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Yale Strom & Elizabeth Schwartz in concert with friends - Peeps European, see you soon and make sure there's some extra homentashn!
Fri, 1 Mar, 2013
with special guest Franka Lampe, Lauterbach, Germany
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The Meditative Voice w/Shura Lipovsky & César Lerner
Fri, 1 Mar 2013, 1:00pm
Mayyim Hayyim
1838 Washington St.
Newton, MA
Reflecting on songs and on what the texts might have to tell us personally and in relation to our lives, we will explore our individual paths through singing. We will use Nigunim for meditative moments and work with Kabbalistic and Hassidic concepts. Open to all, singers and non-singers alike. Percussion instruments welcome. Suggested donation: $10.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
A Boston Jewish Music Festival presentation
Josh Nelson Warehouse Shabbat
Oberon
Cambridge 6:30 PM
A unique, multi-media/musical young adult Shabbat-with snacks, psirits and spirit-by one of today's top Jewish performers.
www.bostonjewishmusicfestival.org
Yale Strom & Elizabeth Schwartz in concert with friends - Peeps European, see you soon and make sure there's some extra homentashn!
Sat, 2 Mar, 2013
Synagogue of Duisberg, Germany
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The Meditative Voice w/Shura Lipovsky & César Lerner
Sat, 2 Mar 2013, 6:30-9:30pm
JCHE Ulin House
30 Wallingford Rd
Brighton, MA
Join CJP Young Leadership Division volunteers for a night of music, conversation and dancing with residents of Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly. Award-winning band Ezekiel's Wheels will provide their unique blend of classic klezmer with a touch of contemporary pop. There are just a few spots available for interested young adults who want to mingle with the JCHE residents at the prom.
If you would like to attend/volunteer at the event, register here.
Presented in partnership with the CJP's Young Leadership Division.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
OPENING NIGHT: The Future of Jewish Music in Poland
with
Polesye: Jewish Folksongs from the Shtetl
featuring Olga Mieleszczuk, Ittai Binnun, Cookie Segelstein, Josh Horowitz & Stu Brotman.
&
Shofar
Multimedia introduction by Ruth Ellen Gruber
Mar 2, 2013, 7pm
Berkeley Repertory Theatre Thrust Stage
2025 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA
$26 General, $24 Seniors, Students, and JCCEB Members
Discounts for advance purchases available online or over the phone.
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More info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/polesye-shofar
Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York. Co-sponsored by the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, in association with the Israel Center (SF), the Consulate of Israel (SF) and the Consulate of Poland (LA).
New World Klez Fest: The Tarras Project, Lerner & Moguilevsky, Shura Lipovsky
Sat, 2 Mar 2013, 7:30-10:00pm
Somerville Theater
55 Davis Square
Somerville, MA
Forget your passport. Take a world tour of klezmer with three very different, very wonderful klezmorim.
The Tarras Project
The Tarras Band captures and refreshes the classic music of legendary clarinetist, Dave Tarras. The band features rising star Michael Winograd on clarinet, Boston's own Jim Guttman on bass, and 72 year young Pete Sokolow on piano, who played with Dave Tarras for years.
Lerner & Moguilevsky
Born of Russian and Polish grandparents who immigrated to Argentina at the turn of the century, Cesar Lerner and Marcel Moguilevsky use klezmer as a springboard for free improvisation that is played with intensity and originality. Swinging back and forth between the genres, vocalist Marcelo Moguilevsky (clarinet, bass, soprano sax, wooden flutes, harmonica, bagpipe and duduk) and César Lerner (piano, accordion and percussion), combine Argentinean folk music, jazz, contemporary music and tango. This is the Boston debut of this amazing Argentinean duo.
Shura Liposvsky
Considered Europe's finest female klezmer singer, Shura Lipovsky has been a pioneer in spreading Yiddish folksongs since the 1970's. She is a member of Musicians without Borders, an internationally active organization aiming to use music to bring disputing factions together. She will be performing with Lerner & Moguilevsky.
Tickets are $25 and $36 and are available by clicking here.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
Maxwell Street Klezmer Quartet
Sunday, March 3, 2013, 10:30am - 1pm
"Klezmer Brunch"
City Winery
1200 W. Randolph St.
Chicago, IL
$10 cover charge
Scrumptious brunch menu available!
