KlezCalendar

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

Der Mames Klezmorim, Finland
Freilach Mit Kneidlach, Finland
Visiting artists
HILLEL TOKAZIER, vocals, piano
JANNIS HATZIHARALAMBUS, darabuka
DANIEL KATZ, clarinet

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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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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Charming Hostess
CD Release party for new Tzadik release, "Sarajevo Blues"
Friday, April 1
8:30 p.m.
$8
Center for New Words
186 Hampshire St.
Cambridge, MA

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

Der Mames Klezmorim, Finland
Freilach Mit Kneidlach, Finland
Visiting artists
HILLEL TOKAZIER, vocals, piano
JANNIS HATZIHARALAMBUS, darabuka
DANIEL KATZ, clarinet

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

Saturday April 2
8pm
Langdon Street Cafe
4 Langdon Street
Montpelier, VT

"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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The North River Arts Society invites you to celebrate life, art, and the coming of springtime with The Wholesale Klezmer Band for it's
10th Annual Cabaret Concert
Saturday, April 2, 2005
at the Cushing Center,
Route 123 - Norwell, Massachusetts
781-837-8091

Pre-concert Cocktail Party at 7:00 p.m.
Concert begins at 8:00 p.m.

North River Arts Society's Cabaret Concert Series is an important part of its mission to promote the lively arts on the South Shore while celebrating cultural diversity.

Reserve your seats now at $35 per person. Limited, reserved seating at tables.

www.northriverarts.org

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On My Grandmother's Knee

Saturday, April 2, 8pm
Sunday, April 3, 2pm

Featuring
The National Spiritual Ensemble
and
A Besere Velt: Yiddish Community Chorus of the Workmen’s Circle
With special guests
Hankus Netsky and Adrienne Cooper

Two stunning vocal ensembles come together to present a soul-stirring concert of music. Performances are Saturday, April 2 at 8pm and Sunday, April 3 at 2pm.

Performances will be held at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, 333 Nahanton Street in Newton.

Tickets are $22 adult, $24 senior and $12 for children 18 and under.
For ticket information contact the JCC Box Office at 617-965-5226. Web: lsjcc.org

*This event was rescheduled from Jan 22-23 snowed cancellation.

The songs that are passed from generation to generation have the power to touch the depths of our souls, The National Spiritual Ensemble, dedicated to preserving the Negro spiritual, and A Besere Velt: Yiddish Community Chorus of the Workmen's Circle, celebrating the Yiddish folk tradition—take us through a musical journey of suffering and hope. Together these two vocal ensembles breathe new life into traditional music that not only captures a moment in history, but also is the voice of a people and a part of our shared cultural experience.

About the performers:

A Besere Velt (A Better World) Yiddish Community Chorus of the Workmen's Circle
Continuing a 100-year tradition of community based Yiddish choruses. A Besere Velt has been the pioneer in bringing new life and contemporary meaning to the world of Yiddish folk music. The key: a unique blend of cultural heritage, community and dedication to a besere velt—a better world.

Founded by the arm of the Workmen's Circle in 1997 under the direction of Lisa Gallatin, A Besere Velt is now 80 members strong and is the largest Yiddish chorus in existence today, Their musical repertoire grew out of shtetls and sweatshops and union meetings, the camps and ghettos. Making the richness of the Eastern European and Jewish immigrant experience accessible to a generation of non-Yiddish speakers, these folk songs contain the sounds of the history, the culture and the values that would influence generations to come.

New England Spiritual Ensemble
"Songs that soothe the soul", is how the New England Spiritual Ensemble describes the traditional American Negro Spirituals which form the ensemble's repertoire and frame its mission.

The New England Spiritual Ensemble is a group of conservatory trained professional singers who are exceptional communicators and their performances are captivating and a totally engrossing, The ensemble is devoted to "preserving the art and tradition of Negro spirituals" and is modeled after the classically trained Fisk Jubilee Singers. They perform Negro Spirituals in both traditional arrangements and in arrangements by more modern African–American composers. The ensemble, which made its debut at Boston Symphony Hall in 1994, maintains a rigorous tour schedule.

Adrienne Cooper, vocalist
Internationally recognized as one of this generation's most influential performers of Yiddish vocal music, Adrienne Cooper appears on concert, theater and club stages around the world and her singing has been featured on some twenty recording including the Grammy nominated "Partisans of Vilna".

Hankus Netsky
Piano and accordian
A multi-instrumentalist and composer, Hankus Netsky has taught at New England Conservatory of music for over 25 years and is the founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internationally renowned Yiddish music ensemble. He has lectured on Jewish music in the U.S., Canada and Europe and as a composer, director and collaborator has contributed to numerous film, radio, theater and recording projects.

The Jewish Theatre of New England is located at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, 333 Nahanton Street in Newton. For ticket information contact the JCC Box Office at 617-965-5226.

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Saturday, April 2, 2005, 9:00pm

BAMcafe Tribute to Alicia Svigals

The first show of BAMCafe's Too Cool For Shul series. Featuring special guests including singer Adrienne Cooper and clarinet superstar David Krakauer! On the bill: Alicia's Klezmer Rock Project (Alan Watsky, Jay Granelli, Aaron Alexander), her duo with Canadian jazz keyboard virtuoso Marilyn Lerner, a traditional fiddle band roots set w/fiddler Rohan Gregory, and a quartet with Krakauer, electronic violist Martha Mooke and tango bassist Pablo Aslan. The quartet will perform new works, including Rocketekiya, an Osvaldo Golijov composition originally commissioned for them. Documentary filmmaker Judith Helfand (Blue Vinyl, A Healthy Baby Girl) will be MC/interlocuter for the evening.

BAMcafe
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street
9pm
Admission: FREE w/$10 food/drink minimum

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Yiddishe Cup
Sat. April 2, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. 9 p.m. concert/dance. free. 330-263-2380.

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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 April 3 - David Glukh Klezmer Ensemble

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

Sunday April 3
2 PM MATINEE SHOW
Hardwick Town House
127 Church Street
Hardwick, VT

then, in the evening

Sunday April 3
8 PM
Helen Hills Hills Chapel
Smith College
Northampton, MA

"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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The Afro-Semitic Experience
Sunday, April 3, 2:00 p.m.
National Yiddish Book Center
1021 West Street, Amherst, Massachusetts
(on the Campus of Hampshire College)
(413) 256-4900
www.bikher.org

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April 3rd KLEZMERITIS & JUGULARITY Sunday City of Glen Eira Party in the Park, Packer Park, Leila Rd, Carnegie 12-12.30 Jugs rove, 2-2.30 & 4-4.30; Klez stage concerts

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On My Grandmother's Knee

Saturday, April 2, 8pm
Sunday, April 3, 2pm

Featuring
The National Spiritual Ensemble
and
A Besere Velt: Yiddish Community Chorus of the Workmen’s Circle
With special guests
Hankus Netsky and Adrienne Cooper

Two stunning vocal ensembles come together to present a soul-stirring concert of music. Performances are Saturday, April 2 at 8pm and Sunday, April 3 at 2pm.

Performances will be held at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, 333 Nahanton Street in Newton.

