KlezCalendar

New York Klezmer Series:
Inna Barmash – “Hindele” – Yiddish Lullabies

Tuesday, April 1, 2014
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,
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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Other Seder: Four Plays about Freedom

Wednesday 2nd & Thursday 3rd April 7.30pm
JW3,
341-351 Finchley Road,
London, NW3 6ET
Doors open 7.30pm.

Tickets: £15 (concs. £7.5) available here Box Office: 0207 433 8989

YaD Arts reprises the JW3's Other Seder, first seen at the Tricycle in 2011, with four short plays by leading international playwrights.

Performed by an ensemble cast and directed by Matthew Lloyd, we present four short interpretations of freedom, inspired by the four cups of wine drunk at the Seder. Written by Arnold Wesker, Eve Ensler, Ryan Craig and Amy Rosenthal and cut with live music from the Seder House Band.

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OY ! LA MARIAGE !
nouveau spectacle de chants yiddish et de contes juifs:

Mercredi 2 avril 2014 à 20h:
Au Moulin à Poivre (Hôtel Calvy)
ruelle du Midi 5
1207 Genève, Suisse

Entrée payante / tarif libre !

avec LEBEDIK :
Marc Isserles (chants et contes), Michel Borzykowski (saxophones) et Sylvie Bossi (accordéon).

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Kabbalah

Wednesday, April 2 at 8:30pm

Kulturzentrum Schlachthof Kassel
Mombachstraße 10-12,
34127 Kassel, Germany

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Andrea Pancur & Ilya Shneyveys
ALPEN KLEZMER – Das Konzert

Jun 7, 2014
Gasteig
Rosenheimerstr. 3
81667 München,

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Andrea Pancur & Ilya Shneyveys
ALPEN KLEZMER – Das Konzert

Apr 2, 2014, 20:30
Theater im Fraunhofer
Fraunhoferstr. 9
80469 München,

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From "The Last Five Years" to "Pippin"
THE CANTORS’ BROADWAY CABARET

Thursday, April 3, 2014, 7pm
Congregation Rodeph Sholom
7 W 83rd Street off Central Park West.
NYC

Tickets: $25 in advance/$36 at the door; Senior/Students: $18.
Benefactor, reception and priority seating information is available upon request.
For more information, please call 646-454-3030 or visit www.rodephsholom.org.

The music of the Broadway theatre will be highlighted. Joining Rodeph Sholom’s Cantors Rebecca Garfein, Shayna DeLowe and Cantorial Intern, Ben Ellerin are New York Metro Area Cantors Daniel Singer, Micah Morgovsky and pianist, J. David Wiliams. The concert, a light-hearted tribute to the Broadway theatre will benefit Congregation Rodeph Sholom’s Youth Related Programs.

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The Art of Jewish Music
Featuring Hankus Netsky, Eden Macadam-somer, Robert Abelson, Joyce Rosenzweig, and special guests.

Thursday, April 3at 7:30pm
Salle Pollack,
555 rue Sherbrooke ouest

$15/$10. Free for McGill students but tickets are required
For information and tickets: www.mcgill.ca/music/events/concerts, 514-398-4547

A concert featuring musical gems from the Eastern European Jewish heritage, including Yiddish Art song, Yiddish Theatre classics, Hassidic song, cantorials, Yiddish folk song, and Jewish instrumental masterpieces.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/243329812457449/

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Other Seder: Four Plays about Freedom

Wednesday 2nd & Thursday 3rd April 7.30pm
JW3,
341-351 Finchley Road,
London, NW3 6ET
Doors open 7.30pm.

Tickets: £15 (concs. £7.5) available here Box Office: 0207 433 8989

YaD Arts reprises the JW3's Other Seder, first seen at the Tricycle in 2011, with four short plays by leading international playwrights.

Performed by an ensemble cast and directed by Matthew Lloyd, we present four short interpretations of freedom, inspired by the four cups of wine drunk at the Seder. Written by Arnold Wesker, Eve Ensler, Ryan Craig and Amy Rosenthal and cut with live music from the Seder House Band.

