KlezCalendar

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

The East Village Klezmer Festival Returns!
A Weekly Celebration of Yiddish Culture and Music

6:00 PM Klezmer Masterclass for musicians of all levels and instruments, taught by drummer Aaron Alexander.

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring Lisa and Sruli’s Family Band, featuring Zach Mayer, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

The series are co-sponsored by Workmen’s Circle/Arbeiter Ring of NY, Living Traditions/Klez Kamp, and Center for Traditional Music and Dance.

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November 2, 2011, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Frank London

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Concertus Saisonnus présente:

GOYLEM !

Musique Klezmer

Patrice Mugny: accordéon
Bianca Favez: violon
Michel Borzykowski; saxophones
David Morhain: Percussions

Mercredi 2 novembre 2011 à 20h30
Au Manège d’Onex
127 Route de Chancy
1213 Onex (Genève, Suisse)

Réservations: tél 0041 22 879 59 99
Billets en vente à l’entrée dès 19h30: 20 CHF / Etudiants, AVS: 15 CHF.

Le klezmer est la musique que les baladins juifs ont colportée de fête en fête et de shtetl (bourgade) en ghetto dans toute l’Europe de l’Est depuis le Moyen Âge.

Bercé dans la liturgie, nourri de mélodies extatiques hassidiques et de chants profanes, il s'est encanaillé dans les auberges et enrichi de théâtre et de danses populaires. En symbiose avec les musiques slaves, tsiganes et ottomanes, il a acquis une diversité et une richesse d'expression incomparables.

Avec ses variations de rythme, ses dissonances, ses ornementations et une touche d’improvisation, le klezmer incite à la spiritualité et à la danse en exprimant toutes les émotions: joie et tristesse, recueillement, amour ou ivresse, sans oublier l'humour… juif!

Extirpé d’Europe, par le nazisme et le stalinisme, il s'est bouturé au jazz en Amérique avant de redevenir populaire dans le monde entier.

Perpétuant la tradition sans la figer, GOYLEM ! joue depuis 1996 ses compositions originales et de nombreux thèmes klezmer, arrangés à sa façon et parfois métissés de chants séfarades, de musique classique et de swing…
www.borzy.info

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כנורkēnòr will be performing at the

Lancaster Jewish Community Center, Oregon Pike

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

November 6th 2011, 2:00pm

כנורkēnòr is four musical listeners, playing violin, double bass, guitar and drums.

Together, they will be performing a selection of jazz standards and Jewish tunes, following contemporary jazz practice, including tastefully performed heads, sensitive ensemble, and insightful improvised solos.

Members

Christopher Brooks, violin, is former concertmaster of Orquesta Bética Filarmónica de Sevilla (Spain) and the Harrisburg Symphony, and violinist with the Susquehanna String Quartet. Brooks draws from deep classical and Jewish roots in his thoughtful and soulful improvisations.

Pete Bainbridge, bass ‘viol, supports the ensemble with a solid harmonic and rhythmic foundation as well as offering tantalizing, free-ranging solos.

Jon Kunkle’s classically-trained and jazz-inspired electric guitar engoldens the sound of the ensemble, both while tastefully supporting the melody and during his elegant solos.

Dave Young has played drums with every important jazz musician in the region. Young has the rare ability to stitch an ensemble together, creating a whole much more than its parts.

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Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi: Dave Tarras: The King of Klezmer

Sunday, November 6 at 2 PM
Kligerman-Greenspun Performance Hall
National Yiddish Book Center,
Amherst, MA

The concert will explore the music, history, and stories about musician Dave Tarras—the “Benny Goodman” of klezmer clarinet. Hot Pstromi’s sound—a fusion of traditional klezmer, new Jewish music, Gypsy, hasidic, world beat, and Balkan music—is unique and celebrated. Bandleader Yale Strom (violin) is the world’s leading ethnographer-artist of klezmer music, culture and history. His prodigious klezmer research was instrumental in helping form the repertoire of Hot Pstromi.

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London Klezmer Quartet & The Amsterdam Klezmer Band

Sunday 6 November, 7.30pm

Rich Mix,
35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road,
London, E1 6LA

LKQ big band supports the Amsterdam Klezmer Band in what promises to be a high octane evening! Part of the London International Festival of Exploratory Music.

More info www.lifem.org.uk/lifem-2011/concerts/london-klezmer-quartet/
A Kazum production (www.kazum.co.uk)
Tickets 020 7613 7498

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

The East Village Klezmer Festival Returns!
A Weekly Celebration of Yiddish Culture and Music

6:00 PM Klezmer Masterclass for musicians of all levels and instruments, taught by drummer Aaron Alexander.

