KlezCalendar

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

Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at 11am – 12:15pm:
What is Israeli Music ?

A lecture - demonstration on the ancient and contemporary music of Israel with Maya Haddi - vocals, Jamie Papish - percussion, Yuval Ron - Oud.

Humanities Building , room 135, 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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Margot Leverett and the Mountain Boys
Mar 1, 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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Yuval Ron in Residency in UCLA - Feb 22-March 6, 2011

Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 6 – 8 pm
West Bank Story: The Role of Humor and Art in Peace making.

A special screening of Oscar winner film ‘West Bank Story’ with Yuval Ron residency, followed by Q&A with the composer and a live performance of themes from the film. with Maya Haddi - vocals, Jamie Papish - percussion, Yuval Ron - Oud.

Schoenberg Music Building, Choral room, 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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Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute Choir conducted by Cantor Naftali Herstik
special guest: Cantor Dr. Brian J. Mayer

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011, 7:30pm
Temple Emanu-El
99 Taft Avenue
Providence, RI
FREE and open to the public

The Benton A. Odessa Memorial Concert

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Florida Atlantic University Wimberly Library 5th Floor
777 Glades Road ~ Boca Raton 33431
Tickets on Sale Now!
1.800-564-9539
www.fauevents.com

Saturday Night Movie at the Movie FLORIDA PREMIERE "Singing in the Dark" starring Moishe Oysher
Saturday March 5, 2011 @ 7 p.m. - Wimberly Library (5th
floor)
Film - Tickets $9

Beautifully remastered in 2010 with a world premiere in Jerusalem, this rare 1956 drama is a mix of musical,
mystery and gangster genres. Oysher's only English-language film was also his last. He plays Leo, a concentration camp survivor suffering from amnesia. He discovers his beautiful singing voice while intoxicated, becomes the headliner at a New York nightclub and struggles to find out who he really is.

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March 5, 8pm. Live folk dancing with music by Yale Strom, Elizabeth Schwartz, & Lou Fanucchi, Folk Dance Center at At Dancing Unlimited, 4569 30th Street, San Diego, CA 92116. Tickets and information: 619-281-5656

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Yemen Blues

26th Jewish Music Festival Opening Night
Direct from Israel – Bay Area Premiere
Saturday, March 5, 8 pm
Freight & Salvage Coffee House
2020 Addison St. Berkeley, CA
$25 Advance / $30 Door

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!

For further info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/blog/Yemen_Blues
510.848.0237
1414 Walnut St, Berkeley, 94709

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

Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 4 pm:
"From Spain to Jerusalem" A Concert with The Yuval Ron Ensemble

with Maya Haddi - vocals, Rabbi Hagai Batzri - vocals, Norik Manoukian - woodwind, Virginie Alumian - kanoun, Jamie Papish - percussion, David Martinelli - percussion, Maya Karasso - dance, Yuval Ron - Oud and artistic director. "Meet the Artists" reception following the concert

Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles
Admission: $15/general admission, $10/UCLA faculty and staff, Free to students
For tickets: UCLA Central Ticket Office
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

Sponsored by: Y & S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies; Center for Jewish Studies; Center for Near Eastern Studies; UCLA Departments of music and ethnomusicology and the Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music.
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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Sunday, March 6, 1:00 pm
Maurice Sendak’s Pincus and The Pig
A Very Special Concert by the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra

Leventhal-Sidman JCC
333 Nahanton Street
Newton, MA 02459
Tel:617-558-6522

Bring your stuffed bears, your rubber duckies, and your bubbes and zaydes to "Pincus and The Pig," Maurice Sendak’s unique version of Peter and Wolf, by the amazing Shirim Klezmer Orchestra with special guest, Fishel Bresler. A fun introduction to Yiddish and klezmer, with pre-concert mask-making and a musical petting zoo.

Tickets: Kids (under 16) $10, Adults $15, Seniors $12, Special Family Ticket $40 (direct family only, please), add a bubbe or zayde to family ticket for just $10. To purchase tickets click HERE.

JCC Members save 10% on tickets purchased at the Box Office in advance.

Presented with the Ryna Greenbaum Center for the Arts, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston.
This program is made possible in part by a grant from CJP’s Innovation Grants Committee and support from the New England Foundation of the Arts.

Further information: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org. See you there.

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Sunday, March 6, 2:00pm, $20.00
Bart Weisman Klezmer Swing Group
Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cape Cod
508-428-0669
cotuitcenterforthearts.org

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Ger Mandolin Orchestra, 2011

Sunday, March 6, 2011, 2:00pm
Freight and Salvage Coffee House, $25 advance / $30 door
Ger Mandolin Orchestra memorial project, a featured commission of the 26th Jewish Music Festival.

For further info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/blog/ger
510.848.0237
1414 Walnut St, Berkeley, 94709

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Isle of Klezbos

Sunday, Mar 6, 3pm
FREE!
Queens Public Library
89-11 Merrick Boulevard Jamaica, NY 11432
Women's History Month concert
queenslibrary.org

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Klezmerology MAIN EVENT CONCERT
Klezmer Company Orchestra
Aaron Kula, music director
Sunday March 6, 2011 @ 3 p.m.
Florida Atlantic University
Carole & Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium
777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
Tickets $18-$42

The 25-member Klezmer Company Orchestra (KCO) with guest vocalists performs its annual tour-de-force concert of new orchestrations and arrangements. Director Aaron Kula and KCO turn up the heat with Klezmerology, a musical journey crossing borders and cultural boundaries. Come experience everything from a Viennese waltz to ethnic Jazz, classic Klezmer melodies and Yiddish songs, and tap your feet to
swing, Latin and world beats. KCO celebrates its 14th year with music from the Americas, Europe and the Mediterranean. Klezmerology will be one of most exciting musical events of the season!

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
March 6, 4:00 pm

"The Cloth From Which We Are Cut"
A Besere Velt Yiddish Community Chorus with Hankus Netsky and Cantor Roy Einhorn

Temple Israel
477 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617.566.3960

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Historical narrative and Yiddish folk music are woven together in a stirring account of the fire that changed America and left its mark on a Jewish immigrant community struggling to build a better life. Boston’s popular Workmen’s Circle Yiddish Chorus, the largest in the world, creates an unforgettable new work about this seminal event.

Tickets: $18 in advance, Seniors $15, $25 at the door. To purchase tickets click HERE.

Co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council, The Jewish Women’s Archive, and the Jewish Labor Committee.