Dan Nichols Unplugged
Sun, 3 Mar 2013, 4:00pm
Temple Sinai
25 Canton St.
Sharon, MA
Enjoy a special unplugged concert with Dan Nichols, one of the most dynamic, influential and creative Jewish singer/songwriters in North America. Dan's melodies are becoming an integral part of the spiritual and liturgical experience in many Jewish communities. He is an infectious and energetic live performer. The concert is in honor of Cantor Jeff Klepper's 10th anniversary at the temple.
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door, 21 and under free. To purchase tickets, click here.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
Klezmer Buenos Aires with Lerner & Moguilevsky
Sun, 3 Mar 2013, 4:00pm
Temple Israel
200 State St.
Portsmouth, NH
Don't miss BJMF Artists-In-Residence César Lerner and Marcelo Moguilevsky as they bring their unique klezmer-tango-folk-jazz fusion from Buenos Aires to Portsmouth, NH. Playing together for 27 years, César and Marcelo have developed their own musical language that is virtuosic, creative and passionate. Reviewers call their performances, "ecstatic," "unblushing" and "sassy."
$20 in advance, $25 at the door, $15 students. Click here for tickets.
Made possible with support from the Jewish Federation of New Hampshire.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
Itzhak Perlman and Yitzhak Meir Helfgot: Eternal Echoes
Sun, 3 Mar 2013, 7:00pm
Symphony Hall
301 Massachusetts Ave
Boston, MA
Combining the exceptional gifts of violinist Itzhak Perlman with pre-eminent Israeli cantor, Yitzchak Meir Helfgot and the heartfelt musical direction of Boston's own Hankus Netsky, this is sure to be one of the most powerful Jewish music concerts of our time. Eternal Echoes weaves an broad tapestry of music, both sacred and secular, classical and popular. The Boston Jewish Music Festival is proud to be a marketing partner for this exceptional concert of Jewish music presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston.
Further, we invite you to join us at a special reception following the concert for dessert and a sparkling toast to honor Mr. Perlman, Cantor Helfgot, and Hankus Netsky as well as to celebrate the fourth annual Boston Jewish Music Festival. Reception tickets are limited.
For complete ticket info, click here.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
Real Vocal String Quartet & True Life Trio
Sun, Mar 3, 2013, 8pm
Freight and Salvage Coffee House,
2020 Addison Street,
Berkeley, CA
$24 General, $22 Seniors, Students, and JCCEB Members
Discounts for advance purchases available online or over the phone.
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Real Vocal String Quartet is knock-out Bay Area string quartet, string band, woman's vocal quartet and jaw-dropping improvising world-music collective takes on Regina Spektor and other Jewish music.
True Life Trio weaves sumptuous vocal harmonies and sultry rhythms from Eastern Europe, the Americas & beyond. This innovative trio explores the creative possibilities of cross-fertilization of different traditions with unlikely timbres connecting Bulgaria to the Bayou. Featuring the powerful vocal talents of three dynamic performers whose musical collaboration was forged in Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble, the trio delves deep into a vast array of folk music that lends itself to three-part vocal harmony, massaging and expanding the boundaries of these traditional styles. The result is a sweet, sonic explosion that is here turned for the first time to original arrangements of Jewish music.
More info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/real-vocal-string-quartet-true-life-trio
Polesye - Jewish Folksongs from the Shtetl
Featuring Olga Mieleszczuk, Ittai Binnun, Cookie Segelstein, Josh Horowitz & Stu Brotman
Mon, Mar 4, 2013, 1pm matinee
JCC East Bay, Berkeley Branch,
1414 Walnut Street,
Berkeley, CA
$15 General, $12 Seniors, Students, and JCCEB Members
Discounts for advance purchases available online or over the phone.
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Direct from Poland and Israel
Polesye was the ancient cradle of the Slavic peoples and a center of Hasidism. This unique project is inspired by the repertoire of Mariam Nirenberg, a pre-War Jewish folksinger born in this multicultural region. It was first recorded in the 1970s by eminent folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Vocalist Olga Mieleszczuk provides modern arrangements to Nirenberg's repertoire, accompanied by Israeli clarinetist and guitarist Ittai Binnun, violinist Cookie Segelstein accordionist Josh Horowitz, and bassist Stu Brotman.
Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York. Co-sponsored by the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, in association with the Israel Center (SF), the Consulate of Israel (SF) and the Consulate of Poland (LA).
