KlezCalendar

It’s 40 Years since Judith created the
Choreographers' Evening

Saturday, November 24, 2012, 7:00pm & 9:30pm
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Ave
Minneapolis, Minnesota
$22 ($18 Walker members)

Come see a revival of Judith’s solo “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” from the first Choreographers’ Evening at Walker Art Center, danced by the extraordinary performer Megan McClellan accompanied by Jim Miller on the flute and Judith reading the poem that inspired her. It’s 40 years since Judith curated the first Choreographers’ Evening and it’s still going strong! Grab your friends and come see her solo plus other snappy samples of our thriving and diverse MN dance scene.

This year's version of the annual favorite, curated by Aparna Ramaswamy and Patrick Scully, features work by Judith Brin Ingber, Christ Up Dance Crew, Michael Engel, Emily King & Ryan Underbakke, Blake Nellis, Luke Olson-Elm, Rosy Simas, Joanne Spencer, Third Coast Collective, and Voice of Culture

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Lake City Contra/Old Time Country Dance - Klez Kaos

Thurs, Dec 24, 2015, 8pm
Lake City Community Center
12531 - 28th Ave NE

Free introductory "dance skills" workshop every week at 7:30pm
Admission $10 (students & seniors $8, kids & first-time contradancers free).

More info: seattledance.org/contra/lakecity

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Yiddishfest 2003: Four Generations of Yiddish

Join The Workmen`s Circle to celebrate 35 years of Yiddish music in our City�s Parks!

FREE

June 17 7PM Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center. 6PM Folkdancing (VIP seating available with$150.00 contribution)

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Helen Winkler will be presenting an evening of Yiddish dance a.k.a. Eastern European Jewish Folk Dance, on the evening of July 2, 7:30-9:30 p.m., in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Address: 5990 Old West Saanich Road, Brentwood, BC

Registration Fee: $7

Depending on the weather, we'll either be dancing in a very large yurt or outside. A combination of recorded and live music will be offered.

To register contact Mary at dlowther@telus.net or phone (250) 592-5156. Space is limited, so do pre-register

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Thursday, July 24, 7:30pm
Klezcentricity will be playing a concert at Nottoway Park in Vienna, VA -
part of Fairfax County's music in the parks series.

For one hour, starting at 7:30, we will present the pure klezcentricity of
our unique brew of Odessa underground songs and dances, nurishkeyt from
Constaninople, David and Wendy's originals, and sneak previews from an
upcoming CD project!

Bring the family - bring your dancing shoes.

Directions to Nottoway Park
(9601 Courthouse Road, Vienna, VA 22181)

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I'd like to announce the Weimar Klezmer Weeks Workshops 2003, expanded to two whole weeks, from July 27 to August 10, in Weimar, Germany. There will be a special 3-day workshop concentrating on Yiddish song repertoire and style, conducted by Michael Alpert, Adrienne Cooper, Alan Bern and Marilyn Lerner, and special 3-day Yiddish danceworkshop, conducted by Zev Feldman, Michael Alpert, Brave Old World + Christian Dawid and Sanne Möricke, and finally, a week-long workshop for advanced klezmer musicians, instrumentalists only, conducted by Brave Old World, Frank London and Sophie Solomon (Oi Va Voi). Weimar is a wonderful city and the facilities for the workshop are incredible. Please check out the website for further information about this unique event. Web: www.klezmer-wochen-weimar.de

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Under the leadership of internationally renowned dance teachers Michael Alpert and Zev Feldman and accompanied by live klezmer music played by Alan Bern, Kurt Bjorling, Stuart Brotman, Christian Dawid and Sanne M�ricke, this workshop will offer the first ever truly in-depth Yiddish dance learning experience in Europe. Parallel sessions for beginning and advanced dancers will ensure a minimum of "standing around" time, and two 3-hour sessions each day as well as open dances in the evenings should satiate the most ravenous dance appetites.

For further details, see www.klezmer-wochen-weimar.de/workshop_ges_engl.htm

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One of the best Klezmer/yiddish culture camps in North America is the annual "KlezKanada", held each years in the spectacular Laurentian mountains north of Montreal. Organized, in part, by the folks in Brave Old World, the program is always spectacular.

Events include lectures, a mini film festival, and of course, intensive workshops in singing, klezmer music, theatre, and dance. The "Kidz for Klez" program is also great. This is the best summer camp in the world (in fact, the event is hosted at a Jewish summer camp). Register early to get the best bunks.

Although most events start on the 20th, today is the day to arrive, get oriented, and get in some preliminary jamming.

For further information, visit the site website, www.klezkanada.com

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For those interested in Israeli folk music, there will be a whole weekend in Manhattan dedicated to the classic Israeli folk dances to this music, including a live band. All are welcome.

12th Annual SHORASHIM - Roots of Israeli Folk Dance

Labor Day Weekend
Fri. Aug 29-Mon. Sep 1 2003

12th Annual SHORASHIM - ROOTS OF ISRAELI FOLK DANCE, Labor Day Weekend of Nostalgia on Broadway, with 3 afternoons of workshops & 4 nights of parties/marathons featuring world famous choreographer Dani Dassa, master teacher Danny Pollock (teaching classic repertoire for beginners), Ayalah Goren-Kadman of Jerusalem's Rubin Academy of Music & Dance plus other guests. Parties begin every night at at 8 pm; afternoon repertoire workshops (8/31, 9/1 with Danny Pollack) from 2-4 pm & 4-6 pm (with Dani Dassa teaching his dances). On 8/30, at 2-4 pm, there will be a special program commemorating the 100th birthday of Israel's most influential classic folk dance choreographer, Rivka Sturman z"l featuring Ayalah Goren-Kadman with Dani Dassa & Danny Pollock. Music provided by well-known dance leaders and a live band. All events in an air-conditioned professional dance studio. No pre-registration required. No partner needed.

INFORMATION: 917-207-0093
RDR@rikud.net or www.rikud.net
Sponsored by: Rikuday Dor Rishon
Location: Bridge for Dance 2726 Broadway at 104th St
Cost: Afternoon Workshops-$10; night Parties - $15;
Special reduced rate for entry to all events on the weekend-$100

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Here's why you gotta come to the Yiddish Conference in Baltimore

1. Your friends and colleagues will be there.
2. The networking's great.
3. You can learn a great deal about today's world of Yiddish.
4. You'll learn about the newest books and cds

So come on down. For particulars and to download a registration form, visit fishl kutner's site �www.derbay.org. Baltimore's the place to be this September. Kumt, kinderlekh, kumt.

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Ernie Gruner on violin, stories. Phil Carroll on accordion, ney, singing.

24 - 27 October, concerts and workshops at Wellington Folk Festival, information Sue Ikin 04 4784160 www.wellingtonfolkfestival.org.nz

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The Gerard Edery Ensemble with guest dancers, Cris Herrera and Barbara Martinez, will be presenting "Flamenco Sepharad" at Queens College this Sunday at 2 PM. This performance is part of the Jewish Music/Theatre Performances Series at the College and will be held at LeFrak Concert Hall. The cost is $10. For more information or to order tickets please call 718-793-8080.

Join master singer/guitarist Gerard Edery, oud virtuoso, George Mgrdichian, percussionist extraordinaire, Rex Benincasa, acclaimed soprano, Nell Snaidas, renowned Flamenco guitarist, Arturo Martinez, Bass/Cajon player, Sean Kupisz with the erotic Flamenco dancing of, Cristobal N. Herrera & Barbara Martinez as they present a passionate evening of music, song and dance from the Sephardic, Andalousian and Arabic worlds. The voltage is turned up in these new Flamenco arrangements of traditional repertoire and new compositions by Gerard Edery and George Mgrdichian. You won�t want to miss this vibrant musical and visual evening of atmospheric vocals, flamenco guitars, world beat percussion, Spanish dance and the oriental timbres of the oud!

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Helsinki Klezmer Festival, the festival of traditional instrumental music of the Yiddish-speaking people is organized for the third time already in Finland. Savoy Theatre as its venue, the event aims to make klezmer music better known in general and to give people a possibility to get to know one of the Europe�s most interesting cultural traditions. Klezmer music has its roots in the medieval Europe, where the Jewish people of the Eastern Europe traveled from town to town in order to play in weddings and other events. By the end of the 18th century klezmer music had become a well-developed music style, gathering influences from the Jewish culture and from outside of it.

Nowadays klezmer music is played almost all around the world, but mostly in the United States and in Europe. Klezmer music is constantly evolving and mixing with other music styles such as jazz and pop music. In order for the style to survive it is still important that there are also bands trying to find out the origins of klezmer music and ways to maintain it as authentic as possible. The authenticity of the music will not bring back the culturally rich community that once lived in the Eastern Europe but will give the listeners a possibility to get a bit closer look at the life of the society that lived at that time.

Mon 27 October 2003 at 7 p.m.

Fajerlech (Lithuania)

Di Naye Kapelye, "The New Band" plays energetic klezmer music without forgetting traditions. Yankl Falk (vocals, clarinet) tours together with Di Naye Kapelye.

The group established in 1971 consists of 18 dancers and singers. Fajerlech depicts many-sided in its performances the past culture and life of Lithuanian - Jewish small villages. Fajerlech has been on numerous tours in best estrades in Europe for example in England,Germany, Belgium and Holland and also in Israel.

Freilach mit Kneidlach will be the house band in the evening clubs.

More information at: www.popzoo.fi/klezmer

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Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar and Zlatne Uste

Live Eastern European music and line dancing
Costumes and Characters Encouraged
Light Snacks Served
Bring Your Own Spirits

Friday, October 31st, 8 pm
Hungarian House
213 East 82nd St at 3rd Ave
Manhattan
$15 donation requested no one turned away
Nearest Subway: 4, 5, 6 - 86th Street Manhattan

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Sunday, November 2, 10am- 5pm, THE BIGGEST HORA IN HISTORY. Be a
part of history- dance in the largest Hora ever, (7,000 people
expected) and be recorded in the Guinness Book of Worlds Records as
the largest circle dance in history. The event features live music
all day as well as Israeli vendors. @ The Blue Claws Baseball Stadium
(First Energy Park)in Lakewood, NJ. Admission: Adults $3, Children
and Seniors $2. For tickets or to register to dance contact the
Jewish Federation of Ocean County: 732-363-0530 or
www.bighora.com

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Wednesday November 05
DAVID BUCHBINDER & LULA LOUNGE PRESENTATION
FEAST OF THE EAST
Wednesdays Monthly November 5. December 3. January 21 2004. February 18 2004
Dance your ass off�guaranteed!

Doors Open @ 7:00 pm Balkan, Jewish+ Arabic Dance Class @ 8pm
Concert @9pm
Admission $15 Student $12
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas Street West
Dinner Reservations Recommended 416.588.0307
www.lula.ca
LIVE CONCERT + COMMUNITY EVENT + DJ MEDICINEMAN + ROULETTES DANCE + DANCE CLASS + SHISHA LOUNGE

Continue reading "Feast of the East, Toronto, Ont, CA, Nov 5" »

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Wednesday 19th November

DAKAR-PARIS CONNECTION
DAARA J

Here come the Senerap Warriors
DJs: Rita Ray + Eric Soul

Cargo
83 Rivington Street, London EC2 (Old Street/Liverpool Street tubes)
Tel: 020 7739 3440

7pm – 1am, Tickets on door £10
Advance tickets available from ticketweb.co.uk

YaD
0207 535 0251
www.yadarts.com

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24 November 2003 8.00pm
JMI Klezmer Jam at Lauderdale House
Led by Ilana Cravitz with dancing led by Vivi Lachs

Bring your instruments and your favourite Klezmer tunes and join North London’s first Klezmer Jam. Led by experienced players and KlezFest graduates all levels will be made welcome or just hang out and listen.

Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park, London N6 5HG 020 8348 8716
£5 (concessions £4 if you bring an instrument) on the door - Bar open from 7.30pm.

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Wednesday 26th November

BERLIN ROAD BLOC
RUSSENDISKO featuring ROTFRONT
Russian cabaret disko fever

DJs: Yuriy Gurzhy + Lemez Lovas (Oi Va Voi)

Madame JoJo’s
8-10 Brewer Street, London W1 (Piccadilly Circus/Leicester Square tubes)
Tel: 020 7734 3040

8pm – 1am, Tickets £10

YaD
0207 535 0251
www.yadarts.com

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Wednesday December 3
DAVID BUCHBINDER & LULA LOUNGE PRESENTATION
FEAST OF THE EAST
Wednesdays Monthly November 5. December 3. January 21 2004. February 18 2004
Dance your ass off�guaranteed!

Doors Open @ 7:00 pm Balkan, Jewish+ Arabic Dance Class @ 8pm
Concert @9pm
Admission $15 Student $12
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas Street West
Dinner Reservations Recommended 416.588.0307
www.lula.ca
LIVE CONCERT + COMMUNITY EVENT + DJ MEDICINEMAN + ROULETTES DANCE + DANCE CLASS + SHISHA LOUNGE

Continue reading "Feast of the East, Toronto, Ont, CA, Dec 3" »

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Tuesday 9th December
UNITED NATIONS OF LONDON

TERRY HALL AND MUSHTAQ
World Roots Gig of the Year

DJs: Charlie Gillet + Rita Ray

Cargo
83 Rivington Street, London EC2 (Old Street/Liverpool Street tubes)
Tel: 020 7739 3440
7pm – 1am, Tickets on door £10

Advance tickets available from ticketweb.co.uk

YaD
0207 535 0251
www.yadarts.com

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ANNOUNCING: The only West Coast and the world's only winter Yiddish intensive: the 4th annual "Art of Yiddish: Entering the Heart of a Culture Through Its Beat", Los Angeles, December 14 � 20, 2003. Learn Yiddish with the best Yiddish teachers in North America: Pesakh Fiszman, Anna Gonshor, Miriam Hoffman, Sheyndl Liberman, and Sheva Zucker. Develop a deeper understanding of the culture that created our beloved Klezmer music and humor, with world-renown klezmorim Jeff Warschauer and Deborah Strauss teaching song and dance workshops (bring along your own instruments too); ethnomusicologist Robert Cohen revealing the back stories to Yiddish music; and writer/actor Yakov Basner illuminating the comic side of Yiddish literature from Chelm to Moshe Nadir. Theodore Bikel joins us for our closing concert and farbrengen.

It's the perfect time to explore your roots through the vitality, soul, and wit of Yiddish culture. Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and the University of Judaism Department of Continuing Education. For more information and to request or download the brochure, please visit www.yiddishinstitute.org or e-mail Miriam@yiddishinstitute.org.

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Classic Israeli Folk Dance Hanukah Party with Live Music
Plus Sufganiot & Surprise Guest Teachers

Sunday Dec 21 2003 7PM to - 11PM

If you are in the NYC area and miss the golden oldies of Israel, come to
our biggest party of the year featuring Israeli Folk dancing in the
classic tradition with live music, sufganiot and surprise guest teachers.
Join the longest running weekly nostalgia session doing your old favorites
plus some later ones. No partner needed.

7pm Instruction; 8pm Open Session with live music.
Contribution: $10
Location: Bridge for Dance, 2726 Broadway at 104th St.
Tel:(917) 207-0093, E-mail: rdr@rikud.net, Web: www.rikud.net
Sponsored by Rikuday Dor Rishon

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The 19th Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program "KlezKamp" will be held from December 23-29, 2003 at the Swan Lake Hotel in the heart of New York's Catskill region. For information about the program, registration, and work/study options please go to our website www.klezkamp.org.

To find out more about KlezKamp, see Ari Davidow's article about KlezKamp '96 or Ben Gerhon's article about KlezKamp '99

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Don't miss the biggest Balkan music event of the year! Shake off the cold with two great nights of spirited music, energetic dancing, crazy people and plenty of good eats and drinks. 36 bands! And get ready for the all the whoopla at a pre-party with New York's Own Lively Balkan Brass Band: The Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar, also known as The Official Balkan Brass Band of Brooklyn (the Zagnuts will be playing for the Reopening of Brooklyn Museum's Grand Staircase on April 17th and has just received a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council to play music and teach dancing in Prospect Park this spring). Anywhoooooo....the Zagnuts invite you to join them at NuBlu on the night before Golden Festival starts, Thursday, January 15th. NuBlu is so Nu that I haven't been there yet. In fact, I hear that there is no sign out front, just a Blu light. So look for the Blu light and get down there and party party party like it's start of a Nu year. Or something like that. Hmm...just get there, okay?

:: THURSDAY! ::

Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar
Playing at NuBlu
Thursday, Jan 15, 11 pm
62 Ave C, NYC
between 4th and 5th Streets
www.zagnutcirkus.com
www.nublu.net

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Don't miss the biggest Balkan music event of the year! Shake off the cold with two great nights of spirited music, energetic dancing, crazy people and plenty of good eats and drinks. 36 bands! And get ready for the all the whoopla at a pre-party with New York's Own Lively Balkan Brass Band: The Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar, also known as The Official Balkan Brass Band of Brooklyn (the Zagnuts will be playing for the Reopening of Brooklyn Museum's Grand Staircase on April 17th and has just received a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council to play music and teach dancing in Prospect Park this spring). Anywhoooooo....the Zagnuts invite you to join them at NuBlu on the night before Golden Festival starts, Thursday, January 15th. NuBlu is so Nu that I haven't been there yet. In fact, I hear that there is no sign out front, just a Blu light. So look for the Blu light and get down there and party party party like it's start of a Nu year. Or something like that. Hmm...just get there, okay?

::: FRIDAY & SATURDAY! :::

Two nights of Balkan music, dance and border-crossing celebration

The Golden Festival is New York's largest Balkan music event, with multiple stages, Balkan and Middle Eastern refreshments, Balkan arts vendors, as well as beautiful Balkan textiles on display. From international stars to local musicians, modern Balkan stylists to folk traditionalists, over 20 bands provide hours of ecstatic listening, dancing and partying.

Friday, Jan 16 at Hungarian House
213 E 82nd St. (btw 2nd & 3rd Ave's)
Manhattan, New York
Lobby phone: (212)650-1974
Donation: $16, students $12, children (6-12) $5
7:30-8:45 pm: Balkan dance workshop with Michael Ginsburg and members of Zlatne Uste
8:45 pm-12 am: Ethnic snacks and great live music

Saturday, Jan 17 at Good Shepherd School
620 Isham (near 207th St. and B'way)
Manhattan, New York Directions
Donation: $27, students $18, children (6-12) $8

6 pm-until 3 am: The whole deal - multiple music venues, snacks, party, etc. 36 bands!

Information:
zufestival@zlatneuste.org
(718) 859-4759
www.zlatneuste.org

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Don't miss the biggest Balkan music event of the year! Shake off the cold with two great nights of spirited music, energetic dancing, crazy people and plenty of good eats and drinks. 36 bands! And get ready for the all the whoopla at a pre-party with New York's Own Lively Balkan Brass Band: The Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar, also known as The Official Balkan Brass Band of Brooklyn (the Zagnuts will be playing for the Reopening of Brooklyn Museum's Grand Staircase on April 17th and has just received a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council to play music and teach dancing in Prospect Park this spring). Anywhoooooo....the Zagnuts invite you to join them at NuBlu on the night before Golden Festival starts, Thursday, January 15th. NuBlu is so Nu that I haven't been there yet. In fact, I hear that there is no sign out front, just a Blu light. So look for the Blu light and get down there and party party party like it's start of a Nu year. Or something like that. Hmm...just get there, okay?

::: FRIDAY & SATURDAY! :::

Two nights of Balkan music, dance and border-crossing celebration

The Golden Festival is New York's largest Balkan music event, with multiple stages, Balkan and Middle Eastern refreshments, Balkan arts vendors, as well as beautiful Balkan textiles on display. From international stars to local musicians, modern Balkan stylists to folk traditionalists, over 20 bands provide hours of ecstatic listening, dancing and partying.

Friday, Jan 16 at Hungarian House
213 E 82nd St. (btw 2nd & 3rd Ave's)
Manhattan, New York
Lobby phone: (212)650-1974
Donation: $16, students $12, children (6-12) $5
7:30-8:45 pm: Balkan dance workshop with Michael Ginsburg and members of Zlatne Uste
8:45 pm-12 am: Ethnic snacks and great live music

Saturday, Jan 17 at Good Shepherd School
620 Isham (near 207th St. and B'way)
Manhattan, New York Directions
Donation: $27, students $18, children (6-12) $8

6 pm-until 3 am: The whole deal - multiple music venues, snacks, party, etc. 36 bands!

Information:
zufestival@zlatneuste.org
(718) 859-4759
www.zlatneuste.org

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Wednesday January 21
DAVID BUCHBINDER & LULA LOUNGE PRESENTATION
FEAST OF THE EAST
Dance your ass off�guaranteed!

Doors Open @ 7:00 pm Balkan, Jewish+ Arabic Dance Class @ 8pm
Concert @9pm
Admission $15 Student $12
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas Street West
Dinner Reservations Recommended 416.588.0307
www.lula.ca
LIVE CONCERT + COMMUNITY EVENT + DJ MEDICINEMAN + ROULETTES DANCE + DANCE CLASS + SHISHA LOUNGE

Continue reading "Feast of the East, Toronto, Ont, CA, Jan 21" »

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Wednesday February 18
DAVID BUCHBINDER & LULA LOUNGE PRESENTATION
FEAST OF THE EAST
Dance your ass off�guaranteed!

Doors Open @ 7:00 pm Balkan, Jewish+ Arabic Dance Class @ 8pm
Concert @9pm
Admission $15 Student $12
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas Street West
Dinner Reservations Recommended 416.588.0307
www.lula.ca
LIVE CONCERT + COMMUNITY EVENT + DJ MEDICINEMAN + ROULETTES DANCE + DANCE CLASS + SHISHA LOUNGE

Continue reading "Feast of the East, Toronto, Ont, CA, Feb 18" »

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A Southwestern celebration of Klezmer music and dance into
the 21st century: featuring a weekend of concerts, dance
parties, classes and lectures on the music and dance of the
Eastern European Jewish People. February 20th through
February 22nd, 2004.
This year's featured performer: Margot Leverett, world-
renown virtuoso Klezmer clarinetist and saxophonist.
Presented by Congregation Nahalat Shalom (Inheritance of
Peace congregation) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

Friday, February 20th, 6:30 pm: Freylekhe Shabbes featuring
a 'danced' Kabbalat Shabbat service followed by a potluck
vegetarian dinner (7:00) then a concert (7:30) with our
featured guest artist Margot Leverett and dancing to live
Klezmer music with ABQ's own: �The Rebbe's Orkestra� and
Margot Leverett. Yiddish dances lead by Rikud dance troupe
and Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb. ($10.00 - suggested donation).

All events held at: Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd.
NW (between Candelaria & Griegos), ABQ, NM
Mailing Address: PO Box 40723, Albuquerque, NM 87196-0723
Phone: (505) 343-8227, WEB: www.nahalatshalom.org
Event coordinator: Beth Cohen, E-mail:
cohenedmunds@netzero.net, Phone: (505) 243-6276

Continue reading "Klezmerque, Albuquerque, NM, Feb 20-22" »

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La Regla - Berlin’s famous Latin Party comes to London

Tuesday 24 February

Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JQ

Free before 8pm, £5 after, £3 concessions

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Yiddishe Cup
Sat. March 6, 7:15 p.m., Park Synagogue, Purim, Cleveland Hts. Free.

