KlezCalendar

Israeli Artist Adi Nes with Donny Inbar of the Israel Center of the JCF
Tuesday, February 1, 7:00pm
JCCSF
3200 California
San Francisco, CA

Adi Nes epitomizes a generation of Israeli artists whose work challenges convention. Nes’ photographs recreate scenes from famous paintings, historical events and biblical stories, placing them within the context of contemporary Israeli society. Shrewd and meticulous, his highly provocative photographs exude homoeroticism and arouse discussion around issues of social justice.

Presented in partnership with the the Israel Center of the Jewish Community Federation's Tzavta

Standard Seating: $17 Members | $20 Public | $10 Students
Premium Seating: $22 Members | $25 Public

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Lenka Lichtenberg: Fray - On tour with her new CD and an all-star band:

Lenka Lichtenberg - voice, composition
Ernie Tollar - sax, flutes, clarinet
Kinneret Sagee - clarinet
John Gzowski - oud, guitars, bouzouki guitar
Alexis Basque - trumpet, cornet
Chris Gartner - bass
Alan Hetherington - percussion, pandeiro, drums
Santosh Naidu - tabla, percussion

Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 9pm:
Café Babylone
181 St-Vallier Est
Québec, 418-523-0700. $10 at the door.
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Lenka Lichtenberg: Fray - On tour with her new CD and an all-star band:

Lenka Lichtenberg - voice, composition
Ernie Tollar - sax, flutes, clarinet
Kinneret Sagee - clarinet
John Gzowski - oud, guitars, bouzouki guitar
Alexis Basque - trumpet, cornet
Chris Gartner - bass
Alan Hetherington - percussion, pandeiro, drums
Santosh Naidu - tabla, percussion

Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 8pm
La Sala Rossa, 4848 St-Laurent, Montreal
$10, to reserve: 514- 823-2721

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Fleet Street Klezmer
Friday, February 4, 7:00pm
Shangri-La Tea Room
1800 W. Overland Road
Boise, ID

It's the Luna New Year (Rabbit, Rabbit!) and we are going to be rockin' it at the Shangri-La Tea Room! Beer, Wine, GREAT food, music and friends! What more could you ask for in the year of the Rabbit!

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A lidele in yidish
5. & 6.02.2011, jeweils 11.00 – 14.30h mit Pause

Jiddische Lieder leben von ihrer großen Emotionalität, aber auch von Humor, Witz und Lebensfreude. Das Seminar widmet sich den verschiedenen Genres des jiddischen Liedes und den Besonderheiten des jiddischen Gesangs. Wir erkunden Volkslieder, Theaterlieder und Lieder von Liedermachern wie Mordekhay Gebirtig u.a. Wir werden uns auch den Nigunim widmen, die aus der chassidischen Tradition stammen und über die Rabbi Menachem Mendel von Lubawitsch (1789-1866) lehrte: "Singen vereinigt. Wenn Worte gesprochen werden, hören wir jedes der Worte gemäß unserem Verständnis. Aber im Singen sind wir alle in einem Rhythmus und in einer Melodie vereinigt".
Gesangserfahrung ist von Vorteil, für die Teilnahme aber keine Voraussetzung.
Diese Veranstaltung ist noch verfügbar und online buchbar.ES 2266 · Volkshochschule München, Sendling, Anmeldung bei der VHS (www.mvhs.de), Albert-Roßhaupter-Str. 8 · Sa/So 12 Plätze
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Breslov Bar Band @ Smokey Joe's Tex-Mex Barbecue

Saturday night, February 5th, 2011
8:00 pm
Smokey Joe's
494 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, NJ

Cover: $5 for live music. Food/drink not included.

