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For those of you who will be in Western Massachusetts next Sunday, Shirim will be playing at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst:
September 11, 2005 at 2:30pm
National Yiddish Book Center
Members Day (1 hour Klezmer Party Concert)
1021 West St. Amherst, MA
413-256-4900, www.yiddishbookcenter.org
Admission Free!
Massel-Tov Trio
81929 München, Sophienkirche-Politisches Nachtgebet, Platz der Menschenrechte 1, 17.30,
www.ej-muenchen.de
The Workmen's Circle jam starts up again for the season on Sunday Sept. 11, 7-9 pm.
We play 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.
Ease back into the rhythm of the year with the rhythms of Jewish music at the season's first coffeehouse at Temple Beth Israel in Waltham, MA on Sunday, September 11th at 7:00 P.M.
From swinging bulgars from the teens and '20s, to Romanian horas, dreamy waltzes, Ukrainian kolamaykes, and melodies from the Hasidic courts of bygone Poland, di bostoner klezmer will immerse you in a wash of Jewish past and present and ask your participation to help make it happen.
Admission is $10.
The shul is near Route 128 and Brandeis University.
Directions below.
For more info. call 781-894-5146
Directions to Temple Beth Israel, 25 Harvard Street, Waltham, MA
From Interstate 95 (Route 128), take the Route 20 (Exit 26) eastward toward Waltham and Boston. Route 20 will merge into Main Street. After the Hannaford's Supermarket, turn right onto Harvard Street (CVS will be on your left). Go through the next intersection(Russell Street) and the temple will be on your right.
By bus, take MBTA Route 70 (from Central Square Cambridge or from Waltham) to the Hannaford's Supermarket on Main Street. Walk one block north on Harvard Street.
From Watertown Square, take Main Street (Route 20) 3.3 miles westward. After the CVS, turn left onto Harvard Street (Hannaford's Supermarket will be on your right). Go through the next intersection (Russell Street) and the temple will be on your right.
From North Waltham, follow Trapelo Road, Totten Pond Road, Beaver Street, or Waltham Street (in Lexington) to Lexington Street. Follow Lexington Street south to a right fork onto Bacon Street. Follow Bacon Street until it ends at Main Street. Turn right onto Main Street, then left after the CVS onto Harvard Street (Hannaford's Supermarket will be on your right). Go through the next intersection (Russell Street) and the temple will be on your right.
From West Newton, take Waltham Street until it becomes High Street and continue to Moody Street. On the other side of Moody Street is Maple Street. (Or from Auburdale, take Lexington Street until it becomes Moody Street and take a left onto Maple.) Follow Maple Street until it becomes Prospect Street. At the traffic signal before you reach Main Street, turn right onto Russell Street. Follow Russell Street past Hannaford's Supermarket and take a right turn onto Harvard Street. The temple will be on your right.
Anthony Coleman
plays
The Music of Jelly Roll Morton
Barbès
376 9th St. @ Sixth Ave.
Park Slope, Brooklyn
718 965 9177
Sunday, Sep 11
8pm
$18 (Chai)
Benefit for the New Orleans Musicians Clinic Emergency Fund
KHEVRE and NIKITOV will be playing a double bill next sunday 9/11 at CLUB PASSIM in Cambridge, MA
concert starts at 8—not sure of the price exactly—think its $12—worth it— two exciting bands
see www.clubpassim.org for more info; for tix
"With Nikki's good looks, and Michael's dirty mouth, I wouldn't be suprised if this becomes both the first and last Yiddish music concert in Passim's history. Don't miss it!"- Sarah Gordon, Yiddish Princess
On Sunday, September 11, Golem will take part in a special benefit concert in association with the organization Brooklyn Jews, at Soda Bar in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. All proceeds will go to hurricane relief. Please see details of the event below.
Golem will perform at 9pm.
Suggested donation - pay what you wish.
Hope to see you there.
Much love,
Golem
Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005
7pm–11pm
Soda Bar
629 Vanderbuilt Ave
Prospect Hts., Brooklyn
(718) 230-8393
Cross Street: Between Prospect Place and St Marks Avenue
Directions: 2, 3 at Grand Army Plz.
Brooklyn Jews
invites you to a dialogue
KATRINA: RESPONDING AS COMMUNITY
TO OUR NATION’S CRISIS
a Brooklyn Jews benefit to launch a year-long aid program
moderated by
Rabbi Andy Bachman, director of Brooklyn Jews
with talks by relief workers
and relief agency representatives
and an intimate set of music with
Golem
The Afro-Semitic Experience
Monday, September, 12
Days of Awe concert
7:30 p.m.
Temple Emanuel of Greater New Haven
sponsored by Temple Emanuel Sisterhood
150 Derby Avenue
Orange, Connecticut.
For more information please call 203-397-3000.
Metropolitan Klezmermichael winograd's Klezmergasm part II
with:
Daniel Blacksberg: trombone
Andrew Stern" Banjo
Karl Doty" Bass
MW: clarinet
guests possibly—we'll see...
9pm, $5
zeitgeist gallery
1353 Cambridge Street in Inman Square
Cambridge
617-876-6060
www.zeitgeist-gallery.org/
23-25th of September
23th of Sept. Gefilte fish (Munich, D), Concert 8pm
24th of Sept. Klezmerdance with Pallawatsch (Vienna, A), 3-5 pm
Frume, Golde, Jente - Eastern-Jewish women and their
literature,
Lecture, 6.45-7.30 pm
Modern Klezmer Quartett (Berlin - Munich, D) and
Pallawatsch, Concert 8pm
25th of Sept Klezmerworkshop with Khupe (Berlin, D) 4-6pm
Khupe in concert, 7.30 pm
Admission for the concerts
Friday 14,- Euro/9,- Euro
Saturday 16,- Euro/10,- Euro
Sonday 14,- Euro/9,- Euro
Workshops: 8.- Euro
(participants of a workshop pay a reduced fee for one concert)
Festivalticket: all 3 concerts for 30,- Euro
For more information go to: www.kunstduenger.info
Tuesday 13th September 7.30pm
Bang on a Can and Iva Bittova
LSO St Lukes, 161 Old Street, London, EC1V 9NG
All Tickets £12 (booking fees apply) on 0845 20 7543
THIS IS AN UNMISSABLE EVENT – BOOK NOW......
New York's high-energy electric chamber ensemble return to London with the Czech virtuoso performer Iva Bittova.
Featuring music from Tan Dun and Lou Reed, they will also premiere their new composition Elida which mixes Eastern European classical music and folk traditions with heart-breaking Czech vocal melodies.
Produced by Dash Arts in co-production with YaD Arts.
This is a launch event for DASH 05 – a new season of art, music, theatre and visual art across London….
Check the DASH website www.dasharts.org.uk
The Bang on a Can All-Stars previous performances at the Barbican, BBC Proms and the Royal Festival Hall have been sell-out successes. Now we’re bringing them to London to perform in the city’s most exciting and intimate concert venue - an 18th Century Grade I listed Hawskmoor church.
Iva Bittova combines an extraordinary vocal range and virtuoso violin playing with a theatrical flair reminiscent of performance icons Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk and Björk.
Radical...demands to be heard. The Guardian
A fiercely aggressive group, combining the power and punch of a rock band with the precision and clarity of a chamber ensemble. The New York Times
Iva Bittova, violin and vocals; Robert Black, bass; David Cossin, percussion; Lisa Moore, piano/keyboards; Mark Stewart, electric guitar; Wendy Sutter, cello; Evan Ziporyn, clarinets.
Tuesday, September 13th
8pm
92nd street Y
1395 Lexington Ave @ 92nd St.
Opening Night Concert & Party:
Great Jewish Artists perform Great Jewish Composers
Tickets
This unique concert sold-out last year with a stellar line-up and this upcoming year will be even better! From the music of Gershwin to Bob Dylan, see and hear the impact of Jewish work on the last century of popular culture.
oyhoo.com/nyjmhf2k5/13.html
Wednesday, September 14th
12:30
FREE!
Central Synagogue
123 E. 55th St. (MAP)
Free Lunchtime Sephardic Concert Series
Michal Cohen
Michal Cohen’s family comes from Yemen, but she was born and raised in Israel. Michal arrived in the United States after receiving a scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston. She graduated in 2000, and has sung in many prestigious venues, including Kats Theatre with the Pittsburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Merkin Hall, The Museum for American Jewish History in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Symphony Space, Scullers Jazz Club, Joe’s Pub, Satalla, Pianos, and the Knitting Factory. Her recordings include collaborations with artists such as DJ Cheb I Sabbah, Guillermo Nojechowicz, Frank London, Avi Elbaz, and many more. Her vocals have appeared on two movies: “Historias Minimas”, by Carlos Sorin, and Pearl Gluck’s “Divan” (Tribeca Film Festival). She has toured widely, including the Avivir Festival, Festival Del Desierto, San Luis Potosi in Mexico, Ottawa Folk Festival in Canada, Tamaulipas World Music Festival in Mexico, as well as the Far East. Her range extends from ancient Yemenite songs through to contemporary. Besides English, Yemenite, and Hebrew, Michal has sung in Bulgarian, Spanish, French, Yiddish and Portuguese. She is the recipient of a “Finalist” from the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 2002, as well as The Vocal-Jazz Cleo Laine Award. Her reputation is building as one of the most eclectic and exciting vocalists on the East Coast.
Wednesday, September 14th
8pm
ROSE THEATER, FREDRICK P. ROSE HALL, HOME of jazz at lincoln center
Broadway at 60th Street, Columbus Circle (MAP)
Dave Brubeck’s World Premier of
The Commandments, plus Gates of Justice
Tickets or call 212.608.0555
Legendary jazz musician Dave Brubeck will unveil his new work "The Commandments," on the second night of the Jewish Music and Heritage Festival, Sept. 14, at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. "The Commandments" is a six-minute composition, performed a cappella by the 90-voice Providence Singers, conducted by Russell Gloyd.
According to the 85-year-old Mr. Brubeck, "You saw most of the commandments broken during World War II. It has taken me almost 60 years to compose something I wanted to write when I was still a young soldier in Europe. I do my bit to try and get a few people to listen...there isn't time left for the world not to try and understand each other."
Brubeck's cantata "Gates of Justice," on themes of civil rights and social justice, will also showcase the Providence Singers Chorus with soloists Cantor Alberto Mizrahi and bass-baritone Kevin Deas. "Gates" will be accompanied by a 14-piece brass and percussion ensemble and by Brubeck's famous jazz quartet, which will also perform jazz selections as part of the evening's program.
Nublu
62 Avenue C - between 4th & 5th Streets
10pm; Tickets are $5 at the door. For more information visit www.cmj.com/marathon or www.nublu.net
Join David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness! and dj Socalled on September 14th, 2005 at NuBlu for their performance in conjunction with the CMJ Music Festival. This performance will showcase material from their new album "Bubbemeises: Lies My Gramma Told Me", to be released fall 2005.
With his band Klezmer Madness!, Krakauer has forged alliances among his branch of world music and a multitude of musical genres including jazz, rock, funk and most recently hip-hop.
