KlezCalendar

Montclair State University, in Montclair New Jersey, will host a semester-long Italian Festival of the Arts and Humanities, which will include a few events that might interest your readers.

April 1:
Lecture: Jewish Musical Activity in Northern Italy
Lydia Cevidalli and Simonetta Heger, Milan Verdi Conservatory

* Tuesday April 1, 2008
* 8:30 am

Featuring visiting scholars Lydia Cevidalli, chamber and orchestral performer and violin professor at the Milan Verdi Conservatory; and Simonetta Heger, soloist and piano and harpsichord professor at the Milan Verdi Conservatory. Part of the Italian Festival of the Arts and Humanities, "An Italian Sense of Place."

University Hall, Room 1010

For further information, see www.montclair.edu/italianfestival or call 973-655-4185

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The Andy Statman

Oberlin, OH, Tuesday April 1st - Oberlin College
The Cat

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The Andy Statman

Des Moine IA, Wednesday April 2nd - Caspe Terrace

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Michael Winograd Klezmer Ensemble

4/2
Banjo Jims
97th St and Ave C
NYC

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Montclair State University, in Montclair New Jersey, will host a semester-long Italian Festival of the Arts and Humanities, which will include a few events that might interest your readers.

April 3, 7:30pm
Concert: The Splendor of Italian Music under the Star of David
featuring the Ensemble Salomone Rossi and guests

Alexander Kasser Theater
RSVP: 973-655-5112

For further information, see www.montclair.edu/italianfestival or call 973-655-4185

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The Andy Statman

Thursday April 3rd -
Cedar Cultural Center
416 Cedar Ave S.,
Minneapolis MN

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Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad

FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KVETCH! KVETCH!
THE CHOSEN CHICKS RETURN TO THE ZIPPER FACTORY

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad are going get jew, Sucka. These chosen chicks—badass balabustehs of comedy, music and burlesque—return to The Zipper Factory Theater (337 West 37th and 9th Avenues) Street, between 8 for eight new shows this spring. Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad will play Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. from March 8 through April 26. Tickets, priced at $25, are now available through OvationTix at 212-352-3101, or online at www.thezipperfactory.com.

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Sunday 6th April 2008 from 2pm
The Great East End Treasure Hunt: A quest for a long lost past

Meet at the Cable Street Mural, painted on the side of St. George’s Hall, Cable Street, E1

Group charge £40/ Individuals £9. Book in a group of up to five people. If your group needs to be a different size, call 0207 431 9866.

Stumble around the East End and watch the Jewish history of this area unfurl with musicians, treasure clues, actors and bagels. Sign up in groups to discover some stories, fall upon soup kitchens, bump into klezmer players and search for disappearing synagogues.

We’ll scatter signposts, clues, artists including comedian Judy Battalion, live musicians and hidden items along the roads of the East End, taking you on a two hour tour around a Jewish world that has all but vanished.

The afternoon will finish at Corbett Place for tea, drinks and live music from She’koyach.

Produced by YaD Arts for the JCC London

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From Flory Jagoda:

Please join me for a splendid afternoon of Jewish Sephardic music on

Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 4:00 pm.

The one hour concert will be at Congregation Etz Hayim, the synagogue that has been my religious home since I first came to America in 1946.

I was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Before the madness of the Second World War, 14,000 Jewish people called Sarajevo home and it was known throughout Europe as /Chico Yerushalayim/ (Little Jerusalem) for its thriving Sephardic community. Today, sadly, there are only 160 Jewish survivors living there and most of them are elderly and ill.

They need our help and I am committed to sending them the help that they need.

To Buy Tickets and/or make a donation, please contact:
Congregation Etz Hayim, 2920 Arlington Blvd, Arlington, VA 22204
703.979.4466 / fax: 703.979.4458
www.etzhayim.net

Checks can be made to: Congregation Etz Hayim - Sarajevo Benefit Fund
Tickets are $20, with a discount of $5 off for seniors and students.
Children 12 and under are free. Please reserve your tickets in advance by March 31st .