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Catch the wonderful Moshikop on the following dates:

Moshikop features a mesmerizing blend of acoustic and electronic sounds, along the lines of Morcheeba or the Gotan project, with a Middle Eastern slant!

Monday 8 March:

Costa Urbana at the Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JQ

Free before 8pm, £5 after, £3 concessions

First 3 people to email maria@yadarts.com get in for free, next 10 on concession list

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You're Invited! Come! Shmooze! Eat! Dance!
Get your klezmer freak on!

Elaine Hoffman Watts and Susan Watts
the dysfunctional mother-daughter duo
proudly announce the birth of their CD
I Remember Klezmer-The Art of Klezmer Drumming

Please be our guest on Sunday, March 14, 2004, at 5pm at
The Point, 880 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
610-527-0988
www.atthepoint.com
and help celebrate this auspicious occasion.

Musicians: Please bring your instrument as we will be rocking the hell out of Bryn Mawr the Philly Klezmer Way!

Questions? E-mail Susan Watts Hoffman.

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Catch the wonderful Moshikop on the following dates:

Moshikop features a mesmerizing blend of acoustic and electronic sounds, along the lines of Morcheeba or the Gotan project, with a Middle Eastern slant!

Tuesday 16 March, 8:30pm

Private showcase at Momo, Heddon St - Guests only.

First 5 people who email maria@yadarts.com will be put on the exclusive guest list.

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Join the Strauss/Warschauer Duo at Satalla for an exciting concert that will include newly discovered repertoire, brand new arrangements and perennial favorites. Yiddish dance set to follow, led by Deborah Strauss.

Sunday, March 21, 2004 at 7 PM

Admission: $12

:::::: S A T A L L A ::::::
37 West 26th St. NYC
:::: 212.576.1155 :::::
Satalla.com :::: home

Continue reading "Strauss/Warschauer Duo, NYC, Mar 21" »

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Jewish Studies at Ithaca College to host big-time Klezmer
collaboration:

On Sunday, March 21st at 7:30 pm the Ithaca College Klezmorim, under
the direction of Dr. Peter Rothbart, will perform a concert for
listening and dancing at Emerson Suites on the Ithaca College Campus.
They will be joined and led by world-renowned klezmer clarinetist Joel
Rubin and his Cornell University Klezmer Ensemble. Yiddish dance
expert Roey Mendel will teach and lead klezmer dance before and during
the concert.

Contact: Aron Gutman � agutman@ithaca.edu or 607-274-7001.

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Catch the wonderful Moshikop on the following dates:

Moshikop features a mesmerizing blend of acoustic and electronic sounds, along the lines of Morcheeba or the Gotan project, with a Middle Eastern slant!

Saturday 27 March, 8.00pm

Supporting Celloman at the Spitz, 109 Commercial St. Old Spitalfields Market. London. E1 6BG

Tickets £12/£10 adv

2 free tickets to be given out to first two to email maria@yadarts.com

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19th Annual Jewish Music Festival

March 20 - 27, 2004

a program of the Berkeley Richmond
Jewish Community Center

Box Office tickets & info 925-866-9599 or www.brjcc.org
Call today for a brochure!

Kinetic Klezmer Jam
with Elaine Hoffman Watts and Susan Watts

Philly Klezmer Swing Dance Party
with Dance Lesson

Saturday, March 27
6:30pm lesson
8:00pm party

The Crowden Music Center
1475 Rose (at Sacramento), Berkeley
near North Berkeley BART
$20-$15

It�s time to swing to Bei Mir Bistu Shein! The Hoffmans are joined by Josh Dolgin, dance master Steven Weintraub, and Bay Area jazz allstars Sheldon Brown and Richard Saunders.

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The Kulturreferat of the city of Gelsenkirchen runs the festival 'Klezmerwelten 2004' from April 14 - May 2

The program includes some interesting activities, and even cooperation, of listers Josh Horowitz, Cookie Segelstein, Steve Weintraub, Sanne Möricke, Christian Dawid

For details check www.klezmerwelten.de

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The Kulturreferat of the city of Gelsenkirchen runs the festival 'Klezmerwelten 2004' from April 14 - May 2

Klezmerwelten Gelsenkirchen presents:
FRI APRIL 16 lecture "Joshua talks Klezmer" with Josh Horowitz
SAT APRIL 17 concert Veretski Pass
SUN APRIL 18 concert Khupe, dancing led by Steve Weintraub
WED APRIL 21 dance workshop with Steve Weintraub, music by Veretski Pass

Khupe and Veretski Pass will also sincerely try to mess up each other's sets... There's an instrumental workshop and more concerts by fabulous Willy Schwarz, Bente Kahan and others...

For details check www.klezmerwelten.de

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The Kulturreferat of the city of Gelsenkirchen runs the festival 'Klezmerwelten 2004' from April 14 - May 2

Klezmerwelten Gelsenkirchen presents:
FRI APRIL 16 lecture "Joshua talks Klezmer" with Josh Horowitz
SAT APRIL 17 concert Veretski Pass
SUN APRIL 18 concert Khupe, dancing led by Steve Weintraub
WED APRIL 21 dance workshop with Steve Weintraub, music by Veretski Pass

Khupe and Veretski Pass will also sincerely try to mess up each other's sets... There's an instrumental workshop and more concerts by fabulous Willy Schwarz, Bente Kahan and others...

For details check www.klezmerwelten.de

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Oi Va Voi
Bergen Festival,
Bergen, Norway

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Casco Bay Tummlers

Klezmer, Old & New
Balkan, Jewish, Greek & Israeli Dancing

All Asia Cafe
334 Mass Ave.
Central Sq.
Cambridge, MA
May 2, 2004
2:00 � 4:30
$5 (suggested)
For more information:
(617) 497-1544 (cafe)
gruve@maine.rr.com (band)

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PIEROGIES AND PO-BOYS:
A NIGHT OF EASTERN EUROPEAN AND NEW ORLEANS DANCE MUSIC AT
THE BAGGOT INN, NEW YORK

May 6
7 pm - The Village Klezmer Quintet; 8 pm � The Gold
Sparkle Brass Band; 9 pm � Romashka, the NYC Gypsy Dance
Party Band.

Baggot Inn, 82 W. 3rd Street, bet. Thompson and Sullivan
tel: (212) 477-0622
www.baggotinn.com/baggot.html

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Oi Va Voi
Les Nuit Botaniques Festival,
Brussels, Belgium

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Yiddish dancing instruction and Klezmer performance

Saturday night, May 8, at Old Pine Community Center, 4th and Lombard Streets, Philadelphia, PA, at 8 p.m. we welcome Michael Alpert, Sruli Dresdner, Lisa Mayer, Susan Watts, Elaine Hoffman-Watts and Brian Bender.

As the closing event of a Shabbaton devoted to "Rediscovery and Reconnection" with Michael, Sruli and Lisa, it will bring the spirit of KlezKanada/KlezKamp to Philadelphia with instruction in Yiddish dance and plenty of music. Admission $18 at the door. Complimentary tickets available for students by calling the Synagogue, (215) 922-6590.

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Yarmulkazi, Brown University's klezmer band, is having their CD-Release Concert for "Out of the Klezet!"

Saturday, May 8, 9 pm, Hillel, Winnick Chapel, 80 Brown St., Providence

Free music, food, and dance!!!

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Come celebrate Lag B'Omer with Sruli and Lisa!

"Lag B'Omer" Concert and Dance Party
with Sruli and Lisa's Klezssidic Jam Band!
Sunday, May 9
7pm

Satalla
37 West 26th St.
(6th/Broadway)
212.576.1155
Admission $12

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Oi Va Voi
The Fez Club
Cambridge
£6
Tel: 07881 460 713

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Oi Va Voi Concorde 2 Brighton £8 Tel: 01273 772 770

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Oi Va Voi Jazz Cafe Camden, London £15 Tel: 08701 500 044

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Oi Va Voi
Stavanger Maijazz Festival,
Stavanger, Norway

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Oi Va Voi
Oerol Festival,
Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Jason Rosenblatt and Adrianne Greenbaum of Shtreiml and FleytMuzik hope that y'all will come down to Satalla and spend a blast of an evening with us on May 23 at 7:00. Dancing to be sure, we promise! And CD's a-plenty....

Located at:
37 West 26th St.
(6th/Broadway)
212.576.1155
Parking is fairly easy for the patient, and not so difficult for the not-so-patient...

Visit www.satalla.com for further info. Only $12 cover for the entire evening! (+ a minimal food/drink cover as well...)

Continue reading "Adrianne Greenbaum, Jason Rosenblatt, NYC, May 23" »

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Oi Va Voi
Territorios Festival,
Seville, Spain

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Oi Va Voi
Territorios Festival,
Seville, Spain

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Oi Va Voi
Hay Festival,
Hay on Wye, UK

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KLEZFEST ST. PETERSBURG 2004

The Center for Jewish Music of the Jewish Community Center of St.
Petersburg is proud to announce "KlezFest St. Petersburg 2004,"
an international seminar on the traditional music of Eastern
European Jewry, to be held June 12-16, 2004 in St. Petersburg,
Russia.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of
St. Petersburg via fax at (+7-812) 314-5117, or e-mail Alexander Frenkel.

Continue reading "Klezfest, St. Petersburg, Russia, Jun 12-16" »

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Oi Va Voi
Paradiso,
Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Oi Va Voi
Doomroosje,
Nijmegen, Netherlands

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Oi Va Voi
Rotterdam Rhythm,
Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Celebrating Yiddish Culture & Klezmer Music. A week-long celebration of Klezmer Music, Yiddish Language, Dance, Theatre and Folk Arts. Presented in Association with the Jewish Music Festival.

Place: San Francisco, California at the Jewish Community
High School of the Bay, 1835 Ellis St.
Dates: June 20 - 25, 2004
Times: 9:00 am -6:00 pm & Evening Programs

For more information: visit www.klezCalifornia.org, e-mail info@klezcalifornia.org, call (415) 789-7679. Mailing Address: P.O. Box 36 Lagunitas, CA 94938.

Continue reading "KlezCalifornia, San Francisco, CA, Jun 20-25" »

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The Jewish Music & Cultural Festival (formerly KlezFest)
will take place on Sunday, June 20, 2004 at Clinton Square
in Syracuse, NY. It is FREE! Headliners are "Margot
Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys," "Simply Tsfat" from
Israel, and "Sruli and Lisa's Children's Workshop," plus
outstanding regional performers. Children's Workshop
starts at 10 AM; the festival runs to 5 PM. Vendor items
and ethnic, kosher food will be for sale.

Syracuse Jewish Federation
tel: 315-445-0161
klezfest@yahoo.com

www.sjfed.org/klezfest

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Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
June 24 2004
Thursday 7:30 PM Concert and Dinner Dance
Zhivago Restaurant, 9925 Gross Point Rd., Skokie, IL (847) 982-1400
$16 PP minimum order, no cover charge, reservations recommended

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Albuquerque Academy Klezmer Camp
June 28-July 2, 2004

Set in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains on the lush 300+ acre campus of Albuquerque Academy, this weeklong workshop features Veretski Pass, including tsimbalist and accordianist Josh Horowitz, fiddler Cookie Segelstein, and Stu Brotman on bass. This year we are offering optional afternoon classes including 2 sessions of Yiddish dance, a lecture and slide show on 18th and 19th C. Yiddish life, and a film screening and discussion. You can also hike on our private wilderness tract and on the many acres of public land nearby. Or you may want to explore the cultural resources of the Albuquerque/Santa Fe area.