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Sunday, March 6, 7:00pm
Ditmas Acoustic @ The Sanctuary
83 Marlborough Road (@ Church Ave). Q train to Church Ave
Brooklyn, NY

7pm Petr Cancura's Down Home
8pm Matt Darriau's Paradox Trio

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Veretski Pass

Sunday, March 6, 2011, 8:00pm
Freight and Salvage Coffee House, $18 advance / $22 door
A breath-taking combination of stellar musicianship and raw energy, this unique trio plays “village-style” instrumentals with origins in the Ottoman Empire and Carpathian, Jewish and Rumanian musical traditions.

For further info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/blog/veretski-pass
510.848.0237
1414 Walnut St, Berkeley, 94709

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Monday 7 March, 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 date: & 21

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Zingen un Zogn: Songs and Stories with Phyllis Berk & Roslyn Perry
Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 2 p.m.
Florida Atlantic University Wimberly Library (5th floor)
777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
Tickets $9
1-800-564-9539

This unique program of Yiddish songs and stories evokes nostalgia for the bygone era of the shtetl, sung and told by two sisters. Singer actress Phyllis Berk has appeared on radio, TV, the concert stage and in the hit musical The Golden Land. Roslyn Perry is a Yiddish historian and award-winning storyteller. They will combine their talents for this touching and entertaining bilingual experience.

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Noah Bendix-Bagley, Violin

Tuesday, March 8, 7:30pm The Crowden School, $15 advance / $20 door
Matinee: Thursday, March 10, 2:00 pm JCC of the East Bay, $12 advance / 15 door
An international award-winning violinist takes on rarely heard works from the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music, a turn-of-the-century movement that brought Jewish folk music into European classical form. Accompanied by Arkady Serper, Piano.

For further info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/blog/noah-bendix-bagley-violin
510.848.0237
1414 Walnut St, Berkeley, 94709

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Shtreiml
Mar 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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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Wednesday, March 9, 7:30pm

Yasmin Levy
Somerville Theater
55 Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144
(617) 625-5700

A passionate, dynamic voice in Ladino music, Israeli star Yasmin Levy is a spellbinding performer of music that is romantic, ancient and still contemporary.

Tickets: $25 through the New Center for Arts and Culture

Presented with World Music/CRASHarts and the New Center for Arts and Culture.

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Isle of Klezbos (double bill with Alessandra Belloni's Daughters of Cybele)

Wednesday, Mar 9
7:30pm show - Klezbos go on around 8:30pm!
Brecht Forum at The WestBeth
West Street btw Bank & Bethune, NYC
price: $15 advance / $20 at the door
(sliding scale also permitted)

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Yemen Blues
Wednesday, March 9, 8:00pm
Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St.
New York, NY

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 lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/1843

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Thursday, March 10, 8pm

Yemen Blues
Somerville Theater
Somerville Theater
55 Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144
(617) 625-5700

Former lead singer from the Idan Raichel Project, Ravid Kahalani’s Yemen Blues creates an exciting reinterpretation of his musical roots that is gaining international acclaim at concerts across Europe and Canada. Don’t miss their New England Premiere.

Tickets: $30 Orchestra, $25 Front Balcony, $20 Rear Balcony. To purchase tickets click HERE. Also available at the Somerville Theater Box Office.

Presented in cooperation with Friends of The IDF and the Israeli Consulate.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Sing Songs of Shabbat
Friday night, Mar 11, 2011, Various Locations

While Jewish music runs the gamut from the Balkans to Broadway, from the mournful to the madcap, there is no denying its roots are based in prayer melodies. This year, BJMF is proud to offer an innovative exploration of Jewish spiritual music in synagogues and on stage. No matter what your level of observance or practice, we think you’ll find inspiration at this very special weekend of divine musical sparks.

Another first! And not just for Boston, but for Jewish Music Festivals around the country. We’re proud to invite the public to attend one of four festive Kabbalat Shabbat Programs. What better way to experience the eclectic history of Jewish ritual music.

• Cantor Yaakov Lemmer will be davening at the Chabad of the North Shore, 44 Burrill Street, Swampscott.
• Cantor Aaron Bensoussan will lead a Sephardic service at Temple Aliyah, 1664 Central Ave, Needham.
• Neshama Carlebach will be a special Shabbaton guest and participate in Temple Emanuel’s Shabbat Alive! services, 385 Ward Street, Newton.
• A Baroque Italian Kabbalat Shabbat, composed by Salamone Rossi of Mantua in the 1630’s, will be performed by Cantor Louise Treitman and her ensemble at Congregation B’nai Torah, 225 Boston Post Road, Sudbury.

All services are free but space is limited at each temple. Reservations for each event can be made via the email links below:
Yaakov Lemmer at Chabad of North Shore
Aaron Benssousan at Temple Aliyah
Neshama Carlebach at Temple Emanuel
Baroque Italian at Congregation B’nai Torah

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Jewish entertainer, Craig Taubman, and Craig N' Co. will once again produce this year's 6th annual Let My People Sing in Los Angeles, California. This year the festival will introduce Ashkenafard, a 24-hour celebration of who we are and where we come from, featuring the best Israeli, Sefardi, Persian, and Ashkenazi dance, music, and cuisine.

Events will take place at Sinai Temple on March 11-12 and feature ongoing performances by Aviva Chernick, Yale Strom, Hot Pstromi, Basya Schechter, Galeet Dardashti, Moshav, Comedian Yisrael Campbell, Todd Herzog, Yuval Ron and Soul Farm.

Other program highlights include The Jewish Artifact Road Show the Ashkenafard Cookoff, and the 60 second Oral History Project.

For more information or to get involved visit www.letmypeoplesing.com

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">Steven Greenman's Stempenyu's Neshome ("Stempenyu's Soul")

Internationales Klezmer Festival Intermezzo 2011
March 12th, 2011 at 7:30pm
Kulturforum
Wurzburger Str. 2, 90762 Fuerth, Germany
Tel: +49(0)911 973 84-0 / Fax: +49(0)911 973 84-16
www.klezmer-festival.de

Musicians:
Steven Greenman (composer, violin, vocals)
Alan Bern (piano, accordion)
Kalman Balogh (cimbalom)
Csaba Novak (string bass)
Dan Kahn (piano, accordion, vocals)

In homage to the legendary 19th C Jewish violinist "Stempenyu", Steven Greenman (violinist/composer) creates a masterpiece of Jewish spiritual melodies with "Stempenyu's Neshome" ("Stempenyu's Soul"). "Stempenyu's Neshome" delves deep into the heart of the Ashkenazic Jewish soul and East European Jewish spirituality. Steven has composed powerfully moving pieces of exquisite beauty; cantorially inspired masterpieces that rival the composed works performed by the greatest Jewish cantors; sacred religious hymns of solemn beauty; hard driving virtuosic tunes of ecstatic exultation; and meditative melodies that express the infinite and contemplate the mysteries of the universe. In all these melodies there is a great love that can be felt and experienced by all of humanity. In concert, "Stempenyu's Neshome" involves the dedicated collaboration of several of the finest performers of traditional East European Jewish music in the world today: Steven Greenman (composer, violin, vocals); Alan Bern (piano, accordion); Kalman Balogh (cimbalom); Csaba Novak (string bass) and Dan Kahn (piano, accordion, vocals). "Stempenyu's Neshome" takes you on a journey of spiritual reflection; inner contemplation; religious awakening; and meditative travels of the heart and soul.

