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This year’s KlezKamp, which begins the first night of Chanukah, celebrates all the holidays with its theme “Gut Yontev KlezKamp!,” from December 25-30 at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, New York.
For more information, visit the KlezKamp website at www.livingtraditions.org/docs/index_kk.htm
Lox & Vodka
The National Music Center and Museum, in association with the Smithsonian
Institution and the Library of Congress, invites the public to the grand
opening, their Holiday Celebration.
Lox & Vodka is proud to be one of their featured performers. Please join us
Tuesday, December 27th, museum prime time ~ 12:30-1:15, in the Great Hall,
at 801 K Street, NW. This is a free, multicultural celebration.
This event will introduce the public to this wonderful, new museum and will
provide visitors with an opportunity to witness how various cultures in
America celebrate during the winter holiday season.
For directions: http://www.the-gig.us/Info.htm
For schedule of performances: http://www.the-gig.us/Schedule.htm
The Rabbinical School Dropouts will be performing 2 concerts, Dec. 26 and Dec 27th, at the Quail Botanical Gardens Garden of Lights in Encinitas, CA. Enjoy klezmer originals from their Tzadik release Cosmic Tree, as well as traditional standards in one of California’s most beautiful locations. Each night will feature 2 sets of klezmer music, and the concerts are both from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Admission is $6 for non-members of the Gardens, $4 for members, and $2 for children under 12. You can reach the Garden at qbgardens.com and at 760.436.3036 x206. The Quail Botanical Gardens are located at 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas CA
December 27th
Sephardic Music Festival
The Elias Ladino Ensemble and Yardena y son Ladino
@ Congregation Shearith Israel, The Spanish Portuguese Synagogue
7pm / $12 adv or $15 door
2 West 70th (off Central Park West)
www.modularmoods.com/smf/27th.html
For further information, contact:
Erez a.k.a. dj handler
Barzilai Productions
718.290.5372
E-mail dj handler
www.sephardicmusicfestival.com
Orquestra Kef
Martes 27 de Diciembre, 20.00 hs.
Plaza Uruguay, Av. Figueroa Alcorta y Tagle.
Organiza Jabad Lubavich Argentina, Acto Central.
Tues, Dec 27
JDub, JFJ, and PJA Present:
Jewltide
Featuring THE LEEVEES
And special guests
Paradise Rock Club
967 Commonwealth Ave, Boston
Doors open 7pm
$12 in advance, $14 at the door, 18+
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG (HOLY) CITY
A Festive Celebration of Chanukah
featuring
Mobius (Dan Sieradski of Jewschool.com) on the wheels of steel
with special guests
Sagol 59
Yehuda Ledgley
Aliza Hava
Matthue Roth
& More
Tuesday, December 27 @9PM
Daila, 4 Shlomzion Hamalka, Jerusalem
Pharaoh's Daughter, Smadar, Sarah Aroeste Band
Tuesday, December 27th, 10 PM
$12.00
Makor Cultural Center in NYC
8pm / $12
35 West 67th st
b/w Central Park West and Columbus Ave
35 West 67th St., Between Columbus and Central Park West
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.
Smadar was born in Sderot, Israel. She grew up in a Moroccan household listening to Arabic music. Following her military service, she moved to New York to study theater, voice and movement. Smadar pursued acting at first, living bi-coastally between Los Angeles and New York, where she acted in theatre, films and commercials. In 2001 Smadar decided to shift her focus to music, following an encounter with Mr. Rashid Halial, a tremendously talented singer and violinist from Morocco. Together they formed trio that concentrated on Moroccan music, and began to perform in a variety of NY venues. Smadar's current repertoire has expanded to include several languages, including Arabic, Moroccan, Spanish, Ladino and Greek, and material that includes both original compositions and traditional songs. The full lineup of her current band includes accordion, Turkish clarinet, bass, drums, kanun and darbuka, and the arrangements are embedded in Turkish and Middle Eastern idioms. Smadar debuted her new material in Israel this past summer, receiving accolades from all the major media outlets. For more about Smadar, please check out her website at www.smadarlevi.com, where you can find music, photos, press articles and a video clip of a live performance.
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.