the times nvolved. For details phone 203-797-4733 (school) or 203-748-7339.

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Sarah Aroeste
March 8th 8:30 PM
Pabellón Hassan II., Isla de la Cartuja
Sponsored by Fundación Tres Culturas
As part of International Women’s Day celebrations
Information: 954 08 80 39/41 or www.tresculturas.org

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9. Internationales Klezmer Festival Fuerth

Kroke, Budowitz, Leopold Kozlowski, Baith Jaffe, Andre Ochodlo, Bente Kahan, Helmut Eisel, Frank London, Flygande Bokrullen u.a.

Everything you need to know: www.klezmer-festival.de

Kulturforum Fuerth
tel: 0911/973840
fax: 0911/9738416
Fuerth, Bayern 90762
Germany
www.kulturforum.fuerth.de
E-mail Kulturforum Fuerth.

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Wednesday, March 9, 7:00 PM
TZADIK MUSIC FESTIVAL
Radical Jewish Culture: Celebrating Ten Years of New Jewish Music on Tzadik
March 9
Rashanim & Children of Israel

$15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 members/students per show
Advance reservations recommended

mjhnyc.com

Radical Jewish Culture: Celebrating Ten Years of New Jewish Music on Tzadik

Visionary downtown composer John Zorn hosts a month-long series of adventurous double bills featuring the most exciting artists from his groundbreaking label, which has catapulted Jewish music into the twenty-first century with passion, creativity and imagination. Every Wednesday night in March experience the dynamic range of Jewish music today-from klezmer to rock, reggae to cool jazz, torch songs to chamber music.

Rashanim is a trio of guitar, bass and drums/percussion drawing on influences including Jewish melodies, indie rock, punk, and 'downtown' jazz. The 'Jewish power trio' is led by guitarist Jon Madof, who has worked with John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Frank London and many others on the New York scene. Shanir Blumenkranz (of Satlah and Pharaoh's Daughter) is on bass, and Mathias Kunzli (of Mecca Bodega) plays drums and percussion. Children of Israel's avant-garde blend of jazz and world music is renowned for its strong Middle Eastern flavor.

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NEC Contemporary Improvisation Department:
Randy Newman, Jewish Spirituals

On the first half of this double-header concert, Contemporary Improvisation students, faculty, and friends will explore the songs of Randy Newman. By turns satirical, heartbreakingly poignant, and darkly humorous, Newman writes in character, creating often unsavory protagonists through whose eyes we see the world. The second half of tonight's concert celebrates the 25th anniversary of NEC's Jewish Music Ensemble, which gave birth to the renowned Klezmer Conservatory Band and other contemporary klezmer practitioners. The program will focus mainly on Hasidic traditions, with arrangements for strings, saxophone, and clarinet, and a guest appearance by the Nigun Chamber Ensemble, directed by Yelena Neplok. Khevre will also have a short set. NEC's Jordan Hall, 8pm.

Web: www.newenglandconservatory.edu/concerts/mar/9.html

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Wednesday, March 9 @ 10 PM -- DJ Mesh vs. Walter The Einstein Frog. Two of Israel's nastiest hip hop DJs duke it out on the decks. At xD1, Ben Sira 4, Jerusalem.

Neviim B'Pinah is a newly formed cultural initiative intent on fostering provoking new cultural experiences upon the Jerusalem landscape. Our current goal is to liven up Jerusalem's underground hip hop scene with that ill charif flavor, bringing MCs, human beatboxes, spoken word poets, graffiti artists, breakdancers & DJs together for an array of events throughout the holy city.

For more info, visit www.cornerprophets.com.

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9. Internationales Klezmer Festival Fuerth

Kroke, Budowitz, Leopold Kozlowski, Baith Jaffe, Andre Ochodlo, Bente Kahan, Helmut Eisel, Frank London, Flygande Bokrullen u.a.

Everything you need to know: www.klezmer-festival.de

Kulturforum Fuerth
tel: 0911/973840
fax: 0911/9738416
Fuerth, Bayern 90762
Germany
www.kulturforum.fuerth.de
E-mail Kulturforum Fuerth.

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Yiddishkayt LA and Avada present Red Yiddish
For Angelenos in their 20s and 30s.

Red Yiddish is for Angelenos in their 20s and 30s interested in exploring contemporary Yiddish culture. Red Yiddish salons are monthly presentations by Los Angeles-based artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians, and professors who are pushing the boundaries of Yiddish culture. Study beginning Yiddish for the first hour (at 7:30) or come for the guest speaker at 8:30. Red Yiddish salons are held in the library of the Yiddish Culture Club, inside the Jewish Educational Institute.

Thursday, March 10, 2005, Free Admission
7:30PM - Beginning Yiddish with Miriam Koral
8:30PM - Miamon Miller, professional musician and Fulbright Scholar, describes and demonstrates the instruments, musicians, and characteristics that define klezmer music. He'll trace its evolution from Eastern Europe to contemporary Los Angeles in an evening that will change the way you listen to klezmer music.
9:30PM - Yiddish/Klezmer jam

L.A. Yiddish Culture Club
8339 W. Third Street (2nd Floor library)
Between Flores and Kings Rd.
Dessert, coffee and wine.

Tel: 323-692-8151
Web: www.yiddishkaytla.org
E-mail Yiddishkayt LA.

Miamon Miller has 35 years experience as a professional musician and has played on numerous recordings, films and commercial sound tracks. With a B.A. in composition and an M.A. in ethnomusicology (both from UCLA), his career has successfully combined academic and creative interests.

As a Fulbright scholar, Miamon spent 10 months in Eastern Europe studying Romania's folk music. He taught for more than 15 years at the East European Folklore Center's summer workshops and has appeared as soloist and teacher at major folk festivals throughout North America. Miamon founded the eclectic folk band "Fuge Imaginea" and currently performs with Bucovina Klezmer, the Mesto Orchestra and other ensembles.

Red Yiddish is a program of Yiddishkayt's Avada Project. Avada engages Angelenos in their 20s and 30s with the history, complexity and depth of Yiddish culture through quality, experimental programming. Avada offers an alternative vision of what it means to be Jewish today. In Yiddish, the word avade means of course. Visit Yiddishkayt or Avada for more information on our programs and upcoming events.

Tel: 323-692-8151
Web: www.yiddishkaytla.org
E-mail Yiddishkayt LA.

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Kavehoyz:

Cantor Janet Leuchter and the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, in "Provisions for the Journey: Recovering the Spiritual Songs of Yiddish Culture"

Thursday, March 10, 7:45 pm
Congregation Beth Elohim
271 Garfield Place (corner 8th Avenue)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-768-3814

by subway: #2 or #3 to Grand Army Plaza, or #F to 7th Avenue or Q to 7th Av.

Admission $7; Refreshments served (Refreshments are kosher, as always)

Cantor Janet Leuchter of Congregation Beth Elohim, together with the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, present rarely heard traditional religious vocal music, featuring songs exclusively in Yiddish, and others reflecting the multi-lingual culture of East European Jewry. Transmitted orally or found exclusively in archival recordings, some of these songs have never before been written down or performed.

Cantor Leuchter has performed and taught Yiddish songs throughout North America. She was vocalist with the first all-women klezmer band "Klez-meydlekh" and can be heard on a number of recordings and soundtracks.

Guitarist, mandolinist and singer Jeff Warschauer and violinst, accordionist and singer Deborah Strauss are among the most active klezmer/Yiddish performers on the international scene, and are also in demand as teachers. They have appeared and recorded with Itzhak Perlman, the Klezmer Conservatory Band (as longtime members) and many others. When not touring, they can be found at home in Park Slope.

The Kavehoyz series is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and the 350th Anniversary of Jewish Life in America, Paul Taylor has created Klezmerbluegrass, set to a score of traditional Klezmer and Bluegrass music arranged by Margot Leverett and performed by Ms. Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys.

www.nycitycenter.org

City Center Main Stage
8pm with Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade
West 55th Street, between 6th and 7th Ave

You can save 20% on tickets normally priced at $75, $65 and $50 (bringing them to $60, $52 and $40, respectively) by using code MUS when you visit or call the box office.

Regularly priced tickets at $15 are also available with no discount. (Service charges apply to phone orders.)

www.nycenter.org

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer calls Klezmerbluegrass

a delightful and surprising Jewish hoedown. Commissioned to celebrate 350 years of Jewish life in America, the work artfully blends country steps with intimations of Jewish dance, most notably the hora and Kazatzka or 'Cossack dance.' Set to an enchanting score by Margot Leverett that combines klezmer and bluegrass, the work, by its very structure, embodies the complete integration of Jews into American life.

You’ll have five opportunities to see Klezmerbluegrass when the Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to City Center March 1-20, 2005 for its 50th Anniversary Season of Solid Gold.

For performances AFTER March 1 (the only show with live music), you can save 20% on tickets normally priced at $75, $65 and $50 (bringing them to $60, $52 and $40, respectively) by using code MUS when you visit or call the box office.

Regularly priced tickets at $15 are also available with no discount. (Service charges apply to phone orders.)

