KlezCalendar

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Break the Chains party with The Shondes (the Klezmershack's favorite transgressive band) w/Special guests Raq City, Reynaliz Hererra, and Steph Barrak

June 3, 2017, 5-10pm (5-10pm (come at 5 for a digital security training for queers)
Make Shift Boston
549 Columbus Ave

$10-20 sliding scale (no one turned away)
all ages, wheelchair accessible
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The London Klezmer Quartet

Sat, Jun 3, 2017, 7:30pm
Newington Green Unitarian Church
39A Newington Green,
Stoke Newington, London N16 9PR

LKQ returns to the wonderfully atmospheric Unitarian chapel on Newington Green for an acoustic performance.
£11 in advance (Including booking fee), £13 on the door; £5.50 in advance for MU, students, under 16s (incl. booking fee), £6 on the door.

Tickets: www.wegottickets.com/event/396549

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5th Annual Sholem Aleichem Klez Fest
Featuring Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Adrianne Greenbaum's Fleytmuzik with Brian Glassman and Rayhan Pasternak, MC Psoy Korolenko, Dance Leader Sonia Gollance. Open jam for all musicians—bring your instrument and dancing shoes!

Sunday, June 4, 2017, 1:30-4:00 PM
Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center
3301 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx, NY
Located one block from Montefiore Hospital. Take the D
train to 205th St. or the 4 to Moshulu Parkway.

Admission: $10. For more information, call 917-930-0295.
This event is supported by the Center for Traditional
Music and Dance and the National Endowment for the Arts

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Sunday Jun 4, 2017, 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
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Summertime Klezmer Course

Mon – Wed, Jun 5–7, 2017
Benslow Music
Benslow Lane
Hitchin
Hertfordshire SG4 9RB, UK

Tel: 01462 459446
Resident: £280 Non-Resident: £205 Code: 16/257
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The London Klezmer Quartet returns for a summertime course designed for instrumentalists (including keyboard players) from all musical backgrounds, classical, folk or jazz. Applicants must be of at least roughly grade 4 level (no formal qualifications needed), and an ability to read music helps, though it’s not essential. The LKQ’s coaching is all about interactive learning. They concentrate on repertoire and attention to melody, accompaniment and ornamentation, and if appropriate will also introduce dance elements to the course. Oral and aural learning methods will help those unfamiliar with it acquaint themselves to the style more quickly - though we hope for many return visitors! Putting music into its historical context is an important part of the course, as is the telling of stories of musicians past and present.

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Summertime Klezmer Course

Mon – Wed, Jun 5–7, 2017
Benslow Music
Benslow Lane
Hitchin
Hertfordshire SG4 9RB, UK

Tel: 01462 459446
Resident: £280 Non-Resident: £205 Code: 16/257
More info/reservations

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Summertime Klezmer Course

Mon – Wed, Jun 5–7, 2017
Benslow Music
Benslow Lane
Hitchin
Hertfordshire SG4 9RB, UK

Tel: 01462 459446
Resident: £280 Non-Resident: £205 Code: 16/257
More info/reservations

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Ilene Stahl & Klezperanto

Thu, Jun 8, 2017, 7pm
The Burren
247 Elm Street
Somerville, MA 02144

With solid klezmer roots, spectacular technical virtuosity, and a wry sense of humor, Ilene Stahl and an all-star line-up of Boston's best musicians re-groove traditional klezmer and Mediterranean melodies, rip up Romanian surf tunes, cover cop show themes and cumbias, slay a few standards, and burnish it all to a funky finish.Since 1999, the six-piece instrumental band has delivered irresistible dance music from everywhere except your cousin's bar mitzvah. Klezperanto's fans know: It's No Hora Show!

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Thurs, Jun 8, 2017, 8-11pm
The Harrison,
28 Harrison Street,
London WC1H 8JF

2nd Thursday of each month: Balkan, gypsy, klezmer, Russian music - even a bit of Turkish or Greek.... come and share your tunes at the 2nd Thursday East European jam, downstairs at The Harrison from 8pm every month with house band 'Bucimis Trio' (Susi Evans, Matt Bacon and Chrisina Borgenstierna).

All instruments welcome, including brass and percussion

Free / Donation
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Brookline Porchfest 2017

Saturday, June 10th 12-6pm
Brookline, MA

Among the performers, Too Klez for Comfort, playing twice:
1:00 at 65 Upland Rd., and 4:00 at Temple Ohabei Shalom.

More info: www.facebook.com/brooklineporchfest/

Brookline's 2nd Annual Porchfest is coming up soon! On Saturday, June 10th from noon until 6pm (rain date: June 17), porches across the town will be sharing music with their neighborhood.

