KlezCalendar

"New Voices of the Yiddish Stage:
A Grand Concert by the Hottest Young Talent Performing New Songs and Interpretations of the Classics"

Taylor Bergen-Chrisman, Annette Ezekiel, Alica Jo Rabins, Daniella Rabbani, Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Dmitri "Zisl-Yeysef" Slepovich, Matt Temkin un andere gest. Musical Direction: Zalmen Mlotek

Donershtik dem 1tn oktober 2009, 3:30 n"m
Lehman College, Lovinger Theater
Free admission
Informatsye un biletn (Info and tickets): 718-960-8024
lehmancenter.org/shows.html

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"New Voices of the Yiddish Stage:
A Grand Concert by the Hottest Young Talent Performing New Songs and Interpretations of the Classics"

Taylor Bergen-Chrisman, Annette Ezekiel, Alica Jo Rabins, Daniella Rabbani, Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Dmitri "Zisl-Yeysef" Slepovich, Matt Temkin un andere gest. Musical Direction: Zalmen Mlotek

Donershtik dem 1tn oktober 2009, 3:30 n"m
Lehman College, Lovinger Theater
Free admission
Informatsye un biletn (Info and tickets): 718-960-8024
lehmancenter.org/shows.html

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Max Pashm

Oct 1 2009, 8:00P
Mehanata Bulgarian Bar,
New York City U.S.A

The Max Pashm sound is a unique blend of traditional Greek/Balkan/Gypsy & Klezmer music, fused with high energy electronic beats & digitally manipulated fx.
www.myspace.com/maxpashm
Check out Keith Wolzinger's Klezmer Podcast with the band

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Workmen's Circle present...

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)-Dance Party/Workshop at the Workmen's Circle with master dance leader Zev Feldman!

Thursday, October 1, 2009
A discussion of archival video of dance will be held at 6:30PM
Dancing: 7:00PM-10:00PM
Workmen's Circle is at 45 E. 33rd St. between Madison and Park Ave. in Manhattan.

Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance events are held at the Workmen's Circle on the first Thursday of each month. Come learn the traditional Jewish dances of Eastern Europe. Beginners are welcome!

Parking is available on the street or in the lot next door. Admission $10, $8 for CTMD and Workmen's Circle members.

A presentation of CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture.

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Max Pashm

Oct 2 2009, 8:00P
Small World Festival,
Toronto Canada

The Max Pashm sound is a unique blend of traditional Greek/Balkan/Gypsy & Klezmer music, fused with high energy electronic beats & digitally manipulated fx.
www.myspace.com/maxpashm
Check out Keith Wolzinger's Klezmer Podcast with the band

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Wacha Clan
"Diaspora Remix" tour

Oct 2 2009, 8:00P
New York City (NY)
Southpaw / Brooklyn

For more information: www.myspace.com/watchaclan
Also check out Keith Wolzinger's Klezmer Podcast interview

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Daphna Sadeh & The Voyagers
October 2nd - 8:00pm
The Green Note
Camden Town London.

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Max Pashm

Oct 3 2009, 8:00P
Les Bobards,
Montreal Canada

The Max Pashm sound is a unique blend of traditional Greek/Balkan/Gypsy & Klezmer music, fused with high energy electronic beats & digitally manipulated fx.
www.myspace.com/maxpashm
Check out Keith Wolzinger's Klezmer Podcast with the band

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The Red Hot Chachkas

Saturday October 3 at Armando's, Martinez

Armando's is an intimate, close-to-the-music, get-to-know-the-performers, hot-spot for local talent. 707 Marina Vista, Martinez. Saturday Oct 3, 8-11 pm. Cover charge is $8, or 2 for $15.

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Oi Va Voi

Saturday 3 October 2009 at 7:30pm

La Maroquinerie
23 rue Boyer
75020 Paris
France

Tel: +33 1 40 33 35 05

www.lamaroquinerie.fr

Véritable OVNI dans la galaxie musicale anglaise, formé à la fin des années 90, Oi va Voi est un groupe londonien qui combine allègrement un mix entre harmonies folkloriques juives et musiques électroniques. Leur nom provient d'une interjection yiddish intraduisible en français, à rapprocher de l'expression anglaise « Oh, dear ! ».

"Travelling the Face of the Globe", troisième album d'Oi Va Voi, nous présente un groupe au sommet de son art. On sent que fort de son expérience, Oi Va Voi est retourné à ses racines tout en conservant le meilleur de ce qu?il a su développer au cours de ces cinq dernières années. Aussi c'est naturellement, que le groupe a fait appel à Kevin Bacon et Johathan Quarnby (Tiken Jah Fakoly, Finley Quaye, The Pretenders, David Bowie, Richard Hawley), qui avaient déjà produit l'album « Laughter Through Tears », pour ce nouvel opus.