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring Eve Sicular & Isle of Klezbos, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

The series are co-sponsored by Workmen’s Circle/Arbeiter Ring of NY, Living Traditions/Klez Kamp, and Center for Traditional Music and Dance.

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November 9, 2011, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Jamie Saft solo

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Ditmas Acoustic/CTMD Presents: Merita Halili & The Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio
Thursday, November 10, 7:00pm
Temple Beth Emeth v'Ohr Progressive Shaari Zedek
83 Marlborough Road,
Brooklyn, NY 11226
(718) 282-1596
www.bethemeth.net

A Fundraiser for CTMD (Center for Traditional Music and Dance)

Merita Halili thrills audiences with her masterful rendition of Albanian folk music. Known in her homeland as the "Queen of Albanian folk songs" and highly esteemed for her stunning voice, range and vocal technique, the award-winning vocalist is accompanied by her husband, Raif Hyseni, whose innovations and compositions for accordion have garnered praise for his "speed demon accordion." With an ensemble that also includes clarinet, guitar, keyboard and percussion, Merita Halili and Raif Hyseni will astound you with their vocal and instrumental artistry.

The Michael Winograd Trio, with Patrick Farrell, Benjy Fox Rosen and Michael Winograd, features three major voices in the international contemporary Klezmer community. Performing new music and reimagined traditional and folk music, this ensemble aims to present a fresh way of listening to and enjoying the rich genre of Yiddish music. Drawing on a variety of influences, Winograd's new trio provides a full and genuine experience of Klezmer and Yiddish song. Dr. Joel Rubin, clarinetist, said, "Perhaps the leading voice of the younger generation of performers and composers within klezmer."

More info: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=229436267101346

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London Klezmer Quartet
November 11-13

The London Klezmer Quartet plays a weekend of concerts around Dorset. Part of the ARTSREACH rural touring scheme.

Fri 11 Nov, 7.30pm Halstock Village Hall, BA22 9SG
Sat 12 Nov, 8pm Tarrant Gunville Village Hall, DT11 8JN
Sun 13 Nov, 7.30pm Martinstown Village Hall, DT2 9LF

Booking Information to come. Please email Ilana Cravitz for details / keep an eye on www.londonklezmerquartet.com

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November 12-14: Yale Strom in residence at the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music. His string quartet "In The Memory Of..." will be performed by the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra's Burdick-Thorne String Quartet at Cong. Moses at 7pm on Nov. 13th. In the morning of Nov. 13th Yale will give a lecture about how he came to compose the string quartet. He will also play some klezmer violin melodies from Hungary and Romania. This lecture/performance will be at Congregation Moses. Lastly Yale will give a workshop at one of the local high schools on Monday morning Nov. 14th.

For more info. Website: www.mfsm.us. For further information: (269) 382-2910

IN THE MEMORY OF… is based upon melodies from a 1931 cantor's book Strom found in the abandoned Mare synagogue during his invitation to participate in the world music festival in Satu Mare in 2008. This composition is dedicated to the Jews of Romania and Hungary that perished in the Holocaust.

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London Klezmer Quartet
November 11-13

The London Klezmer Quartet plays a weekend of concerts around Dorset. Part of the ARTSREACH rural touring scheme.

Fri 11 Nov, 7.30pm Halstock Village Hall, BA22 9SG
Sat 12 Nov, 8pm Tarrant Gunville Village Hall, DT11 8JN
Sun 13 Nov, 7.30pm Martinstown Village Hall, DT2 9LF

Booking Information to come. Please email Ilana Cravitz for details / keep an eye on www.londonklezmerquartet.com

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November 12-14: Yale Strom in residence at the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music. His string quartet "In The Memory Of..." will be performed by the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra's Burdick-Thorne String Quartet at Cong. Moses at 7pm on Nov. 13th. In the morning of Nov. 13th Yale will give a lecture about how he came to compose the string quartet. He will also play some klezmer violin melodies from Hungary and Romania. This lecture/performance will be at Congregation Moses. Lastly Yale will give a workshop at one of the local high schools on Monday morning Nov. 14th.

For more info. Website: www.mfsm.us. For further information: (269) 382-2910

IN THE MEMORY OF… is based upon melodies from a 1931 cantor's book Strom found in the abandoned Mare synagogue during his invitation to participate in the world music festival in Satu Mare in 2008. This composition is dedicated to the Jews of Romania and Hungary that perished in the Holocaust.