Krakauer cites this CD as ". . . a whole new chapter in my life as a composer, a musician and a producer." It is a partnering that ushers these two eclectic and influential musicians on to the world dance music stage. " Klezmer has always been dance music, and I see this collaboration with Socalled as a revamped continuation of that."
A self-proclaimed "battle for identity" ensues in the form of an all-out dance party funk fest that entrances with the life-pumping beat of its soul filled tunes.
Sarah Aroeste
Thursday, September 15th
Central Synagogue, New York City
123 E. 55th Street
Free Lunchtime Concert!
12:30 PM
Special Acoustic Set Presented by
the New York Jewish Music Heritage Festival
For more info visit http://www.oyhoo.com
Featuring:
Sarah Aroeste (vocals)
Yoel Ben-Simhon (oud, guitar, vocals)
Liron Peled (percussion)
Thursday, September 15th
5:30
Tribeca Hebrew
67 Hudson/1 Jay St.
Klez For Kids with Golem
Tickets or call 212.608.0555 / $20 per kid, parents free, includes pizza
www.tribecahebrew.org
Four shows of world-class Klezmer artists performing intimate concerts and showing the young and old how they play their instruments. A wonderful multi-generational opportunity to make the connection to the old world. Pizza will be served. Limited to 25 kids per show.
Kavehoyz
YIDDISH SONGS ABOUT JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA
Itzik Gottesman
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Miryem-Khaye Seigel
Cantor Arianne Slack
Hy Wolfe
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2005
7:00 PM
Atran Center
25 E. 21st St., Manhattan
(between Broadway and Park]
Admission: $7.00
Sponsors: Congress for Jewish Culture, New York Jewish Music and Heritage Festival. Supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
For More Information: 212-505-8040 / E-mail Congress for Jewish Culture
Thursday, September 15th
8pm
ROSE THEATER, FREDRICK P. ROSE HALL, HOME of jazz at lincoln center
Broadway at 60th Street, Columbus Circle
Tickets or call 212.608.0555
Nalaga’at (Do Touch)
A stage for the deaf blind
Presented in association with F.E.G.S.
"Light is Heard in Zig Zag" An Israeli theater production performed by deaf-blind actors who share their dreams and realities with the audience. Hailed by the press: "miraculous," "glorious," "impossible mix of humour and melodrama," "simply amazing," "the most surprising hit of Israeli theater"
Stage Production and Direction: Adina Tal - Group Manager: Eran Gur
The program is a result of a decade of Lori’s research into the music written and composed for the yidishe veltlekhe shuln (the Yiddish secular schools) of the Americas and Russia between 1910 and 1970 by esteemed Yiddish authors and composers.
These treasures were unearthed by Lori in libraries and private collections around the world and are seldom, if at all, performed. They deserve a wider audience.
Lori Cahan-Simon, singer/folklorist, has been singing for as long as she can remember, professionally since the age of 14, and has performed in countries and venues throughout the world ever since. She has worked as a songwriter for Motown Records in Los Angeles, and has sung in festivals, Atlantic City Casino showrooms, venues in many countries, has been a featured performer on radio in the United States and Mexico, and has done much studio work in the United States, including jingles, children’s material, comedy, and in Rock, R&B, and Jazz styles. Lori has been called a “compelling, theatrical vocalist” by Seth Rogovoy, author of The Essential Klezmer. Aside from her own ensemble, she is the vocalist with the Workmen’s Circle Klezmer Orchestra, and with “oldies” group, N.O.S. Music from her Passover album is used in the Menscher Brothers film "Seder!". Lori is Chairperson of the Workmen’s Circle School Board, and has taught Yiddish Culture and Language at the in Cleveland through the visual, performing, and culinary arts, for the last decade.
Walt Mahovlich began playing Croatian and Macedonian weddings at the age of 19 with traditional village musicians and began playing klezmer music in 1973. He has played frequent concert tours of Europe and throughout North America, was a featured artist at the Smithsonian’s 1976 Festival of American Folklife, has performed at Smotra Foklora in Zagreb, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Kennedy Center. A staff member at the Buffalo on the Roof klezmer workshops, Walt toured and recorded with Budowitz. He made his off-Broadway debut in Tony Kushner’s A Dybbuk at New York’s Public Theater. Walt currently leads the East European folk group Harmonia. Walt studied ethnomusicology at Sarajevo and produced the Unesco award winning album, Nova Domovina: Balkan Slavic Music from the Industrial Midwest. Walt appears on Lori's other Yiddish recordings.
KLEZMANIA! will be Playing A Live Show
Market Street Association Present
People In Plazas
Friday, September 16, 2005
12 PM to 1 PM
101 California Street (at Front & Davis), Downtown San Francisco
Admission: FREE! (The Nice Price!)
Have Your Lunch With KLEZMANIA!
Hope to See You All There
"The Wailing Wall" CDs will Be on Sale
Ben Brussell, Vocals, Mandolin, Violin
Dave Barrows, Soprano & Alto Saxophones
Paul Binkley, Guitar,
Greg Kehret, Bass
Eddie Sassin, Drums
David Chevan, Alvin Carter, and Kalem Zarif
Friday, September 16, 6:00 p.m., Jazz Sabbath Service at Ithaca College Hillel, Muller Chapel at Ithaca, New York. For more information please call 607-274-3323.
Friday, September 16, 2005
Charming Hostess
time: 8:00p
location: Rm 54-100 (Green Bldg)
Performance from the female ensemble's new CD, "Sarajevo Blues" (Tzadik), which draws on Bosnian poetry of love and resistance, celebrating the triumph of the human spirit. In "Sarajevo Blues," Charming Hostess takes history and news as a context, but steers towards poetry as a way to focus on daily life under siege. Some songs explicitly speak of war, and others of cafe culture, underground sexuality, freedom and the nature of evil.The ensemble includes Katzenstein Lecturer Jewlia Eisenberg (see Sept 15) whose music is rooted in the body?voices and vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. "Charming Hostess makes music like no other? Thrown in with lively North African wedding songs and Eastern European folk songs are originals that display a proudly feminist, radical-Jewish, pro-sex sensibility," wrote the New York Times.
See http://web.mit.edu/arts/announcements/prs/2005/0901_eisenberg2.html
open to: the general public cost: free
web site: web.mit.edu/gcws/events/index.html#jewlia
sponsor: Office of the Arts Student and Artist-in-Residence Programs, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies
Nikitov with special guests (Alex Kontorovich, Michael Winograd, and more)
Klezmer with a gypsy jazz twist. Direct from Holland, Nikitov features lyrical singing by Niki Jacobs and gypsy jazz violinist Jelle van Tongeren and former Breuklyn resident Adam Good.
Barbès
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope, Brooklyn
8pm
718.965.9177
www.barbesbrooklyn.com
Naftule's DreamOnly $5 cover!
Early show in an intimate setting!
September 16, 2005, 8-9:30pm
Rutman's Violins
11 Westland Ave., Boston, MA (Near Symphony Hall)
Isle of Klezbos
Saturday, Sept 17
Montclair NJ: "Women in Jewish Music" Isle of Klezbos in double bill with Sarah Aroeste
8:30pm, part of the New Jersey Jewish Music Festival
B'nai Keshet Montclair Jewish Center 973-746-4889
jccmetrowest.org/musicfestival.html
Concert on Saturday Evening, September 17
All-Day Program on Sunday, September 18
at Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center (www.brjcc.org)
Berkeley, California
For further details, www.klezcalifornia.org
The Afro-Semitic Experience
Monday, September, 17
Days of Awe concert
8:30 p.m.
Emerson Suites, Campus Center
Ithaca College
Ithaca, New York
For more information please call 607-274-3323.
Sarah Aroeste
Saturday, September 17th
New Jersey Jewish Music Festival
Sponsored by
the JCC Metrowest Center for the Arts
B’nai Keshet, Montclair, New Jersey
99 South Fullerton Avenue
8:30 PM (doors open at 7:45)
Tickets: $22-$25
For more info & to purchase tix visit http://www.jccmetrowest.org
Featuring the full Sarah Aroeste Band:
Sarah Aroeste (vocals)
Yoel Ben-Simhon (oud, guitar, piano, vocals)
Yaron Eilam (electric guitar)
Emmanuel Mann (electric bass)
Liron Peled (drums, percussion)
Concert on Saturday Evening, September 17
All-Day Program on Sunday, September 18
at Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center (www.brjcc.org)
Berkeley, California
For further details, www.klezcalifornia.org
Thursday, September 18th
2pm
Eldridge Street Synagogue
12 Eldridge St. @ Canal
Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar
Adults $18 / Seniors & Students $15 -
Tickets or call 212.608.0555
Nalaga’at (Do Touch)
A stage for the deaf blind
Presented in association with F.E.G.S.
Greg Sqared - Clarinet & Sax
Matthew Fass - Accordion
Joey Weisenberg - Mandolin
Timothy Quigley - Percussion
Called "Rollicking!" "Rousing!" & "Rowdy!" by the NY-area media, The Zagnut Orkestar is a Brooklyn-based Balkan brass band that plays uptempo and soulful Jewish music as well as the music of the Roma (gypsy), Macedonian, Serbian, Albanian, Greek and Bulgarian people of Eastern Europe. They capture the sound of a Balkan village band walking from the groom's house to the bride's house on a warm afternoon in summer, gathering the guests along the way for the ceremony and the party afterward, playing music that is celebratory, uplifting and stirring. Bandleader Matthew Fass has travelled extensively throughout the Balkans and has collected tunes for this very special concert that will give listeners a taste of the musical life of the Balkans. Come enjoy it in a very special wine cellar setting of the Eldridge Street Synagogue.
The Zagnut Orkestar has appeared at the Brooklyn Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Library and has played for capacity crowds at New York bars and restaurants like Cafe Barbes, North Six, the Bowery Poetry Club, Cafe Moto, and Tagine; at weddings and parties; and for folk dancers at Zlatne Uste's Golden Festival, and Hungarian House, a cultural center that hosts events sponsored by the New York City Folkdance.
Workman's Circle presents: YIDDISHFEST at Damrosch Park
Sunday, September 18th
6pm
FREE
Damrosch park at lincoln center
FREE EVENT! Southwest corner of the Lincoln Center Plaza, at 62nd St. near Amsterdam Ave.
Starring Fyvush Finkel, Ian Finkel, Elliot Finkel, David Krakauer, New Yiddish Chorale with Zalman Mlotek, Klez Dispensers and Joanne Borts
YIDDISHFEST 2005 - Come join thousands of Mame-loshn lovers and "mavens" at the 38th annual YIDDISHFEST sponsored by The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter-Ring, the venerable national Jewish organization which has dedicated its 105 year history to maintaining a positive Jewish identity, keeping the Yiddish language and culture alive, and supporting socially progressive causes. Starring in Yiddishfest 2005 will be TV and Broadway star, and Yiddish Theatre veteran Fyvush Finkel, and his talented sons pianist Elliot Finkel, and xylophonist Ian Finkel. They will be joined by the world's greatest Klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer, the hot young Klezmer band the Klez Dispensers, the Yiddish music icon Zalmen Mlotek and his New Yiddish Chorale, singers Nell Snaidas, Joanne Borts and Cantor Rebecca Garfein of Congregation Rodeph Sholom on West 83rd St.
