Klezmer Jam, London, UK, 1 Sep 2013
Klezmer session for confident players
Sunday 1 Sep, 8-10.30pm
Ground Floor at the Harrison
The Harrison,
28 Harrison Street,
London WC1H 8JF, 5 mins walk from Kings Cross station
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Klezmer session for confident players
Sunday 1 Sep, 8-10.30pm
Ground Floor at the Harrison
The Harrison,
28 Harrison Street,
London WC1H 8JF, 5 mins walk from Kings Cross station
The London Klezmer Quartet
Klezmer in the Park
Sunday 1 September, 1-6pm
Regents Park bandstand
London, UK
Bands all afternoon, and a new kids' zone! Ilana Cravitz and Vivi Lachs lead dancing. Featuring: Los Desterrados, Hamsa, The Turbans, Frank London’s UK Klezmer Allstars, Yiddish Twist Orchestra
More info: www.jmi.org.uk
Klezmer Mondays at Saul's 6-8pm!
This week, it's Klezmando (Phil Lawrence, Tony Phillips and Gerry Tenney). Debut get-together of three of the West Coast's best klezmer mandolin players. Original and traditional tunes as well as Yiddish and Yinglish songs.
Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen
1475 Shattuck,
Berkeley, CA
No cover; $10 minimum purchase
(510) 848-3354
Sept 2 - Gerry Tenney www.californiaklezmer.com
East European session for all, first Tuesday of the month
Brass and percussion welcome!
Tuesday Sep 3, 8-10.30pm
downstairs at the Harrison
The Harrison,
28 Harrison Street,
London WC1H 8JF, 5 mins walk from Kings Cross station
Saturday 7 September
Lewes, Sussex
Celebration of the life of Jim Marcovitch organised by his family and friends in a magical woodland setting. This year featuring She'Koyokh and many other great acts.
Klezmer Barn Dance!
Sunday, Sep 8, 2013, 3-5pm
Cultural Center of Cape Cod
307 Old Main St.
S. Yarmouth, MA
tel: 508-394-7100
Dance to live and lively Klezmer music- eastern European and American
Jewish party music in a program focused on old and new set dances from the
klezmer tradition. Dance a traditional Patsh Tants (clapping dance), Couples
Bulgar (2 couple set dance) and the recently created Ferdl (little horse) Galop
and Road to Minsk. There will also be plenty of wonderful traditional circle
dances that don't require partners.
Live music by Cape Cod's own Clayton March and Jacqueline Schwab.
Dance instruction and calling by internationally renowned Yiddish dance
master Steve Weintraub.
More info: cultural-center.org
“An American Jewish New Year: Jazz & Wisdom”
Klezmer Company Orchestra, Aaron Kula, director
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Two Shows: 3 p.m. & 7 p.m.
Delray Beach Center for the Arts at Old School Square
Crest Theatre
51 N. Swinton Ave
Delray Beach, FL
Tickets $36
Box Office: 561-243-7922 - ext. 1
Join Aaron Kula’s acclaimed Klezmer Company Orchestra (KCO) with scholar and humorist Henry Abramson and guest vocalist Lloyd Reshard in this NEW PRODUCTION!
Celebrate the New Year with KCO performing a rousing mix of jazzed-up high holiday melodies influenced by spirituals and old world Klezmer along with entertaining wisdom—certain to enrich the soul.
The Community Klezmer Initiative’s (CKI) Klezmer Jam, Dance and Open Mic Cabaret
Sunday Sep 9, 2013 (moved from first Sunday of the month due to Labor Day), 1pm-3pm
Main Line Reform Temple
410 Montgomery Ave.
Wynnewood, PA.
Bring your family, your friends and your dancing shoes. Enjoy a a soft pretzal, a cookie perhaps, see fabulous performers and dance the afternoon away at Main Line Reform Temple, 410 Montgomery Ave., Wynnewood, PA
Tel: 610-389-6036
Contact Community Klezmer Initiative for more details.
sponsored by the Community Klezmer Initiative
www.communityklezmer.org
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/Community-Klezmer-Initiative/171226639652140
Festival of New Yiddish Song!
