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Open Rehearsals A Besere Velt (A Better World): Yiddish Community Chorus of the Workmen痴 Circle
Saturday, September 16 and Saturday, September 30
3:30-5:30pm
1762 Beacon Street, Brookline

A Besere Velt (A Better World), Yiddish Community Chorus of the Workmen痴 Circle, opens its membership once a year. We sing songs of freedom and struggle from progressive Jewish cultural tradition. Performances throughout the year. All voices welcome. No knowledge of Yiddish required. For more information contact Lisa Gallatin at 617.566.6164.

Boston Workmen痴 Circle is a thriving Jewish community and cultural center rooted in Yiddishkayt and the pursuit of social justice. Workmen's Circle offers a variety of activities, including secular holiday observances, cultural Sunday School, Yiddish language classes, social action forums and action projects, and a klezmer jam. For more information, contact the Workmen痴 Circle 617-566-6281 or email us

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The Klezmatics—Woody Guthrie's Wonder Wheel Tour
Oct 15, 7pm
The Egg
Center for the Performing Arts
Empire State Plaza
Albany, NY
(518)473.1845
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Naftule's Dream
Rutman's Violins, Sept 30, 8pm

Naftule's Dream, whose seminal recordings in the early 1990's helped create the Radical Jewish Culture movement and jumpstart John Zorn's Tzadik label, will be performing September, 30 2006, 8:00pm at Rutman's Violin Shop (11 Westland Ave., Boston, MA 02115). Admission is by donation, phone 617-522-2900 for info.

Naftule's Dream has been performing at major jazz festivals and venues in Europe, Canada and other major music centers in the U.S for over a decade., including the Berlin Jazz Festival, Ashkenaz in Toronto, and the Chicago World Music Festival, but have been largely overlooked in Boston, receiving "Boston's most under-appreciated band" appellation in a recent Boston Phoenix overview of the Boston music scene.

When John Zorn started his "Radical Jewish Culture" label, Tzadik, one of the first bands he signed was Naftule's Dream, who's three Tzadik CDs set the standard for what new Jewish music could be. Incorporating klezmer, new jazz and rock, the band has explored the most visceral and sophisticated edges of the music, through their composition and improvisations. Because of their eclectic approach and influences, critics have compared them to Zorn's "Naked City," Frank Zappa, Ivo Papasov and King Crimson.

The band has strong Jewish ties, originally starting as a side project of members of Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, which has been performing in the Boston area and internationally for over twenty years. Naftule's Dream is Glenn Dickson, clarinet; Gary Bohan, trumpet; Michael McLaughlin, accordion; Brandon Seabrook, guitar; Eric Rosenthal, drums; James Gray, tuba.

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The Klezmatics
Saturday, September 30
Towne Crier Cafe
Pawling, NY
Show begins at 9pm
(845) 855-1300
www.townecrier.com/calendar.html

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