Admission is FREE. Produced by Moishe Rosenfeld of Golden Land Concerts & Connections.
Sunday, September 18th
6pm
Pravda / Brighton Beach
Pravda is located at 281 Lafayette St.
An Adventure to Little Odessa: Russian Music Experience
$80 per person includes bus pass, dinner & entertainment, and lots of vodka
Buy Tickets
New York, it seems, has become the world's virtual Jewish Epcot center. Within a 20 minute or less bus or subway ride you can experience many different forms of Jewish culture and heritage. Join us as we explore one of these Jewish subcultures as we take a trek to Brighton Beach — a bus ride into another Jewish cultural dimension. Brighton Beach inspires sympathetic nostalgia for regions its current residents left behind — whether last century's immigrants branching out from Manhattan or Ukrainian and Russian Jews escaping anti-Semitism in their home countries.
Let's explore this area rich in culture from years of cultural preservation through strong beliefs in creating a tight-knit community. The neighborhood is also called Little Odessa, after the Russian city on the Black Sea. It's been labeled as New York's last true homage to the old world. Spending some time in the old neighborhood can be daunting and confusing as it is not exactly a pure and uncomplicated experience, with its borscht, babushkas, and blini not to mention the strange syllables and unusual alphabet scrawlings. We are going to demystify this little slice of Russia for you as you join us on the first annual Field trip to "Moscow and the Hudson."
On our trip to Brighton Beach we will discuss some of the importance of Russian Jewish and Yiddish Culture on music, as well as give you a brief history of Russian Music. We will be partaking in some classical Russian beverages (VODKA) and enjoying a performance of Russian Jewish or Yiddish inspired music. Our trip to a Russian Supper Club will immerse you in Russian Culture, music and food. Space is limited, the vodka is not.
The event will begin at Pravda with a Vodka toast and musical performance. We will arrive at Brighton Beach's Taitiana Supper Club after the bus ride and discussion to enjoy more music, food and, of course, vodka!
Sunday 18th September 6pm – 1am
Oi Va Voi and friends present
Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
6pm – 1a.m. £5.
After their third successive roadblock, Radio Gagarin is back with the latest in a series of regular Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer mash-ups at the NHAC.
Co-Produced by Adrian Philpott/ Oi Va Voi / Taskovski Films / YaD Arts / Ziggurat.
The Commissar continues to pledge exclusive new music from your hosts Oi Va Voi, plus Klezmaniax with Sophie Solomon (Oi Va Voi) and Kobi Israelite (Tzadik), The Maspindzeli 12-piece Georgian Choir, the dictatorship of the proletariat from award-winning physical theatre ensemble Moral Support, lumpen porno puppet film wizardry from Elephant Gas, Marxist-Leninist alienation from art/animation/video installations for the Proletariat from state artists Adrian Philpott & Cathy Gale; frozen vodka & rakiya galore and resident DKs (Dancefloor Komissars) Lemez Lovas, Max Reinhardt & Starets sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til’ the road of excess has led us to the place of wisdom. Early evening come to feed your soul with summer home-cookin in the Kitschen and take a rest from your fight for Revolutionary Determinism for a few moments in the Kinodrom with new and classic shorts from Eastern Europe.
Dimanche 18 septembre 2005 à 18h
Salle Robert Dunand, 9 rue du Marché, Carouge
CONCERT AVEC
Gilles LANDINI (piano)
Luc AESCHLIMANN (violoncelle)
COMME UNE ROSÉE...
L'AMJ a le plaisir de vous inviter à découvrir des compositeurs juifs talentueux, originaux et rarement interprétés:
Franz-Theodor REIZENSTEIN : Elegy op.7 n°2 (1936), Cantilena op.18 (1941)
Eric ZEISL : Sonate (1951)
Charles-Valentin ALKAN : Sonate de concert op.47 (1857)
Billets: 25 & 15 Frs
Réduction de 5.- aux membres AMJ
Organisation: Association des Amis de la Musique Juive
Location: 022/734.71.93 ou email AMJ.
Sunday the 18th, the Klez Dispensers play Lincoln Center's, Damrosch Park!!! It's free and the party starts at 6 PM. Also appearing: klezmer legend David Krakauer, yiddish legend Joanne Borts, and many other klezmer/yiddish legends. Not to be missed!
Ouija-Boy Events in conjunction with MJ Productions Inc. present:
Hurricane Katrina Benefit Concert with performances by
Blue Fringe, Eden, Seth Nadel
and a Special Performance by your M.C. Gershon Veroba and more!
7pm
$15
West Side Institutional Synagogue
120 W. 76th St.
$15 Donation
www.wsisny.org
Your contributions will help provide emergency supplies and assistance to the storm's victims. One hundred percent of all proceeds will go directly to assist those in need through the UJA Federation's Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund. For group discount sales of 10 or more or for more information please contact Michael Edelstein at (516) 528-3129 or Yehuda Schupper at (718) 757-7590.
NOB (North of Boston) jam is Sunday, Sept 18, 7-9 pm, in Watertown.at Steve Rauch's house in Watertown: 172 Bellevue Rd (at the corner of Bellevue and Common St. on the hill from Mt. Auburn to Belmont/Cushing Sq).
There is a piano, though keyboard players are welcome to bring a portable keyboard in case more than one pianist shows up.
The new music for NOB is posted on: mysite.verizon.net/vovka0
Sunday, September 18, 7:30pm. Concert to celebrate the launch of Kolel's first Yiddish-focused programming Kolel: The Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning. 151 Eglinton Av. W, 416-485-7007 www.kolel.org $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Food and cash bar.
Sisters of Sheynville, Toronto's newest all-female band (a.k.a. "yiddish swing chick band")
With a name inspired by the irreverent "Triplets of Belleville", the "Sisters" reinvent the high-energy, swingy yet klezmer-infused 30s and 40s Yiddish repertoire of the famous Barry Sisters, augmented by other yiddishized and swinged-up pieces of a rather eclectic nature. At the band’s core are the vocal duets of Lenka Lichtenberg and Isabel Fryszberg. Their singing is supported by Fern Lindzon (piano and vocals), Lorie Wolf (drums), Kinneret Sagee (clarinet, saxophones), and Rachel Melas (string bass). The Sisters’ spirited performance leaves no doubt that these musicians are passionate about Yiddish culture and their music! Warning: their enthusiasm is infectious!
lenka lichtenberg, world and yiddish music performer and composer. Toronto Roots Festival September 3! Kol Nidre at Kolel October 12! Toronto Jewish Book Fair November 13! Hobart's historic synagogue (Tasmania, Australia) January 5, 2006! Czech TV documentary July, 2006! for audio clips, free downloads and performance updates visit www.lenkalichtenberg.com
Golem and Balkan Beat Box
Wild Hare, 3530 N. Clark
Chicaco, IL
8:00pm Doors, Sunday September 18th, 2005
$12 (tickets online
Presented by KFAR Jewish Arts Center and the City of Chicago World Music Festival
www.kfarcenter.org or 773.550.1543
E-mail Adam Davis, Director, KFAR Jewish Arts Center
Anthony Coleman
plays
The Music of Jelly Roll Morton
Barbès
376 9th St. @ Sixth Ave.
Park Slope, Brooklyn
718 965 9177
Sunday, Sep 18
8pm
$18 (Chai)
Benefit for the New Orleans Musicians Clinic Emergency Fund
The NYJMHF & Heeb Magazine present:
The 1st Annual Jewish Music Awards
The Museum of Jewish Heritage
Tickets $30 - Admission includes party - 36 Battery Place (MAP)
7pm
BUY TIX
In association with Heeb Magazine, the New York Jewish Music & Heritage Festival has created ten categories of awards which will be presented to outstanding artists in their field, including a special lifetime achievement award to Joey Ramone. A number of well-known celebrities and personalities will present the awards, with special surprise performances, and an after party to complete this evening. Jewish Music has come a long way.
Five artists, including Golem, Divahn, What I Like About Jew and others will perform Ramones tributes.
Nominees:
Heeb Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award
Joey Ramone
Heritage Award:
Debbie Friedman
Best New Klezmer Band
Rashanim, Lemon Juice Quartet, Juez, Klezmer Juice
Best Hip Hop
Edan, So Called, Subliminal, cLOUDEAD
Best Blend of Jazz & Heritage
Masada, Hasidic New Wave, Steven Bernstein, Sarah Aroeste Band
Best Danceable
Rachel Stevens, Chromeo, The Mobius Band, Oi Va Voi
Best Singer/Song Writer
Eef Barzelay, Ben Lee, Ben Kweller, Keren Ann
Best New Approach
Perry Farrell, A Silver Mt Zion, Matisyahu, Peaches
Best Jewish Punk
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Jewdriver, New Found Glory, Golem
Best Middle Eastern Blend
Pharaoh's Daughter, Divahn, Yehuda Glanz, Hadag Nachash
Sarah Aroeste
Monday, Sept. 19th, NYC
1st Annual Jewish Music Awards
Sponsored by the New York Jewish Music Heritage Festival
and Heeb Magazine
The Museum of Jewish Heritage 7 PM
36 Battery Place
Nominee for Best Blend of Jazz & Heritage
Tickets: $30
For more info visit: www.oyhoo.com
Alicia Svigals & Mikveh
w/ special guest Marilyn Lerner
7:30
Satalla
37 West 26th St.
Admission $15 - Please purchase tickets at the door
212.576.1155
Mikveh began when Obie-winning playwright Eve Ensler called Alicia Svigals to put together an all-star group of female klezmer musicians to join a host of celebrity performers at her gala event V-Day in New York. As a founding member of the Klezmatics, Svigals was well-positioned to do just that, and she called singer Adrienne Cooper, accordionist Lauren Brody and bass player Nicki Parrott. The group rocked the house at their very first performance at the Hammerstein Ballroom Theater and then at Madison Square Garden for the second V-Day, sharing the stage with Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Lily Tomlin, Glenn Close, Phoebe Snow, and Brooke Shields among others. Soon afterwards trumpeter/vocalist Susan Hoffman Watts joined the group and kicked up the excitement one more notch.
Since then, Mikveh has brought their unique woman-inflected spin on Jewish roots music, both traditional and brand-new, to audiences around the U.S. and Europe. In live concerts and on their eponymous debut CD, they create music that draws on the experiences and traditions of Jewish women, singing songs about spiritual fervor, forbidden love, pregnancy and miscarriage, hard work, a bas mitzvah, domestic violence, and powerful women everywhere. They combine rare finds from the folk tradition on surprisingly contemporary topics, with new Yiddish and English songs written in collaboration with lyricists who range in age from twenty-something to eighty-something, keeping the tradition alive and propelling it forward. And they leaven their arrangements with the ecstatic energy of old-time klezmer dance music, performed by some of the very best instrumentalists in the klezmer world.