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Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm. City Winery's brunch on Oct 4, 2009 features Isle of Klezbos

General Admission: $10 / Children Under 13 - Free
City Winery
155 Varick Street
New York, New York 10013
(212) 608-0555

For further info: www.citywinery.com

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A Concert series with prize-winning Yiddish singer Hilda Bronstein and Yair Schleider on piano and accordion

THEIR LIVES IN YIDDISH SONG
Each of the four programmes in this concert series will cover a different aspect of the extraordinary Jewish history in the Yiddish speaking world, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Most songs will be sung in Yiddish but each one will be placed in context and explained. The themes will be as follows:

September 13—The Shtetl
October 6—The Ghetto and The Shoah
January 10—Immigration: Israel and America
March 21—New Songs in Yiddish

7:30pm
Spiro Ark Centre
25-26 Enford Street
London, W1H 1DW

Entry: £12 / £10 conc. or £40 for the 4
Tel. 020 7723 9991 Fax 020 7723 8191
www.spiroark.org

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Don’t miss a beat. Grab your dancing shoes, and join us Friday, Saturday and Sunday – October 9-11!
Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands 2009
www.honkfest.org
Friday Neighborhood Honks!

October 9, 3pm
We’re taking to your street to start Honk this year! Join us Friday afternoon in Roxbury , Jamaica Plain, East Somerville, East Boston, and at Harvard Yard, and Boston Common. Details posted here – www.honkfest.org/schedule
(and thanks to the MBTA, watch for Honk! posters this week on the T, and listen for the bands starting around 2pm on Friday as they go underground on the red and orange lines!)

7 stages for 8 hours on Saturday
October 10
All in Davis Square! Opening Ceremony at 12noon in 7 Hills Park, Davis Square; then music all day beginning at 1pm at 7 Hills, Statue Park, Davis Square Plaza, Chester Street, VFW Dilboy Hall, Kenney Park, and 406 Highland Street. www.honkfest.org/schedule

Sunday down Mass Ave.
October 11
Anywhere you look from noon ‘till 2pm you’ll see (and hear!) Honkers in parade! Don’t forget to join us afterwards in Harvard Square as bands perform on the streets of Oktoberfest from 2-5pm.
Sunday night blow-out!
More tubas than you’ve ever seen in one place! Plus trumpets, sousaphones, saxophones, and radical cheerleaders!
The beautiful Somerville Theater is hosting the Sunday night blow-out all-band show. Four hours, four hundred musicians, and twenty-four tubas. Don’t miss it! Get your tix now. We guarantee these bands won’t stay on the stage -- there won’t be a bad seat in the house!
Somerville Theater
55 Davis Square
(right next to the T station)
Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm.
Get your tickets at the box office in person, by phone at 617-625-4088, or online.
www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/schedule/events.php

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Yiddishe Cup

Fri. Oct 9, 7:30 p.m.
Fairmount Temple, Beachwood, Ohio.
Simchat Torah. free.
www.fairmounttemple.org

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Don’t miss a beat. Grab your dancing shoes, and join us Friday, Saturday and Sunday – October 9-11!
Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands 2009
www.honkfest.org
Friday Neighborhood Honks!

October 9, 3pm
We’re taking to your street to start Honk this year! Join us Friday afternoon in Roxbury , Jamaica Plain, East Somerville, East Boston, and at Harvard Yard, and Boston Common. Details posted here – www.honkfest.org/schedule
(and thanks to the MBTA, watch for Honk! posters this week on the T, and listen for the bands starting around 2pm on Friday as they go underground on the red and orange lines!)

7 stages for 8 hours on Saturday
October 10
All in Davis Square! Opening Ceremony at 12noon in 7 Hills Park, Davis Square; then music all day beginning at 1pm at 7 Hills, Statue Park, Davis Square Plaza, Chester Street, VFW Dilboy Hall, Kenney Park, and 406 Highland Street. www.honkfest.org/schedule

Sunday down Mass Ave.
October 11
Anywhere you look from noon ‘till 2pm you’ll see (and hear!) Honkers in parade! Don’t forget to join us afterwards in Harvard Square as bands perform on the streets of Oktoberfest from 2-5pm.
Sunday night blow-out!
More tubas than you’ve ever seen in one place! Plus trumpets, sousaphones, saxophones, and radical cheerleaders!
The beautiful Somerville Theater is hosting the Sunday night blow-out all-band show. Four hours, four hundred musicians, and twenty-four tubas. Don’t miss it! Get your tix now. We guarantee these bands won’t stay on the stage -- there won’t be a bad seat in the house!
Somerville Theater
55 Davis Square
(right next to the T station)
Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm.
Get your tickets at the box office in person, by phone at 617-625-4088, or online.
www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/schedule/events.php

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Yiddishe Cup

Sat. Oct. 10, 7:15pm
Park Synagogue,
Cleveland Hts., Ohio
Simchat Torah. free.
www.parksyn.org

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Don’t miss a beat. Grab your dancing shoes, and join us Friday, Saturday and Sunday – October 9-11!
Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands 2009
www.honkfest.org
Friday Neighborhood Honks!