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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 Mar 12th, 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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Boston Jewish Music Festival

Divine Sparks, the centerpiece of this year’s festival, is a unique exploration of Jewish spiritual music with an amazing range of singers and musicians. It also offers you an opportunity to support the Festival. By purchasing special $72 seats, you can enjoy the post-concert celebration with the evening’s artists and Festival friends and supporters.

Saturday, March 12, 8pm
Divine Sparks

Berklee Performance Center
1140 Boylston St
Boston, MA

A once-in-a-lifetime event when world class singers and musicians use chazzanos and religious song as the springboard for musical improvisation and spiritual expression. With an all-star ensemble led by Frank London of the Klezmatics on trumpet, Anthony Coleman on keyboards, 26-year-old Orthodox cantorial sensation Yaakov Lemmer, and Moroccan Cantor/Oudist Aaron Bensoussan. The program will also feature local cantors Gastón Bogomolni and Elias Rosemberg and Hebrew College rabbinical student, Jessica Kate Meyer.

Tickets: $72 (including post concert reception with the performers) $54, $36, $25, $18. Available at ticketmaster.com and at the Berklee Box Office. Purchase by clicking HERE.

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Jewish entertainer, Craig Taubman, and Craig N' Co. will once again produce this year's 6th annual Let My People Sing in Los Angeles, California. This year the festival will introduce Ashkenafard, a 24-hour celebration of who we are and where we come from, featuring the best Israeli, Sefardi, Persian, and Ashkenazi dance, music, and cuisine.

Events will take place at Sinai Temple on March 11-12 and feature ongoing performances by Aviva Chernick, Yale Strom, Hot Pstromi, Basya Schechter, Galeet Dardashti, Moshav, Comedian Yisrael Campbell, Todd Herzog, Yuval Ron and Soul Farm.

Other program highlights include The Jewish Artifact Road Show the Ashkenafard Cookoff, and the 60 second Oral History Project.

For more information or to get involved visit www.letmypeoplesing.com

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Odessa/Havana

Saturday, March 12, 8:00pm Thrust Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
$18 advance / $22 door
Founder of Canada’s leading klezmer band, The Flying Bulgars, award-winning trumpeter and composer David Buchbinder teams up with the brilliant Cuban pianist Hilario Durán and a crew of Canada’s top jazz and world musicians this high-powered collision of two great musical styles.

For further info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/blog/odessa-havana
510.848.0237
1414 Walnut St, Berkeley, 94709

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Sunday 13 March 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.
Workshop £5 Jam Free

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Sunday, March 13, 2:00 pm

Totally Bernstein
With Zamir Chorale of Boston and Brookline Chorus

Sanders Theater, Cambridge
45 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 496-2222

Two great choral ensembles join together to salute and celebrate the compositions of Leonard Bernstein.

Tickets: $20 General admission, $15 Seniors/students in advance. At the door, $25. Purchase tickets by clicking HERE. Also available at the Sanders Box Office.

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March 13, 2011
3:00 pm
Congregation Kol Ami in Elkins Park, PA

A Yiddish concert
This is an exceptional opportunity to hear the original Yiddish music of David Botwinik performed by acclaimed singers Richard Lenatsky, tenor, and Lisa Willson, soprano, accompanied by pianist Elena Berman. The concert celebrates David Botwinik’s new book From Holocaust to Life (Fun khurbn tsum lebn). Also performing will be Alexander Botwinik, Dina Malka Botwinik and Emma Gantard. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Admission free. Refreshments will be served.
For more information, look at this website: http://www.botwinikmusic.com
and click on the word "here" in "Upcoming Events."

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
March 13, 3:00 pm
The Israel Folk Dance Festival

Kresge Auditorium, MIT
Building W16, 48 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge,MA

Hundreds of performers will take to the stage in the Israel Folkdance

Festival for an exuberant afternoon of color and culture. Children and teens, college students and adults will present an exciting array of traditional and new dances with enthusiasm that’s infectious. Fun for all ages.

Tickets: $15 and ONLY AVAILABLE at www.bostonfestival.org

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Finale Dance Party
Sunday, March 13, 4:00 pm
JCC of the East Bay, $10-15 Children 10 and under free
For all ages! With Festival artists, including Noah Bendix and Veretski Pass and dance instruction by internationally renowned Jewish traditional dance specialist Erik Bendix.

For further info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org
510.848.0237
1414 Walnut St, Berkeley, 94709

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">Steven Greenman's Stempenyu's Neshome ("Stempenyu's Soul")

March 13th, 2011 7pm
Théâtre de l'Alhambra
10 rue de la Rôtisserie - Genève, Switzerland
Reservations: Janine Schorderet Tel. +4122 / 344.64.09 - Fax 4122 / 344.64.04
For more information or contact:
Dann-Olivier Alfandary 20 rue Barthelemy-Menn, CH-1205 GENEVA +4122 / 320.86.28
Michel Borzykowski 12 Chemin Franconis, CH-1290 VERSOIX +4122 / 755.41.23
www.amj.ch

Musicians:
Steven Greenman (composer, violin, vocals)
Alan Bern (piano, accordion)
Kalman Balogh (cimbalom)
Csaba Novak (string bass)
Dan Kahn (piano, accordion, vocals)

In homage to the legendary 19th C Jewish violinist "Stempenyu", Steven Greenman (violinist/composer) creates a masterpiece of Jewish spiritual melodies with "Stempenyu's Neshome" ("Stempenyu's Soul"). "Stempenyu's Neshome" delves deep into the heart of the Ashkenazic Jewish soul and East European Jewish spirituality. Steven has composed powerfully moving pieces of exquisite beauty; cantorially inspired masterpieces that rival the composed works performed by the greatest Jewish cantors; sacred religious hymns of solemn beauty; hard driving virtuosic tunes of ecstatic exultation; and meditative melodies that express the infinite and contemplate the mysteries of the universe. In all these melodies there is a great love that can be felt and experienced by all of humanity. In concert, "Stempenyu's Neshome" involves the dedicated collaboration of several of the finest performers of traditional East European Jewish music in the world today: Steven Greenman (composer, violin, vocals); Alan Bern (piano, accordion); Kalman Balogh (cimbalom); Csaba Novak (string bass) and Dan Kahn (piano, accordion, vocals). "Stempenyu's Neshome" takes you on a journey of spiritual reflection; inner contemplation; religious awakening; and meditative travels of the heart and soul.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival

March 13, 2011, 7:30 pm
Neshama Carlebach with a Gospel Choir

Temple Emanuel
385 Ward Street
Newton, MA 02459
(617) 558-8100

A soul stirring concert as Neshama and her band with Rev. Roger Hambrick and The Green Pastures Baptist Choir present dynamic new arrangements of Carlebach favorites. At her request, a portion of the proceeds will go to the post-Katrina restoration of Congregation Beth Israel in New Orleans.