Monday, September 9, 7:00PM
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
Manhattan, NY
Tickets $15, $10 for CTMD/CJH/YIVO members—to purchase go to www.smarttix.com
A special concert celebrating the work of leading musicians and composers who are at the vanguard of developing a new canon of Yiddish song. Working through a transnational artistic network, these individuals are creating new music that is both rooted in tradition yet endowed with a contemporary expressive vision. This program features the North American debut of the extraordinary Berlin-based singer Sveta Kundish, who has been taking the European Yiddish world by storm, and new compositions by artists such as Patrick Farrell, Benjy Fox-Rosen and Michael Winograd as well as renowned Yiddish songwriter Josh Waletzky. Special guest: violinist Deborah Strauss. A reception with the artists will follow the concert.
Presented by the Center for Traditional Music and Dance's
An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture
The Praxis String Quartet and Edom Present: The Music of Eyal Maoz
September 11 at 7:30 PM
Spectrum
121 Ludlow St.
New York NY 10002
Tel: 212.473.3665
More info: spectrumnyc.com/blog
Admission $10
Eyal Maoz is a composer, guitarist, ensembles leader, and a Tzadik, OutNow and Ayler Records artist. He leads or co-leads Edom, 9 Volt, Crazy Slavic Band, Hypercolor, Maoz-Sirkis Duet, and he is a member of John Zorn’s Abraxas and Cobra.
Friday 13 September, 10.15-10.45pm
Kings Place Festival
Kings Place,
90 York Way,
London N1 9AG, UK
LKQ is one of over 100 events in 2.5 days! The festival runs 13-15 September. Visit: www.kingsplace.co.uk/festival
Free entry
The Praxis String Quartet and Edom Present: The Music of Eyal Maoz
September 13 at 8 PM
Launchpad
721 Franklin Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Tel: 646-494-7211
More info: brooklynlaunchpad.org
Admission $10
Eyal Maoz is a composer, guitarist, ensembles leader, and a Tzadik, OutNow and Ayler Records artist. He leads or co-leads Edom, 9 Volt, Crazy Slavic Band, Hypercolor, Maoz-Sirkis Duet, and he is a member of John Zorn’s Abraxas and Cobra.
Smyrneïka and Rebetika Vocal Workshop
Asia Minor Urban Greek Music of the 20s, 30s, and 40s
"The Blues of Greece"
Sunday, Sep 15, 2013, 2-4pm
Jalopy Theatre and School of Music
315 Columbia Street
Brooklyn, New York
This workshop will teach students to sing the magnificent vocal repertoire of early 20th Century Asia Minor Greek artists with authenticity and ease. By learning how to carefully listen to excellent recordings and how to then access one's memory of these songs, and by learning simple tricks to make singing them effortless, students will easily learn to sing an involved repertoire with comfort, clarity, and control. Students will begin to master the art of singing intricate ornamentation, complex rhythms, and microtonal scales, in a process that is fluid and fun. Students will also learn tricks for seamlessly switching between vocal placements without detection, and for producing optimal tone. We will also learn how to phrase songs so as to provide for maximum depth of expression, artistry, and musicality.
The songs, which follow the complex system of microtonal scales known as makam in Turkish or dhromi (roads) in Greek, have simply gorgeous melodies, and are lush with embellishment. The 1920s -1930s texts leave no stone unturned, and deal with scorching love, unbearable pain, cocaine, hashish, and heroine, lesbianism, monkey serum fountain of youth injections, harem girls, Hawaiian guitar music, and anything else one may fancy.
Though the repertoire is challenging and instruction is detailed and specific, the workshop will be taught in a supportive, comfortable and relaxed setting, and is always fun. The workshop is open to everyone and no prior experience with the reperotire or language is necessary.
Admission: $30
718-395-3214 www.jalopy.biz/
Well known as a performer, researcher, and teacher of a variety of Greek, Judaic, Balkan, and other singing traditions, Carol Freeman has performed since 1970 as vocalist for The Smyrneiki Kompania Asia Minor Greek Music Ensemble, Sevda Balkan Music Ensemble, Song of the Shtetl Jewish Music Ensemble, and Zhenska Pesna (Balkan women’s trio), and as a solo interpreter of traditional song, and has appeared at arts centers, music festivals, museums, universities, folklore seminars, synagogues, and community facilities, and on radio and television, throughout North America. She learned much of her repertoire by conducting extensive research with Old World singers both in Europe and the US.