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Yiddishe Cup

Sat. Feb. 5, 8pm
The Ark,
Ann Arbor, Mich
concert. $
www.theark.org

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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 Feb 6, 2011 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 lidele in yidish
5. & 6.02.2011, jeweils 11.00 – 14.30h mit Pause

Jiddische Lieder leben von ihrer großen Emotionalität, aber auch von Humor, Witz und Lebensfreude. Das Seminar widmet sich den verschiedenen Genres des jiddischen Liedes und den Besonderheiten des jiddischen Gesangs. Wir erkunden Volkslieder, Theaterlieder und Lieder von Liedermachern wie Mordekhay Gebirtig u.a. Wir werden uns auch den Nigunim widmen, die aus der chassidischen Tradition stammen und über die Rabbi Menachem Mendel von Lubawitsch (1789-1866) lehrte: "Singen vereinigt. Wenn Worte gesprochen werden, hören wir jedes der Worte gemäß unserem Verständnis. Aber im Singen sind wir alle in einem Rhythmus und in einer Melodie vereinigt".
Gesangserfahrung ist von Vorteil, für die Teilnahme aber keine Voraussetzung.
Diese Veranstaltung ist noch verfügbar und online buchbar.ES 2266 · Volkshochschule München, Sendling, Anmeldung bei der VHS (www.mvhs.de), Albert-Roßhaupter-Str. 8 · Sa/So 12 Plätze
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On Sunday, February 6th, Jacob Bloom will be calling a family dance, "New England Barn Dances and World Dances" at the Concord Scout House, along with Judith Stames-Hamilton, with music by Cal Howard and friends, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. See www.neffa.org/family_flyer.pdf for more information.

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The Association of Friends of Jewish Music is pleased to present:
Chaim - in the light of a violin
A show based on the life of Chaim Lipsky, a violinist born in Lodz, Auschwitz survivor, rescued from the hell of the concentration camp through music
An idea of his daughter Shifra Sluchin. Production: C Co. (h) aractères and Cross-Media Entertainment

Blue City Theatre, 42 Av Miremont, Geneva Sunday, February 6, 2011 at 17h
Gerald Garutti: staging and narration
Naaman Sluchin violin - Dana Ciocarlie: piano
The Mentsh: Alexis Kune accordion - Samuel Maquin clarinet

Tickets: 30, Reduced: 20.10- additional reduction for WAN members.
Information & reservation: Tel. 0041 22 344 64 09 Fax. 0041 22 344 64 04

For this series of shows "In Memoriam", WAN wishes to pay tribute to all musicians, accused of "degenerate" behavior, who were banished, imprisoned, killed or uprooted by the Nazi regime.

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Information transmise par un organisateurL’Association des Amis de la Musique Juive est heureuse de vous présenter :
Haïm - à la lumière d'un violon
Spectacle d’après la vie de Haïm Lipsky, violoniste né à Lodz, rescapé d’Auschwitz, sauvé de l’enfer concentrationnaire grâce à la musique...
Sur une idée de sa fille Shifra Sluchin. Production : Cie C(h)aractères et Cross-Media Culture

Théâtre Cité Bleue, 42 Av. de Miremont, Genève dimanche 6 février 2011 à 17h
Gérald Garutti : mise en scène et narration
Naaman Sluchin : violon - Dana Ciocarlie : piano
Les Mentsh : Alexis Kune accordéon - Samuel Maquin clarinette

Billets: 30.- ; tarif réduit: 20.- ; réduction complémentaire de 10.- aux membres AMJ.
Informations & réservation: Tél. 0041 22 344 64 09 Fax. 0041 22 344 64 04

Par cette série de spectacles “In Memoriam”, l’AMJ tient à rendre hommage à tous les musiciens qui, taxés de "dégénérés" ont été bannis, emprisonnés, déracinés ou tués par le régime nazi.

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Ben Holmes/Patrick Farrell - duo
Feb. 8, 8:30pm
Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street (between 1st Ave. and 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665
Cover: $15 (drink included)

Klezmer and Yiddish Music returns to the East Village, where it once was king, at a new series curated by Aaron Alexander at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue. The lineup for the winter/spring series includes a fantastic lineup including wonderful klezmorim from New York and faraway places such as Montreal, Berlin, Boston, and the UK. Please come out and support the series!

The series are co-sponsored by Workmen's Circle/Arbeiter Ring of NY

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09.02.11, 20.00 Uhr
ANDREA PANCURs FEDERMENTSH
Klezmer fun yidishland
Mit Franka Lampe (Akkordeon), Roman Seehon (Percussion)
NUR MIT RESERVIERUNG!!!!