October 9, 3pm
We’re taking to your street to start Honk this year! Join us Friday afternoon in Roxbury , Jamaica Plain, East Somerville, East Boston, and at Harvard Yard, and Boston Common. Details posted here – www.honkfest.org/schedule
(and thanks to the MBTA, watch for Honk! posters this week on the T, and listen for the bands starting around 2pm on Friday as they go underground on the red and orange lines!)

7 stages for 8 hours on Saturday
October 10
All in Davis Square! Opening Ceremony at 12noon in 7 Hills Park, Davis Square; then music all day beginning at 1pm at 7 Hills, Statue Park, Davis Square Plaza, Chester Street, VFW Dilboy Hall, Kenney Park, and 406 Highland Street. www.honkfest.org/schedule

Sunday down Mass Ave.
October 11
Anywhere you look from noon ‘till 2pm you’ll see (and hear!) Honkers in parade! Don’t forget to join us afterwards in Harvard Square as bands perform on the streets of Oktoberfest from 2-5pm.
Sunday night blow-out!
More tubas than you’ve ever seen in one place! Plus trumpets, sousaphones, saxophones, and radical cheerleaders!
The beautiful Somerville Theater is hosting the Sunday night blow-out all-band show. Four hours, four hundred musicians, and twenty-four tubas. Don’t miss it! Get your tix now. We guarantee these bands won’t stay on the stage -- there won’t be a bad seat in the house!
Somerville Theater
55 Davis Square
(right next to the T station)
Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm.
Get your tickets at the box office in person, by phone at 617-625-4088, or online.
www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/schedule/events.php

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Sunday 11 October

Klezmer Workshop
12.15 - 1.15pm

Klezmer Session
2 - 4pm

The Cross Kings, 126 York Way, London N1

The monthly London Klezmer Session. Come early for the workshop and learn a tune and something about klezmer style. Come for lunch at 1, or for playing (we generally start around 2pm): bring an instrument and a tune, or just come to shmooze & booze. The pub does great food and has comfy sofas, too. Children welcome.

Info and tunes at www.ilanacravitz.com/jams.html.
Workshop £5; Jam £1

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The Flying Bulgars play new music at The Painted Lady from their upcoming sixth studio recording: Tumbling Into Light, produced by BSS guy Dave Newfeld and featuring all-new songs in English by Daves Wall & Buchbinder. Join us at the Painted Lady, a unique, intimate venue in the heart of the Ossington Avenue strip, as the band builds momentum towards the CD release. Pass this on to friends who love great, original music!

These shows will be happening on a semi-regular basis on Tuesday nights from 8-10 pm, and, to make it even easier to come, will feature a no-cover policy for now.

"With Tumbling Into Light the Flying Bulgars shatter the walls of their own beloved genre...keep[ing] the best parts high in the mix: melancholy, furiousness, deep ancestral summoning and total Ginsbergian fools' joy."

-Andrew Whiteman, (Broken Social Scene, Apostle of Hustle)

www.facebook.com/event

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Wednesday 14 October, 7.30-9.30pm

London Klezmer Orchestra
The Cross Kings, 126 York Way, London N1

The London Klezmer Orchestra meets to practise repertoire and arrange music. For further information call William Millis on 020 8969 7019.

Tunes online at www.ilanacravitz.com/Klezorchestra.html.

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Royal Oak, 42 Sparrows Herne, Bushey WD23 1FU

A klezmer fidl kapelye (string ensemble) kicks off a weekend of string mayhem, with live music and instrument makers. Featuring Ilana Cravitz, Laoise Davidson, Francesca Ter-Berg, and Carol Isaacs.
Free event. More information: http://artists-musicians.vivastreet.co.uk/artists-musicians+bushey/fiddle-hell-in-bushey/17161268

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West of Odessa and Karamfil will be performing at the Ontario Folk Dance Association's 40th Anniversary Banquet this Saturday evening (6-12) at the Estonian House, 958 Broadview Ave., north of Danforth in Toronto. Dancing will be led by Helen Winkler, who does such a great job as the dance leader at the Ashkenaz Fest. For more information see:

www.ofda.ca/banquet.html

West of Odessa, a Buffalo, NY/Hamilton, Ont. based trio will feature Moldavian/Ukrainian klezmer. The group includes clarinet, accordion, poyk and tsimbl. Karamfil, a performing group based in Rochester, NY features Macedonian/Bulgarian music performed on traditional folk instruments.

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Kabbalah

Forum de Berre (Berre l’étang 13) : 17 octobre 2009
NEW KLEZMER MUSIC and IT ROCK’S !!!