An expert vocal instructor, Carol Freeman has taught classes, workshops, and individual lessons, both as a private instructor and at public and specialized arts schools, music seminars, universities, and museums for four decades, and has also done extensive vocal coaching with noted choirs, theater companies, and folkloric performance ensembles.
More on Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/403251243109501/
Sunday, Sep 15, 2013, 2:15pm
Washington Square Park Folk Festival 2013
Washington Square Park,
Greenwich Village,
New York, NY 10011
It's a FREE event that brings together performers and lovers of Americana and other folk traditions in America.
Litvakus are performing at 2.15pm, a 40-minute dynamic set contributing a vibe of Eastern European Jewish tradition to this remarkable event.
Free
More info/Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/events/444231112357184
Masada Marathon
Sep 15, 2013, 7pm (3 hrs, 30 min, one intermission)
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Pl
(between 3rd St & S Washington Sq)
New York, NY 10012
More info: nyuskirball.org/index.php?url=calendar/masadamarathon
Inna Barmash-Zhurbin and a group of stellar musicians will perform her new program that will shortly appear on a CD (iTunes, download cards, and so on), a beautiful program of Yiddish lullabies and love songs. Please come and bring your families, even your little ones.
Sunday, 15 Sep, 2013, 7pm
Barbès
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope
Brooklyn, NYC
$10 suggested donation
Legends of Klezmer Music
Wednesday, October 16
The Yiddish Artists & Friends-Actors' Club
Sutton Place Synagogue
225 E 51st St
New York, NY 10022
(212) 593-3300
The opening dinner-concert of the YAFAC season will feature the work of the giants of Yiddish Klezmer melodies, Dave Tarras, Naftule Brandwein, Shloimke and Sidney Beckerman, Max Epstein and others who brought this wonderful sound to America.
Klezmer clarinetist Ken Maltz will be leading the band, with Peter Sokolow on piano & vocals and Marty Confurius on bass. A glatt kosher dinner will be served. For information and reservations, email YAFAC.
Vira Lozinsky & The Emil Aybinder Ensemble.
Allereerst zijn ze te horen op vrijdag 20 september, 20h in Muziekcentrum De Toonzaal te Den Bosch, waar ze de eveneens toegekende Toonzaalprijs zullen verzilveren (kijk voor meer informatie en kaartverkoop op www.detoonzaal.nl/detail/390/festival-klezmania).
MUSIC FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
featuring Award Winning BBC 2 Playlisted Artist Tally Koren
with some of the Middle East’s most renowned musicians
Nizar Al Issa, Udi Glaser, Hamid Reza Rasti, Rostami Abid
Saturday, 21 September 2013 from 20:00 to 21:30 (BST)
Universal Peace Federation - UK
London, United Kingdom
Fundraising Event for
The Parents Circle Families Forum
Bereaved Palestinians and Israelis who promote reconciliation as an alternative to conflict
www.theparentscircle.com
For more information :
Robin Marsh: 07956210768
www.tallykoren.com
Vira Lozinsky & The Emil Aybinder Ensemble.
De avond daarna, op zaterdag 21 september treden ze op in de Uilenburger Synagoge (Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 91) te Amsterdam. Het concert begint om 21.00 uur; kijk voor meer informatie en kaartverkoop op www.kunstenisrael.nl/index.php?category=agenda&agenda_id=766&lang=nl.
Sunday, September 22, 2013, 7pm
Maine Jewish Museum
Etz Chaim Synagogue,
267 Congress St,
Portland, ME
$12 suggested donation
For more information: www.mainejewishmuseum.org, call 207-329-9854
The Stars of Kalarachi - Southeast Brooklyn meets Southeast Asia
Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars' Klezmer-Bhangra Extravaganza ft. Deep Singh; Zeb Bangash and Michael Winograd project; Bombay Rickey
Wednesday, Sep 25, 2013, 8pm
littlefield
622 Degraw St,
Brooklyn, New York
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/192975810874763/
Ebonies in Harmony is a two clarinet - one piano trio featuring Sylvie Duchesneau (clarinet-bass clarinet) and Roxanne Léveillé (clarinet) and Pierre-Richard Aubin (piano). We invite you to experience a wonderful repertoire which blends the virtuosity and ''velouté'' of these instruments.