Tickets: $20 general admission, $25 at the door. To purchase tickets click HERE.

Cosponsored with Temple Emanuel, Newton.

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">Steven Greenman's Stempenyu's Neshome ("Stempenyu's Soul")

What: Jewish Culture in Copenhagen
When: March 14, 2011 7:30pm
Where: Copenhagen Synagogue
Krystalgade 12
1172 Copenhagen, Denmark
3929 9520
Ticket price 225 Dkr.
Contact: Jette and Jacob Zylber jewishculture@gmail.com http://www.jewishculture.dk/en/index.html
www.jewishculture.dk

Musicians:
Steven Greenman (composer, violin, vocals)
Alan Bern (piano, accordion)
Kalman Balogh (cimbalom)
Csaba Novak (string bass)
Dan Kahn (piano, accordion, vocals)

In homage to the legendary 19th C Jewish violinist "Stempenyu", Steven Greenman (violinist/composer) creates a masterpiece of Jewish spiritual melodies with "Stempenyu's Neshome" ("Stempenyu's Soul"). "Stempenyu's Neshome" delves deep into the heart of the Ashkenazic Jewish soul and East European Jewish spirituality. Steven has composed powerfully moving pieces of exquisite beauty; cantorially inspired masterpieces that rival the composed works performed by the greatest Jewish cantors; sacred religious hymns of solemn beauty; hard driving virtuosic tunes of ecstatic exultation; and meditative melodies that express the infinite and contemplate the mysteries of the universe. In all these melodies there is a great love that can be felt and experienced by all of humanity. In concert, "Stempenyu's Neshome" involves the dedicated collaboration of several of the finest performers of traditional East European Jewish music in the world today: Steven Greenman (composer, violin, vocals); Alan Bern (piano, accordion); Kalman Balogh (cimbalom); Csaba Novak (string bass) and Dan Kahn (piano, accordion, vocals). "Stempenyu's Neshome" takes you on a journey of spiritual reflection; inner contemplation; religious awakening; and meditative travels of the heart and soul.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Monday, March 14, 7:30pm

"Jewish Luck" with One Ring Zero
Regent Theater
7 Medford Street, Arlington, MA
Tel: {781} 646-4849

Experience “gypsy-klezmer circus-flea-cartoon-music” when One Ring Zero performs a live musical score for one of silent cinema’s greatest treasures. Solomon Mikhoels is brilliant as Sholem Aleichem’s daydreaming hero whose calamitous strike-it-rich schemes are by turns hilarious and tragic. Directed by Alexander Granovsky and shot by Eduard Tisse, this 1925

Russian classic has been beautifully restored with new English intertitles by The National Center for Jewish Film. The band will do a mini-set after the film.

Tickets: $15 in advance, $18 at the door. To purchase tickets click HERE.

Co-presented by Jewishfilm.2011 The National Center for Jewish Film’s 14th Annual Film Festival.

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Tuesday, March 15, 7:30pm
Kol B’Seder and Friends
Rashi School
8000 Great Meadow Road
Dedham, MA 02026
Tel 617-969-4444

Cantor Jeff Klepper and Rabbi Dan Freelander have been pioneers in creating Jewish liturgical music with a pop style. Celebrate their 40th anniversary of singing together, with “Koleinu, Boston’s Jewish Community Chorus,” Rabbi David Paskin, Peter and Ellen Allard, and the Rashi and Solomon Schechter School Choirs.

Tickets: $18 General Admission, $10 Students in advance. At the door, $25. To purchase tickets click HERE.

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March 16th, 6:30pm. Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi in concert for the opening of the exhibit on Ketuvot. The Jewish Museum 1109 5th Ave at 92nd St New York NY 10128

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Wednesday, March 16, 7:30pm
A Showcase of Russian Talent
Makor Center/Temple B’nai Moshe, Brighton
1845 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02135-5497
(617) 254-3620

Experience the diverse musical talents of our Russian Jewish neighbors. Featuring the Niggun Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Yelena Neplok; Jazzmates; singer Alex Prokhorov; Classica Chamber Ensemble; Ellena Prizant and Serge Khanukayev, piano duo; and Maya Korsunskaya and Boris Fogel, vocals/piano.

Tickets: $15 General Admission. $20 at the door. To purchase tickets click HERE.
Cosponsored by Center Makor.

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Lorin Sklamberg with Dublin-born chanteuse Susan McKeown and guitarist Aidan Brennan present Saints and Tzadiks, a program of rare songs from the Yiddish and Irish traditions.

Wednesday, March 16
Bürgerhaus Weserterassen, Bremen
www.weserterrassen.com

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Michael Winograd Trio
MW - clarinet
Patrick Farrell - accordion
Benjy Fox-Rosen - bass, vocal

Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University
20 Talbot Ave.
Medford, MA
8pm

Tickets are free with a Tufts I.D. card (limit two per ID) and $10 for general admission. Call 617.627.3679 for tickets. This concert has been made possible by the Granoff Music Fund.

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Lorin Sklamberg with Dublin-born chanteuse Susan McKeown and guitarist Aidan Brennan present Saints and Tzadiks, a program of rare songs from the Yiddish and Irish traditions.

Thursday, March 17
Waggonhalle Kulturzentrum, Marburg
www.waggonhalle.de

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Thursday, March 17, 8pm

The Ultimate Purim Party pt. 1 w/SoCalled and Klezwoods
Veronique Ballroom
20 Chapel St
Brookline, MA 02446
Tel: (617) 854-5000

Check out the musical madness Montreal DJ/musician/sound artist SoCalled creates with his band. Come prepared to dance. Boston’s own Klezwoods will open the evening with their own creative take on contemporary klezmer. A wild and crazy time will be had by all.

Tickets: In advance $15 general admission, $20 at the door. Cash bar. To purchase tickets click HERE.

Cosponsored with GesherCity and Prism.
This program is supported in part by a grant from CJP’s Innovation Grants Committee.

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Ofer Ben-Amots' Klezmer Concerto will be performed at the Symphony Space by the Orchestra Celebrate! and the legendary David Krakauer. This will only be one part of a fascinating and culturally diverse evening.

