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Yiddish language (beginning & intermediate) : July 25 - Aug 2
Faculty: Dorothea Greve, Avishai Fisz.
It is very difficult to imagine the Weimar Yiddish program without the great Pesakh Fiszman, who last year passed away. But life goes on, and that attitude is nowhere more at home than in Yiddish culture. more
Advanced Yiddish song workshop (topic: unaccompanied Yiddish folksong) : July 25 - Aug 2
Faculty: Michael Alpert, Ethel Raim, Itzik Gottesman + artists-in-residence.
Unaccompanied Yiddish folksong is one of the deepest, most honest and direct expressions of Yidishkayt. But the last generation for whom this style and repertoire was a natural form of self-expression is almost gone... more
Summer Klezmer music workshop from July 25 to August 1, 2010.
250 km around Paris (France) near Le Mans. Open to non-professional musicians with fairly to very good level.
Group rehearsal, improvisation and with sheet music. Concert
in the near village at the end of the week.
Cost 550 € (food, lodging and music courses).
All details on our web site www.musique-ensemble.com
Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010
The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.
The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.
For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com
Yiddish language (beginning & intermediate) : July 25 - Aug 2
Faculty: Dorothea Greve, Avishai Fisz.
It is very difficult to imagine the Weimar Yiddish program without the great Pesakh Fiszman, who last year passed away. But life goes on, and that attitude is nowhere more at home than in Yiddish culture. more
Advanced Yiddish song workshop (topic: unaccompanied Yiddish folksong) : July 25 - Aug 2
Faculty: Michael Alpert, Ethel Raim, Itzik Gottesman + artists-in-residence.
Unaccompanied Yiddish folksong is one of the deepest, most honest and direct expressions of Yidishkayt. But the last generation for whom this style and repertoire was a natural form of self-expression is almost gone... more
Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010
The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.
The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.
For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com
Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010
The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.
The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.
For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com
Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars
7:30–9pm
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Museum of Fine Arts
Calderwood Courtyard
Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
"The mystical high priest of New Wave Avant-Klez jazz" (All about Jazz), Frank London exposes solid musical commonalties among Gypsy, Jewish, and Arabic music. Fusing aspects of jazz, Gypsy brass band music, and klezmer, Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars combine their knowledge, history, and talent to create magical and thrilling sounds together.
Tickets: $30
MFA members, seniors, and students $24 (Members save 20% on ticket prices!)
Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010
The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.
The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.
For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com
Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010
The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.
The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.
For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com
Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010
The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.
The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.
For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com
Jewish Womens' Music Festival
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Falls Village CT
August 2-8, 2010
The festival will feature classes with renowned artists, and workshops in song sharing, writing a spiritual song, song and ritual, using chant, drumming, leadership of an audience/reading an audience, choral leadership and a cappella performance (among others). Opportunities to jam will abound and every night there will be a performance as well as open mic opportunities. In the Elat Chayyim tradition, Shabbat will be the central part of the festival.
The festival culminates in a public performance at Isabella Freedman on Sunday, August 8th with featured performers including Vocolot, Rakia and Yofiah.
For further info: isabellafreedman.org/womensmusic
To register: thriva.activenetwork.com
Rafael Goldwaser and his Strasbourg-based Luft Teater (www.lufteater.com), New York performances
A Gilgl Fun a Nigun (The Metamorphasis of a Melody)
Le Theatre en l'Air/Der LufTeater
Writer: I. L. Peretz
Director: Pascal Holtzer
A solo performance in Yiddish with English translation supertitles, based on the classic short story of a melody's journey from singer to singer, from folk song, to religious hymn to popular tune.
4th Street Theatre
83 East 4th Street
(2nd Avenue & Bowery) in NEW YORK CITY IN MANHATTAN
Sat Aug 14 @ 3:45
Rafael Goldwaser and his Strasbourg-based Luft Teater (www.lufteater.com), New York performances
A Gilgl Fun a Nigun (The Metamorphasis of a Melody)
Le Theatre en l'Air/Der LufTeater
Writer: I. L. Peretz
Director: Pascal Holtzer
A solo performance in Yiddish with English translation supertitles, based on the classic short story of a melody's journey from singer to singer, from folk song, to religious hymn to popular tune.