This class is open to anyone who can play simple tunes on their instrument. You do not have to read music or be familiar with Klezmer style. We encourage both solo players and existing ensembles to participate. Class will run daily from 9 AM until noon with optional afternoon programs as describged above. $210.

The week will conclude with a student concert, and a concert by Cookie, Josh and Stu on Friday evening.

This weeklong workshop could be a great start or end to a southwestern summer vacation or a vacation unto itself.

For more information contact Danny Packer at (505) 828-3361, or packer@aa.edu. To register, contact the Albuquerque Academy Summer session at (505) 858-8811.

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Oi Va Voi
Umbria Jazz,
Perugia, Italy
www.umbriajazz.com

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Oi Va Voi
Dour Festival,
Dour, Belgium

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Oi Va Voi
Istanbul Jazz Festival,
Istanbul, Turkey

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Oi Va Voi
Big Chill Festival,
Malvern, UK

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Gerard Edery and Sarah Aroeste
Tuesday, August 3rd
Makor, NYC
35 West 67th Street
Gerard Edery at 8 PM!
Sara Aroeste 9:30 PM
Tickets $12
More info: www.makor.org or 212.413.8889

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'JMI Summer Academy'
at London University 1 - 12 August 2004

KlezFest London 2004
Sunday 8 - Thursday 12 August

JMI's annual Klezmer Academy - a structured and stimulating course of
workshops in Klezmer music song and dance - origins, style, ornamentation
and repertoire for amateur and professional singers, dancers and
instrumentalists. Course Director, Alan Bern of Brave Old World with a
faculty of Klezmer luminaries such as Michael Alpert, Deborah Strauss, Jeff
Warschauer, Josh Dolgin, Sophie Solomon, Zalmen Mlotek and others give
vocal, instrumental and ensemble tuition, also masterclasses for existing
bands. Make new friends in the Klezmer family and jam on into the night.

JMI Klezmer and Yiddish Academy Course fees

Ot Azoy! £265 (students £165) early booking discount £15 if booked by 31 May
KlezFest £265 (students £165) early booking discount £15 if booked by 31 May
If doing both courses a discount of £40 (student £30) applies

Hotel and University accommodation can be arranged

More details:
E-mail Jewish Music Institute or
Tel 020 8909 2445
Fax 020 8909 1030

Registration on Website www.jmi.org.uk

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Oi Va Voi
Sziget Festival,
Budapest, Hungary

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Come Celebrate the Rebirth of Klezmer Music in the Former Soviet
Union at the Fifth Annual KlezFest, Ukraine!

August 15-20, 2004
Kiev, Ukraine

klezmer.com.ua/events/info5.php

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Oi Va Voi
Pukkelpop Festival,
Belgium

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Oi Va Voi
Beautiful Days Festival,
Exeter, UK

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Musicians begin today

One of the best Klezmer/yiddish culture camps in North America is the annual "KlezKanada", held each years in the spectacular Laurentian mountains north of Montreal. Organized, in part, by the folks in Brave Old World, the program is always spectacular.

Events include lectures, a mini film festival, and of course, intensive workshops in singing, klezmer music, theatre, and dance. The "Kidz for Klez" program is also great. This is the best summer camp in the world (in fact, the event is hosted at a Jewish summer camp). Register early to get the best bunks.

Although most events start on Wednesday, the 25th, musicians should arrive this morning with the first workshops scheduled for this afternoon. Today is the day to arrive, get oriented, and get in some preliminary jamming.

For further information, visit the site website, www.klezkanada.com

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YIDDISH WEEK 2004
(sponsored by Yugntruf Youth for Yiddish) - the one-and-only week-long
opportunity to LIVE IN YIDDISH LAND with other Yiddish-speakers young and
old, from around the whole world; where all the activities and performances are entirely in Yiddish,
and where Yiddish is spoken everywhere, including on the porches, at the
swimming pool and in the dining hall;and which is the best opportunity for those who will have taken an
intensive Yiddish summer course to use what they've learned in the classes
will take place from WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25 through TUESDAY, AUGUST 31
in the Berkshire Hills Emanuel Adult Vacation Center, Copake, NEW YORK, USA

More info? Write to yvokh@yugntruf.org or go to www.yugntruf.org

arshraybt zikh di dates!

YIDISH-VOKH 2004
(unter der patronat fun Yugntruf Yugnt far Yidish) -
der eyn-un-eyntsiker vokh-langiker gelegnhayt ZIKH OYSTSULEBN IN GANTSN AF
YIDISH mit andere yidish reders yung un alt, fun arum der gorer velt; vu
ale aktivitetn un forshtelungen zenen in gantsn af yidish,
un vu me redt yidish umetum, arayngerekhnt af di verandes, bam shvimbaseyn
un in eszal; un af velkher se kumen a hipshe por studentn fun di intensive
yidish-zumer-programen, vayl ken beser ort iz nishto af ontsuvendn dos vos
zey hobn zikh gelernt in di klasnvet forkumen fun MITVOKH, DEM 25STN OYGUST
biz DINSTIK, DEM 31STN OYGUST in dem Berkshire Hills Emanuel Adult
Vacation Center, Copake, NEW YORK,USA

Nokh kashes? Vendt zikh tsu yvokh@yugntruf.org oder www.yugntruf.org

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Oi Va Voi
Venlo Festival,
Venlo, Netherlands

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Sarah Aroeste
Sat.-Sun. August 28th-29th
Chicago, IL
3 PM both days
Genesis at the Crossroads
"From the Middle-East to the Midwest"
Outdoor Music Festival
Block 37, Downtown Chicago (corner of State & Randolph)
More info: www.gatc.org or 312-927-2746

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Sarah Aroeste
Sat.-Sun. August 28th-29th
Chicago, IL
3 PM both days
Genesis at the Crossroads
"From the Middle-East to the Midwest"
Outdoor Music Festival
Block 37, Downtown Chicago (corner of State & Randolph)
More info: www.gatc.org or 312-927-2746

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Oi Va Voi
Krakrick Festival,
Belgium

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Dear KlezKampers and friends of Living Traditions,

We are thrilled to announce the dates for the 20th annual KlezKamp: December 26 � December 31, 2004 at the Swan Lake Resort Hotel in the Catskills.

www.livingtraditions.org/docs/index_kk.htm

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Klez Dispensers featuring Pete Sokolow
A swinging night of American klezmer and Yiddish swing with vocalist Susan Watts and pianist Pete Sokolow in one of New York's most jivin' old-time cabaret clubs; plenty of raunchy swing, raucous bulgars, and generally whatever it takes to set your toukus in motion.

Wednesday, April 6th, 9 PM
The Slipper Room
167 Orchard St. (East Village)
$5
www.slipperroom.com

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The Wholesale Klezmer Band
Sunday, April 10
at 1:15 pm
Music for traditional Yiddish dancing with instruction
NEFFA Festival
Auditorium Stage
Natick High School
15 West St.
Natick, MA

The NEFFA festival lasts the whole weekend. Tickets are available for 1, 2 or all 3 days. For more information, see: www.neffa.org

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Sunday 20th March 4pm – 1am

Oi Va Voi present

Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism

Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
4pm – 1a.m. Free before 5pm, £5 after.

Oi Va Voi & friends proudly present the second in a series of regular Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer shakedowns at the NHAC. Exclusive new music from Oi Va Voi plus other live acts on stage, special guest musicians, sound/art/poetry/circus/puppet theatre/video installations for the Proletariat featuring state artists Moshikop, Adrian Philpott, Zoe Klinger and Liz Strachan; frozen vodka & rakiya galore and resident DKs (Dancefloor Komissars) Lemez Lovas, Max Reinhardt, Starets & Siberian DK Heretic sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til the phat politburo sings. Early evening come to feed your soul with borscht 'n' blinis in the Soviet kitschen, explore Marxist dialectic over the chess boards and escape the capitalist running dogs for a few revolutionary moments in the Kinodrom with award-winning Czech, Russian and Bosnian shorts plus a feast of new and classic animation in the legendary Jan Svankmajer style. All Power to the Soviets... and it's free before five...

Co-Produced by Adrian Philpott/ Oi Va Voi / Taskovski Films / YaD Arts / Ziggurat

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Klezmer-Style Contra Dance with open band
May 3, 2005
8:00 - 10:30 pm
In MIT's Walker Memorial Hall: Morss Dining Hall (142 Memorial Drive at Ames Street, Cambridge MA, just east of the main MIT campus complex)

Caller: Jacob Bloom
Music: 'ContraKlez' with John Chambers & Friends, Sit-In musicians Welcome

Yiddish dance expert Jacob Bloom will lead a night of Klezmer-dance-influenced contra dancing. John Chambers will lead the band 'ContraKlez', and sit-in musicians are welcome to bring an instrument and join the band. All dances are taught, and beginners are welcome.

Suggested donation $5 general, $3 students, free for MIT/Wellesley students.

Sponsored by the MIT Folk Dance Club
tel: (617) 253-FOLK (recorded info line)
Cambridge, MA mit.edu/fdc

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Oi Va Voi and friends present

Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism

Sunday 15th May 6pm – 1am
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
6pm – 1a.m. @pound;5.

After March’s total roadblock, Radio Gagarin is back with the second in a series of regular Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer socialist shakedowns at the NHAC. The Commissar pledges exclusive new music from Oi Va Voi plus special guest musicians Moshikop and Pinedrop, Siberian throat singer, Chyskyyrai, straight from the steppes, sound/art/poetry/circus/puppet theatre/video installations for the Proletariat featuring state artists Adrian Philpott, Zoe, Liz, Josephine and Sara; frozen vodka & rakiya galore and resident DKs (Dancefloor Komissars) Lemez Lovas, Max Reinhardt, Starets & special Siberian guest DK Heretic sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til’ the road of excess has led us to the place of wisdom. Early evening come to feed your soul with borscht 'n' blinis in the Soviet kitschen and take a rest from your fight for Revolutionary Determinism, for a few counter-rev moments in the Kinodrom with award-winning Czech, Russian and Bosnian shorts plus a feast of new and classic animation in the legendary Jan Svankmajer style. Long live the memory of our fallen comrades at Kronstadt...

Co-Produced by Adrian Philpott/ Oi Va Voi / Taskovski Films / YaD Arts / Ziggurat.
www.yadarts.com

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In the Catskills mock wedding tradition...
Golem gets married!

Klezmer-rock sensation Golem
requests the honor of your presence at its wedding
on Thursday, the ninth of June
at the Knitting Factory Tap Room
Ceremony at 7pm sharp
Immediately followed by the most insane reception you have ever witnessed... it's a real Golem wedding, and you don't even have to bring a gift!

Drink and dance your tuches off to a wild hora, plus Golem's versions of the covers you've always wanted to hear us play, from Brick House to the Tide is High, Superfreak to Stand By Your Man... and you never know whom you might meet???

R.S.V.P. www.knittingfactory.com, tel. 212-219-3132. Wedding cake included!
Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door: reserve now!
*******Formal Attire please

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So Called (aka Josh Dolgin) with the Balkan Beat Box DJs.

2nd Annual Dawn Party
an all night Shavuot experience
Sunday June 12, 8:00 pm - sunrise
Club Six
60 6th St.
San Francisco
Tickets: $12 advance | $15 at door

www.dawn2005.com

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So Called (aka Josh Dolgin) on an East Coast tour with the Balkan Beat Box DJs.