Tickets are $22 adult, $24 senior and $12 for children 18 and under.
For ticket information contact the JCC Box Office at 617-965-5226. Web: lsjcc.org

*This event was rescheduled from Jan 22-23 snowed cancellation.

The songs that are passed from generation to generation have the power to touch the depths of our souls, The National Spiritual Ensemble, dedicated to preserving the Negro spiritual, and A Besere Velt: Yiddish Community Chorus of the Workmen's Circle, celebrating the Yiddish folk tradition—take us through a musical journey of suffering and hope. Together these two vocal ensembles breathe new life into traditional music that not only captures a moment in history, but also is the voice of a people and a part of our shared cultural experience.

About the performers:

A Besere Velt (A Better World) Yiddish Community Chorus of the Workmen's Circle
Continuing a 100-year tradition of community based Yiddish choruses. A Besere Velt has been the pioneer in bringing new life and contemporary meaning to the world of Yiddish folk music. The key: a unique blend of cultural heritage, community and dedication to a besere velt—a better world.

Founded by the arm of the Workmen's Circle in 1997 under the direction of Lisa Gallatin, A Besere Velt is now 80 members strong and is the largest Yiddish chorus in existence today, Their musical repertoire grew out of shtetls and sweatshops and union meetings, the camps and ghettos. Making the richness of the Eastern European and Jewish immigrant experience accessible to a generation of non-Yiddish speakers, these folk songs contain the sounds of the history, the culture and the values that would influence generations to come.

New England Spiritual Ensemble
"Songs that soothe the soul", is how the New England Spiritual Ensemble describes the traditional American Negro Spirituals which form the ensemble's repertoire and frame its mission.

The New England Spiritual Ensemble is a group of conservatory trained professional singers who are exceptional communicators and their performances are captivating and a totally engrossing, The ensemble is devoted to "preserving the art and tradition of Negro spirituals" and is modeled after the classically trained Fisk Jubilee Singers. They perform Negro Spirituals in both traditional arrangements and in arrangements by more modern African–American composers. The ensemble, which made its debut at Boston Symphony Hall in 1994, maintains a rigorous tour schedule.

Adrienne Cooper, vocalist
Internationally recognized as one of this generation's most influential performers of Yiddish vocal music, Adrienne Cooper appears on concert, theater and club stages around the world and her singing has been featured on some twenty recording including the Grammy nominated "Partisans of Vilna".

Hankus Netsky
Piano and accordian
A multi-instrumentalist and composer, Hankus Netsky has taught at New England Conservatory of music for over 25 years and is the founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internationally renowned Yiddish music ensemble. He has lectured on Jewish music in the U.S., Canada and Europe and as a composer, director and collaborator has contributed to numerous film, radio, theater and recording projects.

The Jewish Theatre of New England is located at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, 333 Nahanton Street in Newton. For ticket information contact the JCC Box Office at 617-965-5226.

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Esther: The Feast of Masks

Ellen Kushner (author, actor, cute backup singer)
Mary Casey (vocals, guitar, duck call), Michael McLaughlin (piano, accordion, guitar, vocals, mbira), Joe Kessler (fiddle, groucho horn)

Sunday April 3, 2005
3:00 pm
Temple Hillel B'nai Torah
120 Corey Street
West Roxbury, Massachusetts
www.templehbt.org/pages/directions.html
*wheelchair accessible*
$10 adults; $5 seniors and students

Tickets & Info:
(617) 325-3322 Sacred Heart Parish - or JUST SHOW UP!

ESTHER: THE FEAST OF MASKS puts the biblical story of the virtuous Queen Esther (and her rebellious predecessor, Queen Vashti), into a modern context, with an examination of what it means to hide and reveal one's truest self. Songs range from African chant and Hebrew folk tunes to '50s pop and blues.

Refreshments and a discussion follow the performance sponsored by the Southwest Boston Interfaith Congregations

*** IF YOU ATTENDED ONE OF OUR ORIGINAL "ESTHER" WORKSHOPS IN 2002, OR HEARD THE RADIO VERSION ON "SOUND & SPIRIT" ON WGBH RADIO

COME SEE THE 2005 LIVE STAGE SHOW TO SEE HOW FAR THE SHOW HAS PROGRESSED . . . .

"ESTHER: THE FEAST OF MASKS," winner of a 2004 Gracie Allen Award! ***

*Due to some mature content, ESTHER: THE FEAST OF MASKS is not recommended for children under 12.*

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Klezmatics with special guest Joshua Nelson
The gutsy band that defines klezmer's edge, with a special guest artist who sings Black Jewish soul that recalls Mahalia Jackson in the West Coast premiere of their latest CD.

Sunday, 4:00pm, April 3, Wheeler Auditorium, UC 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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Klezmatics with guest Joshua Nelson.

The band that defines klezmer’s edge, with a special guest artist who sings Black Jewish soul that recalls Mahalia Jackson. In celebration of the new release, "Brother Moses Smote the Water"

SUNDAY, 4 PM, APRIL 3
WHEELER AUDITORIUM
UC Berkeley

Part of the 20th Berkeley Jewish Music Festival

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Here is the official reminder for the Workmen's Circle April klezmer jam this Sunday April 3 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, though keyboard players are welcome to bring a portable keyboard in case more than one pianist shows up.

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.

The jam is leaderless, with no cost.

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Klezbros
Tango Project with Ririe Woodbury Dance Co.
Apr 3, 7pm
Concert with the Tango Project and Ririe Woodbury Dance Company as part of the Madeline Concert Series. Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City, UT, free to the public.

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An exciting evening of dance and concert as the The Kol Haruach Orchestra breathes life into the beautiful sounds of klezmer music, educates the audience and teaches dance.

Sunday, April 3, 7 - 9 pm, $8 mem./$10 gen. public/$5 children under 12 years. Reservations not necessary.

Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Rd.
Rockville, MD 20852.

For more information,
301-348-3840
Web: www.jccgw.org
E-mail JCC of Greater Washington.

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Finale Dance Party
with members of the Klezmatics and Friends with internationally acclaimed meister of traditional Jewish dance, Steven Weintraub.

Sunday, 7:30pm, April 3, 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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KlezFactor
will be performing at the "Many Faces of Markham" Concert on Monday, April 4, 2005 in the Markham Theatre, 101 Town Centre Boulevard, Markham - (905) 305-7469. The concert begins at 7PM and features representatives of different cultures and styles of music present in Markham, Ontario, just north of the City of Toronto.

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

Monday April 4
7:30pm
U Mass Student Union
Amherst, MA

"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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Yiddishkayt Los Angeles & Spaceland Productions present
Klezmatics with guest Joshua Nelson.
Monday, April 4 at 8:00 PM (doors open at 7:00 PM)
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
4800 Hollywood Blvd. (between Vermont and Edgemont)
Hollywood, CA 90027
General Admission: $25
Tickets available at TicketWeb or by calling 866-468-3399.