Mikveh is named in tribute to the traditional women’s mikveh (ritual bath), the place of monthly immersion marking the cycles of women’s lives.
Montreal born pianist/improviser Marilyn Lerner has performed widely in Canada and abroad. She has recorded extensively over the past ten years, has written for film, theatre, radio and television, and has produced a series of audio art pieces. She has performed with the likes of Jane Bunnett, Gerry Hemingway, Steve Lacy, and Tito Puente. Ongoing artistic collaborations include audio artist Ken Gregory, poet Patrick Freisen (with whom she has just released a CD collection of poems and improvised music entitled Small Rooms), From Both Ends of the Earth, the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, Lori Freedman, and Dutch violist Ig Henneman.
"...this remarkable pianist..has established herself as one of the most exhilarating improvisers in Canada's jazz and new music scene." -Tamara Bernstein (National Post)
Klez For Kids with the Joey Weisenberg Trio
Tribeca Hebrew
67 Hudson/1 Jay St.
5:30pm
Tickets $20 per kid, parents free, includes pizza BUY TIX
Four shows of world-class Klezmer artists performing intimate concerts and showing the young and old how they play their instruments. A wonderful multi-generational opportunity to make the connection to the old world. Pizza will be served. Limited to 25 kids per show.
Live at Barb&eague;s, Brooklyn, NY, Tuesday Sept. 20th @ 7PM
for information: www.barbesbrooklyn.com
Beautiful and haunting klezmer music for tsimbl violin. Pete Rushefsky is a leading performer and teacher of the tsimbl-- a 120-string eastern european hammer dulcimer - Alicia Jo Rabins is a rising virtuoso in the fiddle world, well-known as a member of Golem, an accomplished composer and a walking encyclopedia of klezmer and old-time fiddling traditions.
Shtetlbusters: A Smorgasbord of Music and Performance
14th street Y
344 E. 14th St @ 1st Ave
7:00pm
Tickets: $8 BUY TIX
For One Night Only! Shtetlbusters features an unlikely coupling of the irreverent and the pious. Hosted by Scotty the Blue Bunny, who will guide you on a journey into the shtick sensibility. With performances by Shoshi, Corie Feiner, Michael Feldman and more. Gypsy dance DJ set by Nat Rahav aka DJ Busquelo.
Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys perform with German Goldenshteyn
JCC Collaboration Series: Old World meets New World
JCC of Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Ave. @ 76th St.
7:30pm
646.505.4444
Tickets $15/$20 BUY TIX
One of today’s top generation klezmer carlinetists, Margot Levertt, and her all-star band, plan foot-stomping melodies that blend the sounds of klezmer with the spirit of bluegrass. Combining the worlds of Eastern Europe and Appalachia, Leverett will delight you with her creative and energetic music. Russian klezmer legend German Goldenshteyn joins her for this unforgettable concert experience.
Veretski Pass in Concert
Jewish Music from the Carpathian Bow
September 20, 2005 Tuesday - Berkeley, CA
With a new program since Veretskhttp://i Pass' debut release last year.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Freight and Salvage
1111 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA
8 PM - - doors open at 7:30 PM
$ 17.50 advance / $ 18.50 door
(510) 548-1761
freightandsalvage.com/2005/september/info_20.html
Tickets at the door or
www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=sfbay&query=detail&event=612576
In Eastern Europe, the roots of "world music" go back centuries: historically, Jews, Christians, Moslems, Rumanians, Ukrainians, and Roma played music together in this multicultural area where professional musicians had to know as many musical styles as the diverse peoples among whom they lived. Veretski Pass, a trio of veteran klezmer artists, plays Old Country Music that ranges from melodies of Medieval Poland and dances from Bessarabia, Ruthenia, and Bukovina to music originating in the Ottoman Empire -- much of which they learned from field recordings they themselves gathered.
Cookie Segelstein (Budowitz, New Haven Symphony Orchestra), Joshua Horowitz (Budowitz), and Stuart Brotman (Ellis Island Band, The Klezmorim, San Francisco Klezmer Experience, Brave Old World) synthesize raw energy and polished musicianship to produce music of unusual depth and power on a variety of traditional instruments, including violin, viola, button accordion, bass, bassetl (three stringed bass), basy (three stringed Polish folk cello), baraban (Jewish style drum), and tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).
On stage, as on its recent self-titled album, Veretski Pass extends an irresistible invitation to discover a lost musical world full of deeply felt emotions and unbound energy.
"An impressive line-up of US klezmer luminaries, Veretski Pass stands out as something bold, unusual and musically satisfying."—Simon Broughton, Songlines
"This is the most rocking, roots klezmer album I have heard in years."—Ari Davidow, KlezmerShack
"Segelstein is the center of attention and is prepared for the challenge. She has a recognizably individual style, with clear elements from mainstream Klezmer and Hungarian Gypsy. Her playing shows technical mastery and assured authority of the genres, often operating at full throttle, but always in full control. "—Stacy Phillips, Fiddler Magazine
"The tunes are at once familiar and from a strange other world -- compelling in the same way that visiting a synagogue in a city where you can't speak the language would be."—Jay Schwartz, Jewsweek
Veretski Pass CD is available at http://www.goldenhorn.com, http://www.amazon.com, http://www.cdbaby.com and http://www.cdroots.com
Ben Sidran and Friends / Nikitov
8:00pm
The Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place
Tickets $25 - Admission includes party
A Jazz Tribute to Jewish Popular Music in America: From Irving Berlin to Lenny Kravitz. With special guests to open the evening, Nikitov from Holland.
Ben Sidran, piano, vocal; Mike Richmond, bass; Bob Malach, saxophone; Howard Levy, harmonica; Leo Sidran, drums; Joy Dragland, vocal
Although best known in some circles for writing Steve Miller’s hit song “Space Cowboy”, Ben Sidran is more widely recognized as the host of National Public Radio’s landmark jazz series “Jazz Alive”, which received a Peabody Award, and as the host of VH-1 television’s “New Visions” series, which received the Ace Award for best music series. A pianist, producer, singer and composer, he has recorded twenty five solo albums, including the Grammy nominated “Concert for Garcia Lorca,” and has produced recordings for such noted artists as Van Morrison, Diana Ross, Mose Allison and Jon Hendricks. He composed the soundtrack for the acclaimed film “Hoop Dreams”, and scored the documentary “Vietnam: Long Time Coming”, which won both the Aspen Film Festival audience award and an Emmy.
www.bensidran.com
Niki Jacobs, voice; Jelle van Tongeren, violin; Adam Good, guitar; Jason Sypher, bass
Niki Jacobs has been singing Yiddish songs for over ten years. Her early fascination with the family history of her Yiddish-speaking great grandparents ultimately fostered a passion for Yiddish language and culture, especially its musical traditions. Building on her classical training in voice, Niki studied in New York with three of the most accomplished musicians in the field of Yiddish music: Zalmen Mlotek, Adrienne Cooper, and Joanne Boarts. In New York she sang with the great violinist Lisa Gutkin and the widely acclaimed accordionist Lorin Sklamberg, both members of the world-famous band, The Klezmatics. She has also sung at the Folksbiene Gala, an initiative of the Yiddish Theatre of New York. A gifted performer of Yiddish folk songs, Niki teaches at the Jewish Music School in Amsterdam. For the past seven years she has organized and conducted workshops in the United States and Europe.
www.nikitov.com
Modular Moods presents
Chavlaz: Israeli Hip Hop Party - an evening with DJ Handler
Leopard Lounge
248 5th St at 2nd Ave
9:00pm
FREE Event with open bar
DJ Handler has performed with diverse performers ranging from Frank London, Matisyahu, Members of the Wu Tang Clan, Aloha, Daniel Carter, MC Paul Barman and Speed. He has performed all over this universe from Harvard to Ha Simta in Israel to Times Square in venues ranging from The Black Cat, The Knitting Factory, Hillel International, Art-O-Matic, and the Jewish Folk Arts Festival. He resides and maintains his label, modular moods, within the auditory heart of Brooklyn.
"One of New York's hottest Jewish musicians" - 104.4 FM (London)
"DJ Handler's music defies stereotypes by frequently including collaborations with non-electronic musicians, creating fusions between different art forms and, occasionally, cultural communities. His samples include Ashkenazic cantorial music, traditional Yemenite melodies and hip hop, and he frequently plays keyboards and guitars alongside his traditional DJ decks." - Jay Michaelson, The Forward
"Top Hundred Heeb" - Heeb Magazine
www.modularmoods.com
Arkadi Duchin & His Band
Featuring: The New Show...."Mi Ohev Otach Yoter Memeni" (Who Loves You More Than I Do)
B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill
237 West 42nd St.
9:00pm
Tickets: $55 BUY TIX
So far Arkadi Duchin has produced 10 albums, which were sold in hundreds of thousands of copies. Arkadi’s most recent album: “To feel”, produced in the end of 2000, was an enormous success. It led to a series of live performances with his band and has just brought him the most acclaimed title: The Best Singer of the Year, nominated by listeners of the 3 major radio station in Israel.
Arkadi Duchin was born in Brosek – White Russia and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1980 at the age of 15. He started to write music at an early age and soon become one of the leading music composers in Israel. He wrote music for some of the best singers in Israel such as: Arik Einstein, Nurit Galron, David Daor, Lea Shabat, Pavlo Rosenberg, and more.
He is currently Israel’s biggest star.
Jill Sobule
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette St.
9:30pm
Tickets: $18 - BUY TIX
The early early years: born and raised in Denver, Colorado. Picked up the guitar shortly after birth, and was the best (and only girl) electric guitar player in her Jr. High - in those days she was considered weird and not that cool
The Early Years: She was discovered while busking on the streets of Seville, Spain (she was hired to play a small dingy nightclub - but it's sort of being discovered). She moved to New York to make it, but ended up selling shoes at Barney's and cocktailing at questionable bars. In 1990, she finally got a record deal (album produced by Todd Rundgren). A highlight was opening up for a mean but great Nina Simone in Montreux.
The Atlantic Years: She had a couple of hits, including the semi-controversial song (it was banned on several bible belt stations), "I Kissed a Girl" and "Supermodel" from the Clueless soundtrack. Her next album, Happy Town was a critical success but did not sweep the nation in sales, so she was dropped.
Pink Pearl: Another acclaimed CD from the now defunct Beyond label. During this time she twice toured with Warren Zevon (his last).
Between Labels : She became a member (lead guitarist) of Lloyd Cole's new band, The Negatives. She became a political troubadour writing and singing for public radio and the Freedom Forum. To this day, she continues her social political critiques as a guest on Air America, and has shared the stage with fellow activist as Billy Bragg, Steve Earle and Tom Morello. She has also appeared on the West Wing, (off off) Broadway , where she wrote the music for the play Prozak and Platypus. She sang and co-starred in the Eric Schaeffer movie, Mind the Gap, where she convincingly played a struggling singer/songwriter. She is now scoring and writing songs for the Nickelodeon show, Unfabulous.
Underdog Victorious is her latest, completely fabulous CD.
