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c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709
510-848-0237 x126
www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.
Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar will be performing Wednesday, March 8 at
Astoria Center of Israel's "Cafe ACI". For more info, click on the url
below....
Wednesday, March 8 , 2006, 8-9:30pm
Astoria Center of Israel
27-35 Crescent Street, Astoria, Queens
$5 donation
www.astoriacenter.org/op
Hope to see you there!
Musicians:
Art Bailey- accordion
Brandon Seabrook- mandolin
Jake Shulman-Ment-violin
Jeremy Brown-violin
Jim Guttmann-bass
Music from Romania and a few other places...
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. The
repertoire is a mix of early 20th century Jewish fiddle pieces, original
compositions, improvisation, and features material originally recorded by
Romanian-born cymbalom master and Lower East Side restaurateur, Joseph
Moskowitz. Reminiscent of an earlier time in the history of recorded Jewish
music, the result is fresh, unique, and thoroughly engaging.
Josh Waletzky's film about the Kirov Opera and Ballet companies, "Sacred Stage: The Mariinsky Theater", is having a NY premiere screening next Wednesday at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, one showing only, at 8:15pm. The film features eye- and ear-filling performances, plus behind-the-scenes scenes, plus incisive commentaries, plus a narration written by Ronald Blumer and spoken by Richard Thomas.
Read all about it at this site: filmlinc.com/wrt/showing/sacredstage.html