Friday, March 18, 2011 8:00 PM

Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York

Celebrating Jewish, Arab and Christian culture through music, World Concertos features Lebanese master ‘ud (lute) player/composer Marcel Khalife in the US premiere of his Concerto Al Andalus for ‘ud and orchestra; Armenia's most renowned kanun (zither) virtuoso, Karine Hovhannisyan, performing the concerto for kanun and orchestra by Khachatur Avetisyan; and the brilliant clarinetist David Krakauer presenting the NY premiere of the Klezmer Concerto by Ofer Ben-Amots, for strings, harp, percussion and clarinet. The Orchestra Celebrate!, which was founded in 1995 to present works honoring New York’s cultural diversity, is conducted by Maestro Laurine Celeste Fox.

www.wminyc.org
http://www.oferbenamots.com
http://www.thedybbuk.com

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Lorin Sklamberg with Dublin-born chanteuse Susan McKeown and guitarist Aidan Brennan present Saints and Tzadiks, a program of rare songs from the Yiddish and Irish traditions.

Friday, March 18
Neue Schmiede, Bielefeld
www.neue-schmiede.de

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Klezmer Kaos

Friday, March 18 at 8:00 PM
LES TROIS BAUDETS
64 Bd de Clichy
PARIS, Ile-de-Fra 75018 FRANCE

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Yiddishe Cup

Sat March 19, 7:30pm
Park Synagogue,
Cleveland Hts., Ohio.
Purim. free.
www.parksyn.org

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Saturday, March 19, 8pm

The Ultimate Purim Party pt. 2, with Roberto Juan Rodriguez and his Cuban Jewish Jazz Allstars
Acacia at Indian Meadow Country Club
275 Turnpike Rd
Westborough, MA 01581
Tel: (508) 366-6526

You’ll want your dancing shoes when some of NYC’s top Latin and Israeli jazz musicians join forces. Imagine a klezmer band jamming with Santana and you’ll have some idea of the fun. Percussionist Rodriguez is a Tzaddik recording artist who has toured with Paul Simon, Joe Jackson and others.

Tickets: In advance $18, $25 at the door. Cash bar. To purchase tickets click HERE.

Cosponsored by Jewish Family Service of MetroWest and The Boroughs JCC.
This program is supported in part by a grant from CJP’s MetroWest Planning Committee.

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PURIM PARTY
SATURDAY EVENING
MARCH 19TH
AVRAM PENGAS ENSEMBLE
SEPHARDIC and LADINO MUSIC
VOICE, GUITAR, KEYBOARD, BOUZOUKI, and DUMBEK
$15.00 admission includes free Hamantashen!
Megillah reading: 8:30 - Music: 9:30
COME CELEBRATE PURIM!!!
at the
Old Broadway Synagogue
(1/2 Block East of Broadway between 125th and 126th Streets)
(Take the #1 train to 125th St. - Questions? Call: 212-662-9767)
www.oldbroadwaysynagogue.blogspot.com

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Ofer Ben-Amots' Klezmer Concerto will be performed at the Symphony Space by the Orchestra Celebrate! and the legendary David Krakauer. This will only be one part of a fascinating and culturally diverse evening.

Saturday, March 19, 2011 9:00 PM

Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York

Celebrating Jewish, Arab and Christian culture through music, World Concertos features Lebanese master ‘ud (lute) player/composer Marcel Khalife in the US premiere of his Concerto Al Andalus for ‘ud and orchestra; Armenia's most renowned kanun (zither) virtuoso, Karine Hovhannisyan, performing the concerto for kanun and orchestra by Khachatur Avetisyan; and the brilliant clarinetist David Krakauer presenting the NY premiere of the Klezmer Concerto by Ofer Ben-Amots, for strings, harp, percussion and clarinet. The Orchestra Celebrate!, which was founded in 1995 to present works honoring New York’s cultural diversity, is conducted by Maestro Laurine Celeste Fox.

www.wminyc.org
http://www.oferbenamots.com
http://www.thedybbuk.com

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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 Mar 20, 2011 features Metropolitan Klezmer

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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March 20th at 2pm: Enjoy music and dance from around the world. Yale Strom will talk about his new book and play traditional Klezmer (Eastern European) music. All ages. Sunnyside Library,
4375 Bonita Road Bonita, CA 91902 (619) 475-4642

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Sunday 20 March, 2-5pm

Klezmer Workshop in Cambridge
Cambridge Strings, King Street, Cambridge

Another workshop given by Ilana Cravitz. Come and learn a tune and some accompaniment, and look at some of the modes and style elements that make Klezmer so haunting and joyful.

Booking is advised for the workshop, as numbers are limited.
Workshop £15. Send email for booking

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Get Your Costumes On And Come To Our...
ROCKIN' PURIM CONCERT!
This SUNDAY, 3/20/11 at 3:30pm
For Kids 12 and Under, Parents & Grandparents

The Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, New York NY

There will be a full afternoon of FUN at the museum! Arts & crafts from 1:30-3:30 followed by the concert. You'll BOOO Haman, rock out with the Estherettes, and learn The Hamantaschen Dance!

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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Sunday, March 20, 7pm

Finding Harmony
The Best of A Cappella
Gann Academy
333 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452
(781) 642-6800

Enjoy the harmonies and show-stopping energy when the best high school, collegiate, and professional a cappella groups of the region strut their stuff. Hosted by Gann Academy’s ShenaniGanns, this year’s event also features Boston University’s Kol Echad, Binghamton University’s Kaskeset, and Six13, an award-winning New York-based vocal band that brings an unprecedented style of Jewish music to the stage.

Tickets: In advance $10 students, $18 general admission. $20 at the door. Purchase tickets by clicking HERE.

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Lorin Sklamberg with Dublin-born chanteuse Susan McKeown and guitarist Aidan Brennan present Saints and Tzadiks, a program of rare songs from the Yiddish and Irish traditions.

Sunday, March 20
Berg€werk, Quelkhorn
www.bergwerk-quelkhorn.de

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Monday 21 March, 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

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Lorin Sklamberg with Dublin-born chanteuse Susan McKeown and guitarist Aidan Brennan present Saints and Tzadiks, a program of rare songs from the Yiddish and Irish traditions.

Monday, March 21
Die Brücke, Graz
www.bruecke-graz.com

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The Yiddish Radio Hour
Tuesday, March 22 at 2:00pm - March 31 at 2:30pm
Folksbiene @ CUNY

A Staged Reading of
די ייִדישע ראַדיע שעה
THE YIDDISH RADIO HOUR

A workshop of a new production, set in the WEVD radio studio, featuring radio plays, musical performances, humor, vintage jingles, news and call in advice.