Kabbalah déboule comme une comète dans le paysage musical actuel et crée à l’évidence un son nouveau.

Au melting pot de la cité phocéenne, antique carrefour des langues et des cultures, Kabbalah abreuve sa musique d’autant de tradition que de modernité, d’autant d’Orient que d’Occident. Ces 5 virtuoses réunissent ainsi en un même univers, musique klezmer, hip-hop, chants hassidiques et spoken word.

Révélation Babelmed 2007 /// Lauréat Planètes Musiques 2009 /// Découvertes FNAC - Printemps de Bourges 2009

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DANIEL KAHN & PSOY KOROLENKO: THE UNTERNATIONALE vs. PARTISANS & PARASITES
When: Saturday, October 17th, 9:30pm
Where: Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division (at Ashland) Map: www.chopintheatre.com/directions.php
Transit: Blue Line Division El (24 hr), Bus
Who: All Ages
Tickets: www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2803674

Important Links:
KFAR site event link: www.kfarcenter.org/events/
Sample mp3: 6 Million Germans (Nakam) kfarcenter.com/2009/sixmilliongermans.mp3
Facebook event link: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134826422899
Daniel Kahn & Painted Bird: /www.danielkahn.com / www.myspace.com/thepaintedbird
Psoy Korolenk & Unternationale: www.myspace.com/psoy / www.myspace.com/theunternationale
Videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7StNMUwYFXg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIs_rikRREE

Description:
Verfremdungsklezmer = Euro Cabaret + Radical Yiddish Song + Gothic American Folk + Klezmer Danse Macabre.

Fronted by Detroit-born singer-songwriter Daniel Kahn on vocals, accordion, piano and guitar, the band was formed in Berlin in fall of 2005. It also features with East German Bert Hildebrandt on clarinets, US expat composer Michael Tuttle on upright bass, and a rotating roster of some of Berlin and New Yorks best young Klezmer and Balkan players.

Their first album, The Broken Tongue, was released on Chamsa Records in Fall 2006 to critical acclaim. Their follow up, Partisans and Parasites (Oriente) follows suit with another set of intelligent, probing songs about identity and responsibility in Yiddish, Russian and English. Its standout hit, 6 Million Germans, weaves together Johnny Cash with Kurt Weill to tell the true story of poet Abba Kovner, who survived the Vilna Ghetto and formed Dam Yehudi Nakam (Jewish Blood Will Be Avenged) and planned a devious (and eventually foiled) eye-for-an-eye plot that would make Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds blush. Covering everything from faciscm to Holocaust revenge plots to vampires, Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, Kahn's songs are at times humorous, wistful and even uncomfortable, but they make us think.

They are joined by Russian/Jewish multilingual poet-singer Psoy Korolenko and The Unternationale. They balance between folk, klezmer, rap, sound poetry and intellectual cabaret/comedy to explore diaspora, territory, minorities, and borderlines. Discography includes 'Un Vo Iz Der Onheyb Fun Foterland' (Soviet Pop Classics in Yiddish translations and Klezmer arrangements)

Together, their European Jewish experience is both personal and metaphor; a transcultural identity and ultimate otherness performed in English, Russian, French, German and Yiddish.

TICKETS!!!
www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2803674

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Melech b'n Arieh Concert
October 18th at 2pm
Congregations at Shaare Shamayim
9768 Verree road
Philadelphia, PA., 19115
$18 per adult / $10 per child/student
For reservations call 215-677-1600

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There will be a memorial concert to honor the life of Judith Wachs, the founder and artistic director of Voice of the Turtle, who passed away in October 2008.
The Memorial Concert for Judith Wachs will be on:
Sunday, October 18 at 3:00 PM
Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square,
Somerville, MA
Admission is FREE; NO TICKETS NEEDED
The concert will feature Judy’s group, Voice of the Turtle, as well as Libana, the women's world music ensemble for which Judy served as a board member and occasional advisor. There will also be a short film about Judy's life and work with Voice of the Turtle.

Please spread the word and pass on this announcement to anyone you know who might be interested in attending. This memorial concert is free and open to the public.
Hoping you can join us to remember and celebrate the unique contributions that Judy made to music and to our lives.

voiceoftheturtle.com

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New England Jewish Labor Committee presents
"AT HOME IN UTOPIA"

Film Screening and Discussion on the Economic Crises

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009

BROOKLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY

361 Washington Street, Brookline, MA
6:00 p.m. - Refreshments
6:30 p.m. - Film Screening

RAFFLE $50 MOVIE TICKETS

During the economic boom of the 1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish factory workers managed to build the house of their dreams, a cooperative apartment complex at the edge of Bronx Park. Then they were hit by the Great Depression. At Home in Utopia bears witness to an epic social experiment across two generations in the Coops - a place the local cops called "little Moscow" - where people tried to change the American dream into one that included racial justice and workers' rights.