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Paradox Trio (literal) will be starting a monthly residency at Barbes in Brooklyn this Thursday eve.

Friday April 3rd (8 PM - 1 set)
Barbes
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave),
Brooklyn, NY

Matt Darriau reeds & kaval
Brad Shepik guitar
Seido Salifoski dumbeks and perc

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Kabbalah

Thursday, April 3 at 9:30pm
Sonderbar
Unterer Bürglass 10
96450 Coburg, Germany

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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

Friday, April 4, 7pm
Swarthmore College
Lang Concert Hall in the Lang Music Building
Swarthmore, PA

INFO AND TICKETS: calendar.swarthmore.edu

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.

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Kabbalah

Friday, April 4 at 9:00pm
Scheune Dresden
Alaunstr. 36-40,
01099 Dresden, Germany
Tix: frontoffice.paylogic.nl

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1400051983584366/

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Tom English's Birthday Bash Benefit

Saturday, April 5at 1:00pm - 6:00pm
Arlene's Grocery
95 Stanton St.,
New York, New York 10002

Great concerts on the stage and a 5 hour session in the bar. Cillian Vallely (Lunasa) Lisa Gutkin (Whirligig, Klezmatics), Tony Demarco, Buddy Cage (New Riders), Dessie Groarke, Marie Barrett, John Walsh, John Redmond, so far. Keep checking Facebook for more performers.

The goal is to get Tom's wife Klara Zikova-English and their kids some money to make living in New York easier (because we don't want them to go back to Czech Republic or Ireland!) and to start a college fund for their future.

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The Afro-Semitic Experience continues to celebrate the release of our new CD, Jazz Souls on Fire

Saturday, April 5 8:00 p.m.
Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple
222 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, New Jersey

For tickets and more info please contact Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple at (732) 545-6468 or visit their website: www.aemt.net

We hope you can join us for this special event and that you will share this info with your friends and family.

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David Krakauer, Matt Haimovitz, Cocalled, and friends present:
"Akoka—the End of Time" CD release tour

Sat, Apr 5, 2014, 8:00pm
Mondavi Center
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA

Tix: $12.50-$49. Purchase tickets online

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Andrea Pancur & Ilya Shneyveys
ALPEN KLEZMER – Das Konzert

Apr 5, 2014, 20:00
Seidlvilla
Nikolaiplatz 1
80802 München, Deutschland

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GOODNIGHT CIRCUS (Berlin-Gipsy-Swing) + Kabbalah (Marseille-Balkan-Klezmer-Worldmusik) + DJs

Sa. 5.04.2014, 9pm
Glyzerin
Gögginger Straße 28,
86159 Augsburg, Germany

The Goodnight Circus reiste früher radfahrend durch die Welt und verbindet Zirkus und Musik, vermischt Gypsy- und Klezmerelemente mit New Orleans-Jazz und Rock’n’Roll, und macht daraus anarchisch-swingige Tanzmusik. Schräg, wild und authentisch – ein Geheimtipp aus dem Berliner Untergrund!

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/256985067815799/

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Sunday, April 6, 11:00am
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street,
New York, New York 10011

Tix: www.smarttix.com

Around 1900, East European Jews became acutely aware of the impact of modernization and urbanization on their culture: on their songs, their tales, and customs. They set in motion a wide range of projects and institutions to gather, archive, and study fading folklore. YIVO was a pioneer in this push, along with a galaxy of Polish and Russian (later Soviet) activists. Today, with the loss of the original population and the huge demographic and cultural shifts of world Jewry, the surviving archives both preserve and channel a rising tide of interest, even a hunger, for what's called "Yiddish" music and folklore.

This symposium brings together archivists, scholars and performers to discuss the history and creation of Yiddish folk music archives, and the future of the study and performance of Yiddish song today. What is the role of Jewish music archives in fostering new scholarship and Yiddish music?

The event is dedicated to the memory of Chana Mlotek, YIVO's Music Archivist from 1978 until her recent passing at age 91 in 2013.