81539 München, Giesinger Kulturcafé, Tegernseer Landstr. 96
www.giesinger-kulturcafe.de

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Tickets are on sale now for the American premiere of an extraordinary song cycle:

Click here to purchase tickets for the concert
Or charge by phone: (202) 467-4600

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10.02.11, 20.00 Uhr
ANDREA PANCURs FEDERMENTSH
Klezmer fun yidishland
Mit Franka Lampe (Akkordeon), Roman Seehon (Percussion)
NUR MIT RESERVIERUNG!!!!

CH - 7554 Sent, Grotta da cultura, Chasa d’iscunter/Begnungszentrum
www.sent-online.ch/cultura

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The Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio
Thursday, February 10
Show starts at 9:00
$10 cover

Jalopy
315 Columbia St., between Hamilton and Woodhull
Brooklyn, NY
718 395 3214

The Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio (Michael Winograd on clarinet, Patrick Farrell on accordion and Benjy Fox-Rosen on bass) features three of the top, young musicians playing Klezmer music in New York today. Blending traditional Yiddish songs, and new compositions with chamber-like improvisations and
spontaneous arrangements, this ensemble creates a unique approach to Klezmer music, and a fresh listening experience for their audience.

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Alicia Jo Rabins will be performing
Girls In Trouble

February 11
Dead Herring
141 South 5th St, Apt 1E
Williamsburg, NY

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11.02.11, 20.00 Uhr
ANDREA PANCURs FEDERMENTSH
Klezmer fun yidishland
Mit Franka Lampe (Akkordeon), Roman Seehon (Percussion)
NUR MIT RESERVIERUNG!!!!

CH – 7533 Fuldera, Chaste da cultura/Kulturburg
www.kulturburg.ch

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Klezmer Kaos

Feb 12, 2011

The Satellit Café
44 Rue de la Folie-Maricourt
75011 Paris
+ 0033 (0)1 47 00 48 87

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12.02.11, 20.00 Uhr
ANDREA PANCURs FEDERMENTSH
Klezmer fun yidishland
Mit Franka Lampe (Akkordeon), Roman Seehon (Percussion)
NUR MIT RESERVIERUNG!!!!

81667 München, Hofbräukeller, Innere Wiener Str. 19
www.marriage-week.de

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Sunday 13 February 2011
Klezmer Workshop, 12.15 - 1.15 pm
Klezmer Session, 2 - 4pm

The Boot, 116 Cromer Street, Kings Cross, London, WC1H 8BS
Return of the monthly London Klezmer Session

Come early for the workshop and learn a tune and something about klezmer style. Then enjoy the jam, and carry on to the Hopkele (see below)!

Children welcome. Info and tunes. Next date: Sunday 13 March
Workshop £5 Jam Free

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On Sunday, February 13th, Jacob Bloom will be calling a family dance at the Parish Center For The Arts in Westford, with music by OH CONTRAire, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM.

Fee: $5 adults, $3 kids, maximum $12 per family
See westford.com/pca/?page_id=314 for more information.

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Klingon Klezmer
Sunday, Feb 13, 2010, 7pm

Fasten your seat belt ! Prepare for warp drive! Drive away the winter blues by leaving the planet ! Bring the family !

KLINGON KLEZ: good old-fashioned, heartwarming, rompin’, stompin’, fun-for-the-whole-family traditional klez/funk fusion!

This is a family-friendly event!

Our only concert in Philly for this season will be presented by the Philly Folk Song Society on Sunday February 13 at 7:00 PM. Open to the public, free for members, $10 for non-members and associate members. Located at The Elkins Estate, 1750 Ashbourne Road in Elkins Park, PA.

for more info: www.pfs.org/cal_eventinfo.php?id=18892

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Sunday, 13 February 2011
Doors open 7.15pm. First dance at 7.45pm

Valentine's Hopkele
Klezmer dance with live band
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY

Dancing! Live klezmer!! Romance??!!! The popular klezmer keilidh returns.