Web: www.napavalleyoperahouse.org

Yiddishkayt Los Angeles
tel: 323-692-8151
web: www.yiddishkaytla.org

Only in America could Jewish slaves in Egypt inspire White Southern Christians who in turn stirred Black Christians to sing about emancipation who in turn inspired an African-American Jewish gospel singer named Joshua Nelson.

The Klezmatics, known for their unique blend of melodic mysticism and improvisational activism, have once again turned their music inside out, exposing the complexity of Jewish identity, Black identity, and human identity.

Brother Moses Smote the Water, their March 2005 release on Piranha Musik (distributed by Harmonia Mundi), teams them with Nelson and jazz singer/organist Kathryn Farmer. This first live Klezmatics recording alternates between age-old Hebrew Passover songs, Nelson's own brand of kosher gospel, and traditional Yiddish Klezmatic anthems.

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The Afro-Semitic Experience
Monday, April 4, 8:30 p.m.
Buttonwood Tree
with Will Bartlett on reeds and percussion, Warren Byrd on piano, Alvin Carter, Jr., on drums, Stacy Phillips on dobro and violin and Baba David Coleman on African drums and percussion.

The Buttonwood Tree is located at 605 Main Street in Middletown and the phone number is (860) 347-4957.

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David Chevan and Warren Byrd, Avadim Hayinu, Tuesday, April 5-Friday, April 8
Artists in residence, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for itinerary and concert information please contact U of I Office of Residence Life (217)-265-5434.

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href="/contacts/klezbands_g.html#band.glukh">David Glukh Klezmer Ensemble

April 5, 2005 Washington DC 6:30PM America-Israel Cultural Foundation Gala Event. Further information: Tel. Irma Poretsky at 301-986-1340

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Gerard Edery and Danny Maseng
At Satalla on April 5th at 7 PM
Satalla
The temple of world music

37 West 26th St.
New York, NY
[6th & Broadway]
212.576.1155

Join us for this first time collaboration between two highly acclaimed artists in the Jewish world. Bringing together their multicultural backgrounds and highly sensitive voices, these two exciting musicians perform repertoire of traditional and original songs. Their virtuosic skills and arrangements will transport you to another time and place. The program will begin at 7 PM on April 5, 2005. Tickets are $12 plus a one drink minimum. Satalla is located at 37 West 26th St. between 6th Ave. and Broadway. For more information please call (212) 576-1155.

"A cultural powerhouse", GERARD EDERY, "juggles musical roles with almost surreal ease" (Seattle Jewish Transcript, New York Jewish Week). Considered one of the leading interpreters of Sephardic Song, he has been honored with the Sephardic Musical Heritage Award as well as a Meet the Composer grant for his original compositions. Mr. Edery has released ten CDs on the Sefarad Records label.

A playwright, actor, singer and composer, DANNY MASENG has served as Evaluator of New American Plays/Opera-Musical Theater for the NEA and is currently the Director of the Spielberg Fellowships for The FJC & Artistic Director of The Brandeis-Bardin Institute in California. In addition to guest-starring roles on 'Law & Order' & 'One Life to Live,' Danny is the voice behind shows and commercials, like 'Wild Discovery,' & 'American Express.'

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Annelies: From the Diary of Anne Frank ..

(Annelies Marie Frank, 1929-1945)
Music by James Whitbourn
Words compiled and edited by Melanie Challenger from The Diary of Anne Frank
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Clare College Choir, and soloist, conducted by Leonard Slatkin

The Première of an amazing new work based on her diary, to mark the liberation of the notorious concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, where Anne Frank died. JMI Millennium Award winner Melanie Challenger has achieved the pinnacle of success in the performance (and TV broadcast) of excerpts, as part of the Holocaust National Commemoration event in the presence of The Queen, in January at the Palace of Westminster. This will be the first full performance of this special work.

Tuesday 5 April
7.30pm
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Square Terrace
London, SW1
Details: 020 8909 2445, Web: www.jmi.org.uk

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Hadag-Nahash
Price: $30.00
Tue, Apr 05, 8:00 PM
Knitting Factory
Main Performance Space
74 Leonard Street
New York City , NY 10013
212-219-3132

HaDag Nahash means Snakefish is Hebrew. They are a popular Israeli hip hop band. Their lyrics are spoken rhythmically to the beat rather then sung. The vocals have a lot of inflection. Lots of jazzy, funky rhythms with horns, saxophones, bass guitar and record scratches. There are some political lyrics such as We’re No Suckers, Shalom Salaam Peace and Jerusalem. Songs are long and a little bit sarcastic. Jerusalem opens up with children reciting a prayer then breaks into a heavy, minor key beat. The downbeat chorus of children sing "Jerusalem here I am/Jerusalem sheh ben" It ends with middle eastern riffs. The song Shalom Salaam Peace seems to be mocking the oft-recited media catch phrases.

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Klezmatics with guest Joshua Nelson.

4/05, Tue - Napa, CA - Napa Valley Opera House
1030 Main Street, Napa, California
8pm
(707) 226-7372

Web: www.napavalleyoperahouse.org

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David Chevan and Warren Byrd, Avadim Hayinu, Tuesday, April 5-Friday, April 8
Artists in residence, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for itinerary and concert information please contact U of I Office of Residence Life (217)-265-5434.

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

Wednesday April 6
8pm
Red Emma's
800 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD

"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 & Latin jazz double bill reprise at Makor
Wednesday, April 6
8:00 pm ::: Los Mas Valientes,
9:30 pm ::: Metropolitan Klezmer
35 W 67 St, NYC
www.makor.org
212-601-1000
$12 for both dynamic, versatile eight-piece bands!

Last year's pairing of MK & LMV was a Voice Choices pick: "Here we have two different threads of the New York experience from octets led by women. Drummer Eve Sicular's Metropolitan Klezmer is an outstanding group that doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Ditto for flutist Jessica Valiente's Los Mas Valientes, which has a very tight Latin sound. Extra points if you dance during both bands' sets."—Tad Hendrickson, Village Voice

These two ensembles share the talents of horn section members Rick Faulkner (trombone) and Debra Kreisberg (clarinet/alto sax), while LMV bassist Anna Milat-Meyer also performs with Isle of Klezbos klezmer sextet. At this year's show, both bands will also share versions of a new original piece by LMV leader Jessica Valiente. Metropolitan Klezmer features a wide-ranging, mood-changing mix, including adaptations of vintage soundtracks from the Yiddish Celluloid Closet project, while Los Mas Valientes performs repertoire from their newly-released third CD, "Titere Fue".

Gorgeous arrangements and glorious grooves guaranteed!

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Ali Ufki'nin Mezmur'lari / The Psalms of Ali Ufki

This concert will feature sacred and liturgical Muslim, Jewish and Christian music in an inspirational musical exploration. Through music and spirituality, we celebrate the similarities between our faiths and build bridges of understanding and trust.

Ali Ufki, born Wojciech Bobowski as a Polish Christian, converted to Islam after his capture by the Ottoman Turks at the age of 30, and became renowned as a musician and translator in the imperial court. His own collection of Turkish psalms based on the Genevan Psalter provides the starting point for this celebration at the intersection of Judaism, Greek Orthodoxy, Turkish Sufism, and Protestant Christianity.

