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Comedian Michael Showalter's album Sandwiches & Cats is set to release this November! Catch our newest addition on tour with friend and accomplice Michael Ian Black all around the U.S:
12/1 @ The Fillmore @ Irving Plaza, New York NY
Shir Chadash: The Brooklyn Jewish Community Chorus
directed by Natasha Hirschhorn
PRESENTS
"Not by Might, but by Spirit" A musical celebration of Chanukah
Enjoy classical selections by Mussorgsky and Handel, Chanukah liturgy in exquisite settings, and holiday favorites, old and new with surprise guest artists
Tickets: $10 in advance, $15 at the door
Children under 13 admitted free
Sunday, December 9th at 5PM
Kings Bay YM-YWHA
3495 Nostrand Avenue (between Avenues U and V), Brooklyn, NY 11229 This concert is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC)
For more information, or to reserve tickets, please call 718-648-7703, ext 226.
Shir Chadash: The Brooklyn Jewish Community Chorus
directed by Natasha Hirschhorn
PRESENTS
"Not by Might, but by Spirit" A musical celebration of Chanukah
Enjoy classical selections by Mussorgsky and Handel, Chanukah liturgy in exquisite settings, and holiday favorites, old and new with surprise guest artists
Tickets: $10 in advance, $15 at the door
Children under 13 admitted free
Saturday, December 1st at 7:45PM
East Midwood Jewish Center
with Chazzan Sam Levine and the EMJC choir
1625 Ocean Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11230
This concert made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.
In Kings County, the Decentralization Program is administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC)
For more information, or to reserve tickets, please call 718-338-3800.
Shtreiml
Sat., Dec. 1, 8 p.m., doors open 7
Common Fence Community Hall
933 Anthony Road, Portsmouth
Tickets $20
(401) 683-5085
www.commonfencemusic.org
Shtreiml takes a jam band approach to traditional and original Eastern-European and Turkish music. The band's hard-hitting set has been described as a cross between Blues Traveler and Dave Tarras.
Odessa/Havana CD Release tour
Saturday, December 1
SAN FRANCISCO, USA
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
8:00pm
We're happy to announce the upcoming release of Odessa/Havana's debut CD. On November 1 this unprecedented project of Jewish-Cuban fusion will hit the streets with a recording of high powered music played by an all-star band. Odessa/Havana will be released internationally on Tzadik—John Zorn's "Radical Jewish Culture" record label.
The CD features compositions by David Buchbinder & award-winning pianist-composer Hilario Durán and was produced by award-winning bassist/producer Roberto Occhipinti.
On November 21 we'll celebrate with a concert at Lula Lounge. Please join us for two sets of unforgettable music, featuring along with David and Hilario, the musical talents of Alex Gajic, Mark Kelso, Rick Shadrach Lazar, Quinsin Nachoff, Roberto Occhipinti and special guest Jorge Luis "Papiosco" Torres. This band does not play often in Toronto, so don't miss this opportunity to experience something truly new.
"...exuberant, epic, stirringly rhythmic, sometimes flamboyant, sometimes beautiful and subtle, and always interesting." —Live Music Report.
Lori Cahan-Simon
Sunday, December 2nd at 2pm at the Workmen's Circle, 1980 S. Green., South Euclid, Ohio. You can rsvp at 216 381-4515. Seating is limited, admission is only $3!
Joining Cahan-Simon at the Workmen's Circle will be Walt Mahovlich on accordion
and Max Rothman on violin
Lori Cahan-Simon
Sunday, December 2nd at 2pm at the Workmen's Circle, 1980 S. Green., South Euclid, Ohio. You can rsvp at 216 381-4515. Seating is limited, admission is only $3!
Joining Cahan-Simon at the Workmen's Circle will be Walt Mahovlich on accordion
and Max Rothman on violin
JUDAS MACCABAEUS
Sunday, December 2, 2007
3:00 pm
Temple Emanuel, 280 May St., Worcester, MA
(pre-concert lecture at 2:00 in the Rose Chapel)
The Master Singers of Worcester is proud to present the first Worcester performance in decades of George Frederick Handel’s epic work about the Maccabean struggle, Judas Maccabaeus. During the composer’s lifetime, this dramatic oratorio was second in popularity only to Messiah. Recounting in music the liberation of Judea from the persecution of the Syrians, Handel’s vivid score is replete with splendid choruses, and brilliant writing for soloists and full orchestra. The chorus will be joined by the Master Singers Youth Chorus and the Shrewsbury Youth Singers, and by guest artists baritone Solomon Cross, mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato, tenor Daniel Mutlu (Cantor at Temple Emanuel), and soprano Marina Shemesh (Cantor at Worcester’s Congregation Beth Israel). A pre-concert lecture “What is The Real Story of Chanukah?” will be presented by Temple Emanuel Rabbi Jordan Millstein.
Tickets: www.mswma.org/frameset.html
I'm sure that you'll be able to purchase them at the door as well.
If you are a fan of Michael Wex (which is to say, if you have ever met him, heard him speak, or read his previous best-seller), and you live in New York, you will be quite pleased to know that the new book, Just say nu is out.
December 2 - Museum of Jewish Heritage, NY
Why is Wex so funny? I blame it on Alberta, or at least the Calgary Hebrew Day School, which we both attended (me for just a few early years, insufficient for an adequate humor education, in the early 1960s). [ari]
Metropolitan Klezmer
Sunday, December 2
FREE! Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn (2pm)
The Zamir Chorale of Boston invites you to
an Open Sing of Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and choruses from Handel's oratorio JUDAS MACCABAEUS.
Joshua R. Jacobson, conductor
Frederick Metzger, boy soprano
and Edwin Swanborn, pianist
Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007, 3 pm, at Temple Reyim,
1860 Washington Street, Newton, MA.
near the Woodland Green Line (D) T stop
Admission: $10; $8 for students and seniors.
Vocal scores, included in the cost of admission, will be available at the door.
Join us as a singer or just a listener.
For further information, call 617-244-6333.
Kavehoyz Program of Yiddish Folksong with Susan Goldberg and Peter Schlosser
to the 100th yortsayt of Mark Warshawsky
Mark Warshawsky SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2nd
3:30 PM
ATRAN CENTER
FOR JEWISH CULTURE,
25 EAST 21st ST.
CONTRIBUTION: $8
(Children and Students Free)
Dear friends,
This is to let you know about a Yiddish concert which is coming up, featuring the "Three Yiddish Divas" (Joanne Borts, Adrienne Cooper and Theresa Tova) to take place at Suburban JCC B'nai Aaron in Havertown (a suburb of Philadelphia) on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 7:00 PM. This synagogue is one-minute walk from Septa's Route 100 trolley. The address is 560 Mill Road. For more information, you can phone the synagogue office at 610-446-1967.
Best regards,
Alex Botwinik
from the website: yiddishdivas.com
The Three Yiddish Divas blend their multilingual repertoire and phenomenal talents into a sophisticated, emotionally charged, and stunningly powerful concert. Joining the Divas is the masterful Dan Rosengard. The Three Yiddish Divas are the cream of the Yiddish crop. Daring, creative, and downright beautiful. They can sing like you never heard before. A sophisticated, entertaining combination that brings together three of the most talented performers on the Yiddish Stage. —Mitch Smolkin, Artistic Director of the Ashkenaz Festival
"One of the highlights of this year's festival. The Three Yiddish Divas
balanced a variety of genres with a high-energy pace that left the audience demanding more. All three divas personify the rich vitality of Yiddish and perform it in a way that speaks to music lovers of all backgrounds." —Ellie Shapiro, Director, The 22nd Jewish Music Festival, Berkeley, CA
Benefit concert featuring Shtreiml and a special preview of March of the Falsettos.
Sponsored by the Jewish Dialogue Group and Kol Tzedek West Philadelphia Synagogue.
Sunday, December 2nd
5:30 to 8pm (doors open at 5:30, show begins at 6)
The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street in University City
(next to The Bridge movie theater)
Shtreiml, a Montreal/Philly-based klezmer band that offers a high-octane mix of not-so-traditional Eastern-European Jewish and Turkish music.
A special preview of the new West Philly production of March of the Falsettos.
Plus delicious food (including rugelach from West Philly's own Four Worlds Bakery that would make your grandmother weep), Chanukah gifts from Bindlestiff Books, and some surprises. Children of all ages are welcome.
Suggested donation: $18 per person -- more if you can, no one turned away for lack of funds.
For more info: visit www.jewishdialogue.org/concert2007.htm
Klezmer Jam Sunday December 2
Workmen's Circle building, 1762 Beacon St., Brookline
7:00 - 9:00pm
It's a place to enjoy the wonderful legacy of Klezmer music in an informal and friendly atmosphere. We play from music, available at the jam. We have a variety of instruments, and welcome players at all levels. Keyboardists should bring electric keyboards if possible.
Benefit Concert Rutgers University
Sunday, December 2nd 7 PM
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers Student Center
Proceeds will go to Sharsheret, a division of the Susan G. Komen Foundation
JEWMONGOUS!
Sun. Dec. 2, '07
Red Devil Lounge
San Francisco, CA
415-921-1695,
$17 advance, $20 day of show,
7pm doors for 7:30 show,
1695 Polk St..
www.ticketweb.com. Special duet guest Greg Lee (yes; really Greg Lee).
JEWMONGOUS "Taller Than Jesus" CD Release Tour
JEWMONGOUS, a solo comedy song concert with occasional guests, is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN: the golden-voiced, song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew and the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella. Sean was featured in Time Out New York's cover story "The New Super Jews," (with Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman) and in the New York Times feature about "the Jewish Hipster Movement." He debuted JEWMONGOUS in 2006 and has garnered press accolades coast to coast (see them below).
JEWMONGOUS' debut album Taller Than Jesus will be released on Christmas Day 2007 (to give Jews something to celebrate that day) but is already available exclusively at http://jewmongous.com. The Taller Than Jesus CD release tour hits 16 cities in December 2007. All faiths welcome, even the faithless.
As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums of bittersweet power-pop and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). He is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego" - for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song with his childhood pal, the now-famous David Yazbek. He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in Manhattan, he sings with Kol Zimra Jewish Acapella and performs charity concerts with Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, he serenades hospital patients as a volunteer with Musicians On Call, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows. In short, Sean is a highly exposed mensch, albeit a potty-mouthed one.
SEAN EXPLAINS: Why JEWMONGOUS
At my bar mitzvah, Rabbi Gottlieb publicly warned me of the perils of becoming a "bar mitzvah Jew": a Jew for whom that barely pubescent rite of passage is the end of the line. Indeed, from the moment I sent out that final bar mitzvah "thank you" note (to the Himmelsteins, for that bond that won't mature until I'm dead), I gleefully eschewed the spiritual elements of Judaism. Through my twenties I reveled in my great escape from the clutches of my ancestors' faith, even marrying a dreaded shiksa.
But damn him; that know-it-all Rabbi Gottlieb was right: secular Judaism (the ability to discern a bagel from a donut) was not nearly as fulfilling as Satan had promised (and to boot the shiksa dumped me). I felt an increasingly urgent longing to be more connected with my Jewish lineage. But how Synagogues intimidated me and I'd long forgotten how to read Hebrew (and by "read" I mean sound out the words with no comprehension whatsoever). For years I asserted my Jewishness only at Passover seders, where I read the four questions aloud with particular bravado in an attempt to "prove my Jewishness" to the rest of the table (and assuage my guilt).
Then it hit me: the only things I know how to do - period - are sing, write songs and crack wise. In lieu of shul, then, I started writing naughty ditties that celebrate and lovingly skewer the trials and tribulations of the tribe. Presto: suddenly I'm an esteemed purveyor of "Jewish music" and part of the fancy-shmancy "Jewish hipster movement" everyone's talking about. I've never been called "hip" in my life, so I figure God must really want me to write these ferkachter songs. Let's not forget that Jews have produced some of the greatest comedians and song writers, so I have numerous role models for both endeavors.
Marrying a knockout JDate Jewess cemented the deal: I'm back home with the Hebrews and life is sweeter than my bubbe's kugel. The fact that I still know very little about my people hasn't deterred me from penning catchy songs that display my pathetic lack of knowledge. In fact, I've found that not knowing squat about Judaism allows for better lyrics, as I'm not hamstrung by the pesky "truth". So have I managed to shed the sinister "bar mitzvah Jew" moniker Nope. I came of age in the '70s, when "theme" bar mitzvahs were just coming into vogue. My event's theme was S&M, so JEWMONGOUS is really just an extension of my bar mitzvah, simultaneously embracing and rebelling against my heritage and forever trying to tweak the rabbi's beard and yank his talis. I'm still a "bar mitzvah Jew", but at least I'm now "hip". Thank you, Rabbi Gottlieb!
On this tour I'll perform original songs including my fractured Passover story song "They Tried To Kill Is (We Survived, Let"s Eat)", the scientifically accurate "Taller Than Jesus", the venomous anti-Jews For Jesus punk anthem entitled "Jews For Jesus", the Irish drinking song ode to the infamous Blood Libel "Christian Baby Blood", the ska-inflected "What The Hell Is Simchas Torah", the bluesy "My Pact With Satan", the yearning ballad "Another Inch", "Reuben The Hook-Nosed Reindeer" and the swingin" "Blow, Murray Blow", about a virtuoso shofar (ram"s horn) blower so great that his playing purges listeners of all their sins, no matter how despicable. The only cover song in the show is my semiticized version of the Ramones" classic "I Wanna Be Sedated", as I believe that Joey Ramone (born Jeff Hyman) would have wanted it sung that way. Sean
Press Quotes
SEATTLE STRANGER: "The bastard love child Tenacious D and Fiddler on the Roof never had."
BOSTON GLOBE: "Racy, funny and smart and affectionate, for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'"
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS: "Part of a new breed of Jewish hipster comedy that includes Jon Stewart, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman and Heeb Magazine."
WASHINGTON POST: "Bawdy with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... Style and guts and a tune you can groove to."
VILLAGE VOICE (New York City): "Hilarious and tuneful. Jew"ll Love it! Very busy, very talented singer Sean Altman."
LA WEEKLY (Los Angeles): "Clearly not averse to taking risks... While his punk-rough approach and vividly iconoclastic lyrics place him in an up-to-date arena, he echoes such forebears as Eddie Cantor and Lenny Bruce and upholds the tradition with biting, bitchen acuity."
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: "Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER: "Neo-Borscht Belt... An abundance of clever, catchy songs...Genuine laughs...Thoroughly entertaining comic power-pop."
NEW YORK TIMES: "Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risque borscht-belting... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp."
BALTIMORE CITYGUIDE: "Irreverent, hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman."
BOSTON HERALD : "Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect... Deliriously kitschy."
PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY: "Scathing, bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Takes seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."
TIME OUT NEW YORK: "Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... The neurotic nebbish is out; the swaggering ass-kicker is in."
LOS ANGELES TIMES: "You"ve gotta love it... Skewering all things iconically Jewish - from JDate to Passover to rhinoplasty."
THE PROVINCE (Vancouver, BC): "You loved Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat You"ll be delighted with Altman, a song-writing wiz."
JTNEWS (Seattle "The Voice of Jewish Washington"): "An over-the-top musical gag that strip-mines Jewish stereotypes for every last bit of comedy."
EUGENE WEEKLY (Eugene, OR): "Hilarious...A tongue in cheek, whimsical new approach to Jewish joke-pop."
SAN DIEGO JEWISH JOURNAL: "A riotous and self-righteous musical fest that is all tongue-in-cheek hilarity for the tribe."
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT: "Winning over Jewish audiences with its take-no-prisoners approach to Jewish-inspired comedy...The Jewish hipster movement has arrived."
PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER: "Recharge your chutpah meter with the Jewtacular, Jewsplosive JEWMONGOUS!"
Grammy winners The Klezmatics, world-renowned superstars of the klezmer world. Their music is steeped in Jewish spiritualism and Eastern European tradition while incorporating more provocative themes such as social rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic musical influences such as gospel, punk, and Arab, African, and Balkan rhythms.
12/2/2007
Temple Israel Center
White Plains NY
(914) 948-2800
www.templeisraelcenter.org
Odessa/Havana CD Release tour
Sunday, December 2
VANCOUVER, BC
The Norman Rothstein Theatre
950 West 41st Avenue
Vancouver
Tickets: 604-257-5111
Information: 604-257-5117
We're happy to announce the upcoming release of Odessa/Havana's debut CD. On November 1 this unprecedented project of Jewish-Cuban fusion will hit the streets with a recording of high powered music played by an all-star band. Odessa/Havana will be released internationally on Tzadik—John Zorn's "Radical Jewish Culture" record label.
The CD features compositions by David Buchbinder & award-winning pianist-composer Hilario Durán and was produced by award-winning bassist/producer Roberto Occhipinti.
On November 21 we'll celebrate with a concert at Lula Lounge. Please join us for two sets of unforgettable music, featuring along with David and Hilario, the musical talents of Alex Gajic, Mark Kelso, Rick Shadrach Lazar, Quinsin Nachoff, Roberto Occhipinti and special guest Jorge Luis "Papiosco" Torres. This band does not play often in Toronto, so don't miss this opportunity to experience something truly new.
"...exuberant, epic, stirringly rhythmic, sometimes flamboyant, sometimes beautiful and subtle, and always interesting." —Live Music Report.
David Orlowsky's Klezmorim
02.Dez.2007 17:00 Stadtkirche Altensteig
Kirchstr. 9
72213 Altensteig
Di Grine Kuzine
Sunday Dec 02nd 2007, from 8pm, starting 8.30pm on time!
in Berlin-Pankow, CAFE GARBATY
Breite Str. 43, 13187 Berlin
reservation 030 / 47532119
S- & U-Bahn "Pankow"
Tram: 50 und M1, "Pankow Kirche"
www.cafe-garbaty.de
Centre D'art et de Culture - Espace RACHI présente
6ème Festival JAZZ'N'KLEZMER
Du 23 Octobre au 2 décembre 2007
Espace Rachi . Divan du Monde . Café de la danse
Dimanche 2 Décembre à Espace Rachi 20h45
David Krakauer "Klezmer Madness!" With special guest SoCalled
jazz-klezmer-funk
Magnifiée par la clarinette de Krakauer, énergisée par SoCalled et par le son rock du Klezmer Madness !, jamais la tradition klezmer n'a semblé si actuelle. Clarinettiste virtuose, David Krakauer est aujourd'hui l'une des figures les plus emblématiques et talentueuses de la mouvance proprement new-yorkaise de la nouvelle musique klezmer. Il s'est génialement occupé à revivifier une tradition ancestrale aux accents les plus radicaux du jazz contemporain.
www.myspace.com/klezmermadness
Le Festival Jazz'n'Klezmer à lieu depuis 5 ans à l'Espace Rachi. On y a vu des jazzmen devenus incontournables (Yaron Herman, Alexandre Saada..), côtoyer les meilleurs groupes klezmer (Klezmatics, Klezmer Nova…).
En 2007, Jazz'n'klezmer sort de l'espace et du temps ... Pour que les publics se rencontrent.
Cette année, nous avons bousculé les dates, afin d'offrir les meilleurs artistes, en programmant hors des dates du festival :
SOCALLED se produira en avant première le 23 Octobre au DIVAN DU MONDE et David KRAKAUER clôturera le Festival le 2 Décembre à l'ESPACE RACHI. Certains concerts auront lieu dans des salles parisiennes, au Café de la danse au Divan du monde.
Cette année, le festival s'entoure de collaborateurs (Le label JuMu, Nu Juwish Music, Balagan Box l'émission des musiques juives actuelles sur Radio Shalom) et de nouveaux partenaires (FIP et Mondomix).
Informations Pratiques
Lieux du festival
Espace Rachi
39 rue Broca 75005 Paris
01 42 17 10 36 / 39
M° Censier-Daubenton ou Les Gobelins
Parking: Les Patriarches
Divan du Monde
75 rue des Martyrs
75018 Paris
Tél. 01 42 52 02 46
Metro: Pigalle, Abbesses ou Anvers
Parking Anvers :
11, Bd Rochechouart 9ème
Café de la Danse
5, passage Louis-Philippe
(dans la rue de Lappe)
75011 Paris
01 47 00 57 59
Réservations/renseignements
01 42 17 10 36 / 38
Fnac.com, Digitick.com
www.myspace/jazznklezmer.fr
www.myspace.com/jumumusic
Contact Presse
Laurence Haziza
Port : 06 14 27 04 95
Tel : 01 46 07 66 16
בית לייוויק
יום שני 3.12.2007 שעה 17:30 המרכז הישראלי לתקשורת המונים: לימודי עיתונאות הרצאת מבוא ורישום מרצה נח הלפרין – יו"ר איגוד התקשורת והעיתונות בישראל לפרטים: טלפון:
דב הוז 30 תל אביב; טלפון 5231830 03
www.leyvik.org
A Single Eye of Fire--The Sway Machinery celebrates the first night of
Chanukah at Joe's Pub
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 9:30 PM
Joe's Pub -
425 Lafayette Street between East 4th and Astor Place
New York, NY 10003
212-967-7555
Tickets: $12
Celebrating the first night of Chanukah, The Sway Machinery burns the single eye of fire into the night, raging like ancient history poured out of the fantasy life of a child. The first full band TSM show since our barn-raising stomp Hidden Melodies Revealed. We are thinking that this may be a sold out event, so we would encourage everyone to get your tickets now.
