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The Austin Klezmorim
FREE! Concert in conjunction with Citywide Fiesta in
San Antonio
Sunday April 23, Noon, 1:30, & 3:00
Congregation Agudas Achim
16550 Huebner Rd, San Antonio, 78248
(210) 479-0307
NOTE: Don't drink too much tequila!
Bruce Adler appears in concert at Queens Theater in The Park (New York) at 8pm on Saturday night April 22nd and again at 2pm in the afternoon on Sunday April 23rd. Go to queenstheatre.org or call 718-760-0064 for tickets.
The Chabot College Foundation presents the world premiere of
"Forbidden Voices," a concert that showcases rarely performed
songs written by Jewish composers whose works were banned by the Nazis.
This monumental event is slated for Sunday, April 23, 2006, between
Passover and Holocaust Remembrance Day, at 3 p.m. at the Chabot College
Performing Arts Center, 25555 Hesperian Boulevard,
Hayward, California 94545.
Tickets may be purchased at cityboxoffice.com or by calling 415-392-4400. The event is a benefit for the Chabot College Foundation. A portion of the proceeds will be contributed to the Holocaust Center of Northern California. Donors who give $250 or more will receive complimentary VIP tickets, the CD and the opportunity to meet the performers at a back stage event following the program. Contact the Foundation for more information at (510) 723-6802.
Sunday, April 23, 2006 at 4pm
Topanga Earth Day
presents:
"a day long celebration and a union of music, arts, science, healing and ceremony"
featuring:
The Yuval Ron Ensemble
Concert for Earth Day
with guest singer: Ahmed El Asmar
guest dancers: Maya Karasso and Melanie Kareem
Location: at the Topanga State Park; Nature Center, Trippet Ranch 20825 Entrada Road, Topanga, CA. 90290, back at the ranch.
Time: Yuval Ron Ensemble Concert at 4 pm , activities from 10am-5pm
Admission: $10 for the whole day!
For tickets and more info: www.topangaearthday.org
Proceeds will benefit Turtle Project & Stream Team and the Center for Land Base Learning - two local community, not for profit working to educate, preserve, and restore the natural environment
Topanga Earth Day, Sunday April 23rd will include numerous activities, workshops, booths, bazaar, environmentalists, displays, yoga, music and dance shows and more for the whole family from 10 am to 5 pm
Pharaoh's Daughter
APRIL 23rd (QUEENS)
Queen's Arts Museum — Pharaoh's Daughter UNPLUGGED @ 5p.m.
With Basya Schechter — oud, saz, guitar Daphna Mor — recorders, ney, zurna
and Meg Okura — violin
Alex Kontorovich's Deep Minor
The Knitting Factory, in the Old Office:
74 Leonard St., NYC
Sunday, April 23, 6:30pm
Tickets are $8 in
advance and at the door.
212.219.3132
www.knittingfactory.com
Dive into the rambunctious rhythmic grooves and lose yourself in the intimate improvisations of Deep Minor—the latest project of all original compositions from reedman/bandleader Alex Kontorovich. To create this high energy quartet, Kontorovich joins forces with three premiere world jazz musicians: Brandon Seabrook (guitar/banjo), Reuben Radding (bass), and Aaron Alexander (drums). Mixing funk, Afro-Cuban, klezmer and Balkan influences, Deep Minor is the most exciting new must-see group to hit the New York jazz scene.
Pharaoh's Daughter
APRIL 23rd (benefit at Columbia University for Darfur)
7p.m. With Divahn and Sultana Ensemble
And student documentary footage in Sudan.
Sunday 23rd April 7pm – 11pm
Tracy Ann Oberman, Maureen Lipman, David Aaronovitch, Norman Lebrecht, Max Wigram and more...
SP!EL @ the Hampstead Theatre and the new Jewish Community Centre for London
Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue Swiss Cottage, NW3 3EU
Price: £12 /£11 concessions
Book on 0207 722 9301 or online at www.hampsteadtheatre.com
At SP!EL, four guests including Maureen Lipman, Tracy Ann Oberman, Norman Lebrecht and Max Wigram with host David Aaronovitch will chew the fat over contemporary cultural events, surrounded by sneak live previews of new albums, plays, performance and books by visiting bands, actors and contemporary dancers.
We will feature a performance from Three Admirers, a newly commissioned piece from the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, adapted by the award-winning Samuel Adamson and directed by Mark Rosenblatt plus dj Max Reinhardt in the bar after the show.
Discussion includes Andy Warhol's Ten Portrait Of Jews at the National Portrait Gallery, the new novel Journey to the land of No by Roya Hakakian and Ushpizin, showing at Screen on the Hill and the Odeon Swiss Cottage.
Produced by YaD Arts for the Jewish Community Centre
www.hampsteadtheatre.com & www.jewishcommunitycentre.org.uk
Yiddishe Cup
April 23
2 p.m.
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
(at Brooklyn College)
Walt Whitman Theatre
$25
718-951-4500
www.brooklyncenter.com
IRT #2 to last stop, "Flatbush Avenue."
Dr. Demento: "[Yiddishe Cup is] a dizzying combination of retro and contemporary references, and hot music."
George Robinson, New York Jewish Week: "I can't imagine what they are like on stage but I'm sure the American Psychiatric Association is watching closely."