We are appealing to you and our entire community to come together and aid a desperate community that deserves a "/buen Pesah/". Your ticket to this benefit concert is just $20.00. 100% of the proceeds will go directly to the Sarajevo Jewish Center Community.

Joining me at this concert will be my talented and gracious friends who are donating their beautiful music and time to this cause, so dear to my heart. The performers include: The Altaras Ensemble, (featuring apprentice Susan Gaeta, Joel Leonard, Linn Falk, Joanne Stefanick, Margee Jervis, Betty Jagoda Murphy, Lori Jagoda Lowell, Tina Chancey, Chazan Ramon Tasat, Rabbi David Shneyer, Chazan Henrique Bass, Larry Robinson, Howard Bass and Alen Oresky. While this concert will be fun for all ages, there is complementary babysitting for our youngest guests.

Come, enjoy our music, and sing with us. If you cannot come, please consider making a contribution to Congregation Etz Hayim's Sarajevo Benefit Fund so that our friends can have the holidays be a true season of celebration.

Sincerely,

Flory Jagoda

To Buy Tickets and/or make a donation, please contact:
Congregation Etz Hayim, 2920 Arlington Blvd, Arlington, VA 22204
703.979.4466 / fax: 703.979.4458
www.etzhayim.net

Checks can be made to: Congregation Etz Hayim - Sarajevo Benefit Fund
Tickets are $20, with a discount of $5 off for seniors and students.
Children 12 and under are free. Please reserve your tickets
in advance by March 31st .

For details, please contact Etz Hayim at (703) 979-4466

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Massel-Tov
06.04.08
20:00h
96047 Bamberg,
Bamberger Klezmertage – Haas-Säle
www.bambergerklezmertage.homepage.t-online.de/44.html

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Montclair State University, in Montclair New Jersey, will host a semester-long Italian Festival of the Arts and Humanities, which will include a few events that might interest your readers.

April 8, 1pm:
Lecture: "Between Ghetto and Emancipation- Musical Traditions of Italian Jews"
Featuring Francesco Spagnolo, music curator and lecturer at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

University Hall, Room 1040

For further information, see www.montclair.edu/italianfestival or call 973-655-4185

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Lenka Lichtenberg
April 8, 7:30pm
£10

Spiro Ark Centre
25-26 Enford St.,
London, W1H 1DW
Tel: 020 7723 9991
www.spiroark.org

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Music, Oppression and Exile:
The Impact of Nazism on Musical Development in the 20th Century

Wednesday 9–Friday 11 April 2008
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

It will followed by two days of concerts and public lectures presented by
The ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Canada) and the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble

Saturday 12, Sunday 13 April 2008
Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ

Fuller details can be found on Website www.jmi.org.uk

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Metropolitan Klezmer: Music of Yiddish Celluloid
April 9, 2008
7:00pm Eldridge Street Synagogue
12 Eldridge Street, Lower East Side, NYC
Full octet including guest vocalist Michael Farkas of The Wiyos!
To RSVP or for more information about our public programs call 212.219.0888 ext. 302
eldridgestreet.org

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Music, Oppression and Exile:
The Impact of Nazism on Musical Development in the 20th Century

Wednesday 9–Friday 11 April 2008
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

It will followed by two days of concerts and public lectures presented by
The ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Canada) and the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble

Saturday 12, Sunday 13 April 2008
Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ

Fuller details can be found on Website www.jmi.org.uk

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Thursday 10th April 2008, from 7:30pm
The Other Seder with Hofesh Shechter, Joshua Sofaer and The Destroyers
Wiltons Music Hall, Graces Alley, Off Ensign Street, London E1
£12 in advance online or 0207 431 9866. £15 on the door.

A night of contemporary dance, performance and live music with Hofesh Shechter, Joshua Sofaer and The Destroyers

Contemporary Dance choreographer Hofesh Shechter, who wowed audiences with Uprising and In Your Rooms in 2007 at the Place, South Bank and Sadlers Wells and whose work on C4’s Skins credits can currently be seen all over your televisions, will create a specially commissioned new piece of work around the theme of the Plagues.