Tickets available on the web: web.joespub.com/caltool/index.cfm?fuseaction=detail&performanceID=3578
The DVD of Hidden Melodies Revealed, which would make an ideal holiday present for almost anyone, will be offered for sale.
Tuesday, Dec 4 at 6:30 p.m
A Yiddish Chanukah Party for children and families. Food, stories, songs and more! Special guests: Yiddish students from Tel Nordau Elementary School.
Beyt Leyvik, 30 Dov Hoz St. Tel Aviv
הנכם
מוזמנים
למסיבת חנוכה
יידישאית
לילדים ולכל המשפחה
פֿאַר קינדערלעך און דער
גאַנצער משפחה
שירי חנוכה ביידיש, סיפורים,
משחקים, לאַטקעס דריידל, יידישע שמועסן
Asefa
Sephardic Music Festival
December 4, 2007, 6:30pm
Sephardic Scholarship Series
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue (corner of 34th Street)
Metropolitan Klezmer
Tuesday, December 4
Stuyvesant Town, 6:30pm
Menorah lighting ceremony,
holiday refreshments, heated tent
East Village, New York City
UVA KLEZMER ENSEMBLE with ALICIA SVIGALS, Klezmer Fiddler
Tuesday, December 4th, 8pm
Old Cabell Hall
$10, $5 students, 5 UVa ARTS$
434.924.3984
The recently formed UVA Klezmer Ensemble under the direction of McIntire
Department of Music's Director of Music Performance, Joel Rubin, will
welcome violinist Alicia Svigals for a performance of instrumental klezmer
and hasidic music. The ensemble is dedicated to exploring klezmer and other
Jewish musical traditions from the 18th century to the present.
For more information, or to listen to soundclips, please visit:
www.virginia.edu/music/klezmer
For information on the complete Svigals residency, see:
www.virginia.edu/music/pressrelease/07-08/svigals120307.html
JEWMONGOUS!
Tue. Dec. 4, '07
Jazzbones
Tacoma, WA
2803 6th Ave.
(253) 396-9169,
doors/happy hour 5pm for 8:00pm show,
$8 advance general admission, $10 advance reserved balcony, $12 advance reserved main, $12 day of show. Special guest Mike Mendyke.
JEWMONGOUS "Taller Than Jesus" CD Release Tour
JEWMONGOUS, a solo comedy song concert with occasional guests, is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN: the golden-voiced, song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew and the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella. Sean was featured in Time Out New York's cover story "The New Super Jews," (with Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman) and in the New York Times feature about "the Jewish Hipster Movement." He debuted JEWMONGOUS in 2006 and has garnered press accolades coast to coast (see them below).
JEWMONGOUS' debut album Taller Than Jesus will be released on Christmas Day 2007 (to give Jews something to celebrate that day) but is already available exclusively at http://jewmongous.com. The Taller Than Jesus CD release tour hits 16 cities in December 2007. All faiths welcome, even the faithless.
As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums of bittersweet power-pop and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). He is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego" - for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song with his childhood pal, the now-famous David Yazbek. He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in Manhattan, he sings with Kol Zimra Jewish Acapella and performs charity concerts with Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, he serenades hospital patients as a volunteer with Musicians On Call, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows. In short, Sean is a highly exposed mensch, albeit a potty-mouthed one.
SEAN EXPLAINS: Why JEWMONGOUS
At my bar mitzvah, Rabbi Gottlieb publicly warned me of the perils of becoming a "bar mitzvah Jew": a Jew for whom that barely pubescent rite of passage is the end of the line. Indeed, from the moment I sent out that final bar mitzvah "thank you" note (to the Himmelsteins, for that bond that won't mature until I'm dead), I gleefully eschewed the spiritual elements of Judaism. Through my twenties I reveled in my great escape from the clutches of my ancestors' faith, even marrying a dreaded shiksa.
But damn him; that know-it-all Rabbi Gottlieb was right: secular Judaism (the ability to discern a bagel from a donut) was not nearly as fulfilling as Satan had promised (and to boot the shiksa dumped me). I felt an increasingly urgent longing to be more connected with my Jewish lineage. But how Synagogues intimidated me and I'd long forgotten how to read Hebrew (and by "read" I mean sound out the words with no comprehension whatsoever). For years I asserted my Jewishness only at Passover seders, where I read the four questions aloud with particular bravado in an attempt to "prove my Jewishness" to the rest of the table (and assuage my guilt).
Then it hit me: the only things I know how to do - period - are sing, write songs and crack wise. In lieu of shul, then, I started writing naughty ditties that celebrate and lovingly skewer the trials and tribulations of the tribe. Presto: suddenly I'm an esteemed purveyor of "Jewish music" and part of the fancy-shmancy "Jewish hipster movement" everyone's talking about. I've never been called "hip" in my life, so I figure God must really want me to write these ferkachter songs. Let's not forget that Jews have produced some of the greatest comedians and song writers, so I have numerous role models for both endeavors.
Marrying a knockout JDate Jewess cemented the deal: I'm back home with the Hebrews and life is sweeter than my bubbe's kugel. The fact that I still know very little about my people hasn't deterred me from penning catchy songs that display my pathetic lack of knowledge. In fact, I've found that not knowing squat about Judaism allows for better lyrics, as I'm not hamstrung by the pesky "truth". So have I managed to shed the sinister "bar mitzvah Jew" moniker Nope. I came of age in the '70s, when "theme" bar mitzvahs were just coming into vogue. My event's theme was S&M, so JEWMONGOUS is really just an extension of my bar mitzvah, simultaneously embracing and rebelling against my heritage and forever trying to tweak the rabbi's beard and yank his talis. I'm still a "bar mitzvah Jew", but at least I'm now "hip". Thank you, Rabbi Gottlieb!
On this tour I'll perform original songs including my fractured Passover story song "They Tried To Kill Is (We Survived, Let"s Eat)", the scientifically accurate "Taller Than Jesus", the venomous anti-Jews For Jesus punk anthem entitled "Jews For Jesus", the Irish drinking song ode to the infamous Blood Libel "Christian Baby Blood", the ska-inflected "What The Hell Is Simchas Torah", the bluesy "My Pact With Satan", the yearning ballad "Another Inch", "Reuben The Hook-Nosed Reindeer" and the swingin" "Blow, Murray Blow", about a virtuoso shofar (ram"s horn) blower so great that his playing purges listeners of all their sins, no matter how despicable. The only cover song in the show is my semiticized version of the Ramones" classic "I Wanna Be Sedated", as I believe that Joey Ramone (born Jeff Hyman) would have wanted it sung that way. Sean
Press Quotes
SEATTLE STRANGER: "The bastard love child Tenacious D and Fiddler on the Roof never had."
BOSTON GLOBE: "Racy, funny and smart and affectionate, for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'"
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS: "Part of a new breed of Jewish hipster comedy that includes Jon Stewart, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman and Heeb Magazine."
WASHINGTON POST: "Bawdy with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... Style and guts and a tune you can groove to."
VILLAGE VOICE (New York City): "Hilarious and tuneful. Jew"ll Love it! Very busy, very talented singer Sean Altman."
LA WEEKLY (Los Angeles): "Clearly not averse to taking risks... While his punk-rough approach and vividly iconoclastic lyrics place him in an up-to-date arena, he echoes such forebears as Eddie Cantor and Lenny Bruce and upholds the tradition with biting, bitchen acuity."
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: "Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER: "Neo-Borscht Belt... An abundance of clever, catchy songs...Genuine laughs...Thoroughly entertaining comic power-pop."
NEW YORK TIMES: "Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risque borscht-belting... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp."
BALTIMORE CITYGUIDE: "Irreverent, hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman."
BOSTON HERALD : "Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect... Deliriously kitschy."
PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY: "Scathing, bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Takes seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."
TIME OUT NEW YORK: "Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... The neurotic nebbish is out; the swaggering ass-kicker is in."
LOS ANGELES TIMES: "You"ve gotta love it... Skewering all things iconically Jewish - from JDate to Passover to rhinoplasty."
THE PROVINCE (Vancouver, BC): "You loved Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat You"ll be delighted with Altman, a song-writing wiz."
JTNEWS (Seattle "The Voice of Jewish Washington"): "An over-the-top musical gag that strip-mines Jewish stereotypes for every last bit of comedy."
EUGENE WEEKLY (Eugene, OR): "Hilarious...A tongue in cheek, whimsical new approach to Jewish joke-pop."
SAN DIEGO JEWISH JOURNAL: "A riotous and self-righteous musical fest that is all tongue-in-cheek hilarity for the tribe."
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT: "Winning over Jewish audiences with its take-no-prisoners approach to Jewish-inspired comedy...The Jewish hipster movement has arrived."
PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER: "Recharge your chutpah meter with the Jewtacular, Jewsplosive JEWMONGOUS!"
5 Dec., 11:30 A. M., "Chanukah merriment", Mendy Cahane,
Artistic program: music and songs with the Yung-Yiddish ensemble
Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel
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EXTENDED BODY:
5 Dez., 11:30, "Khanukah frimorgn", Mendy Cahane,
In artistisher tayl: muzik un gezang oysgefirt fun mitglider fun Yung-Yiddish
Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel
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Boston's Zamir Chorale
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, European/Old Master Paintings Gallery, Wednesday, December 5 at 7:30 pm. Join us for a Hanukkah concert in this resonant and inspiring setting.
Banjo Jim's First Annual Lower East Side Klezmer Chanukah Throwdown
Wed, December 5th 7pm-late
Banjo Jim's
9th St.@ Ave. C
www.banjojims.com
Five of the hottest bands on the NYC Klezmer scene (ok, one's from
Montreal) appearing on one stage!
Curated by Art Bailey
Hebrew School Dropouts Comedy Improv 7:00pm
Jake Shulman-Ment's Magyar Khasene 8pm
Michael Winograd's Klezmer Outfit 9pm
Shtreiml 10pm
Art Bailey’s Orkestra Popilar 11pm
Frank London with Strings 12-12:45
Podcast on www.DownHomeRadioShow.com by Eli Smith
Celebrate Hanukkah with the Andy Statman Trio
Wednesday, December 5, 7 PM
Museum of Jewish Heritage- 36 Battery Place, NY, NY
Andy Statman is the real thing—a musician's musician.
—The New Yorker
Join Andy Statman Trio for a unique blend of klezmer, rock, folk, and jazz. Statman has worked with musical legends Jerry Garcia and Bob Dylan, and was a lead musician on Itzhak Perlman's klezmer sensation, In the Fiddler's House. Unable to categorize his music, Statman offers this description to listeners: "It's deeply Jewish because I am, and it's honest because I am."
$25 adults, $20 seniors, $15 students/members
Tickets are available online at www.mjhnyc.org or by calling the Museum box office at 646.437.4202
JEWMONGOUS!
Wed. Dec. 5, '07
White Eagle
Portland, OR
(503) 225-0047,
$18 advance / $20 day of show, doors 6:30pm for 7:30pm show. Age 21+,
836 N. Russell St. (zip 97227).
Special guest Mike Mendyke.
JEWMONGOUS "Taller Than Jesus" CD Release Tour
JEWMONGOUS, a solo comedy song concert with occasional guests, is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN: the golden-voiced, song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew and the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella. Sean was featured in Time Out New York's cover story "The New Super Jews," (with Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman) and in the New York Times feature about "the Jewish Hipster Movement." He debuted JEWMONGOUS in 2006 and has garnered press accolades coast to coast (see them below).
JEWMONGOUS' debut album Taller Than Jesus will be released on Christmas Day 2007 (to give Jews something to celebrate that day) but is already available exclusively at http://jewmongous.com. The Taller Than Jesus CD release tour hits 16 cities in December 2007. All faiths welcome, even the faithless.
As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums of bittersweet power-pop and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). He is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego" - for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song with his childhood pal, the now-famous David Yazbek. He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in Manhattan, he sings with Kol Zimra Jewish Acapella and performs charity concerts with Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, he serenades hospital patients as a volunteer with Musicians On Call, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows. In short, Sean is a highly exposed mensch, albeit a potty-mouthed one.
SEAN EXPLAINS: Why JEWMONGOUS
At my bar mitzvah, Rabbi Gottlieb publicly warned me of the perils of becoming a "bar mitzvah Jew": a Jew for whom that barely pubescent rite of passage is the end of the line. Indeed, from the moment I sent out that final bar mitzvah "thank you" note (to the Himmelsteins, for that bond that won't mature until I'm dead), I gleefully eschewed the spiritual elements of Judaism. Through my twenties I reveled in my great escape from the clutches of my ancestors' faith, even marrying a dreaded shiksa.
But damn him; that know-it-all Rabbi Gottlieb was right: secular Judaism (the ability to discern a bagel from a donut) was not nearly as fulfilling as Satan had promised (and to boot the shiksa dumped me). I felt an increasingly urgent longing to be more connected with my Jewish lineage. But how Synagogues intimidated me and I'd long forgotten how to read Hebrew (and by "read" I mean sound out the words with no comprehension whatsoever). For years I asserted my Jewishness only at Passover seders, where I read the four questions aloud with particular bravado in an attempt to "prove my Jewishness" to the rest of the table (and assuage my guilt).
Then it hit me: the only things I know how to do - period - are sing, write songs and crack wise. In lieu of shul, then, I started writing naughty ditties that celebrate and lovingly skewer the trials and tribulations of the tribe. Presto: suddenly I'm an esteemed purveyor of "Jewish music" and part of the fancy-shmancy "Jewish hipster movement" everyone's talking about. I've never been called "hip" in my life, so I figure God must really want me to write these ferkachter songs. Let's not forget that Jews have produced some of the greatest comedians and song writers, so I have numerous role models for both endeavors.
Marrying a knockout JDate Jewess cemented the deal: I'm back home with the Hebrews and life is sweeter than my bubbe's kugel. The fact that I still know very little about my people hasn't deterred me from penning catchy songs that display my pathetic lack of knowledge. In fact, I've found that not knowing squat about Judaism allows for better lyrics, as I'm not hamstrung by the pesky "truth". So have I managed to shed the sinister "bar mitzvah Jew" moniker Nope. I came of age in the '70s, when "theme" bar mitzvahs were just coming into vogue. My event's theme was S&M, so JEWMONGOUS is really just an extension of my bar mitzvah, simultaneously embracing and rebelling against my heritage and forever trying to tweak the rabbi's beard and yank his talis. I'm still a "bar mitzvah Jew", but at least I'm now "hip". Thank you, Rabbi Gottlieb!
On this tour I'll perform original songs including my fractured Passover story song "They Tried To Kill Is (We Survived, Let"s Eat)", the scientifically accurate "Taller Than Jesus", the venomous anti-Jews For Jesus punk anthem entitled "Jews For Jesus", the Irish drinking song ode to the infamous Blood Libel "Christian Baby Blood", the ska-inflected "What The Hell Is Simchas Torah", the bluesy "My Pact With Satan", the yearning ballad "Another Inch", "Reuben The Hook-Nosed Reindeer" and the swingin" "Blow, Murray Blow", about a virtuoso shofar (ram"s horn) blower so great that his playing purges listeners of all their sins, no matter how despicable. The only cover song in the show is my semiticized version of the Ramones" classic "I Wanna Be Sedated", as I believe that Joey Ramone (born Jeff Hyman) would have wanted it sung that way. Sean
Press Quotes
SEATTLE STRANGER: "The bastard love child Tenacious D and Fiddler on the Roof never had."
BOSTON GLOBE: "Racy, funny and smart and affectionate, for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'"
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS: "Part of a new breed of Jewish hipster comedy that includes Jon Stewart, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman and Heeb Magazine."
WASHINGTON POST: "Bawdy with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... Style and guts and a tune you can groove to."
VILLAGE VOICE (New York City): "Hilarious and tuneful. Jew"ll Love it! Very busy, very talented singer Sean Altman."
LA WEEKLY (Los Angeles): "Clearly not averse to taking risks... While his punk-rough approach and vividly iconoclastic lyrics place him in an up-to-date arena, he echoes such forebears as Eddie Cantor and Lenny Bruce and upholds the tradition with biting, bitchen acuity."
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: "Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER: "Neo-Borscht Belt... An abundance of clever, catchy songs...Genuine laughs...Thoroughly entertaining comic power-pop."
NEW YORK TIMES: "Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risque borscht-belting... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp."
BALTIMORE CITYGUIDE: "Irreverent, hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman."
BOSTON HERALD : "Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect... Deliriously kitschy."
PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY: "Scathing, bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Takes seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."
TIME OUT NEW YORK: "Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... The neurotic nebbish is out; the swaggering ass-kicker is in."
LOS ANGELES TIMES: "You"ve gotta love it... Skewering all things iconically Jewish - from JDate to Passover to rhinoplasty."
THE PROVINCE (Vancouver, BC): "You loved Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat You"ll be delighted with Altman, a song-writing wiz."
JTNEWS (Seattle "The Voice of Jewish Washington"): "An over-the-top musical gag that strip-mines Jewish stereotypes for every last bit of comedy."
EUGENE WEEKLY (Eugene, OR): "Hilarious...A tongue in cheek, whimsical new approach to Jewish joke-pop."
SAN DIEGO JEWISH JOURNAL: "A riotous and self-righteous musical fest that is all tongue-in-cheek hilarity for the tribe."
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT: "Winning over Jewish audiences with its take-no-prisoners approach to Jewish-inspired comedy...The Jewish hipster movement has arrived."
PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER: "Recharge your chutpah meter with the Jewtacular, Jewsplosive JEWMONGOUS!"
le 5 décembre prochain, nous accueillerons le Bester quartet (ex Cracow klezmer band) à Bordeaux.
MERCREDI 5 DECEMBRE 2007 20H30
ESPACE CULTUREL DU BOIS FLEURI / LORMONT
place du 8 mai 1945
Depuis 1997 à Cracovie, le quartet fait revivre la tradition klezmer, cette musique de tradition juive ashkénaze qui survit aux siècles. Entre improvisation et réarrangement des rythmes traditionnels, l’ensemble regroupe l’accordéoniste Jarolslaw Bester, le violoniste Jaroslaw Tyrala, le multi instrumentiste Oleg Dyyak à l’accordéon, à la clarinette et aux percussions, et enfin le bassiste Wojciech Front.
Ce groupe est l’un des plus excitants issu de la renaissance de la musique klezmer, signé sur le prestigieux label américain Tzadik dirigé par John Zorn. Il évolue vers un style atypique qui s'appuie sur une écriture musicale virtuose et cinématographique à cheval sur le jazz, la musique classique et contemporaine.
Après 10 ans de carrière internationale, les quatre membres du Cracow Klezmer Band ont décidé de monter une nouvelle formation, le Bester Quartet, dans la lignée du précédent, mais correspondant davantage à leur évolution artistique, sur un répertoire composés de titres du Cracow Klezmer Band, de John Zorn et du Bester Quartet.
Jaroslaw Bester : accordéon, bayan
Jaroslaw Tyrala : violon
Oleg Dyyak : percussions, accordéon, clarinette
Wojciech Front : contrebasse
rencontre musicale
mercredi 5 décembre à 18h – Librairie Mollat, Espace 91 (91 rue Porte Dijaux) – entrée libre
à écouter : Bester quartet "Remembrance" Tzadik/Orkhestra, 2007
réservations : Fnac, Carrefour - 0 892 68 36 22 (0,34 euros / mn) - www.fnac.com
Virgin Megastore, Auchan, E.Leclerc, Cora, Cultura - 0 892 390 100 (0,34 euros / mn) - www.tickenet.fr
Box Office – Ville de Lormont
tarifs : location 12€ - réduit 10€
pour en savoir plus :
le site de Bester Quartet : besterquartet.com
www.musiques-de-nuit.com/artistes/bester_quartet.php
December 5, 2007
The Sephardic Temple Young Leadership (STYL) presents
"Dancing with the Sephards"
Celebrate the first night of Hanukkah at Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel with candlelighting, holiday treats, and a unique Sephardic dance workshop taught by Maya Karasoo of the Yuval Ron Ensemble. For young professionals, ages 21-39.
Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, Synagogue 10500 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024 Admission: Free admission.
Reservations and information: Reservations required by Friday, November 30 Call the Temple office at 310-475-7311
Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment with Smyrna Time Machine
Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, CA
Doors at 7:00 pm; Show at 8:30 pm
Balkan dance lesson at 7:30 pm
$10
www.ashkenaz.com
December 5th we make our debut at Ashkenaz in Berkeley where we will be sharing the evening with the local Greek Rebetica band Smyrna Time Machine. Ashkenaz has a great dance floor, so we expect your bootaaaaaaaaays to be shakin'.
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Like a dreidal out of Vegas, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad comes home for the holidays, appearing at The Zipper Factory (336 West 37th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) for 10 shows beginning Wednesday, December 5th. For three weeks, these Madelahs of Madness will celebrate their five years of mishagas on the road.
Wednesday, December 5 at 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are priced at $ 25.00 and are available by phone through Ovation Tix at 212.352.3101 or online at www.zippertheater.com.
Anthony Coleman
DECEMBER 5
10PM
COLEMAN/KESZLER/PAUL
Ashley Paul: alto saxophone, Eli Keszler: drums Anthony Coleman: keyboards,
A trio in search of a name...each gig better and better, each audience smaller and smaller... Trio Maudit - Come help reverse the trend. We promise not to play worse just because you're there !
BARBES
376 9th St. at 6th ave, Brooklyn
718 965 9177 www.barbesbrooklyn
f train to seventh ave in park slope
shows at 8pm and 10pm
$10 each
Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/06
Beachland Ballroom,
Cleveland OH
www.beachlandballroom.com
(216) 383-1124
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
JEWMONGOUS! w/special guest Mike Mendyke.
Thu. Dec. 6, '07
WOW Hall
291 W 8th Ave (zip 97401).
Eugene, OR
7:30pm doors for 8pm show
(541) 687-2746,
$15 advance, $17 day of show
www.ticketweb.com.
JEWMONGOUS "Taller Than Jesus" CD Release Tour
JEWMONGOUS, a solo comedy song concert with occasional guests, is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN: the golden-voiced, song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew and the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella. Sean was featured in Time Out New York's cover story "The New Super Jews," (with Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman) and in the New York Times feature about "the Jewish Hipster Movement." He debuted JEWMONGOUS in 2006 and has garnered press accolades coast to coast (see them below).
JEWMONGOUS' debut album Taller Than Jesus will be released on Christmas Day 2007 (to give Jews something to celebrate that day) but is already available exclusively at http://jewmongous.com. The Taller Than Jesus CD release tour hits 16 cities in December 2007. All faiths welcome, even the faithless.
As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums of bittersweet power-pop and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). He is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego" - for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song with his childhood pal, the now-famous David Yazbek. He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in Manhattan, he sings with Kol Zimra Jewish Acapella and performs charity concerts with Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, he serenades hospital patients as a volunteer with Musicians On Call, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows. In short, Sean is a highly exposed mensch, albeit a potty-mouthed one.
SEAN EXPLAINS: Why JEWMONGOUS
At my bar mitzvah, Rabbi Gottlieb publicly warned me of the perils of becoming a "bar mitzvah Jew": a Jew for whom that barely pubescent rite of passage is the end of the line. Indeed, from the moment I sent out that final bar mitzvah "thank you" note (to the Himmelsteins, for that bond that won't mature until I'm dead), I gleefully eschewed the spiritual elements of Judaism. Through my twenties I reveled in my great escape from the clutches of my ancestors' faith, even marrying a dreaded shiksa.
But damn him; that know-it-all Rabbi Gottlieb was right: secular Judaism (the ability to discern a bagel from a donut) was not nearly as fulfilling as Satan had promised (and to boot the shiksa dumped me). I felt an increasingly urgent longing to be more connected with my Jewish lineage. But how Synagogues intimidated me and I'd long forgotten how to read Hebrew (and by "read" I mean sound out the words with no comprehension whatsoever). For years I asserted my Jewishness only at Passover seders, where I read the four questions aloud with particular bravado in an attempt to "prove my Jewishness" to the rest of the table (and assuage my guilt).
Then it hit me: the only things I know how to do - period - are sing, write songs and crack wise. In lieu of shul, then, I started writing naughty ditties that celebrate and lovingly skewer the trials and tribulations of the tribe. Presto: suddenly I'm an esteemed purveyor of "Jewish music" and part of the fancy-shmancy "Jewish hipster movement" everyone's talking about. I've never been called "hip" in my life, so I figure God must really want me to write these ferkachter songs. Let's not forget that Jews have produced some of the greatest comedians and song writers, so I have numerous role models for both endeavors.
Marrying a knockout JDate Jewess cemented the deal: I'm back home with the Hebrews and life is sweeter than my bubbe's kugel. The fact that I still know very little about my people hasn't deterred me from penning catchy songs that display my pathetic lack of knowledge. In fact, I've found that not knowing squat about Judaism allows for better lyrics, as I'm not hamstrung by the pesky "truth". So have I managed to shed the sinister "bar mitzvah Jew" moniker Nope. I came of age in the '70s, when "theme" bar mitzvahs were just coming into vogue. My event's theme was S&M, so JEWMONGOUS is really just an extension of my bar mitzvah, simultaneously embracing and rebelling against my heritage and forever trying to tweak the rabbi's beard and yank his talis. I'm still a "bar mitzvah Jew", but at least I'm now "hip". Thank you, Rabbi Gottlieb!
On this tour I'll perform original songs including my fractured Passover story song "They Tried To Kill Is (We Survived, Let"s Eat)", the scientifically accurate "Taller Than Jesus", the venomous anti-Jews For Jesus punk anthem entitled "Jews For Jesus", the Irish drinking song ode to the infamous Blood Libel "Christian Baby Blood", the ska-inflected "What The Hell Is Simchas Torah", the bluesy "My Pact With Satan", the yearning ballad "Another Inch", "Reuben The Hook-Nosed Reindeer" and the swingin" "Blow, Murray Blow", about a virtuoso shofar (ram"s horn) blower so great that his playing purges listeners of all their sins, no matter how despicable. The only cover song in the show is my semiticized version of the Ramones" classic "I Wanna Be Sedated", as I believe that Joey Ramone (born Jeff Hyman) would have wanted it sung that way. Sean
Press Quotes
SEATTLE STRANGER: "The bastard love child Tenacious D and Fiddler on the Roof never had."
BOSTON GLOBE: "Racy, funny and smart and affectionate, for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'"
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS: "Part of a new breed of Jewish hipster comedy that includes Jon Stewart, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman and Heeb Magazine."
WASHINGTON POST: "Bawdy with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... Style and guts and a tune you can groove to."
VILLAGE VOICE (New York City): "Hilarious and tuneful. Jew"ll Love it! Very busy, very talented singer Sean Altman."
LA WEEKLY (Los Angeles): "Clearly not averse to taking risks... While his punk-rough approach and vividly iconoclastic lyrics place him in an up-to-date arena, he echoes such forebears as Eddie Cantor and Lenny Bruce and upholds the tradition with biting, bitchen acuity."
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: "Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER: "Neo-Borscht Belt... An abundance of clever, catchy songs...Genuine laughs...Thoroughly entertaining comic power-pop."
NEW YORK TIMES: "Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risque borscht-belting... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp."
BALTIMORE CITYGUIDE: "Irreverent, hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman."
BOSTON HERALD : "Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect... Deliriously kitschy."
PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY: "Scathing, bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Takes seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."
TIME OUT NEW YORK: "Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... The neurotic nebbish is out; the swaggering ass-kicker is in."
LOS ANGELES TIMES: "You"ve gotta love it... Skewering all things iconically Jewish - from JDate to Passover to rhinoplasty."
THE PROVINCE (Vancouver, BC): "You loved Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat You"ll be delighted with Altman, a song-writing wiz."
JTNEWS (Seattle "The Voice of Jewish Washington"): "An over-the-top musical gag that strip-mines Jewish stereotypes for every last bit of comedy."
EUGENE WEEKLY (Eugene, OR): "Hilarious...A tongue in cheek, whimsical new approach to Jewish joke-pop."
SAN DIEGO JEWISH JOURNAL: "A riotous and self-righteous musical fest that is all tongue-in-cheek hilarity for the tribe."
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT: "Winning over Jewish audiences with its take-no-prisoners approach to Jewish-inspired comedy...The Jewish hipster movement has arrived."
PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER: "Recharge your chutpah meter with the Jewtacular, Jewsplosive JEWMONGOUS!"
Grammy winners The Klezmatics, world-renowned superstars of the klezmer world. Their music is steeped in Jewish spiritualism and Eastern European tradition while incorporating more provocative themes such as social rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic musical influences such as gospel, punk, and Arab, African, and Balkan rhythms.
12/6/2007
UBS Atrium Series
Weehawken NJ
(201) 352-1750
www.hrpac.org/calendar.htm
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring present…
Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)—Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC
This event has been cancelled, but there is a whole Yiddish Dance Symposium followed by a Yiddish dance on December 9.
Like a dreidal out of Vegas, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad comes home for the holidays, appearing at The Zipper Factory (336 West 37th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) for 10 shows beginning Wednesday, December 5th. For three weeks, these Madelahs of Madness will celebrate their five years of mishagas on the road.
Thursday, December 6 at 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are priced at $ 25.00 and are available by phone through Ovation Tix at 212.352.3101 or online at www.zippertheater.com.
בית לייוויק
יום שישי 7.12.2007
שעה 11:30
יום שישי 7.12.2007 שעה 11:30
רב שיחבנושא: ישראל פולין - היום
אמביוולנטיות, ריחוק או קרוב לבבות?
מנחה: העיתונאי נח הלפרין
משתתפים:
טובה בן צבי; יוהנה ברנסקה; דניאל גלאי; מאשה לייזר; ברכה רוזנפלד;
בלה שוטן; עופר דינס
חלק אומנותי: האקורדיוניסט רפאל לירז
כניסה 10 ש"ח לכיסוי הוצאות
דב הוז 30 תל אביב; טלפון 5231830 03
www.leyvik.org
Thursday Dec. 7, 2007
7 pm
Concert at Beth Chaim Congregation
1800 Hollbrook Dr.,
Danville, CA
(925-736-7146)
Lox & Vodka
provides a soulful, spirited and participatory Klezmer style Shabbat for Temple Beth Ami's congregants followed by a rousing Chanukah celebration concert. Friday evening, December 7th in Rockville, Maryland
Friday, December 7,
the Afro-Semitic Experience,
Friday night service at Scarsdale Synagogue—Tremont Temple,
2 Ogden Road,
Scarsdale, New York.
For more information please call 914-725-5175.
CONGREGATION BETH EL PRESENTS
Yiddish Arts Festival
"Oy Khanike: A Celebration of Yiddish Culture"
Dec 7-9, 2007
Congregation Beth El of La Jolla presents a full weekend of activities that will be fun, entertaining and enlightening for the whole family. Join us for an entire weekend celebrating different elements of Yiddish culture, including music, literature, food, film and storytelling.
Please call or go online for information and to make your reservations:
RSVP online for any program at www.congregationbethel.org/form-rsvp.html
tel: 858 452 1734
www.congregationbethel.org
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EXTENDED BODY:
Presenters include
Yale Strom, Peter Riegert, Thane Rosenbaum, Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, Craig Parks.
Friday, Dec. 7th @ 6:15pm
Khanike Dinner/Happy Minyan w/Keynote Presentation by Yale Strom, "The influence of klezmer music on the revival of Yiddish culture in the United States"
Sat., Dec. 8th @ 9:30am
Shabbat Services followed by Presentation on Yiddish literature by Thane Rosenbaum (author of The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, The Myth of Moral Justice)
Sat., Dec. 8th @ 12:00pm
Luncheon and presentation of a Yiddish Story (TBA) by Thane Rosenbaum
Sat., Dec. 8th @ 7:30pm
Concert by Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi
Sun., Dec. 9th @ 4:00pm
Family Khanike Party and Puppet Show with Storyteller/Musician Craig Parks
Sun., Dec. 9th @ 7:00pm
Movie Presentation, King of the Corner, Directed by & Starring Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancy, Animal House, Local Hero and TV's Damages), who will lead a discussion following the presentation.
NOTE: This film is for mature audiences and not appropriate for children
Pricing:
Program Sponsors: Includes all events & program recognition:
$75.00 per person, $25.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
All Inclusive Ticket: Includes all events—$60.00 per person, $20.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Separate Event Ticket Pricing:
Friday Dinner: $20.00 per person, $8.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Saturday Lunch: $20.00 per person, $8.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Saturday Eve: Concert : $13.00 per person, $5.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Sunday: Chanukkah Party: $7.50 per person, $5.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Sunday Eve: Movie Presentation: $3.50 per person
Children under 5 FREE for all programs
Congregation Beth El
8660 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA
Please call or go online for information and to make your reservations:
RSVP online for any program at www.congregationbethel.org/form-rsvp.html
tel: 858 452 1734
www.congregationbethel.org
Like a dreidal out of Vegas, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad comes home for the holidays, appearing at The Zipper Factory (336 West 37th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) for 10 shows beginning Wednesday, December 5th. For three weeks, these Madelahs of Madness will celebrate their five years of mishagas on the road.
Friday, December 7 at 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are priced at $ 25.00 and are available by phone through Ovation Tix at 212.352.3101 or online at www.zippertheater.com.
THE EIGHT: (Eight Hanukah shows taking place, all on December 8)
Washington, DC - Sixth & I
$12 in advance /$18 at the door // 8 PM // All Ages
sixthandi.org
The LeeVees - Indie-pop Hannukah rockers featuring members of Guster and the Zambonis
www.theleevees.com
DeLeon - Named for front man Dan Saks' great grandfather Giorgio DeLeon, DeLeon re-imagine ancient melodies as contemporary songs from pre-inquisition Spain to modern day Brooklyn in attempt to introduce the rich musical tradition of Sephardic Jews to a new generation.
www.myspace.com/ilovedeleon
Your Band - Think your band has what it takes to open the night in DC? Submit band name, contact person, phone number, email address, myspace link, and a one paragraph bio to info at jdubrecords. Taglit-birthright israel alumni will select their favorite submission to open the show.
Co-sponsored by Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
For more information, please contact Dave Cirilli: 212.246.7044 or email.
THE EIGHT: (Eight Hanukah shows taking place, all on December 8)
Boston, MA - T.T. The Bears
$12 advance / $15 day of show // 8:30PM // 21+
www.ttthebears.com
Simple People -Gilad Vital and Roi Levi, founding members of Israel's biggest carnival jam band sensation, Shotei Hanevuah, return with Simple People to explore electronica, dub and breakbeat from an Israeli perspective. http://myspace.com/simplepeopleband
Mocean Worker - aka Adam Dorn, son of legendary producer Joel Horn (Roberta Flack, John Coltrane) began his career assisting production for the likes of Miles Davis and Luther Vandross. He has now mastered the art of blending jolts of jazz, chunks of funk, electronic and hip-hop music into a lively, refreshing, sophisticated sound. www.myspace.com/mowomoceanworker
Co-sponsored by Combined Jewish Philanthropies
For more information, please contact Dave Cirilli: 212.246.7044 or email.
THE EIGHT: (Eight Hanukah shows taking place, all on December 8)
Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe
Tickets TBD // 8 PM // 21+
thecrocodile.com
Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players - The Trachtenberg's are a rock-inclined family that takes vintage slides found at estate sales, garage sales and thrift stores and use them to turn the lives of anonymous strangers into folk musical epics. http://www.slideshowplayers.com
Golem - Golem is the biggest, baddest and most raucous six-piece Gypsy punk band in the world, and that's a promise. Eastern European freak folk has never sounded so good.
www.myspace.com/golemrocks
Co-sponsored by jconnect Seattle
For more information, please contact Dave Cirilli: 212.246.7044 or email.
THE EIGHT: (Eight Hanukah shows taking place, all on December 8)
San Francisco, CA - The Independent
$12 in advance /$14 at the door // 8:30 PM //$21+
www.theindependentsf.com
Apollo Sunshine - Boston neo-psychedelic/indie rock trio take conventional songs and filter them through a pop underground sound that's reminiscent of Cheap Trick and the Flaming Lips.
myspace.com/apollosunshine
Festival of Rights - A unique menorah lighting with local social justice activists.
Co-sponsored by: Progressive Jewish Alliance, Reboot, and Bay Area Tribe
For more information, please contact Dave Cirilli: 212.246.7044 or email.
THE EIGHT: (Eight Hanukah shows taking place, all on December 8)
Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex
$15 advance /$20 day of show // 8 PM // 18+
attheecho.com
Balkan Beat Box - Balkan Beat Box imagines a Middle East with out borders and makes connections that politics often keep separate. Jewish, Gypsy, Arabic, and American cultures united by hip hop beats, dancehall toasts, dub and electronica. myspace.com/balkanbeatbox
Dengue Fever - Psychedelic surf rock and Cambodian pop are a heady blend, as Dengue Fever demonstrates. "…original material that shatters the language barrier with mildly psychedelic, blissed out pop." -Pitchfork www.myspace.com/denguefevermusic
Festival of Rights - A unique menorah lighting with local social justice activists.
Co-sponsored by Progressive Jewish Alliance and Reboot, with support from Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and Jewish Venture Philanthropy Fund of LA
For more information, please contact Dave Cirilli: 212.246.7044 or email.
THE EIGHT: (Eight Hanukah shows taking place, all on December 8)
New York, NY - Webster Hall
$20 advance/$25 day of show // 7 PM // 18+
bowerypresents.com
Hadag Nachash - One of the most successful bands to emerge from Israel in the past decade, Hadag Nachash is a live hip-hop band with a Middle Eastern edge. Hadag Nachash has established its reputation with conscious lyrics and songs that have proven unforgettable even if you don't know the language. http://myspace.com/hadagnachash
Budos Band - The quintessence of Staten Island afro-soul recently released their second album, Budos Band II, on Daptone Records. A 12-piece riot of juicy horns, frenzied drums, psychedelic Farfisa, and fat guitars that whip Afrobeat, Ethiopian, Latin, and funk ingredients into a uniquely danceable mess.
www.myspace.com/budosband
Soulico - A 4 member DJ Crew from Tel Aviv, Soulico are the first DJ's in the Middle East to master the trifecta of production, turntablism, and party-rocking skills. Soulico has garnered incredible respect and critical acclaim both for their original songs and their unique mash-ups that blend Israeli melodies with American hip-hop tracks. myspace.com/soulicocrew
For more information, please contact Dave Cirilli: 212.246.7044 or email.
Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment with Sandor Elix Katz!
Saturday, 12/8/07 7:30 pm
SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally)
1236 23rd Avenue at International Blvd., Oakland, CA
oaklandsol.org/wp/
Admission by donation; no one turned away for lack of funds. Bring a jar to fill, some veggies to chop, a cutting board, knife, and grater.
We'll be collaborating with the one and only Sandor Elix Katz, author of The Wild Fermentation Book. Sandor lives in Tennessee and is currently touring around the country sharing fermentation skills and fomenting a grassroots movement to reconnect communities with healthy nutritious, delicious, and wholesome foods. Sandor and local fermenters will share their skills and experiences with fermentation and conduct a hands-on-sauerkraut making workshop involving interested audience members (YOU!), all to the live and lively music of Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment. Samples of local ferments will be on hand to sample and savor.
BRING A KNIFE, CUTTING BOARD, GLASS JAR or CERAMIC CROCK, and some VEGETABLES so that you can leave the event with your own wild ferment. For ideas of vegetables and spices, see www.wildfermentation.com/resources.php?page=sauerkraut.
We are excited to be able to host this event at SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally), a beautifully vibrant co-op and garden in East Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood. Read more about SOL at www.oaklandsol.org/wp/.
Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/08
Miramar Theatre,
Milwaukee WI
www.themiramartheatre.com
(414) 967-0302
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
JEWMONGOUS! w/ guests Cindy Kaplan and UMichigan's premier Jewish acapella group Kol Hakavod.
Sat. Dec. 8, '07
The Blind Pig
doors 7pm for 8pm show,
208 S 1st St (zip 48104).
Ann Arbor, MI
(734) 996-8555,
$17 advance / $20 day of show (age 18+)
JEWMONGOUS "Taller Than Jesus" CD Release Tour
JEWMONGOUS, a solo comedy song concert with occasional guests, is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN: the golden-voiced, song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew and the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella. Sean was featured in Time Out New York's cover story "The New Super Jews," (with Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman) and in the New York Times feature about "the Jewish Hipster Movement." He debuted JEWMONGOUS in 2006 and has garnered press accolades coast to coast (see them below).