June 14
Velvet Lounge
915 U Street N. W. Washington, DC
10PM, $10

202 462-3213
www.velvetloungedc.com

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So Called (aka Josh Dolgin) on an East Coast tour with the Balkan Beat Box DJs.

June 16: Rocks Off Concert Cruise
- This cruise will leave from SkyPort Marina, 23rd Street & FDR (east Side)
NYC
7PM, $20 adv/$25 dos

www.rocksoff.com/events/

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So Called (aka Josh Dolgin) on an East Coast tour with the Balkan Beat Box DJs.

June 17
The Iron Horse
20 Center St.
Northampton MA
9:30PM, $10 adv/$13 dos

413.584.0610
www.iheg.com/iron_horse_main.asp

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So Called (aka Josh Dolgin) on an East Coast tour with the Balkan Beat Box DJs.

June 18: The Lizard Lounge
1667 Mass. Ave., below Cambridge Common Restaurant
Cambridge MA
9PM, $10

(617-547-0759)

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MC Socalled, with Human Beat Box Yuri Lane

8:00 Wednesday June 22nd @
Crush
2843 N. Halsted, Chicago

$10 in advance
$15 at the door
Tickets online

This event kicks off our new series, BORSCHT! showcasing DJ's, MC's and Slam Poets exploring their Jewish heritage with cutting edge, hip hop style. It's Beat Culture with Beet Flavah!

Continue reading "So Called, Chicago, IL, Jun 22" »

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Balkan Beat Box will perform for their hometown fans when they stop by Joe's Pub July 13. Balkan Beat Box is spending the summer touring Europe and Israel before returning to the US for release of their eponymous debut CD September 20th on JDub Records.

Wednesday, July 13th
Joe's Pub
425 LAFAYETTE STREET
2 shows: 7:30 & 9:30PM
$15 advance, $20 at the door*

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The Weimar Klezmer Wochen, runs this year from July 23 through August 18 in Weimar, Germany.

• Jul 23-26: Preparatory Course on Klezmer Music - Learning Music By Ear: Aural Musicianship
• Jul 24-31: Yiddish course (beginners and advanced learners) plus an extra conversation course in Yiddish
• Jul 28-Aug 4: workshop Yiddish songs - "Crossroads: New York to Constantinople" + videos 2004
• Aug 6-9: dance workshop - (Aug 4-9: Yiddish dance-music workshop for specially advanced musicians) + videos 2004
• Aug 11-18: instrumental workshop - "Crossroads: New York to Constantinople" + videos 2004

The Weimar workshops are for experienced musicians who enjoy learning by ear, small class sizes, and intensive focus. Most of the classes are team-taught in an atmosphere of musical and intellectual exploration. The evenings are dedicated to public jam sessions and dances in the cafes and markets of Weimar. The student body is truly international, coming from all over Europe, North America, and even Asia. For more information about the individual workshops, faculty, dates, costs, etc., please visit our website. Thanks!

www.klezmer-wochen-weimar.de

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Oi Va Voi and friends present

Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism

Sunday 24th July 6pm – 1am
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
6pm – 1a.m. @pound;5.

After another total roadblock, Radio Gagarin is back with the next in a series of regular Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer socialist shakedowns at the NHAC. The Commissar pledges exclusive new music from Oi Va Voi plus special guests, performance and djs.

Co-Produced by Adrian Philpott/ Oi Va Voi / Taskovski Films / YaD Arts / Ziggurat.
www.yadarts.com

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It's the 10th anniversary of a great klezmer gathering. Musicians gather on the 21st, everyone else on the 24th.

We'll post more details here as they come together towards the event.

For further information visit the KlezKanada website, www.klezkanada.com

The 2004 weblog is at www.klezmershack.com/klezkanada/

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Sunday 18th September 6pm – 1am
Oi Va Voi and friends present
Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
6pm – 1a.m. £5.

After their third successive roadblock, Radio Gagarin is back with the latest in a series of regular Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer mash-ups at the NHAC.

Co-Produced by Adrian Philpott/ Oi Va Voi / Taskovski Films / YaD Arts / Ziggurat.

www.yadarts.com

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Golem and Balkan Beat Box
Wild Hare, 3530 N. Clark
Chicaco, IL
8:00pm Doors, Sunday September 18th, 2005
$12 (tickets online
Presented by KFAR Jewish Arts Center and the City of Chicago World Music Festival
www.kfarcenter.org or 773.550.1543
E-mail Adam Davis, Director, KFAR Jewish Arts Center

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Shtetlbusters: A Smorgasbord of Music and Performance

14th street Y
344 E. 14th St @ 1st Ave
7:00pm
Tickets: $8 BUY TIX

For One Night Only! Shtetlbusters features an unlikely coupling of the irreverent and the pious. Hosted by Scotty the Blue Bunny, who will guide you on a journey into the shtick sensibility. With performances by Shoshi, Corie Feiner, Michael Feldman and more. Gypsy dance DJ set by Nat Rahav aka DJ Busquelo.

www.14StreetY.org

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Oi Va Voi & Balkan Beat Box
8:00pm
Irving Plaza
17 Irving Place
Tickets: $20 advance, $25 door - BUY TIX

Continue reading "NYJMHF: Oi Va Voi and Balkan Beat Box, NYC, Sep 22" »

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Modular Moods introduces the Sounds of the East with Sarah Aroeste, Michal Cohen, Eyal Maoz and DJ Handler

Saturday, September 24th
Joe’s Pub, New York City
425 Lafayette Street
6:30 PM Sharp
Doors open at 6:00
Tickets: $15
For more info & to purchase tix visit: www.joespub.com

Continue reading "NYJMHF: Modular Moods, NYC, Sep 24" »

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Push! Push!

Saturday, September 24th
Makor
35 W. 67th St
8:00 PM
Tickets: $12
www.makor.com

...A frenetic monthly international music, dance and noise-art circus rave-up!
Luminescent Orchestrii celebrate their new CD release with...
Hungry March Band, Outernational & surprise DJs

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JuMu, label Nu Juwish Music, presente :

SoCalled en concert
(première partie Estelle Goldfarb)

"SoCalled Matze Mambo" : hip-hop Yiddish

Le jeudi 24 novembre 2005
a L'ALIMENTATION GENERALE a 20h
64 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud
75011 Paris
Metro Parmentier
Tarif : 12 euros (réduit 10 euros)
http://www.alimentation-generale.abcsalles.com/

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Saturday Nov 19th
Tubapalooza with Slavic Soul Party, The Beat Circus and the East River
Orchestra!
@ ZEBULON
258 Wythe Ave
Williamsburg Brooklyn
http://www.zebuloncafeconcert.com

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"A Klezmer Nutcracker"
November 27, 2005
2:00 PM
Tickets: $10 all seats

Children's Professional Series. Featuring the Amy Marshall
Dance Co. A full ballet blending the triumphant work of
Tchaikovsky with the spirited Klezmer arrangement of Shirim,
the Chanukah story has been woven into a humorous,
heart-warming adventure.

Queensborough Community College
tel: 718-631-6311
portal.cuny.edu/portal/site/cuny/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&epiproxymethod=get&viewID=epiproxybanner&beanID=1708558607&epiproxyrealurl=http%3A%2F%2F66.212.81.77%2FeventDetail.asp%3FEventId%3D7305

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Sunday 27th November 6pm – 1am
Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
6pm – 1a.m. £5.

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The Klezmer-Keilidh of THE YEAR...

Hanuke-Hopkele!

Sunday 4th December 2005
7-11pm

Featuring Internationally Renowned Specialist Klezmer
Dance Leaders:

Andreas Schmitges - All the way from Cologne, Germany!
With Live Klezmer from "FDT Klezmorim"
Vivi Lachs and a Live Klezmer set from "Klezmer Klub"

Central Synagogue, 40 Hallam Street, London W1
(nearest tubes: Oxford Circus/Regents Park)

£12.50 (£7 concs) including a bagel! Advance Tickets - £1
discount!!

All ages and dancing abilities welcome. Call 020 8985 3724
or email: icravitz@hotmail.com

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The Columbia University Series on Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song opens its 2005-2006 series on Monday, December 12, 2005, 8:00 PM, with a klezmer concert and Yiddish dance party featuring the Strauss/Warschauer Duo and the Columbia Klezmer Band.

The concert of traditional and original klezmer music and Yiddish songs will be followed by dance instruction and a dance party.

The event is free and open to the public, and will take place at Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116th Street (between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive) in New York City. No tickets necessary.

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Chanukah Klezmer Extravaganza:
benefit concert and Chanukah party for
the Jewish Dialogue Group and
Congregation Kol Tzedek, West Philly's new synagogue

The Rotunda, 4012 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, December 17, 7:00pm to 9:30pm

For more information: Visit www.jewishdialogue.org,
e-mail The Jewish Dialogue Group, or call 215-266-1218.

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Yo Chanuka! Yo Chanuka!
Starring DJ So-Called

WC/AR
45 E. 33rd St. (bet. Madison & Park Ave.)
Sunday, Dec 18, 6-9pm

* Dancing, food, Yiddish hip hop
* Magic performance with a Yiddish twist!
* Chanukah treats and drinks!
* Comedy skit!

$5 plus a food or clothing or toy donation to benefit the needy
Please RSVP: 212 889 6800 x215

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JCC Café K Presents A Khanike Celebration:
Kvetchn nit, Zayt freylakh! (Don't Complain, Be Happy!)

The Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington's Café Kasrilevke will present a special Khanike program titled "With Joy and Dignity, the Jewish Way of Dancing" on Sunday, December 18 at 7:30 p.m. Steven Weintraub, "The Pied Piper of Yiddish Dance" will demonstrate and teach participants Yiddish dances, and lead a traditional lighting of the Chanukah candles with the sounds of beautiful Khanike music.

Don't miss this exciting evening celebrating Yiddish dance and the Festival of Lights. Admission is $6 for JCC, Yiddish of Greater Washington and Workmen's Circle members, and $9 for the general public. Reservations are not required. For more information call Lynn Gittleson at 301-348-3840. The JCC is located at 6125 Montrose Road in Rockville, MD.

Café Kasrilevke is co-sponsored by Yiddish of Greater Washington
and Workmen's Circle

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In response to a real shortage of dance leaders on the Klezmer scene, Steve Weintraub, in cooperation with Living Traditions, is offering a quick crash course in Yiddish dance leading. Learn a philosophical and practical approach to getting people up and dancing and having a good time in traditionally grounded manner.

Steve Weintraub is a well known dance master at KlezKamp and other festivals, and has been described as a "Jewish Pied Piper" for his ability to get all sorts of people dancing like they never knew they could.

Steve will share practical techniques for successfully leading various dance figures and styles. This will be a hands-on workshop; participants should be prepared to dance and lead one another. It's suggested that participants bring a bandana or clean handkerchief as well.

The workshop will be held in NYC on Thursday 22 December

>From 5:30 to 9:30
(There will be a half hour dinner break. Please bring your own food; there are a number of delis nearby)

At the Workmen's Circle building
45 East 33rd Street, near Park Avenue
Fee: $40 per person (check or cash)

YOU MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE
(So that if there are any changes, you can be notified)

Register by or by telephone 708-359-8772

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Thurs, Dec 22
JDub, JFJ, & PJA Present:

Vodka Latka: Festival of Rights
Featuring Balkan Beat Box
Special guest DJ Garth Trinidad of Chocolate City on KCRW

Café Du Nord
2170 Market Street, San Francisco
8PM, $12 advance, $15 at the door, 18+
www.cafedunord.com

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Sat, Dec 24
JDub, Brooklyn Jews, JFJ, and PJA Present:

Jewltide
Featuring BALKAN BEAT BOX and special guests
Part of the Festival of Rights

Southpaw
125 5th Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15 advance, $20 day of show, 18+
Tickets at spsounds.com

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Israeli Folk Dance Hanukah Party
with Live Music, Sufganiot

& Guest Teacher of basic classics
ALAN BLOOM

Sunday Dec. 25 2005

Teaching Session 7pm
Party & Live Music 8pm

The musical ensemble led by ROSE & MEIR BEER will usher in the first night of Hanukah for our biggest party of the year including Israeli folk classics by request.

Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway at 104th St.
Information (917)207-0093; www.rikud.net
Contribution -- $10 Students (with ID) -- $5

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Mon, Dec 26
JDub Presenst:
Matisyahu

Paradise Rock Club
967 Commonwealth Ave, Boston
Doors open 7pm
$12 in advance, $14 at the door, 18+

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Thursday 2 Feb - Sunday 5 Feb at 7.30 PM (sold-out 3 Feb), TeaterStudio Lederman

One of them is dreaming

A Dance/Music performance with klezmerdancer Leon Blank, performance and dance artist Helena Lambert and the music group FakirKarlsson to the décor/video of Melina Fallenius. The Jewish dances mixed with modern dance and performance, with music which takes influence from the Jewish folklore, oriental and contemporary. From this melting-pot of impressions a dream-play arises where the day-dreams and night-dreams governs the tunes and movements. Two dancers, four musicians, sex persons—when one of them is dreaming....

Gästrikegatan 13 (T-bana St Eriksplan)
Entré: 120/100 stud&member
Tickets/Information: tel. 08-303094

Ticketoffice at Nybrokajen 11. Telefon 08-407 17 00.
Box office/Norrmalmstorg, Sverigehuset. ATG-ombud/BiljettDirekt 077-170 70 70.
Boka biljett nu!

Arrangers: Stallet, Paideia, StudioTeater Lederman and Svenska Klezmerföreningen.

Sponsors: Stockholms Kulturförvaltning, European Association for Jewish Culture, BreakfestClub, Statens Kulturråd.

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Thursday 2 Feb - Sunday 5 Feb at 7.30 PM (sold-out 3 Feb), TeaterStudio Lederman

One of them is dreaming

A Dance/Music performance with klezmerdancer Leon Blank, performance and dance artist Helena Lambert and the music group FakirKarlsson to the décor/video of Melina Fallenius. The Jewish dances mixed with modern dance and performance, with music which takes influence from the Jewish folklore, oriental and contemporary. From this melting-pot of impressions a dream-play arises where the day-dreams and night-dreams governs the tunes and movements. Two dancers, four musicians, sex persons—when one of them is dreaming....

Gästrikegatan 13 (T-bana St Eriksplan)
Entré: 120/100 stud&member
Tickets/Information: tel. 08-303094

Ticketoffice at Nybrokajen 11. Telefon 08-407 17 00.
Box office/Norrmalmstorg, Sverigehuset. ATG-ombud/BiljettDirekt 077-170 70 70.
Boka biljett nu!

Arrangers: Stallet, Paideia, StudioTeater Lederman and Svenska Klezmerföreningen.

Sponsors: Stockholms Kulturförvaltning, European Association for Jewish Culture, BreakfestClub, Statens Kulturråd.

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Thursday 2 Feb - Sunday 5 Feb at 7.30 PM (sold-out 3 Feb), TeaterStudio Lederman

One of them is dreaming

A Dance/Music performance with klezmerdancer Leon Blank, performance and dance artist Helena Lambert and the music group FakirKarlsson to the décor/video of Melina Fallenius. The Jewish dances mixed with modern dance and performance, with music which takes influence from the Jewish folklore, oriental and contemporary. From this melting-pot of impressions a dream-play arises where the day-dreams and night-dreams governs the tunes and movements. Two dancers, four musicians, sex persons—when one of them is dreaming....

Gästrikegatan 13 (T-bana St Eriksplan)
Entré: 120/100 stud&member
Tickets/Information: tel. 08-303094

Ticketoffice at Nybrokajen 11. Telefon 08-407 17 00.
Box office/Norrmalmstorg, Sverigehuset. ATG-ombud/BiljettDirekt 077-170 70 70.
Boka biljett nu!

Arrangers: Stallet, Paideia, StudioTeater Lederman and Svenska Klezmerföreningen.

Sponsors: Stockholms Kulturförvaltning, European Association for Jewish Culture, BreakfestClub, Statens Kulturråd.

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IndyKlez dance concert
Sunday, February 5th, 2006, 4:00PM
Earlham College
Richamond, Indiana
There is no charge for this event.

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Thursday 2 Feb - Sunday 5 Feb at 7.30 PM (sold-out 3 Feb), TeaterStudio Lederman

One of them is dreaming

A Dance/Music performance with klezmerdancer Leon Blank, performance and dance artist Helena Lambert and the music group FakirKarlsson to the décor/video of Melina Fallenius. The Jewish dances mixed with modern dance and performance, with music which takes influence from the Jewish folklore, oriental and contemporary. From this melting-pot of impressions a dream-play arises where the day-dreams and night-dreams governs the tunes and movements. Two dancers, four musicians, sex persons—when one of them is dreaming....

Gästrikegatan 13 (T-bana St Eriksplan)
Entré: 120/100 stud&member
Tickets/Information: tel. 08-303094

Ticketoffice at Nybrokajen 11. Telefon 08-407 17 00.
Box office/Norrmalmstorg, Sverigehuset. ATG-ombud/BiljettDirekt 077-170 70 70.
Boka biljett nu!

Arrangers: Stallet, Paideia, StudioTeater Lederman and Svenska Klezmerföreningen.

Sponsors: Stockholms Kulturförvaltning, European Association for Jewish Culture, BreakfestClub, Statens Kulturråd.

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Metropolitan Klezmer with special guests
Friday, February 10
Temple Sinai of Bergen County
"Song of the Sea" service, 7pm
followed by concert (Yiddish & Latin music theme!) & dancing
1 Engle Street, Tenafly NJ
Info: www.templesinaibc.org or 201-568-3035

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Saturday, February 11
The Circle Coffeehouse

Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon St., Brookline
Doors open at 7:30pm
This event brings together two internationally renowned musicians who are deeply committed to klezmer music and Yiddish song. Their performances are an integrated and intimate blend of songs, translations and instrumental music. After a concert set, Deborah Strauss will teach and lead traditional Yiddish dances with live musical accompaniment. No previous experience needed! WC Members: $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Non-members: $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Advance payment can be mailed to the Workmen's Circle office and must be received by the Thursday prior to the concert.

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BALKAN BEAT BOX
Au NOUVEAU CASINO
109 rue Oberkampf 75011 PARIS
Le 14 février 2006 à 20 h 30
Entrée 15 € (prévente 13 €)
Coproduction Soyouz - JuMu

tel: (33-1) 43 65 09 70
fax: (33-1) 43 65 13 75
www.jumu.fr

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Tu Bishvat Concert Featuring Divahn

Celebrate Tu Bishvat with a night of inspiring music, great people, and simcha while supporting the inspiring work of the Teva Learning Center, which affects the lives of over 1000 students and adults each year, teaching Jewish and environmental values in the woods, at retreat centers, and even in the city.

Featuring:
Divahn: Middle Eastern and Sephardic Music
Chana Rothman: Funky acoustic beats
Tevalution: Changing the world one beat at a time

$54 Donation / $20 Student and Limited-income
Light Snacks * Cash bar * Silent Auction

Thursday, February 16, 2006
Ansche Chesed Synagogue
251 West 100th St. New York, NY
9 - 11:00 PM

Tickets can be bought online, at the door, or by calling the office at 212-807-6376.

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Klezmerquerque 2006
The Southwest's 4th Annual Celebration of Klezmer music and dance, February 17–19;

President's Day weekend. Event features concerts, dance parties, lectures and classes with the renowned Klezmer performing artists: Adrianne Greenbaum—flute; Margot Leverett—clarinet; and Steve Weintraub—Yiddish dance.

All events held at Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (between Candelaria & Griegos), ABQ, NM 87107

Phone: (505) 343-8227
E-mail Nahalat Shalom
Web: www.nahalatshalom.org/Klezmerquerque.html

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The 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

c/o Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, California 94709

510-848-0237 x126 www.jewishmusicfestival.org
E-mail Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center.

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Steve Weintraub is indeed coming to Bolton St. Synagogue in Baltimore on March 4th and 5th. Klezzazz will provide backup, at least on the night of the 4th. On Saturday the 4th, we'll have a warm-up instructional session at 5pm, potluck dinner at 6pm and a dance party at 7pm until ??? The band is organizing it's repertoire around the dance music. $10 donation (kids and students free) but we won't collect money until after havdalah, which is right before the dance party. On Sunday the 5th, there will be a dance workshop by Steve from 3 to 5pm. $12 with kids and students free. Please come if you're in the area. E-mail Michael Checknoff for more information.

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Steve Weintraub is indeed coming to Bolton St. Synagogue in Baltimore on March 4th and 5th. Klezzazz will provide backup, at least on the night of the 4th. On Saturday the 4th, we'll have a warm-up instructional session at 5pm, potluck dinner at 6pm and a dance party at 7pm until ??? The band is organizing it's repertoire around the dance music. $10 donation (kids and students free) but we won't collect money until after havdalah, which is right before the dance party. On Sunday the 5th, there will be a dance workshop by Steve from 3 to 5pm. $12 with kids and students free. Please come if you're in the area. E-mail Michael Checknoff for more information.

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Sunday 12th March 7pm – late Harem Nights

Jongleurs, Middle Yard, Camden Lock, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AB
Price: £15 including mask
To book 0870 78 70707 or online at www.jongleurs.com (booking conditions apply)

Enter the realm of the senses... Harem Nights is a masquerade, full of Eastern promise, shadows, free-flowing wine, snakes, veils, spices, dance, music and more. A visually dazzling Persian carnival of circus sleaze and club concert, including sizzling live music from sultry oud players and snaky oriental saxophone solos, wandering performers, jewel-encrusted belly dancers and DJs.

Artists include Fantazia, Ghetto Plotz, DJ Max Reinhardt, bellydancers, stiltwalkers, actors and jugglers.

Dress: Arabian Nights.
A Jewish Community Centre for London event produced by YaD Arts
www.jongleurs.com or www.jewishcommunitycentre.org.uk
For other Jewish Community Centre events check out their website…

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The Hub presents
Golem

Join us for the Hub's annual Purim bash! Drink and dance your tuchas off to the sounds of Golem, New York's hottest nouveau klezmer-rock band. Fusing the lilting rhythms of the klezmer tradition with irreverent, vaudevillian and sometimes-brash stylings, "Golem produces the sort of music you'd expect if the Shtetl were filled with punks instead of peasants."—The Washington Post

Tuesday, March 14 8pm
12 Galaxies, 2565 Mission Street, San Francisco

JCCSF Box Office 415.292.1233 or www.jccsf.org/hub
JCCSF Members $10 / Public $12 / Students $10
21 and over only.

Wear a costume and get $2 off admission.
Contest with prizes featuring limited edition Purim t-shirt from Jewish Fashion Conspiracy.

Co-sponsored by the 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival and the LGBT Alliance of the Jewish Community Federation.

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Zhok Therapy, the rebellious child of the Casco Bay Tummlers, will be returning to the Little Dog Coffee Shop, 87 Maine St. in Brunswick, Friday, March 24. We'll be playing from 7:00 - 9:00.

We'll be back with pieces highlighting the improvisational skills of the band. Our inspiration for this will be original compositions and traditional Jewish, Roma, Balkan and Middle Eastern melodies. We'll also be doing some of our classic klezmer repertoire. Last month there was quite a bit of dancing going on, too, and we expect that will be the case this time as well.