The discussion after the screening will use the film, At Home in Utopia, to inspire an intergenerational conversation about collective action in the context of the current economic crisis. The Jewish workers in the Coops fought alongside others to win the social safety net that we're now at risk of losing. Where are our sources of collective identification today and what alliances do we need in order to fight for economic justice for all?

Sponsored by Boston Workmen's Circle, New England Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish Organizing Initiative, Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, and Moishe/Kavod House, with Filmmakers Collaborative; made possible by the Mass. Humanities and Puffin Foundation. At Home in Utopia is a co-production of Michal Goldman and ITVS in association with WGBH.

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MW Klezmer Trio plays a special concert in Cambridge at the Western Front Club, Presented by the New England Conservatory of Music. celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the NEC Jazz Dept.

Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio:
Michael Winograd - clarinet
Carmen Staaf - accordion
Benjy Fox-Rosen - bass, vocal

also on the bill is Hankus Netsky, with his ensemble

Western Front Club is at 343 Western Ave, Cambridge
$10 for the evening, all proceeds go to the Conservatory

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ANNUAL CABARET DINNER

October 21,2009
Buffet Dinner 6:00pm
Cabaret 7:30pm
Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York City

Honoring:
The Barcan Family
For their multi-generational contributions to Yiddish culture

Awardees:
Seena Stein
Neil Goldmacher

We will also honor Chancellor MatthewGoldstein&Dr. Barnett Zumoff for their lifetime contributions

Featuring a Dazzling Arrayof Broadway Stars including:
Tovah Feldshuh (Irena’s Vow)
Jana Robbins (The Allergist’s Wife)
Tsidi Laloca (The Lion King)
Charlotte Cohn (La Bohème).... and more

For reservations please call 212-213-2120 x 203
www.folksbiene.org

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KlezFactor returns to The Rex Hotel and Jazz Bar (194 Queen St. West, west of University) on Wednesday, October 21 at 9:30 pm ($7). They'll be joined by Alon Nechushtan from New York, bringing his project, Talat, to life in Toronto with some fantastic local musicians.

KlezFactor is pleased to welcome new band members Jaron Freeman-Fox (violin), Tony McKnight (bass), and Erika Nielsen (cello).

www.klezfactor.com
www.myspace.com/klezfactor
http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/klezfactor

www.talatmusic.com

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CMJ Shemspeed Showcase
Oct 22, 2009, 6-10pm
Drom
85 Ave A (b/w 5th & 6th St) 6-10pm | 21+ | $10
New York, NY.

info and updates at www.shemspeed.com/cmj

Shemspeed is proud to showcase its favorite groups for CMJ 2009. Each of the artists below has a record being released this fall and will be previewing and debuting songs from their records, all live at one event.

The night will feature bands from all over the aesthetic map, including:
Electro Morrocco (guitar-driven middle eastern electro), Y-Love (mystical multilingual hip-hop revolutionary), Darshan (electro world folk-hop), Kosha Dillz (Israeli-american freestyle sensation) Diwon (yemenite psych-hopper), Eprhyme (kaballisitic party rocking MC), DJ Balagan (global funk from Bmore), & DeScribe (soul awakening hip hop).

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di bostoner klezmer is happy to be playing a public performance this
coming Thursday on the North Fork of Long Island (not too far from
Queens)

When: Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 7:30 P.M.

Where: Long Island’s Port Washington Public Library

1 Library Dr

Port Washington, NY

516 883 4400

www.pwpl.org/

Cory Pesaturo, our newly crowned Accordion Champion of the World,
Brian Bender and Dena Ressler join forces again to present a varied
klezmer concert of trad and composed pieces (including Dena’s first!)
in this pleasant setting.

And it’s free! Hope to see you there if you’re in the area.

Dena Ressler

di bostoner klezmer www.yiddishmusic.com

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On October 24, Joseph Vass is premiering eight compositions based on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Artist Robyn Awend has created visual art to work along with the music. Joe has scripted a narration intended to explain, enlighten and entertain.

The Alef Bet Ensemble unites ten of Minnesota’s finest and most versatile musicians:

Bass - Chris Bates

Violin - Carolyn Boulay

Drums - Jay Epstein

Trumpet - Dave Jensen

Cello - Michelle Kinney

Woodwinds - Dale Mendenhall

Viola - Michael Rieff

Violin - Gary Schulte

Woodwinds - Bruce Thornton

Piano - Joseph Vass

Judging by contemporary audience reaction and subsequent history, those who came to previous Vass premieres at the St. Paul JCC, including Gershwin The Klezmer and Klezmerica, were delighted they came. We’re aiming for the same with Alef-Bet: Music Of The Hebrew Letters.