JEWMONGOUS' debut album Taller Than Jesus will be released on Christmas Day 2007 (to give Jews something to celebrate that day) but is already available exclusively at http://jewmongous.com. The Taller Than Jesus CD release tour hits 16 cities in December 2007. All faiths welcome, even the faithless.
As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums of bittersweet power-pop and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). He is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego" - for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song with his childhood pal, the now-famous David Yazbek. He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in Manhattan, he sings with Kol Zimra Jewish Acapella and performs charity concerts with Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, he serenades hospital patients as a volunteer with Musicians On Call, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows. In short, Sean is a highly exposed mensch, albeit a potty-mouthed one.
SEAN EXPLAINS: Why JEWMONGOUS
At my bar mitzvah, Rabbi Gottlieb publicly warned me of the perils of becoming a "bar mitzvah Jew": a Jew for whom that barely pubescent rite of passage is the end of the line. Indeed, from the moment I sent out that final bar mitzvah "thank you" note (to the Himmelsteins, for that bond that won't mature until I'm dead), I gleefully eschewed the spiritual elements of Judaism. Through my twenties I reveled in my great escape from the clutches of my ancestors' faith, even marrying a dreaded shiksa.
But damn him; that know-it-all Rabbi Gottlieb was right: secular Judaism (the ability to discern a bagel from a donut) was not nearly as fulfilling as Satan had promised (and to boot the shiksa dumped me). I felt an increasingly urgent longing to be more connected with my Jewish lineage. But how Synagogues intimidated me and I'd long forgotten how to read Hebrew (and by "read" I mean sound out the words with no comprehension whatsoever). For years I asserted my Jewishness only at Passover seders, where I read the four questions aloud with particular bravado in an attempt to "prove my Jewishness" to the rest of the table (and assuage my guilt).
Then it hit me: the only things I know how to do - period - are sing, write songs and crack wise. In lieu of shul, then, I started writing naughty ditties that celebrate and lovingly skewer the trials and tribulations of the tribe. Presto: suddenly I'm an esteemed purveyor of "Jewish music" and part of the fancy-shmancy "Jewish hipster movement" everyone's talking about. I've never been called "hip" in my life, so I figure God must really want me to write these ferkachter songs. Let's not forget that Jews have produced some of the greatest comedians and song writers, so I have numerous role models for both endeavors.
Marrying a knockout JDate Jewess cemented the deal: I'm back home with the Hebrews and life is sweeter than my bubbe's kugel. The fact that I still know very little about my people hasn't deterred me from penning catchy songs that display my pathetic lack of knowledge. In fact, I've found that not knowing squat about Judaism allows for better lyrics, as I'm not hamstrung by the pesky "truth". So have I managed to shed the sinister "bar mitzvah Jew" moniker Nope. I came of age in the '70s, when "theme" bar mitzvahs were just coming into vogue. My event's theme was S&M, so JEWMONGOUS is really just an extension of my bar mitzvah, simultaneously embracing and rebelling against my heritage and forever trying to tweak the rabbi's beard and yank his talis. I'm still a "bar mitzvah Jew", but at least I'm now "hip". Thank you, Rabbi Gottlieb!
On this tour I'll perform original songs including my fractured Passover story song "They Tried To Kill Is (We Survived, Let"s Eat)", the scientifically accurate "Taller Than Jesus", the venomous anti-Jews For Jesus punk anthem entitled "Jews For Jesus", the Irish drinking song ode to the infamous Blood Libel "Christian Baby Blood", the ska-inflected "What The Hell Is Simchas Torah", the bluesy "My Pact With Satan", the yearning ballad "Another Inch", "Reuben The Hook-Nosed Reindeer" and the swingin" "Blow, Murray Blow", about a virtuoso shofar (ram"s horn) blower so great that his playing purges listeners of all their sins, no matter how despicable. The only cover song in the show is my semiticized version of the Ramones" classic "I Wanna Be Sedated", as I believe that Joey Ramone (born Jeff Hyman) would have wanted it sung that way. Sean
Press Quotes
SEATTLE STRANGER: "The bastard love child Tenacious D and Fiddler on the Roof never had."
BOSTON GLOBE: "Racy, funny and smart and affectionate, for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'"
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS: "Part of a new breed of Jewish hipster comedy that includes Jon Stewart, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman and Heeb Magazine."
WASHINGTON POST: "Bawdy with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... Style and guts and a tune you can groove to."
VILLAGE VOICE (New York City): "Hilarious and tuneful. Jew"ll Love it! Very busy, very talented singer Sean Altman."
LA WEEKLY (Los Angeles): "Clearly not averse to taking risks... While his punk-rough approach and vividly iconoclastic lyrics place him in an up-to-date arena, he echoes such forebears as Eddie Cantor and Lenny Bruce and upholds the tradition with biting, bitchen acuity."
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: "Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER: "Neo-Borscht Belt... An abundance of clever, catchy songs...Genuine laughs...Thoroughly entertaining comic power-pop."
NEW YORK TIMES: "Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risque borscht-belting... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp."
BALTIMORE CITYGUIDE: "Irreverent, hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman."
BOSTON HERALD : "Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect... Deliriously kitschy."
PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY: "Scathing, bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Takes seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."
TIME OUT NEW YORK: "Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... The neurotic nebbish is out; the swaggering ass-kicker is in."
LOS ANGELES TIMES: "You"ve gotta love it... Skewering all things iconically Jewish - from JDate to Passover to rhinoplasty."
THE PROVINCE (Vancouver, BC): "You loved Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat You"ll be delighted with Altman, a song-writing wiz."
JTNEWS (Seattle "The Voice of Jewish Washington"): "An over-the-top musical gag that strip-mines Jewish stereotypes for every last bit of comedy."
EUGENE WEEKLY (Eugene, OR): "Hilarious...A tongue in cheek, whimsical new approach to Jewish joke-pop."
SAN DIEGO JEWISH JOURNAL: "A riotous and self-righteous musical fest that is all tongue-in-cheek hilarity for the tribe."
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT: "Winning over Jewish audiences with its take-no-prisoners approach to Jewish-inspired comedy...The Jewish hipster movement has arrived."
PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER: "Recharge your chutpah meter with the Jewtacular, Jewsplosive JEWMONGOUS!"
Starting on Satuday 17 November, Klezmokum will be touring Holland and in Belgium) with "Ancient & Newer Roots", a program of original works by Jewish composers dating back to the period around World War Two, now updated into contemporary comopositions. The works by Mikhl Gelbart, Kasriel Broydo, Beyle Schaechter Gottesman and others are in new arrangements by Burton Greene, pianist and leader of Klezmokum. The tour has been made possible by funding from Maror in Amsterdam and the Levi Lassen Foundation in The Hague. Most of the concerts will be at synagogues or other Jewish locations.
Saturday 8 December 8.00 uur:
Synagogue in Amsterdam,
Stadionweg 269
In addition to traditional Chassidic melodies, there are also modern works by Matt Darriau (Klezmatics) and Bill Averbach (Austin Klezmorim), and by Sylke Rollig/Burton Greene included in Burton's arrangements. Nine of the compositions have already been recorded on a CD (BVHAAST CD 1205). Klezmokum combines originally Jewish music with Jazz and spontaneous improvisations, resulting in surprising modern music that retains the original atmosphere.
Grammy winners The Klezmatics, world-renowned superstars of the klezmer world. Their music is steeped in Jewish spiritualism and Eastern European tradition while incorporating more provocative themes such as social rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic musical influences such as gospel, punk, and Arab, African, and Balkan rhythms.
12/8/2007
Alverno College
Milwaukee WI
(414) 382-6044
www.alverno.edu
CONGREGATION BETH EL PRESENTS
Yiddish Arts Festival
"Oy Khanike: A Celebration of Yiddish Culture"
Dec 7-9, 2007
Congregation Beth El of La Jolla presents a full weekend of activities that will be fun, entertaining and enlightening for the whole family. Join us for an entire weekend celebrating different elements of Yiddish culture, including music, literature, food, film and storytelling.
Please call or go online for information and to make your reservations:
RSVP online for any program at www.congregationbethel.org/form-rsvp.html
tel: 858 452 1734
www.congregationbethel.org
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EXTENDED BODY:
Presenters include
Yale Strom, Peter Riegert, Thane Rosenbaum, Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, Craig Parks.
Friday, Dec. 7th @ 6:15pm
Khanike Dinner/Happy Minyan w/Keynote Presentation by Yale Strom, "The influence of klezmer music on the revival of Yiddish culture in the United States"
Sat., Dec. 8th @ 9:30am
Shabbat Services followed by Presentation on Yiddish literature by Thane Rosenbaum (author of The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, The Myth of Moral Justice)
Sat., Dec. 8th @ 12:00pm
Luncheon and presentation of a Yiddish Story (TBA) by Thane Rosenbaum
Sat., Dec. 8th @ 7:30pm
Concert by Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi
Sun., Dec. 9th @ 4:00pm
Family Khanike Party and Puppet Show with Storyteller/Musician Craig Parks
Sun., Dec. 9th @ 7:00pm
Movie Presentation, King of the Corner, Directed by & Starring Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancy, Animal House, Local Hero and TV's Damages), who will lead a discussion following the presentation.
NOTE: This film is for mature audiences and not appropriate for children
Pricing:
Program Sponsors: Includes all events & program recognition:
$75.00 per person, $25.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
All Inclusive Ticket: Includes all events—$60.00 per person, $20.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Separate Event Ticket Pricing:
Friday Dinner: $20.00 per person, $8.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Saturday Lunch: $20.00 per person, $8.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Saturday Eve: Concert : $13.00 per person, $5.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Sunday: Chanukkah Party: $7.50 per person, $5.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Sunday Eve: Movie Presentation: $3.50 per person
Children under 5 FREE for all programs
Congregation Beth El
8660 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA
Please call or go online for information and to make your reservations:
RSVP online for any program at www.congregationbethel.org/form-rsvp.html
tel: 858 452 1734
www.congregationbethel.org
Pshutei Ha'am
"First US Tour"
Dec. 8th - TT The Bears, Cambridge MA
Pshutei Ha'am (Simple People) - a band created by the founders of Shotei Hanevuah - Will be performing in the US for the first time.
The Fireflies and Klezzazz Chanuka Party Gig
Chanuka is a happy Jewish festival, celebrating the triumph of the oppressed, and this year will be celebrated in style in Cork City on Saturday December 8th at 9pm in An Spailpin Fanach.
Entry to the gig is €5 and includes a free doughnut.
Chanuka lights will be lit at 9pm sharpish.
The Fireflies, Ireland's original Klezmer band, will play their rocking Klezmer and Gypsy tunes, like they mean it, supported by Klezazz.
Klezazz is a new musical union between two of Ireland's busiest Jewish musicians, Yossi Valdman and Ruti Lachs, with special guest Karolien Verheyen. The mix of Jewish music and jazz is heartfelt and exciting.
Yossi Valdman, Cork jazz vocalist and guitarist, currently plays with Valdman Smyth and Baus, and is bass vocalist with Voices of Cork, a community choir.
Ruti Lachs plays piano accordion with The Fireflies, and sings Yiddish, Hebrew, and original songs from her CD "Sleeping People". In Klezzaz, her sweet piano style comes to the fore.
Karolien Verheyen plays drumkit and percussion. She plays with Coney Joe and facilitates two Samba bands.
Ruti, Yossi and Karolien are all active music teachers and community musicians, as well as following their own creative musical paths.
The Fireflies are well known in South West Ireland, entertaining lively audiences in Cork and Kerry, and at festivals and weddings, over the past five years. Their strong vibrant clarinet and accordion frontline features Fiona Ashley and Ruti Lachs, with Fred and Billy Spoonsberg keeping it rocking on bass and drums. This music is guaranteed to get you up dancing! And singing, stamping, clapping, whooping, hollering.....
V Helsinki Klezmer Festival, Dec 8 - 12, 2007
The Helsinki Klezmer Festival, a festival of klezmer, or Jewish Eastern European music, is taking place in Helsinki for the fifth time. The Finnish Klezmer Society is organizing the festival, and the concerts are at the Savoy Theatre.
Saturday December 8, Dobranotch (Russia)
In cooperation with the Sibelius Acadamy, the festival is presenting a klezmer music course with the musicians of the Kharkov Klezmer Band (Ukraine/Germany) as teachers. Simo Muir, Ph.D, is giving a lecture about klezmer music in Finland, and violinist and composer Mark Kovnatskiy is teaching Jewish dancing. A new feature of the festival is the production of Sholem Aleikhem's play "Mazl-Tov!" After a successful run last fall, the play is returning to the Universum Theater in the Betania building, and once again the theater is home to the sounds of the Yiddish language!
We are also continuing the previous festivals' tradition: after the concerts, the music-making continues in the Bulevardi Kahvisalonki with lively jam sessions.
*We welcome you warmly to experience, enjoy, and also participate in the events of the Helsinki Klezmer Festival!*
Yiddish Dance Symposium at New York University
Sunday, December 9, 2007 (Revised Schedule)
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and New York University's Department of Performance Studies present:
The Yiddish Dance Research Symposium "Defining Yiddish Dance: Secular, Sacred, Borrowed and Transformed"
Sunday, December 9th - 9:30AM - 5:30PM
Edgar M. Bronfman Center
New York University
7 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
(between 5th Avenue and University Place).
Admission: $10 general public, $5 students/seniors
Scholars wishing to register should RSVP to Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Pete Rushefsky, 212-571-1555 ext. 36, or email Pete.
In the evening after the Symposium a Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance Party) will take place at the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant. Additionally, a special session focused on strategies for revitalizing the Yiddish Dance tradition will be held on the morning of Monday, December 10th (call/email Pete Rushefsky for details).
KLEZMER BRUNCH/CONCERT with Extreme Klezmer Makeover Band: A feast of original, traditional and progressive Klezmer with a 21st Century, R&B, Jazz, Cajun, Middle Eastern twist. Culver City at the SYNERGY CAFE & LOUNGE, Dec 9 11AM-1PM
FREE CONCERT 4437 Sepulveda Blvd (corner of Sepulveda and Braddock). Some hungry, come thirsty and support this wonderful small intimate community arts venue. Celebrate the release of their 2nd CD: RAISING THE ROOF.
Hanukkah Klezmer for Kids Concerts with the Strauss/Warschauer Duo in Manhattan and Brooklyn today, Sunday, December 9
We'll be performing two Hanukkah Klezmer for Kids shows today, Sunday December 9. The first one will be in Manhattan at the Winter Garden at 12:30, and the second one will be at the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue at 3:30. They'll be fun... come by if you are in the area! More info below:
Manhattan:
arts > World Financial Center presents
KLEZMER FOR KIDS!
Sunday, December 9
12:30 - 2pm
Winter Garden
Free admission
This fun, interactive performance of song and dance blends Eastern European Jewish music with heritage lessons drawn from Yiddish and Hasidic traditions to let your child explore Chanukkah.
www.worldfinancialcenter.com/calendar/?page=2
Brooklyn:
You & your children are invited to the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue's annual Chanukkah Concert:
Klezmer for Kids!
3:30 pm
Sunday December 9, 2007
$5 per person in advance at
the BHS office or at the door
Brooklyn Heights Synagogue
131 Remsen Street
Brooklyn, NY
718-522-2070
The dynamic Strauss/Warschauer Duo's performances are drawn from klezmer, Yiddish, Hasidic and liturgical music and culture, adding their own original compositions and song settings. As Deborah and Jeff sing and play in shifting combinations of violin, guitar, mandolin and accordion, they create a dynamic atmosphere with an exceptional range of feeling -- from delicate and refined to exuberant and foot-stomping.
Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer are two of the most astonishing and popular performers and teachers in the international klezmer and Yiddish music scene. They were both long-time members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and have performed with violinist Itzhak Perlman on film and in concert. As the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, they have performed to overwhelming acclaim in such diverse venues as the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Amsterdam International Yiddish Festival, the Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow, the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto, and the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater in New York City. They lead workshops and classes throughout North America and Europe, are on the faculty of the KlezKamp and KlezKanada Yiddish culture programs, and are frequent instructors for the Jewish Music Institute/SOAS at the University of London.
Lox & Vodka is delighted to be returning for the 9th year to this annual event!!!
So come celebrate Chanukah at the Chevy Chase Pavilion, 1:00-4:00, as we sing, dance, clap and eat together! Plus you can shop for those last minute gifts. And there'll be games and crafts for the kids.
Located at the Friendship Heights metro station (red line); 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20015; free admission; great for adults and families with young children.
Lori Cahan-Simon
Sunday, December 9th at 1pm at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage Family Fun Day, on Richmond Road just south of Shaker Boulevard, Beachwood, Ohio. Free with museum admission.
Joining her will be Walt Mahovlich on accordion and Max Rothman on violin, with the addition of Ken Javor on bass.
Lori Cahan-Simon
Sunday, December 9th at 1pm at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage Family Fun Day, on Richmond Road just south of Shaker Boulevard, Beachwood, Ohio. Free with museum admission.
Joining her will be Walt Mahovlich on accordion and Max Rothman on violin, with the addition of Ken Javor on bass.
Starting on Satuday 17 November, Klezmokum will be touring Holland and in Belgium) with "Ancient & Newer Roots", a program of original works by Jewish composers dating back to the period around World War Two, now updated into contemporary comopositions. The works by Mikhl Gelbart, Kasriel Broydo, Beyle Schaechter Gottesman and others are in new arrangements by Burton Greene, pianist and leader of Klezmokum. The tour has been made possible by funding from Maror in Amsterdam and the Levi Lassen Foundation in The Hague. Most of the concerts will be at synagogues or other Jewish locations.
Sunday 9 December 2.30 uur:
Synagogue in Arnhem,
Pastoorstraat 17 Tuesday
In addition to traditional Chassidic melodies, there are also modern works by Matt Darriau (Klezmatics) and Bill Averbach (Austin Klezmorim), and by Sylke Rollig/Burton Greene included in Burton's arrangements. Nine of the compositions have already been recorded on a CD (BVHAAST CD 1205). Klezmokum combines originally Jewish music with Jazz and spontaneous improvisations, resulting in surprising modern music that retains the original atmosphere.
CHOIRS AND CANTORS LIGHT ONE CANDLE THIS CHANUKAH
Over 200 adults and children will celebrate Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, in concert, 3 P.M., Sunday, December 9, 2007 as Congregation Rodeph Sholom of Manhattan hosts its unique, multigenerational Festival of Choirs. The eighth annual concert will feature cantors and their volunteer adult and children’s choirs from all over the New York metropolitan area. This year, the first night of Chanukah is Friday, December 4, 2007.
A Festival of Choirs is free of charge and open to the entire community.
Congregation Rodeph Sholom is located at 7 West 83rd Street off of Central Park West in Manhattan. For more information about this concert, please call (212) 362-8800, ext. 1337.
“Chanukah is a wonderful time to bring together in song the young and young-at-heart,” according to Congregation Rodeph Sholom’s Senior Cantor, Rebecca Garfein. “We are proud to present the eighth annual Festival of Choirs to the New York community.”
Highlights of the concert will include a 100-voiced combined children’s choir singing Peter Yarrow’s song (of Peter Paul and Mary fame),“Light One Candle,” and “Raise up the Menorah” written by Rodeph Sholom congregant, Eliot Bailen and students from the Rodeph Sholom Day School and Religious School. For the first time in the festival’s history, HaZamir, the International High School Choir, will participate. Another highpoint will be the concert’s finale, “Bring on the Light,” a piece by composer, singer and actor, Danny Maseng, that was commissioned by Congregation Rodeph Sholom for the Festival of Choirs in 2001.
Cantor Garfein will be joined in concert by Rodeph Sholom’s Assistant Cantor, Shayna Peavey and Cantorial-Intern Jennifer Strauss-Klein. Also participating in the concert will be Cantor Todd Kipnis and Cantorial-Intern, Donna Mashadi, Temple Shaaray Tefila, Manhattan; Cantor Daniel Singer, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, Manhattan; Cantor Janet Leuchter and Music Director, Rose Moskowitz, Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, NY;
Accompanying the cantors and choirs will be acclaimed pianist, composer and arranger, Jonathan Faiman. Joining Mr. Faiman will be the “Festival of Choirs” combo: John Hadfield, percussion, Dror Ben-Gur, winds, and Daniel Freeman, bass guitar.