Chair: Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University

More info: yivo.org/events/index.php?tid=202&aid=1253
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1385490075009062/

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Andrea Pancur & Ilya Shneyveys
ALPEN KLEZMER – Das Konzert

Apr 6, 2014, 11:00
Kleines Theater
Casinostr. 75
85540 Haar

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Members of the Tufts World, Ethnic, Folk, and Traditional music faculty present a concert of music of India, Japan, Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, North America, Armenia, and other locales from around the globe. Featuring performance faculty members Beth Bahia Cohen (Turkish yayli tanbur and violin), Mal Barsamian (oud),
Elizabeth Reian Bennett (shakuhachi), Cathleen Read (koto), Michael McLaughlin (accordion), Rich Stillman (banjo), Warren Senders (Hindustani vocals), Fabio Pirozzolo (dumbek), and guests Sandy Theodorou (laouto and vocals), Andy Blickenderfer (bass)

Sun, Apr 6, 2014, 3pm
Distler Performance Hall,
Granoff Music Center
20 Talbot Ave, Somerville, MA

Free; no tickets required
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1389221081354119/

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Mimi Rabson's Strings Theory Trio
Chamber Music with an Improvisational Edge
w/special guests: Berklee's FISE - Free Improvisation String Ensemble

Sunday, Apr 6, 2014, 3pm
Loring-Greenough House
12 South St.,
Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA

Tix: $15/10
Reservations: 617 527 3158

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Concert Klezmer, yiddish, swing & tango...
avec Anne-Claire Monnier (chant) et Hotegezugt

Dimanche 6 avril 2014 à 17h
Salle Communale de Tannay
1295 Tannay, Suisse

Entrée : 20 CHF / Etudiants, AVS, etc : 15 CHF / entrée libre jusqu'à 16 ans

Michel Borzykowski (saxophones), Christine Regard (violon), Sylvie Bossi (accordéon),
Frédéric Berney (contrebasse) et David Morhain (percussions).
Présentation: Eduardo Kahane.

Et on pourra danser !

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Isle of Klezbos CD release show

SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 7:30pm
Joe's Pub at The Public
425 Lafayette St (betw E. 4th St/Astor Pl)
NYC

$14, all ages
212-967-7555
Menu & bar: Table reservations 212-539-8778
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Klezmer session at The Harrison

Sunday 6 Apr, 2014, 8-10.30pm
The Harrison,
28 Harrison Street,
London WC1H 8JF

The London Klezmer Quartet anchors this monthly slot. Bring an instrument and a tune to share, or just come along to listen.

pdfs of tunes

Free entry

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VII Annual Klezwoods April Residency "Sessions" @ The Lilypad
Tonight's theme: "Juxtopositions" w) Schooltree

Sun, Apr 6, 9pm
The Lilypad
1353 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA
$10

4 nights every Sunday in April. Klezwoods is bringing in a different supporting artist every week for themed shows and will be working on new original pieces by different band members.

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Klezmer Mondays at Saul's 6-8pm!
This week, guest artists The Red Hot Chachkas

Apr 7, 2014, 6–8pm
Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen
1475 Shattuck,
Berkeley, CA
No cover; $10 minimum purchase
(510) 848-3354

Facebook: www.facebook.com/SaulsDeli/events

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New York Klezmer Series:
Brian Glassman’s Klezmer Jazz Alliance

Tuesday, April 8, 2014
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,
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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From April 9 to 13 at HERE Arts Center, actor Adam Boncz will perform "Fatelessness," the first stage adaptation of the novel of the same name by Imre Kertész, recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Wed, Apr 9, 2014, 7pm
HERE Arts Center
145 Sixth Ave. (enter on Dominick Street one block south of Spring)
NYC

Tickets $15, Box office www.here.org or call 212-352-3101

The book is the story of a Hungarian teenage boy who survives a passage through three WWII concentration camps. The play is a 75-minute rendition of the book, adapted verbatim by Andras Visky from the translation by Tim Wilkinson. Gia Forakis directs.