The lineup for this event is Hayes Porterfield, percussion, Carl Dimow on flutes and guitars, Julie Goell, bass and vocals and Steve Gruverman, clarinet and sax.

There's no cover charge so we hope you'll stop by to enjoy a slightly different side of the band as well as try some of the Little Dog's goodies. And if you don't have a copy of our new CD, Journey, we'll have them for sale.

For more information you can contact the Little Dog at 721-9500.

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Klezmer Conservatory Band Reunion
and mini-KlezmerFestival

Saturday, March 25, 8pm
Sunday, March 26: workshops 1-3:30; concert 4pm

Special Guests include:
Michael Alpert
Rosalie Gerut
Deborah Strauss
Jeff Warschauer

In this finale to the KlezmerShack's 10th Anniversary, we are pleased to co-sponsor the Klezmer Conservatory Band, plus alumni from over 25 years of yiddish and klezmer musical magic. In addition to the concerts, there will be a mini-Jewish music festival Sunday afternoon featuring everything from "A Taste of Yiddish" to Yiddish song, klezmer, Eastern European Jewish Dancing, klezmer workshops for beginners through advanced musicians, and, of course, a panel discussion on the future of Jewish music.

$22 general; $20 JCC Member
Seniors and students $2 off single ticket price
Youth Ticket $16 General $14 JCC Member
Festival Pass - concert plus workshops $25 general $23 JCC Member

Co-sponsored by the Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Brookline Workmen's Circle, and the KlezmerShack

Continue reading "KCB Reunion, Klezmershack 10th Anniversary, Newton, MA, Mar 25-26" »

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Klezmer Conservatory Band Reunion
and mini-KlezmerFestival

Saturday, March 25, 8pm
Sunday, March 26: workshops 1-3:30; concert 4pm

Special Guests include:
Michael Alpert
Rosalie Gerut
Deborah Strauss
Jeff Warschauer

In this finale to the KlezmerShack's 10th Anniversary, we are pleased to co-sponsor the Klezmer Conservatory Band, plus alumni from over 25 years of yiddish and klezmer musical magic. In addition to the concerts, there will be a mini-Jewish music festival Sunday afternoon featuring everything from "A Taste of Yiddish" to Yiddish song, klezmer, Eastern European Jewish Dancing, klezmer workshops for beginners through advanced musicians, and, of course, a panel discussion on the future of Jewish music.

$22 general; $20 JCC Member
Seniors and students $2 off single ticket price
Youth Ticket $16 General $14 JCC Member
Festival Pass - concert plus workshops $25 general $23 JCC Member

Co-sponsored by the Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Brookline Workmen's Circle, and the KlezmerShack

Continue reading "KCB Reunion, Klezmershack 10th Anniversary, Newton, MA, Mar 25-26" »

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KlezFest!3: "Battle" of the Klezmer Bands
featuring the five bands in the Westchester Klezmer Program, along with special guests and dance instruction.

Sunday afternoon, March 26
2:30-5:00 pm
Congregation Sons of Israel
Briarcliff Manor, New York.

$18 per person, $10 for seniors, pre-bar/batmitzvah students

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Saturday, April 1, 2007, 10:30 a.m. at Lucille Lortel Theatre: Theatreworks presents Alicia's Klezmer Party.

Alicia's Klezmer Party brings the joyful sounds of traditional Ashkenazic Jewish dance music to young ears and feet. World-renowned klezmer fiddler Alicia Svigals, accordionist Art Bailey, and Yiddish singer Magda Fishman raise the roof with hot klezmer tunes and get kids and adults clapping and stamping along. Children learn Yiddish words and shtetl-flavored melodies to sing along and bring home to their own holiday celebrations. Alicia's Klezmer Party brings to life the ecstatic and poignant sounds that must have emanated from Chagall's original fiddlers, a magical journey for kids and parents of all backgrounds.

http://www.lortel.org/LLT_theater/g_information/
www.ticketcentral.com
tix 212 279 4200

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This Saturday 1st April 7pm – 2am
RADIO GAGARIN presents: Iron Wolf
Featuring DJ Shantel, Sophie Solomon and Iron Wolf, direct from Lithuania
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, SW1
Price: £10.
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE ICA BOX OFFICE ON 020 7930 3647

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Yid Kandy

An anarchic eclectic night of dirty house, Jewish Klezmer beats and twisted visuals. With a mashup of live and electronic sounds, GhettoPlotz and friends bring Eastern European and Middle Eastern flavours to a rockin' dancefloor.

Line up:
GhettoPlotz + visuals
D.J.I.B. + Anomoly MC
Little Miss Tan + Live Sax
Matthew Halfin

Details:
Sat 1st April, 9-3am, £6.50
Upstairs @ Clockwork, 96 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London N1
Fore more info go to: www.yidkandy.com or call 07775 841 248

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THE POST-PURIM HOPKELE
Klezmer-Keilidh with LIVE music.

Sunday 2 April 2006
Central Synagogue, London
Doors - 7.15 pm

Tickets £11, £7 concessions. £1 off if bought in advance. Call 020 8985 3724.

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Slavic Soul Party! at Johnny D's
Friday April 7th, 9:30pm $10 cover
(Joint Chiefs play at 11pm)

17 Holland St. in Davis Square, Somerville, MA

www.johnnyds.com

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Psychosemitic Presents: Emunah, ZeJ and GhettoPlotz plus
BassBinge DJs & Vocalists

April 22
doors open 7pm; music kicks off 9pm
£6
The Spitz, London, E1 6BG

Psychosemitic blends the best of Jewish and world music
with hip hop, breaks, house, dub and drum & bass, plus
there will be visuals, art and other entertainments to
keep people happy in between dancing!

Further info: www.psychosemitic.com

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Sunday 23rd April 7pm � 11pm
Tracy Ann Oberman, Maureen Lipman, David Aaronovitch, Norman Lebrecht, Max Wigram and more...
SP!EL @ the Hampstead Theatre and the new Jewish Community Centre for London
Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue Swiss Cottage, NW3 3EU
Price: �12 /�11 concessions
Book on 0207 722 9301 or online at www.hampsteadtheatre.com

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Concert & Dance Party Featuring Veretski Pass

Saturday April 29th, 8:00pm - 11:00pm, Cubberley Community Center Auditorium, at the ALSJCC in Palo Alto, CA

KlezCalifornia will begin on Saturday night with Havdalah, leading into a spectacular lineup concert with the California Klezmer/Red Hot Chachkas All Stars with Heather Klein on vocals, and featuring the internationally renowned Klezmer Band Veretski Pass—heymish and hip! All this will be followed by a spirited dance party, with Steve Weintraub leading us through wonderful and energetic Yiddish dancing accompanied by all the musicians.

Check the web site for more details at www.klezcalifornia.org. General admission is $25, students, seniors and ALSJCC members $20, children $5.

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A Day in Yiddishland: Klezmer Music and Yiddish Culture Program for all ages

Sunday, April 30th, 9:30am - 6:00pm, Kehillah Jewish High School, 3900 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, held in collaboration with the Albert L. Schultz JCC.

Join us for a fun filled day of workshops and classes in Klezmer music for all levels, special presentations and lectures, Yiddish language and humor, sing-alongs, dancing, art, special teen workshops, youth programs for ages 5 and older. Featuring fabulous teachers of the internationally renowned klezmer band Veretski Pass, special Yiddish dance teacher from Chicago, and Stanford lecturers. Check website to get the latest information.

Space is limited! Please preregister online or by mail, see web site at www.klezcalifornia.org for details. General admission $20, Students $15, Seniors $15, ALSJCC members $15, children $5.

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The MIT Folk Dance Club is holding a klezmer-style contra dance with an open band. Jacob Bloom will teach klezmer-influenced contra dancing, accompanied by ContraKlez with John Chambers. Bring an instrument and join the band!

Tuesday May 2, 2006
8:00 - 10:30 pm
MIT Student Center room 491
84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Suggested donation for dancers: $5 general, $3 students.

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Want to come to a simcha without having to get all dressed
up? Then make your way to KLEZFEST! on Long Island at Dix
Hills Jewish Center, 555 Vanderbilt Pkwy., Dix Hills, NY,
Sun., June 4, 2006 7:00pm The show features the world-
renowned band Kapelye (Ken Maltz, Pete Sokolow, and Eric
Berman), joined by klezmer all-stars Cookie Segelstein,
Alex Kontorovich, Gennady Gutkin, and Michael Spielzinger.
First half showcases the fabulous talents of Yiddish
singers Joanne Borts, Chazzn Moishe Bear, the DHJC
Kinderchor, and surprise guests. The second half presents
Yiddish dance master Steve Weintraub, who will perform and
lead a Music and Dance Party. He will also give a pre-
concert workshop at the synagogue from 4:00-5:30pm.
General admission is $25 and up (kids tix are $10) and
refreshments will be available.

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Steve Weintraub will be giving a dance workshop from 4-5:30, and leading dance after the concert.

We're also treating this as the unofficial release party for HOPKELE, my collaboration with Kapelye- 8 great cuts all with perfect tempo, form and length for dancing. Its available now on CD Baby, and coming to iTunes and other download services. Notes to the dances will be available at the Kapelye web site, and also (Thanks, Helen!) at Helen Winkler's website.

Hope to see and dance with some of you this weekend!

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Sunday 16th July 6pm – 1am
Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
6pm – 1a.m. £5.

After a run of successive roadblocks, Radio Gagarin is back with the latest in a series of regular Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer mash-ups at the NHAC.

The Commissar continues to pledge exclusive new music from your hosts the Gagarin Allstars, plus special guests Babar Luck, poetry from Tim Cumming, performance from Friends of Gagarin, Marxist-Leninist alienation from art/animation/video installations for the Proletariat from state artists Adrian Philpott & Cathy Gale; frozen vodka & rakiya galore and resident DKs (Dancefloor Komissars) Max Reinhardt & Misha Maltsev sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til’ the road of excess has led us to the place of wisdom. Early evening come to feed your soul with summer home-cookin in the Kitschen and take a rest from your fight for Revolutionary Determinism for a few moments in the Kinodrom with new and classic shorts from Eastern Europe.

Co-Produced by Adrian Philpott/ Oi Va Voi / Taskovski Films / YaD Arts / Ziggurat.
www.yadarts.com

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For those of you near NYC who want to keep dancing during the long dark months
between KlezKanada and KlezKamp here's a dance party with renowned dance leader
Walter Zev Feldman...

Tantshoyz (Dance House) – Dance Party at the Manhattan JCC

Thursday, September 14
8:00PM – 10:30PM
At the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in
Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an
evening of traditional Ashkenazic dancing led by master dance leader Walter Zev
Feldman. Live klezmer music will be provided by some of New York’s hottest young
musicians—Jake Shulman-Ment (violin), Michael Winograd (clarinet), Pete Rushefsky
(tsimbl) and Nick Cudahy (bass). Part of the New York Jewish Music & Heritage
Festival and Sidney Krum Conference. Cost is $10. For tickets call 646-505-5708
or jccarts.org

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INSIDE World Music presents:
Balkan Voices: THE KOLEVI ENSEMBLE
Traditional Instrumental and Vocal Music from Bulgaria

** Saturday, November 11th, 2006 8 PM **
** Concert and Dance Party **

** Bulgarian Singing and Instrumental Workshops Saturday, November 11, 3:00 PM **
** Bulgarian Dance Workshop Friday, November 10,7:30 PM **

Beck Center for the Arts
17801 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, OH 44107

Call 216-521-2540 for tickets.
Advance tickets are $17 for adults and $12 for students (tickets are $20 at the door). To order tickets, call the Beck Center at 216-521-2540.