Klezmerbluegrass is coupled either with Esplanade , a Taylor signature work that's one of the most beloved dances ever made, or 'Promethean Fire', acclaimed by The New York Times as one of Mr. Taylor's greatest works and thought by many to be his response to 9/11. Black Tuesday is his very popular look at the valiant Americans who survived the Great Depression, and features such hits as "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Brother Can You Spare A Dime."

Here's the complete schedule of performances with Klezmerbluegrass:

Tuesday, March 1, Esplanade, Syzygy, Klezmerbluegrass
Saturday, March 5, Funny Papers, Klezmerbluegrass, Promethean Fire
Saturday, March 5, Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade
Thursday, March 10, Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade
Sunday, March 20, Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade

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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2005
8:00 PM
Kavehoyz with CANTOR JANET LEUCHTER:
"With the Accent on Religious Songs"
At Beth Elohim (Garfield Temple), 274 Garfield Place (at 8th Avenue)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Take the 2,3 to Grand Army Plaza or the Q to 7th Avenue
Admission: $7.00 - Refreshments served

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Slivovitz and Soul is a new monthly party series hosted by Klezmer-hip hop maestro So Called, with special guests joining him each month for a collision of MCs, beatboxers and badkhanim.

Bring your Balibosta. Get Farshnickert.
An Eastern European laced hip hop shtetl dance party.

Slivovitz and Soul
Thurs, March 10
$5, 10PM
@ The Slipper Room
167 Orchard Street at Stanton
1 block below Houston
F/V to 2nd Ave
Sponsored by the 14th St Y and Jewish Below 14th Street

If you haven't been making it down to the Slipper Room for this party, you are really missing out. JDub Records, the 14th St Y, and Avoda Arts present Slivovitz & Soul, a monthly party series hosted by accordion wielding, Yiddish rapping Canadian Klezmer-Hip Hop maestro Josh Dolgin aka So Called.

About Slivovitz and Soul: Every month special guests join for a collision of MCs, beatboxers and badkhanim. Upcoming guests include P Love, Slavic Soul Party, MC Kabir, David Krakauer, DJ Shot'nez, and DJ Anaan (JDub Records).

The first two S&S parties were incredible sold out successes. Last month, C Rayz Walz kicked it about JDUB, balibustaz, unity, and bob ross, while Frank London and Paul Shapiro's horns interlocked with So Called's beats, drawing the crowd into a dancehall frenzy. The party continues this month at The Slipper Room on Thursday, March 10.

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Charming Hostess
CD Release party for new Tzadik release, "Sarajevo Blues"
Friday March 11
10pm $7
Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk at Hemlock
San Francisco

"Their voices radiate female energy and their singing transforms the spirit." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Eisenberg's songs are hilarious and touching-they run the gamut from hard-edged and powerful to sweet and soulful." —New Yorker

Charming Hostess celebrates the release of their astonishing new album, Sarajevo Blues (Tzadik): a tour de force of NERDY-SEXY-COMMIE-GIRLIE brains and brawn. Drawing on work by Bosnian poet Sem Mehmedinovic, Sarajevo Blues tells of love and resistance, the nature of evil, and laughter by any means necessary. Jewlia's boldly original compositional voice brings the sexy, soulful sound of 60's girl groups to the 21st century avant-garde, rocking out along the way. Some songs explicitly speak of war, and others of cafe culture, underground sexuality, and freedom under extreme constraint. It sounds heavy, but we swear it's mostly about the triumph of the human spirit. Charming Hostess is Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Cynthia Taylor.

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9. Internationales Klezmer Festival Fuerth

Kroke, Budowitz, Leopold Kozlowski, Baith Jaffe, Andre Ochodlo, Bente Kahan, Helmut Eisel, Frank London, Flygande Bokrullen u.a.

Everything you need to know: www.klezmer-festival.de

Kulturforum Fuerth
tel: 0911/973840
fax: 0911/9738416
Fuerth, Bayern 90762
Germany
www.kulturforum.fuerth.de
E-mail Kulturforum Fuerth.

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American Society for Jewish Music
Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011

March 11
Professor Judah M. Cohen, New York University, "Who Will Reclaim the Golden Sounds?: Judaism, Tradition, and Music Scholarship in an American Context"
Guest chair and respondent: Professor Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University

All sessions will take place on Friday mornings, beginning at 10:00 AM at the Center for Jewish History. Please RSVP via e-mail to the American Society for Jewish Music or call 212-294-8328. For additional information, please see www.jewishmusic-asjm.org.

The Jewish Music Forum, a new initiative of the American Society for Jewish Music, an affiliate of the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History, is pleased to announce its inaugural academic seminar series. This ongoing seminar will feature leading scholars presenting new research findings and theoretical contributions to the academic study of Jewish music. All events are free and open to the public.

Jewish Music Forum
Spring 2005 Academic Seminar
"New Perspectives on Music in Jewish Life"
American Society for Jewish Music
Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011

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Bonjour, le groupe Yankele sera en concert ce vendredi 11 et samedi 12 mars avec de nouveaux morceaux !

Si vous avez l'intention de venir, je vous conseille de réserver pour le concert biensur et aussi, si vous le désirez pour le repas confectionné par Pierre Fisher, vous ne serez pas déçu !

Le Comptoir
Halle Roublot
95, rue Roublot
94120 Fontenay sous Bois
Réservation : 06 71 26 00 95

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The World Quintet
The Corn Exchange, Newbury
Friday 11 March at 7.45pm.
Tickets £11 (£9 discounts)

tel: 01635 522733
fax: 01635 582223
web: www.cornexchangenew.com

This incredible ensemble pairs traditional Klezmer clarinet and flute with a rhythm section of acoustic bass, drums and piano, to create a mix of thrilling jazz improvisations, dazzling symphonic sounds and exotic Mediterranean melodies. Sensuous Eastern European rhythms and sophisticated jazz played with passion and fun, with styles ranging from the wildly joyous to the exotically dark, deep and sad. Fresh from an international tour that included Carnegie Hall and Montreux Jazz Festival, this is the only UK date on their tour.

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le groupe Yankele se produira en concerts:

Le mercredi 26 janvier à 21h, à la vielle grille, 1 rue du puits de l'Ermite 75005 Paris. Métro Monge Réservation au 01.47.07.02.07

Le concert du samedi 12 février 2005 à 20h30 au centre culturel Jean Houdremont à La Courneuve est reporté à la rentrée prochaine.

Le vendredi 11 mars et le samedi 12 mars 2005 à 20h45 à la Halle Roublot : 95, rue Roublot 94120 Fontenay sous bois. Réservations très conseillées 06.71.26.00.95

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Massel-Tov 82418 Riedhausen, Westtorhalle, Kemmel-Gelände, 21.00h, T. 08841-4335

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Charming Hostess
CD Release party for new Tzadik release, "Sarajevo Blues"
Saturday March 12
Capitol Garage
5431 H Street
Sacramento CA

www.capitolgarage.com

"Their voices radiate female energy and their singing transforms the spirit." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Eisenberg's songs are hilarious and touching-they run the gamut from hard-edged and powerful to sweet and soulful." —New Yorker

Charming Hostess celebrates the release of their astonishing new album, Sarajevo Blues (Tzadik): a tour de force of NERDY-SEXY-COMMIE-GIRLIE brains and brawn. Drawing on work by Bosnian poet Sem Mehmedinovic, Sarajevo Blues tells of love and resistance, the nature of evil, and laughter by any means necessary. Jewlia's boldly original compositional voice brings the sexy, soulful sound of 60's girl groups to the 21st century avant-garde, rocking out along the way. Some songs explicitly speak of war, and others of cafe culture, underground sexuality, and freedom under extreme constraint. It sounds heavy, but we swear it's mostly about the triumph of the human spirit. Charming Hostess is Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Cynthia Taylor.

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9. Internationales Klezmer Festival Fuerth

Kroke, Budowitz, Leopold Kozlowski, Baith Jaffe, Andre Ochodlo, Bente Kahan, Helmut Eisel, Frank London, Flygande Bokrullen u.a.

Everything you need to know: www.klezmer-festival.de

Kulturforum Fuerth
tel: 0911/973840
fax: 0911/9738416
Fuerth, Bayern 90762
Germany
www.kulturforum.fuerth.de
E-mail Kulturforum Fuerth.

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Bonjour, le groupe Yankele sera en concert ce vendredi 11 et samedi 12 mars avec de nouveaux morceaux !

Si vous avez l'intention de venir, je vous conseille de réserver pour le concert biensur et aussi, si vous le désirez pour le repas confectionné par Pierre Fisher, vous ne serez pas déçu !

Le Comptoir
Halle Roublot
95, rue Roublot
94120 Fontenay sous Bois
Réservation : 06 71 26 00 95

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Celebrity friends and colleagues salute the conductor/composer Vilem Tausky - a 'Continental Briton' refugee from Czechoslovakia. Presented by Nigel Douglas, in the presence of the Czech Cultural Attaché

Saturday 12 March
7.30pm
United Reform Church
Whidmore Road
Bromley, Kent

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Mar. 12, Chemnitz, Germany, 8pm

Wiener Juedischer Chor - Vienna Jewish Choir

Conductor: Roman Grinberg
Concert at the Community Center, 8pm
Yiddish, israeli, chassidic, ladino songs.