More info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/polesye-matinee
The New York Klezmer Series
(formerly the East Village Klezmer Series)
now at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St. (bet. Central Park W. and Columbus), New York, NY 10023
curated by Aaron Alexander
4 - 5 Kidz Klezmer Band of New York
5:30 - 7 Klezmer Music Workshop
5:30 - 7 Yiddish Dance Class w/Steve Weintraub
7:30 - 8:45 Concert (schedule below)*
8:45 - 9:30 Klezmer Jam Session
Mar. 5 - Leviticus: Michael Winograd, Daniel Blacksberg, Todd Nuefeld, Tyshawn Sorey
Series founded by Rabbi Greg Wall & Aaron Alexander
Executive Producer - Cantor Dan Singer
Center for Traditional Music and Dance Artisitic Director - Pete Rushefsky
Michael Alpert & Julian Kytasty
Night Songs From a Neighboring Village
Tue, Mar 5, 2013, 7:30pm
JCC East Bay, Berkeley Branch,
1414 Walnut Street,
Berkeley, CA
$20 General, $18 Seniors, Students, and JCCEB Members
Discounts for advance purchases available online or over the phone.
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Rich East European Jewish and Ukrainian musical traditions come together with Michael Alpert, a leading Yiddishist and pioneer of the klezmer revival, and Julian Kytasty, a premier bandura (lute-harp) player. Night Songs from a Neighboring Village pairs traditions that have existed side by side and interacted for centuries, mirroring the complex relationship between the two peoples. From lyrical love ballads and songs of flirtation to tales of marital mayhem and epics of separation from home and hearth wrought by conscription and war, this music portrays the many facets of life portrayed in the Jewish and non-Jewish song cultures of Ukraine.
More info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/michael-alpert-julian-kytasty
Tim Sparks and Noah Lubin
Tue, 5 Mar 2013, 7:30pm
Club Passim
47 Palmer St.
Cambridge, MA
The legendary folk club, Passim's, is the perfect setting for an intimate evening of acoustic music.
Tim Sparks
Tim Sparks is an award-winning guitarist whose blending of musical styles has won him extensive praise from all corners of the music world. Guitar Player Magazine has called his music "Fresh, exotic, and totally cool." Tim has released 3 highly acclaimed cd's of Jewish inspired music on John Zorn's Tzaddik record label.
Noah Lubin
An exciting BJMF discovery, singer/songwriter Noah Lubin combines gritty, soulful vocals with heartfelt music shaped by his Jewish beliefs. Noah recently moved to Boston from Israel and has often appeared onstage with Matisyahu.
Tickets for the concert are $18 in advance, $20 at the door and can be purchased by clicking here.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
Wed, 6 Mar 2013, 6:00 - 7:30
San Francisco Public Library
Koret Auditorium
Main Library
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA
FREE
More info: www.sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1011652001
In song and music, a pioneering figure of the Yiddish/klezmer renaissance celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Ansky Ethnographic Expeditions that collected Jewish folklore and music from the shtetlekh of the Russian Empire, as part of the blossoming of contemporary Yiddish culture and commemorates the 70th anniversary of the heroic Warsaw ghetto uprising during the darkest days for the Yiddish world in Eastern Europe.
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
preceded by a dinner discussion w/Leonard Fein: Pizza and the Progressives
Wed, 6 Mar 2013,
6:30pm - Pizza and the Progressives
8:00pm - concert w/The Painted Bird
Milky Way Lounge
284 Armory Street
Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA
Discussion:Order your own dinner and share in a pre-concert table discussion about the art and politics of the Yiddish progressive movement with Daniel Kahn and noted writer and educator, Leonard Fein.
Concert: Daniel Kahn concocts a mixture of Klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk-folk, bound together by his unique talents as a songwriter, translator and performer. He tells stories of outrageous incidents, poetically dark, tragically humorous and politically incorrect. Described as 'the Yiddish Pogues,' Painted Bird's music straddles the borders between radical & traditional, lyrical & political, East & West, folk & punk, mama loshon & loshon hora. This is a rare opportunity to experience a great musician who finds inspiration in the poetry and music of Jewish protest.
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door and can be purchased by clicking here.
Please note that the Milky Way room where the live performance is taking place is standing room only; in the the seated restaurant the concert is shown live on multiple HD monitors and sound system. Your tickets assures you entry into the Milky Way Lounge but not necessarily the standing room only space.