Di Fidl-Kapelye
9.12.| 16 Uhr
13.-/10 €
Gotischer Saal, Zitadelle Spandau, Am Juliusturm, 13599
Berlin
Madelien Verheijl, Jiska ter Bals, Jet Stevens, Pit Hermans aus Amsterdam
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and New York University’s Department of Performance Studies present:
The Yiddish Dance Research Symposium
“Defining Yiddish Dance: Secular, Sacred, Borrowed and Transformed”
Sunday, December 9, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Edgar M. Bronfman Center
New York University
7 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
(between 5th Avenue and University Place).
Admission: $10 general public, $5 students/seniors
Scholars wishing to register should RSVP to Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s Pete Rushefsky, 212-571-1555 ext. 36, or email Pete
Several members of Pharaoh's Daughter—Basya, Uri, Yoed, and Megan—Heschel Music Project
Center for Jewish History - 15 W. 16th St.
Performance is open to participants of the Heschel Conference which is $20
for the whole day, or $10 for just the 15 minute performance and rest of
conference.
www.cjh.org/programs/heschelform.php
6:30p.m.
JEWMONGOUS! feat. Sean Altman plus guests Cindy Kaplan and Listen Up! A Capella.
Chicago Appearance:
6pm doors for 7pm show, Sun. Dec 9 In Chicago, IL
@ The Beat Kitchen, 2100 W. Belmont, Chicago
$10.00 Students / $15.00 adv. (ticketweb.com) / $18.00 door
JEWMONGOUS "Taller Than Jesus" CD Release Tour
JEWMONGOUS, a solo comedy song concert with occasional guests, is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN: the golden-voiced, song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy song act What I Like About Jew and the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella. Sean was featured in Time Out New York's cover story "The New Super Jews," (with Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman) and in the New York Times feature about "the Jewish Hipster Movement." He debuted JEWMONGOUS in 2006 and has garnered press accolades coast to coast (see them below).
JEWMONGOUS' debut album Taller Than Jesus will be released on Christmas Day 2007 (to give Jews something to celebrate that day) but is already available exclusively at http://jewmongous.com. The Taller Than Jesus CD release tour hits 16 cities in December 2007. All faiths welcome, even the faithless.
As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums of bittersweet power-pop and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). He is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego" - for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song with his childhood pal, the now-famous David Yazbek. He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in Manhattan, he sings with Kol Zimra Jewish Acapella and performs charity concerts with Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, he serenades hospital patients as a volunteer with Musicians On Call, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows. In short, Sean is a highly exposed mensch, albeit a potty-mouthed one.
From the Presenter
KFAR is Chicago's independent Jewish Arts and Culture presenting agency. This show falls smack during Hanukah, and we're pleased to give the gift of comedy. Hanukah is a joyous festival, filled with food and rampant commercialism any decent American holiday would be ashamed not to have. We're happy to add Sean's irreverent humor to that spirit since the only thing more amusing is lighting a joint off the Menorah candle.
SEAN EXPLAINS: Why JEWMONGOUS
At my bar mitzvah, Rabbi Gottlieb publicly warned me of the perils of becoming a "bar mitzvah Jew": a Jew for whom that barely pubescent rite of passage is the end of the line. Indeed, from the moment I sent out that final bar mitzvah "thank you" note (to the Himmelsteins, for that bond that won't mature until I'm dead), I gleefully eschewed the spiritual elements of Judaism. Through my twenties I reveled in my great escape from the clutches of my ancestors' faith, even marrying a dreaded shiksa.
But damn him; that know-it-all Rabbi Gottlieb was right: secular Judaism (the ability to discern a bagel from a donut) was not nearly as fulfilling as Satan had promised (and to boot the shiksa dumped me). I felt an increasingly urgent longing to be more connected with my Jewish lineage. But how Synagogues intimidated me and I'd long forgotten how to read Hebrew (and by "read" I mean sound out the words with no comprehension whatsoever). For years I asserted my Jewishness only at Passover seders, where I read the four questions aloud with particular bravado in an attempt to "prove my Jewishness" to the rest of the table (and assuage my guilt).
Then it hit me: the only things I know how to do - period - are sing, write songs and crack wise. In lieu of shul, then, I started writing naughty ditties that celebrate and lovingly skewer the trials and tribulations of the tribe. Presto: suddenly I'm an esteemed purveyor of "Jewish music" and part of the fancy-shmancy "Jewish hipster movement" everyone's talking about. I've never been called "hip" in my life, so I figure God must really want me to write these ferkachter songs. Let's not forget that Jews have produced some of the greatest comedians and song writers, so I have numerous role models for both endeavors.
Marrying a knockout JDate Jewess cemented the deal: I'm back home with the Hebrews and life is sweeter than my bubbe's kugel. The fact that I still know very little about my people hasn't deterred me from penning catchy songs that display my pathetic lack of knowledge. In fact, I've found that not knowing squat about Judaism allows for better lyrics, as I'm not hamstrung by the pesky "truth". So have I managed to shed the sinister "bar mitzvah Jew" moniker Nope. I came of age in the '70s, when "theme" bar mitzvahs were just coming into vogue. My event's theme was S&M, so JEWMONGOUS is really just an extension of my bar mitzvah, simultaneously embracing and rebelling against my heritage and forever trying to tweak the rabbi's beard and yank his talis. I'm still a "bar mitzvah Jew", but at least I'm now "hip". Thank you, Rabbi Gottlieb!
On this tour I'll perform original songs including my fractured Passover story song "They Tried To Kill Is (We Survived, Let"s Eat)", the scientifically accurate "Taller Than Jesus", the venomous anti-Jews For Jesus punk anthem entitled "Jews For Jesus", the Irish drinking song ode to the infamous Blood Libel "Christian Baby Blood", the ska-inflected "What The Hell Is Simchas Torah", the bluesy "My Pact With Satan", the yearning ballad "Another Inch", "Reuben The Hook-Nosed Reindeer" and the swingin" "Blow, Murray Blow", about a virtuoso shofar (ram"s horn) blower so great that his playing purges listeners of all their sins, no matter how despicable. The only cover song in the show is my semiticized version of the Ramones" classic "I Wanna Be Sedated", as I believe that Joey Ramone (born Jeff Hyman) would have wanted it sung that way. Sean
Press Quotes
SEATTLE STRANGER: "The bastard love child Tenacious D and Fiddler on the Roof never had."
BOSTON GLOBE: "Racy, funny and smart and affectionate, for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'"
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS: "Part of a new breed of Jewish hipster comedy that includes Jon Stewart, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman and Heeb Magazine."
WASHINGTON POST: "Bawdy with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... Style and guts and a tune you can groove to."
VILLAGE VOICE (New York City): "Hilarious and tuneful. Jew"ll Love it! Very busy, very talented singer Sean Altman."
LA WEEKLY (Los Angeles): "Clearly not averse to taking risks... While his punk-rough approach and vividly iconoclastic lyrics place him in an up-to-date arena, he echoes such forebears as Eddie Cantor and Lenny Bruce and upholds the tradition with biting, bitchen acuity."
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: "Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER: "Neo-Borscht Belt... An abundance of clever, catchy songs...Genuine laughs...Thoroughly entertaining comic power-pop."
NEW YORK TIMES: "Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risque borscht-belting... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp."
BALTIMORE CITYGUIDE: "Irreverent, hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman."
BOSTON HERALD : "Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect... Deliriously kitschy."
PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY: "Scathing, bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Takes seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."
TIME OUT NEW YORK: "Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... The neurotic nebbish is out; the swaggering ass-kicker is in."
LOS ANGELES TIMES: "You"ve gotta love it... Skewering all things iconically Jewish - from JDate to Passover to rhinoplasty."
THE PROVINCE (Vancouver, BC): "You loved Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat You"ll be delighted with Altman, a song-writing wiz."
JTNEWS (Seattle "The Voice of Jewish Washington"): "An over-the-top musical gag that strip-mines Jewish stereotypes for every last bit of comedy."
EUGENE WEEKLY (Eugene, OR): "Hilarious...A tongue in cheek, whimsical new approach to Jewish joke-pop."
SAN DIEGO JEWISH JOURNAL: "A riotous and self-righteous musical fest that is all tongue-in-cheek hilarity for the tribe."
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT: "Winning over Jewish audiences with its take-no-prisoners approach to Jewish-inspired comedy...The Jewish hipster movement has arrived."
PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER: "Recharge your chutpah meter with the Jewtacular, Jewsplosive JEWMONGOUS!"
KFAR Jewish Arts Center is an independent, non-denominational organization presenting contemporary Jewish arts presentations and programs in Chicago that simultaneously enrich and celebrate our culture. KFAR is dedicated to stimulating, promoting and producing the next generation of Jewish expression. Visit our website at www.kfarcenter.com
Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/09
Double Door,
Chicago IL
www.doubledoor.com
(773) 489-3160
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
Grammy winners The Klezmatics, world-renowned superstars of the klezmer world. Their music is steeped in Jewish spiritualism and Eastern European tradition while incorporating more provocative themes such as social rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic musical influences such as gospel, punk, and Arab, African, and Balkan rhythms.
12/9/2007
Cedar Cultural Center
Minneapolis MN
(612) 338-2674
www.thecedar.org
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CONGREGATION BETH EL PRESENT
Yiddish Arts Festival
"Oy Khanike: A Celebration of Yiddish Culture"
Dec 7-9, 2007
Congregation Beth El of La Jolla presents a full weekend of activities that will be fun, entertaining and enlightening for the whole family. Join us for an entire weekend celebrating different elements of Yiddish culture, including music, literature, food, film and storytelling.
Please call or go online for information and to make your reservations:
RSVP online for any program at www.congregationbethel.org/form-rsvp.html
tel: 858 452 1734
www.congregationbethel.org
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EXTENDED BODY:
Presenters include
Yale Strom, Peter Riegert, Thane Rosenbaum, Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, Craig Parks.
Friday, Dec. 7th @ 6:15pm
Khanike Dinner/Happy Minyan w/Keynote Presentation by Yale Strom, "The influence of klezmer music on the revival of Yiddish culture in the United States"
Sat., Dec. 8th @ 9:30am
Shabbat Services followed by Presentation on Yiddish literature by Thane Rosenbaum (author of The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, The Myth of Moral Justice)
Sat., Dec. 8th @ 12:00pm
Luncheon and presentation of a Yiddish Story (TBA) by Thane Rosenbaum
Sat., Dec. 8th @ 7:30pm
Concert by Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi
Sun., Dec. 9th @ 4:00pm
Family Khanike Party and Puppet Show with Storyteller/Musician Craig Parks
Sun., Dec. 9th @ 7:00pm
Movie Presentation, King of the Corner, Directed by & Starring Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancy, Animal House, Local Hero and TV's Damages), who will lead a discussion following the presentation.
NOTE: This film is for mature audiences and not appropriate for children
Pricing:
Program Sponsors: Includes all events & program recognition:
$75.00 per person, $25.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
All Inclusive Ticket: Includes all events—$60.00 per person, $20.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Separate Event Ticket Pricing:
Friday Dinner: $20.00 per person, $8.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Saturday Lunch: $20.00 per person, $8.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Saturday Eve: Concert : $13.00 per person, $5.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Sunday: Chanukkah Party: $7.50 per person, $5.00 per child (5 – 12 yrs. old)
Sunday Eve: Movie Presentation: $3.50 per person
Children under 5 FREE for all programs
Congregation Beth El
8660 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA
Please call or go online for information and to make your reservations:
RSVP online for any program at www.congregationbethel.org/form-rsvp.html
tel: 858 452 1734
www.congregationbethel.org
>Massel-Tov Trio
09.12.07
86875 Waal,
"Deutsches Haus" - Musikalisch-Literarische Gaststätte,
Ritter-v.-Herkomer-Str. 31,
T. 08246-1040,
20:00 Uhr
V Helsinki Klezmer Festival, Dec 8 - 12, 2007
The Helsinki Klezmer Festival, a festival of klezmer, or Jewish Eastern European music, is taking place in Helsinki for the fifth time. The Finnish Klezmer Society is organizing the festival, and the concerts are at the Savoy Theatre.
Sunday December 9, Konsonans Retro & Christian Dawid
(Ukraine/Germany)
In cooperation with the Sibelius Acadamy, the festival is presenting a klezmer music course with the musicians of the Kharkov Klezmer Band (Ukraine/Germany) as teachers. Simo Muir, Ph.D, is giving a lecture about klezmer music in Finland, and violinist and composer Mark Kovnatskiy is teaching Jewish dancing. A new feature of the festival is the production of Sholem Aleikhem's play "Mazl-Tov!" After a successful run last fall, the play is returning to the Universum Theater in the Betania building, and once again the theater is home to the sounds of the Yiddish language!
We are also continuing the previous festivals' tradition: after the concerts, the music-making continues in the Bulevardi Kahvisalonki with lively jam sessions.
*We welcome you warmly to experience, enjoy, and also participate in the events of the Helsinki Klezmer Festival!*
Session III. Monday December 10th: Special Session (place/time to be announced)
Strategies for Field Research, Documentation and Dissemination
Training Dance Leaders & Encouraging Participation
For hundreds of years, Jews were part of a diverse tapestry of ethnic communities in Eastern and Central Europe. Dance, particularly during wedding festivities, was an important means of cultural expression and community cohesion for Jews living in cities and shtetlekh (villages) alike. Much of the dance repertoire of East European Jews was of a multi- cultural nature. Nevertheless, Jewish dance also featured a unique vocabulary of gestures and genres. A variety of factors caused most traditional Yiddish dance and its associated klezmer repertoire to fall almost completely out of practice by the 1960s.
Participants at the typical American-Jewish celebration of today may move in a circle to the rhythm of the music but are at a loss as to the dance forms, steps and stylistic gestures of the tradition. While remnants of a limited number of dance forms and gestures are retained in Hasidic communities, today there are but a few elderly immigrant and second-generation Jews left who still perform, or can even recall traditional dance from either Europe or America.
Despite significant success in the revival of traditional Jewish klezmer music over the past thirty years, the associated Yiddish Dance tradition has received less attention and is at alarming risk of being almost completely forgotten. It is only thanks to the work of a handful of dedicated individuals (mostly operating without institutional support) that any fieldwork and documentation of Yiddish Dance has been done over the past thirty years.
Peter Rushefsky, Executive Director
Center for Traditional Music and Dance
email Pete Rushefsky
phone: 212-571-1555 x36
web: www.ctmd.org
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and New York University’s Department of Performance Studies present:
The Yiddish Dance Research Symposium
“Defining Yiddish Dance: Secular, Sacred, Borrowed and Transformed”
Sunday, December 9, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Edgar M. Bronfman Center
New York University
7 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
(between 5th Avenue and University Place).
Admission: $10 general public, $5 students/seniors
Scholars wishing to register should RSVP to Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s Pete Rushefsky, 212-571-1555 ext. 36, or email Pete
Monday, December 10 at 8 pm
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC:
Join us for this Chanukah Concert to benefit Hungry for Music and celebrate the release of Hungry for Music's fundraising CD's "A Chanukah Feast, Vol. I & II."
Hungry For Music is a grassroots, volunteer-driven charitable organization with national and international outreach. Its mission is to inspire underprivileged children (and others) by bringing positive musical and creative experiences into their lives. Since becoming a non-profit in 1994, Hungry for Music has brought the healing quality of music to thousands of people through its musical instrument donations, concerts, and workshops.
Featured artists are The Alexandria Kleztet, Glickman & The Gelt-Tones, Klezcentricity, The Robyn Helzner Trio and The Sinai Mountain Boys. With special appearances by Alan Oresky, James Levy, Jinny Marsh, Laura Baron and Susan Jones.
Tickets are $17.00 in advance and $20.00 at the door. Tickets are available in advance by calling 888/843-0933 or online at www.paypal.com.
Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/10
Triple Door,
Seattle WA
www.thetripledoor.net
(206) 838-4333
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
Our "classic" trio - David, Wendy and Richard - will be participating
in a Hannukah Concert
December 10 at
The Historic SIXTH and EYE Synagogue
to promote the Hungry For Music Chanukah Feast CDs:
www.hungryformusic.com/hfm/CD-chanukahfeast.htm
www.hungryformusic.com/hfm/CD-chanukahfeast-2.htm
Of course we'll perform our original "Ballad of Chanukah"
Pshutei Ha'am Live at The Knitting Factory NY - Dec. 10th & 11th
"First US Tour"
Sephardic Music Festival
Monday, December 10 at 9:00pm
Knitting Factory, NY
Pshutei Ha'am (Simple People) - a band created by the founders of Shotei Hanevuah - Will be performing in the US for the first time.
V Helsinki Klezmer Festival, Dec 8 - 12, 2007
The Helsinki Klezmer Festival, a festival of klezmer, or Jewish Eastern European music, is taking place in Helsinki for the fifth time. The Finnish Klezmer Society is organizing the festival, and the concerts are at the Savoy Theatre.
Tuesday December 11,
Kharkov Klezmer Band (Germany/Ukraine)
Lecture: "The Roots of Finnish Klezmer"
Mazl-Tov! a play in the Yiddish language
In cooperation with the Sibelius Acadamy, the festival is presenting a klezmer music course with the musicians of the Kharkov Klezmer Band (Ukraine/Germany) as teachers. Simo Muir, Ph.D, is giving a lecture about klezmer music in Finland, and violinist and composer Mark Kovnatskiy is teaching Jewish dancing. A new feature of the festival is the production of Sholem Aleikhem's play "Mazl-Tov!" After a successful run last fall, the play is returning to the Universum Theater in the Betania building, and once again the theater is home to the sounds of the Yiddish language!
We are also continuing the previous festivals' tradition: after the concerts, the music-making continues in the Bulevardi Kahvisalonki with lively jam sessions.
*We welcome you warmly to experience, enjoy, and also participate in the events of the Helsinki Klezmer Festival!*
Pharaoh's Daughter
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11th
Two shows:
WINTERGARDEN DEBUT - at World Financial Center
12:30-2
Singing PD songs and chanukah songs for families, lunchtimers, loafers,
slackers, hookyplayers, musiclovers, downtowners, commuters,
FREE!
www.worldfinancialcenter.com/calendar
Chanukah show!!!!
SEPHARDIC MUSIC FESTIVAL!!!
@ Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St.
With P'shutai Ha'am (FORMERLY SHOTEI NEVUAH - AMAZING ISRAELI ROCK BAND)
and Asefa, DJ Handler and Y-Love
8p.m. $25
www.sephardicmusicfestival.com/events.html
בית לייוויק
יום שלישי 11.12.2007 שעה 19:30
הדלקת נר שביעי של חנוכה והשקת ספרה החדש של לאה גרפינקל – שבע אמהות מנחה יו"ר בית לייוויק – מר דניאל גלאי משתתפים: ד"ר מתי דוידסון; הגב' מזל קאופמן; מר אבי גרפינקל והמחברת ד"ר לא גרפינקל שירה: הזמרת בתיה פונדה הספר שבע אמהות יצא בהוצאת ה. לייוויק בתמיכת קרן עקביהו וקרן מניה
ואיציק מנגר
דב הוז 30 תל אביב; טלפון 5231830 03
www.leyvik.org
Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia presents:
This season's holiday concert will be more than a little unusual. Dedicated to the celebration of Hanukkah, it will combine music both old and new, taking us back to the 17th century, when the famous violinist and composer Salomone Rossi wrote the first polyphonic setting of the Shabbat Service. To complement the splendid ceremonial music of Rossi, Choral Arts has commissioned a Hanukkah Oratorio by internationally renowned composer David Ludwig. An ensemble of period instruments - recorders, baroque fiddles, sackbuts, lutes and percussion - will accompany this festive holiday concert. Bring the entire family!
Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 8 pm
Congregation Rodeph Shalom
615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA
Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 8 pm
Temple Sinai of Dresher
1401 N. Limekiln Pike, Dresher, PA
There will be a pre-concert lecture 30 minutes before each performance.
For more information or to order tickets
visit www.choralarts.com
or call (215) 240-6417
Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia presents:
This season's holiday concert will be more than a little unusual. Dedicated to the celebration of Hanukkah, it will combine music both old and new, taking us back to the 17th century, when the famous violinist and composer Salomone Rossi wrote the first polyphonic setting of the Shabbat Service. To complement the splendid ceremonial music of Rossi, Choral Arts has commissioned a Hanukkah Oratorio by internationally renowned composer David Ludwig. An ensemble of period instruments - recorders, baroque fiddles, sackbuts, lutes and percussion - will accompany this festive holiday concert. Bring the entire family!
Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 8 pm
Congregation Rodeph Shalom
615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA
Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 8 pm
Temple Sinai of Dresher
1401 N. Limekiln Pike, Dresher, PA
There will be a pre-concert lecture 30 minutes before each performance.
