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Maxwell Street Klezmer Band celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Sunday, November 3, 2013, 4:00 PM
Old Town School of Folk Music
4544 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago, IL

Tix: www.oldtownschool.org

Band members from all five of our recordings will be flying in from across the country to take part in this reunion, including Rabbi Joe Black (Denver), who recorded "Eight Nights of Joy" with the band in 2008. There are only 350 seats available at this point.

It's been a really interesting 30 years. Hopefully, there's more in store.

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Nigunim Chorus readies Hanukah extravaganza

Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
JCC East Bay,
1414 Walnut St.,
Berkeley, CA

$15 general admission, free for kids
Buy tickets here

The Nigunim Community Chorus will present its annual celebration on the fourth night of Hanukah. The community is invited to light candles, sing Hanukah songs, enjoy performances by top Bay Area musicians, and dance under the leadership of Bruce Bierman. Traditional Hanukah foods will be sold.

Featured performers are the Nigunim Community Chorus, which sings in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and English; Ladino singer Rivka Amado; traditional Jewish band Mama Loshn, including Gail Kissin, Suzanne Shanbaum and Rhonda Findling; the Adama Duo, with singer/guitarist Achi Ben Shalom and percussionist Jan Padover; and a dance band featuring an all-star line up of local musicians.

Co-sponsored by the 29th Jewish Music Festival, JCC East Bay, Temple Sinai, the Aquarian Minyan and KlezCalifornia.

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New York Klezmer Series (formerly East Village Klezmer Series)
CTMD Tantshoyz—Yiddish Dance Party! Featuring dance master Zev Feldman

Tuesday, Nov 5, 2013
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St.
NYC

All Concerts begin at 7:30pm; $15. jam sessions afterward
Klezmer Instrumental Music at 5:30pm. $25 per class,
Kidz Klezmer Band starts at 4pm—see page for pricing.
Full night pass—$35 (includes class, concert & jam sesson)

More info: aaronalexander.com/wp/ or email NY Klezmer Series

New York Klezmer Series is hosted by and receives support from the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. We are also supported by The Center for Traditional Music and Dance. Our media co-sponsors are Workmen’s Circle.

Support for the NY Klezmer Series is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency in partnership with Governor Andrew Cuomo. Major support for the An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture was provided to the Center for Traditional Music and Dance by the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Atran Foundation. Additional support was provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York Community Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Scherman Foundation and the Gilder Foundation.

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The Yiddish Heart

Wednesday, November 6 at 7 PM
New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.

The event is free and open to the public. The building is wheelchair accessible. Enter at 42nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

An exuberant evening of Yiddish music and drama directed by David Herskovits of the Target Margin Theatre, and featuring:

• Shane Baker
• Frank London
• David Mandelbaum
• Zalmen Mlotek
• Eleanor Reissa
• Allen Lewis Rickman
• Yelena Shmulenson
• Miryem-Khaye Seigel

The program highlights musical and theatrical treasures from the collection, including "Mirele Efros" (The Jewish Queen Lear), and archival gems from Boris Thomashefsky and Nahum Stutchkoff.

Registration is required: please NY Public Library or call 212-930-0601 to RSVP.

For more details, visit www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/jewish-division

Sponsored by the Dorot Foundation.

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Alicia Svigal's original score to the 1918 silent film classic, "the Yellow Ticket," starring Pola Negri, performed live by Klezmer Unfettered: Marilyn Lerner and Alicia Svigals

November 7, 2013
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
Houston, TX

The Yellow Ticket is a live multimedia concert event featuring the eponymous 1918 Pola Negri silent film with a performance of an original score by Alicia Svigals, one of the world’s foremost klezmer fiddlers. The score is the newest commission from the Foundation’s New Jewish Culture Network (NJCN) and marks the first feature-length film composition by Svigals who will perform live with virtuoso pianist Marilyn Lerner at each of the screenings of this cinema classic. Set in Poland and Tsarist Russia, the film portrays a woman’s struggle to overcome adversity in a story of secret identifies, heroic measures, and triumphant love.

The Yellow Ticket PROMO from Jewish Culture on Vimeo.

Presented by the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston, Houston Cinema Arts Society, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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Andy Statman Trio

Tuesday 19 Nov @ 9PM
The Charles Street Synagogue
53 Charles St
New York City

More info: www.andystatman.com

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Sholem Beinfeld and Khayim Bokhner
"Dos arumnemike yidish-english verterbukh"

Sunday, November 10th, 1:30 PM
Shalom Aleichem Cultural Center
3301 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx 10467

information: 917-930-0295
admission: $3.50 / members: free (membership $25.00)

Note: event is in Yiddish

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New York Klezmer Series (formerly East Village Klezmer Series)
Eleanor Reissa & Friends A Yiddish Diva without peer, w/Frank London

Tuesday, Nov 12, 2013
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St.
NYC

All Concerts begin at 7:30pm; $15. jam sessions afterward
Klezmer Instrumental Music at 5:30pm. $25 per class,
Kidz Klezmer Band starts at 4pm—see page for pricing.
Full night pass—$35 (includes class, concert & jam sesson)

More info: aaronalexander.com/wp/ or email NY Klezmer Series

New York Klezmer Series is hosted by and receives support from the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. We are also supported by The Center for Traditional Music and Dance. Our media co-sponsors are Workmen’s Circle.