Jewish Community Center
Stollberger Strasse 28
D-09119 Chemnitz
www.tdjk.de

The Vienna Jewish Choir ­ a mixed voice choir of 50 singers - celebrates his 15th Anniversary and proudly presents his new CD. Under the direction of Roman Grinberg the choir sings "the full range of jewish choral repertoire" inclusive of Yiddish, Israeli, Chassidic and Ladino music. The choir performs extensively in Austria and has been invited internationally to festivals in Germany, Israel, Moldova, Ukraine, Hungary and Romania.

www.wjchor.at

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Yehudit Ravitz: Live at Symphony Space

Saturday, March 12th at 8pm
Presented by the JCC in Manhattan
Tel: (646)505-5708
To register, visit jccarts.org or call (646)505-5708.
Tickets are $35.
$60: Prime seating plus invitation to reception after the concert.

Held at Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street.

Don’t miss this spectacular evening with one of Israel's most interesting singer/songwriters. Full of energy and passion, her powerful music has made an undeniable mark on the Israeli music scene, capturing audiences with her intense beauty and original lyrics. A rare chance to see one of Israel's rock icons, live in New York.

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Sacred Music of the Middle East
performed by
The Yuval Ron Ensemble

Maya Haddi - vocals; Yeghish Manukian - woodwinds; Verginie Alumyan - kanoun; Jamie Papish - perc; David Martinelli - perc; Yuval Ron - oud & musical director. special guest: Carlos Velasco - flamenco guitar

Campus Theatre, El Camino College
16007 Crenshaw Blvd
Torrance, CA 90506
Saturday, March 12, 2005
8pm
For Admission, Ticket Reservation, Parking and More Info: Call the college arts hotline at 1-800-832-ARTS or the ticket office at 310-660-3793 or visit the website at: www.elcamino.cc.ca.us/centerforthearts

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le groupe Yankele se produira en concerts:

Le mercredi 26 janvier à 21h, à la vielle grille, 1 rue du puits de l'Ermite 75005 Paris. Métro Monge Réservation au 01.47.07.02.07

Le concert du samedi 12 février 2005 à 20h30 au centre culturel Jean Houdremont à La Courneuve est reporté à la rentrée prochaine.

Le vendredi 11 mars et le samedi 12 mars 2005 à 20h45 à la Halle Roublot : 95, rue Roublot 94120 Fontenay sous bois. Réservations très conseillées 06.71.26.00.95

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9. Internationales Klezmer Festival Fuerth

Kroke, Budowitz, Leopold Kozlowski, Baith Jaffe, Andre Ochodlo, Bente Kahan, Helmut Eisel, Frank London, Flygande Bokrullen u.a.

Everything you need to know: www.klezmer-festival.de

Kulturforum Fuerth
tel: 0911/973840
fax: 0911/9738416
Fuerth, Bayern 90762
Germany
www.kulturforum.fuerth.de
E-mail Kulturforum Fuerth.

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Listen to great classic live Klezmer while enjoying a feast of lox, bagels, juice and coffee. Perfect Sunday morning cultural activity for the whole family. A great neighborhood brunch! Come join us from 10am to 1pm

Sunday March 13 - Joey Weisenberg Trio

$5 for kids/$15 for adults/$30 for the whole family Reservations recommended!

Tribeca Hebrew
67 Hudson Street/1 Jay Street
(Enter on Jay Street - between Greenwich St and Hudson St)
New York, NY 10013
212-608-0555
Ask for Slava

1/2/3/9 To Chambers Street Walk North on Hudson to Corner of Jay

www.tribecahebrew.org

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Wiener Juedischer Chor - Vienna Jewish Choir

Conductor: Roman Grinberg
Concert at the Community Center, 11am
Yiddish, israeli, chassidic, ladino songs.

Jewish Community Center
Salzstrasse 56
D-01067 Dresden
+49351656070
www.tdjk.de

The Vienna Jewish Choir ­ a mixed voice choir of 50 singers - celebrates his 15th Anniversary and proudly presents his new CD. Under the direction of Roman Grinberg the choir sings "the full range of jewish choral repertoire" inclusive of Yiddish, Israeli, Chassidic and Ladino music. The choir performs extensively in Austria and has been invited internationally to festivals in Germany, Israel, Moldova, Ukraine, Hungary and Romania.

www.wjchor.at

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March 13th & 27th & alternating Sundays after that: Klezmer Brunch from 12 noon to 4 p.m. with the band Klezmerovitz at the Ironwood Stage & Grill

Brunch & show $22
Show only (starting 2p.m.) $10

Ironwood Stage & Grill
1429, 9th Ave SE>br />Calgary, Alberta
403-269-3031
www.ironwoodstage.ca

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Yiddish Sing-Along: Everyone Welcome!
Sunday, March 13, 3 p.m.
Solidarity! From Arbeter-Froyen to Zog Nit Keynmol

BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
Music Room, first floor
Free parking in the building on Pierce Street
between Ellis and Eddy

With Jillian Tallmer and accompanist, returning by popular demand. Whether you are new to Yiddish music or already hooked, you will come away from these sing-alongs inspired. Jillian will introduce a dozen new songs each afternoon, using transliterated songsheets. Participants may bring in and suggest favorite songs to share.

Jillian Tallmer grew up in Manhattan, where she once played a street urchin in the Metropolitan Opera's "La Boheme." Introduced to the San Francisco Jewish Folk Chorus twenty years ago, she immediately fell in love with the world of Yiddish. For her solo performances and Yiddish sing-alongs all over the Bay Area, Jillian received the Yiddish Music Award of the Workmen's Circle in 2001. She conducts her own women's chorus, the Loose Canons, in performances of intriguing songs from around the world.

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SUNDAY, MARCH 13
at 4:00 p.m.
in celebration of the 145th anniversary
of Oheb Shalom Congregation
170 Scotland Road
South Orange, New Jersey 07079

Recapture the optimism and spirit of Jewish-American music from the 1920s to the 1940s. Maxwell Street's original arrangements combine theatre, jazz, and classical styles with melodies that are infused with Hassidic soul. Their energy and humor make a Maxwell Street performance fun for the whole family!

WANT TO SING, DANCE OR PLAY KLEZMER MUSIC? JOIN ONE OF THE PROFESSIONALLY-LED PRE-CONCERT WORKSHOPS AT 2:00 p.m.

One of America's top Yiddish Dance Masters, Steven Weintraub, will lead a class on Dances from a Shtetl Wedding. Maxwell Street members Alex Koffman and Donald Jacobs will teach the klezmer instrumental style, while Lori Lippitz teaches Yiddish songs. Workshop participants will be invited to join in during the concert! Registration required by Tuesday, March 8. Contact Arlene Silikovitz: (973) 762-7067.

Can't wait for the concert? For a forshpeis of the music, go to our website (www.ohebshalom.org)!

Sponsored by the Cantor Edgar Mills Memorial Concert Fund

Chicago's Maxwell Street Klezmer Band Performs in South Orange

Sisters don't necessarily share everything, but in the Lippitz family in Evanston, Illinois, Jewish music was a passion for the Lippitz sisters, Riki and Lori.

Riki went on to become one of the first female Cantors in the Conservative Jewish Movement and the Cantor at Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange. Lori became one of the first (and only) female klezmer band leaders, founding the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band in Chicago.

In honor of Oheb Shalom 145th anniversary, Lori's 11-member band will perform on Sunday, March 13th at 4:00 PM. Workshops in Yiddish singing, dance, and klezmer ensemble will be offered at 2:00 PM, just prior to the concert.

"If this is going to be a revival, we have to do more than just play concerts," says Lori, whose band is credited with bringing klezmer music back into vogue at Jewish celebrations in Chicago. "We have to give people the skills to carry on the music, the songs and the dances themselves.

That's why we are inviting the entire community to workshops before the show. The concert will be an audience participation experience, and they'll have skills they can carry on with long after we go."

This will be Maxwell Street's fourth East Coast performance, the most memorable one having been their Carnegie Hall debut in 1998. The band's 2002 CD, Old Roots, New World, (Shanachie Entertainment) was named Best Jewish/Hebrew/Klezmer Album in the 2004 Music Awards of the California indy music organization, Just Plain Folks.

Cantor Lippitz admits being partial to her sister's band. "All of the musicians are soloists in their own right. Hearing Alex (the violinist) takes you back at least a century! They add their own original touch to the music while keeping it very old-world. It's moving, even if you didn't grow up with this kind of Yiddishkeit (Jewish tradition). There's nothing quite like it in New York."

One of the stars of "Klezkamp" (an annual klezmer music event in the Catskills), "Dancin' Steve" Weintraub, will be featured as teacher and performer. "When Steve dances to the instrumental music, he brings it to life," says Lori. Steve relocated to Chicago last year and became a part of the Maxwell Street troupe.

Tickets are available from Oheb Shalom Congregation, ranging from $5 for children under 18 to $40 for families. Senior and Student discounts are available. Contact the synagogue at (973) 762-7067 for tickets or more information.

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"Zun mit a regn" (sun and rain) - Jewish themes in the music of the three composer-friends Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) & Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).