Where: Harvard Fogg Art Museum
When: Wednesday, April 6, 8:30pm
Price: $15

Produced by Dunya ( www.dunyainc.org ) in collaboration with Center of Middle Eastern Studies, Center of Jewish Studies at Harvard and Harvard Art Museums

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Klez Dispensers featuring Pete Sokolow
A swinging night of American klezmer and Yiddish swing with vocalist Susan Watts and pianist Pete Sokolow in one of New York's most jivin' old-time cabaret clubs; plenty of raunchy swing, raucous bulgars, and generally whatever it takes to set your toukus in motion.

Wednesday, April 6th, 9 PM
The Slipper Room
167 Orchard St. (East Village)
$5
www.slipperroom.com

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TSIMTSOUM le 6 avril à 21H
à la Guiguette Pirate quai
11 quai François Mauriac
francois mauriac 75 013 paris
PAF 10€

INFOS: www.doczik.com

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David Chevan and Warren Byrd, Avadim Hayinu, Tuesday, April 5-Friday, April 8
Artists in residence, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for itinerary and concert information please contact U of I Office of Residence Life (217)-265-5434.

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On April 7th the East Meadow Public Library and Long Island Traditions will bring together three distinct faces of Jewish tradition: Klezmer clarinetist Ken Maltz, Shanghai Ghetto survivor Evelyn Pike Rubin, and Indian Jewish singer and storyteller Rahel Musleah. The program is at 12:30 pm. The three will compare and contrast the individual traditions of the Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities. After their performances and stories the artists will examine how their traditions are similar and different.

The East Meadow Library is located on East Meadow Avenue and 1886 Front Street in East Meadow. For information call (516) 794-2570.

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Le groupe Yankele
Nous serons également le jeudi 7 avril, à la nouvelle flèche d'or, rue de Bagnolet à Paris. Réservation au même numéro.

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April 7, 2005, 7pm
Klezmer Cabaret at Cafe Barbes in Brooklyn: 376 9th St near 6th Ave.
FREE! (Donation suggested.)

Jeanette Lewicki (vocals, accordion), Pete Rushevsky (tsimbl), Alina Lerman (fiddle), Reuben Radding (bass) will play a 45-minute set of cool Ukrainian klezmer fiddle tunes, plus wildly melancholic Yiddish songs.

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

Thursday April 7
7:30 pm
Tritone
1508 South Street
Philadelphia, PA

"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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Thursday april 7th
Michael Winograd's senior recital
at NEC (st. butolph building room G01), 8pm, free!
with performances by:

khevre, smackin' the brass (balkan brass band,) and the rebels of slobia (new balkan sounds)

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INFOS: 06 21 04 51 21
www.doczik.com

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David Chevan and Warren Byrd, Avadim Hayinu, Tuesday, April 5-Friday, April 8
Artists in residence, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for itinerary and concert information please contact U of I Office of Residence Life (217)-265-5434.

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

April 8
Professor Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, "Beyond Yiddishland: New Studies from the Jewish Musical Mediterranean"
Guest chair and respondent: Professor Uri Sharvit, Bar-Ilan 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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Nigun Singing with Aron Saltiel (Graz)

April 8th and 9th, 2005
Fri 17 - 21 h / Sat 10 - 18 h
Tanzstelle Erlangen, Schronfeld 74
Erlangen
Kosten: 120 EUR

Infos und Anmeldung: E-mail Monika Feil or Tel. 09131/203545

www.monikafeil.de/sem_ext.htm#saltiel

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

Friday April 8
9 PM
Electric Maid
268 Carroll Street NW
Takoma Park, MD

"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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Nigun Singing with Aron Saltiel (Graz)

April 8th and 9th, 2005
Fri 17 - 21 h / Sat 10 - 18 h
Tanzstelle Erlangen, Schronfeld 74
Erlangen
Kosten: 120 EUR

Infos und Anmeldung: E-mail Monika Feil or Tel. 09131/203545

www.monikafeil.de/sem_ext.htm#saltiel

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Showcasing the newest generation of klezmer:
Recklez (Harvard Klezmer Ensemble) and
KlezMITron 5765 (the MIT Klezmer band)
will be playing this Saturday, April 9, at the All-Asia Bar in Central Square, Cambridge, from 1-4 pm (2 sets, $5 to stay as long as you want).

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

Saturday April 9
5 PM
Chapters Books
445 11th St NW
Washington D.C.

"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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David Chevan and Warren Byrd, Avadim Hayinu, Tuesday, April 5-Friday, April 8
Saturday, April 9, 7:30 p.m. Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.

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The Latino-Jewish urban music collective Hip Hop Hoodíos brings its trilingual mayhem to the Jewlicious Festival in Long Beach, CA to celebrate the release of its new album "Agua Pa' La Gente" on Jazzheads Records.

April 9
Long Beach, CA
Cal State Long Beach "Jewlicious" Festival
AJCC (3801 E. Willow)
9PM
$10 Students, $15 Public

www.beachhillel.org

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April 10th & 24th & 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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The Wholesale Klezmer Band
Sunday, April 10
at 1:15 pm
Music for traditional Yiddish dancing with instruction
NEFFA Festival
Auditorium Stage
Natick High School
15 West St.
Natick, MA

The NEFFA festival lasts the whole weekend. Tickets are available for 1, 2 or all 3 days. For more information, see: www.neffa.org

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Sunday, April 10, 2005
2 PM
Gelber Conference Centre, 5151 Cote Ste-Catherine Rd.,
Montreal, Que.

Admission: $5 (Jewish Public Library members) / $8 (others)
For further info: (514) 345-2627, Ext. 3006
Advance tickets: (514) 345-6416

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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

10 April 2005, 2:30 PM - A.A. Brediusstichting, Kasteel Hernen.
Info/res: +31- (0)487 - 531 387

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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You are cordially invited to a literary event:

Yiddish Writers Today

with
Irena Klepfisz
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Miryem-Khaye Seigel
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

Readings will be in Yiddish with English translations.
Caraid O'Brien will moderate a discussion.

Sunday, April 10, 2004
3:00 PM
Eldridge Street Shul
12 Eldridge Street (between Canal and Division)
Admission: $12 for adults, $10 for students and seniors

This event is part of the Garden Cafeteria literary series and is organized by the Eldridge Street Shul with the National Yiddish Book Center and the Congress for Jewish Culture.
For more information: www.eldridgestreet.org
212-219-0880

Ir zent hartsik farbetn af a literarisher unternemung:

Yidishe Shraybers Haynt

mit
Irena Klepfisz
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Miryem-Khaye Seigel
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

Me vet firleyenen af Yidish un mit englishe iberzetsungen.
Caraid O'Brien vet onfirn mit a diskusye.