The ever-athletic Guy Schalom will lead and teach Yiddish dances, with The Hopkele House Band: Ilana Cravitz on fiddle, Susi Evans (clarinet), Francesca Ter-Berg (cello), Carol Isaacs (accordion) and Simon Roth (drums).
Tickets £15 full price; £10.50 concs

Online booking (e-ticketing) @ £13.50/£10.50 available soon at www.guyschalom.com

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Monday, February 14, Noon–1:30 pm, Yiddish Music with Gerry Tenney, vegetarian lunch buffet, at Congregation Shomrei Torah. $10 members of JCC Sonoma County Friendship Circle, $12 non-members. Reserve by noon February 10 to friendshipcircle[at]jccsoco.org, 707.528.1476

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The Levitt Legacy
Feb. 15, 8:30pm
Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street (between 1st Ave. and 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665
Cover: $15 (drink included)

Klezmer and Yiddish Music returns to the East Village, where it once was king, at a new series curated by Aaron Alexander at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue. The lineup for the winter/spring series includes a fantastic lineup including wonderful klezmorim from New York and faraway places such as Montreal, Berlin, Boston, and the UK. Please come out and support the series!

The series are co-sponsored by Workmen's Circle/Arbeiter Ring of NY

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“A Yiddish Winterreise: Elegy for a Vanished World”
Wed, Feb 16 at 7:30 pm
Symphony Space, NYC
Leonard Nimoy Thalia
$25; Members, Students, Seniors $20; Day of Show $30 | Buy tickets

This highly acclaimed sequence of songs from the Yiddish repertoire recreates the original, Schubertian journey in a Holocaust context. The singer reflects on the life and world he has just seen destroyed as he flees the Vilna ghetto. "Half of them are arranged by the superb pianist Alexander Knapp, an expert on Jewish music... Glanville was masterly in sustaining its technical and emotional demands" - Opera Now

Mark Glanville - bass-baritone
Alexander Knapp - piano

A live performance of 'Vilne' from 'A Yiddish Winterreise'

For more info: www.yiddishwinterreise.com

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Yiddish Café presents “A Stolen Kiss”

Thursday, February 17, 2011, 8:00 p.m.

At the Jewish Public Library
5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Road
Montreal

Admission: $5 students & Jewish Public Library members, $10 non-members.
Call 514-345-6416 or 514-345-2627 ext. 3006 for tickets.

The Jewish Public Library, founded in Montreal in 1914, is committed to encouraging and promoting the Yiddish language, culture and literature, by collecting and preserving Yiddish materials, and by presenting a variety of cultural events.

www.jewishpubliclibrary.org

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"Kavehoyz” concert with Miryem-Khaye Seigel and Zisl-Yeysef Slepovitch

A rare chance to hear a concert of mostly new Yiddish material!

Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 7 PM
Temple Beth Emeth, 83 Marlborough Rd. at Church Av., Ditmas Park, Brooklyn). Admission $10. Sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture.
Take the Q or B train to Church Ave, go three blocks west.

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Thursday 16 February, 8pm
London Klezmer Quartet album launch

Green Note, 107 Parkway, Camden, London NW1 7AN

Join the band and special guests for a celebration of klezmer.
Hear tracks and buy the new LKQ CD.
Tickets £10 on the door, or available in advance.
Book via www.greennote.co.uk
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Klezwoods
February East Coast Tour!
02/17/11, 9:30pm
The Beehive
541 Tremont St.
Boston, MA
Admission: Free!. Age restrictions: No Minors.

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February 18-20 (FRI-SUN over Presidents Day weekend): The 9th Annual KlezmerQuerque is Albuquerque New Mexico's 3-day festival of concerts, services, workshops and dance parties featuring ‘Klezmer’—the exciting traditional dance & music of the Eastern European Jewish people. The festival, which is produced by Congregation Nahalat Shalom, its 25-piece intergenerational Community Klezmer Band & Rikud Yiddish dance troupe, presents a wide variety of events for everyone with prices ranging from FREE to $20 per event and an ALL-EVENT early registration discount of $85-general / $70-senior, students or fixed income.