Sovali - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano

13 March, 3 PM - 't Mosterdzaadje, Santpoort-Noord.
Info/res:+31-(0)23-537 8625

More information: JMP, c/o Sofie van Lier, T: +31-(0)20-662 3675, E-mail JMP.

Laughter through tears (sun and rain) are inseperable elements of Yiddish music. Not only Jewish composers, but also Shostakovich occupied themselves deeply with this subject. Jewish Music Projects Foundation (JMP) presents a program with works in this style by Shostakovich and his friends Weinberg and Basner during a concert series in the Netherlands. WWII and the Stalinistic terror in the Soviet Union had a deep impact on the composers. They expressed themselves in their music. The music of the persecuted Jewish people was their source of inspiration - an act of courage in a period that open pronouncements could have fatal consequences. It often took years before these works could be premiered. Now these extraordinary and intense works will be presented in the Netherlands by an ensemble of specialised musicians.

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Charming Hostess
CD Release party for new Tzadik release, "Sarajevo Blues"
Sunday March 13
5:30pm
Raven Theater
115 North St
Healdsburg CA
$10 presale/$15 at the door.

www.raventheater.org

"Their voices radiate female energy and their singing transforms the spirit." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Eisenberg's songs are hilarious and touching-they run the gamut from hard-edged and powerful to sweet and soulful." —New Yorker

Charming Hostess celebrates the release of their astonishing new album, Sarajevo Blues (Tzadik): a tour de force of NERDY-SEXY-COMMIE-GIRLIE brains and brawn. Drawing on work by Bosnian poet Sem Mehmedinovic, Sarajevo Blues tells of love and resistance, the nature of evil, and laughter by any means necessary. Jewlia's boldly original compositional voice brings the sexy, soulful sound of 60's girl groups to the 21st century avant-garde, rocking out along the way. Some songs explicitly speak of war, and others of cafe culture, underground sexuality, and freedom under extreme constraint. It sounds heavy, but we swear it's mostly about the triumph of the human spirit. Charming Hostess is Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Cynthia Taylor.

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Workmen's Circle March klezmer jam is Sunday, March 13 7-9 pm.

We play mainly from printed music, which we will have available in C and B-flat. All levels of players are welcome. There is a piano.

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, right on the Green Line Beacon Street route.

We'll be working on our newest tune, "Gay avek, shnay."

Hope to see you there.

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Jeanette Lewicki - accordion & vocals
Jeff Perlman - clarinet
Reuben Radding - bass

Sunday, March 13
7:30-9:30pm
The Half King
505 W 23rd St, Just west of 10th Ave.
www.thehalfking.com
Free, but tips are appreciated

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US Premiere! Kabbalah Music Featuring the East-West Ensemble with Special Guests

Sunday, March 13th
2 concerts at 2pm and 5pm
The JCC in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Avenue (at 76th Street) in NYC

To register, call (646)505-5708 or visit jccarts.org
Tickets are $20 for JCC in Manhattan members and $25 for General public

Special Guests: Leah Avraham, vocals and drums; Esther Kenan-Ofri, vocals and percussion; Abate Berihun, Ethiopian singing and soprano saxophone, and Barouch Brenner, text research and vocals.

Israel's leading world music ensemble brings to life the mystical music of the kabbalah. Drawing inspiration from musical sources around the globe, Kabbalah Music innovatively presents the music of the kabbalah from Ethiopian, Turkish, Yemenite, Moroccan, Hasidic and other traditions. Recently premiered at the Israel Festival, Kabbalah Music is a musical gem of a piece that will intoxicate the soul. The Jerusalem Post calls it "a powerful sensory experience" and Kol Ha’Ir calls it "a musical jewel… the piece emanated beauty and loveliness through the final note."

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Massel-Tov 8 1667 München, Drehleier, Rosenheimerstr. 123, T. 089-482742

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Charming Hostess
CD Release party for new Tzadik release, "Sarajevo Blues"
Monday March 14
9:30pm
Knitting Factory
7021 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, CA
$7

www.knittingfactory.com/kfhollywood/

"Their voices radiate female energy and their singing transforms the spirit." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Eisenberg's songs are hilarious and touching-they run the gamut from hard-edged and powerful to sweet and soulful." —New Yorker

Charming Hostess celebrates the release of their astonishing new album, Sarajevo Blues (Tzadik): a tour de force of NERDY-SEXY-COMMIE-GIRLIE brains and brawn. Drawing on work by Bosnian poet Sem Mehmedinovic, Sarajevo Blues tells of love and resistance, the nature of evil, and laughter by any means necessary. Jewlia's boldly original compositional voice brings the sexy, soulful sound of 60's girl groups to the 21st century avant-garde, rocking out along the way. Some songs explicitly speak of war, and others of cafe culture, underground sexuality, and freedom under extreme constraint. It sounds heavy, but we swear it's mostly about the triumph of the human spirit. Charming Hostess is Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Cynthia Taylor.

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Charming Hostess
CD Release party for new Tzadik release, "Sarajevo Blues"
Tuesday March 15 Solar Culture Gallery 31 E. Toole Ave. Tucson, AZ

www.solarculture.org

"Their voices radiate female energy and their singing transforms the spirit." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Eisenberg's songs are hilarious and touching-they run the gamut from hard-edged and powerful to sweet and soulful." —New Yorker

Charming Hostess celebrates the release of their astonishing new album, Sarajevo Blues (Tzadik): a tour de force of NERDY-SEXY-COMMIE-GIRLIE brains and brawn. Drawing on work by Bosnian poet Sem Mehmedinovic, Sarajevo Blues tells of love and resistance, the nature of evil, and laughter by any means necessary. Jewlia's boldly original compositional voice brings the sexy, soulful sound of 60's girl groups to the 21st century avant-garde, rocking out along the way. Some songs explicitly speak of war, and others of cafe culture, underground sexuality, and freedom under extreme constraint. It sounds heavy, but we swear it's mostly about the triumph of the human spirit. Charming Hostess is Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Cynthia Taylor.

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Klezmer Workshop with Jeff Warschauer!

Free Open House Tuesday, March 15, 2005 from 7-9 PM
5-week session - Tuesdays - 3/22, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 4/19
Workmen's Circle Members $115; per session $25
Non-members $140; per session $30

Hands-On Workshop

• 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 least an intermediate level.

The open house and all sessions will take place at the Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33rd Street (between Park and Madison), Manhattan.

For more information contact:
Lisa Stein
New York Regional Director
Workmen's Circle
45 E. 33rd Street
New York, NY 10016
212-889-6800 x271
212-532-7518 - fax
E-mail Lisa Stein
www.circle.org

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 7 P.M.
Sephardic Tinge & Naftule's Dream

Acclaimed keys player Anthony Coleman leads Sephardic Tinge through Spanish-Jewish melodies, Latin-influenced Jazz compositions, and diverse downtown tunes. Naftule's Dream commemorates Isaac Bashevis Singer with their "Singer Suite," which sets narration from six supernatural Singer tales to surreal and innovative Klezmer compositions.

$15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 members/students per show
Advance reservations recommended

Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280

General Information
1.646.437.4200

Anthony Coleman writes:

OK - Whatever...Keys? Downtown Tunes? But...hey...Brad, Roberto and I have not done a gig together in a while and we'd love to see you there!

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MARCH 16TH (8-10pm) FUNDRAISER IN MONSEY NY

This is a fundraising event in an exclusive private cafe style setting. Simply Tsfat will perform to raise money for Eizer L'Shabbos feeding the poor people in Tsfat.

Suggested donation are $200 - $500 per couple.

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Believe it or not, back by unpopular demand (read: contract), Satalla will host a repeat performance of Alex Kontorovich's Modern Klezmer Ensemble! This time we're sharing the stage with Shtreiml, from Montreal! If you've never heard a diatonic harmonica played chromatically by a virtuosic klezmer giant, then well, I don't think we can be friends anymore. Not to mention some phat beats may be dropped by one, DJ SoCalled (but if he breaks 'em, he buys 'em).

Alex Kontorovich's Modern Klezmer Ensemble:
Pam Fleming, trumpet
Justin Rothberg, guitar
Wayne Batchelor, bass
Timothy Quigley, drums
AK, clarinet/saxophone

Thursday, March 17th, 7:30 PM.
Satalla, 37 W26th St (between Broadway and 6th Ave), NYC.
More info: www.satalla.com

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KlezmerShack 10th Anniversary Show with
Khevre

Note: Divahn was scheduled to make this a double-bill, but has cancelled due to severe illness.

Thu, March 17, 2005
8pm
Regular Price: $12.00 / Passim Member Price: $10.00

Club Passim
47 Palmer St.
Cambridge, MA

Web: www.clubpassim.org

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Thursday, March 17th
Cabaret Voltaire (not to be confused with the English media-mavericks of the same name), Los Angeles' unique home for one-of-a-kind performances, presents a St. Patrick's Day event with an evening of Irish musical and literary classics creatively interpreted through Yiddish and Hebrew...YiddIRish Night!

Andre Miripolsky (Famed LA Pop Artist and new designer of The Chabad Telethon Poster) hosts YiddIRish Night!