For more information or to order tickets
visit www.choralarts.com
or call (215) 240-6417
Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/11
Doug Fir Lounge,
Portland OR
www.dougfirlounge.com
(503) 231-9663
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
Pshutei Ha'am Live at The Knitting Factory NY - Dec. 10th & 11th
"First US Tour"
Sephardic Music Festival
Monday, December 11 at 9:00pm
Knitting Factory, NY
Pshutei Ha'am (Simple People) - a band created by the founders of Shotei Hanevuah - Will be performing in the US for the first time.
Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/12
Great American Music Hall,
San Francisco CA
www.musichallsf.com
(415) 885-0750
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
Za'atar: Music of the Jews of Arab & Muslim Lands
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
7:30 PM Doors Open
8:00 PM Performance Begins
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Ave. (just south of Gilman St.), Berkeley, CA
Entrance: $10.00
(510) 524-5054
www.ashkenaz.com
Sample Za'tar's CD: cdbaby.com/cd/zaatarband2
Albany Symphony Orchestra
December 13, 14, 15
Premiere of "Out Of Endless Yearnings - A Klezmer Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra"
Soloist: cellist Matt Haimovitz
Dec. 13 - Saratoga NY
Dec. 14 - Troy Music Hall, NY
Dec. 15 - Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, MA
Website: www.albanysymphony.com - look under December's listing of concerts
Tel: (518) 465-4755
Relive the joy of family celebrations with this "Klezmer Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra," written by Williamstown composer Stephen Dankner for the brilliant Israeli-American virtuoso, Matt Haimovitz. This is Haimovit's first appearance with the ASO. He has toured the world and gained particular attention for his multi-year solo recital tour in unconventional venues, bringing concert music to new listeners (in roadhouses, bars, pizza parlors, etc...). For this work, Dankner imagines the orchestra as a giant Klezmer Band, and pays homage to his own and Haimovitz's Jewish ancestry.
Thurs., Dec.13,
7:30 pm,
Canfield Casino,
Saratoga Springs, NY
Tickets $27
Like a dreidal out of Vegas, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad comes home for the holidays, appearing at The Zipper Factory (336 West 37th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) for 10 shows beginning Wednesday, December 5th. For three weeks, these Madelahs of Madness will celebrate their five years of mishagas on the road.
Thursday, December 13 at 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are priced at $ 25.00 and are available by phone through Ovation Tix at 212.352.3101 or online at www.zippertheater.com.
Albany Symphony Orchestra
December 13, 14, 15
Premiere of "Out Of Endless Yearnings - A Klezmer Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra"
Soloist: cellist Matt Haimovitz
Dec. 13 - Saratoga NY
Dec. 14 - Troy Music Hall, NY
Dec. 15 - Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, MA
Website: www.albanysymphony.com - look under December's listing of concerts
Tel: (518) 465-4755
Relive the joy of family celebrations with this "Klezmer Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra," written by Williamstown composer Stephen Dankner for the brilliant Israeli-American virtuoso, Matt Haimovitz. This is Haimovit's first appearance with the ASO. He has toured the world and gained particular attention for his multi-year solo recital tour in unconventional venues, bringing concert music to new listeners (in roadhouses, bars, pizza parlors, etc...). For this work, Dankner imagines the orchestra as a giant Klezmer Band, and pays homage to his own and Haimovitz's Jewish ancestry.
Fri., Dec. 14, 8:00 pm,
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall,
Troy, NY
Tickets: $23, $37.50, $46 -
518-273-0038
Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/14
Knitting Factory,
Los Angeles CA
www.knittingfactory.com
(323) 463-0204
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
Grammy winners The Klezmatics, world-renowned superstars of the klezmer world. Their music is steeped in Jewish spiritualism and Eastern European tradition while incorporating more provocative themes such as social rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic musical influences such as gospel, punk, and Arab, African, and Balkan rhythms.
12/14/2007
TIB Amphitheater at Founders Park
Islamorada FL
(305) 395-6344
www.keysice.com
Casco Bay Tummlers – klezmer concert
Saturday, Dec. 15th, 8pm
One Longfellow Square
$12
www.onelongfellowsquare.com
761-1757
Portland’s own Casco Bay Tummlers are renewing their tradition of doing a Chanukah season concert in Portland. The Tummlers will be appearing at One Longfellow Square, (formerly the Center for Cultural Exchange), on Saturday, December 15th at 8pm. In recent years, the Tummlers, whose primary focus is klezmer music, have been exploring some exciting improvisational music styles from countries such as Macedonia, Greece and Serbia. This concert will include some of that new material along with great klezmer standards, Yiddish swing, and outstanding Yiddish and Ladino vocals.
For those who are not familiar with them, the Casco Bay Tummlers have been performing klezmer music for over twenty years. They have entertained audiences from downeast Maine to Eastern Europe. The Tummlers have a unique sound and a stage performance that features all members of the band. Steve Gruverman brings an extensive background in ethnic dance music to his soulful clarinet playing. Carl Dimow has developed a unique klezmer flute style, making the instrument an equal solo voice in the music. Julie Goell has a rich background in theater and jazz that comes out both in her bass playing and in her vocal features. Nancy 3.Hoffman brings a playfulness which audiences love to both her accordion playing and her singing. Hayes Porterfield holds the band together with his wonderfully creative drumming which draws on jazz and improvisation.
The Tummlers have released three CD’s and have toured Europe a number of times playing festivals in Lithuania, Germany, Italy and Slovenia. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear this creative and entertaining band.
Press Quotes:
“Fun and frolic, but also pathos and yearning abound. This is emotionally charged music, played with abandon by musicians who are clearly comfortable with each other.” —Greater Boston Flute Association
"The Tummlers newest album, Journey, epitomizes neo-klezmer. The music exudes the sound of celebration. Soulful bursts of intense sound..... transport listeners through a range of emotions and experience." —Jewish Voice
Festival Concert review from newspaper Il Gazzetino, Italy
"The success of the first festival concert is attributed to the musicians who reminded a full and attentive audience that words wrung from instruments have no boundaries, as opposed to words from a dictionary. The words of the Casco Bay Tummlers, an ensemble of Americans from Maine who play Eastern European klezmer mixed with Dixieland, seem to be written on sheaves of paper borne on the wind, caressed by a guitar. Joined by rhythms of bass and drums, the words assume the drive of a train in motion, which, between the flight of a sparrow and the sound of bells ringing in the night, stopped abruptly in some station of a voyage without end." —Nicola Astolfi (translated from Italian)
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Saturday, December 15,
David Chevan and Friends,
Humphrey’s East,
175 Humphrey Street,
New Haven, Connecticut,
203-782-1506
Albany Symphony Orchestra
December 13, 14, 15
Premiere of "Out Of Endless Yearnings - A Klezmer Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra"
Soloist: cellist Matt Haimovitz
Dec. 13 - Saratoga NY
Dec. 14 - Troy Music Hall, NY
Dec. 15 - Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, MA
Website: www.albanysymphony.com - look under December's listing of concerts
Tel: (518) 465-4755
LOLLAPAJEWZA IV PRESENTS
A post-Chanukah, pre-Christmas, Mid-December stress break for everyone.
Saturday, December 15 - 7:30 pm, 2007Klezmerica with Joe Vass
Schaumberg's Prairie Center For The Arts.
201 Schaumburg Court
Schaumburg IL 60193
1.847.895.3600
Tickets: $20 ($18 students and seniors)
to order, call (847) 895-3600
tix online at www.prairiecenter.org
It doesn't matter if you go to temple or church… one thing everyone sees eye-to eye on is that Joe Vass' Klezmerica is one smokin' band of virtuoso musicians exuding unbridled energy and fun. As seen in Israel and throughout the U.S., Klezmerica, like few other Klezmer-style bands, can go from
ancient Hebrew melodies to blues riffs to Gershwin standards not just effortlessly, but with panache and undeniable charm.
"Hits the spot reserved for joy and sorrow, one that is
universally understood." The Los Angeles Times
"A tight, smokin' five-man ensemble." Miami New Times
"A wonder!" St. Paul Pioneer Press
Relive the joy of family celebrations with this "Klezmer Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra," written by Williamstown composer Stephen Dankner for the brilliant Israeli-American virtuoso, Matt Haimovitz. This is Haimovit's first appearance with the ASO. He has toured the world and gained particular attention for his multi-year solo recital tour in unconventional venues, bringing concert music to new listeners (in roadhouses, bars, pizza parlors, etc...). For this work, Dankner imagines the orchestra as a giant Klezmer Band, and pays homage to his own and Haimovitz's Jewish ancestry.
Saturday, December 15, 7:30 pm,
Colonial Theatre,
Pittsfield, MA
$27 Box Office: 413-997-4444
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Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/15
Soiled Dove,
Denver CO
www.tavernhospitalitygroup.com
(303) 299-0100
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
Ensemble DRAj
Am 15. Dezember 2007 beschließen wir unsere diesjährigen Konzertaktivitäten mit einem Auftritt im Dortmunder domicil in der Hansastr. 7-11. Der Beginn ist dort ebenfalls um 20 h.
Asefa
Jewish Music Cafe
December 15, 2007, 8:00pm
401 9th street, Brooklyn, NY, 11215
Boston's Zamir Chorale
Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford, Connecticut, Sunday, December 16 at 3:00 pm. Less than an hour from NYC! Join us for a special afternoon. For tickets, contact Naomi J. Marks, 203-358-2200.
The Commack Jewish Center Presents Neshama Carlebach in Concert Sunday December 16, 2007 5:00 - 7:00 PM, doors at 4:30 PM. 83 Shirley Court Commack NY 11725 631-543-3311.
Prices range from $45 to $18, with student discounts available. Neshama daughter of the world renowned Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach! Sponsored by Sajes.
For more information
www.commackjc.org
tel: 631-543-3311
Grammy winners The Klezmatics, world-renowned superstars of the klezmer world. Their music is steeped in Jewish spiritualism and Eastern European tradition while incorporating more provocative themes such as social rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic musical influences such as gospel, punk, and Arab, African, and Balkan rhythms.
12/16/2007
Park Vista High School
Boynton Beach FL
(561) 736-4752
www.jewishpalmbeach.org
Trio TAQ:
Marcin Masecki, Garth Stevenson, Ziv Ravitz
U.S. Tour
Marcin Masecki, the celebrated young jazz pianist who took the contemporary jazz world by storm when he won the 2005 Moscow International Jazz Piano Competition (its jury chaired by legendary Martial Solal), is being brought back by The Polish Cultural Institute on a U.S. tour with his long-time partners in Trio TAQ – Canadian bassist Garth Stevenson and Israeli drummer Ziv Ravitz – with concerts at the Lily Pad in Boston on Monday, December 17 at 7:30 PM; New York’s Joe’s Pub on Tuesday, December 18 at 9:30 PM; Chris Jazz Café in Philadelphia on Thursday, December 20 at 9:00 PM; and the Bohemian Caverns in Washington on Friday, December 21 at 9 & 11 PM.
Monday, December 17, 7:30 PM
Lily Pad, Inman Square,
1353 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge MA 02139,
www.lily-pad.net
tel. 617-388-1168
ADMISSION: $10 at the door (suggested donation)
TRANSPORTATION: Red Line to Central Sq. Walk down Prospect Street and take left on Cambridge Street.
Trio TAQ was founded in Boston in 2002 while Masecki, Stevenson and Ravitz were studying at the Berklee College of Music. During a six-hour session of original compositions and improvisations, Marcin, Garth, and Ziv experienced a chemistry and magic like no other, and forged a lifelong bond and band. They began performing in Boston and New York and in March 2003 made their first trip together to Poland. Audiences were immediately captured by the energy, connectivity, telepathy, and honesty of the music. Over the next four years TAQ continued touring in Eastern and Western Europe at major jazz festivals and piano festivals like the London Jazz Festival and the International Jazz Piano Festival in Prague, as well as in clubs and concert halls. In 2005 TAQ recorded their album “TAQ Live in Minsk Mazowiecki.” Collectively they have performed with an impressive roster of notable artists including Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Tomasz Stanko, George Garzone, Ben Monder, Dave Samuels, Avishai Cohen and many others.
Masecki, a jazz prodigy who by age 12 was a regular at the legendary Polish jazz club “Akwarium,” was at 15 a member of the acclaimed Polish group Alchemik, which won the Grand Prix at the Jazz Hoeilaart Competition in Brussels, where Masecki himself won the award for “Best Soloist.” He tours extensively, performing at international jazz festivals, clubs, and major stage concert venues, often performing beside the great trumpeter Tomasz Stanko and opening for such jazz greats as the Branford Marsalis Quartet at the Skok Jazz Sopot in 2005 and recently for Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at the Warsaw Jazz Summer Days Festival. Following last year’s sell-out solo performance at Joe’s Pub, Marcin Masecki will join his outstanding New York based partners Stevenson and Ravitz for a series of Trio TAQ performances that promise to be unforgettable in their powerful energy, technical mastery, melodic richness, and improvisational intricacy. Detailed biographies follow on the next page.
MARCIN MASECKI was born in 1982 in Warsaw, Poland. At age 3 he started training with his father and at 7 took up the piano. He quickly showed interest in improvisation, and by 12 he was a regular at the legendary Polish jazz club "Akwarium". A year later he formed a piano trio and over the next years played frequently in clubs and entered three competitions, winning second place at the 1997 Jazz Sarteano Competition in Siena, Italy, and first place in two competitions in Poland. At 15 Masecki joined the much larger Polish jazz group "Alchemik" and co-wrote most of their output, which was recorded on four CDs. The group enjoyed great success for several years, playing in jazz festivals and clubs all over Europe. At 16 Masecki won the award for "Best Soloist" at the Jazz Hoeilaart Competition in Brussels (1999) while Alchemik won first place. That same year he was voted by Poland's main jazz magazine (Jazz Forum) as the year's "greatest hope for the future of Polish jazz."
Meanwhile he was working intensely on classical music. At 15 he entered the Fryderyk Chopin Music School in Warsaw on a dual major – Jazz and Classical. A year later he performed Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with the Kielce Symphony Orchestra. At 18 he gave his music school graduation recital held at the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw. He continued his studies on a scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating in 2 1/2 years. During his stay there he formed the trio TAQ with Garth Stevenson on bass and Ziv Ravitz on drums. Upon his return to Warsaw he married, and re-entered the Polish jazz world. In 2005 he entered the Moscow International Jazz Piano Competition and won first place. In Warsaw he got particularly involved in the free improvisational scene as well as intense research into 18th century music, culminating in the building of his own clavichord (predecessor of the piano). In the summer of 2006, at 24, he organized a 6-day festival under his name in which he played every night in a different setting – the first concert was Bach's Viola da Gamba Sonatas and the last was a free jazz quartet. That same year Masecki started working with the DJ collective "Innocent Sorcerers". Together with trumpet player Tomasz Stanko they have performed at various festivals, including the Heineken Open'er Fest in Gdynia.
Other bands he has worked with include Pink Freud, Zbigniew Wegehaupt Quartet, Muzykoterpia, Mitch & Mitch, and artists include Michal Urbaniak, Dave Samuels, George Garzone, and Candelaria Saenz Valiente, among many others. He regularly performs solo improvised concerts as well, recently opening for the Branford Marsalis Quartet. This summer he will also be opening for the Wynton Marsalis Orchestra in the Warsaw Jazz Summer Days festival. His first solo album is scheduled for release in September 2007 on the label LADO ABC.
At the beginning of 2007, in search of artistic adventure, he moved to London, where he now lives. www.marcinmasecki.com
GARTH STEVENSON was born in Kelowa, British Columbia, Canada. He studied piano from a young age and switched to bass in high school. In 2001 he was chosen to represent British Columbia in the National Artists program at the Canada Summer Games in London, Ontario. There, he composed Interplay, a piece for bass, clarinet, Inuit throat singing, piano, trumpet and percussion. At seventeen he received a full scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music. He excelled in the Berklee community and won many performance and composition awards. He was chosen to represent the Jazz Composition Department at the Student Awards Concert in 2004 with his composition Legacy. In Memory of Lee Ryman. While in Boston he performed with jazz greats such as George Garzone, Joe Lovano, Bob Moses, David Tronzo, Ben Monder, Bob Gullotti, John Lockwood, Mick Goodrick, Hal Crook, and Nat Mugavero, and formed the band TAQ with pianist Marcin Masecki and drummer Ziv Ravitz. TAQ began touring throughout Europe in 2003 where they have become underground legends in the improvisational music world, especially in Poland. He graduated from Berklee in 2004 with a degree in jazz composition and performance; then moved to New York City.
In New York he is busy performing in the improvised music scene. He is constantly exploring the possibilities of sound manipulation on his double bass through the use of effects pedals and processing. He recently performed in the avant-garde Vision Festival in a concert tribute to Leroy Jenkins. He is currently recording a debut solo album for solo bass.
Garth is also a member of the successful folk/rock group, The Sonya Kitchell Band. Their debut album Words Came Back To Me sold over 100,000 copies and led the band to performances on David Letterman, XM Radio, Sirius Radio, and at major festivals including Bonnaroo, The North Sea Jazz Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival. He has performed throughout the United State, Canada, Europe and Japan. www.garthstevenson.com
ZIV RAVITZ. born in Beer-Sheva, Israel, to a family of musicians, was drawn to music at an early age, playing the guitar, keyboard and drum. When he was 9 years old he started focusing on drums and by the age of 13 had begun his professional career, playing the drums at various clubs in Beer-Sheva and Tel Aviv and acquiring experience in a variety of musical styles, such as jazz, rock and avant-garde. In 1999 Ziv was chosen as a reserve drummer for guest performers from Europe and the United States at the Camelot Jazz Club in Tel Aviv. Ziv moved to the US in the summer of 200 to expand his musical experience and grow as a Jazz composer. Since then he has been performing and recording with numerous ensembles in the Boston area as a freelancer and as an artist, using his own compositions, which reflect his individual and unique sound. Ziv had the opportunity to perform with musicians such as Hal Crook, Greg Hopkins, Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Eugene Friesen, Mick Goodrick, Eli Dejibri, James Genus, George Garzone, Ben Monder, Avishai Cohen and more. In the winter of 2003, Ziv has become an official recording artist of Huber Music Management and Recording label of Cologne, Germany. In June 2003 Ziv won the Zildjan Scholarship Award. Since then Ziv has toured extensively all across Europe with various groups such as TAQ, Minsarah, Sin, Nicolas Simon Group, and the Iasi Romanian Philharmonic Orchestra. In Dec. 2004 Ziv graduated from Berklee School of Music with a Jazz Composition Degree. Ziv is currently signed as an ENJA recording artist. www.zivravitz.com
Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/17
The Social,
Orlando FL
www.thesocial.org
(407) 246-1419
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
YiDL MITN FIDL
mardi, 18, et jeudi, 20 décembre
Heure : 20h00
Prix : Prix unique : 6€
Lieu:
Maison de la poésie R. Delieu, rue Fumal 28 - 5000 Namur
Réservation :
0473/384894-081/225349
Après New York et Vienne, avant Tel Aviv, Iliya Magalnyk et Roman Grinberg installent leur "théâtre yiddish" à la Maison de la Poésie et de la Langue française Wallonie-Bruxelles à Namur.
Avec le récital "Yidl Mitn Fidl", inutile de comprendre cette langue pour ressentir la nostalgie envers le monde des shethls d'Europe orientale... La musicalité poétique du yiddish suffit à ces deux artistes internationalement renommés pour replonger dans leur Moldavie natale et revisiter la vie juive traditionnelle.
Leur musique pleure et rit, alterne la mélancolie et l'énergie, tandis qu'un monde disparu se donne à retrouver ou à découvrir.
Une œuvre littéraire représentative de la culture yiddish d'Europe centrale : le prix Nobel de littérature Isaac Bashevis SINGER
Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/18
New York Comedy Club,
Boca Raton, FL
www.newyorkcomedyclub.com
(561) 470-6887
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
Trio TAQ:
Marcin Masecki, Garth Stevenson, Ziv Ravitz
U.S. Tour
Marcin Masecki, the celebrated young jazz pianist who took the contemporary jazz world by storm when he won the 2005 Moscow International Jazz Piano Competition (its jury chaired by legendary Martial Solal), is being brought back by The Polish Cultural Institute on a U.S. tour with his long-time partners in Trio TAQ – Canadian bassist Garth Stevenson and Israeli drummer Ziv Ravitz – with concerts at the Lily Pad in Boston on Monday, December 17 at 7:30 PM; New York’s Joe’s Pub on Tuesday, December 18 at 9:30 PM; Chris Jazz Café in Philadelphia on Thursday, December 20 at 9:00 PM; and the Bohemian Caverns in Washington on Friday, December 21 at 9 & 11 PM.