Support for the NY Klezmer Series is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency in partnership with Governor Andrew Cuomo. Major support for the An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture was provided to the Center for Traditional Music and Dance by the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Atran Foundation. Additional support was provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York Community Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Scherman Foundation and the Gilder Foundation.

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Andy Statman Trio

Tuesday, 12 Nov @ 9PM
The Charles Street Synagogue
53 Charles St
New York City

More info: www.andystatman.com

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Andy Statman Trio

Wednesday 13 Nov @ 7:30 PM (free concert!)
Bucknell University
Lewisburg PA

More info: www.andystatman.com

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Andy Statman Trio

Thursday 14 Nov @ 8PM
Sixth and I
Washington DC

More info: www.andystatman.com

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The London Klezmer Quartet

Sun 17 Nov, 2013, 3pm
Fleece Jazz & Colchester and District Jewish Community
Stoke by Nayland Hotel
Keepers Lane
Leavenheath, Colchester CO6 4PZ, UK

Tickets for this special event include tea and a goody. The special co-presentation is in aid of the Colchester Synagogue Charitable Fund.

Tickets: £20
From www.wegottickets.com/fleecejazz or call 01787 211 865

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New York Klezmer Series (formerly East Village Klezmer Series)
Breslov Bar Band (Binyomin Ginzburg & Band take on Breslev Hasidic Nigunim)

Tuesday, Nov 19, 2013
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St.
NYC

All Concerts begin at 7:30pm; $15. jam sessions afterward
Klezmer Instrumental Music at 5:30pm. $25 per class,
Kidz Klezmer Band starts at 4pm—see page for pricing.
Full night pass—$35 (includes class, concert & jam sesson)

More info: aaronalexander.com/wp/ or email NY Klezmer Series

New York Klezmer Series is hosted by and receives support from the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. We are also supported by The Center for Traditional Music and Dance. Our media co-sponsors are Workmen’s Circle.

Support for the NY Klezmer Series is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency in partnership with Governor Andrew Cuomo. Major support for the An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture was provided to the Center for Traditional Music and Dance by the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Atran Foundation. Additional support was provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York Community Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Scherman Foundation and the Gilder Foundation.

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The London Klezmer Quartet

Tues 19 Nov, 2013, 8pm
Purley Literary Society
The Hall,
Purley United Reformed Church
906 Brighton Road
Purley CR8 2LN, UK

The PLS was established in 1901 as a mutual improvement society. It had (and continues to hold) discussions, debates, musical evenings, manuscript magazine evenings, and recitations. At the start it also gave practice in public speaking or ‘Elocution’!

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Andy Statman Trio

Tuesday 19 Nov @ 9PM
The Charles Street Synagogue
53 Charles St NYC

More info: www.andystatman.com

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The London Klezmer Quartet

Tue 20 Nov, 2013, 7.30pm

Newington Green Unitarian Church
New Unity,
39A Newington Green London,
London N16 9PR

Chanukah starts here! The LKQ returns by popular demand to the building with the most perfect acoustic in north London.

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Yiddish Songstress Inna Barmish
with master violist Lev Zhurbin

Postponed. Stay tuned.

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Andy Statman Trio

Thursday 21 Nov @ 8PM
Barbès
376 9th St
Brooklyn NY

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Klezmatics

Sunday, November 24, 2013, 10am–4pm
The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
14 Castle Street
Great Barrington, MA

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Klezmer Jam

Sunday, Nov 24th 4-6pm
Boston Workmen's Circle building
1762 Beacon st
Brookline, MA

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Metropolitan Klezmer

Sunday, November 24, 2013, 8:30pm-10pm
Cornelia St. Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (betw. Bleecker & W. 4th)
New York City
212-989-9319

More info: www.corneliastreetcafe.com/list2010c.asp?sdate=11%2F24%2F2013

A rare evening show in Manhattan: Metropolitan Klezmer returns to Cornelia Street Cafe, classic NYC West Village "culinary and cultural landmark" (downstairs cabaret stage), with full menu and bar available too.

Fabulous SEVEN-piece band: amazing guests! Grand piano.
$10 food or drink minimum + $10 cover.

METROPOLITAN KLEZMER septet special:
Debra Kreisberg, clarinet & alto saxophone
Pam Fleming, trumpet & flugelhorn
Karen Waltuch, viola
Melissa Fogarty, vocals
Rachelle Garniez, accordion & piano
Brian Glassman, upright bass
Eve Sicular, drums | bandleader

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Eyal Maoz’s Edom + The Fugu Plan + Kaoru Watanabe's Bloodlines

Monday, November 25 at 8 pm till 11 PM
Spectrum
121 Ludlow St.
NYC

Tel: 212.473.3665
Cover price: Admission $10
Music genre: Instrumental Jewish Rock / New Japanese Music
Name of the presenter: Mastery Productions

Eyal Maoz’s Edom (Tzadik Records) - A strong brew of rock, power-pop, jazz, avant-garde, Israeli folk and more, this is not flat formless fusion but music that evokes the spirit and energy of the jazz rock of the late 1960s and early 1970s; think Mahavishnu, Headhunters… However Edom is in no sense a retro band, with an aura of urban punk and the drive of dance-floor they breath the fervor of Downtown New York in the second decade of the 21st-century. “The mesmerizing guitarist and composer Eyal Maoz and his band Edom play Middle Eastern infected Avant rock” – Stephanie Steiker, The New Yorker.