Expect Irish musical favorites by houseband Hollywood Klezmer. Also, special appearances by singer Janet Klein, virtuoso fiddler Claire Bergen, comedian-multi-instrumentalist David Zasloff, Jewess Chantewess Tami Bahat, Irishman Tuba Heatherton, and Sara Cody will offer spoken word excerpts from Ulysses—the great Irish novel that offers one of the best Jewish characters in literature. Expect Beer Bottle Dancers and much, much more for this special occasion.

Kosher Guinness Stout is served as Rabbi Matthew drives by to bless the Lager.

Present this Yiddishkayt announcement to the box office for $2 off. 4-leaf clover yarmulkes (or green ones) will get you in free!

Thursday, March 17th, 8:30 PM (Doors open at 8:00 PM)
Steve Allen Theater
4773 Hollywood Blvd. @CFI West (2 blocks west of Vermont)
Plenty of free parking in the heart of Los Feliz/Hollywood
Admission: $10 (Proceeds benefit the nonprofit Steve Allen Theater.)
For reservations and information, please call Cabaret Voltaire at 323-666-4268.

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Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment
Friday March 18th, 9pm
@ the Revolutionary Café
3248 22nd Street at Bartlett
(between Valencia and Mission Streets), Mission District
San Francisco

free

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"Zun mit a regn" (sun and rain) - Jewish themes in the music of the three composer-friends Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) & Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).

Sovali - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano

18 March, 8:15 PM - De Nieuwe Veste, Breda.
Info/res: +31-(0)76-529 9600 / 529 9595

More information: JMP, c/o Sofie van Lier, T: +31-(0)20-662 3675, E-mail JMP.

"Zun mit a regn" (sun and rain) - Jewish themes in the music of the three composer-friends Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) & Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).

Sovali - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano

13 March, 3 PM - 't Mosterdzaadje, Santpoort-Noord.
Info/res:+31-(0)23-537 8625

More information: JMP, c/o Sofie van Lier, T: +31-(0)20-662 3675, E-mail JMP.

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Zun mit a regn (sun and rain)—laughter through tears is part and parcel of Yiddish music. Jewish composers devoted a great deal of attention to it and so did Shostakovich.

Jewish Music Projects Foundation presents works in this style by Shostakovich (1908-1975) and his friends Weinberg (Vainberg) (1919-1996) and Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) in a series of concerts in the Netherlands.

World War Two and the reign of terror in the Soviet Union had a deep impact on the composers. They expressed themselves in their music. The music of the persecuted Jewish people was their source of inspiration - an act of courage in a period when open pronouncements could have fatal consequences. It was often years before the works could be premiered. Now these extraordinary and intense works will be performed in the Netherlands by an ensemble of specialised musicians:

Sovali (Sofie van Lier) - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano

Concerts:

24 October 2004, 7:30, Enschede Synagogue. Tel. +31(54) 432 4507
6 February 2005, 2:30, Nijmegen Synagogue. Tel. +31(24) 345 2572
6 March 2005, 3:00, Delft Synagogue. Tel. +31(15) 256 3371
18 March 2005, 8:15, De Nieuwe Veste, Breda. Tel. +31 (76) 529 9600
10 April 2005, 2:30, A.A. Brediusstichting, Hernen Castle. Tel. +31(487) 531 387
4 May 2005, 9:00, Uilenburger Synagogue, Amsterdam. Tel. +31 (20) 662 3675
8 May 2005, 11:30, De Lawei, Drachten. Tel. +31 (512) 513 344
29 May 2005, 7:00 u. De Buitenplaats Museum, Eelde. Tel. +31 (50) 309 2072

The concerts are supported by the VSB Fund, the SNS Reaal Fund and the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Foundation.

For more information, please call Sofie van Lier, tel. 020-6623675; or email her.

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Pharaoh's Daughter
Friday, March 18th
Kol Ami. 252 Soundview Ave., Whiteplains, NY 914-949-4717
Basya with Matt Turk www.turktunes.com
9p.m. (after services)

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Jewish Theatre of New England to present David Broza in Concert

Saturday, March 19, 8:00 p.m., Sunday, March 20, 2:00 pm
Leventhal Sidman JCC, 333 Nahanton St., Newton

Back by popular demand, the Israeli superstar will perform his unique style of multi-cultural music in three languages. Cost is $26, JCC members $24, with discounts for senior citizens and students. Call the JCC Box Office at 617-965-5226, or visit www.theatermania.com

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Opening Night: Members of Israel's East West Ensemble and Omar Faruk Tekbilek & Ensemble—A tour de force that brings together 14 top world music artists in an unforgettable blend of Jewish and Muslim mystical musical traditions and improvisation. Presented in association with the Consulate General of Israel

SATURDAY, 8:00 PM, March 19 - Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley, Berkeley

Tickets and Info: 415-276-1511 or www.brjcc.org
15% discount for groups of 10 and more.
A project of the Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center

The largest festival of Jewish music in the US celebrates its landmark anniversary in Berkeley, San Francisco and Marin. Highlights include members of Israel's East West Ensemble with the Omar Faruk Tekbilek Ensemble, Theodore Bikel with Hankus Netsky, the Klezmatics with Joshua Nelson, Community Music Day with an Instrument Petting Zoo, Hebrew hip-hop, and workshops for all ages; Judith Cohen, a leading scholar of Sephardic music, and Emil Zrihan, an extraordinary Israeli counter-tenor and cantor of the Moroccan tradition in a sneak preview of a new work with America's leading, San Francisco based new music string quartet.

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Saturday night, March 19, 9:00 PM
Special pre-Purim concert with
Avraham Rosenblum at Young Israel of North Woodmere
634 Hungry Harbor Road, N Woodmere, NY
$10 admission. for information 516.791.5099

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Listen to great classic live Klezmer while enjoying a feast of lox, bagels, juice and coffee. Perfect Sunday morning cultural activity for the whole family. A great neighborhood brunch! Come join us from 10am to 1pm

Sunday March 20 - Shtreiml

$5 for kids/$15 for adults/$30 for the whole family Reservations recommended!

Tribeca Hebrew
67 Hudson Street/1 Jay Street
(Enter on Jay Street - between Greenwich St and Hudson St)
New York, NY 10013
212-608-0555
Ask for Slava

1/2/3/9 To Chambers Street Walk North on Hudson to Corner of Jay

www.tribecahebrew.org

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Just in time for those who are getting ready to pop over to Zeitgeist in Cambridge, MA for the CD release party (also featuring the amazing Kaplan & Rushefsky), I have reviewed di bostoner klezmer's new CD nakhes fun klezmer. Enjoy! Now, ya'll do come down and help celebrate the KlezmerShack's 10th Anniversary.

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Jewish Theatre of New England to present David Broza in Concert

Saturday, March 19, 8:00 p.m., Sunday, March 20, 2:00 pm
Leventhal Sidman JCC, 333 Nahanton St., Newton

Back by popular demand, the Israeli superstar will perform his unique style of multi-cultural music in three languages. Cost is $26, JCC members $24, with discounts for senior citizens and students. Call the JCC Box Office at 617-965-5226, or visit www.theatermania.com

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Yale Strom Returns to Arbeter Ring for Purim!
Sunday, March 20 at 2 pm

Yale Strom & Fred Benedetti will present a klezmer Purim concert called "Muzik, Mayses un Di Gantse Megile"

Sunday, March 20 at 2 pm at the Workmen's Circle, 1525 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles 90035. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $12 for Workmen's Circle or Sholem Community members, and $8 for children under 13. Take a buck off per ticket if your paid order (not just a reservation) is received in our office by Friday, March 18. For further info, please call 310.552.2007.

Internationally known klezmer artist and ethnographer Yale Strom will play violin and sing some tunes he has discovered over the many years of field research he has done in Eastern Europe among the Jews and Rom. His latest is book A Wandering Feast: A Journey Through the Jewish Culture of Eastern Europe, a travel memoir with music, stories, recipes, and photos about his first trip to the former East Bloc in search of klezmer in 1981. Yale will read a few stories from his book.

On his return, Yale formed his first klezmer band in 1981 called Zmiros with Fred Benedetti and Jeff Pekarek. Fred is an internationally renowned classical guitarist and is adept at playing many other styles of music including klezmer. Fred will play a few klezmer tunes arranged for classical guitar that Yale composed.

The Strom-Benedetti duo is always a hit at Workmen's Circle. Don't miss them this Purim!

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It's a double bill!
KlezmerShack 10th Anniversary Show with
Rebecca Kaplan & Pete Rushefsky and di bostoner klezmer
Sun, March 20, 2005
2:30pm
Zeitgeist Gallery
1353 Cambridge St (Inman Square)
Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the KlezmerShack and the release of the brand new CD by di bostoner klezmer, "Nahkes fun Klezmer"

Web: www.zeitgeist-gallery.org

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LIVE! ITZIK MANGER’S MEGILLE
A PURIM SHPIL IN RIOTOUS RHYME!

One Performance only of the staged reading with songs performed by DI TRUPE Theater Wing of Yiddish of Greater Baltimore presented by THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BALTIIMORE

Introducing a new PURIM HERO, FASTRIGOSSE the hapless tailor youth and love interest for Esther, a wry new wrinkle on the old Purim Yarn by Itzik Manger, the "enfant terrible" of modern Yiddish literature—seen on Broadway & Tel Aviv!