Tuesday, December 18, 9:30 PM
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater,
425 Lafayette Street (bet'n East 4th & Astor Place), New York, NY 10003
$15, 212-967-7555 or online at www.joespub.com
Table reservations: 212-539-8787
Subway: 6 to Astor Place; N, R to 8th Street/NYU
Trio TAQ was founded in Boston in 2002 while Masecki, Stevenson and Ravitz were studying at the Berklee College of Music. During a six-hour session of original compositions and improvisations, Marcin, Garth, and Ziv experienced a chemistry and magic like no other, and forged a lifelong bond and band. They began performing in Boston and New York and in March 2003 made their first trip together to Poland. Audiences were immediately captured by the energy, connectivity, telepathy, and honesty of the music. Over the next four years TAQ continued touring in Eastern and Western Europe at major jazz festivals and piano festivals like the London Jazz Festival and the International Jazz Piano Festival in Prague, as well as in clubs and concert halls. In 2005 TAQ recorded their album “TAQ Live in Minsk Mazowiecki.” Collectively they have performed with an impressive roster of notable artists including Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Tomasz Stanko, George Garzone, Ben Monder, Dave Samuels, Avishai Cohen and many others.
Masecki, a jazz prodigy who by age 12 was a regular at the legendary Polish jazz club “Akwarium,” was at 15 a member of the acclaimed Polish group Alchemik, which won the Grand Prix at the Jazz Hoeilaart Competition in Brussels, where Masecki himself won the award for “Best Soloist.” He tours extensively, performing at international jazz festivals, clubs, and major stage concert venues, often performing beside the great trumpeter Tomasz Stanko and opening for such jazz greats as the Branford Marsalis Quartet at the Skok Jazz Sopot in 2005 and recently for Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at the Warsaw Jazz Summer Days Festival. Following last year’s sell-out solo performance at Joe’s Pub, Marcin Masecki will join his outstanding New York based partners Stevenson and Ravitz for a series of Trio TAQ performances that promise to be unforgettable in their powerful energy, technical mastery, melodic richness, and improvisational intricacy. Detailed biographies follow on the next page.
MARCIN MASECKI was born in 1982 in Warsaw, Poland. At age 3 he started training with his father and at 7 took up the piano. He quickly showed interest in improvisation, and by 12 he was a regular at the legendary Polish jazz club "Akwarium". A year later he formed a piano trio and over the next years played frequently in clubs and entered three competitions, winning second place at the 1997 Jazz Sarteano Competition in Siena, Italy, and first place in two competitions in Poland. At 15 Masecki joined the much larger Polish jazz group "Alchemik" and co-wrote most of their output, which was recorded on four CDs. The group enjoyed great success for several years, playing in jazz festivals and clubs all over Europe. At 16 Masecki won the award for "Best Soloist" at the Jazz Hoeilaart Competition in Brussels (1999) while Alchemik won first place. That same year he was voted by Poland's main jazz magazine (Jazz Forum) as the year's "greatest hope for the future of Polish jazz."
Meanwhile he was working intensely on classical music. At 15 he entered the Fryderyk Chopin Music School in Warsaw on a dual major – Jazz and Classical. A year later he performed Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with the Kielce Symphony Orchestra. At 18 he gave his music school graduation recital held at the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw. He continued his studies on a scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating in 2 1/2 years. During his stay there he formed the trio TAQ with Garth Stevenson on bass and Ziv Ravitz on drums. Upon his return to Warsaw he married, and re-entered the Polish jazz world. In 2005 he entered the Moscow International Jazz Piano Competition and won first place. In Warsaw he got particularly involved in the free improvisational scene as well as intense research into 18th century music, culminating in the building of his own clavichord (predecessor of the piano). In the summer of 2006, at 24, he organized a 6-day festival under his name in which he played every night in a different setting – the first concert was Bach's Viola da Gamba Sonatas and the last was a free jazz quartet. That same year Masecki started working with the DJ collective "Innocent Sorcerers". Together with trumpet player Tomasz Stanko they have performed at various festivals, including the Heineken Open'er Fest in Gdynia.
Other bands he has worked with include Pink Freud, Zbigniew Wegehaupt Quartet, Muzykoterpia, Mitch & Mitch, and artists include Michal Urbaniak, Dave Samuels, George Garzone, and Candelaria Saenz Valiente, among many others. He regularly performs solo improvised concerts as well, recently opening for the Branford Marsalis Quartet. This summer he will also be opening for the Wynton Marsalis Orchestra in the Warsaw Jazz Summer Days festival. His first solo album is scheduled for release in September 2007 on the label LADO ABC.
At the beginning of 2007, in search of artistic adventure, he moved to London, where he now lives. www.marcinmasecki.com
GARTH STEVENSON was born in Kelowa, British Columbia, Canada. He studied piano from a young age and switched to bass in high school. In 2001 he was chosen to represent British Columbia in the National Artists program at the Canada Summer Games in London, Ontario. There, he composed Interplay, a piece for bass, clarinet, Inuit throat singing, piano, trumpet and percussion. At seventeen he received a full scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music. He excelled in the Berklee community and won many performance and composition awards. He was chosen to represent the Jazz Composition Department at the Student Awards Concert in 2004 with his composition Legacy. In Memory of Lee Ryman. While in Boston he performed with jazz greats such as George Garzone, Joe Lovano, Bob Moses, David Tronzo, Ben Monder, Bob Gullotti, John Lockwood, Mick Goodrick, Hal Crook, and Nat Mugavero, and formed the band TAQ with pianist Marcin Masecki and drummer Ziv Ravitz. TAQ began touring throughout Europe in 2003 where they have become underground legends in the improvisational music world, especially in Poland. He graduated from Berklee in 2004 with a degree in jazz composition and performance; then moved to New York City.
In New York he is busy performing in the improvised music scene. He is constantly exploring the possibilities of sound manipulation on his double bass through the use of effects pedals and processing. He recently performed in the avant-garde Vision Festival in a concert tribute to Leroy Jenkins. He is currently recording a debut solo album for solo bass.
Garth is also a member of the successful folk/rock group, The Sonya Kitchell Band. Their debut album Words Came Back To Me sold over 100,000 copies and led the band to performances on David Letterman, XM Radio, Sirius Radio, and at major festivals including Bonnaroo, The North Sea Jazz Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival. He has performed throughout the United State, Canada, Europe and Japan. www.garthstevenson.com
ZIV RAVITZ. born in Beer-Sheva, Israel, to a family of musicians, was drawn to music at an early age, playing the guitar, keyboard and drum. When he was 9 years old he started focusing on drums and by the age of 13 had begun his professional career, playing the drums at various clubs in Beer-Sheva and Tel Aviv and acquiring experience in a variety of musical styles, such as jazz, rock and avant-garde. In 1999 Ziv was chosen as a reserve drummer for guest performers from Europe and the United States at the Camelot Jazz Club in Tel Aviv. Ziv moved to the US in the summer of 200 to expand his musical experience and grow as a Jazz composer. Since then he has been performing and recording with numerous ensembles in the Boston area as a freelancer and as an artist, using his own compositions, which reflect his individual and unique sound. Ziv had the opportunity to perform with musicians such as Hal Crook, Greg Hopkins, Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Eugene Friesen, Mick Goodrick, Eli Dejibri, James Genus, George Garzone, Ben Monder, Avishai Cohen and more. In the winter of 2003, Ziv has become an official recording artist of Huber Music Management and Recording label of Cologne, Germany. In June 2003 Ziv won the Zildjan Scholarship Award. Since then Ziv has toured extensively all across Europe with various groups such as TAQ, Minsarah, Sin, Nicolas Simon Group, and the Iasi Romanian Philharmonic Orchestra. In Dec. 2004 Ziv graduated from Berklee School of Music with a Jazz Composition Degree. Ziv is currently signed as an ENJA recording artist. www.zivravitz.com
19 Dec., 11:30 A.M., Debut of new film "Bundists in Israel", with film director Eran Turbiner
Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel
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EXTENDED BODY:
19 Dez., 11:30, Nay dershinerer film "Bundisten in Yisroel", mitn film reszitzer Eran Turbiner
Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel
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Like a dreidal out of Vegas, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad comes home for the holidays, appearing at The Zipper Factory (336 West 37th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) for 10 shows beginning Wednesday, December 5th. For three weeks, these Madelahs of Madness will celebrate their five years of mishagas on the road.
Wednesday, December 19 at 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are priced at $ 25.00 and are available by phone through Ovation Tix at 212.352.3101 or online at www.zippertheater.com.
Lox & Vodka is honored and delighted to be making a return engagement to the US Botanic Gardens. Come share the spirit with us on Thursday, December 20th from 6:00-8:00. Nestled in the heart of Capitol Hill and nearly as old as Washington, D.C., itself, the U.S. Botanic Garden is the Nation's Garden. The grounds of the U.S. Botanic Garden are located on the National Mall across from the U.S. Capitol along First Street, S.W., between Maryland Avenue and C Street.
YiDL MITN FIDL
mardi, 18, et jeudi, 20 décembre
Heure : 20h00
Prix : Prix unique : 6€
Lieu:
Maison de la poésie R. Delieu, rue Fumal 28 - 5000 Namur
Réservation :
0473/384894-081/225349
Après New York et Vienne, avant Tel Aviv, Iliya Magalnyk et Roman Grinberg installent leur "théâtre yiddish" à la Maison de la Poésie et de la Langue française Wallonie-Bruxelles à Namur.
Avec le récital "Yidl Mitn Fidl", inutile de comprendre cette langue pour ressentir la nostalgie envers le monde des shethls d'Europe orientale... La musicalité poétique du yiddish suffit à ces deux artistes internationalement renommés pour replonger dans leur Moldavie natale et revisiter la vie juive traditionnelle.
Leur musique pleure et rit, alterne la mélancolie et l'énergie, tandis qu'un monde disparu se donne à retrouver ou à découvrir.
Une œuvre littéraire représentative de la culture yiddish d'Europe centrale : le prix Nobel de littérature Isaac Bashevis SINGER
Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/20
Recher Theatre,
Baltimore MD
www.rechertheatre.com
(410) 337-7178
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
Trio TAQ:
Marcin Masecki, Garth Stevenson, Ziv Ravitz
U.S. Tour
Marcin Masecki, the celebrated young jazz pianist who took the contemporary jazz world by storm when he won the 2005 Moscow International Jazz Piano Competition (its jury chaired by legendary Martial Solal), is being brought back by The Polish Cultural Institute on a U.S. tour with his long-time partners in Trio TAQ – Canadian bassist Garth Stevenson and Israeli drummer Ziv Ravitz – with concerts at the Lily Pad in Boston on Monday, December 17 at 7:30 PM; New York’s Joe’s Pub on Tuesday, December 18 at 9:30 PM; Chris Jazz Café in Philadelphia on Thursday, December 20 at 9:00 PM; and the Bohemian Caverns in Washington on Friday, December 21 at 9 & 11 PM.
Thursday, December 20, 9:00 PM
Chris’ Jazz Café,
1421 Sansom Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19102,
$15, 215-568-3131
Orange line to Walnut – Locust Station
Trio TAQ was founded in Boston in 2002 while Masecki, Stevenson and Ravitz were studying at the Berklee College of Music. During a six-hour session of original compositions and improvisations, Marcin, Garth, and Ziv experienced a chemistry and magic like no other, and forged a lifelong bond and band. They began performing in Boston and New York and in March 2003 made their first trip together to Poland. Audiences were immediately captured by the energy, connectivity, telepathy, and honesty of the music. Over the next four years TAQ continued touring in Eastern and Western Europe at major jazz festivals and piano festivals like the London Jazz Festival and the International Jazz Piano Festival in Prague, as well as in clubs and concert halls. In 2005 TAQ recorded their album “TAQ Live in Minsk Mazowiecki.” Collectively they have performed with an impressive roster of notable artists including Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Tomasz Stanko, George Garzone, Ben Monder, Dave Samuels, Avishai Cohen and many others.
Masecki, a jazz prodigy who by age 12 was a regular at the legendary Polish jazz club “Akwarium,” was at 15 a member of the acclaimed Polish group Alchemik, which won the Grand Prix at the Jazz Hoeilaart Competition in Brussels, where Masecki himself won the award for “Best Soloist.” He tours extensively, performing at international jazz festivals, clubs, and major stage concert venues, often performing beside the great trumpeter Tomasz Stanko and opening for such jazz greats as the Branford Marsalis Quartet at the Skok Jazz Sopot in 2005 and recently for Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at the Warsaw Jazz Summer Days Festival. Following last year’s sell-out solo performance at Joe’s Pub, Marcin Masecki will join his outstanding New York based partners Stevenson and Ravitz for a series of Trio TAQ performances that promise to be unforgettable in their powerful energy, technical mastery, melodic richness, and improvisational intricacy. Detailed biographies follow on the next page.
MARCIN MASECKI was born in 1982 in Warsaw, Poland. At age 3 he started training with his father and at 7 took up the piano. He quickly showed interest in improvisation, and by 12 he was a regular at the legendary Polish jazz club "Akwarium". A year later he formed a piano trio and over the next years played frequently in clubs and entered three competitions, winning second place at the 1997 Jazz Sarteano Competition in Siena, Italy, and first place in two competitions in Poland. At 15 Masecki joined the much larger Polish jazz group "Alchemik" and co-wrote most of their output, which was recorded on four CDs. The group enjoyed great success for several years, playing in jazz festivals and clubs all over Europe. At 16 Masecki won the award for "Best Soloist" at the Jazz Hoeilaart Competition in Brussels (1999) while Alchemik won first place. That same year he was voted by Poland's main jazz magazine (Jazz Forum) as the year's "greatest hope for the future of Polish jazz."
Meanwhile he was working intensely on classical music. At 15 he entered the Fryderyk Chopin Music School in Warsaw on a dual major – Jazz and Classical. A year later he performed Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with the Kielce Symphony Orchestra. At 18 he gave his music school graduation recital held at the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw. He continued his studies on a scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating in 2 1/2 years. During his stay there he formed the trio TAQ with Garth Stevenson on bass and Ziv Ravitz on drums. Upon his return to Warsaw he married, and re-entered the Polish jazz world. In 2005 he entered the Moscow International Jazz Piano Competition and won first place. In Warsaw he got particularly involved in the free improvisational scene as well as intense research into 18th century music, culminating in the building of his own clavichord (predecessor of the piano). In the summer of 2006, at 24, he organized a 6-day festival under his name in which he played every night in a different setting – the first concert was Bach's Viola da Gamba Sonatas and the last was a free jazz quartet. That same year Masecki started working with the DJ collective "Innocent Sorcerers". Together with trumpet player Tomasz Stanko they have performed at various festivals, including the Heineken Open'er Fest in Gdynia.
Other bands he has worked with include Pink Freud, Zbigniew Wegehaupt Quartet, Muzykoterpia, Mitch & Mitch, and artists include Michal Urbaniak, Dave Samuels, George Garzone, and Candelaria Saenz Valiente, among many others. He regularly performs solo improvised concerts as well, recently opening for the Branford Marsalis Quartet. This summer he will also be opening for the Wynton Marsalis Orchestra in the Warsaw Jazz Summer Days festival. His first solo album is scheduled for release in September 2007 on the label LADO ABC.
At the beginning of 2007, in search of artistic adventure, he moved to London, where he now lives. www.marcinmasecki.com
GARTH STEVENSON was born in Kelowa, British Columbia, Canada. He studied piano from a young age and switched to bass in high school. In 2001 he was chosen to represent British Columbia in the National Artists program at the Canada Summer Games in London, Ontario. There, he composed Interplay, a piece for bass, clarinet, Inuit throat singing, piano, trumpet and percussion. At seventeen he received a full scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music. He excelled in the Berklee community and won many performance and composition awards. He was chosen to represent the Jazz Composition Department at the Student Awards Concert in 2004 with his composition Legacy. In Memory of Lee Ryman. While in Boston he performed with jazz greats such as George Garzone, Joe Lovano, Bob Moses, David Tronzo, Ben Monder, Bob Gullotti, John Lockwood, Mick Goodrick, Hal Crook, and Nat Mugavero, and formed the band TAQ with pianist Marcin Masecki and drummer Ziv Ravitz. TAQ began touring throughout Europe in 2003 where they have become underground legends in the improvisational music world, especially in Poland. He graduated from Berklee in 2004 with a degree in jazz composition and performance; then moved to New York City.
In New York he is busy performing in the improvised music scene. He is constantly exploring the possibilities of sound manipulation on his double bass through the use of effects pedals and processing. He recently performed in the avant-garde Vision Festival in a concert tribute to Leroy Jenkins. He is currently recording a debut solo album for solo bass.
Garth is also a member of the successful folk/rock group, The Sonya Kitchell Band. Their debut album Words Came Back To Me sold over 100,000 copies and led the band to performances on David Letterman, XM Radio, Sirius Radio, and at major festivals including Bonnaroo, The North Sea Jazz Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival. He has performed throughout the United State, Canada, Europe and Japan. www.garthstevenson.com
ZIV RAVITZ. born in Beer-Sheva, Israel, to a family of musicians, was drawn to music at an early age, playing the guitar, keyboard and drum. When he was 9 years old he started focusing on drums and by the age of 13 had begun his professional career, playing the drums at various clubs in Beer-Sheva and Tel Aviv and acquiring experience in a variety of musical styles, such as jazz, rock and avant-garde. In 1999 Ziv was chosen as a reserve drummer for guest performers from Europe and the United States at the Camelot Jazz Club in Tel Aviv. Ziv moved to the US in the summer of 200 to expand his musical experience and grow as a Jazz composer. Since then he has been performing and recording with numerous ensembles in the Boston area as a freelancer and as an artist, using his own compositions, which reflect his individual and unique sound. Ziv had the opportunity to perform with musicians such as Hal Crook, Greg Hopkins, Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Eugene Friesen, Mick Goodrick, Eli Dejibri, James Genus, George Garzone, Ben Monder, Avishai Cohen and more. In the winter of 2003, Ziv has become an official recording artist of Huber Music Management and Recording label of Cologne, Germany. In June 2003 Ziv won the Zildjan Scholarship Award. Since then Ziv has toured extensively all across Europe with various groups such as TAQ, Minsarah, Sin, Nicolas Simon Group, and the Iasi Romanian Philharmonic Orchestra. In Dec. 2004 Ziv graduated from Berklee School of Music with a Jazz Composition Degree. Ziv is currently signed as an ENJA recording artist. www.zivravitz.com
Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/21
Birchmere Theatre,
Washington DC
www.birchmere.com
(202) 397-SEAT
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
Trio TAQ:
Marcin Masecki, Garth Stevenson, Ziv Ravitz
U.S. Tour
Marcin Masecki, the celebrated young jazz pianist who took the contemporary jazz world by storm when he won the 2005 Moscow International Jazz Piano Competition (its jury chaired by legendary Martial Solal), is being brought back by The Polish Cultural Institute on a U.S. tour with his long-time partners in Trio TAQ – Canadian bassist Garth Stevenson and Israeli drummer Ziv Ravitz – with concerts at the Lily Pad in Boston on Monday, December 17 at 7:30 PM; New York’s Joe’s Pub on Tuesday, December 18 at 9:30 PM; Chris Jazz Café in Philadelphia on Thursday, December 20 at 9:00 PM; and the Bohemian Caverns in Washington on Friday, December 21 at 9 & 11 PM.
Friday, December 21, 2007, 9 & 11 PM
Bohemian Caverns
2001 Eleventh Street N.W,
Washington, D.C. 20001,
ADMISSION: $15
www.bohemiancaverns.com
tel. 202-299-0800
TRANSPORTATION: Green Line to the U Street/ African-Amer Civil War Memorial/ Cardozo station, exit the station and walk 1 block East on U Street
Trio TAQ was founded in Boston in 2002 while Masecki, Stevenson and Ravitz were studying at the Berklee College of Music. During a six-hour session of original compositions and improvisations, Marcin, Garth, and Ziv experienced a chemistry and magic like no other, and forged a lifelong bond and band. They began performing in Boston and New York and in March 2003 made their first trip together to Poland. Audiences were immediately captured by the energy, connectivity, telepathy, and honesty of the music. Over the next four years TAQ continued touring in Eastern and Western Europe at major jazz festivals and piano festivals like the London Jazz Festival and the International Jazz Piano Festival in Prague, as well as in clubs and concert halls. In 2005 TAQ recorded their album “TAQ Live in Minsk Mazowiecki.” Collectively they have performed with an impressive roster of notable artists including Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Tomasz Stanko, George Garzone, Ben Monder, Dave Samuels, Avishai Cohen and many others.