4th Street Theatre
83 East 4th Street
(2nd Avenue & Bowery) in NEW YORK CITY IN MANHATTAN
Sun Aug 15 @ 2
Register now for KlezKanada 2010!
August 16th to 22nd
www.klezkanada.org
KlezKanada is preparing for its 15th year! We are in the midst of
finalizing our 2010 faculty and creating a week of world-class
programming. Each year we present an incredibly talented faculty and
exciting new programming while still ensuring the atmosphere you love.
This year is no exception—our program highlights this year are truly
not to be missed!
Register now for KlezKanada 2010!
August 16th to 22nd
www.klezkanada.org
KlezKanada is preparing for its 15th year! We are in the midst of
finalizing our 2010 faculty and creating a week of world-class
programming. Each year we present an incredibly talented faculty and
exciting new programming while still ensuring the atmosphere you love.
This year is no exception—our program highlights this year are truly
not to be missed!
Rafael Goldwaser and his Strasbourg-based Luft Teater (www.lufteater.com), New York performances
A Gilgl Fun a Nigun (The Metamorphasis of a Melody)
Le Theatre en l'Air/Der LufTeater
Writer: I. L. Peretz
Director: Pascal Holtzer
A solo performance in Yiddish with English translation supertitles, based on the classic short story of a melody's journey from singer to singer, from folk song, to religious hymn to popular tune.
4th Street Theatre
83 East 4th Street
(2nd Avenue & Bowery) in NEW YORK CITY IN MANHATTAN
Tue Aug 17 @ 8
Register now for KlezKanada 2010!
August 16th to 22nd
www.klezkanada.org
KlezKanada is preparing for its 15th year! We are in the midst of
finalizing our 2010 faculty and creating a week of world-class
programming. Each year we present an incredibly talented faculty and
exciting new programming while still ensuring the atmosphere you love.
This year is no exception—our program highlights this year are truly
not to be missed!
Cantors and soloists of the North Shore Cantorial Association will be performing ensemble and solo pieces of High Holiday music on Wednesday evening, August 18 at 6:30 pm at Temple Beth Shalom, 489 Lowell St, Peabody, MA.
$18 adults. Proceeds will go to the Jewish Family Services Food Bank.
Cantors and soloists of the North Shore Cantorial Association will be performing ensemble and solo pieces of High Holiday music on Wednesday evening, August 18 at 6:30 pm at Temple Beth Shalom, 489 Lowell St, Peabody, MA.
$18 adults. Proceeds will go to the Jewish Family Services Food Bank.
August 19
Willimantic Street Festival,
at the Uptown Stage from 7:45 PM until 9:00 PM,
The stage address is 866 Main Street, Willimantic.
Register now for KlezKanada 2010!
August 16th to 22nd
www.klezkanada.org
KlezKanada is preparing for its 15th year! We are in the midst of
finalizing our 2010 faculty and creating a week of world-class
programming. Each year we present an incredibly talented faculty and
exciting new programming while still ensuring the atmosphere you love.
This year is no exception—our program highlights this year are truly
not to be missed!
Thurs Aug. 19
7 p.m. concert. free.
Wiley Middle School,
University Hts., Ohio.
www.universityheights.com
Sunset Concert: Jews on Vinyl Revue
Produced by the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation
L.A. debut! This intergenerational collaboration of young local musicians and musical legends features international singing star Hedva Amrani, a rare appearance by visionary jazz pioneer and cellist Fred Katz, and Sol Zim (the "Tom Jones" of cantorial music). Backed by a house band led by L.A. guitarist David Green, this evening of song is not to be missed!
"Who were we to kvetch? [The Revue] sounded great. You don't have to be Jewish to dig Jewish music." ~Huffington Post
Part of the Sunset Concert series at the Skirball Cultural Center.
