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Klezmer session at The Harrison
Sunday Apr 3, 2016, 8-10.30pm
The Harrison,
28 Harrison Street,
London WC1H 8JF
Join Ilana Cravitz and friends for a new monthly Klezmer session at The Harrison in Kings Cross.
First Sunday of every month, 8-10.30pm on the Ground Floor.
(No brass or percussion instruments)
Spectacular! See you there?
Free to listen or play
pdfs of tunes
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1540888606157169/
KULTUR FESTIVAL 2016
Bernstein’s Jeremiah Symphony + KlezmerJAZZ
March 6, 2016 at 3:00 PM
Carole and Barry Kaye
Performing Arts Auditorium
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL
TICKETS: $20, $29, $39, $45
More info/tickets
tel: 800-564-9539
Aaron Kula will lead two different KCO ensembles in a truly unique and innovative “crossover concert” that features a 60 member symphony orchestra and a 14 member Klezmer Jazz band. Kula will conduct a full performance of Bernstein’s rarely heard “Jeremiah Symphony” with soprano Jovanca Jean-Baptiste singing the Hebrew text. KCO’s Klezmer jazz ensemble will also perform selections from their newly released CD JubanoJazz and works by the winners of the 2016 Composition Competition. This year mark’s KCO’s 19th season at FAU under the direction of conductor/accordionist Aaron Kula with works selected from FAU Libraries’ Jewish Print Music Collection.
Itzhak Perlman's 20th Anniversary Concert of In the Fiddler's House
Presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston
Sunday, March 6, 2016, 7 PM
Symphony Hall,
301 Massachusetts Ave.
Boston, MA
Featuring Hankus Netsky, music director, saxophone and piano, Andy Statman clarinet and mandolin, Members of the Brave Old World and Klezmer Conservatory Band and other special guests.
Twenty years have passed since Itzhak Perlman released his stunningly successful and beloved klezmer recording and PBS special, In the Fiddler’s House. Perlman revisits this important, personal project celebrating the klezmer tradition at Symphony Hall with some of his closest musical friends.
Klezmer session at The Harrison
Sunday Mar 6, 2016, 8-10.30pm
The Harrison,
28 Harrison Street,
London WC1H 8JF
Join Ilana Cravitz and friends for a new monthly Klezmer session at The Harrison in Kings Cross.
First Sunday of every month, 8-10.30pm on the Ground Floor.
(No brass or percussion instruments)
Spectacular! See you there?
Free to listen or play
pdfs of tunes
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1540888606157169/
KULTUR FESTIVAL 2016
Jewish Roots & Turkish Blues
with Shtreiml & Ismail Fencioglu
Mon, March 7, 2016 at 19:30 PM
Wimberly Library, 5th Fl
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL
TICKETS: $15
More info/tickets
tel: 800-564-9539
Shtreiml & Ismail Fencioglu perform an innovative program of music rooted in the Ottoman and Jewish traditions brimming with hard-rock sensibilities and dexterous improvisational know-how. It is replete with fleet-fingered oud playing, fiery harmonica brilliance all powered by their rhythm section's incomparable Balkan flair. In 2014 they were nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award.
KULTUR FESTIVAL 2016
Yiddish Opera and Chazzanut with Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell
Thu, March 10, 2016 at 19:30 PM
Wimberly Library, 5th Fl
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL
TICKETS: $15
More info/tickets
tel: 800-564-9539
San Francisco opera singer Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell specializes in the music of Sidor Belarsky, a prolific twentieth century performer of Chazzanut, Chassidic Nigunim and Yiddish song. Russell has performed extensively throughout the US and Canada. This program features “soulful” music that remembers tradition and hopes for a redemptive future.
"The new voice of Yiddish music"—Huffington Post
KULTUR FESTIVAL 2016
Jewish Melodies in JazzTime Brian Potts Vibraphone Quartet
Sat, March 12, 2016 at 19:30 PM
Wimberly Library, 5th Fl
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL
TICKETS: $15
More info/tickets
tel: 800-564-9539
Vibraphonist Brian Potts and his jazz quartet return by popular demand to perform new arrangements of Yiddish, Israeli, Russian, Hungarian and Chassidic melodies. Popular Jewish tunes will be reimagined in styles reminiscent of acclaimed jazz vibraphone musicians Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson and Gary Burton. Potts and his quartet will seamlessly blend familiar Jewish melodies with jazz and bossa nova to create a unique musical experience.