SUNDAY MARCH 20; 3:00 pm
Weinberg Park Heights JCC Community Room
5700 Park Heights Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21215
With Sylvia Schildt, Erika Greenblum, Shani Lerner, Aaron Seiden and Asnah Perlman – Judy Stamberg on Accordion

Tickets: $5/JCC and Yiddish of Greater Baltimore member,
$7/Non-member; available at JCC cashiers' windows
LIMITED SEATING

For more information, call Claudine Davison: 410.542.4900,x239

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To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and the 350th Anniversary of Jewish Life in America, Paul Taylor has created Klezmerbluegrass, set to a score of traditional Klezmer and Bluegrass music arranged by Margot Leverett and performed by Ms. Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys.

www.nycitycenter.org

City Center Main Stage
3pm with Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade
West 55th Street, between 6th and 7th Ave

You can save 20% on tickets normally priced at $75, $65 and $50 (bringing them to $60, $52 and $40, respectively) by using code MUS when you visit or call the box office.

Regularly priced tickets at $15 are also available with no discount. (Service charges apply to phone orders.)

www.nycenter.org

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer calls Klezmerbluegrass

a delightful and surprising Jewish hoedown. Commissioned to celebrate 350 years of Jewish life in America, the work artfully blends country steps with intimations of Jewish dance, most notably the hora and Kazatzka or 'Cossack dance.' Set to an enchanting score by Margot Leverett that combines klezmer and bluegrass, the work, by its very structure, embodies the complete integration of Jews into American life.

You’ll have five opportunities to see Klezmerbluegrass when the Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to City Center March 1-20, 2005 for its 50th Anniversary Season of Solid Gold.

For performances AFTER March 1 (the only show with live music), you can save 20% on tickets normally priced at $75, $65 and $50 (bringing them to $60, $52 and $40, respectively) by using code MUS when you visit or call the box office.

Regularly priced tickets at $15 are also available with no discount. (Service charges apply to phone orders.)

Klezmerbluegrass is coupled either with Esplanade , a Taylor signature work that's one of the most beloved dances ever made, or 'Promethean Fire', acclaimed by The New York Times as one of Mr. Taylor's greatest works and thought by many to be his response to 9/11. Black Tuesday is his very popular look at the valiant Americans who survived the Great Depression, and features such hits as "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Brother Can You Spare A Dime."

Here's the complete schedule of performances with Klezmerbluegrass:

Tuesday, March 1, Esplanade, Syzygy, Klezmerbluegrass
Saturday, March 5, Funny Papers, Klezmerbluegrass, Promethean Fire
Saturday, March 5, Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade
Thursday, March 10, Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade
Sunday, March 20, Black Tuesday, Klezmerbluegrass, Esplanade

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Sunday 20th March 4pm – 1am

Oi Va Voi present

Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism

Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
4pm – 1a.m. Free before 5pm, £5 after.

Proudly presenting an all new Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer shakedown at the NHAC. Special guest live musicians, animation and performance, frozen vodka, rakiya galore and resident Djs Lemez Lovas, Max Reinhardt & Starets sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka. Feed your soul early evening with borscht 'n' pelmeni in the Soviet kitschen, face off over the chess boards, East European animation films, electric visuals, performance from electro wiz Moshikop and friends at 7pm and live music from Oi Va Voi, showcasing new material and the Rohan Theatre Band, the UK Tom Waits, presenting his latest album Cemetery Songs.

Co-Produced by Adrian Philpott/ Oi Va Voi / Taskovski Films / YaD Arts / Ziggurat

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Theo! with special guest Hankus Netsky
Legendary, award-winning singer and actor Theodore Bikel, with the founder of the internationally acclaimed Klezmer Conservatory Band. Presented in association with Congregation Emanu-EL.

Sunday, 4:00pm, March 20, Temple Emanu-El, 2 Lake Street, San Francisco

Tickets and Info: 415-276-1511 or www.brjcc.org
15% discount for groups of 10 and more.
A project of the Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center

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Sunday 20th March 4pm – 1am

Oi Va Voi present special guests

Sunday Socialism @ Notting Hill Arts Club
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12

£6 before 10pm. £8 thereafter. £3 guest list before 9.30pm with email from YaD Arts

Proudly presenting an all new Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer shakedown at the NHAC. Special guest live musicians, classic movies in the Kinorama, frozen vodka, rakiya galore and resident Djs Lemez Lovas, Max Reinhardt & Starets sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka. Feed your soul early evening with borscht 'n' pelmeni in the Soviet kitschen, face off over the chess boards and don't forget to bring your balalaikas for the Soviet era silent films...

Co-Produced by Adrian Philpott/ Oi Va Voi / Taskovski Films / YaD Arts / Ziggurat

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Cantors, Lionel Rosenfeld, Steven Leas and others with The Shabbaton Choir and the London Jewish Male Choir.

A celebration of the life of Leon Rose member of the London Jewish Male Choir and Wembley Synagogue Choir.

Sunday 20 March
7.30pm
Wembley Synagogue
£15.00
020 8933 4030

in association with JMI.

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Join us for a spectacular evening and experience two very different sounds from the World of Jewish Music

Sunday 20th March 2005
8.15pm (Doors open 7.45)
@ Cecil Sharp House in Camden
2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1
Nearest tube: Camden Town
Tickets £8 / £6 conc.

Reservations: To reserve seats please e-mail Kol Rina with a booking name and the number of seats you require. Your tickets will be held until 8pm after which they will be put on general sale—so please arrive early to pick up your tickets.

Check out www.kolrina.org/kaleidoscope for a map and more concert details

Kol Rina:
Close harmonies, thrilling invention and an infectious sense of fun are the hallmarks of Kol Rina, the UK's only mixed-voice Jewish a capella group. Influenced by anything from chassidic to gospel to pop, the compositions by its members have energised passages from traditional Jewish prayers. Kol Rina, meaning "voice of joy", released their first album "Ashira" in 2003 - and performed to rapturous audiences at events nationwide, including Limmud and Jewish Book Week. Find out why this 12-person ensemble—whose music is at turns stirring and rollicking—is one of the hottest acts in British Jewry's cultural revival.

Nomadica:
Nomadica is a fusion of spine-tingling klezmer melodies with spicy Indian and Middle Eastern rhythms pulled together with a jazzy finish. Nomadica will transport you around Jewish Eastern Europe, adding a 21st century twist to the melodies of our ancestors. From a Jewish tango to a Bulgarian tune in 7/8 time, jazzformed Yiddish folk songs, and even a traditional Irish inspired piece, Nomadica will keep you transfixed and enthralled. With a lineup that includes the Indian tabla, Nomadica have opened ears to the possibilities of Klezmer Fusion and have been warmly received by audiences at the Spitz, Limmud and the V&A.

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From Fiddler on the Roof to Beatbox in the 'Hood: Music in Contemporary Jewish Culture
A conversation with Theodore Bikel, Hankus Netsky, DJ SoCalled, and Jewlia Eisenberg, moderated by Professor Naomi Seidman. Presented in association with the Taube Center for Jewish Life, JCCSF

Monday, 7:30pm, March 21, JCCSF, 3200 California Street at Presidio St., San Francisco

Tickets and Info: 415-276-1511 or www.brjcc.org
15% discount for groups of 10 and more.
A project of the Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center

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In honor of Purim, The Jewish Public Library in Montreal is offering the Yiddish Café's presentation of Itsik Manger's "MEGILEH".

Monday, March 21, 2005
8 PM
La Sala Rossa, 4848 Saint-Laurent Blvd., Montreal, Que.
$5 per person

For further info: (514) 345-2627, ext. 3006
Advance tickets: (514) 345-6416

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Sanda Weigl
Barbès
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope, Brooklyn 718.965.9177
Mon 03/21
9:30pm
$8

Romanian-born Sanda Weigl has had a tumultuous career, first as a singer for the popular east-german rock band Team 4, then as an imprisoned dissident and finally as a New York-based musician who has collaborated with such luminaries as Pina Bausch. She sings the kind of romanian gypsy repertoire she grew with accompanied by some of city's best musicians. with anthony coleman (piano, arrangements), doug wieselman (clarinet, guitar), brad jones (bass), roberto rodriguez (percussion), ted reichman (accordion)

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Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar is a quartet consisting of accordion, violin, mandolin and bass that highlights both well-known and more obscure Klezmer tunes, as well as Bailey's own original compositions. Reminiscent of an earlier time in the history of recorded Jewish music, the result is fresh, unique, and thoroughly engaging. The synagogue's foyer is transformed into a "café-style" setting, complete with intimate tables and delicious desserts.

Astoria Center of Israel synagogue
27-35 Crescent Street, Astoria (Queens)
Call 718-278-2680 or visit www.astoriacenter.org.

7:30 -­ 9:30pm.