Zuntik dem 10tn April 2005
3 a zeyger nokh mitog
Inem Eldridge Street Shul
12 Eldridge St. (tsvishn Canal un Division)
Arayntrit: $12 far dervaksene, $10 far studentn un eltere layt

Di unternemung kumt for vi a teyl fun der Gortn Kafeterye literarisher serye un vert organizirt fun der Eldridge Street Shul tsuzamen mit der Natsyonaler Yidisher Bikher Tsentrale un der Alveltlekher Yidisher Kultur-Kongres.
Informatsye: www.eldridgestreet.org
212-219-0880

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David Chevan and Warren Byrd, Avadim Hayinu, Tuesday, April 5-Friday, April 8
Sunday April 10, 3:00 p.m., Congregation Kol Ami, 845 N Michigan, Chicago, for more information please call 312-664-4775.

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Yiddish Sing-Along: Everyone Welcome!
Sunday, April 10, 3 p.m.
Greatest Hits of the Yiddish Theater: From Abi Gezunt to Zise Kinder Yorn

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, April 10 at 3 pm

Yiddish Writers Today

Join us for a bilingual reading and discussion with Yiddish writers Irena Klepfisz, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, and Miryem-Khaye Seigel, with moderator Caraid O'Brien.

$12 adults; $10 students and seniors

12 Eldridge Street (between Canal and Division), Lower East Side, NYC.
tel: 212-219-0903
www.eldridgestreet.org

This event, part of the Garden Cafeteria literary series organized by the Eldridge Street Synagogue, is co-sponsored by the National Yiddish Book Center and the Congress for Jewish Culture.

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href="/contacts/klezbands_g.html#band.glukh">David Glukh Klezmer Ensemble

April 10, 2005 Great Neck Arts Center, Great Neck, NY Start Time: 4PM
Further information: www.greatneckarts.org Tel. 516-829-2570

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Sunday 10th April 7pm – 11pm

Jonathan Freedland, Henry Goodman, Susan Hiller, Oi Va Voi, Sophie Solomon, William Sutcliffe and more ...

SPIEL @ the ICA and the new Jewish Community Centre for London

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, SW1
Price: £12 /£11 concessions /£10 ICA members. Book tickets on 020 7930 3647

The launch of the Jewish Community Centre for London’s new series of lounge shows with performance and banter. At SPIEL, four guests Henry Goodman, Susan Hiller, Sophie Solomon and William Sutcliffe, with host Jonathan Freedland, will chew the fat over contemporary cultural events with Jewish content, surrounded by sneak live previews of new albums, plays, performance and books by visiting bands, actors and contemporary dancers. Discussion includes Todd Solondz’s forthcoming film Palindromes, The Apprentice with Alan Sugar on BBC2, Susan Hiller’s forthcoming show ‘The J Street Project’ at Timothy Taylor Gallery and the Prince Charles Cinema (www.artprojx.com) and musician and electronic wizard Socalled’s new Socalled Seder project featuring Wu Tang Clan’s Killa Priest, accompanied by visuals and short film screenings.

www.ica.org.uk & www.jewishcommunitycentre.org.uk

Produced by YaD Arts
T: + 44 207 535 0251
www.yadarts.com

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Sunday 10th April 7pm – 11pm

David Baddiel, Catherine Yass, Jonathan Freedland, Natasha Walter, Henry Goodman, Oi Va Voi, Oliver Heath and more

SPIEL @ the ICA
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, SW1
Price: £18 /£17 concessions /£16 ICA members. Book tickets on 020 7930 3647

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The Latino-Jewish urban music collective Hip Hop Hoodíos brings its trilingual mayhem to Los Angeles to celebrate the release of its new album "Agua Pa' La Gente" on Jazzheads Records.

April 10
Los Angeles, CA
The Joint (w/Los Abandoned, The Misprintz, and Sonntagg)
8771 W. Pico Blvd.
8PM - $7
(310) 275-2619

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Massel-Tov
80636 München
Theater Blaue Maus, Elvirastr. 17a
20.30h
T. 089-182694

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April 12 KLEZMER WORKSHOP - SESSION, led by Ernie Gruner
CERES Brunswick

www.ceres.org.au

E-mail Ernie Gruner for dates, times, information

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Wednesday, April 13, 8 p.m.
At the Center for Jewish History,
15 West 16th Street, New York City.

'Avant-premiere' of Z'vi, an opera-in-progress by Richard Teitelbaum. It is based on the true story of Shabbetai Z'vi, a 17th-century rabbi in the Ottoman Empire who was widely hailed throughout Europe and the Middle East as the Messiah. After adopting Islam in addition to Judaism, he went on to develop a syncretic faith and practice incorporating elements of both religions. The opera explores issues of cross-cultural engagement, tolerance, dialog, and understanding. Performers include: Cantor Jacob Ben-Zion Mendelson (tenor), Omar Faruk Tekbilek (ney, voice, zurna, percussion), David Krakauer (clarinet, bass clarinet), Richard Teitelbaum (sampling keyboard) and others.

More information is available at (917)606-8200 (phone)
www.cjh.org/pdf/april13.pdf.

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Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment
Wednesday April 13th 8pm
Simple Pleasures Café
3434 Balboa at 36th Avenue,
Richmond District
San Francisco

free

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KAVEHOYZ
MADDY SIMON

An evening with the renowned Yiddish musician and choir director

APRIL 14, 2005
7:00 PM
Atran Center, 25 E. 21st St, Manhattan (between Broadway and Park)
Admission: $7.00
Refreshments served.

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

For more info, e-mail Kavehoyz or call 212-505-8040

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A new series of the popular Klezmer Workshop in Park Slope, Brooklyn begins with a free Open House next Thursday evening, April 14, 2005, 7:30 PM at Congregation Beth Elohim, 274 Garfield Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Led by internationally acclaimed klezmer musician Jeff Warschauer, the 5-session series continues on Thursday evenings from April 21 through May 19. Newcomers, playing at an intermediate level or higher, are welcome.

Cost: $140 Workmen's Circle members, $160 non-members.

For more information, please e-mail Jeff Warschauer or call 718-399-1147

Jeff Warschauer is internationally renowned as a mandolinist, guitarist, Yiddish singer and teacher. He is a member of the Strauss/Warschauer Duo and was a long-time member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band.

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di bostoner klezmer
Thursday, April 14th
as part of the Town of Stoughton's "No Place for Hate" initiative
When: 7:30 p.m.
Admission: free
Directions: www.stoughton-ma.gov/library/directions.htm

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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, April 14, 2005, Free Admission
7:30PM - Beginning Yiddish with Miriam Koral
8:30PM - Program to be announced
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.

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.

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Torsdag 14. april kl. 19.30
Koncert og fortællinger om Klezmermusik

Musica Troyka
Entre: 40 kr.
Kvarterhuset
Jemtelandsgade 3
2300 København S

Billetter kan reserveres på tlf. 82 32 55 32

Sofia Kuperman - sang,
Mogens Rasmussen - viola da gamba,
Cecilia Rasmussen - blokfløjte

Vi synger og spiller ægte jødisk folkemusik.
Til hver sang knytter der sig en kort introduktion.
Vi fortæller om sangenes kulturelle og historiske baggrund og giver dermed et farverigt og stemningsfuldt billede af det gamle, jødiske univers.

Jødisk univers i sang og musik

Jødisk folkemusik rummer mange stærke følelser. På den ene side længsel, smerte og pessimisme. På den anden side stor livsglæde, håb og optimisme. Tit går alle disse følelser op i en højere enhed og giver på den måde udtryk for livets mange farver og nuancer.

