KlezCalendar

The Seventh Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival
Rhythm en Route
May 16 through May 24

Thursday, May 18 - 7:30pm
Kabbalah Kirtan
Yofiyah
Ina and Jack Kay Community Hall
Advance Tickets: General: $15 * Member, Senior, Student Price: $10
At The Door: General: $20 * Member, Senior, Student Price: $14

A diverse musical journey filled with tunes and artists from the far corners of the world and those close to home. Tickets are on sale now!

Click here for the Festival line-up

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The Sway Machinery
Saturday, May 13th, 2006
Mendy: A question of faith--opening party!!!
Mendy, a film by Adam Vardy, and with a score composed by Jeremiah Lockwood and performed by The Sway Machinery, is opening for a two week run at Cinema Village on May 12th. Come celebrate with a live performance by The Sway Machinery. Venue and exact time to be announced.
mendythemovie.com

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Yiddish Café proudly presents:

An Evening In Honour of Sholem Aleichem’s 90th Yortsayt
Thursday, MAY 18, 2006 at 8:00 p.m.

Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine, Montreal

Admission: $7 JPL members, $10 non-members

For information, please call (514) 345-2627 ext. 3006
or advance tickets call (514) 345-6416

www.jewishpubliclibrary.org

To respect the final wishes of Sholem Aleichem on his yortsayt (anniversary of a person’s death), the Jewish Public Library is celebrating this great Yiddish writer with laughter and fun. Come listen to readings from his works and view a multi-media presentation in a café-style setting. Refreshments served.

The Jewish Public Library, founded in Montreal in 1914, is committed to encouraging and promoting the Yiddish language, culture and literature, by collecting and preserving Yiddish materials, and by presenting a variety of cultural events.

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JuMu présente

En concert unique et en exclusivité
Sophie Solomon
L'avenir de la musique Klezmer

le Jeudi 18 mai 2006 avec JuMu à LA SCENE BASTILLE à 20 h 30, 2 bis rue des Taillandiers, 75011 Paris, Métro Bastille—www.la-scene.com

Location : www.fnac.com www.ticketnet.fr et www.digitick.com
Fnac – Carrefour 0 892 68 36 22 (0,34€/min)
Virgin - Auchan 0 892 390 100 (0,34€/min)
Billetterie sur place
Tarif : 19€ (réduit 17€)

Fondatrice du groupe mythique Londonien Oi-Va-Voi, coauteure du sensationnel album "Hip Hop Khasene" avec le Canadien SoCalled, Sophie Solomon fait escale à Paris dans le cadre de sa première tournée Européenne d'envergure pour nous présenter son nouvel album solo "Poison Sweet Madeira" aux accents tango,Gypsy et Klezmer, offrant un hommage vibrant et aventureux à l’un des héritages musicaux les plus pénétrants et entraînants qui soit. (www.sophiesolomon.com).

"She commands an entire crowd with one stroke of her bow." (De Morgen, Belgium)
"Virtuoso fiddler Solomon is a musical alchemist." (Daily Telegraph, UK)
"There are few violinists with the bravura of Sophie Solomon. She plays violin like Eddy Van Halen on electric guitar." (De Volkskrant, Holland)
"The trans-Atlantic fusion between London's Sophie Solomon (member of Oi-Va-Voi) and New Yorker Socalled, the innovative meeting of klezmer and hip hop" (Mondomix)

Nouvel album : "Sweet Poison Madeira"
Sortie courant 2006 chez Decca (Universal)

JuMu : le son des nouvelles musiques juives
Label et Agence Musicale, "plug'": le passé au présent, branche le klezmer sur l’électro, arrange des mariages entre les rappeurs en papillote et la clarinette yid, et métisse le judéo-arabe au hip hop.
www.jumu.fr

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