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Wednesday, March 23, 7:30 PM
Avraham Rosenblum & Diaspora @
Voices for Israel Concert
Town Hall, NYC
Emunah of America 212.564.9045 ex 316

www.israelconcert.com

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The Afro-Semitic Experience
Wednesday, March 23, 7:30 p.m.
Satalla: The Temple of World Music
37 West 26th Street, New York
212-576-1155
www.satalla.com

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Isle of Klezbos
March 23
8pm
Knitting Factory Tap Bar
74 Leonard St, NYC
4 blocks below Canal Street, btw Broadway & Church in Tribeca

8 PM - ISLE OF KLEZBOS (hard-swinging L Word klezbians)

untamed frolic, modal mystery & parodying the Esther that is Madge

9 PM - NEDRA JOHNSON (CD release show)

funk-blues-jazz singer/writer/multi-instrumentalist & great band

10pm - BITCH (formerly of Bitch & Animal)

songs of love & defiance with electric violin & punchy rhymes!

knittingfactory.com
212-219-3006

Same $12 tkt also = Amy Tobin's "Esther Show" from SF (Knit Mainstage), AND Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad w/ MC Julie Goldman (11pm/Tap Bar).

So that's Upstairs for the cabaret/rock opera approach to Purim, and Downstairs **after** the triple bill as the NJG just keep shpiling along. Stick around for these late shows@no extra charge; just have another drink, it's a mitzvah & keeps the Knit happy. All this & new plumbing too...

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Purim is Thursday, March 24th. Nobody throws down for Purim like JDub. From the mind's of Gogol Bordello & Shot'nez's Ori Kaplan and Big Lazy's Tamir Muskat comes Balkan Beatbox. Performance meets dance party, BBB brings the folk traditions of North Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East together with electronic beats, video projections, and many special guests. Much more info to come.

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Purim Matinee with members of Shtreiml
Classical klezmer with some of the hottest young musicians of Canada's Jewish music scene: Jason Rosenblatt (harmonica); Josh Dolgin (aka DJ SoCalled) accordion; Rachel Lemisch (trombone); Susan Watts, of the Hoffman klezmer dynasty (trumpet).

Thursday, 1:30pm, March 24, BRJCC, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley

Tickets and Info: 415-276-1511 or www.brjcc.org
15% discount for groups of 10 and more.
A project of the Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center

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The holiday of costumes, masques, drinking, and revelry (as well as surviving persecution and standing up to tyranny and evil), Purim is a favorite holiday of Team JDub. This year, we do it like never before, with an all new project. From the mind's of Gogol Bordello & Shot'nez's Ori Kaplan and Big Lazy's Tamir Muskat comes Balkan Beatbox. Performance meets dance party, BBB brings the folk traditions of North Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East together with electronic beats, video projections, and many special guests. Save the date: Thursday, March 24 at SOB's, 204 Varick St. More info around the corner...

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Pharaoh's Daughter
Thursday March 24th PURIM EVENING
8p.m. Concert w/ Matt Turk at Spanish Portugese Synagogue
9p.m. appearing w/ "Esther Don’t Preach" purim celebration
W/Divan, Storahtelling, and Frank London, DJ Acidophilis
@RARE 416 W. 14th St. off 9th avenue
$15 w/o costume $10 with
Www.storahtelling.org for more information

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Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment
Thursday March 24th 8pm
Simple Pleasures Café
3434 Balboa at 36th Avenue,
Richmond District
San Francisco

free

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DVD Release Party

The silent film, Der Golem, accompanied live by Rubinchik's Yiddish Ensemble
Saturday, Mar 26, 7:00 & 9:45
Alamo Drafthouse
409 Colorado St.
Austin, TX
(512) 476-1320
www.originalalamao.com

The Film

A clay statue is brought to life in order to save the Jewish ghetto of Prague, but soon turns against his master in this German silent classic. A man brings an inanimate object to life, an amoral monster whom he hopes to use as a slave. The monster then turns against his master, nearly destroying him in the process. This is an archetypal story, told many times in literature and film. One of its first cinematic expressions was in THE GOLEM, made in Germany in 1920. The film is based upon a medieval Jewish legend about a clay figure that is brought to life to serve as a protector of the Jews who live in the Prague ghetto in the year 1580. THE GOLEM is a film of great power, as hypnotic as a German Expressionist vision of life as a waking dream. The dim light and looming shadow were photographed by Karl Freund, who also shot two German Expressionist masterpieces: Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS and F.W. Murnau's THE LAST LAUGH. Freund later emigrated to America and eventually became the head cameraman for I LOVE LUCY.

The Band

"Somehow it's hard to take the Ten Commandments too seriously when they are tattooed, in Hebrew, on the meaty left arm of a 340 lb Texan tuba player. Especially if he then offers you a slug of slivovitz from his hip-flask and persuades you - with a cheerful blast of brass—to forget all you ever thought you knew about the Jews and music."
—(Sophie Solomon, London Daily Telegraph)

4 years ago, Mark Rubin and his stellar band, the Rubinchik's Yiddish Ensemble, electrified audiences at the Alamo with their score for DER GOLEM. At long last, we welcome back the return of this perfect blend of film and music to the Alamo Drafthouse for a long overdue encore performance.

The DVD

Copies of the film on DVD with our soundtrack, recorded in 2001, will be available at the theatre!!

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Yale Strom & Elizabeth Schwartz: Mayses Muzik un di gantse megile!

Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz present their new book "A Wandering Feast: A Journey Through The Jewish Culture of Eastern Europe", a chronicle of Yale's first ethnographic foray to the Eastern Bloc countries in 1981. In-between reading, signing and sharing personal insights, Yale & Elizabeth will of course present their excellent brand of klezmer music and Yiddish songs... A glikhlekh zayt in di Gunks!

Saturday, March 26th at 7pm
Ariel Booksellers
3 Plattekill Avenue
(845) 255-8041
New Paltz, NY

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Emil Zrihan
with Za'atar, the Bay Area's own Middle East Jewish music ensemble, followed by a Purim Party

Saturday, 8:00pm, March 26, Osher Marin JCC, San Rafael

For tickets and information for this event only, call 415-444-8000.

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Sarah Aroeste
Saturday, March 26th 8 PM
Maplewood, NJ
Underground Concert Series— Acoustic Set
Maplewood Library Memorial Hall
51 Baker Street
$14 in advance; $16 at the door (student/senior discount available)
Tickets/info: www.undergroundconcerts.com or call 973 762-0119

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KlezFactor at the Riverdale Shul Purim Party! Saturday, March 26, 2005 at 8:30 PM, KlezFactor plays rock/klezmer fusion all night long (or until they tell us to stop) for only $5 cover.

The Riverdale Shul is at 179a Danforth Ave. (at Broadview), accessible by Subway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Web: www.riverdale-shul.org

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KFAR Jewish Arts Center presents
featuring The Moshe Skier Band and The Ari Ben Moses Band
9pm - 1am Saturday March 26th
Subterranean, 2011 W. North Ave.
$12 in advance (ticketweb.com) $15 at the door
more info at www.kfarcenter.com
call 773.550.1543
E-mail KFAR Jewish Arts Center

The Moshe Skier Band
A power rock trio performing original Jewish music in a classic rock style. In addition to their searing original songs, the trio covers well known traditional melodies with spare, bluesy arrangements. The rock trio's razor- sharp edge emanates from guitarist Mendy Appel's blistering technique, hailed by Yossi Piamenta as "Amazing!" The band is led by bassist Moshe Skier, formerly of Shlock Rock and Kabbalah and rounding out the outfit is Dan Lawitt's precise percussion. The Moshe Skier Band will rip through your notions of Jewish music and rock you until you can't tell the difference between Mordechai and Haman.

The Ari Ben Moses Band
Reggae bass lines, Latin beats, Middle Eastern and traditional Jewish scales are punctuated by gritty funk grooves influenced by Carlos Santana, Peter Gabriel and Ishmael Isaacs.

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Family Concert with Gary Lapow
The Bay Area's favorite children's performer brings his wit to new Jewish songs. "Gary's kids' stuff is great!" Whoopi Goldberg

Sunday, 11am, March 27, BRJCC, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley

Tickets and Info: 415-276-1511 or www.brjcc.org
15% discount for groups of 10 and more.
A project of the Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center

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March 13th & 27th & alternating Sundays after that: Klezmer Brunch from 12 noon to 4 p.m. with the band Klezmerovitz at the Ironwood Stage & Grill

Brunch & show $22
Show only (starting 2p.m.) $10

Ironwood Stage & Grill
1429, 9th Ave SE>br />Calgary, Alberta
403-269-3031
www.ironwoodstage.ca

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Community Music Day
Visit the Instrument Petting Zoo, hear Hebrew hip-hop, and more! 15 interactive workshops and 9 performances for all ages, highlighting innovative Bay Area artists.

Sunday, 12:30-5:30pm, March 27, BRJCC, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley

Tickets and Info: 415-276-1511 or www.brjcc.org
15% discount for groups of 10 and more.
A project of the Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center

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BrooklynJews presents:

Purim at the Brooklyn Lyceum, featuring
Klezmer-Rock sensation
Golem

Plus comedy, arts & crafts, food, beer, and wine

Sunday, Mar 27
3-7pm, $5
227 4th Ave. (@President St.)
Brooklyn

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Judith Cohen: Music in Sephardic and "Marrano" Life
Song, story and commentary by a renowned Sephardic music scholar, with her daughter Tamar Cohen Adams. Decades of fieldwork in Spain and Portugal have provided Judith and Tamar with a rich body of rare and precious folklore and music.