Presented in cooperation with Boston Workmen's Circle Center for Jewish Culture and Social Justice.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
Free NYC Open House
This Thursday, March 7, 7-9 PM
Hands-On Topics in Klezmer Music
A Structured Ensemble Class
For Learning to Play Great Klezmer Music
The NYC Workmen's Circle Klezmer Ensemble will be having a free open house this Thursday, March 7 from 7-9 PM.
With an brand-new updated format, and on a new night and new time:
Hands-On Topics in Klezmer Music
A Structured Ensemble Class for Learning to Play Great Klezmer Music
Instructor: Jeff Warschauer
Open to players of any instrument
Level: Intermediate/Advanced/Professional
No previous klezmer experience required
Each week, working by ear and with with written music, we will focus on a specific aspect of klezmer style.
Our focus at the Open House this Thursday: Klezmer Tune Types
Class schedule:
7:00 Group warm up
7:15- 8:30 Focused instruction
8:30-9:00 Jamming
Future topics will include:
Eastern European Jewish Modality
Klezmer Phrasing and Articulation
Klezmer Improvisational Style
Klezmer Ornamentation
and
Is There Such a Thing As a "Klezmer Song?"
(If So, Let's Learn Some of Them)
Ensemble sessions will continue each Thursday evening:
March 14, 21 (no class March 28)
April 4, 11, 18, 25
May 2, 9, 23, 30 (no class May 16)
With a big concert and party to end the season, on June 6 at 7 PM
Since we'll be working sequentially, participants are encouraged to attend the entire series, but single-session attendance is also possible.
Listeners are always welcome to attend at no charge!
Single session class fee: $30. $25 for Workmen's Circle members.
Sessions will take place at the Workmen's Circle,
247 West 37th Street
5th Floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues)
New York, NY 10018
Jeff Warschauer (guitar, mandolin, vocals)is internationally renowned as an instrumentalist, Yiddish singer and teacher. He is a member of the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, and was a long-time member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band. Jeff is Founding Artistic Director of KlezKanada, is on the faculty of Columbia University, and is pursuing graduate studies in the Cantorial program and in the Modern Jewish Studies program at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
For more information, please contact Jeff Warschauer by e-mail, or by phone at 347 623-4228
For more information, www.circle.org
Theodore Bikel, Merima Ključo & Shura Lipovsky
Thu, Mar 7, 2013, 8:00pm
Freight and Salvage Coffee House,
2020 Addison Street,
Berkeley, CA
SOLD OUT
Journeys through Yiddish and Bosnian/Sephardic cultures with legendary Jewish-American folksinger Theodore Bikel, Bosnian accordionist Merima Ključo, and Shura Lipovsky, a world renowned singer of Yiddish, direct from Amsterdam.
More info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/theodore-bikel-merima-kljuco-shura-lipovsky
THE ELECTRO JUDEO DANCE PARTY: MAZAL (AMERICAN DEBUT) AND STEREO SINAI
Thu, 7 Mar 2013, 8:30pm
Johnny D's
17 Holland St.
Somerville, MA, MA
Making their American debut, France's Mazal combines centuries-old Sephardic songs and chants with today's electronic sampling and dance beats. What happens when the ancient music of exiles meets the electronic rhythms of today? The dance floor fills up!
Opening for Mazal, Stereo Sinai's signature sound is "Biblegum pop," a heretical combination of ancient, holy tongues with blasphemous backbeats and synthesized pop melodies. If Gwen Stefani and Will.i.am had been on the mountain with Moses, they would have come down sounding a lot like Stereo Sinai.
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Click here to purchase general admission tickets.
FOR DINNER/TABLE RESERVATIONS: Johnny D's is a mix of general admission standing room and reserved table seating. To guarantee a table, purchase Premium Dinner/Show tickets or Standard Dinner/Show tickets. Premium requires customers to spend a $20 food minimum night of show, Standard requires customers to spend a $12 food minimum night of show. Does NOT apply to alcohol. Tax and gratuity charged night of show. Any unreserved tables will be open first come, first serve 15 minutes before music begins. Table reservations are available by clicking here.