Performance artist Joshua Sofaer will also present a new commission, turning the obligation to ask Questions at Passover into a Seder Chatshow.

And to finish off the evening, the 15-piece anarchic gypsy punk orchestra The Destroyers and djs will set a party vibe to bring down Wiltons’ crumbling roof.

Produced by YaD Arts for the JCC London

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Common Chords
The concert will take place at San Diego State University at Smith Recital Hall (M101) at 7pm on April 10th.

Admission is free.

"Common Chords" with Salman Ahmad & Junoon and Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi. The concert will consist of Sufi/Qaawali music and klezmer and the mixing of both Muslim and Jewish folk music traditions. "Common Chords" is an ongoing series of concerts and collaborations between these two world renowned artists and their ensembles.

"COMMON CHORDS" will feature the Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad (guitar) and world class virtuoso tabla player Samir Chatterjee in concert with Yale Strom (and members of his band Hot Pstromi: Fred Benedetti, Mark Dresser and Elizabeth Schwartz). This concert will celebrate the common roots of Muslim and Jewish music.

Strom and Ahmad first performed together in February 2007 at Queens College in NYC as part of a large exhibit called "The Grandeur of Islamic Art in Image and Object." After the concert, they realized how powerful their jamming together onstage, as Jew and Muslim, was for the audience. They decided then to continue these musical dialogues across the country, hoping to demonstrate and foster positive and constructive conversations between people from all walks of life. These great artists and friends now bring this spiritual and musical energy to San Diego State.

Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote: "Junoon is South Asia's answer to Santana"

Time Magazine says of these two major talents: "Junoon - rock and Sufi rapture" and "Through his art, Strom has brought back his spiritual klezmer ancestors".

This event is sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies, the Religious Studies Department Many Paths Fund, and the Cross-Cultural Center at SDSU. For parking information, go to www.music.sdsu.edu and click on Parking Information for the closest lots.

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Pro Musica Hebraica Inaugural Concert
The Musicians of The Juilliard School featuring Itzhak Perlman

The Terrace Theater
The Kennedy Center
Washington, DC
Thursday, April 10, 7:30 PM

This concert will feature some of classical music’s premier young voices from the Juilliard School of Music along with a special appearance by the legendary Itzhak Perlman, accompanied by his long-time collaborator, pianist Rohan De Silva. The performers include Juilliard’s Graduate Resident Quartet Biava String Quartet (Austin Hartman and Hyunsu Ko, violins, Mary Persin, viola, and Jason Calloway, cello) together with guest artists clarinetist Tibi Cziger, bassist Andrew Roitstein and percussionists Alexander Lipowski and Michael Caterisano and the N-E-W Trio (Andrew Wan, violin, Gal Nyska, cello, and Julio Elizalde, piano).

Works to be performed will include several rare masterworks from the early twentieth-century Russian Jewish school of composers. These include Alexander Krein’s 1910 Jewish Sketches, #2, Joel Engel’s Dybbuk Suite (1922), Leo Zeitlin’s Eli Zion (1914), Solomon Rosowsky’s Fantastic Dance, and Mikhail Gnesin’s Requiem Trio (1943). Complementing these older pieces will be a performance of composer Osvaldo Golijov’s contemporary classic, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (1994). For further information on these pieces, please see The Musical Tradition.

For information on purchasing tickets, please follow this link.

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Pharaoh's Daughter
April 10, 2008
Queens, NY 8pm Flushing Town Hall 137-35 Northern Boulevard (at the corner of Linden Place)
Womens World Music Vocal Series more info

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Michael Winograd Klezmer Ensemble

When: April 10, 2008 - 8:30
Where: Kola Note, 5240 Avenue du Parc, Montreal
How Much: $10 (student), $15 (general), $25 (sponsor)
Tickets: Available at the Kole Note Box Office, at the door or from the Admission Network at www.admission.com or by calling (514) 790-1245.