Jaroslav Jakubovic & his group
10:00pm
Satalla
37 West 26th St.
Admission $15 - Please purchase tickets at the door
212.576.1155
www.satalla.com
Jaroslav is a Saxophonist/Composer/Arranger born in Czechoslovakia. In Israel, Jaroslav is a well known musician, having worked with Shalom Chanoch, Chava Alberstein, Margalit Zanani, and more. A former Columbia Records recording artist, Jaroslav has worked with Bette Midler, Paul Simon, Carly Simon, and other US musicians.
Band members:
Jaroslav Jakubovic - Saxophone
Zahava - Vocals
Adam Morisson - Keyboards
Emmanuel Mann - Bass
Benny Kay - Drums
"Jaroslav Jakubovic has had the utmost influence in creating the new sound in Israeli pop and rock music, working as a record producer, composer , arranger, and saxophone player." -Yoav Kutner, MOOMA
Free Lunchtime Sephardic Concert Series
Divahn
Central Synagogue
123 E. 55th St.
12:30pm
FREE!
Front-woman, lead singer, and anthropologist Galeet Dardashti follows a family tradition of distinguished musicianship dating back to 19th-century Persia. But it was down in Austin, Texas, where Divahn's bold all-woman Mizrahi/Sephardi ensemble began dazzling audiences with its Middle Eastern grooves. Today, Divahn has engendered an international following, infusing traditional and original Jewish songs with sophisticated harmonies, entrancing improvisations, and funky arrangements. The group's thrilling live shows include eclectic instruments such as tabla, cello, violin, didgeridoo, doumbek, and vocals spanning Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, Persian, Arabic, and Aramaic. Galeet's diverse background performing Persian and Arab classical music, Ashkenazi cantorial music, Western classical music and jazz enhance Divahn's unique and innovative sound.
The group has appeared at national music festivals and live television and radio shows throughout the country. Divahn has also shared the stage with some of the world's most renowned master musicians, including Glen Velez and Anindo Chatterjee.
As one of the few groups performing Mizrahi and Judeo-Arab music in the US, Divahn shares with its audiences a beautiful sphere of Jewish and Muslim culture that many have never experienced in person. "Divahn," a common word in Hebrew, Persian, and Arabic, means a collection of songs or poetry. Through their music, the group creatively underscores common ground between diverse Middle Eastern cultures and religions.
Klez For Kids with the Aaron Alexander Trio
Tribeca Hebrew
67 Hudson/1 Jay St.
5:30pm
Tickets $20 per kid, parents free, includes pizza BUY TIX
Four shows of world-class Klezmer artists performing intimate concerts and showing the young and old how they play their instruments. A wonderful multi-generational opportunity to make the connection to the old world. Pizza will be served. Limited to 25 kids per show.
World Festival of Sacred Music Presents:
Mystical Music of the Middle East
with
The Yuval Ron Ensemble
Sufi, Jewish and Armenian Sacred Music
featuring:
Whirling Dervish
Aziz
the
Arabic vocalist
Najwa Gibran
and
Armenian Woodwind Legend
Yeghish Manukian
September 21, 2005 | 7:00 PM | Alfred Newman Recital Hall
General Public: $15
USC Faculty/Staff, Senior Citizens: $10
USC Students w/ Valid ID: $5
USC Spectrum presents the Yuval Ron Ensemble as part of the World Festival of Sacred Music
taking place in Los Angeles September 17-October 2. crossing neighborhoods, cultural, religious and ideological boundaries in the spirit of world peace. The performance will be held in intimate Alfred Newman Recital Hall and tickets are selling fast.
Please call 213.740.2167 for more information.
Cafe Mozart located at 1331 H Street NW Washington DC, will present an Opera/Cabaret/Klezmer Night on Wednesday Sept 21 2005 at 7 PM. Featured peformers will be Washinghton Opera tenor Michael Blaney and soprano Jennifer Jellings. They will perform musical selections from opera, operetta and musical theater. Pianist Felicia Weiss and clarinetist Steven Rosenthal will also present Klezmer music selections! The Cafe serves German/Austrian cuisine.
No entertainment cover charge if dinner is ordered. For more information please visit the website www.cafemozartgermandeli.com To reserve by phone 202 347-5732 or email Cafe Mozart.
JCC Collaboration Series: Old World meets New World
Pharaoh's Daughter performs with the Elias Ladino Ensemble
7:30
JCC of Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Ave @ 76th St.
Tickets: $15/$20 - BUY TIX
Led by Basya Schecter, Pharaoh’s Daughter brings the spirit of the Mediterranean to life, creating a new-age, psychedelic sound, influenced by Chassidic, Mizrachi and Sephardi music. Playing percussion, flute, strings and electronica, this group, joined by the Elias Ladino Ensemble – a group dedicated to the preservation and performance of music from Spanish and Middle Eastern Jewish communities – has inspired audiences throughout the country and in Europe.
All Things Safed, Israel: Music, Kaballah Study & Wine featuring Simply Tsfat
8:00
Synagogue for the Arts
49 White St.
Tickets $25 including high-end wine tasting - BUY TIX
Simply Tsfat is a trio of talented Chassidic Israeli musicians, Elyahu Reiter, Yehonasan Lipshutz and Yonatan Tzarum. In concert, they merge Heaven and Earth through music and stories of the great Chassidic master, Rebbe Nachman of Breslev. Wherever they appear, the trio develop a loyal and ardent following. For current engagements, see www.simplytsfat.com.
Banjo Billy
Performs Jewish Bluegrass
David Friedman
A very talented painter and torah scholar in Kabbalistic thought.
Israeli Kosher Wine Tasting
Featuring 12 different selections from the hottest vineyards in the Galilee Valley. This is not your sweet kiddish wine, but premium wines from one of the fastest growing and newly respected wine regions in the world. 4kosherwine.com
Safed Foundation
The Safed Foundation was established to preserve and promote the historical and cultural heritage of Safed. The Foundation supports a variety of historical restoration and educational programs intended to enhance the meaning and content of visits to the city, and to position Safed as a preferred destination for visitors from Israel and abroad.
Golden Land Concerts & Connections is proud to join with the New York Music and Heritage Festival and the 92nd Street Y to present the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre's hysterical production of "DI YAM GAZLONIM"—the Yiddish adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic operetta The Pirates of Penzance. The piece was adapted and translated into Yiddish by Al Grand, and will be performed by the world renowned New Yiddish Chorale under the musical direction of the Yiddish musical icon Zalmen Mlotek, with fantastic soloists Robert Abelson, Henry Carrey, Nell Snaidas, Dan Rous, Mary Feinsinger, Jake Feldman and SPECIAL GUEST NARRATOR MAL Z LAWRENCE!!!
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 8pm
The 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, NYC
$65 (VIP seating, Reception); $30, $25
Tix: 212-608-0555; www.oyhoo.com
www.goldenland.com/events.htm
Produced by Michael Dorf and Moishe Rosenfeld
Metropolitan Klezmer
Wednesday, September 21
Yiddish film clips/lecture project with Metropolitan Klezmer live!
at Makor, 35 W 67th St NYC, btw CPW & Columbus Avenue
212-601-1000 Tickets $15 www.makor.org
Doors open 7:30pm, show at 8pm
Gourmet kosher menu & full bar
Film research info: metropolitanklezmer.com/celluloid.html
Program sources: Uncle Moses, The Dybbuk, American Matchmaker, Overture to
Glory, Mamele, Yidl Mitn Fidl, rare Soviet Yiddish theater newsreels & more!
Bandleader/drummer Eve Sicular has toured this lecture abroad, now the band
joins in...
At Joe's Pub Sept 21 for one special show
JDub Recording Artist Socalled
Live at Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette Street
Wednesday September 21
9:30 PM; $12 in advance, $15 at the door
Joe’s Pub: 212.539.8770
JDub Records is pleased to announce the return performance of musical eccentric, beat juggler, mad hip hop scientist and klezmer master Socalled.
Socalled is a musician, photographer, magician and writer based in Montreal. He was born Josh Dolgin in Ottawa, Ontario and raised just north, in Chelsea, Quebec. As a kid he was always in musicals and drew cartoons for the Ottawa Citizen. He hated soccer. He was bribed by his mother to continue piano lessons until high school, then he picked up the accordion. He wrote for the newspaper and played in any kind of band – salsa, gospel, rock, funk – then discovered MIDI and hip hop. He worked with rappers, he made madd beats, he got into studios. He graduated from McGill and made a 50 minute animated film for the Canada Council, meanwhile writing for Hour Magazine and performing. He has now appeared on a dozen recordings as pianist, singer, arranger, rapper, writer and producer. He rocks the machine in David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness!, sings with Toronto-based Beyond the Pale, performs with home-base band Shtreiml in Montreal, and with the LA-based Aleph Project. He conducts the Addath Israel choir for High Holidays. Socalled performs and records widely with a crew of mixed-up freaks and geniuses from around the world, including Killah Priest, Susan Hoffman- Watts, Frank London, Gonzales and Irving Fields.
Socalled will be performing songs from his critically acclaimed The So Called Seder: A Hip Hop Haggadah, as well as previewing tracks from his upcoming release Ghettoblaster. He will be joined for this special performance at Joe’s Pub by his usual rag tag cast of musical vagabonds including; C-Rayz Walz, Montreal’s Queen of Country Lady Katie Moore, Susan Watts Hoffman and other surprise guests.
For More information please consult: http://www.socalledmusic.com
JDUB Records:
Email Aaron Bisman or call 212-284-6776
Kleztraphobix will be doing a late set at Otto's Shrunken Head on E. 14th Street between Ave. A and B tonight. Any night owls around should come by and check out the relaxed atmosphere an good music at this legendary E. Village hangout. Our set should start around 11:30.
From Kinehora to Kuni-ayland
Thursday, September 22
12:30pm
$10 M/S/S; $15 GP
Maurice Levin Theatre
Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC
Ross Family Campus
760 Northfield Avenue, West Orange, NJ 07052
973-736-3200
A father-daughter musical revue featuring Yiddish songs about the Jewish experience in America including Yiddish vaudeville with Binyumen “Ben” Schaechter and his daughter Reyna. Ben is an award-winning composer of musicals, revue songs, and cabaret songs which have been performed off-Broadway, on PBS-TV, and in theaters and cabarets everywhere.
Click here to buy tickets online
Free Lunchtime Sephardic Concert Series
Gerard Edery & Danny Maseng
The Thirteen Petalled Rose: Songs to Stir the Soul
13 Languages - 2 extraordinary talents - 1 joyful musical experience
Central Synagogue
123 E. 55th St.
12:30pm
FREE!
This unique collaboration between two master singers and virtuoso guitarists has had audiences in New York raving. Bringing together their multi-cultural backgrounds and highly sensitive voices, these two exciting artists take the listener into a musical landscape of rare beauty.