KlezmerQuerque 2011 welcomes three renowned klezmer artists & scholars who hail from New York City and New England: Joe “Yosl” Kurland (Yiddish language, song, dance & fidl - PLUS Shabbes nusach in loshn koydesh), Christina Crowder (accordion & Fulbright scholar specializing in Romanian-Jewish ethno-studies), AND the return of our dear friend the klezmer clarinet virtuoso Margot Leverett. Events include Der Freylekher Shabbes on Friday, Saturday morning learner's Shabbos service, Beginning Yiddish, SAT nite Concert & Dance, 3 music/dance sessions from 10am-5pm on Sunday, and a Lunch 'n Learn. Visit Nahalat Shalom's web site www.nahalatshalom.org for full schedule & event details, performer bios/photos, registration form, flyer and more!!

For further info, call 505-243-6276 or email Beth Cohen.

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Friday night services with Lost Tribe

February 18th
Temple Shalom
4615 Lowe Road
Louisville KY 40220

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Alicia Jo Rabins will be performing
Girls In Trouble

February 18
ROSE LIVE
345 Grand Street
(btwn Havemeyer/Marcy)
Williamsburg, NY

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Klezwoods
February East Coast Tour!
02/18/11, 9pm
Stage on Herr
268 Herr St.
Harrisburg, PA
Venue phone: (717) 412-4342. Buy tickets

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February 18-20 (FRI-SUN over Presidents Day weekend): The 9th Annual KlezmerQuerque is Albuquerque New Mexico's 3-day festival of concerts, services, workshops and dance parties featuring ‘Klezmer’—the exciting traditional dance & music of the Eastern European Jewish people. The festival, which is produced by Congregation Nahalat Shalom, its 25-piece intergenerational Community Klezmer Band & Rikud Yiddish dance troupe, presents a wide variety of events for everyone with prices ranging from FREE to $20 per event and an ALL-EVENT early registration discount of $85-general / $70-senior, students or fixed income.

KlezmerQuerque 2011 welcomes three renowned klezmer artists & scholars who hail from New York City and New England: Joe “Yosl” Kurland (Yiddish language, song, dance & fidl - PLUS Shabbes nusach in loshn koydesh), Christina Crowder (accordion & Fulbright scholar specializing in Romanian-Jewish ethno-studies), AND the return of our dear friend the klezmer clarinet virtuoso Margot Leverett. Events include Der Freylekher Shabbes on Friday, Saturday morning learner's Shabbos service, Beginning Yiddish, SAT nite Concert & Dance, 3 music/dance sessions from 10am-5pm on Sunday, and a Lunch 'n Learn. Visit Nahalat Shalom's web site www.nahalatshalom.org for full schedule & event details, performer bios/photos, registration form, flyer and more!!

For further info, call 505-243-6276 or email Beth Cohen.

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Kurzkurs: Klezmer-"Tants" mit Live-Musik-Begleitung
19.02.2011, 10.00- 14.30 Uhr

Klezmer, die Hochzeits- und Festmusik der osteuropäischen Juden, erlebt seit den siebziger Jahren eine weltweite Renaissance, und inzwischen werden auch die traditionellen Tänze wiederbelebt. Der größte Teil des Klezmer-Repertoires sind Gemeinschaftstänze. Hora, Sher, Khossidl und Freylekhs bieten mal langsam, mal schnell, schlängelnd und kreiselnd, aufregend abwechslungsreiche Formationen. Die Kreis- und Reihentänze, Karree-Formationen und Paartänze beruhen auf einfachen Grundschritten, so dass Neulinge schnell ins Tanzvergnügen einsteigen können.
Tänzerische Vorkenntnisse und paarweise Anmeldung sind nicht erforderlich.
Mit Live-Musik-Begleitung auf Klarinette und Akkordeon; die Kosten sind in der Kursgebühr enthalten.
Bitte mitbringen: flache Tanz-, Gymnastik- oder Jazz-Dance-Schuhe mit Ledersohlen (keine Straßenschuhe) und bequeme Kleidung.

Mit Live-Musikbegleitung: Alexander Maier (Klarinette)/Bartek Stanczyk (Akkordeon)

Diese Veranstaltung ist noch verfügbar und online buchbar.EW3440·Neuhausen, 80636 München, Volkshochschule · Trafo · Nymphenburger Str. 171a, Anmeldung bei der VHS (www.mvhs.de), - 12 Plätze

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Shpilkes Klezmer Band
Saturday, February 19, 2011, 8:00pm
UnCommon Coffeehouse
First Parish Framingham
24 Vernon Street
Framingham, MA

Tickets are available only at the door:
$7 for adults and $4 for children under 14.