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London Klezmer Quartet
November 11-13

The London Klezmer Quartet plays a weekend of concerts around Dorset. Part of the ARTSREACH rural touring scheme.

Fri 11 Nov, 7.30pm Halstock Village Hall, BA22 9SG
Sat 12 Nov, 8pm Tarrant Gunville Village Hall, DT11 8JN
Sun 13 Nov, 7.30pm Martinstown Village Hall, DT2 9LF

Booking Information to come. Please email Ilana Cravitz for details / keep an eye on www.londonklezmerquartet.com

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November 12-14: Yale Strom in residence at the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music. His string quartet "In The Memory Of..." will be performed by the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra's Burdick-Thorne String Quartet at Cong. Moses at 7pm on Nov. 13th. In the morning of Nov. 13th Yale will give a lecture about how he came to compose the string quartet. He will also play some klezmer violin melodies from Hungary and Romania. This lecture/performance will be at Congregation Moses. Lastly Yale will give a workshop at one of the local high schools on Monday morning Nov. 14th.

For more info. Website: www.mfsm.us. For further information: (269) 382-2910

IN THE MEMORY OF… is based upon melodies from a 1931 cantor's book Strom found in the abandoned Mare synagogue during his invitation to participate in the world music festival in Satu Mare in 2008. This composition is dedicated to the Jews of Romania and Hungary that perished in the Holocaust.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The East Village Klezmer Festival Returns!
A Weekly Celebration of Yiddish Culture and Music

6:00 PM Klezmer Masterclass for musicians of all levels and instruments, taught by drummer Aaron Alexander.

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring Klezmerfest, w/Greg Wall and Aaron Alexander, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

The series are co-sponsored by Workmen’s Circle/Arbeiter Ring of NY, Living Traditions/Klez Kamp, and Center for Traditional Music and Dance.

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Wednesday, November 16: The Art of Klezmer and Yiddish Song

A Concert, Lecture and Dance, Featuring Hankus Netsky, Michael Alpert, members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and students from the New England Conservatory

Slosberg Hall, Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 8:15PM (pre-concert lecture at 7:30PM)

On Wednesday, November 16, 2011, Center for German and European Studies in cooperation with the program in Yiddish and Eastern European Studies and the department of music at Brandeis University will present "The Art of Klezmer and Yiddish Song." The evening will feature internationally renowned Yiddish singer, fiddler, and dance leader Michael Alpert along with local klezmer revival pioneer, Dr. Hankus Netsky, virtuoso klezmer clarinetist Zoe Christiansen, and members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band.

The program will begin at 7:30 with an introductory lecture entitled "Eastern European Jewish Musical Roots - Still a Vital Wellspring." A concert will follow at 8:15 PM followed by a dance and refreshments for all. People of all ages are welcome to come and celebrate the renewal of traditional Eastern European Jewish culture!

Michael Alpert is a founding member of the klezmer super-group, Brave Old World and a former member of Kapelye. Hankus Netsky is founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and Music Director for Itzhak Perlman's "In the Fiddler's House" and "Soul of Jewish Music" projects. He directs the Discovery Project at the National Yiddish Book Center and is chair of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory. Zoe Christiansen is a student in the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory.

Our Co-Sponsors:
The Department of Music at Brandeis University
The Tauber Institut for the Study of European Jewry
The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University
The National Center for Jewish Film
The Goethe Institut Boston
The Yiddish Committee of Boston Workmen's Circle
The German Embassy in Washington, D.C.

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November 9, 2011, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Kohane of Newarko

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi: Dave Tarras: The King of Klezmer

Nov. 19th, 7pm
Tifereth Israel
6660 Cowles Mountain Boulevard
San Diego, CA.

The concert will be DAVE TARRAS: THE KING OF KLEZMER featuring the virtuoso clarinetist Leo Chelyapov from LA. for more info. Beth Klareich (619) 697-6001 ext. 108

www.tiferethisrael.com/calendar/

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Come to a Klezmer Dance Party on Saturday night, 11/19 @ 7:30pm at Appel Commons (Cornell Campus.) Renowned klezmer dance instructor Steve Weintraub will join forces with the Cornell Klezmer Ensemble.