Michael Winograd is considered one of the today's finest Klezmer clarinetist. He has performed and recorded with such noted artists as the Klezmatics, Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars, Alicia Svigals, Mikveh, Michael Alpert, Shtreiml, Socalled, Adrienne Cooper, Ran Eliran, and The Klezmer Conservatory Band amongst others. He founded the Boston based ensemble Khevre, and now leads the Michael Winograd Klezmer Ensemble in New York City.

The ensemble is made up of New York City's finest young Klezmer musicians, with Joey Wiesenberg (mandolin,) Patrick Farrell (accordion,) Daniel Blacksberg (trombone,) Nick Cudahy (bass,) Richie Barshay (percussion,) Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl,) and Judith Berskon (vocals.) Their new release Bessarabian Hop, showcases mostly original material that explores the rich sounds of the past, with unique precision and intense focus.

"You've gotta love a guy with a weakness for flat 2s who also steers a tune through C Major no matter where it started. Winograd's sound is a synthesis of 100 years of Yiddish clarinet. There's a lot of loving irony in his music, or is it ironic love? From the Hall of Jordan to the banks of the Dniester, high, low, sideways, always. I'm just so glad he's with us in this world." —accordionist Alan Bern (Brave Old World)

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Music, Oppression and Exile:
The Impact of Nazism on Musical Development in the 20th Century

Wednesday 9–Friday 11 April 2008
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

It will followed by two days of concerts and public lectures presented by
The ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Canada) and the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble

Saturday 12, Sunday 13 April 2008
Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ

Fuller details can be found on Website www.jmi.org.uk

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Music, Oppression and Exile:
The Impact of Nazism on Musical Development in the 20th Century

Wednesday 9–Friday 11 April 2008
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

It will followed by two days of concerts and public lectures presented by
The ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Canada) and the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble

Saturday 12, Sunday 13 April 2008
Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ

Fuller details can be found on Website www.jmi.org.uk

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Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad

FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KVETCH! KVETCH!
THE CHOSEN CHICKS RETURN TO THE ZIPPER FACTORY

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad are going get jew, Sucka. These chosen chicks—badass balabustehs of comedy, music and burlesque—return to The Zipper Factory Theater (337 West 37th and 9th Avenues) Street, between 8 for eight new shows this spring. Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad will play Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. from March 8 through April 26. Tickets, priced at $25, are now available through OvationTix at 212-352-3101, or online at www.thezipperfactory.com.

RECENT REVIEWS
www.forward.com/articles/12327/
www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/nyc/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003682057
www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0802,musto,78812,15.html

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Grammy winners The Klezmatics

4/12/2008
The Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
(413) 458-2303
www.clarkart.edu/museum_programs

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Pharaoh's Daughter
April 12, 2008
Ithaca, NY 8pm at Cornell University
World Music Series

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April 12: The Blue Note—Late Night Groove Series, Midnight-3a
131 W. 3rd St, New York, NY 10012. Asefa playing as part of the Blue Note’s Late Night Groove Series. The Late Night Drink Specials make this a great opportunity to experience New York’s premier Jazz club at a very reasonable price!

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Music, Oppression and Exile:
The Impact of Nazism on Musical Development in the 20th Century

Wednesday 9–Friday 11 April 2008
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

It will followed by two days of concerts and public lectures presented by
The ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Canada) and the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble

Saturday 12, Sunday 13 April 2008
Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ

Fuller details can be found on Website www.jmi.org.uk

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Isle of Klezbos
Sunday, April 13 (2008)
Vassar College, 3pm - 5pm
Parents Weekend block party
sponsored by the Office of Religious & Spiritual Life
Poughkeepsie NY
www.vassar.edu

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Grammy winners The Klezmatics w/ Joshua Nelson—Brother Moses Smote the Water

4/13/2008
Town Hall
New York, NY
(212) 307-4100
www.the-townhall-nyc.org

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1st International Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

International Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden will take place from April 15th till 20th, 2008.