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Magillah

Saturday february 19 2011 - 8pm
Théâtre du Grand Sault
7 644, rue Édouard, Lasalle
Information 514 367-5000

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Klezwoods
February East Coast Tour!
02/19/11, 10pm
Dogfish Head Brewery
320 Rehoboth Ave.
Rehoboth Beach, DE

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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 Feb. 20, 2011 features Klezwoods.

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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February 18-20 (FRI-SUN over Presidents Day weekend): The 9th Annual KlezmerQuerque is Albuquerque New Mexico's 3-day festival of concerts, services, workshops and dance parties featuring ‘Klezmer’—the exciting traditional dance & music of the Eastern European Jewish people. The festival, which is produced by Congregation Nahalat Shalom, its 25-piece intergenerational Community Klezmer Band & Rikud Yiddish dance troupe, presents a wide variety of events for everyone with prices ranging from FREE to $20 per event and an ALL-EVENT early registration discount of $85-general / $70-senior, students or fixed income.

KlezmerQuerque 2011 welcomes three renowned klezmer artists & scholars who hail from New York City and New England: Joe “Yosl” Kurland (Yiddish language, song, dance & fidl - PLUS Shabbes nusach in loshn koydesh), Christina Crowder (accordion & Fulbright scholar specializing in Romanian-Jewish ethno-studies), AND the return of our dear friend the klezmer clarinet virtuoso Margot Leverett. Events include Der Freylekher Shabbes on Friday, Saturday morning learner's Shabbos service, Beginning Yiddish, SAT nite Concert & Dance, 3 music/dance sessions from 10am-5pm on Sunday, and a Lunch 'n Learn. Visit Nahalat Shalom's web site www.nahalatshalom.org for full schedule & event details, performer bios/photos, registration form, flyer and more!!

For further info, call 505-243-6276 or email Beth Cohen.

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“A Yiddish Winterreise: Elegy for a Vanished World”
Wed, Feb 20
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

This highly acclaimed sequence of songs from the Yiddish repertoire recreates the original, Schubertian journey in a Holocaust context. The singer reflects on the life and world he has just seen destroyed as he flees the Vilna ghetto. "Half of them are arranged by the superb pianist Alexander Knapp, an expert on Jewish music... Glanville was masterly in sustaining its technical and emotional demands" - Opera Now

Mark Glanville - bass-baritone
Alexander Knapp - piano

A live performance of 'Vilne' from 'A Yiddish Winterreise'

For more info: www.yiddishwinterreise.com

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Monday 21 Feburary, 6.30-8pm

London Klezmer Orchestra
One KX, 120 Cromer Street, London WC1H 8BS (Corner of Judd Street, off the Euston Road directly opposite St Pancras/British Library)

The London Klezmer Orchestra meets to practise repertoire and arrange music in a relaxed environment. All instruments and levels welcome.

Session £5

Future dates: March 7 & 21

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Yuval Ron in Residency in UCLA - Feb 22-March 6, 2011

Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 6 - 8 pm
"My Heart is in the East"

A lecture - demonstration on Sacred Israeli Music
With R. Hagai Batzri - vocals, Jamie Papish - percussion, Yuval Ron - Oud.

Location: Schoenberg Music Building, Jan Popper Theater, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Admission: Free
More Info: 310-825-9646
Parking: Lot 2. Go to the parking and information booth at Westholme & Hilgard Avenues in order to pay and to reach lot 2. How to Park at UCLA

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Klezwoods and the Underscore Orkestra!
Feb 22, 8:30pm
East Village Klezmer Series at The Sixth Street Community Synagogue
Sixth St (between 1st Ave. and 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY 10003
212.473.36650
http://sixthstreetsynagogue.org

Cover: $15 (drink included)

Klezwoods come down from Boston. The Underscore Orchestra features Zev Zions and Aaron Alexanderwith Christian Dawid from Berlin!

