North of Boston Klezmer Jam, Watertown, MA, Dec 18
The NOB klezmer jam will be Sunday Dec. 18, 12:30-3 at Steve Rauch's house - 172 Bellevue Rd.
Watertown, MA 02472
Tel: 617-926-7603
It's a brunch, so make sure to being edibles.
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Lox & Vodka, Washington, DC, Dec 18
Sunday, December 18
Annual Chanukah Celebration at the Chevy Chase Pavilion featuring the music of Lox & Vodka. Celebration runs from 1:00-4:00. Lox & Vodka will be performing between 1:15 and 3:45. The Chevy Chase Pavilion is at 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
Rushefsky, Wolock, in wine cellar event, NYC, Dec 18
Sunday, December 18 at 2 PM - Music, poetry, wine, festivity!
Experience the vibrant environment of an early 20th-century Lower East Side wine cellar. Musicians Peter Rushefsky, Jake Shulman Men, and Jeffrey Wollock and poets Celena Glenn and Bob Holman pay tribute to the sweet gypsy sounds and improvisational poetry once featured at these popular gathering places.
The Eldridge Street Project's Wine Cellar Cabaret will take place at the Eldridge Street Synagogue, 12 Eldridge Street (between Canal and Division Streets). By subway: F to East Broadway; B or D to Grand Street. Admission: $18 adults; $15 students and seniors. For more information, please call the Eldridge Street Project at 212.219.0888 x 302.
WINE CELLAR CABARET Music & poetry pay tribute to the vibrant culture of early 20th-century New York as a new breed of wine bar opens in the neighborhood
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2005 at 2 PM
Lower East Side, New York. . .Wine, verse, music, festivity! On Sunday, December 18, the Eldridge Street Project celebrates a distinctive feature of early 20th-century Lower East Side life—the area's wine cellars and the lively artistic and intellectual scene that flourished in them. With their sweet gypsy music and wildly inventive poetry, these establishments were an alternative and precursor to the Yiddish theatre. Frequented by a diverse cross-section of artists, activists, laborers, even mothers with young children, the wine bars represented a release from the grim working and living conditions of the area—or as writer Michael Gold put it "sweatshop holiday."
Today, on the Lower East Side, a new breed of wine cellar is flourishing, with places like Inoteca, East Side Company Bar, and Punch and Judy catering to the young, hip crowd moving into the neighborhood.
At the Eldridge Street Project's Wine Cellar Cabaret musicians Peter Rushefsky (dulcimer), Jake Shulman-Ment (violin), and Jeffrey Wollock (violin) will perform traditional Gypsy music of the era; and poets Celena Glenn and Bob Holman will perform in the spirit of the improvisational poets once featured at these popular gathering places.
Neither at street level nor subterranean, the Wine Cellar Cabaret will be held in the exquisite main sanctuary of the Eldridge Street Synagogue. The juxtaposition of these two very different venues—a historic house of worship and cultural tavern—will suggest the diversity of life and traditions experienced by those who lived on the Lower East Side in the early 20th century when more than one million people lived in the neighborhood.
In his 1930 masterpiece Jews Without Money, Gold brilliantly evokes the steamy, charged atmosphere of these places: "A hundred Jews in a basement blue as sea-fog with tobacco smoke. The men wore their derby hats ... The women were fat and sweated happily, and smacked their children ... The waiters buzzed like crazy bees. A jug of the good red Roumanian wine decorated the oilcloth on every table ... artificial grapes swung from the ceiling ... Moscowitz played a sad and beautiful peasant ballad. A little blubber-faced man with a red beard beat his glass on the table, wept and sang. Others joined him. The whole room sang."
PERFORMERS: Poet Celena Glenn is former host of the Nuyorican Poets' Café, two-time National Poetry Slam Champion, and currently ranked second in the World Individual Poetry Slam. Bob Holman, poet, editor, founder of the Bowery Arts & Science Club, and dean of the spoken-word scene, has performed at and presented poetry events throughout the United States and the World. He is producer of the PBS documentary "The United States of Poetry" and chief curator of the biennial People's Poetry Gathering, bringing together oral poetry traditions from around the world. Pete Rushefsky is a leading performer and teacher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), an ethereal, harp-like instrument employing over 100 strings. His CDS On the Paths: Yiddish Songs with Tsimbl and Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer and Violin ?have garnered critical acclaim. Jeff Shulman-Ment, a leading practitioner of "Gypsy Punk", has performed and recorded extensively in the New York metropolitan area, including with his own band Romashka. Jeffrey Wollock has played viola and violin since childhood and performs with many other leading klezmer musicians throughout the United States and Canada, including his own band Bnei Peduster. An active Yiddishist and historian, Wollock is one of the foremost experts on traditional East European Jewish klezmer violin style.
The Eldridge Street Project, the event sponsor, is restoring the Eldridge Street Synagogue, a National Historic Landmark, as a center of 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.
Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, Dec 18, NYC
Hebrew Tabernacle presents
A Family Pre-Chanukah Concert with
Internationally renowned klezmer ensemble
Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi
featuring Elizabeth Schwartz
Traditional khasidic and Yiddish vocals, Rom, Balkan World Beat
Sunday, December 18th at 2 p.m.