Steve is also planning on hosting some workshops as part of his visit.
Details will be posted on the Facebook event.
www.facebook.com

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Saturday, November 19th 8pm

The JEWISH WOMEN of REBETIKA

Glen Echo Town Hall
6106 Harvard Avenue
Glen Echo, Maryland

Songs and Life Stories of Legendary Greek Singers Roza Eskenazi, Amalia Baka, Stella Haskil, and Victoria Hazan

Featuring:

Carol Freeman - Vocals
Beth Bahia Cohen - Violin
Haig Manoukian - Oud

Sponsored by the Folklore Society of Greater Washington

Tickets: Free for FSGW members, all others $25
www.fsgw.org, 301-717-4641
Reservations strongly recommended

NOTE: There will be a participatory workshop the following afternoon, on Sunday, November 20th. More details will be posted when available.

The JEWISH WOMEN of REBETIKA

Within the provocative world of the early twentieth century urban Greek Café Amans, where flamboyant characters sang about desperate love, life and death, and the seedy side of life, there were a surprising number of celebrated Greek Jewish female vocalists. Included among them were Roza Eskenazi, one of the most renowned Greek singers of all time, and Stella Haskil, who sang together with legendary performers such as Vasilis Tsitsanis. On this side of the Atlantic, Jewish women, notably Amalia Baka and Victoria Hazan, found center stage in the immigrant Greek nightclubs and community celebrations of major urban centers, as well as within the American ethnic recording industry.

All four women were held in high esteem for their extraordinary singing of a beautiful and complex repertoire, both during their lifetimes and again in recent years. Their music, making use of Eastern scales and asymmetrical rhythms, lush with intricate embellishment, and profound in its emotional content and depth, found its way into the hears of several generations of devoted listeners.

Although widely embraced for their musical contributions to urban Greek cafe music and Rebetika, their histories as Jewish women are not widely known. Using live performance and excepts from personal and family interviews, acclaimed vocalist Carol Freeman, together with virtuoso instrumentalists Haig Manoukian (oud) and Beth Bahia Cohen (violin), pay tribute to these Greek Jewish singers with a fascinating look into the songs and lives of these extraordinary women.

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KlezKids

Sunday 20 November, 11am-12pm
The Red Hedgehog,
255 Archway Road,
London N6 5BS

Klezmer for tinies with Ilana Cravitz (fiddle), Carol Isaacs (accordion) and various glove puppets! An interactive hour-long programme, for kids accompanied by a responsible (?) adult.

www.theredhedgehog.co.uk
Tickets £8 adults, £6 kids (under 1 year free). Box office: 0208 348 5050\
Transport: Highgate Tube

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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 November 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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Mazzeltov
Sun, Nov 20, 17:30pm
Beauforthuis
Austerlitz, the Netherlands
Tel: 0343 - 49 18 58

more info: www.beauforthuis.nl/podium/pagina/home

Concert in de serie tapasconcerten van het Beauforthuis. Mazzeltov speelt het programma van de nieuwste CD "Mayn Umru" Kaarten kunnen online gekocht worden via de website van het beauforthuis

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Yiddish of Greater Washington’s Café Kasrilevke presents:

Fun khurbn tsum lebn – muzik fun Dovid Botwinik
From Holocaust to Life – Music by David Botwinik

Lisa Willson, soprano
and
Dina Malka Botwinik, voice

Accompanied at the piano by Vladimir Ivanov and Alexander Botwinik

featuring
Songs by Vilna-born Montreal Composer David Botwinik and Old Yiddish Favorites

Sunday, November 20, 2011, 7:00 PM
Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD 20852

Admission $5 members/$8 non-members

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November 23, 2011, 9:00 PM Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival!

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, featuring Eyal Maoz

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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On Thursday night, November 24th at the Mayer Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem there will be a special concert of Yemenite music. "Travels to Yemen," a photography exhibit of the work of Naftali Hilgar is currently displayed at the museum.

Featuring singer Shlomit Levi, percussionist Avi Agababa, and RebbeSoul.

More information is at this link:
www.facebook.com

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Mazzeltov
Sun, Nov 270, 15:30pm
Jiddisch Festival EXTRA
Tilburg, the Netherlands

Een bijzonder concert van Mazzeltov en Rolinha Kross in het kader van het Jiddish Festival.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The East Village Klezmer Festival Returns!
A Weekly Celebration of Yiddish Culture and Music

6:00 PM Klezmer Masterclass for musicians of all levels and instruments, taught by drummer Aaron Alexander.

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring Matt Darriau’s Shabbes Elevator, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

The series are co-sponsored by Workmen’s Circle/Arbeiter Ring of NY, Living Traditions/Klez Kamp, and Center for Traditional Music and Dance.

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November 30, 7:30 pm, in Chase Hall at Haverford College, there will be a Yiddish concert featuring the tenor Richard Lenatsky. Richard will be singing Yiddish classics as well as some American classics translated into Yiddish.
Admission is free.

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