Klezmer and Yiddish Music returns to the East Village, where it once was king, at a new series curated by Aaron Alexander at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue. The lineup for the winter/spring series includes a fantastic lineup including wonderful klezmorim from New York and faraway places such as Montreal, Berlin, Boston, and the UK. Please come out and support the series!

The series are co-sponsored by Workmen's Circle/Arbeiter Ring of NY

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Yuval Ron in Residency in UCLA - Feb 22-March 6, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 12 - 2 pm
The Israeli-Bedouin music connection

A lecture - demonstration on Bedouin and Israeli folk Music with Ahmed El Asmer - vocals, Maya Haddi - Vocals, Jamie Papish - percussion, Yuval Ron - Oud.

UCLA Faculty Center, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Admission: Free
More Info: (310) 825-9646
Parking: Lot 2. Go to the parking and information booth at Westholme & Hilgard Avenues in order to pay and to reach lot 2. How to Park at UCLA

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Don Byron Plays the Music of Mickey Katz
presented by the Freight and Salvage in association with 26th Jewish Music Festival

Black History Month Series
Wednesday, February 23, 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)
reunion of groundbreaking and virtuosic klezmer ensemble
Tickets: $22.50 advance / $24.50 at door

A klezmer show as part of Black History Month: what's up with that? Let Don Byron and his powerful band show you tonight, as they illuminate one of the many fruitful musical collaborations between the African American and Jewish communities--and knock your socks off into the bargain! (For further examples of such collaborations, look no further than the jazz of Benny Goodman and Johnny Mathis' famed rendition of "Kol Nidre.") This show is dedicated to the music of the late great Mickey Katz, clarinetist, Yiddish humorist, klezmer bandleader, and musical director for Spike Jones. Featuring tunes like "Haim Afen Range" ("Home on the Range") and "Seder Dance" (an amazing adaptation of Khachaturian's "Saber Dance"), the performance explores the full range of Mickey's virtuosity and wacky humor.

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Yuval Ron in Residency in UCLA - Feb 22-March 6, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011, 4 - 6 pm
The Magic Carpet

A lecture - demonstration on the music of the Yemenite-Jews in Israel
with Margalit Oved (Yemenite dancer and singer), Barak Marshal ( Yemenite singer), Maya Haddi (Israeli Yemenite singer), Jamie Papish - percussion, Yuval Ron - Oud.

Schoenberg Music Building, Room 1440, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Admission: Free
More Info: (310) 825-9646
Parking: Lot 2. Go to the parking and information booth at Westholme & Hilgard Avenues in order to pay and to reach lot 2. How to Park at UCLA

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YIDDISH PRINCESS
ELECTRIC SIMCHA
.357 LOVER

Knitting Factory Brooklyn
361 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn, NY

Thu, February 24, 2011
Doors: 8:00 PM / Show: 8:30 PM
$10.00

More info: bk.knittingfactory.com

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Free Concert at Jordan Hall, Thursday, February 24 at 8PM

Another Realm and Wild Garden Chamber Ensemble feature renowned musicians Hankus Netsky, Linda Chase and Sarah Jarosz, with performance artist Sue Murad.

On Thursday February 24 at 8PM, FREE of charge, New England Conservatory's Contemporary Improvisation chair and Hankus Netsky along with Contemporary Improvisation faculty member Linda J Chase, will perform with two exciting groups.

Another Realm is a quintet of creative musicians that performs original interpretations of jazz, folk, and world music, along with their own original music. Featured are multi-instrumentalist Hankus Netsky, flutist and bass clarinetist Linda J Chase, bassist Chris Rathbun, world percussionist Jerry Leake, and Grammy-nominated vocalist, mandolinist, and songwriter Sarah Jarosz.

Wild Garden Chamber Ensemble is known for its incorporation of composition, improvisation, poetry, movement, and visual art. This program will include collaborations with multimedia performance artist and 2008 Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow Sue Murad. Included will be selections from Reflections on Rumi (commissioned with a Berklee College Faculty Fellowship Grant) and Tannabata Star Festival, the first-prize winner in the inaugural Kaji Aso Gallery "Tannabata" composition competition. The music for both of these unique works was composed by Chase.

The Concert will take place in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Admission is Free.