Debussy, Mendelssohn, Ponchielli, Baermann, Kalliwoda, klezmer
Sunday, 22 Sep, 2013, 7:30pm
St. Lukes
760 Somerset W,
Ottawa, ON
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/160457394144040/
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts opens its 25th Anniversary Season with
ZORN AT 60
A wide-ranging festival celebrating the birthday of New York icon John Zorn
Monday, September 23, 2013
THE HERMETIC ORGAN
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University
John Zorn returns to perform solo improvisations on the chapel’s incredible Aeolian-Skinner organ.
Guaranteed admission for Zorn at 60 All-Access Pass holders; free, on a first-come, first-served basis, for all others.
Co-produced with Works & Process at the Guggenheim.
ARTISTS:
John Zorn, organ
More info/tix: www.millertheatre.com/Events/EventDetails.aspx?nid=1636
The Regattabar's First Annual Klezmer Music Festival features Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band's release of their new album, Transported, with Klezwoods opening.
September 24th, 2013, 7:30 PM
Regattabar Jazz Club at the Charles Hotel
1 Bennett Street, Cambridge, MA
$20
Tickets available at www.regattabarjazz.com
www.ewklezmer.com
www.klezwoods.com
Andrea Pancur & Ilya Shneyveys
Alpen Klezmer
Mit Alex Haas – Kontrabass
Guy Schalom - Schlagzeug
Zusammen mit dem Niederbayrischen Musikantenstammtisch.
24.09.2013, 14-17h
Oktoberfest
Herzkasperlzelt
(Oide Wiesn Theresienwiese eher links, wenn man zur Bavaria schaut)
80336 München,
Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 6:30pm
Simchat Torah service at Temple Bet Ha'am
81 Westbrook St.
South Portland, ME
(207) 879-0028
bethaam.org
The Tummlers will be helping Rabbi Jared Saks and the congregation of Temple Bet Ha'am celebrate the joyous holiday of Simchat Torah.
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts opens its 25th Anniversary Season with
ZORN AT 60
A wide-ranging festival celebrating the birthday of New York icon John Zorn
Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 8pm
Part 1: ORCHESTRA
John Zorn’s dream team orchestra—80 players, at last count—performs some of the composer’s great symphonic works, including his masterpiece violin concerto. Featuring violin soloist Christopher Otto and conductor David Fulmer heading up an entire orchestra of soloists.
PROGRAM:
Suppôts et Supplications (2012) – U.S. premiere
Orchestra Variations (1996)
Kol Nidre (1996)
Contes de Fées (1999)
ARTISTS:
Christopher Otto, violin
All-Star Orchestra
David Fulmer, conductor
More info/tix: www.millertheatre.com/Events/EventDetails.aspx?nid=1592
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts opens its 25th Anniversary Season with
ZORN AT 60
A wide-ranging festival celebrating the birthday of New York icon John Zorn
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Part 2: CHAMBER MUSIC
Voices, winds, percussion, electronics, and strings. A program of works for small ensembles, including four world premieres, performed by musicians from the city’s best new-music bands. In all, more than two dozen performers and 16 pieces, all of them written since 2002. The prolific Zorn will write a few brand new works just for this occasion.
PROGRAM:
777 (2007)
Illuminations (2010)
The Steppenwolf (2012) – world premiere
Hexentarot (2013) – world premiere
Bateau Ivre (2011)
Sortilége (2002)
Missa Sine Voces (2012) – U.S. premiere
Madrigals (2013)
The Temptations of St. Anthony (2012) – New York premiere
Occam’s Razor (2012)
Earthspirit (2012)
Orphée (2004)
Maldoror (2013) – world premiere
Baudelaires (2013) – world premiere
ARTISTS:
TALEA Ensemble; Sarah Bailey, soprano; Lisa Bielawa, soprano; ; Jay Campbell, cello; Trevor Dunn, bass; Abby Fischer, alto; David Fulmer, violin; Steven Gosling, piano; Rebekah Heller, bassoon; Melissa Hughes, soprano; Daniel Lippel, guitar; Ikue Mori, electronics; Michael Nicolas, cello; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Christopher Otto, violin; Joshua Rubin, clarinet; Jane Sheldon, soprano; Fred Sherry, cello; Kirsten Sollek, alto; Kenny Wolleson, percussion; and others
More info/tix: www.millertheatre.com/Events/EventDetails.aspx?nid=1593
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts opens its 25th Anniversary Season with
ZORN AT 60
A wide-ranging festival celebrating the birthday of New York icon John Zorn
Friday, September 27, 2013
Part 3: GAME PIECES
Without dictating any of the notes to be played, these pieces use visual cues and graphic scores to structure the interactions of improvisers, resulting in remarkable (and one-of-a-kind) performances. This program brings together works rarely heard in a single evening and features many of Zorn’s longtime collaborators: Cyro Baptista, Uri Caine, Erik Friedlander, George Lewis, Marc Ribot, and many, many others.