Kertész’s novel is considered one of the outstanding works of the Holocaust literature and contemporary European literature in general. Hungarian-American actor Adam Boncz is the first person to have the rights to adapt the novel to the stage. This debut production will be presented by SceneHouse Productions and Gia Forakis & Company. It coincides with the 70th Anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust and is supported in part by the Hungary Initiative Foundation. The evening will be a stylized performance interweaving music, images, and video from the story’s era.
Fatelessness

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Shir Madness

Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Watertown, Massachusetts Free Public Library
123 Main Street,
Watertown, MA
www.watertownlib.org/events/all

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From April 9 to 13 at HERE Arts Center, actor Adam Boncz will perform "Fatelessness," the first stage adaptation of the novel of the same name by Imre Kertész, recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 7pm
HERE Arts Center
145 Sixth Ave. (enter on Dominick Street one block south of Spring)
NYC

Tickets $15, Box office www.here.org or call 212-352-3101

The book is the story of a Hungarian teenage boy who survives a passage through three WWII concentration camps. The play is a 75-minute rendition of the book, adapted verbatim by Andras Visky from the translation by Tim Wilkinson. Gia Forakis directs.

Kertész’s novel is considered one of the outstanding works of the Holocaust literature and contemporary European literature in general. Hungarian-American actor Adam Boncz is the first person to have the rights to adapt the novel to the stage. This debut production will be presented by SceneHouse Productions and Gia Forakis & Company. It coincides with the 70th Anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust and is supported in part by the Hungary Initiative Foundation. The evening will be a stylized performance interweaving music, images, and video from the story’s era.
Fatelessness

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Vent D'ouest Klezmer Band

11/04/2014, 20h30
Concert salle Polyvalente
Saint Paterne (72)

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From April 9 to 13 at HERE Arts Center, actor Adam Boncz will perform "Fatelessness," the first stage adaptation of the novel of the same name by Imre Kertész, recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Fri, Apr 11, 2014, 7pm
HERE Arts Center
145 Sixth Ave. (enter on Dominick Street one block south of Spring)
NYC

Tickets $15, Box office www.here.org or call 212-352-3101

The book is the story of a Hungarian teenage boy who survives a passage through three WWII concentration camps. The play is a 75-minute rendition of the book, adapted verbatim by Andras Visky from the translation by Tim Wilkinson. Gia Forakis directs.

Kertész’s novel is considered one of the outstanding works of the Holocaust literature and contemporary European literature in general. Hungarian-American actor Adam Boncz is the first person to have the rights to adapt the novel to the stage. This debut production will be presented by SceneHouse Productions and Gia Forakis & Company. It coincides with the 70th Anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust and is supported in part by the Hungary Initiative Foundation. The evening will be a stylized performance interweaving music, images, and video from the story’s era.
Fatelessness

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From April 9 to 13 at HERE Arts Center, actor Adam Boncz will perform "Fatelessness," the first stage adaptation of the novel of the same name by Imre Kertész, recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Sat, Apr 12, 2014, 7pm
HERE Arts Center
145 Sixth Ave. (enter on Dominick Street one block south of Spring)
NYC

Tickets $15, Box office www.here.org or call 212-352-3101

The book is the story of a Hungarian teenage boy who survives a passage through three WWII concentration camps. The play is a 75-minute rendition of the book, adapted verbatim by Andras Visky from the translation by Tim Wilkinson. Gia Forakis directs.

Kertész’s novel is considered one of the outstanding works of the Holocaust literature and contemporary European literature in general. Hungarian-American actor Adam Boncz is the first person to have the rights to adapt the novel to the stage. This debut production will be presented by SceneHouse Productions and Gia Forakis & Company. It coincides with the 70th Anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust and is supported in part by the Hungary Initiative Foundation. The evening will be a stylized performance interweaving music, images, and video from the story’s era.
Fatelessness

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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 Apr 13, 2014 features Alon Nechushtan.

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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From April 9 to 13 at HERE Arts Center, actor Adam Boncz will perform "Fatelessness," the first stage adaptation of the novel of the same name by Imre Kertész, recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 2pm
HERE Arts Center
145 Sixth Ave. (enter on Dominick Street one block south of Spring)
NYC

Tickets $15, Box office www.here.org or call 212-352-3101

The book is the story of a Hungarian teenage boy who survives a passage through three WWII concentration camps. The play is a 75-minute rendition of the book, adapted verbatim by Andras Visky from the translation by Tim Wilkinson. Gia Forakis directs.