"A tour de force... DANNY MASENG's mellifluous voice, virtuosity on the guitar, eclectic musical styles & multiple talents make him a powerhouse..." (New York Jewish Week, Los Angeles Jewish Journal)
"GERARD EDERY's rich, vibrant baritone is simultaneously hypnotic, evocative and soothing...the [guitar] arrangements compelling." (Jewish Heartland, Milwaukee, WI)
Klez For Kids with Metropolitan Klezmer
Tribeca Hebrew
67 Hudson/1 Jay St.
5:30pm
Tickets $20 per kid, parents free, includes pizza BUY TIX
Four shows of world-class Klezmer artists performing intimate concerts and showing the young and old how they play their instruments. A wonderful multi-generational opportunity to make the connection to the old world. Pizza will be served. Limited to 25 kids per show.
Isle of Klezbos
Thursday, Sept 22
Tribeca Hebrew show, NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival oyhoo.com
212-608-0555 67 Hudson St/1 Jay St, NYC www.tribecahebrew.org
5:30pm–6:30pm Kids workshop; pizza included! $25 per kid, parents free.
Oi Va Voi & Balkan Beat Box
8:00pm
Irving Plaza
17 Irving Place
Tickets: $20 advance, $25 door - BUY TIX
Presented in association with Giant Step and JDUB Records
OI VA VOI burst into life back in 2000, the six members of the group drawing on disparate musical experiences. Trumpeter Lemez Lovas started out DJing leftfield jazz, Latin and hip hop, drummer Josh Breslaw had hit the fatback beat in hip hop and rock outfits and Sophie Solomon played out as a drum-n-bass DJ as well as gaining praises from Nigel Kennedy among others for her talent as a violinist. The buzz surrounding the band grew as they won over crowds everywhere from Glastonbury to New York's Knitting Factory. OI VA VOI tunes appeared on the best-selling Buddha Bar compilations, there were remixes by garage DJ Kriminal Gangsta and innovative dance producer Hefner. Then last year the group received two nominations in the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards, the only artists to be nominated for both the Boundary Crossing and Listeners' Award categories; and all this from a band that then had no official CD release to their name.
It's easy to fathom the appeal. OI VA VOI has both an exciting dance-floor friendly sound and an emotive singer-songwriter quality that's built around a unique instrumental line-up of trumpet, clarinet, violin, guitar, bass and drums and complemented by powerful lyrics. The club-friendly rhythms come courtesy of Leo Bryant's basslines and Josh Breslaw's drums rather than pre-programmed machinery. Although they started out by taking old klezmer tunes and giving them 21st Century beats, the group soon broadened out their sound, dipping into everything that they heard around them (one early suggested title for this album was Magpie Music). If Sophie Solomon's violin is casting a spell with a traditional tune from the old country, then you can bet that Leo Bryant will be laying down a skanking bassline. If Steve Levi's clarinet is blowing fiery klezmer then it will be complimented by some jangling guitar licks from Nik Ammar.
The Balkan Beat Box was formed in 2003 and is spearheaded by Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat. This performance-meets-dance party generates a whirlpool of ecstatic energy. The Balkan Beat Box digs into the new fresh possibilities of electronic music mixed with folk music from North Africa, Israel, the Balkans and Eastern Europe.
The Balkan Beat Box views Jewish music with fresh eyes: as a continuing cultural dialogue. The dialogue can take the form of a clash of cultures, and sometimes it is the natural progression of many young artists' Diaspora experience. At other times it is Israeli with all the music that lives there - Arabic, Sephardic, Hassidic – a true melting pot with never-ending sources of inspiration.
Acidophilus (GlobeSonic) will DJ between sets
The Afro-Semitic Experience with special guest Frank London
Days of Awe concert
JCC of Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Ave @ 76th St.
8pm
Tickets $15/$20 - BUY TIX
646-505-4444
Acclaimed bass player David Chevan, virtuosic jazz pianist Warren Byrd and members of the Afro-Semitic Experience will get you in the spirit of the high holidays. Drawing on the rich traditions of jazz, gospel, klezmer, Yourban drumming, niggunim, spirituals and funk, the Afro-Semitic Experience takes on the High Holiday liturgy with a unique and soul stirring sound. "The Afro-Semitic Experience rocks the house." - The Jewish Week
come checkout Yosi Piamenta and the Heavenly Jams Band @
Mexicali Blues in Teaneck Thursday 9/22. Should be a
great show, as Mike mattison, and Yonrico scott of the
Derek Truck Band join Yosi for an eclectic mix of
musical improvisation and exploration. Expect the
unexpected, as HJB plans to present an amazing blend
of rock classics, Oriental based Hebrew and Arabic
rockers, jazz, blues, and Eastern influenced music.
Great music, great venue, a great night out.....DIG IT!
Yosi Piamenta's
Heavenly Jams Band
Featuring:
Mike Mattison & Yonrico Scott
of the Derek Trucks Band
&
Dave Stoltz
of Dickey Betts and Great Southern (2000-2004)
9/22 Mexicali Blues Cafe
1409 Queene Anne Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
201-833-0011
Showtime: 9:00 PM
21+, Tickets $15
www.mexicalibluescafe.com (for tickets)
The Jewish Music Forum is very pleased to introduce the 2005-2006 schedule of our academic seminar series, “New Perspectives on Music in Jewish Life.” The second year of this series continues the Forum’s initial goal of providing new contexts for scholars across Jewish studies to explore ways of incorporating music into their research. We have assembled a broad range of researchers who approach Jewish music from a rich variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives.
We are delighted that our first speaker this year will be Dr. Hankus Netsky of the New England Conservatory of Music. On Friday, September 23 at 10 A.M. at the Center for Jewish History, Dr. Netsky will deliver a lecture, “The Philadelphia Russian Sher Medley: Viewing the Immigrant Experience through a Musical Text.” Dr. Mark Slobin of Wesleyan University will serve as respondent to this talk.
All sessions of the Jewish Music Forum take place on Friday mornings, beginning at 10:00 AM at the Center for Jewish History. For additional information, please email James Loeffler. or callt 212-294-8328.
Hankus Netsky, Ph.D., is an instructor in jazz and contemporary improvisation at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he has taught for twenty years. He received his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University and has published articles on the history of klezmer music in the United States and Eastern Europe. He is also a multi-instrumentalist and composer and the founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internationally renowned Yiddish music ensemble. He currently serves as research director of the Klezmer Conservatory Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to research on Yiddish musical traditions.
With the support of the American Jewish Historical Society, the Jewish Music Forum, a project of the American Society for Jewish Music, launched at the Center for Jewish History in the 2004-2005 academic year. By linking researchers whose specialties range from musicology to anthropology to history and beyond, the Forum serves as an academic network and a unique intellectual resource for scholars, artists, educators and students interested in Jewish music.
All sessions of the Jewish Music Forum take place on Friday mornings, beginning at 10:00 AM at the Center for Jewish History. For additional information, please email James Loeffler. or callt 212-294-8328.
David Chevan: "The Art of Trio" with Rex Cadwallader and special guest saxophonist Greg Abate
Friday, September 23, 7:30 p.m., at the Milford Center for the Arts, at 40 Railroad Avenue South, Milford, (203) 878-6647.
23-25th of September
23th of Sept. Gefilte fish (Munich, D), Concert 8pm
24th of Sept. Klezmerdance with Pallawatsch (Vienna, A), 3-5 pm
Frume, Golde, Jente - Eastern-Jewish women and their
literature,
Lecture, 6.45-7.30 pm
Modern Klezmer Quartett (Berlin - Munich, D) and
Pallawatsch, Concert 8pm
25th of Sept Klezmerworkshop with Khupe (Berlin, D) 4-6pm
Khupe in concert, 7.30 pm
Admission for the concerts
Friday 14,- Euro/9,- Euro
Saturday 16,- Euro/10,- Euro
Sonday 14,- Euro/9,- Euro
Workshops: 8.- Euro
(participants of a workshop pay a reduced fee for one concert)
Festivalticket: all 3 concerts for 30,- Euro
For more information go to: www.kunstduenger.info
Modular Moods introduces the Sounds of the East with Sarah Aroeste, Michal Cohen, Eyal Maoz and DJ Handler
Saturday, September 24th
Joe’s Pub, New York City
425 Lafayette Street
6:30 PM Sharp
Doors open at 6:00
Tickets: $15
For more info & to purchase tix visit: www.joespub.com
Sarah Aroeste is the founder of the NY-based Ladino Rock group, the Sarah Aroeste Band. American-born Aroeste, with family roots in Spain and more recently in Salonika, Greece, launched her band to help bring Sephardic music to a new generation. Most influenced by the music and language of her Spanish origins, Aroeste grounds her music in Ladino, an ethnic form of Castilian Spanish developed by Spanish Jews after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. Although this mysterious pan-Mediterranean language has, unfortunately, been fading away, the musical legacy of Spanish Jews highlights the strength of an oral tradition that spans many centuries and crosses many geographic boundaries. Determined to help keep Ladino music alive, Aroeste updates and reinterprets the tradition by fusing it with more modern sensibilities. With its unique Ladino Rock sound, the Sarah Aroeste Band takes traditional Ladino music from across the Mediterranean and combines it with contemporary influences such as rock, funk, and blues. Since Aroeste launched her band in 2001, she has toured and amassed a loyal following across the nation and abroad, and has worked hard to bring an updated, exciting new sound to Ladino and Sephardic music.
Michal Cohen’s family comes from Yemen, but she was born and raised in Israel. Michal arrived in the United States after receiving a scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston. She graduated in 2000, and has sung in many prestigious venues, including Kats Theatre with the Pittsburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Merkin Hall, The Museum for American Jewish History in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Symphony Space, Scullers Jazz Club, Joe’s Pub, Satalla, Pianos, and the Knitting Factory. Her recordings include collaborations with artists such as DJ Cheb I Sabbah, Guillermo Nojechowicz, Frank London, Avi Elbaz, and many more. Her vocals have appeared on two movies: “Historias Minimas”, by Carlos Sorin, and Pearl Gluck’s “Divan” (Tribeca Film Festival). She has toured widely, including the Avivir Festival, Festival Del Desierto, San Luis Potosi in Mexico, Ottawa Folk Festival in Canada, Tamaulipas World Music Festival in Mexico, as well as the Far East. Her range extends from ancient Yemenite songs through to contemporary. Besides English, Yemenite, and Hebrew, Michal has sung in Bulgarian, Spanish, French, Yiddish and Portuguese. She is the recipient of a “Finalist” from the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 2002, as well as The Vocal-Jazz Cleo Laine Award. Her reputation is building as one of the most eclectic and exciting vocalists on the East Coast.
Eyal Maoz is an exceptionally original composer and one of the most unique guitarists in New York City. His bands varies from delicate Jewish music to wild avant garde groups, or anything in between, such as the legendary Lemon Juice Quartet. His latest ensemble, Edom, is about to release its first CD, featuring the incredible John Medeski on organ (Tzadik Records). This band bridges rock, jazz and wild improvisation aesthetics with the graceful sounds of Jewish and ethnic songs. Tonight Eyal will feature some of Edom's Jewish compositions with an exciting New York City ensemble, and the energy should be certainly magical.
The brains behind Modular Moods and many of the hyped parties in and around NYC, dj handler's music defies stereotypes. He frequently includes collaborations with non-electronic musicians, creating textural fusions of live and recorded sound. He references Ashkenazic cantorial music, traditional Yemenite melodies and hip hop. Along with his experimentation, he is also a world travelled club dj.
www.modularmoods.com
Push! Push!