In Yiddish with English and Russian translation supertitles

FEATURING
Leizer Burko, Richard “Ruvn” Kass, Zalmen Mlotek, Daniella Rabbani, Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Dmitri “Zisl-Yeysef” Slepovitch, Steve Sterner, Suzanne Toren and Matt Temkin
Directed by Motl Didner
Musical Direction by Zalmen Mlotek

Tues. March 22 at 2pm at Lehman College, Lovinger Theater
For tickets or information call (718) 960-8024.
For Group Tickets call Itzy Firestone at (212) 213-2120 x204

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911
An Original Cantata
by Artist-in-Residence Yale Strom

Join us for the debut of an original composition of music and song commemorating the lives of the Jewish and Italian immigrants who lived in the Lower East Side and tragically died on March 25th, 1911 in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire which, until 09/11, was the worst single calamity in New York history.

Featuring:
Yale Strom, violin
Elizabeth Schwartz, vocalist
Mark Dresser - contrabass
Fred Benedetti - guitar/mandolin
Lou Fanucchi, accordion/vocals
Introduced by Professor of Women's History Dr. Susan Gonda, Grossmont College

Wednesday, March 23, 2011
7:00 PM
Rhapsody Hall, Music Building,
San Diego State University Campus

This Event is Free and Open to the Public

Co-Sponsored by the Dorris Lipinsky Endowment for the Jewish Performing Arts, the Jewish Studies Program, and the European Studies, History, and Women's Studies Departments, SDSU

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Lorin Sklamberg with Dublin-born chanteuse Susan McKeown and guitarist Aidan Brennan present Saints and Tzadiks, a program of rare songs from the Yiddish and Irish traditions.

Thursday, March 24
Café de Paris, Paris
http://aucafedeparis.pagesperso-orange.fr

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100 Years After: The Triangle Fire Remembered and Rethought
March 25, 2011 7:00 pm, Free
Cooper Union Great Hall
7 East 7th Street, New York, NY, United States, 10003

An evening of music, spoken word poetry, and solidarity in commemoration of the 146 victims.
Historical klezmer music written about the tragedy, uncovered 100 years later, performed by Metropolitan Klezmer. Spoken word poetry from New York City Youth. Clara Lemlich's historical speech from the very stage where the Uprising of the 20,000 began. Solidarity Forever by the NYC Labor Chorus. Irish folk rock from Larry Kirwan of Black 47. Worker testimonials from Bangladesh, Egypt, and West Virginia.

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AUSBLICK KLEZMERFESTIVAL VALLEY:

Der Verein Kunstdünger e.V. mit sitz in Valley veranstaltet alle zwei Jahre Ein Klezmerfestival im ehemaligen Sudhaus der Graf-Arco-Brauerei. Auch für das Festival 2011 haben wir ein interessantes und spannendes Programm zusammengestellt:

25.3.2011, 20.00h
Global Shtetl Band – Wer ANDREA PANCURs FEDERMENTSH schon gesehen hat, kennt den Tausendsassa Markus Milian Müller aus Nürnberg bereits, allerdings (fast) ausschließlich Bass spielend. Dass Markus Milian Müller noch viel mehr kann, beweist er singend, Geschichten erzählend und Bass spielend mit seinem Projekt „Global Shtetl Band“.
www.globalshtetlband.com
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Saturday, March 26, 4:00pm, Afternoon of Song and Dance,
presented by the Nigunim Chorus.

Nigunim Community Singalong
At JCC East Bay: 1414 Walnut St. Berkeley, CA
Tickets: $10 at the door. Co-sponsored by KlezCalifornia. More info: 510.528.8872
www.nigunim.org

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Beyond the Pale

@Subterranean Arthouse, 2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, Ca
Saturday March 26, 8pm
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Music Festival & KlezCalifornia
$15+ suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Advance tickets at:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com
www.subterraneanarthouse.org

For over a decade Toronto'€™s Beyond the Pale has been making its distinctive brand of boundary-busting Eurofolk fusion, mixing Klezmer, Balkan, and Romanian styles with an eclectic range of North American influences, including bluegrass, funk, reggae, jazz and more. Recent winners of 2010 Canadian Folk Music Awards for "€œInstrumental Ensemble of the Year" and "€œPushing the Boundaries," the band returns to the Bay
Area this March for two shows, en route to their first tour in Australia.
www.beyondthepale.net

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AUSBLICK KLEZMERFESTIVAL VALLEY:

Der Verein Kunstdünger e.V. mit sitz in Valley veranstaltet alle zwei Jahre Ein Klezmerfestival im ehemaligen Sudhaus der Graf-Arco-Brauerei. Auch für das Festival 2011 haben wir ein interessantes und spannendes Programm zusammengestellt:

26.3.2011, 20.00h DOPPELKONZERT:
Trio Carpion – Die neue Supergruppe aus Israel, zu Gast im Sudhaus Valley! Countertenor im Klezmer – geht nicht? Kabarett und Humor im Klezmer geht nicht? Doch, geht alles! Hochvirtuos, gekonnt, abwechslungsreich, spannend, witzig, rührend, das ist das Trio Carpion, das auf seiner Deutschland-Österreich-Tournée auch Halt im Sudhaus macht.
www.triocarpion.com
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THIS SATURDAY NIGHT AT LITTLEFIELD (BROOKLYN)

MOSHE HECHT
AIRPLANE DRIVER (ft. Cobe Schwartz & Schneur Menaker)
DIWON (DJ SET)

Sat, Mar 26, 10:30 pm Show
18 + / $10 in advance, $15 at the door

$10.00 TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE
Littlefield is located at 622 degraw st
Brooklyn, NY

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Kabbalah

Partagez avec nous la sortie d'album de Kabbalah le SAMEDI 26 MARS à 22h30 à BABEL MED MUSIC (Dock des Suds, 12 rue Urbain V, 13002 Marseille)
Kabbalah recevra à cette occasion le PRIX ADAMI 2011.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Commemoration

Sunday, March 27, 1:00-3:00pm,
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Centennial Commemoration in Words and Music.

In this program commemorating the fire's centennial, Judy Baston will explore the Jewish responses to the tragedy, and Sonoma State University Professor Elaine Leeder will discuss the dramatic life of Rose Pesotta and the influence of other Jewish women, such as Rose Schneiderman, in the labor movement. Jill Tallmer will lead the audience in Yiddish labor songs of the era, including Dos Lid Funem Trayengl-Fayer (Ballad of the Triangle Fire) and Arbeter-Froyen (Working Women).