This event is sponsored by The Network Boston to introduce young adults (22-40) to the many arts and culture opportunities available in the Greater Boston Jewish community. Presented in partnership with the French Consulate and New Center NOW.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
Andy Statman and Larry Eagle
Thursday 7 March, 2013, 9pm
Congregation Darech Amuno
53 Charles St.,
NYC
More info: www.andystatman.org
The Andy Statman Trio
(Andy Statman, Jim Whitney, Larry Eagle)
Congregation Darech Amuno
53 Charles St.,
NYC
Tuesday 5 March, 2013, 9pm
More info: www.andystatman.org
Congregation Bnai Jacob
www.bnaijacobfw.org
Congregation Bnai Jacob of Fort Wayne, Indiana is excited to welcome Peggy Davis and Joe Kurland to B'nai Jacob the weekend of March 8-10, when the talented duo will conduct a series of art and music workshops plus an evening concert of Yiddish songs and Klezmer music with "The Wholesale Klezmer Band".
The weekend's plans are as follows:
Friday, March 8th, 7:30pm - Services followed by an oneg. Joe will lead services and Peggy will give the Dvar Torah.
Saturday, March 9th, 9:15am - Services followed by kiddush lunch. Joe will lead services and Peggy will give the Dvar Torah.
Saturday, March 9th following kiddush lunch - Joe Kurland presents: "Yiddish Midrash: An Examination of Yiddish Poetry and Song that Comments on Torah/Tanakh Stories"
Saturday, March 9th, 8:00pm - Havdala followed by an evening concert of Yiddish songs and entertainment by "The Wholesale Klezmer Band" (Joe, Peggy, Christina Crowder, David Tasgal)
Sunday, March 10th - 9:30am-12:30pm: Series of art and music workshops; 12:30pm-1:00pm: Lunch; 1:00pm-2:00pm: "How to Dance at a Jewish Wedding"
This weekend continues the series of multigenerational events in celebration of Congregation B'nai Jacob's centennial. All events are open to the community and are sponsored by PNC Schneider Charitable Trust.
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird with special guest Psoy Korolenko
Saturday, March 9, 2013, 8:00pm
Carriage House,
305 Stewart Ave,
Ithaca, NY
Tix: $20
More info
It's a night of cutting-edge Jewish music when the Berlin-based Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird hosts a release party for the band's new CD, "Bad Old Songs."
Saturday, March 9, 8pm
Barbès
376 9th St, Brooklyn
Get apocalyptic with Charming Hostess! Singing from Babylonian Jewish amulets known as “demon bowls,” Charming Hostess performs with cello and banjo this Saturday in Brooklyn.
Demon bowls were common home-protecting amulets for women in late-antique Babylon. Their texts deal with mysticism and magic, angels and demons, and the joys of love, sex, and exorcism. These bowls inhabit the world of the “apocalyptic intimate”–a spirit-rich environment where the vast supernatural realm intersects the tiny domestic sphere. Weaving together these amulet texts with the American apocalyptic music tradition, this intimate iteration of Charming Hostess will include Marika Hughes (Bottom Heavy, Two Foot Yard) Ganda Suthivarakom (Cibo Matto, David Byrne) and Brandon Seabrook (Seabrook Power Plant, Ben Allison).
Vilna Poems and Akoka: The End of Time
Marking the 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Saturday, March 9, 8:00 PM
Thrust Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theater,
2025 Addison St.,
Berkeley, CA
$26 General, $24 Seniors, Students, and JCCEB Members
Discounts for advance purchases available online or over the phone.
Brown Paper Tickets phone support is available 24/7: 1-800-838-3006
More info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/david-krakauer-matt-haimovitz
World premiere of Vilna Poems, a song cycle set to works by the great Yiddish poet Avrom Sutskever, composed by David Garner in memory of Sylvie Braitman. With Akoka, a project inspired by Olivier Messaien's Quartet for the End of Time and developed by world-renowned cellist Matt Haimovitz and klezmer/jazz/classical clarinetist David Krakauer. With soprano Lisa Delan, pianists Kristin Pankonin and Kathleen Tagg, and violinist Kay Stern.
Co-sponsored by the Judaica Collection of the Doe-Moffitt Libraries, UC-Berkeley.
GUY MENDILOW ENSEMBLE: TALES FROM THE FORGOTTEN KINGDOM
Sat, 9 Mar 2013, 8:00pm
Temple Beth Abraham
4 Raymond St.
Nashua, NH
Get ready for an emotional voyage awash with warm harmonies, intricate textures and spellbinding rhythms. Starting in ancient Spain and winding through Sarajevo, Salonica and Jerusalem, the award-winning Guy Mendilow Ensemble brings to life the adventures and legends of traditional Sephardi songs, sung in the endangered Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. Experience Ladino music, re-imagined by a team of internationally recognized musicians and spearheaded by charismatic Israeli composer/performer Guy Mendilow.
Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Click here to purchase tickets.
Made possible with support from the Jewish Federation of New Hampshire.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
Mika Karni's Kol Dodi
Sat, 9 Mar 2013, 8:00pm
Congregation Mishkan Tefila
300 Hammond Pond Parkway
Chestnut Hill, MA
This concert brings together a unique musical ensemble of Israeli, Moroccan, Yemenite and Ethiopian musicians and singers, led by one of Israel's all time favorite female vocalists Mika Karni.
Based on Song of Songs, one of the world's greatest love songs, Mika composed and re-arranged the original biblical lyrics to convey the story in a modern, intimate and personal way, taking the listener into a deep and emotional experience. The ensemble's sound combines traditional Jewish melodies with African Ethnic rhythms and a taste of folk/singer-songwriter qualities, creating a musical landscape of modern Israel.
Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Student tickets: $15
Presented in partnership with the Israeli Consulate.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
Congregation Bnai Jacob
www.bnaijacobfw.org
Congregation Bnai Jacob of Fort Wayne, Indiana is excited to welcome Peggy Davis and Joe Kurland to B'nai Jacob the weekend of March 8-10, when the talented duo will conduct a series of art and music workshops plus an evening concert of Yiddish songs and Klezmer music with "The Wholesale Klezmer Band".
The weekend's plans are as follows:
Friday, March 8th, 7:30pm - Services followed by an oneg. Joe will lead services and Peggy will give the Dvar Torah.
Saturday, March 9th, 9:15am - Services followed by kiddush lunch. Joe will lead services and Peggy will give the Dvar Torah.
Saturday, March 9th following kiddush lunch - Joe Kurland presents: "Yiddish Midrash: An Examination of Yiddish Poetry and Song that Comments on Torah/Tanakh Stories"
Saturday, March 9th, 8:00pm - Havdala followed by an evening concert of Yiddish songs and entertainment by "The Wholesale Klezmer Band" (Joe, Peggy, Christina Crowder, David Tasgal)
Sunday, March 10th - 9:30am-12:30pm: Series of art and music workshops; 12:30pm-1:00pm: Lunch; 1:00pm-2:00pm: "How to Dance at a Jewish Wedding"
This weekend continues the series of multigenerational events in celebration of Congregation B'nai Jacob's centennial. All events are open to the community and are sponsored by PNC Schneider Charitable Trust.
Our first gig of the year is at the Royal Standard, Hastings Old Town, this coming Saturday (9th), starting at 8.30ish. If you're in the Hastings area, we hope to see you there!
Ellen Allard & Friends
A morning of family fun
Sun, 10 Mar 2013, 11:00am
Leventhal-Sidman JCC
333 Nahanton St.
Newton, MA
Join Ellen Allard and friends for an entertaining, interactive hour of musical merriment. Be prepared to sing, shout and dance along with this irresistible, award-winning Jewish children's performer and educator. Few musicians combine such fun Jewish content with such excellent musical and performing skills. Ellen is back by popular demand after presenting one of the highest rated shows at the 2012 BJMF.
In Advance: $10 per ticket, $40 family maximum. Purchase advance tickets here.
At the door: $12 per ticket. $45 family maximum
Presented in cooperation with PJ Library® and the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston. A program of the Ryna Greenbaum JCC Center for the Arts.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
An-ski Expedition @ 100
Sunday, March 10, 2:00-5:00 PM
Easton Hall,
Graduate Theological Union,
2401 Ridge Rd.,
Berkeley, CA
Free
Symposium marking the 100th anniversary of S. An-ski's Folklore Expedition that collected music, stories, artifacts and folklore from shtetlach, intended for a Jewish national museum in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg. Panel discussion and performance includes renowned Yiddishist and multi-instrumentalist Michael Alpert and An-ski scholars Gabriella Safran of Stanford University and Nathaniel Deutsch of UCSC.
In collaboration with the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union.
More info: jewishmusicfestival.org/events/an-ski-expedition-at-100
Israel Folkdance Festival
Sun, 10 Mar 2013, 3:00pm
MIT's Kresge Auditorium
48 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA
Enjoy the 37th anniversary of this wonderful celebration of Jewish culture. Hundreds of dancers will be performing in a show set to Israeli music both old and new, with a rousing finale weaving all the dancers together into a mosaic of color and costume. The beat is contagious, the enthusiasm infectious, and the spirit moving!