Saturday, September 24th
Makor
35 W. 67th St
8:00 PM
Tickets: $12
www.makor.com
...A frenetic monthly international music, dance and noise-art circus rave-up!
Luminescent Orchestrii celebrate their new CD release with...
Hungry March Band, Outernational & surprise DJs
FRESH of their European summer tour with a 4 star review at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival... Romanian gypsy melodies, punk frenzy, salty tangos, hard rocking klezmer, haunting Balkan harmony, hip-hop beats and Appalachian fiddle, all eaten and spit out by three violins, resophonic guitar, bullhorn harmonica and guitarron. The Luminescent Orchestrii is Rima Fand (violin), Kaia Wong (violin) Sarah Alden (violin), Aaron Goldsmith (Guitarron) and Sxip Shirey (resophonic guitar, bullhorn harmonicas melodica). The members of the Orchestrii come from different backgrounds and scenes inNew York Cityand share a love of the music that people all over the world listen to while drinking, dancing and weeping. Sxip Shirey is an international Circus composer, Sarah Alden is an old time fiddle player, Rima Fand an experimental theater composer, Kaia Wong an electronic musician and Aaron Goldsmith has played in goth, funk and old world music ensembles. New York has soaked the Luminescent Orchestrii in constant sound: Hip-hop beats boom out of cars at 6am in the morning, the Pakistani cheap-eats café blasts Bhangra Beats, old time fiddlers and classical violinists lighten our ears on the subways, punk brass bands, Balkan jazz, and of course the constant hum of the city itself. Experience this complete mush-up at Makor!
"There is a fine line between gypsy music and punk rock, and the Luminescent Orchestrii falls off it every show. With three fiddlers, a bassist and a guitarist who sweats enough for the five of them, the band stomps the stage, thumps their strings and saws into their instruments. These are believers."- Nonsense NYC
Roaring out of Brooklyn, the Hungry March Band is the greatest brass march band of all time. A 25-piece orchestra rolling out the sounds ofNew Orleans, Gypsy/Roma,India, jazz, Latin, Klezmer, Punk and Hip Hop, they are a community-based group with a membership as diverse as the music they play. Put on your dancing shoes and break out the fancy party threads for this blazing parade of wood, steel, flesh, brass and blood!
"best anarchist parade group!" - Village Voice, Best of NYC 2004
Outernational is crafting a new sound, drawing from musical styles throughout the world. Expect controlled chaos and pure passion extending with intense energy from the stage and into the audience. They have arrived with a bold mission to fulfill a great need as this generation's revolutionary band.
"Outernational's music is as righteous as their politics. They have a rare combination of talent, purpose, and a great sweat drenched live show, uplifting and raw." -Tom Morello (Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine)
Yehuda Glantz
Saturday, September 24
9:00pm
$22 M/S/S; $25 GP
Congregation Etz Chaim, 304 East Mount Pleasant Ave., Livingston
Playing 14 different instruments, Glantz uses the charrango, tarbuka, and pincuyo as well as the guitar, violin, and keyboard to fuse hot Latino rhythms with Jewish soul music, new age, rock-n-roll, and traditional Hasidic melodies. An Israeli renaissance artist, Glantz has captured the hearts and souls of audiences around the world while setting new standards in contemporary Jewish music.
Click here to buy tickets online
Once again, Ron Caswell's TUBAPALOOZA part TROIS!
SLAVIC SOUL PARTY CD Release!
Saturday, Spetember 24th 2005 9pm - very late!@
Zebulon 258 Wythe Avenue (betwixed Metropolitan Ave.
and N. 3rd) Brooklyn, NY 11211 (Williamsburg)
L train to the Bedford Stop
A FREE night of nothing but great TUBA bands!
roncaswell.com
Yes, another tubapalooza! This time Slavic Soul Party
is having their CD release party with Judith Berkson
and the East River Orchestra! For samples of Slavic
Soul Party's new release go here:
slavicsoulparty.com/listen.html
To buy the CD through PayPal or credit card go here:
slavicsoulparty.com
Here's the poop!
9pm
Judith Berkson and the East River Orchestra
www.EastRiverOrchestra.com
Klezmer shots at Zebulon
"Best music to get laid to" - Rabbi Archibald Ladinsky
11pm
Slavic Soul Party
Brash and strong as slivovitz, Slavic Soul Party! is
downtown's answer to Balkan brass band music!
slavicsoulparty.com
TUBAPALOOZER's for the night:
Ben Holmes - trumpet
Shane Endsley - trumpet
Alex Kontorovich - clarinet
Oscar Noriega - clarinet, sax
Jacob Garchik - trombone, baritone
Brian Drye - trombone, baritone
Ron Caswell - tuba
Brandon Seabrook - banjo, mandolin
Judith Berkson - accordion and vocals
Matt Moran - tapan, (big drum)
Take Toriyama - snare, doumbek
Rich Huntely - drums
Peter Stan - accordian
The Afro-Semitic Experience with special guest Frank London with Cantor Erik Contzius
Saturday, September 24
Selichot Services and Hurricane Katrina Benefit
9:00 p.m.
Temple Israel of New Rochelle
1000 Pinebrook Boulevard
New Rochelle, New York
for more information please call 914-235-1800.
The Afro-Semitic Experience with special guest Frank London with Cantor Jack Mendelson
Saturday, September 24
Midnight Selichot Services
midnight
Temple Israel Center of White Plains
280 Old Mamaroneck Road
White Plains, New York
914-948-2800.
Jewzapalooza
FREE!
Riverside part at 72nd street
Last year at the South Street Seaport, 5000 people proved how Jews from the most religious to the most secular can all dance together as one to the universal language of music. This year’s line-up will include the full range of musical sounds. New this year, we will include dozens of Kosher food and wine stands and Jewish informational tables - making it a great all-day family affair.
11am
Dor Chadash & the Festival present:
"The World's Largest Klezmer Brunch"
Sit down to lox and bagels on the lawn at Riverside Park and join us in creating the World's Largest Klezmer Brunch!
Featuring the "Klezmer Brunch All-Stars"
Aaron Alexander (Drums)
Josh Dolgin (AKA SOCALLED) (Accordion, vocals)
Alex Kontorovitch (Clarinet, Sax)
Rachel Lemisch (Trombone)
Jason Rosenblatt (Harmonica, piano)
+ Bass player TBD
12noon
Juez
Juez is a breakbeat-klezmer-jazz band of Orthodox kids from D.C., Chicago and New York. Their diverse influences range from Yemenite Niggunim to Fugazi, and John Zorn to DJ Shadow. Juez's live shows are filled with manic solos, frenzied interplay, audience call-and-responses and stage-diving.
Juez has performed with diverse performers ranging from Frank London, Satlah, Matisyahu, Aloha, Black Ox Arkestar, Golem, Gutbucket, and Daniel Carter at Tonic, The Black Cat, Hillel International, Art-O-Matic, the Jewish Folk Arts Festival, Harvard, and The Knitting Factory just to name a few.
Matt Wetstein - trumpet
Gilad Suberri - saxophone
Eyal Maoz - guitar
Yoshie - bass
Erez (dj handler) - drums
1pm
Avishai Cohen
Bassist/Composer Avishai Cohen, born April 20, 1970 in Israel, a musician who has been called a “jazz visionary of global proportions” by DownBeat, and was declared one of the 100 Most Influential Bass Players of the 20th Century by Bass Player Magazine.
Until late in 2003, Avishai was a member of the Chick Corea New Trio, and accompanist to other jazz note-worthies, including Bobby McFerrin, Roy Hargrove, Herbie Hancock, Nnenna Freelon, Claudia Acuña, Paquito D’Rivera and many others. Avishai has become a first call musician in multiple genres. In 2003 he made a studio recording with pop-soul artist Alicia Keys, and has also performed concert works with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and The Boston Pops Symphony.
Since the autumn of 2003 Avishai has been touring the world with his Trio and Quartet. This new line–up, featuring Sam Barsh on piano and Mark Guiliana on drums, provided energy and inspiration in abundance that led to the creation of his latest CD At Home.
2pm
Joshua Nelson & the Kosher Gospel Singers
When Joshua Nelson sings his Kosher-Gospel music, he commands attention. It's not just because of his fire-and-brimstone voice, the comparisons with the late Mahalia Jackson or even his discovery by Oprah Winfrey who called him "The Next Big Thing" in music, and whom he also counts as a friend. It's the places he performs, mostly synagogues, JCC's, concert halls, outdoor festivals, and national television. Joshua, who is black and Jewish, as combined the sounds of soul with Jewish liturgical music and first appeared on the Jewish music circuit several years ago with the release of the national PBS special about his life, "Keep on Walking," which has been a big hit at Jewish Film Festivals around the globe. Joshua's appearance last year on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" has catapulted his career nationally and internationally. He and his Kosher Singers have performed with such notables as Aretha Franklin, Jamie Fox, Maya Angelou, Ashford & Simpson, Cicely Tyson, Harry Belafonte, Billy Preston, Wynton Marsalis, Stephanie Mills, Cissy Houston, Dionne Warwick, Melba Moore, The Klezmatics, Former President Bill Clinton and at the funeral of jazz legend Sarah Vaughan.
3pm
Blue Fringe
\With record-breaking CD sales and numerous sold-out performances, Blue Fringe is quickly establishing itself as America’s favorite Jewish rock band.
Captivating large Jewish audiences of all denominations throughout the U.S. and abroad, Blue Fringe has successfully mixed pop, rock, funk and R&B with Jewish themes that are particularly relevant today. The emotionally charged songs on Blue Fringe’s breakout first album, My Awakening, include original English and Hebrew compositions that run the gamut from soul searching to irreverent. Written in the vein of popular artists such as Coldplay, Phish, and John Mayer, Blue Fringe sets a new standard for popular Jewish music.
The band, comprised of four 20-something friends who met at Yeshiva University, includes: Dov Rosenblatt, guitarist and songwriter, who supplies the band with his compelling, lyrical voice; Avi Hoffman, also a guitarist and composer for the band, known for his electrifying, bluesy guitar playing; drummer Danny Zwillenberg who incorporates rhythms from diverse musical sources, including Latin, reggae, funk, and rock; and Hayyim Danzig on the bass, both electric and upright, who gives the group its soul with bass-lines deeply rooted in old-school funk and jazz.
Based in New York City, Blue Fringe performs regularly on the East coast, including major NY clubs such as Irving Plaza, BB King’s Blues Club and Makor. Internationally, Blue Fringe has toured South Africa, Australia, and the UK. The band has performed several concerts in Israel including a “Rock n’ Soul Festival” in Beit Shemesh that hosted 10,000 fans.