Monday, 7:30pm, March 28, BRJCC, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley

Tickets and Info: 415-276-1511 or www.brjcc.org
15% discount for groups of 10 and more.
A project of the Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center

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World-renowned contemporary music ensemble Continuum performs works by American composers whose inspired use of Jewish themes has produced some of this country's most powerful music. Program will include works by Aaron Copland, Mario Davidovsky, Osvaldo Golijov, Paul Schoenfield, Francis Schwartz, Roberto Sierra, and others.

Mon, Mar 28
8 pm
$10 members/$15 nonmembers
The JCC in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Avenue (at 76th Street)
To buy tickets in advance, call (646)505-5708.

"Continuum consistently offers some of the most intriguing concerts in New York."—The New York Times

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World renowned contemporary music ensemble Continuum performs works by American composers who inspired use of Jewish themes has produced some of this country's most powerful music. Program will include works by Aaron Copland, Mario Davidovsky, Osvaldo Golijiv, Paul Schoenfield, Francis Schwartz, Roberto Sierra, and others.

Monday March 28th at 8pm
$15 JCC members/$20 general public

JCC Manhattan
tel: (646) 505-5703
New York, NY
www.jccmanhattan.org

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Isle of Klezbos
May 29
2pm
National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst MA
bikher.org
413-256-4900

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Congregation B'nai Jeshurun invites you to join them in
A Celebration of Kabbalah Kirtan with Yofiyah!

YofiYah is the creator of Kabbalah Kirtan and has recently released the acclaimed CD, "Kiss the Beloved: Kabbalah Kirtan"

Tuesday, MARCH 29th, 2005
admission: FREE!

Congregation B'nai Jeshurun
257 West 88th Street
begins promptly at 7pm

More info: (212) 787-7600
www.bj.org

Kabbalah Kirtan blends call and response singing of powerful Hebrew text and names of God with joyous live music: an exotic blend of voice, harmonium, and drums. Through the sheer pleasure of sound and rhythm, Kabbalah Kirtan fills you with ahavat olam, Infinite Love.

"A genre-bending ticket to ecstasy!"—The Philadelphia City Paper

"Four Stars"—The New York Jewish Week

"A marvelous gateway to the spirit."—Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

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A Seminar on Jewish Boxers of London's East End And excerpts from a brand new opera 'The Whitechapel Whirlwind'

by Howard Frederics

The opera deals with the life of the famous Jewish boxer from the East End Jack 'Kid' Berg (born Judah Bergman) covering aspects of his fascinating life. and 2 lectures on the history of Jewish boxing in Britain.

Tuesday 29 March 2005
7.30pm
Bloomsbury Theatre
15 Gordon Square
London WC1
Tel: 020 7388 8822

details from Clive Bettington 07941 367 882
supported by the Kessler Foundation. The Jewish Institute (University College London), Kingston University and is part of the International Forum for Yiddish Culture project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

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tuesday march 29th
NEC honors trio
Jordan Hall, 8pm
30 Gainsbro (c. Massachusetts), Boston, MA
Tel: (617) 585-1260

with Michael Winograd- clarinet
Carmen Staaf- Accordion
Karl Doty- Bass
free!

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Charming Hostess
CD Release party for new Tzadik release, "Sarajevo Blues"

part of John Zorn's Tzadik Music Festival
celebrating 10 yrs of Jewish Radical Culture
double bill with Pharaoh's Daughter
Wednesday March 30 7pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Safra Hall
36 Battery Pl
New York, NY
$15 adults $12 seniors $10 students
Box Office 646-437-4202

www.mjhnyc.org

"Their voices radiate female energy and their singing transforms the spirit." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Eisenberg's songs are hilarious and touching-they run the gamut from hard-edged and powerful to sweet and soulful." —New Yorker

Charming Hostess celebrates the release of their astonishing new album, Sarajevo Blues (Tzadik): a tour de force of NERDY-SEXY-COMMIE-GIRLIE brains and brawn. Drawing on work by Bosnian poet Sem Mehmedinovic, Sarajevo Blues tells of love and resistance, the nature of evil, and laughter by any means necessary. Jewlia's boldly original compositional voice brings the sexy, soulful sound of 60's girl groups to the 21st century avant-garde, rocking out along the way. Some songs explicitly speak of war, and others of cafe culture, underground sexuality, and freedom under extreme constraint. It sounds heavy, but we swear it's mostly about the triumph of the human spirit. Charming Hostess is Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Cynthia Taylor.

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Pharaoh's Daughter
Thursday, March 31st, 7-9p.m.
Museum of Early Trades, Madison, NJ
Intimate Music Series with Daphna Mor
www.METC.org

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MINSK MEETS MOTOWN: Yale Strom & his klezmer supergroup, Hot Pstromi, return to Detroit for 2 performances of high- octane Hasidic-Rom-World Beat-Improvisational klezmer and Yiddish & Ladino songs. Hot Pstromi sold out the Capitol Theatre in Windsor. Both events are open to the public.

Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 7 PM
Jewish Community Center
6600 W.Maple Road
W. Bloomfield, MI
Handleman Hall
Tickets & Information: (248) 967-4030

Friday, April 1, 2005 at 7:30pm
The Detroit Institute of Arts
5200 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48202
Information: (313) 833-7900

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An evening of Judeo-Spanish Songs with Yasmin Levy, vocals, Hilary Pomeroy, lecturer and Ishay Amir, darbuka. Follow the trail of the Sephardi Jews from medieval Spain to Morocco and the Ottoman Empire. Explore a vivid tapestry of colourful customs and ritual through passionate love songs and tender lullabies.

Thursday 31 March 2005
7pm
Bloomsbury Theatre
15 Gordon Square
London WC1
£5, concessions £3
Advance booking strongly recommended
Tel: 020 7388 8822

Presented by the Cervantes Institute and the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL, in association with the Jewish Music Institute.

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The fourth Annual Helsinki Klezmer Festival at the Savory Theatre offers a versatile program. Concerts start each night at 17:30.

The Cracow Klezmer Band, Poland

For further information: www.klezmeryhdistys.com

The Helsinki Klezmer Festival, the festival of Jewish folk music or klezmer music will take place for the fourth time in Finland. The objective of the festival is to make klezmer music known and to give people an opportunity to get acquainted with one of Europe’s most interesting cultural traditions. Klezmer music dates back to medieval Europe where East European musicians traveled from town to town playing at weddings and other festivities. By the end of the 19th century klezmer music had become a far-developed style of music influenced by Jewish culture and other cultures, too.

Nowadays klezmer music is played all over the world, mainly however, in Europe and the United States of America. It is also being influenced by other music styles, such as jazz and pop music. Yet, it is important for the preservation and continuation of the style that there are bands which strive to search for the origin of the music and to keep it as authentic as possible. The original music will not bring back the cultural community which lived in Eastern Europe, but it will give the listeners an opprtunity to get an understanding of that community's way of life.

For this year's festival invitation was extended to Slavic klezmer bands in countries where the music came about.

One of the surprise names is Daniel Katz, a well know Finnish author, who will play the clarinet at the festival. Collaboration with Daniel began last summer at his son's wedding where he played together with Freilach mit Kneidlach band.

In addition to the concerts the festival will this year offer a course in Jewish folk dancing. Mr Simo Muir will give a lecture on Jewish popular music in Helsinki 1850-1950 and about theatre in Yiddish and revues in Helsinki between the world wars.

In cooperation with the Sibelius Academy master courses in klezmer music will be offered. Also, every evening after the concert the night will continue with klezmer jazz sessions.

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Emil Zrihan with Surprise Special Guests
San Francisco premiere of a stunning counter-tenor, an Israeli cantor of the Moroccan tradition, in a sneak preview of a new collaboration with America's premiere, San Francisco-based new music string quartet. Co-sponsored with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Thursday, 8pm, March 31, JCCSF, 3200 California Street at Presidio St., San Francisco

Tickets and Info: 415-276-1511 or www.brjcc.org
15% discount for groups of 10 and more.
A project of the Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center

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Thursday, March 31 at 9PM
OLD JERUZ CIPHER

Jerusalem's only monthly hip hop freestyle event! Hosted by Sagol 59 with DJ Mesh. Featuring A7 (Rebel Sun), Rocky B, Bangla Death, M. Serious & MC Klin with very special guests, For Real, representin' Ofakim. At Daila, Shlomzion Hamalka 4. Co-sponsored by Heeb Magazine <www.heebmagazine.com and JDub Records <www.jdubrecords.org.

For more info, visit www.cornerprophets.com.

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Thursday, March 31 @ 9 PM -- Old Jeruz Cipher III: Jerusalem's baddest (not to mention only!) monthly hip hop throwdown. Facilitated by Sagol 59 (unless they drag him away to the army this month) with special guests (TBA). At Daila, Shlomzion HaMalka 4, Jerusalem.

Neviim B'Pinah is a newly formed cultural initiative intent on fostering provoking new cultural experiences upon the Jerusalem landscape. Our current goal is to liven up Jerusalem's underground hip hop scene with that ill charif flavor, bringing MCs, human beatboxes, spoken word poets, graffiti artists, breakdancers & DJs together for an array of events throughout the holy city.

For more info, visit www.cornerprophets.com.

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