"A leading light of the klezmer revival" (Time Out New York)
Strom not only feels klezmer innately, he can play the
hell out of it, too. Long on thought, Strom's approach to
music is also a window into a people's experience.
Instructive, yes, but you can also dance to this
revolution. Yale Strom is a Jewish roots trip unto himself?
(Dirty Linen Magazine)
"Elizabeth Schwartz is a revelation" (Sing Out! Magazine)
KlezMerovitz, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Dec 18
KlezMerovitz
Sunday, December 18
Beth Tzedec Synagogue, Calgary
4 pm.
1325 Glenmore Trail S.W.
KlezMerovitz in a feature performance as part of
the congregation's Channukah Festival.
In this joyous celebration of the Channukah Festival of Lights, expect music that pulls at a mix of emotions and will have folks tapping feet and dancing in the aisles. Lead singer Allan Merovitz, formerly of the legendary Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band will add another dimension of his repertoire. He will perform classic Jewish folk tales for the season, and there will be latkes and other traditional Jewish foods to eat.
KlezMerovitz combines the centuries old tradition of Klezmer with some modern western twists. According to Leo Rosten: "Klezmer Music is a style of music that is inherently Jewish in nature. The word Klezmer comes from two Hebrew words, clay and zimmer, meaning vessel of music or song. The idea is that the instrument ie. the violin, clarinet, takes on human characteristics like laughing and crying. With a joyous exuberance or a soulful wailing."
Klezmer musicians were the wandering minstrels of the European Jewish world. KlezMerovitz continues the tradition giving it a distinctly western Canadian flavour.
What people are saying about KlezMerovitz…
"Amazing performance. This is what folk festivals are all about"—Steve Eichler, board member of the Calgary Folk Festival, after KlezMerovitz workshop performance with India's Kawa Brass Band.
"You've got some of the best new klezmer music that I've heard in a long time, and your renditions of the traditional pieces on the album really rock, too. You can be sure that my listeners are going to be hearing a lot of Klezmerovitz. Thanks for the great music—Barry Reisman, host WNWR, AM, Philadelphia, PA
"This CD has much to interest listeners from all backgrounds. … the music transcends linguistic barriers—there is never a dull moment … And the Calgarian band of strings, winds and percussion is versatile and sensitive, providing just what is needed—whether it be a rollicking oompah-pah beat, a jazzy-blues feel, or eloquent heart-rending melodies. …A great klezmer compilation."—Annette Sanger, WholeNote Magazine, Toronto
DJ SoCalled, "Yo Chanuka", NYC, Dec 18
Yo Chanuka! Yo Chanuka!
Starring DJ So-Called
WC/AR
45 E. 33rd St. (bet. Madison & Park Ave.)
Sunday, Dec 18, 6-9pm
* Dancing, food, Yiddish hip hop
* Magic performance with a Yiddish twist!
* Chanukah treats and drinks!
* Comedy skit!
$5 plus a food or clothing or toy donation to benefit the needy
Please RSVP: 212 889 6800 x215
Golem, Seth Rogovoy, Great Barrington, MA, Dec 18
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18
"Helsinki Hanukah Klezmer Festival," featuring klezmer/Yiddish band GOLEM
and SETH ROGOVOY's ROCKIN' THE SHTETL; dinner at 5:30; concert at 7; Club
Helsinki, 284 Main St., Great Barrington, Mass., 413.528.3394;
www.clubhelsinkiweb.com.
A Khanike Celebration (with dancing!), Rockville, MD, Dec 18
JCC Café K Presents A Khanike Celebration:
Kvetchn nit, Zayt freylakh! (Don't Complain, Be Happy!)
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington's Café Kasrilevke will present a special Khanike program titled "With Joy and Dignity, the Jewish Way of Dancing" on Sunday, December 18 at 7:30 p.m. Steven Weintraub, "The Pied Piper of Yiddish Dance" will demonstrate and teach participants Yiddish dances, and lead a traditional lighting of the Chanukah candles with the sounds of beautiful Khanike music.
Don't miss this exciting evening celebrating Yiddish dance and the Festival of Lights. Admission is $6 for JCC, Yiddish of Greater Washington and Workmen's Circle members, and $9 for the general public. Reservations are not required. For more information call Lynn Gittleson at 301-348-3840. The JCC is located at 6125 Montrose Road in Rockville, MD.
Café Kasrilevke is co-sponsored by Yiddish of Greater Washington
and Workmen's Circle
Comedy, London, UK, Dec 18
Sunday 18th December 8pm – 10pm
Comedy @ LJCC and the new Jewish Community Centre for London
London Jewish Cultural Centre, 94 – 96 North End Road, London, NW11 7HU
Price: £12.
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THEIR BOX OFFICE ON 0208 455 9900
The second in a new series of unmissable evenings of humour and wit. Some of London’s funniest actors and comedians embark on a freefall rollercoaster of unscripted madness. The JCC Players will host highly entertaining, fast paced comic ‘impro’ nights, Jewish style.
A Jewish Community Centre for London event produced by YaD Arts
www.ica.org.uk & www.jewishcommunitycentre.org.uk
For other Jewish Community Centre events check out their website…
Shtreiml, NYC, Dec 18
Shtreiml, with Michael Winograd
Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer St.
Brooklyn, NY
9:30 - 11:30pm
www.petescandystore.com