For more information and tickets please contact:
Jordan Hall Box Office
617-585-1260 or
www.necmusic.edu/concerts-events

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Friday 25 Feburary, Evening

Hampshire Hopkele
Itchen Abbas & Avington Village Hall
Main Road, Itchen Abbas
Nr Winchester, Hampshire SO21 1BQ

Guy Schalom leads a hop with the London Klezmer Quartet. For more details email Guy Schalom.

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KlezCalifornia and Sonoma County Hillel present
Yiddish Rock & Roll Dance Party
performance, dancing, and stories

Friday, February 25, 2011, 8pm
Sonoma Hillel,
85 La Plaza, Cotati

Students and Non-Students Welcome
No charge for students
$15 donation requested from non-students. No-one turned away.

Noted entertainer Gerry Tenney and the multi-generational KlezCalifornia All-Stars will get you up and dancing. Dancing led by Dave Rosenfeld

For more info, 707/795-5464.

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Yemen Blues
Saturday, February 26
The Mod Club
722 College St (at Crawford)
Toronto

Doors at 8:30, show at 9pm
$25 in advance, $30 at the door
Click here to buy tickets online or call 416-979-9901

Ravid Kahalani (veteran of Israel’s renowned Idan Raichel Project) brings together a nine-piece band to showcase the music of his Yemenite-Jewish heritage with a passion for blues, jazz, funk and West African grooves. Not to be missed!

More Info www.ashkenazfestival.com/ongoing-events/

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Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh in Providence—at the Brooklyn Coffee Tea House, Lively Klezmer & Moving Hassidic tunes in a cozy coffee house setting. Six Sat night performances, continuing Feb 26th, 8PM. At 209 Douglas Ave, just across rt 95 from the Marriott, near downtown Providence.

More info: www.projothebeat.com

Funded in part by a Folk Arts Fellowship grant from the RI State Council on the Arts.

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Shemspeed Winter Fest!
An evening with DeScribe, Y-Love, Moshe Hecht, Diwon and a very special guest
Saturday, February 26th - Manhattan, NY
@ 92Y Tribeca
located at 200 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013
8pm Doors | 9pm Show
$10 Advance Tickets | $15 Door | Buy tickets online

More info: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173693749341518

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What: Klezmer Brunch with the gonifs
When: Sunday, Feb 27 12-2pm
Where: Porto Franco Art Parlor, 953 Valencia (near 21st St), San Francisco
Who: Jeanette Lewicki (accordion), Peter Jaques (clarinet), Daniel Fabricant (bass), Darren Johnston (trumpet)
How much: Sliding scale, $0-100
Plus: Delicious home-cooked Russian Jewish food, vegetarian food with vegan options
Tickets: portofrancoart.com
Reservations are recommended to hear the gonifs play rocking klezmer music & Yiddish songs about love, justice & potatoes in this intimate all-ages space.

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Sunday, February 27, noon - 5:30pm. Yiddish Culture Festival with participatory singing, dancing, klezmer music-making, conversation, Youth Program, performances. At Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Rosa. Part of JCC, Sonoma County's Simcha Sunday celebrating all things Jewish. All workshop and party details at www.klezcalifornia.org.

Adults: $20 one session, $30 two sessions, $40 three sessions (includes $5 entry to Simcha Sunday)
Teens: $15 one session, $22 two sessions, $29 three sessions (includes $5 entry to Simcha Sunday)
Pre-teens: No charge for entry, Youth Program.

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Shemspeed WinterFest presents Aharit HaYamim
Monday, February 28th - Manhattan, NY
Drom
85 Avenue A (b/w 5th & 6th) New York

7pm Doors | 8pm Show
$12 Advance Tickets | $15 Door

As Israel’s top festival band, Aharit HaYamim are known for their powerful and exciting live performances. Their reggae, dub and ska groove and sensibility are rooted in a longing for peace and love of Zion they share with their Rastafarian brethren. Showcased in songs such as “Yerushalayim” and “Holy Mount Zion,” Aharit proclaim their love through tight four-part harmonies, layered over thumping bass lines, lush arrangements and extended-play instrumentals. Their music embodies the Grateful Dead and Bob Marley rolled into one.

Info: www.dromnyc.com

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