Kertész’s novel is considered one of the outstanding works of the Holocaust literature and contemporary European literature in general. Hungarian-American actor Adam Boncz is the first person to have the rights to adapt the novel to the stage. This debut production will be presented by SceneHouse Productions and Gia Forakis & Company. It coincides with the 70th Anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust and is supported in part by the Hungary Initiative Foundation. The evening will be a stylized performance interweaving music, images, and video from the story’s era.
Fatelessness

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David Krakauer, Matt Haimovitz, Cocalled, and friends present:
"Akoka—the End of Time" CD release tour

Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 8:30pm
Teatro Comunale
Auditorium Teatro Manzoni
Bologna, Italy

Purchase tickets online

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VII Annual Klezwoods April Residency "Sessions" @ The Lilypad
Tonight's theme: "Balkan Brass Night" w) Cocek

Sun, Apr 13, 9pm
The Lilypad
1353 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA
$10

4 nights every Sunday in April. Klezwoods is bringing in a different supporting artist every week for themed shows and will be working on new original pieces by different band members.

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Purim is here! Fun, games, music celebration and so much more!
Bring the whole Family!

For the first time ever, 4 San Francisco Congregations have come together to sponsor this event!
Beth Israel Judea, B'nai Emunah, Ner Tamid and Or Shalom
(Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative all under 1 tent!)

Saturday Evening, March 15

Purim Celebration with KLEZMANIA!
ALL ARE WELCOME!

The evening menu:
6-7 - Vegetarian potluck dinner
7-815 - Megilla readings
815-830 - Havdallah
830-10 - KLEZMANIA!, dessert and beverage bar

[childcare provided]
$5 suggested donation for visitors at the Door (NICE PRICE!)

Beth Israel Judea/Or Shalom
625 Brotherhood Way
San Francisco, CA 94

415-586-8833

More info: bnaiemunahsf.org/events/2014-03-15/600-pm-purim

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Ezekiel's Wheels w/Alba's Edge

Sunday, June 1 at 8PM
Club Passim
47 Palmer Street,
Cambridge, MA

$15/$13 for members
Tix online

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Jake Shulman-Ment
The Klezmer/Roma (Gypsy) Connection: A Musical Voyage in Romania

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מיקראָפֿאָן דכל דכפֿין / Open Mic in Yiddish

THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014 | 7pm
YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
NYC

Master of Ceremonies Shane Baker and special guests

Admission: Free
RSVP Required: yivo.org/reservations | 212.294.6140

אַ חול-המועד-הוליאַנקע! פֿאַרברענגט אַן אָוונט פֿון ייִדישע פֿאָרשטעלונגען מיטן באַקאַנטן שטערן פֿון דער ייִדישער בינע שיין בייקער, מרים־חיה סגל, שיינדל ראָמיין און חנה טעמפּל, און ווײַזט אַרויס אײַער ייִדישן טאַלאַנט בײַ אונדזער טאַלאַנטאַרניע. ברענגט אײַערע מוזיקאַלישע אינסטרומענטן, אײַערע לידער, מאָנאָלאָגן, מאַניפֿעסטאָס, פֿילמען - אַלץ אויף ייִדיש. מע דאַרף זיך פֿאַרשרײַבן 7 אַ זייגער, די טאַלאַנטאַרניע הייבט זיך אָן 7:30.

We want your talent in Yiddish! Join celebrated host, actor and singer Shane Baker, and special guests for a fun, intimate night of Yiddish performance. Bring your instruments, poems, monologues, manifestos, and films in Yiddish. Sign up starts at 7:00pm, open mic starts at 7:30pm.

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Exodus Brooklyn Dance Party with Zion80 Jewish ~ Afrobeat / Sharabi featuring Frank London & Deep Singh Bhangra ~ Klezmer
Matt Darriau Gaida Electrique Balkan - Gypsy

Thursday, April 17at 8:00pm
Europa,
98-104 Meserole Ave., at Manhattan Ave.,
Brooklyn, NY, US

Tix, $15: www.ticketweb.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1460061780874159/

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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 Apr 20, 2014 features Jake Shulman-Ment.