Tickets: $15 available by clicking here.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
Fathers and Sons: Adler and Weiner
Sun, 10 Mar 2013, 4:00pm
Northeastern University's Fenway Center
77 St. Stephen St.
Boston, MA
Two families. Four award-winning composers. A special afternoon of choral and chamber music featuring the Zamir Chorale of Boston and Kol Arev of Hebrew College, in a concert of the magnificent compositions of Lazar Weiner and his Pulitzer Prize-winning son, Yehudi Wyner, and Cantor Hugo Chaim Adler and his son, Samuel, recipient of the Aaron Copland Award for lifetime achievement in music. Both Yehudi Wyner and Samuel Adler will be participating in the program.
Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door can be purchased here.
Presented in cooperation with the Hebrew College School of Jewish Music and the Music Department at Northeastern University.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
New Harmony: A Concert of Two Multi-Ethnic Ensembles
Guy Mendilow Ensemble and Epichorus
Sun, 10 Mar 2013, 7:00pm
Temple Emunah
9 Piper Rd.
Lexington, MA
BJMF proudly presents two groups committed to interfaith cooperation, ethnic diversity, and the preservation of Jewish musical traditions.
The Guy Mendilow Ensemble will perform Tales from the Forgotten Kingdom, new interpretations and arrangements of Ladino folk songs. Led by Guy, an Israeli citizen who has also lived in South Africa, the group features Irish, Japanese, Israeli, and Palestinian musicians whose very diversity adds great richness to the music and the concert-going experience.
The Epichorus, featuring Zach Freeman, a New York rabbinical student, and Alsara, a Sudanese Muslim singer, is a multi-ethnic band performing Hebrew and African love songs "to create music that transcends the boundaries of culture or religion." Their story and sound is nothing less than magical and has been featured in the Huffington Post and Tablet Magazine.
Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door, students $15. Purchase tickets here.
For your artistic inspiration, and maybe a little shopping, too, an Israeli art show and sale taking place at the temple will remain open that evening.
Presented in partnership with Lexington's Temple Emunah and Temple Isaiah.
For further info: bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events
Congregation Bnai Jacob
www.bnaijacobfw.org
Congregation Bnai Jacob of Fort Wayne, Indiana is excited to welcome Peggy Davis and Joe Kurland to B'nai Jacob the weekend of March 8-10, when the talented duo will conduct a series of art and music workshops plus an evening concert of Yiddish songs and Klezmer music with "The Wholesale Klezmer Band".
The weekend's plans are as follows:
Friday, March 8th, 7:30pm - Services followed by an oneg. Joe will lead services and Peggy will give the Dvar Torah.
Saturday, March 9th, 9:15am - Services followed by kiddush lunch. Joe will lead services and Peggy will give the Dvar Torah.
Saturday, March 9th following kiddush lunch - Joe Kurland presents: "Yiddish Midrash: An Examination of Yiddish Poetry and Song that Comments on Torah/Tanakh Stories"
Saturday, March 9th, 8:00pm - Havdala followed by an evening concert of Yiddish songs and entertainment by "The Wholesale Klezmer Band" (Joe, Peggy, Christina Crowder, David Tasgal)
Sunday, March 10th - 9:30am-12:30pm: Series of art and music workshops; 12:30pm-1:00pm: Lunch; 1:00pm-2:00pm: "How to Dance at a Jewish Wedding"
This weekend continues the series of multigenerational events in celebration of Congregation B'nai Jacob's centennial. All events are open to the community and are sponsored by PNC Schneider Charitable Trust.
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird with special guest Psoy Korolenko
Monday, March 11, 2013, 7:00pm
Gramercy Theatre,
127 East 23rd Street,
New York City, NY
It's a night of cutting-edge Jewish music when the Berlin-based Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird hosts a release party for the band's new CD, "Bad Old Songs."
The New York Klezmer Series
(formerly the East Village Klezmer Series)
now at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St. (bet. Central Park W. and Columbus), New York, NY 10023
curated by Aaron Alexander
4 - 5 Kidz Klezmer Band of New York
5:30 - 7 Klezmer Music Workshop
5:30 - 7 Yiddish Dance Class w/Steve Weintraub
7:30 - 8:45 Concert (schedule below)*
8:45 - 9:30 Klezmer Jam Session
Mar. 12 - Alicia Svigals & Patrick Farrell
Series founded by Rabbi Greg Wall & Aaron Alexander
Executive Producer - Cantor Dan Singer
Center for Traditional Music and Dance Artisitic Director - Pete Rushefsky
American Jewish Music: Two presentations
Tuesday, March 12,
The Magnes,
2121 Allston Way,
Berkeley, CA
Free
5:30 PM -- American Jewish Music: A History Lecture by Mark Slobin
A professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University, Slobin is one of the most distinguished ethnomusicologists working today.