The world premiere of Alef-Bet: Music of the Hebrew Letters is scheduled for Saturday night, October 24, 7:30 PM, at the Jewish Community Center of St. Paul, 1375 St Paul Avenue in Saint Paul. More information is available at (651) 698-0751 or at www.stpauljcc.org/jewish/arts_events.lasso

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Trio Klezele at Les Lilas, 11 Bis Rue du Coq Francais, Paris, France, on October 24, 2009

Yannick Lopes, Accordion
Julien Petit, Saxophone
Ramy Yulzari, Contrebasse

Prix: 10/8/5 euros

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General sale $45/$35 | Irish Arts Center and Symphony Space members
$35/$30.

Tickets now on sale at: www.symphonyspace.com or call 212 868.5400

Directed and Hosted by Mick Moloney and featuring an all-star cast of
musicians including: Mick Moloney, Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, Liz
Hanley, String Quartet featuring Dana Lyn, Cantor Kerith Spencer-Shapiro,
Joyce Rosenzweig, John Roberts, Billy McComiskey, Susan McKeown, Niall
O'Leary, Donna Long, Jerry O'Sullivan, The Washington Square Harp and
Shamrock Orchestra and Special Guests.

Join renowned musician-folklorist Mick Moloney for If It Wasn't For the Irish
and the Jews, an all-star concert event celebrating the historic links between
the Irish and Jewish people and their contributions to an important chapter in
American musical history at the 760-seat Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at
Symphony Space.

www.irishartscenter.org

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KlezmerShack favorites: Ribs & Brisket Revue
New England premiere!

Saturday, October 24, 2009 8pm
Sunday, October 25, 2009 2pm

Ribs & Brisket Revue has been serving up heaping helpings of '40s & '50s-style Jewish jazz, Yiddish swing, and various kosher-style blues to fans everywhere. Ribs & Brisket Revue both entertains and impresses: chicken soup for the weary, postmodern soul. The most fun you’ll have at a concert this year!

Tickets: $25 General; $23 JCC members and seniors

Related events

Ribs and brisket bake-off: Enter your favorite brisket recipe!

A panel of culinary judges, including Firefly’s chef, Steve Uliss and PBS Cookbook authors Sheila and Marilyn Brass, will select the best recipes. Winners will be announced at the Saturday evening show and a taste of the winning recipe will be served.

Winner receives

• Gift Certificate to Firefly Restaurant


• Free tickets to selected JCC events


• JCC gym bag


• Bragging rights!

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KlezmerShack favorites: Ribs & Brisket Revue
New England premiere!

Saturday, October 24, 2009 8pm
Sunday, October 25, 2009 2pm

Ribs & Brisket Revue has been serving up heaping helpings of '40s & '50s-style Jewish jazz, Yiddish swing, and various kosher-style blues to fans everywhere. Ribs & Brisket Revue both entertains and impresses: chicken soup for the weary, postmodern soul. The most fun you’ll have at a concert this year!

Tickets: $25 General; $23 JCC members and seniors

Related events

Ribs and brisket bake-off: Enter your favorite brisket recipe!

A panel of culinary judges, including Firefly’s chef, Steve Uliss and PBS Cookbook authors Sheila and Marilyn Brass, will select the best recipes. Winners will be announced at the Saturday evening show and a taste of the winning recipe will be served.

Winner receives

• Gift Certificate to Firefly Restaurant


• Free tickets to selected JCC events


• JCC gym bag


• Bragging rights!

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ATZILUT:CONCERTS FOR PEACE is the only group that features virtuoso singers and instrumentalists equally proficient in the rhythms and inflections of both Hebrew and Arabic music. The nine-member group is co-led by Hebrew and Arabic vocal specialists: Hazzan Jack Kessler, one of the masters of Jewish spiritual song, and the great Lebanese singer, composer and 'oud virtuoso Maurice Chedid. The resulting musical collaboration is infectious, joyous, deep, sweet, and passionate.

No speeches needed – the music itself is the message! This project exemplifies the potential for artistic collaboration and shared creativity that emerges when musicians, representing two traditions with common roots, overcome conflict to celebrate hope and trust through music. The performance becomes an inspiring statement of the triumph of shared creativity over despair.

Also known in Europe as the MIDDLE EAST PEACE ORCHESTRA, the group has an extensive performance history, including the United Nations, the Algarve International Festival, Munich Gasteig, the Royal Opera Theatre of Copenhagen, a recent tour of France and concerts in Austria and Germany.

This concert will be part of the Daniel Pearl World Music Days, which is an annual worldwide network of concerts that uses the universal language of music to diminish hatred, respect differences, and reach out in global friendship. Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002.

WE CAN WORK TOGETHER !!!

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Giora Feidman Trio &e Gæst
KØBENHAVNS SYNAGOGE
Krystalgade 12, København K, Denmark

Sun, October 25, 2009 7:30 PM
Rosh HaShanah Concert

The annual Jewish New Year's concert in Copenhagen's 150-year old synagogue with THE KING OF KLEZMER Giora Feidman and band. Special guest: internationally renowned Murat Coskun on frame drum.