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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VII Annual Klezwoods April Residency "Sessions" @ The Lilypad
Tonight's theme: "Gypsy Night" w) Somerville Symphony Orkestar

Sun, April 20th, 9pm
The Lilypad
1353 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA
$10

4 nights every Sunday in April. Klezwoods is bringing in a different supporting artist every week for themed shows and will be working on new original pieces by different band members.

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Klezmer Mondays at Saul's 6-8pm!
This week, guest artists Ellis Island Old World Folk Band

Apr 21, 2014, 6–8pm
Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen
1475 Shattuck,
Berkeley, CA
No cover; $10 minimum purchase
(510) 848-3354

Facebook: www.facebook.com/SaulsDeli/events

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New York Klezmer Series: Student Concert & Aaron Alexander's Klez Messengers

Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014
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,
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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New York Klezmer Series: Isaac Sadigursky

Tuesday, Apr 22, 2014
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,
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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Hofstra's University's Astman International Concert series presents Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi
with special guests Irving Flores (piano), Gene Perry (percussion) and Stephanie Richards (trumpet)
present "A Yidishe Mambo" (Jewish songs with Latin rhythms),

April 22, 2015 7pm:
Smith Recital Hall,
San Diego State University.
For more info: www.jewishstudies.sdsu.edu
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Bessarabian Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party & Workshop featuring Isaac Sadigursky and an all-star band.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St.
NYC

Lace up your dancing shoes for a special evening of Bessarabian-Jewish klezmer featuring a rare NY-appearance by LA-based clarinetist/accordionist Isaac Sadigursky, originally of Moldova, and dance leading by Avia Moore. All-star ensemble includes Aaron Alexander (percussion), Frank London (trumpet), Christina Crowder (accordion), Jake Shulman-Ment (violin), Alex Kontorovich (clarinet) and Sam Sadigursky (reeds).

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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Heather Klein Presents
YIDDISH SPRING
Concert in honor of Yom HaShoah

April 24th at 6:30 p.m.
April 27th at 2:00 p.m. Pre-concert talk at 1:30 p.m.
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission St.
San Francisco

Miriam and SarahBay Area soprano Heather Klein performs “Mame Loshn,” an art song cycle in Yiddish by the composer Miriam Miller, with text by Miller’s grandmother, Sarah Traister Moskovitz, from her book of poetry, “Come to the Table.”

The program also features chamber ensemble performances of Yiddish songs written by other living composers from around the world. Klein is joined in performance by members of her Bay Area ensemble, The Inextinguishable Trio, the internationally renowned Bay Area trio Veretski Pass, and guest violinist Steven Greenman of Cleveland.

Part of the 29th Jewish Music Festival
More info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/yiddish-spring-concert-in-honor-of-yom-hashoah

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DER NES IN GETO (A Miracle in Warsaw Ghetto)
FREE at Baruch, sponsored by CUNY

THURSDAY, APRIL 24 @ 7PM
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue (enter 25th Street)
NY, NY 10010
Call (646) 312-5073. Reservations are required.
The National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene

Authored in 1944, by H. Leyvick, just one year after the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, this epic drama tells the story of the bravery of one family and their neighbors who fought against overwhelming odds to declare to the world “Mir Zaynen Do!” (We Are Here!) Presented together with the Yiddish Book Center and the Workmen’s Circle / Arbeter Ring.

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Women's Voices Around The World: Eva Salina, Lisa Gutkin, and Dolunay

Thurs, Apr 24, 8:30pm
Jalopy Theatre and School of Music
315 Columbia Street,
Brooklyn, New York

Join us for a fantastic evening of music with...
9:00 - Eva Salina Primack - "Eva’s rich, versatile, agile, deep and powerful voice and her enthusiastic, skillful, inspired and inspiring teaching have led her to quickly become a reknowned singer, interpreter, and teacher of Traditional Balkan Vocal music."