7:30 PM -- A Sweet Diaspora Song: Paths of Jewish Music in America
Performance and conversation with Michael Alpert and Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes). Presented by The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC- Berkeley, as part of Berkeley Seminars in Modern Jewish Culture, in association with the 28th Jewish Music Festival.
More info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/mark-slobin-michael-alpert
Andy Statman and Larry Eagle
Tuesday 12 March, 2013, 9pm
Congregation Darech Amuno
53 Charles St.,
NYC
More info: www.andystatman.org
Israeli traditional Ladino/Yiddish singer Betty Klein makes a rare US appearance at a house party (the house in which Mr. KlezmerShack and Ms. Jewish Music Web Center reside, as it happens) in Newton. Despite a facility with Jewish folk songs in many languages, the Jerusalem Post concedes that "she may be a native New York Ashkenazi, but of the 20 languages in which she sings, her deepest connection is to Ladino."
Much fun extremely likely.
Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013, 7:30pm
House Party, Newton, MA - email for reservation and directions
or call 617 527 5798
$15
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
w/Conspiracy of Beards
Thursday, March 14, 2013, 7:30pm
JCC of the East Bay,
1414 Walnut St.,
Berkeley, CA
Tickets, $15, available online
It's a night of cutting-edge Jewish music when the Berlin-based Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird hosts a release party for the band's new CD, "Bad Old Songs." Conspiracy of Beards, a 30-man Bay Area a cappella choir that exclusively performs songs by Leonard Cohen, opens the show.
For more info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/daniel-kahn-the-painted-bird
Andy Statman and Larry Eagle
Thursday 14 March, 2013, 9pm
Congregation Darech Amuno
53 Charles St.,
NYC
More info: www.andystatman.org
Andy Statman w/Jim Whitney, bass
Sat, 16 Mar, 8:30pm
Jewish Music Café
650 Sackett St.
Brooklyn, NY
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 17, 2013 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
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird with special guest Psoy Korolenko
March 17, 2013
Fiesta Hall
West Hollywood, CA
It's a night of cutting-edge Jewish music when the Berlin-based Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird hosts a release party for the band's new CD, "Bad Old Songs."
The New York Klezmer Series
(formerly the East Village Klezmer Series)
now at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St. (bet. Central Park W. and Columbus), New York, NY 10023
curated by Aaron Alexander
4 - 5 Kidz Klezmer Band of New York
5:30 - 7 Klezmer Music Workshop
5:30 - 7 Yiddish Dance Class w/Steve Weintraub
7:30 - 8:45 Concert (schedule below)*
8:45 - 9:30 Klezmer Jam Session
Mar. 19 - CTMD - Tantshoyz - Steve Weintraub Dance Leader
Series founded by Rabbi Greg Wall & Aaron Alexander
Executive Producer - Cantor Dan Singer
Center for Traditional Music and Dance Artisitic Director - Pete Rushefsky
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
March 19, 2013, 7:30pm
Birmingham Temple
28611 W. Twelve Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
Tel: 248 477 1410
$20
It's a night of cutting-edge Jewish music when the Berlin-based Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird hosts a release party for the band's new CD, "Bad Old Songs."
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
March 20, 2013, 7pm
(downtown seder)
City Winery, Chicago, IL
It's a night of cutting-edge Jewish music when the Berlin-based Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird hosts a release party for the band's new CD, "Bad Old Songs."
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird with special guest Psoy Korolenko
March 17, 2013
Mayne Stage
1328 W. Morse Avenue
Chicago, IL
Tickets available online
Box Office 773.381.4554
It's a night of cutting-edge Jewish music when the Berlin-based Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird hosts a release party for the band's new CD, "Bad Old Songs."
Klezwoods and The Underscore Orkestra Belly Dance Extravaganza 2013
March 29th
The Lilypad
1353 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
7-10pm
$10
Klezwoods
The Belmont Library Concert Series
March 30th
Belmont Library
336 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA
3-4pm
Free
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 31, 2013 features the Guy Mendilow Ensemble.
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