Thursday, August 19, 8:00 p.m.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
FREE; no reservations
Limited seating on a first-come, first-served basis
Plentiful on-site parking: $5 per car carrying three or more people, otherwise $10 per car (cash only)
Street parking strictly prohibited
Or take Metro Rapid Bus 761
Carpooling encouraged!
http://www.skirball.org
Register now for KlezKanada 2010!
August 16th to 22nd
www.klezkanada.org
KlezKanada is preparing for its 15th year! We are in the midst of
finalizing our 2010 faculty and creating a week of world-class
programming. Each year we present an incredibly talented faculty and
exciting new programming while still ensuring the atmosphere you love.
This year is no exception—our program highlights this year are truly
not to be missed!
Register now for KlezKanada 2010!
August 16th to 22nd
www.klezkanada.org
KlezKanada is preparing for its 15th year! We are in the midst of
finalizing our 2010 faculty and creating a week of world-class
programming. Each year we present an incredibly talented faculty and
exciting new programming while still ensuring the atmosphere you love.
This year is no exception—our program highlights this year are truly
not to be missed!
Register now for KlezKanada 2010!
August 16th to 22nd
www.klezkanada.org
KlezKanada is preparing for its 15th year! We are in the midst of
finalizing our 2010 faculty and creating a week of world-class
programming. Each year we present an incredibly talented faculty and
exciting new programming while still ensuring the atmosphere you love.
This year is no exception—our program highlights this year are truly
not to be missed!
Sunday August 22nd
Glen Eira Town Hall Auditorium
To purchase tickets or for further information, contact Council’s Service Centre on 9524 3333.
Doors open: 2.00pm
Show Time: 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Rafael Goldwaser and his Strasbourg-based Luft Teater (www.lufteater.com), New York performances
A Gilgl Fun a Nigun (The Metamorphasis of a Melody)
Le Theatre en l'Air/Der LufTeater
Writer: I. L. Peretz
Director: Pascal Holtzer
A solo performance in Yiddish with English translation supertitles, based on the classic short story of a melody's journey from singer to singer, from folk song, to religious hymn to popular tune.
4th Street Theatre
83 East 4th Street
(2nd Avenue & Bowery) in NEW YORK CITY IN MANHATTAN
Sun Aug 22 @ 9:30
Rafael Goldwaser and his Strasbourg-based Luft Teater (www.lufteater.com), New York performances
A Gilgl Fun a Nigun (The Metamorphasis of a Melody)
Le Theatre en l'Air/Der LufTeater
Writer: I. L. Peretz
Director: Pascal Holtzer
A solo performance in Yiddish with English translation supertitles, based on the classic short story of a melody's journey from singer to singer, from folk song, to religious hymn to popular tune.
4th Street Theatre
83 East 4th Street
(2nd Avenue & Bowery) in NEW YORK CITY IN MANHATTAN
Tue
Aug 24 @ 6
The Forward and Sixth Street Synagogue Present:
Jewish Art for the New Millennium: 3 Alicias 3
Evening of Music and Poetry with Alicia Svigals, Alicia Ostriker, and Alicia Jo Rabins
Curated by Jake Marmer and Dan Friedman
Tuesday Aug 24th @ 7.00pm
325 East Sixth Street (b/n 1st and 2nd avenue)
$8 cover
The evening will feature these acclaimed artists who represent eclectic genres, mediums and generations. Each will perform a set, then all three will come together in a collaborative work, and finally, a panel discussion will follow.
Alicia Svigals, violinist/composer, a founder of the Klezmatics and of the all-women band Mikveh, is considered by many to be the world’s foremost klezmer fiddler. During the past decade, she almost singlehandedly revived klezmer fiddle playing, which came close to extinction in this century; traditional klezmer violin style is now being played again by hundreds of her students, including most of today’s best professional players. She taught and toured with violinist Itzhak Perlman, who recorded her compositions as duets with Ms. Svigals accompanied by the Klezmatics. She is a past winner of the first prize at the Safed Klezmer Festival. “She is without question the greatest living exponent of the klezmer fiddle…” - Seth Rogovoy, author of The Essential Klezmer. See www.aliciasvigals.com.