At BJE Jewish Community Library, San Francisco. Co-sponsored by KlezCalifornia. No charge. More info: www.bjesf.org/adults_events.htm, 415.567.3327.
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Magillah

Sunday march 27 2011 - 2pm
Centre civique Dollard-des-Ormeaux (Salle de banquet)
12 001, Boulevard de Salaberry
Information: 514 684-1496

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Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 7:00pm
Timna Tal Music Presents TESLIM

Village Homes Community Center
2661 Portage Bay East, Davis, CA
For reservations call: (530) 867-1032
$13 in advance, $15 at the door

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MILLER THEATRE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

presents a benefit concert for Japan
hosted by JOHN ZORN and featuring
SONIC YOUTH, YOKO ONO, SEAN LENNON, CIBO MATTO
with Mike Patton, Mephista, Marc Ribot, Uri Caine, and Zorn’s Aleph Trio

100% of proceeds will be donated to support Japan earthquake relief efforts

Sunday, March 27, 8:00 PM

Tickets: $50, $100 · Students Tickets: $25

www.millertheatre.com

Concert to Benefit Japan Earthquake Relief

More than a dozen innovative artists at the intersection of indie rock, contemporary jazz, and avant-garde performance will come together at Miller Theatre to present a benefit concert to support recovery efforts in Japan. “The tragedy and devastation is really overwhelming,” says John Zorn, who has organized and will host the evening. “I’ve always felt a strong personal connection to Japan, and I’m just glad to be able to do my part to help. It should be an amazing night.”

The lineup includes feature performances by musician and artist Yoko Ono, and her son Sean Lennon; Japanese-American indie duo Cibo Matto; and the influential band Sonic Youth. Vocalist Mike Patton will appear as a special guest, and Mephista, Marc Ribot, Uri Caine, and John Zorn’s Aleph Trio will also play short sets.

Both the performers and the theater are donating their services, ensuring that 100% of proceeds from ticket sales will go to benefit the victims of the earthquake and tsunami that hit near Sendai on March 11. Funds will be donated to the Japan Society’s Earthquake Relief Fund.

ARTISTS: Sonic Youth
Yoko Ono
Sean Lennon
Cibo Matto (Yuka Honda & Miho Hatori)
Mike Patton, vocals
Mephista (Susie Ibarra, drums; Sylvie Courvoisier, piano; Ikue Mori, electronics)
Marc Ribot, guitar
Uri Caine, piano
Aleph Trio (John Zorn, saxophone; Trevor Dunn, bass; Kenny Wollesen, drums)

Columbia University’s Miller Theatre is located north of the Main Campus Gate
at 116th St. & Broadway on the ground floor of Dodge Hall.

For tickets, the public should call the Miller Theatre Box Office at 212/854-7799, M–F, 12–6PM.
Tickets can also be purchased online at www.millertheatre.com.

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Porto Franco Klezmer Brunch – Purim Edition
Featuring The Gonifs

The Gonifs
Sunday, March 27, 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Porto Franco Art Parlor
953 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Admission: Sliding scale $0 to $100 - Buy Tickets now - few seats remain!

Every last Sunday of the month, Porto Franco Art and Records conducts Klezmer Brunch – an event combining vegan Ashkenazi and Sephardic traditional dishes.

The Purim Edition

Aaron Kierbel (drums), Daniel Fabricant (bass), Darren Johnston (trumpet), Jeanette Lewicki (accordion, vocals, hyperbole), Peter Jaques (clarinet, legs).

More Information: www.portofrancoart.com/klezmer-brunch

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Beyond the Pale

Sunday March 27, 9pm, Amnesia, 853 Valencia St, San Francisco, $10 www.amnesiathebar.com

For over a decade Toronto'€™s Beyond the Pale has been making its distinctive brand of boundary-busting Eurofolk fusion, mixing Klezmer, Balkan, and Romanian styles with an eclectic range of North American influences, including bluegrass, funk, reggae, jazz and more. Recent winners of 2010 Canadian Folk Music Awards for "€œInstrumental Ensemble of the Year" and "€œPushing the Boundaries," the band returns to the Bay
Area this March for two shows, en route to their first tour in Australia.
www.beyondthepale.net

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A Staged Reading of
די ייִדישע ראַדיע שעה
THE YIDDISH RADIO HOUR

A workshop of a new production, set in the WEVD radio studio, featuring radio plays, musical performances, humor, vintage jingles, news and call in advice.

In Yiddish with English and Russian translation supertitles

FEATURING
Leizer Burko, Richard “Ruvn” Kass, Zalmen Mlotek, Daniella Rabbani, Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Dmitri “Zisl-Yeysef” Slepovitch, Steve Sterner, Suzanne Toren and Matt Temkin
Directed by Motl Didner
Musical Direction by Zalmen Mlotek

Thurs. March 31st at 12:30pm at Brooklyn College, Student Life Center - Gold Room.
For tickets or information call (718) 951-5842.
For Group Tickets call Itzy Firestone at (212) 213-2120 x204

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The Yiddish Radio Hour
Tuesday, March 22 at 2:00pm - March 31 at 2:30pm
Folksbiene @ CUNY

A Staged Reading of
די ייִדישע ראַדיע שעה
THE YIDDISH RADIO HOUR

A workshop of a new production, set in the WEVD radio studio, featuring radio plays, musical performances, humor, vintage jingles, news and call in advice.

In Yiddish with English and Russian translation supertitles

FEATURING
Leizer Burko, Richard “Ruvn” Kass, Zalmen Mlotek, Daniella Rabbani, Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Dmitri “Zisl-Yeysef” Slepovitch, Steve Sterner, Suzanne Toren and Matt Temkin
Directed by Motl Didner
Musical Direction by Zalmen Mlotek

Mon. March 28th at 2pm at Queens College, Lefrak Recital Hall
For tickets or information call (718) 793-8080.
For Group Tickets call Itzy Firestone at (212) 213-2120 x204

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Jazz Rabbi’s Invitational - Mar 28 at 7:30 PM
Ayn Sof Arkestra & Bigger Band
7:30 PM - Class on Ramchal’s (Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato) ”Derech Hashem”
8:30 PM - Ayn Sof Arkestra & Bigger Band upstairs in the Sixth Street Community Synagogue’s historic sanctuary!

Meet NYC’s newest addition to the canon of new Jewish influenced music and culture, the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, under the direction of saxophonist Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and grammy winning trumpeter Frank London. The Arkestra consists of some of the most innovative artists on the scene today – Pam Fleming, Paul Shapiro, Aaron Alexander, Fima Ephron, Eyal Maoz, and many others. The repertoire includes original compositions and arrangements of the members and guest composers in the great NuJu/Rad Jew/SunRaJoo tradition.