Masecki, a jazz prodigy who by age 12 was a regular at the legendary Polish jazz club “Akwarium,” was at 15 a member of the acclaimed Polish group Alchemik, which won the Grand Prix at the Jazz Hoeilaart Competition in Brussels, where Masecki himself won the award for “Best Soloist.” He tours extensively, performing at international jazz festivals, clubs, and major stage concert venues, often performing beside the great trumpeter Tomasz Stanko and opening for such jazz greats as the Branford Marsalis Quartet at the Skok Jazz Sopot in 2005 and recently for Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at the Warsaw Jazz Summer Days Festival. Following last year’s sell-out solo performance at Joe’s Pub, Marcin Masecki will join his outstanding New York based partners Stevenson and Ravitz for a series of Trio TAQ performances that promise to be unforgettable in their powerful energy, technical mastery, melodic richness, and improvisational intricacy. Detailed biographies follow on the next page.
MARCIN MASECKI was born in 1982 in Warsaw, Poland. At age 3 he started training with his father and at 7 took up the piano. He quickly showed interest in improvisation, and by 12 he was a regular at the legendary Polish jazz club "Akwarium". A year later he formed a piano trio and over the next years played frequently in clubs and entered three competitions, winning second place at the 1997 Jazz Sarteano Competition in Siena, Italy, and first place in two competitions in Poland. At 15 Masecki joined the much larger Polish jazz group "Alchemik" and co-wrote most of their output, which was recorded on four CDs. The group enjoyed great success for several years, playing in jazz festivals and clubs all over Europe. At 16 Masecki won the award for "Best Soloist" at the Jazz Hoeilaart Competition in Brussels (1999) while Alchemik won first place. That same year he was voted by Poland's main jazz magazine (Jazz Forum) as the year's "greatest hope for the future of Polish jazz."
Meanwhile he was working intensely on classical music. At 15 he entered the Fryderyk Chopin Music School in Warsaw on a dual major – Jazz and Classical. A year later he performed Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with the Kielce Symphony Orchestra. At 18 he gave his music school graduation recital held at the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw. He continued his studies on a scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating in 2 1/2 years. During his stay there he formed the trio TAQ with Garth Stevenson on bass and Ziv Ravitz on drums. Upon his return to Warsaw he married, and re-entered the Polish jazz world. In 2005 he entered the Moscow International Jazz Piano Competition and won first place. In Warsaw he got particularly involved in the free improvisational scene as well as intense research into 18th century music, culminating in the building of his own clavichord (predecessor of the piano). In the summer of 2006, at 24, he organized a 6-day festival under his name in which he played every night in a different setting – the first concert was Bach's Viola da Gamba Sonatas and the last was a free jazz quartet. That same year Masecki started working with the DJ collective "Innocent Sorcerers". Together with trumpet player Tomasz Stanko they have performed at various festivals, including the Heineken Open'er Fest in Gdynia.
Other bands he has worked with include Pink Freud, Zbigniew Wegehaupt Quartet, Muzykoterpia, Mitch & Mitch, and artists include Michal Urbaniak, Dave Samuels, George Garzone, and Candelaria Saenz Valiente, among many others. He regularly performs solo improvised concerts as well, recently opening for the Branford Marsalis Quartet. This summer he will also be opening for the Wynton Marsalis Orchestra in the Warsaw Jazz Summer Days festival. His first solo album is scheduled for release in September 2007 on the label LADO ABC.
At the beginning of 2007, in search of artistic adventure, he moved to London, where he now lives. www.marcinmasecki.com
GARTH STEVENSON was born in Kelowa, British Columbia, Canada. He studied piano from a young age and switched to bass in high school. In 2001 he was chosen to represent British Columbia in the National Artists program at the Canada Summer Games in London, Ontario. There, he composed Interplay, a piece for bass, clarinet, Inuit throat singing, piano, trumpet and percussion. At seventeen he received a full scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music. He excelled in the Berklee community and won many performance and composition awards. He was chosen to represent the Jazz Composition Department at the Student Awards Concert in 2004 with his composition Legacy. In Memory of Lee Ryman. While in Boston he performed with jazz greats such as George Garzone, Joe Lovano, Bob Moses, David Tronzo, Ben Monder, Bob Gullotti, John Lockwood, Mick Goodrick, Hal Crook, and Nat Mugavero, and formed the band TAQ with pianist Marcin Masecki and drummer Ziv Ravitz. TAQ began touring throughout Europe in 2003 where they have become underground legends in the improvisational music world, especially in Poland. He graduated from Berklee in 2004 with a degree in jazz composition and performance; then moved to New York City.
In New York he is busy performing in the improvised music scene. He is constantly exploring the possibilities of sound manipulation on his double bass through the use of effects pedals and processing. He recently performed in the avant-garde Vision Festival in a concert tribute to Leroy Jenkins. He is currently recording a debut solo album for solo bass.
Garth is also a member of the successful folk/rock group, The Sonya Kitchell Band. Their debut album Words Came Back To Me sold over 100,000 copies and led the band to performances on David Letterman, XM Radio, Sirius Radio, and at major festivals including Bonnaroo, The North Sea Jazz Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival. He has performed throughout the United State, Canada, Europe and Japan. www.garthstevenson.com
ZIV RAVITZ. born in Beer-Sheva, Israel, to a family of musicians, was drawn to music at an early age, playing the guitar, keyboard and drum. When he was 9 years old he started focusing on drums and by the age of 13 had begun his professional career, playing the drums at various clubs in Beer-Sheva and Tel Aviv and acquiring experience in a variety of musical styles, such as jazz, rock and avant-garde. In 1999 Ziv was chosen as a reserve drummer for guest performers from Europe and the United States at the Camelot Jazz Club in Tel Aviv. Ziv moved to the US in the summer of 200 to expand his musical experience and grow as a Jazz composer. Since then he has been performing and recording with numerous ensembles in the Boston area as a freelancer and as an artist, using his own compositions, which reflect his individual and unique sound. Ziv had the opportunity to perform with musicians such as Hal Crook, Greg Hopkins, Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Eugene Friesen, Mick Goodrick, Eli Dejibri, James Genus, George Garzone, Ben Monder, Avishai Cohen and more. In the winter of 2003, Ziv has become an official recording artist of Huber Music Management and Recording label of Cologne, Germany. In June 2003 Ziv won the Zildjan Scholarship Award. Since then Ziv has toured extensively all across Europe with various groups such as TAQ, Minsarah, Sin, Nicolas Simon Group, and the Iasi Romanian Philharmonic Orchestra. In Dec. 2004 Ziv graduated from Berklee School of Music with a Jazz Composition Degree. Ziv is currently signed as an ENJA recording artist. www.zivravitz.com
Like a dreidal out of Vegas, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad comes home for the holidays, appearing at The Zipper Factory (336 West 37th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) for 10 shows beginning Wednesday, December 5th. For three weeks, these Madelahs of Madness will celebrate their five years of mishagas on the road.
Friday, December 21 at 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are priced at $ 25.00 and are available by phone through Ovation Tix at 212.352.3101 or online at www.zippertheater.com.
Like a dreidal out of Vegas, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad comes home for the holidays, appearing at The Zipper Factory (336 West 37th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) for 10 shows beginning Wednesday, December 5th. For three weeks, these Madelahs of Madness will celebrate their five years of mishagas on the road.
Two shows:
Saturday, December 22 at 7:00 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are priced at $ 25.00 and are available by phone through Ovation Tix at 212.352.3101 or online at www.zippertheater.com.
Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/22
Birchmere Theatre,
Washington DC
www.birchmere.com
(202) 397-SEAT
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
Living Traditions is proud to announce the 23rd Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program, KlezKamp, featuring our 2007 theme:
Mame-Loshn: Women in Yiddish Culture
December 23-28, 2007
To understand the centrality of women in the world of Yiddish, one need only look to our title for this year's theme, the coziest and most intimate expression used to describe our language: Mame Loshn: Mother Tongue.
For from its earliest incarnations—one of the first books published in Yiddish, the Tzena-Rena (a translation for women of Torah lore,
prayers and commentary)—to the unprecedented number of women on today's klezmer bandstands, the contributions of women to the vitality of Yiddish culture are undiminished.
To celebrate this tradition, KlezKamp—whose staff is 51% women—focuses on heroines such as poet Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and veteran drummer Elaine Hoffman Watts, both winners of the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Folklife Award. (Elaine, along with daughter Susan Watts, will be recording a new CD during KlezKamp, another in our "A Living Tradition" anthology series.) We also welcome dance historian Judith Brin Ingber and legendary onagenarian pianist Shirlee Paul, and welcome back literary scholar Anita Norich.
Beyond the Mame Loshn theme, KlezKamp offers its vast array of Yiddish arts including multi-tiered music classes, an expanded vocal program, all-Yiddish offerings, more general interest classes and our second-to-none KlezKids program and teen theater troupe.
Our venue, the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa, offers luxury in the Catskill tradition, with a kitchen run by celebrated Culinary Institute of American graduate Chef Ed Kelly under the shtreng Glatt Kosher hashgokhe of Ha-rov Gershon Kreuser.
Now in our 23rd year, KlezKamp continues to innovate and inspire as a model for the vigorous and widespread resurgence of Yiddish culture around the world. Be one of thousands who, over the years, have made KlezKamp the Capitol of Yiddishland.
Detailed course information, staff biographies, schedules, FAQs and online registration may be found at www.livingtraditions.org/docs/index_kk.htm. A printable version of the catalogue and registration form may be downloaded from www.livingtraditions.org/docs/kk/kkprogram.htm
If you would like a catalogue sent to you in the mail, please email Living Traditions
and we will be happy to send one to you. Please email us the names of others you think would be interested in receiving information.
Living Traditions
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New York, NY 10016 USA
tel: (212) 532-8202 fax: (212) 532-8238
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Pharaoh's Daughter
December 23, 2007
Queens, NY 3pm at Queen's Theater - Flushing
$28
more info
Like a dreidal out of Vegas, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad comes home for the holidays, appearing at The Zipper Factory (336 West 37th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) for 10 shows beginning Wednesday, December 5th. For three weeks, these Madelahs of Madness will celebrate their five years of mishagas on the road.
Sunday, December 23 at 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are priced at $ 25.00 and are available by phone through Ovation Tix at 212.352.3101 or online at www.zippertheater.com.
Good For The Jews, the world's greatest two-man Jewish music and comedy act, will be touring and shlepping throughout the U.S. in December, celebrating Hanukkah and its tacky aftermath, conventionally referred to as "Christmas."
We'll sing familiar old favorites like "Hot Jewish Chicks" and "They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," plus debut new songs, including "Goin' Down To Boca" and our unique twist on a Fiddler On The Roof classic.
Please come out and join us. It's either us, or a re-run of "It's A Wonderful Life."
12/23
Highline Ballroom,
New York NY
www.highlineballroom.com
(212) 414-5994
www.GoodForTheJews.net
www.MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews
The acclaimed New York music duo Good For the Jews will be "Putting The Ha! In Hannukah" throughout December, with a thirteen-city tour of North American cities with large Jewish populations.
Good For the Jews' tour is being sponsored by Heeb magazine. Heeb recently named Good For the Jews singer Rob Tannenbaum to the Heeb 100, an elite list of "young, smart and innovative" Jews in the arts. (See heeb100.com/comedy.html)
In less than a year, Rob Tannenbaum and partner David Fagin have won rave reviews around the country from the (mostly Jewish-owned) media.
"This is not your father's Judaism: Funny, loud, over-the-top. Jews with an edge and proud of it." —Baltimore Jewish Times
"Rob Tannenbaum, the snarky mastermind of What I Like About Jew, has a cutting new band that makes Adam Sandler sound like an altar boy." —New York Magazine
"Their musical interpretations of Jewish life have been called 'hilarious' from coast to coast." —Philadelphia Weekly
"Appeals to the same type of young-adult audience that eats up Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman." —Chicago Jewish News
"A pair of razor-sharp wiseacres." —Village Voice
"Unorthodox, irreverent and hilarious." —Blueprint
"Hilarious brilliance." —New Jersey Jewish Standard
Good For the Jews is the new band from What I Like About Jew creator Rob Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum was featured in Time Out New York's cover story on "The New Super Jews" and in last year's New York Times feature on "the Jewish hipster moment."
A groundbreaking approach to songs about Jewish life brought What I Like About Jew national acclaim, a four-star review on AllMusic.com, and an NPR profile by Terry Gross of "Fresh Air." "Hilarious," said the Village Voice. "Hilarious," said the Baltimore CityGuide. "Hilarious," said the Jewish Telegraph. "Hilarious," said Jewlicious.com. "Hilarious," said the SF Bay Guardian. "Hilarious," said Flavorpill.com. Get the idea?
Living Traditions is proud to announce the 23rd Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program, KlezKamp, featuring our 2007 theme:
Mame-Loshn: Women in Yiddish Culture
December 23-28, 2007
Boston's Zamir Chorale
Annual Hanukkah Happens at Temple Emanuel, Newton, on Monday, December 24, 7:30 pm, featuring cantorial and choral music with Cantor Elias Rosemberg and orchestra (new orchestrations by Joshua Jacobson). Highlights include Machtenberg's "Shehecheyonu" and Schorr's "Sheyiboneh Beys HaMikdosh" as well as Sephardic melodies such as "Yom Zeh LeYisrael" and "Yismach Mosheh." For further information about Hanukkah Happens, contact Temple Emanuel 617-558-8150.
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*T H E B I G D E C E M B E R 2 4 th K L E Z M E R C O N C E R T
Fishel Bresler's Klezmer Hassidic Ensemble * will perform again this year on
*December 24th - Monday, 7:30 PM* at *Congregation Ohawe Shalom Coffee
House*, Pawtucket RI.
671 East Ave in Pawtucket (corner of Glenwood, nr where Blackstone meets
Hope St)
Doors open 7:00PM $10 adults, $7 children (under B-Mitzvah).
*NEW* - Help us out with the costs of producing this- be a Sponsor &
get Tickets for Front Rows Seating - available only in advance-call 273-9814 for information
Kosher hot dogs, snacks & beverages will be on sale.
questions? 401 273-9814
KNISHMAS! featuring. Even Sh'Siyah and RavShmuel, plus special guests Moshe Averick, Miriam Brosseau, Adam Davis, Rachel Kohl Feingold, Even Jacover, Alan Sufrin
7pm doors for 8pm show,
Monday Dec 24th
21+ show
Cubby Bear Wrigleyville, 1059 W. Addison (at Clark),
Chicago
$15.00 adv. via ticketweb.com / $18.00 door
mp3s and information at kfarcenter.com and knishmas.com.
links to participating acts and orgs:
Rav Smuel ravshmuel.com
Even Sh'Siyah thewayjewsrock.com
Cubby Bear cubbybear.com
KFAR presents... KNISHMAS! It's not a 'silent night' for us... 12/24 @ Cubby Bear
Wrigleyville
On a night when Jews traditionally eat Chinese food or watch movies, KFAR presents
its 6th Annual KNISHMAS event. Billed as the alternative to xmas eve alternatives,
KNISHMAS always features talented acts with a contemporary take on Jewish culture.
This year highlights folk-rockers Even Sh'Siyah with their blend of extended-play,
Allman Brothers style southern rock jams, spiritual themes and lyrics in Hebrew and
English. The Chicago band has released three albums over its ten year history,
"Through Your Gates O Jerusalem," "The Way Jews Rock" and last year's "Wake Up" (all
via Sameach). In addition to its innovative approach to Jewish music, the band
prides itself on being Chicago's most professional Jewish music act; only one of its
members is a full-time time musician, the rest pursuing careers in law, dentistry,
education, the rabbinate- things a Jewish mother can be proud of.
Also performing is singer/songwriter RavShmuel, (aka Shmuel Skaist) a Brooklyn
denizen and frequent regular at Greenwich Village's Sidewalk Cafe. An ordained
Rabbi who heads up a Yeshiva by day, RavShmuel once followed jam band Phish around
the country performing in the pre-show haze with his first band, Gefilte Fish. He
now spends his free time drinking beer, recording and performing his solo material,
which landed him a deal with the Sony JMG imprint last year. His satiric single
"Protocols of the Elders of Zion" became something of a hit on Myspace and YouTube.
This KNISHMAS also hearkens back to a previous tradition when the event, then held
at Hideout and curated by local rocker Ellen Rosner, featured local songwriters'
original Hanukah and Jewy songs. This year, that element returns with fresh
material from Alan Sufrin, Miriam Brosseau, Evan Jacover, Moshe Averick, Rachel Kohl
Finegold and KFAR's own founder Adam Davis, who despite holding a degree from the
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music will be performing at a KFAR event for the first
time ever. By creating a forum for the performance of these new songs by local
artists, KNISHMAS is more than an alternative party event- it fosters the future of
Jewish cultural expression. That's one of the goals of the presenting organization,
KFAR Jewish Arts Center, whose mission is to stimulate, promote and produce the next
generation of Jewish expression.
That sets KNISHMAS apart from other 'Matzo Ball' type events in town that night.
None of them feature live entertainment, nor does any have real content other than
the superficial element of 90% of their attendees being Jewish. "That's fine for
some, but for others, paying $30 for the upclose and personal drunken version of
Jdate is not appealing," says Davis. "We offer a real different vibe. Singles show
up to KNISHMAS too, but its not a singles event- everyone's welcome, even gentiles
not waiting up for Santa. That way the pressure is off and meeting people is
actually easier."
Ticket prices are about half of other events so there's a savings incentive. Of
course, its a Jewish event, so there's one other possible appeal. For although
nobody's counting on a midnight appearance of a fat man in a suit, there's always
anticipation of the possibility of a midnight knish drop.
KFAR Jewish Arts Center is an independent, non-denominational organization serving
Chicago's Jewish community with contemporary Jewish arts presentations and programs
that simultaneously enrich and celebrate our culture. KFAR is dedicated to
stimulating, promoting and producing the next generation of Jewish expression.
Visit our website at www.kfarcenter.org
Like a dreidal out of Vegas, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad comes home for the holidays, appearing at The Zipper Factory (336 West 37th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) for 10 shows beginning Wednesday, December 5th. For three weeks, these Madelahs of Madness will celebrate their five years of mishagas on the road.
Sunday, December 24 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets are priced at $ 25.00 and are available by phone through Ovation Tix at 212.352.3101 or online at www.zippertheater.com.
Living Traditions is proud to announce the 23rd Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program, KlezKamp, featuring our 2007 theme:
Mame-Loshn: Women in Yiddish Culture
December 23-28, 2007
Metropolitan Klezmer
December 25, 2007
The Jewish Museum - family day show!
1109 Fifth Avenue @ 92nd Street, NYC
Metropolitan Klezmer returns for this annual all-ages event
Two sets, 12:30-1:30pm & 2pm-2:45pm
Free with museum admission
Info: 212-423-3200
thejewishmuseum.org
Tuesday, December 25, Annual Family and Community Concert of Jewish Music at 3:00 p.m or 5:00 p.m. (check back with me in a day or so!!), featuring Cantor Martin Levson, Isaiah Cooper, Dalton King, Stacy Phillips, Hedda Rubenstein, and the Congregation Mishkan Israel Kapelye led by David Chevan, Congregation Mishkan Israel, 785 Ridge Road, Hamden, CT. For further information, call (203) 288-3877
Living Traditions is proud to announce the 23rd Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program, KlezKamp, featuring our 2007 theme:
Mame-Loshn: Women in Yiddish Culture
December 23-28, 2007
Living Traditions is proud to announce the 23rd Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program, KlezKamp, featuring our 2007 theme:
Mame-Loshn: Women in Yiddish Culture
December 23-28, 2007
Living Traditions is proud to announce the 23rd Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program, KlezKamp, featuring our 2007 theme:
Mame-Loshn: Women in Yiddish Culture
December 23-28, 2007
Saturday, December 28 2007
The Red Sea Pedestrians with special guest "The Corn Fed Girls"
Bells Brewery
Kalamazoo, Michigan
9:30pm, $6, ages 21+
tel: 269 352-8112
Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh & their Klezmer Hassidic Music,
return to the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House in Providence!
Five shows, the last Saturdays of the Months- Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving Wknd), Dec. 29, Jan. 26, Feb. 23 & Mar. 29*
8* - 10 PM - Admission $9
Very easy to get to, the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House is at 209 Douglas Ave, 5 minutes from the Providence Marriot: Right on Orms, across the bridge over 95 , first right onto Douglas Ave. We're one half mile down on the right, just past the 95S entrance. For more specific directions go to www.BrooklynCoffeeTeaHouse.com or call 575-2284 weekday mornings.
We hope to see you there, and bring a friend too!
* March 29th starts 8:30 PM
Mon. Dec. 31
First Night, Akron, Ohio.
8:30 p.m. concert.
$
www.firstnightakron.org
Sponsored by Kfar