Book online www.billetnet.dk. Ticket prize: Dkr. 225,00
website: jewishculture.dk
Ticket prize: Dkr. 225,00

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The Center for Jewish History and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance

Present

The An-Sky Institute for Jewish Culture Series

Curated by Walter Zev Feldman, Ph.D. (New York University/Rubin
Academy of Music, Jerusalem)

October 26 at 7pm Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman: Celebrating a
Lifetime in Yiddish Song.

A conversation and performance featuring America’s leading Yiddish
poet and songwriter, who will be joined by her son Itzik Gottesman,
Associate Editor of the Yiddish Forward. In 2006, Beyle
Schaechter-Gottesman was awarded the prestigious N.E.A. National
Heritage Fellowship, our nation’s highest honor in the traditional
arts.

A reception will follow.

For all reservations and inquiries, please call SmartTix at
212-868-4444 or visit www.smarttix.com.

$15 general, $10 CJH and Center for Traditional Music and Dance Members

www.programs.cjh.org

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An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture Series

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Center for Jewish History present a new three-part An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture Series, curated by ethnomusicologist Walter Zev Feldman, Ph.D. (New York University, Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem).

Monday, October 26: Beyle Schaechter Gottesman: Celebrating a Lifetime in Yiddish Song. A conversation and performance featuring America's leading Yiddish poet/songwriter, who will be joined by her son Itzik Gottesman of the Yiddish Forward newspaper. Moderated by Walter Zev Feldman. In 2006 Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was awarded the NEA's National Heritage Fellowship Award, our nation's highest honor in the traditional arts. At the Center for Jewish History's Forchheimer Auditorium/Kumble Stage, 15 W. 16th Street in Manhattan. A reception will follow the event. Tickets $15, $10 for CJH and CTMD members. Reservations through Smart Tix or call 212-868-4444. (7:00PM)

The series is named in honor of the pioneering Jewish folklorist and writer, Semyon An-sky, who led a remarkable expedition to collect Jewish folklore in Ukraine and Belorussia in 1911–1914.

Major support for CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture was provided by the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation. Support was also provided by the Atran Foundation, and public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. We thank Fumie Suzuki and Joan Roth for providing photographs for the series.

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A century after the death of the Father of Yiddish Theater, Avrom Goldfaden, a group of Harvard University students is preparing a revival of his most famous Yiddish operetta – Shulamis. This landmark bilingual production of Shulamis will premiere in Harvard’s historic Agassiz Theater December 2 - 6, 2009, nearly seventy years after Shulamis opened as the very last production of interwar Yiddish theatre in Warsaw.

While wandering thirsty through the desert, beautiful young Shulamis is rescued by handsome Avsholem, who swears to marry her upon his return from Jerusalem. When Avsholem fails to come for her, Shulamis pretends to go mad in order to keep her vow to him, yearning both for his return and for revenge. Her choice is at the center of this timeless Yiddish operetta of love and deception, of the price of revenge and the power of forgiveness.

Featuring a new English translation by renowned Yiddish translator Nahma Sandrow, a haunting musical score compiled by Folksbiene artistic director Zalmen Mlotek, a live orchestra, masks, and innovative choreography, Shulamis will charm and inspire both Yiddish theater aficionados and those who are new to the Yiddish theater.

Performance dates:

December 2, 3, 5, and 6 at 8 PM

Matinee December 6 at 2 PM

All performances will take place in Harvard's historic Agassiz Theater in picturesque Radcliffe Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Agassiz Theater is located just a few blocks from the Harvard Square T Station at 5 James Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Tickets: $15 general, $10 students/seniors. Discounts are available for groups of ten or more.

Tickets on sale now at the Harvard Box Office: 617-496-2222 or online at www.shulamis.org.

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Malasartes Musique is happy to announce the launch of three new CDs on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 8:30pm at the Sala Rossa (4848 St. Laurent) in Montreal. Tickets: $10 at the door.

Amy Horvey, well known as a contemporary music and klezmer trumpeter, will present her debut solo CD "Interview". The product of several years of research and live performance, "Interview" represents a collaboration featuring composers Cecilia Arditto, Anna Hostman, Ryan Purchase (renowned as the trombonist of the Lithuanian Empire) and Jeff Morton.

"Migration", by the string trio Cordame, combines musical explorations of sonic images with an unusual sensuality and sensitivity. Featuring Jean Falix Mailloux (double bass), Marie-Neige Lavigne (violin), and Julie Odile Gauthier-Morin (cello), accompanied by Rami Giguare (guitar) as well as Pierre Tanguay and Ziya Tabassian (percussion).

In the new CD by Nozen, a quartet of "ultraspace surfers" ride a wave of Jewish music and contemporary jazz, formed by Damian Nisenson (sax/composition), Bernard Falaise (guitar), Jean Falix Mailloux (bass), and Pierre Tanguay (drums).