Zorn says: "The first real major Game Piece happened in this theatre, back in 1978, when Miller was the McMillin. In September we'll do three sets of Game Pieces written between 1976 and 1989, including Cobra, Rugby, Lacrosse. I think we're going to have some of the best performances of these pieces that have ever happened."
PROGRAM:
Rugby (1983)
Book of Heads (1978)
Xu Feng (1985)
Hockey (1978)
Fencing (1978)
Bezique (1989)
Lacrosse (1976)
Cobra (1984)
ARTISTS:
Cyro Baptista, percussion; Joey Baron, percussion; Brian Chase, percussion; Sylvie Courvoisier, piano; Trevor Dunn, bass; Erik Friedlander, cello; Kenny Grohowski, percussion; Okkyung Lee, cello; George Lewis, trombone; John Medeski, piano; James Moore, guitar; Ikue Mori, electronics; Mike Patton, vocals; Mark Ribot, guitar; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Ches Smith, percussion; William Winant, percussion; Kenny Wolleson, percussion; Dither Guitar Quartet; and TALEA ensemble
More info/tix: www.millertheatre.com/Events/EventDetails.aspx?nid=1594
Kleztival—the 4th edition of the Brazilian Jewish Music Festival
Sept 28th–Oct 6th, 2013
IMJ Brasil—Jewish Music Institute
tel: +5511 3159-1997
www.imjbrasil.com.br
Major concerts and workshops all around Brazil
Kleztival—the 4th edition of the Brazilian Jewish Music Festival
Sept 28th–Oct 6th, 2013
IMJ Brasil—Jewish Music Institute
tel: +5511 3159-1997
www.imjbrasil.com.br
Major concerts and workshops all around Brazil
The 14th Annual Jewish Music and Cultural Festival
Sunday, September 29th from 12pm to 6pm
Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Road
Syracuse, New York
The festival will have music from the international group “The Guy Mendilow Ensemble” along with Zetz!, Farah, West of Odessa and other groups featuring a variety of Jewish Music. There’ll be Kosher food, Kosher Beer and Wine! Also shop at the arts & crafts vendors, enjoy the Children’s Activities Tent along with the GaGa Pit and the Klezmer Kabaret Puppet Theater. Jewish community organizations and synagogues will be at the festival. Plus you can participate in Central New York’s largest Hora circle dance. This cultural community event is open to the general public with free admission.
Tel: 315.622.2249
More info: www.syracusejewishfestival.com
Yiddish Events at the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, Fall 2013
Prof. David Fishman JTS "Royte Rabonim: Vegn rabonim vos zenen gevorn komunistn"
music: Dmitri Zisl-yeysef Slepovitch
Sunday, Sep 29, 1:30pm
3301 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx 10467
information: 917-930-0295
admission: $3.50 / members: free (membership $25.00)
Note: event is in Yiddish
The 12th Annual Small World Music Festival presents the release of 'Walk to the Sea'
David Buchbinder's Odessa/Havana
Sun, Sep 29, 2013, doors open 6:30pm; show 8pm
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas West
Toronto, ON Canada
Music force-of-nature David Buchbinder teams up with JUNO-winning pianist and composer Hilario Duran and a crew of Canada’s top jazz and world musicians to present this exciting Jewish-Cuban fusion. Amazing musicianship, driving percussion and soaring, Mediterranean melodies anchor this fresh, fiery and innovative sound that ignites audiences at every performance
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/406573696116041/
Kleztival—the 4th edition of the Brazilian Jewish Music Festival
Sept 28th–Oct 6th, 2013
IMJ Brasil—Jewish Music Institute
tel: +5511 3159-1997
www.imjbrasil.com.br
Major concerts and workshops all around Brazil