Gennem sang og musik afspejler vores musikalske repertoire traditionelt jødisk liv i Østeuropa før krigen og Holocaust.

Hjemmesider - koncert www.kirkekoncert.dk/musica_troyka.htm
Hjemmeside - foredrag: sogneaften.com/sofia_kuperman.htm

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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.

Oi Va Voi & friends proudly present the second in a series of regular Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer shakedowns at the NHAC. Exclusive new music from Oi Va Voi plus other live acts on stage, special guest musicians, sound/art/poetry/circus/puppet theatre/video installations for the Proletariat featuring state artists Moshikop, Adrian Philpott, Zoe Klinger and Liz Strachan; frozen vodka & rakiya galore and resident DKs (Dancefloor Komissars) Lemez Lovas, Max Reinhardt, Starets & Siberian DK Heretic sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til the phat politburo sings. Early evening come to feed your soul with borscht 'n' blinis in the Soviet kitschen, explore Marxist dialectic over the chess boards and escape the capitalist running dogs for a few revolutionary moments in the Kinodrom with award-winning Czech, Russian and Bosnian shorts plus a feast of new and classic animation in the legendary Jan Svankmajer style. All Power to the Soviets... and it's free before five...

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

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Alicia Svigals Klezmer Fidl Ensemble, then Brave Old World

A "Soiree Klezmer" at the Cité De La Musique, one of Paris' largest halls. Part of a klezmer series including Alicia's old bandmate David Krakauer and his Klezmer Madness. With fiddlers Mimi Rabson and Rohan Gregory, Jim Guttman on bass, Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl and Larry Eagle on drums/percussion. Followed by Brave Old World.

Cité de la Musique
221, avenue Jean Jaurès
75019 Paris
€22

www.cite-musique.fr

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The Westside Yiddish Cultural School presents A Family Gala Celebration & Benefit Concert with

Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi

Saturday April 16th from 3-5 pm.

Come groove to the dazzling klezmer music and Yiddish songs of klezmer super group Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi (with very special musical guests), followed by a reception with the shule children and families.

New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Street at Central Park West
Tickets are $15 for adults/$10 for Ethical Culture members and children

Call for reservations and take $2 off your ticket! (212) 781-9192

Located on NYC's Upper West Side, the Westside Yiddish Cultural School offers a weekly after school program for children 5-13. Our warm and expert faculty teach the Yiddish language and the core values of "Yiddishkayt"—freedom, peace and social justice—through literature, language, art & music. Our supportive shule community celebrates Jewish holidays and bar/bas mitsves together.

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Klezmatics with Joshua Nelson, Kathryn Farmer and special guests.

"Brother Moses Smote The Water"
CD release celebration at
Satalla
37 West 26th Street NYC
212-576-1155
www.satalla.com
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Two shows: 7:30pm and 10pm
Admission $25 in advance/$30 at the door

The Klezmatics have once again turned their music inside out, exposing the complexity of Jewish identity, Black identity, human identity. "Brother Moses Smote the Water"—their new release on Piranha (distributed in the U.S. by Harmonia Mundi)—teams the band with African-American Jewish spiritual singer Joshua Nelson and jazz organist/vocalist Kathryn Farmer. This first live Klezmatics recording alternates between age-old Passover songs, Nelson's own brand of "kosher gospel" and beloved Klezmatics anthems.

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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 April 17 - Matt Darriau Band (Klezmatics)

$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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SUNDAY, APRIL 17 AT 3 PM: DULCIMER FEST!
A unique musical program that will showcase the dulcimer as played by the diverse immigrant groups who have lived on the Lower East Side ­ from the East European Jews and Irish of a century ago to the Chinese and Ukrainian communities of today.

Dulcimer Fest!
will take place on at the Eldridge Street Synagogue, the first great house of worship built in New York by East European Jews. The Eldridge Street Synagogue is located on the Lower East Side, at 12 Eldridge Street, between Canal and Division Streets. By subway: F to East Broadway; B or D to Grand Street. Tickets are $12 adults; $10 students and seniors. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED. For more information, please call the Eldridge Street Project at 212.219.0888 x 302.

DULCIMER FEST!

Unique musical event at the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue celebrates the cultural communities of the Lower East Side through one instrument

SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2005 AT 3 PM

Lower East Side, New York—On Sunday, April 10, the Eldridge Street Project will host a Dulcimer Fest!, showcasing this versatile musical instrument as played in the Irish, Chinese, Ukrainian and East-European Jewish traditions. Dulcimer Fest! is the third entry in the Eldridge Street Project¹s acclaimed series of musical ³fests,² which explore the people of the Lower East Side through their musical heritage. The Eldridge Street Synagogue, a 19th-century building that evokes the community¹s identity as an immigrant gateway, provides a striking setting for the concert.

In addition to a solo performance by each player ­ Ukrainian cimbalom player Alexander Fedoriouk, Irish dulcimer player Linda Russell, East European Jewish tsimbl player Peter Rushefsky, and Chinese yangchin player Ya-Ping Wang ­ Dulcimer Fest! will feature brief interpretation by an ethnomusicologist, and a finale jam session, with all of the musicians performing together.

The four musicians bring strong family and cultural roots to their work on this enchanting stringed instrument. Fedoriouk began playing the dulcimer at the age of 7 in his hometown of Kolomyia, Ukraine. He has performed at venues throughout the world, including New York City¹s Carnegie Hall, and recorded numerous critically acclaimed CDs, including The Art of the Cimbalom. Russell brings to life Irish ballads, love songs, marches and dance tunes of days past. She has been a balladeer for the National Park Service at Federal Hall on Wall Street, and has performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Rushefsky will represent the East European Jewish tradition, as well as serve as the event¹s emcee, providing stories, origins and insights on this ancient instrument. Rushefsky is a leading revivalist of the tsimbl, or traditional hammered dulcimer popular among Jewish klezmer bands from the 1600s through the early 20th century. Today, he is one of a handful of musicians worldwide to use archival research and fieldwork to create a performance style for the tsimbl. Wang began her musical education as a 5-year-old, and quickly began performing and competing throughout China. Today she performs and teaches in the United States.

The Eldridge Street Project, the event sponsor, was established to preserve the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue as a center for historical reflection, aesthetic inspiration and spiritual renewal. Concerts, literary events, art installations, workshops for school children, and other cultural and educational programs at the site serve audiences of diverse ages and backgrounds.

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href="/contacts/klezbands_g.html#band.glukh">David Glukh Klezmer Ensemble

April 17, 2005
20th Century Music & On Concert Series
Merkin Concert Hall, New York City
Start Time 7PM
Further information: www.kaufman-center.org
Tel. 212-501-3330

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Neshama Carlebach in Concert will take place at Temple Beth El, 55 Atlantic Avenue, Swampscott, on Sunday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m.. Sponsorships are available at $250-$1000. Tickets are $25, Students with ID, $10. Tickets may be purchased from the Jewish Journal (978-745-4111x120), the Israel Book Shop (617-566-7113), Kolbo’s Fine Judaica (617-731-8743) and Hebrew College (617-559-3624).