4pm
Golem
New York-based Klezmer/Rock band GOLEM (named after the legendary Jewish Frankenstein of Prague) has infused the World Music scene with a breath of fresh air from Eastern Europe. GOLEM’s explosive onstage attitude gets Klezmer to rock by injecting Eastern European melodies and Old World tunes with ferocious energy, sex, and humor. Fronted by Annette Ezekiel - bandleader, accordionist and singer - as well as madcap vocalist Aaron Diskin and violin virtuoso Alicia Jo Rabins, the band’s six members, all in their 20’s and 30’s, create GOLEM’s powerfully vibrant sound. Through updated versions of old Yiddish tunes, Golem seduces audiences of Klezmer fans and rockers alike, and is equally at home in venues as varied as rock clubs, synagogues, and concert halls, from Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park to the rock clubs of the Lower East Side. GOLEM’s Jewish music is for the cool kids, not just your grandma!
5pm
Pharaoh's Daughter
Blending a psychedelic sensibility and a pan-Mediterranean sensuality, Basya Schechter leads her band, Pharaoh's Daughter, through swirling Hasidic chants, Mizrachi and Sephardi folk-rock, and spiritual stylings filtered through percussion, flute, strings and electronica.
Basya's sound has been cultivated by her Hasidic music background and a series of trips to the Middle East, Africa, Israel, Egypt, Central Africa, Turkey, Kurdistan and Greece. She began retuning her guitar to sound like a cross between an Arabic oud and a Turkish saz, with harmonic minor melodies, and odd time signatures. With the many amazing musicians, named below and others as well she has recorded three albums as Pharaoh's Daughter.
Pharaohs' Daughter has toured extensively through America, Eastern and Western Europe, as well as Greece and the UK. Pharaoh's Daughter had the honor of debuting at Central Park's Summer Stage series in August 2004, and has played such presigious stages as Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park, and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. When she's not touring or performing, Basya plays darbuka, riq and frame drum as part of the B'nai Jeshurun music ensemble that accompanies Friday night services.
6pm
Surprise Performance!
We can't say who it is, but trust us - it will be a performance you won't soon forget!
7pm
Soul Farm
SOULFARM consists of four guys from New York who are forging an exciting new sound by combining the musical roots of their heritage with a shared passion for melodic song writing and modern, progressive arrangements. Their unique sound offers the rare combination of a multigenerational and cross-cultural appeal. Live, the band's riveting world-beat energy turns heads and makes every audience take notice.
Founded in New York City by guitarist and lead singer Noah Solomon Chase and lead guitarist-singer C Lanzbom, SOULFARM plays New American music. C, Noah and drummer-singer Mark Ambrosino comprise the band’s uniquely positioned three-part harmony. Together with bass player Jeff Langston, they create a potent sound that screams originality as it melds a wide range of influences from rock and Latin, to Hebrew and Celtic folk music. Fueled by Lanzbom’s captivating guitar leads, SOULFARM delivers it all with a flavor some like to call Mediterranean with a strong mix of native percussion, dance rhythms and confident, driving rhythm guitar that forces the listener to not only hear, but become the music.
8pm
Blackfield featuring Aviv Geffen & Steven Wilson
Two years back and forth on the London-Tel-Aviv flight path, a mutual artistic curiosity, and a close friendship are the components that gave birth to Aviv and Steven's Blackfield project.
Aviv Geffen, a highly successful solo artist and outspoken (not to mention controversial) peace campaigner, with a string of gold albums in his own country, discovered the music of Steven's band Porcupine Tree in the mid 90's and followed their career development. In 2000 he invited the band to perform some concerts in Israel and met with Steven in London to discuss the idea. Something clicked and before long they had already collaborated on the very first Blackfield song. In 2001 the two met in a studio in Tel Aviv with the intention of recording a one-off EP. So pleased were they and the record company with the results however, that the EP originally scheduled for release in 2001 was cancelled and the decision was made to continue writing and recording with the aim of completing a full length LP. Over the next 18 months the pair fitted in Blackfield writing and recording sessions whenever they could between their other commitments and finally in October 2003 the album was complete.
The collaborative songs alongside songs written by each separately brought a unique meeting of cultures, which resulted in a sophisticated, melodic and melancholic rock album.
The 10 track album was first issued by Helicon/Universal in Israel in February 2004 and spawned two huge hit singles in "Hello" and "Pain". The success of the album meant that the next step to making Blackfield a live band could be taken, and in February a 5 piece band version of Blackfield made their debut by performing on several prime time Israeli TV shows.
In the meantime an international release for the album was arranged through Snapper Music in the UK, and the album was issued in August to phenomenal reviews in Europe and America, many hailing it as a masterpiece and an instant classic. Aviv and Steven undertook a major promotional campaign and the live band played two special concerts to launch the album, one each in their two home towns of Tel Aviv and London. The Blackfield album looks set to be one of the most important releases of 2004.
Family Jewish Broadway Sing-A-Long
Sunday, September 25 • 1:30pm FREE
Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center, 4 Boland Drive, West Orange
Rain location: Cooperman JCC
Sunrise Sunset, A Whole New World, Popular, A Hard Knock Life —do you know the lyrics to these incredible songs written by Jewish composers? An outdoor concert for the whole family with song sheets provided to sing along with Broadway professionals. Dress up as your favorite character and join in the fun!
The Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center 21 is pleased to invite you to a lecture.
Dr. Sheva Zucker, Executive Secretary of the League for Yiddish
will speak on
THE YIDDISH LEAGUE: AN OLD ORGANIZATION FOR MODERN TIMES
After the lecture, there will be a performance by
PAULA TEITELBAUM
the beloved folksinger
with a program of Yiddish songs old and new!
SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2005
2 PM
In our auditorium at 3301 Bainbridge Ave. & 208th St., Bronx.
(D train to 205 St, #4 to Moshulu Pkwy;
Buses 10, 28 or 34 to 210th St.)
Contribution: $3.50
Members and students -- free
Refreshments will be served
Come with your friends and family!
DR SHEVA ZUCKER
Oysfir sekretar fun der Yidish-lige
Zi vet redn oyf der teme
DI YIDISH-LIGE: AN ALTE ORGANIZATSYE FAR DI NAYE TSAYTN
Nokh der lektsye vet forkumen a muzikalishe program mit
PERL TEITELBAUM
di balibte folkzingerin
mit ir repertuar Yidishe lider alte un naye!
ZUNTIK DEM 25STN SEPTEMBER 2005
2 N"M
In Sholem-Aleykhem-Tsenter Shul 21
3301 Bainbridge Ave (rog 208te gas), Bronx
(nemt di "D"-ban biz 205ter gas oder dem n' 4 biz Moshulu Parkway;
busn 10, 28, 34 biz 210ter gas)
bayshtayer 3.50 dolar
mitglider un studentn -- fray
Kibed vert servirt
Kumt mit ayere gute-fraynd un mishpokhe!
23-25th of September
23th of Sept. Gefilte fish (Munich, D), Concert 8pm
24th of Sept. Klezmerdance with Pallawatsch (Vienna, A), 3-5 pm
Frume, Golde, Jente - Eastern-Jewish women and their
literature,
Lecture, 6.45-7.30 pm
Modern Klezmer Quartett (Berlin - Munich, D) and
Pallawatsch, Concert 8pm
25th of Sept Klezmerworkshop with Khupe (Berlin, D) 4-6pm
Khupe in concert, 7.30 pm
Admission for the concerts
Friday 14,- Euro/9,- Euro
Saturday 16,- Euro/10,- Euro
Sonday 14,- Euro/9,- Euro
Workshops: 8.- Euro
(participants of a workshop pay a reduced fee for one concert)
Festivalticket: all 3 concerts for 30,- Euro
For more information go to: www.kunstduenger.info
Sunday, Sept. 25th, 4pm, Klezzazz will provide some
entertainment for "Widening the Circle," a gathering of
the political Progressives of Northern Maryland. Sparks,
MD Information on the event is at
leajonesmusic.com/pnm.htm
On Sept 25th at 7:00 at Temple De Hirsch/Sinai in downtown Seattle, Jewish musicians form all over the Northwest will come together to raise money for the URJ's Hurricane Relief Fund. We will ask $18 per person from our audience, but no one will be turned away.
So far we are mostly synagogue musicians and we especially need a klez presence!
E-mail Emily Katcher or call 206-780-0795 for more info or to volunteer.
The Afro-Semitic Experience
Sunday, September 25
Days of Awe concert
7:00 p.m.
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Ave., West Hartford.
This event is sponsored by the Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, Connecticut. For more information please call 860-249-1207.
Hawthorne String Quartet
Sunday, September 25 • 7:30 pm $28 M/S/S; $32 GP
Maurice Levin Theatre
Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC
Ross Family Campus
760 Northfield Avenue, West Orange, NJ 07052
973-736-3200
Produced by the TerezÍn Chamber Music Foundation, the Hawthorne String Quartet concert is a powerful glimpse into life and cultural activity in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Narrative and slide presentations provide background on the composers, who didn’t survive this so-called “model ghetto.”
Click here to buy tickets online
Hawthorne String Quartet
Sunday, September 25 • 7:30 pm $28 M/S/S; $32 GP
Produced by the TerezÍn Chamber Music Foundation, the Hawthorne String Quartet concert is a powerful glimpse into life and cultural activity in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Narrative and slide presentations provide background on the composers, who didn’t survive this so-called “model ghetto.”
Tuesday, September 27th, 7:30 9:30pm, Astoria Center of Israel Synagogue. Art Bailey’s Orkestra Popilar is a quintet consisting of accordion, two violins, mandolin and bass that highlights both well-known and more obscure klezmer tunes, as well as Bailey’s own original compositions. $5 donation. Delicious desserts and coffee will also be available.
Astoria Center of Israel Synagogue, 27-35 Crescent Street, Astoria, Queens. Take the N or W subway towards Queens to the 30th Avenue stop. Walk west on 30th Avenue (towards Athens Square Park) for about 4 blocks; turn right on Crescent Street and we’re a half block down on the right. For more information: Call the shul at 718-278-2680 or visit /www.astoriacenter.org/op
After a long summer spent composing and arranging new music, Jay Vilnai will once again take over Barbes with his Vampire Suit and with a brand new project The Ethnoeccentric String Trio. The evening will commence at 7:00pm at Barbes, 376 9th St., Brooklyn, on September 30th, 2005.
Vampire Suit draws on Jay Vilnai's unique musical heritage as a Russian-Romanian-Polish descendant raised in Jerusalem around a mix of contemporary and traditional Jewish and Arab music, with a soul for rock n'roll and a BFA in jazz. Couple that with a passion for Bartok and Stravinsky and you end up with all original music that draws on all those influences to create something akin to traditional music for a generation that has so many traditions it calls his. Balkan and Middle-Eastern rhythms are prominent, backed by 20th century composing concepts and jazz improvising.
'If Bram Stoker's imaginary Transylvania had a jazz scene, the music might sound something like this.' —Jazz Review
For the Ethnoeccentric String Trio (EST), Vilnai solicited the talents of violinist Skye Steele and cellist Christopher Hoffman. The music plays as a scrapbook from their various travels in the New York music scene and around the world. EST brings a globe-spanning variety of music into focus through the prism of the improvisational string trio. Expect Bulgarian dances, Greek Rembetika, Indian ragas, original compositions and Bartok.