It's the first time that this festival will take place. There is a program of concerts and workshops with top artists, lectures, film and exhibitions.

For more information:
www.jiddischfestivalleeuwarden.nl

Lucette van den Berg, artistic director

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1st International Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

International Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden will take place from April 15th till 20th, 2008.

It's the first time that this festival will take place. There is a program of concerts and workshops with top artists, lectures, film and exhibitions.

For more information:
www.jiddischfestivalleeuwarden.nl

Lucette van den Berg, artistic director

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1st International Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

International Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden will take place from April 15th till 20th, 2008.

It's the first time that this festival will take place. There is a program of concerts and workshops with top artists, lectures, film and exhibitions.

For more information:
www.jiddischfestivalleeuwarden.nl

Lucette van den Berg, artistic director

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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

Thursday, April 17, 2008
7:00PM–10:00 PM
At the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.
In the Theater

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader and klezmer revival pioneer Zev Feldman. Live music will be provided by some of New York's leading klezmer musicians: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl). Beginners welcome!

Cost is $10 ($8 for JCC and Workman’s Circle Members), pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

A new international Yiddish Dance Action Network has been created to help research and promote Yiddish Dance around the world. For more information, contact Pete Rushefsky.

And if you have old family videos with footage of traditional Yiddish Dance we’d love to know about it!

Support for the Yiddish Dance Project was provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Basya Schechter
April 17, 2008
New York, NY 8pm at Skirball Center
Speaking about Acharei-Mot

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1st International Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

International Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden will take place from April 15th till 20th, 2008.

It's the first time that this festival will take place. There is a program of concerts and workshops with top artists, lectures, film and exhibitions.

For more information:
www.jiddischfestivalleeuwarden.nl

Lucette van den Berg, artistic director

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The Ash Grove 50th Anniversary Legend and Legacy
A weekend-long festival at UCLA
APRIL 18-20, 2008
Presented in collaboration with the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

UCLA Live Concerts - 8pm, April 18 & April 19

Royce Hall, Fri. night, April 18: Dave Alvin; Ramblin' Jack Elliott; Laura Love; a tribute to Old Time Music with Mike Seeger, Roland White and Ry Cooder; Culture Clash; Holly Near, with Emma's Revolution; Ashley Maher, and Barry Fisher's Ellis Island Band and friends tribute to world-music great Mike Janusz, with Michael Alpert, John Bilezikjian, Ethel Raim, Stuart Brotman, Catherine Foster, Selaidin Sal Mamudoski and more.

For other events and more info: www.ashgrovemusic.com

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1st International Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

International Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden will take place from April 15th till 20th, 2008.

It's the first time that this festival will take place. There is a program of concerts and workshops with top artists, lectures, film and exhibitions.

For more information:
www.jiddischfestivalleeuwarden.nl

Lucette van den Berg, artistic director

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Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad

FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KVETCH! KVETCH!
THE CHOSEN CHICKS RETURN TO THE ZIPPER FACTORY

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad are going get jew, Sucka. These chosen chicks—badass balabustehs of comedy, music and burlesque—return to The Zipper Factory Theater (337 West 37th and 9th Avenues) Street, between 8 for eight new shows this spring. Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad will play Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. from March 8 through April 26. Tickets, priced at $25, are now available through OvationTix at 212-352-3101, or online at www.thezipperfactory.com.

RECENT REVIEWS
www.forward.com/articles/12327/
www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/nyc/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003682057
www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0802,musto,78812,15.html

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The Ash Grove 50th Anniversary Legend and Legacy
A weekend-long festival at UCLA
APRIL 18-20, 2008
Presented in collaboration with the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

UCLA Live Concerts - 8pm, April 18 & April 19

Royce Hall, Sat. night, April 19: Bernice Reagon and the Freedom Singers, Taj Mahal, the Bernie Pearl Blues Band and Barbara Dane, Dwight Trible, Michelle Shocked, The Watts Prophets, and a Tribute To George Smith with James Harman, Johnny Dyer, Rod Piazza and others.