Cover $10 / Class is free

Read the low-down on Ayn Sof in the New York Times

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Merkavah & Kol Dodi @ The Sixth Street Synagogue - March 29, 2011
Tuesday, March 29 · 8:00pm - 11:30pm
Kol Dodi @ 8:00pm
Merkavah @ 9:30pmSixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
NY, NY 10003
More Info at www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129983130407885

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DOVID BOTWINIK AF DER RADIO-PROGRAM "DOS YIDISHE KOL" - 30 Marts 2011
7:30 in Ovnt - Af WUNR 1600 AM un yiddishvoice.com

Dem mitvokh, dem 30stn Marts 2011, 7:30 ovnt, vet men hern ba der radio-program "Dos Yidishe Kol" (WUNR 1600-AM, Boston) an intervyu (af yidish) mit Dovid Botwinik vegn zayn lebn un shafn, vegn zayn muzik, un spetsyel vegn dem aroyskum fun bukh "Fun Khurbn Tsum Lebn: Naye Yidishe Lider" ("From Holocaust to Life: New Yiddish Songs"). Dovid Botwinik iz geborn gevorn in Vilne. Nokh dem vos er hot durkhgemakht di tsveyte velt-milkhome, hot er shtudirt muzik in Roym, un hot zikh bazetst in Montreal, vu er iz a profesyoneler muziker. In bukh prezentirt er zayn lebns shafung: 56 originele lider zayne. Me vet oykh hern in program Botwiniks muzik, gezungen un geshpilt fun farsheydene zinger un muziker. Nokh vayterdike informatsye vegn Dovid Botwinikn vendt zikh tsum vebzaytl zayns: www.botwinikmusic.com.

"Dos yidishe kol" iz di vekhntlekhe bostoner yidishe radio-program vos vert transmitirt ale mitvokh 7:30-8:30 ovnt un eyntsaytik durkhn vebzaytl www.yiddishvoice.com. Khapt a kuk afn vebzaytl oder shtelt zikh in farbindung elektronish afn adres oder telefonish mitn numer 617/730-8484, nokh vayterdiker informatsye vegn der program.
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DAVID BOTWINIK ON THE "YIDDISH VOICE" - March 30, 2011
7:30 PM - On WUNR 1600 AM and yiddishvoice.com

This Wednesday, March 30, 2011, at 7:30 PM, the "Yiddish Voice" radio program (WUNR 1600-AM, Boston) will feature an interview (in Yiddish) with David Botwinik about his life and work, about his music, and especially about the publication of his new book "From Holocaust to Life: New Yiddish Songs" ("Fun Khurbn Tsum Lebn: Naye Yidishe Lider"). David Botwinik was born in Vilna. After surviving the war, he studied music in Rome and later settled in Montreal, where he's since worked as a professional musician. The book presents his life's work: 56 original songs. Listeners will hear not only about the book, but will also get to hear Botwinik's music, sung and played by various singers and musicians. For further info on David Botwinik visit: www.botwinikmusic.com.

'The Yiddish Voice' (dos yidishe kol), Boston's weekly Yiddish-language radio show, is heard on WUNR 1600 AM every Wednesday evening from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM and live-streamed on the Internet at www.yiddishvoice.com. For more information, visit www.yiddishvoice.com, email us, or call 617-730-8484.

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New York City Opera presents
JOHN ZORN’S MASADA MARATHON
Twelve bands in one night, performed for the first time in the U.S.

Written in a flash of creativity during three months at the end of 2004, the 316 compositions in John Zorn's Book of Angels contain some of his most lyrical and inspiring music. Performed by a wide variety of ensembles over the past seven years, the music has generated 17 CDs to date, with three more scheduled for release in 2011-2012. This special Marathon concert brings together 12 different groups of wildly divergent backgrounds (jazz, rock, classical, world music, jam band, a cappella singing and more) in one spectacular evening of music.

The concert will include two 90-minute sets with one intermission.

MASADA MARATHON – THE BOOK OF ANGELS
Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 8:00 p.m.

Masada Quartet: John Zorn, saxophone; Dave Douglas, trumpet; Greg Cohen, bass; Joey Baron, drums; Mark Feldman, violin; Sylvie Courvoisier, piano

Banquet of Spirits: Cyro Baptitsta, percussion; Brian Marsella, keyboard; Tim Keiper, drums; John Lee, bass; Jason Fraticelli, bass

Mycale; Basya Schechter, voice; Ayelet Gottlieb, voice; Malika Zarra, voice; Sofia Koutsovitis, voice

Medeski, Martin and Dunn: John Medeski, keyboards; Billy Martin, drums; Trevor Dunn, drums

Bar Kokhba: Mark Feldman, violin; Erik Friedlander, cello; Marc Ribot, guitar; Greg Cohen, bass; Joey Baron, drums; Cyro Baptista, percussion

INTERMISSION
Secret Chiefs 3: Trey Spruance, guitars; Timb Harris, violin; Jai Young Kim, keyboards; Jason Schimmel, guitar; Trevor Dunn, bass; Ches Smith, drums; Erik Friedlander, solo cello

The Dreamers: Marc Ribot, guitar; Kenny Wollesen, vibes; Jamie Saft, keyboards; Trevor Dunn, bass; Joey Baron, drums; Cyro Baptista, percussion; Uri Caine, solo piano

Masada String Trio: Mark Feldman, violin; Erik Friedlander, cello; Greg Cohen, bass

Electric Masada: John Zorn, saxophone; Mike Patton, vocals; Marc Ribot, guitar; Jamie Saft, keyboards; Trevor Dunn, bass; Kenny Wollesen, vibes; Joey Baron, drums; Cyro Baptista, percussion;
Ikue Mori, electronics

TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased through CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, online at nycOpera.com, or in person at the David H. Koch Theater Box Office (63rd St. & Columbus Ave)

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Wed, Mar 30, 2011, 8:30pm
The Vortex Jazz Club
11 Gillett Square

Daphna Sadeh returns to the Vortex with her band The Voyagers and special guest Anglo-Armenian singer and celtic harp player
Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian.
An accomplished composer and double bassist Daphna presents a dazzling and heady mix of music from her own roots in the Judeo Middle East. Beautiful, sensuous music drawn from the many cultural strands of her past.
with her wonderful band: Stewart Curtis - woodwind, Ronen Kozokaro - drums and percussion and Yaie Schleider - accordion
and Cevann Horrocks-Hopayian - vocals and Celtic harp.
More info: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197872940234117

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Asefa
Moroccan-Sephardic Fusion
WNYC Radio-The Greene Space
44 Charlton St., NY, NY
Thursday, March 31 2011
7:00 PM
$20
www.asefamusic.com

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Beyond the Pale

Thursday March 31, 8pm
Camelot Lounge
19 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville
$20 in advance, $25 at door

Presented in association with Shir Madness Festival

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