Alicia Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. Twice nominated for a National Book Award, she is author of twelve volumes of poetry, most recently “The Book of Seventy” (2009), which won the Jewish Book Award for Poetry. As a critic Ostriker is the author of two path-breaking volumes on women’s poetry, “Writing Like a Woman and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America.” Ostriker has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the San Francisco State Poetry Center, the Judah Magnes Museum, the New Jersey Arts Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is Professor Emerita of Rutgers University and is a faculty member of the New England College Low-Residency Poetry MFA Program. Ostriker has taught in the Princeton University Creative Writing Program and in Toni Morrison’s Atelier Program. She has taught midrash writing workshops in the USA, Israel, England and Australia. See www.rci.rutgers.edu.
Alicia Jo Rabins is a fiddler, singer, songwriter, and poet living in Brooklyn, NY. She has toured Central America as a cultural ambassador for the United States. A regular fiddler with Golem, her own band, Girls in Trouble, plays art-pop songs about women in the Torah. “An entrancing one-woman string quartet” — The Forward. Check out Alicia’s Girls in Trouble Project here: www2.myspace.com/girlsintroublemusic.
Breslov Bar Band "Have No Fear" Album Release, August 25th, 2010.
The date is Wednesday eve, August 25th at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY. We'll be having sets by the Breslov Bar Band, Yiddish Princess (Kate Bush meets Bon Jovi in Yiddish), and the Xylopholks (Furry animals playing '20's ragtime and Jacob Hoffman klezmer tunes.)
Doors open at 6 PM. Sets at 7, 8, and 9 PM.
Tickets are $10 in advance/$15 at the door and can be reserved through the Knitting Factory website.
The Brooklyn Knitting Factory is located at:
361 Metropolitan Avenue , Brooklyn, NY, 11211,
Phone:347.529.6696
The new album will be available at the show. The CD is also available online at CD Baby (hard copies and downloads) and iTunes, among other places.
For more information about the Breslov Bar Band, please visit www.breslovbarband.com.
THE OTHER EUROPEANS
7 Klezmer and 7 Gypsy virtuosos with roots in Europe.
Bandleader Alan Bern.
LECTURE WORKSHOP
This presentation by The Other Europeans Band will take you on a journey into a fascinating past and present, with live music, a film of the band's research trip to North Moldova, and comparisons of klezmer and lautari (Roma) repertoire and style, and musical fireworks.
Cost: $10/general admission; $5/student
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
Further info: www.bikher.org
Enjoy Klezmer and Roma in musical dialogue with anachronistic harmonies, barrier-breaking and devil-may-care tone.
THE OTHER EUROPEANS
7 Klezmer and 7 Gypsy virtuosos with roots in Europe.
Bandleader Alan Bern.
Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
National Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, MA
Cost: $18/general admission; $9/student
Further info: www.bikher.org
Enjoy Klezmer and Roma in musical dialogue with anachronistic harmonies, barrier-breaking and devil-may-care tone.
Shalom y'all! the next NYC performance of Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys will be Sunday, August 29 at City Winery. We play from around 11am till 2pm. Barry Mitterhoff will be with us for this one, and we are very pleased to feature the soulful klezmer and fine bluegrass of fiddler Jeremy Brown. Directions are here:
155 Varick Street, New York, New York 10013
(212) 608-0555
http://www.citywinery.com/
www.KlezmerMountainBoys.com
http://www.myspace.com/klezmermountainboys
http://www.youtube.com/
THE OTHER EUROPEANS
7 Klezmer and 7 Gypsy virtuosos with roots in Europe.
Bandleader Alan Bern.
Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant and Music Club
17 Holland St. Somerville MA 02144
Davis Square, across from the Davis T stop
Cost: $15
(617) 776-2004
Further info: www.johnnyds.com
Enjoy Klezmer and Roma in musical dialogue with anachronistic harmonies, barrier-breaking and devil-may-care tone.
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