Here's the URL to the story in the North Shore Jewish Newspaper (the URL may break after a week): www.jewishjournal.org/news.htm#local2

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Proud to be part of the celebration
The Birth of The Stone
A New Artists' Space in the East Village

4/17 Sunday 10 pm Frank London and Party

Playing music from his Tzadik releases "Scientist At Work", "Invocations", and the upcoming "Hazonos", trumpeter Frank London and special guests will celebrate The Stone's opening with compositions and improvisations ancient to the future, music that is at turns meditative introspective and celebratory exuberant.

Frank London - trumpet
Anthony Coleman - piano & harmonium
Ken Filiano - bass
Newman Baker - percussion

THE STONE is located at the corner of avenue C and 2nd street
ADMISSION $10 per set
students 13 to 19 admitted half price, children 12 and under free
there are no advance ticket sales all admissions are at the door prior to each performance

for more info go to:

The Stone is a not-for-profit performance space dedicated to the EXPERIMENTAL and AVANT-GARDE. All expenses are paid for by the MUSIC itself - through the online sale of special Limited Edition CDs released yearly on the Tzadik label. Each month a different musician is responsible for curating the programs with 100% of the nightly revenue going directly to the musicians. There are no refreshments or merchandise at The Stone. Only music. All ages are welcome.

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Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre presents

Theresa Tova

Telling Stories (Dertseyln Mayses)
with Zalmen Mlotek
From Belz To Broadway

April 18th-7:00 pm & April 19- 8:00 pm
At the JCC in manhattan, 344 Amsterdam Ave at 76th st

for tickets and INFO: Call 1800 9-YIDDISH
or visit our website www.folksbiene.org
All Seats $25

Ms. Tova's sexy and jazzy interpretations of Yiddish music will take you on a musical journey through her Jewish heritage. With excerpts from her award-winning play STILL THE NIGHT- that chronicles her mother's heroic journey as a young Partizan in WWII - to her rendition of traditional Yiddish songs off her recent CD's, Yiddish Diva Theresa Tova has been hailed by the press as a "Towering pan-cultural Jazz-cabaret Diva"

"I could watch this woman perform all night- she’s that good"—CBC Radio

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ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE PROGRAM:
WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING

TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2005
4:00 PM
MEMORIAL STONE
RIVERSIDE PARK AT 83RD STREET
Professor Jack Jacobs, Chair.
Featuring speeches and a cultural program by the Workmen’s Circle children’s choruses led by Deborah Strauss

For more info, e-mail Kavehoyz or call 212-505-8040

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Tuesday 19th April
KLEZMERITIS
& Croatian Choir / musicians Hkud Lado & Zamponistas - Panpipe ensemble, Bolivian Style
FORTYFIVE DOWNSTAIRS,
7.30pm
45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
9662 9966
$15/10 at door or venue

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Klezmeritis
& Croatian Choir / musicians Hkud Lado
& Zamponistas - Panpipe ensemble, Bolivian Style
FORTYFIVE DOWNSTAIRS,
7.30pm
45 Flinders Lane, City
9662 9966
$15/10 at door or venue

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Tues Apr 19 - Shtreiml will be performing in NYC this coming Tuesday at Makor. The band will be doing a double with Jewish rock outfit The Seth Nadel Band. If you're not too busy ridding your dwellings of leavened foodstuffs come on out for some high-octane, blues infused Jewish music.

Tuesday April 19th 8PM
Makor
35W 67th St.
$15

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Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre presents

Theresa Tova

Telling Stories (Dertseyln Mayses)
with Zalmen Mlotek
From Belz To Broadway

April 18th-7:00 pm & April 19- 8:00 pm
At the JCC in manhattan, 344 Amsterdam Ave at 76th st

for tickets and INFO: Call 1800 9-YIDDISH
or visit our website www.folksbiene.org
All Seats $25

Ms. Tova's sexy and jazzy interpretations of Yiddish music will take you on a musical journey through her Jewish heritage. With excerpts from her award-winning play STILL THE NIGHT- that chronicles her mother's heroic journey as a young Partizan in WWII - to her rendition of traditional Yiddish songs off her recent CD's, Yiddish Diva Theresa Tova has been hailed by the press as a "Towering pan-cultural Jazz-cabaret Diva"

"I could watch this woman perform all night- she’s that good"—CBC Radio

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Wednesday, Apr 20: A FREE monthly klezmer jam session, hosted by clarinetist Margot Leverett, is held at Astoria Center of Israel, 27-35 Crescent Street, Astoria (N or W to 30th Ave) , 7:30-9:30 pm. All levels welcome, feel free to come listen, play or dance! (718) 278-2680.

Visit the center's new website http://www.astoriacenter.org/

"Margot Leverett plays virtuoso klezmer clarinet!" Philadelphia Enquirer

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Proud to be part of the celebration
The Birth of The Stone
A New Artists' Space in the East Village

4/20 Wednesday 8 pm

Anthony Coleman Chamber Music
Anthony Coleman (piano) Doug Wieselman (clarinet, sax, guitar) Jim Pugliese (percussion) Marco Cappelli (guitar)
Music from upcoming Tzadik Composers Series CD, hopefully including a new piece...

for more info go to:

The Stone is a not-for-profit performance space dedicated to the EXPERIMENTAL and AVANT-GARDE. All expenses are paid for by the MUSIC itself - through the online sale of special Limited Edition CDs released yearly on the Tzadik label. Each month a different musician is responsible for curating the programs with 100% of the nightly revenue going directly to the musicians. There are no refreshments or merchandise at The Stone. Only music. All ages are welcome.

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The Downtown Seder
Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 6:30pm< br /> 48 Wall Street (at William Street), Grand Ballroom New York City
Tickets are $135

To order tickets call 212-608-0555 or go to www.oyhoo.com

For further information contact:
Slava Gordon 212-608-0555
or
Michael Dorf 917-613-8333
The Art Exchange, c/o D.A.D. 67 Hudson Street/1 Jay St. NY, NY 10013

Why is this Passover Seder different from all other Seders?

ARTISTS, PERFORMERS, CELEBRITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN UNIQUE interpretation of the story of Passover

6:30 PM, 48 Wall Street, 212-608-0555

In its 5th year, the innovative ³Downtown Seder² will highlight the cultural connection between the arts and Jewish tradition. Michael Dorf, the founder of the Knitting Factory, has assembled a variety of artists and luminaries to participate in a live Passover Seder. Over 500 people will sit together and enjoy a full Kosher dinner complete with matzah ball soup, Empire Kosher Chicken, and traditional holiday treats. Over the course of the evening a collection of 30+ artists, musicians, comedians, actors, politicians, and performers will offer their creative interpretations of the Exodus story.