Dr. Demento (Barry Hansen) and Anna DeLeon will mc.

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1st International Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

International Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden will take place from April 15th till 20th, 2008.

It's the first time that this festival will take place. There is a program of concerts and workshops with top artists, lectures, film and exhibitions.

For more information:
www.jiddischfestivalleeuwarden.nl

Lucette van den Berg, artistic director

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The Ash Grove 50th Anniversary Legend and Legacy
A weekend-long festival at UCLA
APRIL 18-20, 2008
Presented in collaboration with the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

Free daytime concert: Sunday, April 20

12:30, outside Schoenberg Hall - Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi Klezmer music

For other events and more info: www.ashgrovemusic.com

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Metropolitan Klezmer with vocalists Melissa Fogarty & Judith Berkson
Thursday, April 24th
Seventh night of Passover!
$12 + minimum
full bar & dinner menu,
fabulous cabaret environs
Drom NYC
between East 5th & 6th St's NYC
85 Avenue A (East Village)
New York, NY, 10009

7:30pm MetroKlezmer -- & NY Gypsy All-Stars at 9:30pm
Info: (212) 777-1157 or www.dromnyc.com

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Grammy winners The Klezmatics

4/24/2008
Birch North Park Theatre
San Diego, CA
(619) 239-8836
www.birchnorthparktheatre.net

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Pharaoh's Daughter
April 24, 2008
New York, NY 9:30pm Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette St.
Annual free Macaroon Passover concert.
$15 more info

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Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad

FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KVETCH! KVETCH!
THE CHOSEN CHICKS RETURN TO THE ZIPPER FACTORY

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad are going get jew, Sucka. These chosen chicks—badass balabustehs of comedy, music and burlesque—return to The Zipper Factory Theater (337 West 37th and 9th Avenues) Street, between 8 for eight new shows this spring. Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad will play Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. from March 8 through April 26. Tickets, priced at $25, are now available through OvationTix at 212-352-3101, or online at www.thezipperfactory.com.

RECENT REVIEWS
www.forward.com/articles/12327/
www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/nyc/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003682057
www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0802,musto,78812,15.html

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You are Invited to Klezmer Caberet
Temple Beth David
In the Social Hall

Sunday April 27th, 2008
6:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M.
Cost: $10.00 minimum donation

Featuring:
South Coast Simcha Band
Cantorial Soloist Nancy Linder

Special Guest:
Stuart Warshauer- Violinist with the Naples Klezmer Revival Band
And many more musical surprises

Desserts and drinks will be served during the event

For Reservations, please call the Temple Beth David Office 714- 892-6623
To perform in the cabaret, please email Renah Wolzinger

www.templebethdavid.org

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New Yiddish Dance Class at NY's 92 St. Y presented by Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the 92 St. Y.

CTMD announces a new partnership with Manhattan's 92 St Y to offer a series of Yiddish dance classes beginning in September led by Walter Zev Feldman and other master dance leaders.

Building on our monthly Tantshoyz (dance house) series at the JCC in Manhattan, the 92 St. Y classes will provide intermediate and advanced dancers with a more in-depth opportunity to explore classic Yiddish and coterritorial dances such as the sher, hora/zhok, freylekhs, honga, hora moldavaneasca and bulgar. Special focus will also be given to the expressive power and gestures of solo dance. Classes will feature live klezmer music performed by Jake Shulman-Ment on violin and Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).

Eight, three-hour sessions will be held on the following Sundays, from 2PM-5PM: September 30, October 21, November 18, January 20, February 17, March 30, April 27, and June 1. Cost for the series is $250 (interested participants must register for the entire series). To register or for more information, go to the 92nd St. Y website or call Pete Rushefsky at 212-571-1555 ext. 36 or email Pete.

And stay tuned for information about a new season of Tantshoyzen and a December 9 Symposium at NYU entitled Defining Yiddish Dance: Sacred, Secular, Borrowed and Transformed.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Yiddish Dance Project is supported by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Division of Folk Arts and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

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