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The Center for Jewish Music of the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg is proud to announce "KlezFest St. Petersburg 2006," an international seminar on the traditional music of Eastern European Jewry, to be held June 17-22, 2006 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg via email or visit our site www.klezfest.ru.
Phones: +7 812 713 3889, 571 6440

For advice on travel and visa arrangements, contact our American sponsor, the Jewish Community Development Fund in Russia and Ukraine, a project of the American Jewish World Service (New York), via telephone: (+1-212) 273-1642, or AJWS New York.

"KlezFest St. Petersburg," now in its 10th year, is the oldest klezmer seminar in Russia. The 2006 festival will include master-classes on Yiddish folk songs and klezmer music, workshops on Yiddish folklore and Yiddish dance, lectures, concerts, and two excursions: "Jewish St. Petersburg" and "Rivers and Canals of St. Petersburg." Our staff will include world-famous musicians -- from New York, the violinist, accordion player, vocalist, ethnomusicologist and the world's leading expert on Yiddish dance, Michael Alpert; also from New York, the vocalist from the famous Klezmatics group, Lorin Sklamberg; from Berlin, the outstanding klezmer clarinetist, Christian Dawid, from Montreal, the master of hip-hop klezmer, composer, vocalist and DJ Josh "Socalled" Dolgin, and others.

"KlezFest St. Petersburg," dedicated to bringing klezmer music and Yiddish culture back to the land of their birth, includes Jewish musicians from the vibrant centers of the Jewish renaissance throughout the former Soviet Union.

This year again we are pleased to announce a special program for lovers of Yiddish music and culture from other parts of the globe. We are asking for a contribution of $700. This sum will include food and lodging in St. Petersburg for 6 days and the entire seminar program, including interpreters when needed, concerts and two excursions. Participants will pay for their own transportation to St. Petersburg.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg via email or visit our site www.klezfest.ru.
Phones: +7 812 713 3889, 571 6440

For advice on travel and visa arrangements, contact our American sponsor, the Jewish Community Development Fund in Russia and Ukraine, a project of the American Jewish World Service (New York), via telephone: (+1-212) 273-1642, or AJWS New York.

Join us at "KlezFest St. Petersburg" this summer! If you haven't been on the Neva River during White Nights with Russian klezmorim, you haven't lived!

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We have one more JMI Summer School ready to Roll its—"Music for the Sabbath in Progressive congregations" led by the incomparable Cantor Josee Wolff

Sunday 18 June – Wednesday 21 June 2006
L'chu N'ran'nah LAdonai—Come let us sing to the Eternal One!
The Sabbath in the Progressive Tradition
A four-day intensive course for synagogue musicians, worship leaders, choir directors, and all lovers of Jewish music.
Course Director, Cantor Josee Wolff (New York)
Daily 10.30am - 5.30pm
Leo Baeck College, The Sternberg Centre, 80 East End Road, London, N3

www.jmi.org.uk/synagoguemusic/events/05_summer_schools.html

Josée Wolf the charismatic cantor of New York returns by popular demand to look intensively at the Sabbath in the progressive tradition. She says: During this course we will:

• Study the history and structure of Shabbat liturgy
• explore the use of traditional synagogue modes in contemporary worship
• learn congregational melodies for the Kabbalat Shabbat service
• discuss integration of choirs into the services
• experience how music can be midrash
• and much more...

Come and refine your skills, share your experience and learn some new music that is guaranteed to enhance the services in your synagogue.

A must for anyone leading services on Shabbat.
Full rate: L130 students rate L90. Daily rate: L30
Registration and more details Tel: 020 8909 2445
Web: www.jmi.org.uk
E-mail Jewish Music Institute for further info

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Zemer Vekinor
3x1 hour concerts
21 juin 2006 19H, 20H , 21H
absolutly free
at LYON, France, Grande synagogue quai Tilsitt

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Habrera Hativeet
June 21 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Festival Sefarade
www.csuq.org

"One of the most dynamic ensembles in world music, energetic purveyors of a unique kind of Sephardic funk whose origins span the entire Mediterranean and points much farther east."—The Jewish Week

Since 1977 Shlomo Bar and Habrera Hativeet have fused East and West, modern and Biblical, secular and religious, into a unique Israeli sound. Twenty nine years later they still posses a seemingly bottomless reservoir of uncompromising energy and creativity.

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Jazz at the J presents:
Theresa Tova
with:
Matt Herskowitz, piano
Arnie Roth, bass
Brian Katz, guitar

Wednesday, June 21
8:00pm
All Green Theatre
750 Spadina @ Bloor

Tickets: $22 in advance / $28 on day of performance
416.872.1212 / 1.800.461.3333
www.ticketking.com

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Gustavo Bulgach, Prince of West Coast Klezmer, Band leader of Klezmer Juice and Brazilian Composer and Woodwind Prodigy Ze Luis Oliveira are joining forces for one memorable night of “Klezmer meets Brazilian, the South American Way” at Makor, 35 W. 67th St, NYC on Wednesday, June 21st 2006 at 10pm.

This long-time friendship between the two South American natives has produced a collaboration of different heritages that were both spawned in the jazz clubs around the world. Since leaving their Home Land, Ze Luis has concentrated his musical talents in NYC and Bulgui has been emerged in Latin, Jazz, Swing and Klezmer in the Bar-Mitzvah capital of the world, Los Angeles.

GUSTAVO BULGACH
With a long career of playing both Saxophone and clarinet Gustavo Bulgach has played back up for Acts such as EL GENERAL, THE HOUSE OF BLUES HOUSE BAND, THE ORGANIC ORCHESTRA, HIP HOP HOODIOS, CHRIS BOTTY’S ORCHESTRA. Played Saxophone as part of the successful swing band JUMPIN’ JIMES and formed two bands, The Bulgui Union and now Klezmer Juice. Living in Hollywood Gustavo has appeared in many television shows and Klezmer Juice opened the first scene in ‘WEDDING CRASHERS” starting Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. Klezmer Juice released their first CD entitled “Action Speaks Louder than Words” in March of 2005 and has gained a lot of recognition among audiences ever since.

The OY-HOO Music Awards nominated Klezmer Juice for an award in the category of Best New Band and ARC Music International (recording company) released the album worldwide.

In February of 2006, KLEZMER JUICE got a commission form CMH Records in Los Angeles to release 4 CD’s in the next 2 years. They just finished the first one which is a Klezmer tribute to the music of MATISYAHU. KLEZMER JUICE is currently playing in California after returning from a recent South American Tour.

ZE LUIS:
Jose Luis Oliveira a Rio de Janeiro born artist that goes by Ze Luis is a multi instrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer that have credits in more than 320 albums.

In his homeland during the eighties he was a member of Caetano Veloso’s band for seven years and scored together with Gilberto Gil the movie “A Subway to the Stars” directed by Carlos Diegues, one of the most prestigious directors from Brazil.

In a more recent event, he released his first album titled Guarani Banana (Malandro Records/Trama), which was acclaimed, by critics and reviewers through out USA including Saxophone Journal, Down Beat (Players), Rhythm, and Jazziz, among others.

Fresh out of the musical direction of Bebel Gilberto’s release Tanto Tempo (Six Degrees) Ze Luis went back to school to study classical composition with Stanley Wolfe at Juilliard where he was an A student.

Now, after finished the recording of his new album, Ze is ready for another round. He has been working live with his Sextet, Rio Zona Sul, playing regularly in the New York scene (Galapagos, NuBlu, Satala, SOB’S, Knitting Factory, etc…).

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