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New York Klezmer Series (formerly East Village Klezmer Series)
Lorin Sklamberg - A Hanukkah/Thanksgiving Celebration (vocalist, keyboardist and co-founder of the Klezmatics with a program of themed klezmer songs.

Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St.
NYC

All Concerts begin at 7:30pm; $15. jam sessions afterward
Klezmer Instrumental Music at 5:30pm. $25 per class,
Kidz Klezmer Band starts at 4pm—see page for pricing.
Full night pass—$35 (includes class, concert & jam sesson)

More info: aaronalexander.com/wp/ or email NY Klezmer Series

New York Klezmer Series is hosted by and receives support from the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. We are also supported by The Center for Traditional Music and Dance. Our media co-sponsors are Workmen’s Circle.

Support for the NY Klezmer Series is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency in partnership with Governor Andrew Cuomo. Major support for the An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture was provided to the Center for Traditional Music and Dance by the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Atran Foundation. Additional support was provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York Community Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Scherman Foundation and the Gilder Foundation.

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POVO NOVO - The Mapping Of A Digital Jungle - Part I
Eyal Maoz (guitar) Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass) Cyro Baptista (percussion)
WORLD PREMIERE!

11/26 Tuesday, 8 and 10 pm
The Stone
corner of avenue C and 2nd street
NYC

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"Erev Thanksgivukkah" Live! Wednesday Night on the Yiddish Voice WUNR 1600-AM/Boston

Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013, 7:30 PM

Internationally renowned Yiddish music master Hankus Netsky joins several musical friends live in-studio on "The Yiddish
Voice" (WUNR 1600-AM, Boston) on Wednesday, November 27, 2013, at 7:30 PM, to celebrate "Erev Thanksgivukkah", the eve of both Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah, an extremely rare occurrence in Jewish and American calendars. Hanukkah music, as well as music giving thanks for America, will be played live.

Dr. Hankus Netsky, chair of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and musical director, producer and arranger for "Eternal Echoes," Itzhak Perlman's acclaimed Jewish music project, featuring cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot. He has composed extensively for film, theater, and television, and has also collaborated on projects with such artists as Robin Williams, Joel Grey, and Theodore Bikel.

Besides Netsky, additional anticipated musical guests include Henry Carrey, Linda Gritz, and Dina Ressler.

Henry Carrey is the son of Leah Carrey, the late longtime Boston Jewish radio celebrity, and a veteran Yiddish actor and singer.

Linda Gritz is a founding member of the Boston Workman's Circle Yiddish Chorus, and leads monthly Yiddish singalongs in Brookline.

Dobe (Dena) Ressler is bandleader, cofounder, and clarinetist of Di Bostoner Klezmorim (yiddishmusic.com).

The Yiddish Voice (Dos Yidishe Kol), Boston's weekly Yiddish-language radio show, is heard each week on WUNR 1600 AM 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.

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POVO NOVO - The Mapping Of A Digital Jungle - Part II
Eyal Maoz (guitar) Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass) Cyro Baptista (percussion)
WORLD PREMIERE!

11/26 Tuesday, 8 and 10 pm
The Stone
corner of avenue C and 2nd street
NYC

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Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz - ABRAXAS plays MASADA

Fri, 11/29/2013 Friday, 8 and 10 pm
The Stone
corner of avenue C and 2nd street
NYC

Aram Bajakian (guitar) Eyal Maoz (guitar) Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (gimbri) Kenny Grohowski (drums)

Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz steps out on his own to make one of the most primal and tribal installments in John Zorn’s “Book of Angels”series. Drawing on his Sephardic roots, Shanir plays gimbri throughout, giving the music a primeval Moroccan edge. Featuring the intense guitar pyrotechnics of Eyal Maoz and Aram Bajakian (who recently has been tearing it up in Lou Reed’s new band) and the atavistic drumming of Kenny Grohowski, this is Ritualistic Jewish Rock for the 21st century by a brilliant young lion from the East Village via Brooklyn/Israel!

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John Zorn's METEMPSYCHOMAGIA

Sat, 11/30/2013, 8 and 10 pm
The Stone
corner of avenue C and 2nd street
NYC

Aram Bajakian (guitar) Eyal Maoz (guitar) Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) Kenny Grohowski (drums)

WORLD PREMIERE of a complex new book of music written for the ABRAXAS band by downtown Alchemist John Zorn! MAJORI FORSAN CUM TIMORE SENTENTIAM IN ME FERTIS QUAM EGO ACCIPIAM--your fear in pronouncing this sentence over me is probably greater than mine who is receiving it.

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