9:45 - Lisa Gutkin - w/ Uri Sharlin on accordion
& Rémy Yulzari, Double Bassist
As Grammy-winning violinist and song writer for The Klezmatics, Gutkin has consistently proven a masterful musician. But fans who have only witnessed her within the context of the Klezmatics have experienced just a fragment of what this multi-faceted artist is capable of producing. She might swing seamlessly from traditional Irish fiddle tunes to blues, Balkan or Appalachian sounds. Or she might put the violin down altogether, pick up a tenor guitar and sing one of her own universally resonant songs. Wherever she goes Gutkin has an uncanny way of taking the audience with her.

10:30 - Dolunay NYC - Dolunay (Turkish for “full moon”) plays the songs of the people of Turkish descent who lived across Rumeli, the southern Balkan region of the Ottoman Empire. Dolunay brings new life to the timeless songs and melodies of this region, known for its rich cultural diversity. Based in Brooklyn, the group features top-notch musicians from the NY music scene.

Tickets available online
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/567623080025492/

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She'koyokh

25 Apr, 2014, 8pm
Norwich Arts Centre,
St. Benedict's Street,
Norwich, NR2 4PG, UK

Tix: £10.00 adv : £12.00 door
Purchase tickets online

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A Klezmer's Voice - A Musical Search For Identity And Connection
w/Susanne Ortner

Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 3pm
The Andy Warhol Museum
117 Sandusky St
Pittsburgh, PA

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1443123552593091/

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Millie and the Mentshn present:
Heavy Mettle: From Shtetl to Tin Pan Alley

Saturday, April 26, 2014
Doors Open 7:00 PM, Concert 7:30-9:00 PM
The Firehouse Performing Arts Center
1314 Harris Ave,
Bellingham, WA 98225

Tickets: $15 at the door, $10 ($11.34 w/service fee) prior to April 26, 2014 via Brown Paper tickets
Seating is limited.

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She'koyokh

26 Apr, 2014
Clare Hall,
Cambridge, UK

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Alon Nechushtan Trio

Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 10:30pm
=Whynot Jazz Room
14 Christopher Street,
New York, New York

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/238911636309999/

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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 April 27, 2014 features Isle of Klezbos,

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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Heather Klein Presents
YIDDISH SPRING
Concert in honor of Yom HaShoah

April 24th at 6:30 p.m.
April 27th at 2:00 p.m. Pre-concert talk at 1:30 p.m.
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission St.
San Francisco

Miriam and SarahBay Area soprano Heather Klein performs “Mame Loshn,” an art song cycle in Yiddish by the composer Miriam Miller, with text by Miller’s grandmother, Sarah Traister Moskovitz, from her book of poetry, “Come to the Table.”

The program also features chamber ensemble performances of Yiddish songs written by other living composers from around the world. Klein is joined in performance by members of her Bay Area ensemble, The Inextinguishable Trio, the internationally renowned Bay Area trio Veretski Pass, and guest violinist Steven Greenman of Cleveland.

Part of the 29th Jewish Music Festival
More info: www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/yiddish-spring-concert-in-honor-of-yom-hashoah

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Klezmokum / Klez-Edge

27 April, 2014, 3-6pm
Synagoge Maastricht
Capucijnengang 2
Maastricht, the Netherlands

Following the success of Klezmokum’s “Old & New Gold” project in synagogues and culture centers in 2011-12 in the Netherlands, we now follow up this project with “Klez-Evergreens” which is a compilation of some of our best instrumental material over our 24 years of existence. Several of these pieces have been performed often but not recorded: some of the best repertoire not only of Klezmokum, but our instrumental subsidiaries: Klez-Edge and Klez-thetics. The music was/is quite accessible or popular with our audiences and will include the following: Klezmer traditional dance (freylekh) type pieces: Varshaver Freylekhs, , Sherele, and another klez-classic in a Balkan-style arrangement: Ketsad M’rakdin. From the great Chassidic literature will be Chassidic Song, Zhuritze Chlopotzi, and Dance of Safad. From the Klez-Edge recording on Tzadik Records: Oy Joy, and from our first Klezmokum CD (1992: Dedication. Also included are A Cozy Winter Veggy Soup from our Klez-thetics recoding (2003), and (from the classic film:) the poignant Theme from Schindler’s List. And finally.. a surprise twist: a lovely piece by the great jazz pianist/composer John Lewis that uses the Magen Abot Jewish mode scale..(Come to one of the concert to find out what it is!) The public is welcome to come for any of these concerts.