For this year event, Mr. Dorf is assembling his most diverse set of performers to date. The Seder will take place in a beautiful landmark building on Wall Street, 1 block from the New York Stock Exchange. In this classic old banking hall, performers from last year's line-up and some new additions are confirmed. They include Dan Zanes and his daughter to perform the classic 4 questions, David Krakauer, Josh Dolgin's "So Called", Frank London, Jewlia Eisenberg, Blue Fringe, Uri Caine and Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys. Comedy talent from Judy Gold, Eric Drysdale, and Lewis Black are scheduled. A special video will be presented of 4 more questions from Harvey Fierstein as well as last's video highlight of Al Franken performing "Go Down Moses".

Dr. Ruth Westeimer along with a number of political figures, will also help present sections of the Haggadah. Patrons will enjoy a delicious sit-down meal and all will take home a printed and bound souvenir Haggadah designed and prepared for the occasion.

During last years Seder, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the variety of presenters included Daniel Libeskind, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Perry Farrell, Steve Reich, Dr. Ruth, Debbie Friedman, Theodore Bikel, Jackie Hoffman, among others. Lou Reed, who has been a participant in all the previous years , also brought along members of his extended family.

"This Seder is an opportunity for the community to explore our connection to our ancestors in a fun, artistic, and intellectual evening. It is the annual chance to uniquely connect to our historic liberation from slavery, our struggles with freedom, and preservation of civil liberties through the language of culture,." said Michael Dorf, producer of the event. "It is specifically done two-days before Passover so that people can bring into their homes some of the inspiration to help make their own Seder more relevant."

Created by Michael Dorf, founder of the Knitting Factory, the Downtown Seder has become a highly anticipated "tradition" now in its fifth year. The Art Exchange is a new 1,500-person capacity Performing Art Center being developed by a team led by Michael Dorf, who left the Knitting Factory in 2003 to develop this new site expected to open in 2006. The complex, combining the comfortable seating and ambiance of a concert hall, will have superb array of amenities. This facility will help revitalize Lower Manhattan through the creation of cultural events. It is expected to bring 50,000 people a month down to the area, helping realize the vision of many of New York¹s leaders.

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Avada/Yiddishkayt Los Angeles, Progressive Jewish Alliance and Spaceland Productions present

Doikayt, A Los Angeles Passover, April 21 at 9:00 PM

Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 9:00 PM (doors open at 8:30 PM)
The Vanguard, 6021 Hollywood Blvd. (just east of Gower)
Hollywood 90028
Free parking in adjacent lots or on the street.
$15 general; $10 students. Volunteers: Free

To volunteer, or for more info, call 323-692-8151 or e-mail Yiddishkayt LA

Doikayt, a non-seder cabaret of music, spoken word, and political performance art, explores the Passover themes of slavery, exodus, and liberation. Art, text, and activism re-frame the story of Passover against the backdrop of Los Angeles, uniting the mosaic of people who call it home.

Doikayt ("here-ness"), the Yiddish political philosophy of struggle for social justice in the place one lives, was the Bund's response to the increasing appeal of Zionism and emigration between WWI and WWII. Doikayt was premised on, "the belief that the future of the Jewish people would best unfold in the same places in which it had experienced its past, and where it had developed and created its cultural resources." (Daniel Blatman)

Join special guests Heidi Rodewald and Stew, Alidz and Areni Agbabian, Leilani Chan, Jessica Kate Meyer, Christina Wong, Katia Moraes, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Phranc, and activists Maria Elena Durazo (President of HERE Local 11), Gail Blackwell (Director of Families to Amend California's Three Strikes), and Tomas Benitez of Self-Help Graphics, for a night that could only happen in Los Angeles.

Last year's Doikayt sold out so we've moved to The Vanguard in Hollywood.

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Massel-Tov
80999 München
Stadtbibliothek Allach-Untermenzing, Pfr-Grimm-Str. 1
20.00h
T. 089-18932990

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Saturday, April 23, 2005, Princeton, NJ
2:30 pm until 3:30 pm
Concert at Communiversity!
Main Stage (corner of Nassau and Witherspoon).

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April 10th & 24th & 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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Monday April 25th- Balkan Brass Fest @ NEC featuring Michael Winograd and Smackin' the Brass'—new comositions for balkan brass band, along with professional dance group, lots of food, and discussion on Music of the Balkans by Katarina Markovic-Stokes and Katarina Miljkovic @NEC, st. botolph hall, room 118, 4pm-6pm—lots of fun—check out www.newenglandconservatory.edu for more info

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Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar
Cafe ACI
7:30 - 9:30

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

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.

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Steven Greenman leads the Trinity Chamber Orchestra (Cleveland, Ohio) in a concert of his own arrangements of traditional klezmer music April 27th, 2005. Music to include Steven's composition "Shloymele's Dobriden" featured on his recent double-CD recording Stempenyu's Dream, music from the Beregovski collection and others. The concert is part of the Music and Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral Brownbag concert series.

Music and Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral - Brownbag Concert
April 27th, 2005 from 12:10-1:00pm. (Concert preview at 11:55AM)
East 22nd & Euclid Ave. in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
Parking off Prospect Ave - $3.
For information call (216)579-9745 or visit www.mandpa.org or e-mail Steven Greenman.

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Wednesday April 27th- One Night, Two Bands (Winograd/Moffet Variety Hour, and the Rebels of Slobia w/ Jon Singer, Patrick Hay and Bridget Kearny) @ Western Front Club, Cambridge, MA—sets at 8pm and 9:30pm

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Freedom Songs: A Passover Celebration with the Klezmatics

The Klezmatics with Amina Claudine Myers and Joshua Nelson

Wed, Apr 27, 2005, 8:00pm
92nd Street at Lexington Avenue
Kaufmann Concert Hall
$35.00 Orchestra / $25.00 Balcony
Web: www.92y.org

Time Out New York says the Klezmatics are "...the best band in the Klezmer vanguard; on a good night, they can rank among the greatest bands on the planet." For Passover, Makor brings together the incomparable Klezmatics with dynamic singer and Hammond B-3 organ player Amina Claudine Myers and the fine young Orthodox gospel singer Joshua Nelson for a special concert. Freedom Songs celebrates the African-American and Jewish passage from slavery to freedom by weaving together Yiddish and African-American music that shares common themes of liberation and freedom. Presented by Makor at Kaufmann Concert Hall.

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Pharaoh's Daughter
Wednesday, April 27th 9:30p.m.
Joe's Pub - 425 Lafayette St.
$12 in advance/ $15 door
Some passover/spring themes, and most likely some complimentary macaroons!

Guest Dancers Kaeshi, Mimi Fontana, Serah, Elisheva
Musicians:
Daphna-recorders, basya-oud,guitar, meg-violin, yuval-drums, daniel-percussion, jason-keys, shanir-bass

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SNEAK PREVIEW: Join David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness! and dj SoCalled on April 30th, 2005 at Joe's Pub for a sneak preview of their new album "Bubbemeises: Lies My Gramma Told Me", to be released fall 2005. This album marks the first full collaboration of Krakauer and SoCalled, bringing together two of the most eclectic and influential musicians in the world music scene today.

Two sets: 7.30pm & 9.30pm; tickets are available at The Public Theater box office or through Telecharge. For more information visit www.davidkrakauer.com or www.joespub.com

Joe's Pub
The Public Theatre
425 Lafayette St., NYC
212 539 8500

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