Selections from the CDs to be launched will be performed on October 28th. Performances by other artists from the Malasartes Musique label will also take place, including Ironiko Orchestra, Bomata, and the Jean-Marc Habert Quartet.

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Daphna Sadeh & The Voyagers
October 28th -8:00pm
Fernandez
Hendon London

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JEWS AND SUFIS: A Sacred Bridge

Location: Temple Beth Zion in Brookline
Date/Time: Thursday, October 29, 6:30pm
Price of admission: FREE

Since at least the 16th century, the maftirim repertoire--Hebrew devotional poetry set to Turkish makam music for use in the synagogue--demonstrates the deep relationships Ottoman Jews established with members of Muslim mystical brotherhoods. A panel of three scholars will speak on cultural, historical, religious and musical aspects of the topic, followed by dialogue with the audience. The program will conclude with a lively 40-minute recital featuring an ensemble of Jewish, Muslim and Christian vocalists and instrumentalists demonstrating examples of relevant musical repertoire.

Visit www.DunyaInc.org for more information

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Canwest Cabaret Festival
The Young Centre for the Performing Arts
Thursday, October 29, 10:15pm
Friday, October 30, 10:30pm
Tickets: $20, available online or through the box office (416) 866-8666

The David Buchbinder Jazz ensemble is back as strong as ever!
Come out and see some of the city's top players lay down David's original sounds for the masses as part of this year's Canwest Cabaret Festival. When a team of musicians of this calibre unite, only good things can happen.

"Fiercely imaginative music that swaggers with volatile rhythms cushioning endlessly changing modes...an idiosyncratic, accessible gumbo...highly original, Buchbinder wields a mean trumpet and flugelhorn as well."
- Geoff Chapman, Toronto Star, 2006

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Special NYC Friday Night Dinner with Participatory Yiddish Singing and Dancing with the Strauss/Warschauer Duo.

A Tribute to the Memory of our Beloved Teacher and Friend Pesach Fiszman A"H

Friday, October 30, 2009, 6:30 PM
RSVP ASAP!
The Workmen's Circle / Arbeter Ring invites you to come and spend a Shabes Dinner with us on Friday, October 30, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.

The program is dedicated to the memory of our dear teacher and friend, Pesach Fiszman. Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer will pay tribute and lead a spirited Yiddish Shabes including participatory singing and dancing.

Space is limited. Reserve ASAP!

Location: Workmen's Circle (45 East 33rd Street, NY, NY 10016)
Cost: $30 members, $36 nonmembers, $18 full-time students/children

For more information contact Sara Lerman
Phone: 212.889.6800 x252
Register Online: http://www.circle.org/Shabbes_regform.html

Der arbeter-ring farbet alemen hartsik kumen un farbrengen tsuzamen mit undz di shabesdike vetshere in AR binyen, dem 30 Oktober, 6:30 in ovnt. Di program iz gevimet dem lebn un oyftu fun undzer balibtn khaver un lerer, Pesakh Fishman, olevasholem.
Debra Strauss un Jeff Warschauer veln onfirn mitn ovnt.
Der optsol iz: $30 - mitglid, $36 - nit-mitglid, $18 - kinder un studentn.

rezervirt bald. dos ort iz bagrenetst.

nokh vayterdiker informatsye klingt 212-889-6800, ext. 252

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Free Synagogue of Flushing will present a one-of-a-kind musical event featuring the Kirtan Rabbi on Friday,
October 30, 8 PM, at 41-60 Kissena Boulevard (between Main Street and Sanford Ave.), Flushing, Queens. Admission is FREE.
Rabbi Andrew Hahn, known as the Kirtan Rabbi, weaves traditional Jewish liturgy and musical modes into the increasingly popular call-and-response form of singing called Kirtan. Originally from India, Kirtan is described as "a form of chant designed to heighten participation, communal feeling and ecstatic communion with the divine." Kirtan calls for full participation from the audience and promises to be an uplifting experience. Some free parking available adjacent to synagogue. For more information, call 718-961-0030 or visit www.freesynagogue.org.

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Wacha Clan
"Diaspora Remix" tour

Oct 31 2009, 8:00P
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Womex

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Sixth Street Community Synagogue
presents
"And the Rabbi Wailed..."
Greg Wall's 50th Birthday Mega Concert
and
Installation as Rabbi
Greg Wall

Featuring Sixth Street Synagogue's very own NEW Rabbi Greg Wall performing with Later Prophets, The Unity Orchestra, Klezmerfest, members of Hasidic New Wave, Gary Lucas and Special Guests

DATE: October 31, 2009
TIME: 8:30pm
LOCATION: 325 E. 6th St. (between 1st and 2nd)
Admission: $18 at the door
(to benefit the Sixth Street Synagogue Center for the Arts)

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