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Yes, We Sang!
Songs of Communities that Disappeared
A Musical Tribute to the Victims of the Holocaust

Sunday, April 27, 2014, 4:00 PM
JCC East Bay,
1414 Walnut Street,
Berkeley, CA

Join us as we celebrate the music of communities lost in the Holocaust. Our three choirs will sing for you and with you as we remember their songs in Yiddish, Ladino, and Hebrew. Lyrics will be provided for the community sing-along.

Participating Choirs:

• Nigunim Community Chorus
• The Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco
• Kol Truah Jewish Choir of the East Bay

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/472274482895644/

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The Boston Workmen's Circle welcomes back "Klezmer Jam" to its programming:

The Permanent Floating Klezmer Jam is in residence at the Boston
Workmen's Circle! Join Jonathan Cannon and Nat Seelen of Ezekiel's
Wheels Klezmer Band for awesome tunes and good times at the Workmen's
Circle. We will play classics and originals together from sheet music
and by ear.

Welcoming musicians of all instruments and of varying levels.

4-6 pm. Every 4th Sunday of the month.
April 27th
May 25th

Sessions held at the
Boston Workmen's Circle Building:
1762 Beacon St.
Brookline, MA

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VII Annual Klezwoods April Residency "Sessions" @ The Lilypad
Tonight's theme: "Belly Dance Extravaganza 2014" w) Rakiya and featuring Urban Nomad Dance Troupe, led by Hybrid

Sun, April 27th, 10pm
The Lilypad
1353 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA
$10

4 nights every Sunday in April. Klezwoods is bringing in a different supporting artist every week for themed shows and will be working on new original pieces by different band members.

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Klezmer Mondays at Saul’s
Featuring Saul Goodman Klezmer Band: Mike Perlmutter (clarinet, saxophone), Dave Rosenfeld (mandolin, fiddle, and percussion), Dmitri Gaskin (accordion), & friends.
Visiting artists also featured.

Apr 28, 2014, 6-8pm!
Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen
1475 Shattuck,
Berkeley, CA
No cover; $10 minimum purchase
(510) 848-3354

Two year anniversary celebration!
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SaulsDeli/events

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Zion80

Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 8pm and 10pm
The Stone
corner of Ave. C & 2nd St.
NYC

Join us on April 28 and May 5 at The Stone in NYC as Zion80 puts the Jewish Afrobeat spin on music from John Zorn's acclaimed Book of Angels. Sets are at 8pm and 10pm each Monday night. The Stone is located at the corner of Ave. C & 2nd St. in Manhattan.

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Bobby Spellman's Underground Society Band with Cocek!

Monday, April 28at 9:00pm - 12:30am
Middle East Corner
472 Mass Ave.
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/244748822364954/

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New York Klezmer Series:
Susan Leviton Band, featuring Michael Winograd

Tuesday, April 29, 2014
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,
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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Tufts Takht and the Jumbo Knish Factory in Concert. These two groups present a joint program featuring music from Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Israel, and Eastern Europe. Kareem Roustom and Michael McLaughlin, directors. Free; no tickets required.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 8:00 PM
Distler Performance Hall
Granoff Music Center
Tufts University's Medford/Somerville campus.

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Opening concert Jiddisch Festival Leeuwarden

Apr 30, 2014, 8pm
Tresoar
Boterhoek 1
Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

Yiddish songs and Frisian poems experience a confluence in the sizzling performance of singer Lucette van den Berg and poet Tsead Bruinja. Last summer, they exchanged poetry and music on 'What has remained of love', on 'The great longing' and on 'Lying next to each other exhausted, slowly seeking each other’s hands'.

More info: www.jiddischfestivalleeuwarden.nl

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/222331957967575/

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Noa (Achinoam Nini)

Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 8pm
Highline Ballroom
431 W. 16th St.
NYC

Tix: www.ticketweb.com
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