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YIDDISH AND BRITISH ON BROADWAY

Sunday, June 11, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Symphony Space,
2537 Broadway @ 95th Street
New York City

Tix/more info

Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus
Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor
with guest soloists Cantor Joel Caplan, Temma Schaechter, and pianist Seth Weinstein
Including works by Gilbert & Sullivan (in Yiddish), Mordechai Gebirtig, and songs from the Second Avenue Yiddish Theatre including "Ikh hob dikh tsu fil lib" ("I Love You Much Too Much")

DETAILED ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS PROVIDED

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Metropolitan Klezmer

Sunday, June 11, 2017, 7:30pm
The Towne Crier
379 Main Street
Beacon NY
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A Yiddish Liederabend—an evening of Yiddish Song

Tue, Jun 13, 2017, 6:30pm pre-concert lecture / 7:00pm concert
YIVO
15 W. 16th St.
New York, NY 10011
(212) 246-6080

Admission: $15 / Seniors & students: $10
More info/tix
Or call 212.868.4444

An elegant as well as nostalgic program devoted to treasures of Yiddish song and the poetry that has inspired this musical expression in all its variety of style. Presented in the intimate chamber music setting of a traditional classical Liederabend (song evening) appropriate to the immediacy of this cherished genre, the recital will feature four of its leading interpreters: Ida Rae Cahana, Elizabeth Shammash, Raphael Frieder, and Alberto Mizrahi together with world renowned virtuoso pianist Yehudi Wyner. Offerings will include songs by Lazar Weiner, Moses Milner, Solomon Rosowsky, Solomon Golub, Janot Roskin, Mikhl Gelbart, Mordecai Gebirtig, Joel Engel, and Maurice Rauch, along with artistic settings of some of the most beloved Yiddish folksongs, and capped by melodious echoes of the best of Yiddish theater.

The concept and content of this Yiddish Liederabend has been devised by YIVO’s Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor in Residence in Music, Neil W. Levin, who will deliver the pre-concert lecture on the development of the Yiddish lieder tradition and its literary basis.

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Naftule's Dream

Tuesday June 14, 2017, 7:30pm
The Lily Pad,
1353 Cambridge St.,
Cambridge, MA.

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Central Park SummerStage and the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene proudly present
Yiddish Soul 2017

Featuring
The Grammy Award Winning KLEZMATICS
ZUSHA the Chassidic hipster Band
THE MACCABEATS the world class a capella group
with appearances by Cantor Yanky Lemmer of Lincoln Square Synagogue
and Cantor Chaim David Berson of Manhattan Jewish Center

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 7pm
Central Park SummerStage
Central Park near E. 72nd St. & 5th Ave.
New York, NY 10021

Admission is free Doors open at 6pm

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3 Leg Torso
Astoria Music Festival

THURSDAY, JUNE 15th, 7:30 PM
Liberty Theatre
1203 Commercial st.
Astoria, Oregon

Join 3LT and special guest vocalist, Minntah Haefker Astoria's Historic Liberty Theatre
Tickets: (503) 325-5922 Ext. 55

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A Day of Remembrance

Thu, June 15, 2017, 7:30pm
Oberon
2 Arrow Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Martha Graham Cracker is considered to be Philadelphia’s best cabaret performer. Created by Dito van Reigersberg, Martha is a powerful 6 foot+ cabaret singer, comedian, and entertainer. In obvious need of manscaping, Martha and her band will provide a marvelous and moving evening of song. Martha was a year-long artist-in-residence at the National Jewish Museum and has performed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Joe’s Pub in NYC, L’Etage, and elsewhere. After the show, enjoy an audience talkback with Martha and Abe Rybeck, founder of Boston’s Theater Offensive.

TICKETS/more info available online:
$25

A presentation by the Jewish Arts Collaborative

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Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series
Jewish Songs And Dances: Music From The Archive Of Lazare Saminsky

Wed, Jun 21, 2017, 7pm
Temple Emanu-El,
5th Avenue at 65th Street,
NYC

Admission: $15
YIVO students & members: $10
Tix/more info

The Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series is made possible by a generous gift from the Estate of Sidney Krum.
In partnership with Temple Emanu-El

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Yiddish Song Concert in Honor of Blossom Seigel
Miryem-Khaye Seigel with pianist Andrew Blendermann

Tuesday, June 20, 2017, 7:15pm
Park Plaza,
6840 N. Sacramento Ave.,
Chicago, IL 60645

Free, wheelchair accessible, open to the public

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Jewish songs and dances: Music from the archive of Lazare Saminsky

Wed, Jun 21, 2017, 7:00pm
YIVO
15 W. 16th St.
New York, NY 10011
(212) 246-6080

Admission: $15 / Seniors & students: $10
More info/tix
Or call 212.868.4444

This concert explores the legacy of composer Lazare Saminsky. Born in Vale-Gotzulovo, Ukraine in 1882, Saminsky was one of the earliest members of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg – a group of composers committed to forging a new national style of Jewish classical music infused with Jewish folk melodies and liturgical music. Saminsky immigrated to the United States in 1920 where he co-founded the League of Composers in 1923, and was the music director of Temple Emanu-El from 1924-1958. Saminsky’s oeuvre represents a broad cross section of Jewish music ranging from sacred to secular. His songs set texts in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and more, and his music takes its inspiration from all around the Jewish world. This concert features some of Saminsky’s greatest compositions alongside composers of his new- and old-world coteries including Joel Engel, Joseph Achron, and Lyubov Streicher. Performances by Emanu-El’s Cantor Mo Glazman as well as Eliza Bagg, Brigid Coleridge, Julian Schwartz, and Marika Bournaki will feature a variety of songs and chamber music with violin, cello, and piano.

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She'koyokh

Wed, June 21, 2017, 7:45pm
Tuned In
Sands Films Studios
No 82
St Marychurch Street
Rotherhithe
London SE16 4HZ, UK

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3 Leg Torso and Pepe Raphael
Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts

Saturday, June 24, 2017, 4:30-5:30pm
George Rogers Park
Lake Oswego, OR
FREE

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