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BETA Eskesta Dance Troupe and Dance School

Eskesta Shoulder Dancing of Ethiopian Jewry, Tradition and Innovation

The Beta Eskesta dancers will be performing in the Hartford, CT area on
November 13-14. To learn more about these wonderful dancers, please go to
www.beta-eskesta.com . There will be two
performances on November 13. The first will be held at Manchester Community College at
2:00 pm. The second performance will be held at Trinity College in Hartford
at 7:30 pm. The November 14 performance will be held at Central Connecticut
State University in New Britain at a time to still be determined. All
performances are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

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BETA Eskesta Dance Troupe and Dance School

Eskesta Shoulder Dancing of Ethiopian Jewry, Tradition and Innovation

The Beta Eskesta dancers will be performing in the Hartford, CT area on
November 13-14. To learn more about these wonderful dancers, please go to
www.beta-eskesta.com . There will be two
performances on November 13. The first will be held at Manchester Community College at
2:00 pm. The second performance will be held at Trinity College in Hartford
at 7:30 pm. The November 14 performance will be held at Central Connecticut
State University, Davidson Hall, in New Britain at 7pm. All
performances are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

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Sunday 19th November 6pm – 1am
Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
6pm – 1a.m. £5.

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JuMu presente
En concert unique et en exclusivite
Oi Va Voi (Londres)

Le samedi 9 decembre 2006
au NOUVEAU CASINO Ã 20 h
109 rue Oberkampf
75011 Paris

Metro St Maur ou Parmentier
www.nouveaucasino.net

www.fnac.com
TicketNet.fr et
www.digitick.com

Billetterie sur place et sur www.jumu.fr
Tarif : 14 euros (frais de location en sus)

JuMu : le son des nouvelles musiques juives
+33(1)43650970
www.jumu.fr

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance Presents...
The Second Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)—Dance Party at the Manhattan JCC

Wednesday, November 15
8:00PM–10:30PM
At the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional Ashkenazic dancing led by master dance leader and ethnomusicologist Walter Zev Feldman. Dr. Feldman will pay particular focus on forms such as the hora and bulgar and their connection to Romanian music. Live klezmer music will be provided by some of New York痴 hottest young musicians: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin), Michael Winograd (clarinet), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) and Nick Cudahy (bass).

We had a great crowd for the first Tantshoyz in September. Let's help grow this exciting new endeavor in New York City.

Cost is $10. For tickets call 646-505-5708 or jccarts.org

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קלעזקעמפּ 22 KlezKamp

The Yiddish Folk Arts Program
December 24-29, 2006
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY
www.klezkamp.org

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קלעזקעמפּ 22 KlezKamp

The Yiddish Folk Arts Program
December 24-29, 2006
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY
www.klezkamp.org

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קלעזקעמפּ 22 KlezKamp

The Yiddish Folk Arts Program
December 24-29, 2006
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY
www.klezkamp.org

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קלעזקעמפּ 22 KlezKamp

The Yiddish Folk Arts Program
December 24-29, 2006
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY
www.klezkamp.org

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קלעזקעמפּ 22 KlezKamp

The Yiddish Folk Arts Program
December 24-29, 2006
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY
www.klezkamp.org

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קלעזקעמפּ 22 KlezKamp

The Yiddish Folk Arts Program
December 24-29, 2006
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY
www.klezkamp.org

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KlezCalifornia at the JCC San Francisco

CONCERT & DANCE PARTY: Budowitz & dancing with Michael Alpert. Saturday, January 6th, 2007, 7:00 @ 10:00pm

Tickets at JCCSF Box Office 415.292.1233, jccsf.org/tickets
Concert: JCCSF Members $22, Public $25, Students $15

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco,
3200 California St. (at Presidio Ave.), San Francisco, California 94118

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KlezCalifornia at the JCC San Francisco

PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOPS
Sunday, January 7th, 2007, 9:30am-5:30pm
Learn klezmer style (all instruments and levels) from members of the groundbreaking European ensemble, Budowitz; Yiddish dance taught by Michael Alpert; theater, language, literature, songs, history, and crafts workshops by other talented staff. Special programs for teens and youth.

Tickets at JCCSF Box Office 415.292.1233, jccsf.org/tickets
Workshops: JCCSF Members $22, Public $24, Students $10

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco,
3200 California St. (at Presidio Ave.), San Francisco, California 94118

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the JCC in Manhattan present...
The Third Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)—Dance Party at the Manhattan JCC

Sunday, January 14
6:00pm–9:00pm
At the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional Ashkenazic dancing led by master dance leader and ethnomusicologist Walter Zev Feldman. Dr. Feldman will pay particular focus on forms such as the hora and bulgar and their connection to Romanian music. Live klezmer music will be provided by some of New York's hottest young musicians: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin), Michael Winograd (clarinet), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) and Nick Cudahy (bass).

Cost is $10, pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

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Free! Come dance the hora with dance leader Steve Weintraub and Alicia Svigal''s klezmer party band! Sunday, January 28, 12 to 5 p.m. Big hora at 2 p.m! Come dance with us, and check out the band for your wedding or bat/bar mitzvah. Before and after the big hora, we'll be playing for and teaching klezmer and Israeli folkdancing in a more intimate setting. Its free, and its part of the Celebrate! Party Showcase featuring hundreds of party vendors. Celebrate! Party Showcase Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe 100 Frank W Burr Boulevard Teaneck, New Jersey 07666 USA Phone: 1-201-836-0600 For showcase information and directions: www.celebratepartyshowcase.com/ or call Flora at 1-203-322-2840

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klezmer dancing with Glik
18 février : "l'appart theatre" 10 place e l'hôtel de ville
St Etienne (42) 17h30/19h 5€

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The Yale Klezmer Band & Yale Women's Slavic Chorus
9pm Sat. February 24th
Slifka Center, Yale University
80 Wall St., New Haven, CT b/w Prospect and Temple Streets
$2 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
(proceeds will help fund the Slavic Chorus's trip to Bulgaria, summer '07)

light refreshments provided

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Tants Klezmer/Dance Klezmer!
Beth Jacob Congregation
02/24/2007 at 7:00pm
FREE

Join us for an evening of Eastern European dance with master teacher Steve Weintraub.

Beth Jacob Congregation
1179 Victoria Curve
Mendota Heights, Minnesota 55118

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The Music of Dance

Faculty and guests of the New School of Music will perform an eclectic program celebrating the music of dance, ranging from Baroque to Modern, Swing to Tango, Klezmer to Arabic, and Australian Didgeridoo to West African Agbekor.

Sunday, February 25th, 2006 at 3:00pm
New School of Music
25 Lowell Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Open to the public
Free admission, donations gratefully accepted
Free parking available

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New England Conservatory, Jordan Hall on Tuesday, February 27 at 8:00pm.

The Dünya ince Saz Ensemble, The New England Drum and Winds Mehterhane and Mavi Dance will perform a concert of Turkish music in its intimate and public Moods. I will be playing the Zurna (the oboe’s predecessor) and singing with the New England Drum and Winds Mehterhane.

Come and experience a magical evening with us and please invite your family and friends.

For more information about the concert and about Dunya, please read below or visit our website at www.dunyainc.org

The concert is free to the public.

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Purim in Brooklyn
JDUB presents: MASKS & FLASKS Wait don稚 bring a flask!!!! Not only is it illegal, it's unnecessary cuz we got free Stella Artois beer until it runs out. DJ Anaan and special guest DJ's spinning all night.

Saturday, March 3
Lowbar
81 Washington Street
DUMBO Brooklyn 11201
FIRST stop in Brooklyn on the F (York Street).
FIRST stop in Brooklyn on A/C train too (High Street).
$10 at door | 9 pm doors | 21+
IMPORTANT: RSVP to JDUB Records with Purim in the subject for guaranteed entry before 10:30 PM
LIST IS FILLING UP QUICK !!! RSVP NOW

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Sunday March 4
PURIM PARTY
7-8pm BEGINNERS TEACHING with ALAN BLOOM
LIVE MUSIC Ensemble with ROSE & MEIR BEER
HAMENTASHEN Of course & other holiday goodies
Featuring a Special Purim Guest-
one of Israel's greatest choreographers
MOSHIKO HALEVY

People have asked if they can come in costume -- of course!!
There will be a Prize for the best costume.

Israeli Folk Dancing in the Classic Tradition
on Broadway Every Sunday Night at 7pm

Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway at 104th St.
Information (917)207-0093; www.rikud.net

Contribution -- $10

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring present...

The Fourth Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)—Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
7:00PM–10:00 PM
At the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.
In the Theater

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader Deborah Strauss. Live klezmer music will be provided by some of New York's hottest musicians: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer) and Nick Cudahy (bass).

And mark your calendars: Upcoming Tantshoyzes:
Sunday, May 20 6:00PM - 9:00 PM at the JCC led by Deborah Strauss!
Wednesday, June 6 7:00PM – 10:00PM at the JCC led by Michael Alpert!

Cost is $10 ($8 for JCC and Workman’s Circle Members), pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

Support for the Yiddish Dance Project was provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Klezmer Contra Dance, Cambridge, MA, Tuesday March 13 2007

The MIT Folk Dance Club is holding a klezmer-style contra dance with an open band. Yiddish dance expert Jacob Bloom will teach klezmer-influenced contra dancing. All dances are taught, and beginners are welcome.

Live music will be provided by ContraKlez, an open klezmer band led by John Chambers. Bring an instrument and join the band!

Tuesday March 13, 2007
8:00 - 10:30 pm
MIT Student Center room 491 (4th floor)
84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Suggested donation for dancers: $6 general, $3 students.
mit.edu/fdc

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DANSES YIDDISH: 3ème stage AMJ
Samedi 24 mars 2007 de 13h à 18h00 et Dimanche 25 mars 2007 de 11h à 17h00

Centre Musical du Grand Lancy (Genève)
63, Av. des Communes Réunies
(trams 13, 15 et 17, arrêt "Palettes")

Venez découvrir et pratiquer quelques unes des danses traditionnelles juives d'Europe de l'Est: Hora lente, freylekh, bulgar, sher, patsh tants, terkish, khosidl, etc.

Animation: Steven WEINTRAUB (USA)
Musique 'live' avec l'ensemble klezmer MENTSH (Paris)

Le samedi est dévolu aux 'débutants'. Le dimanche est prévu pour les 'avancés' et ceux qui souhaiteront approfondir ce qu'ils auront appris la veille !

Le dimanche se conclura à 17h30 par une démonstration publique (entrée libre).

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DANSES YIDDISH: 3ème stage AMJ
Samedi 24 mars 2007 de 13h à 18h00 et Dimanche 25 mars 2007 de 11h à 17h00

Centre Musical du Grand Lancy (Genève)
63, Av. des Communes Réunies
(trams 13, 15 et 17, arrêt "Palettes")

Venez découvrir et pratiquer quelques unes des danses traditionnelles juives d'Europe de l'Est: Hora lente, freylekh, bulgar, sher, patsh tants, terkish, khosidl, etc.

Animation: Steven WEINTRAUB (USA)
Musique 'live' avec l'ensemble klezmer MENTSH (Paris)

Le samedi est dévolu aux 'débutants'. Le dimanche est prévu pour les 'avancés' et ceux qui souhaiteront approfondir ce qu'ils auront appris la veille !

Le dimanche se conclura à 17h30 par une démonstration publique (entrée libre).

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Sunday 13th May 2007

Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism

Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12

6pm – 1a.m. £5.

London’s only Balkan/Russian/Baltic/Gypsy/Klez/Mash/Thrash/Trash/KULTURKlash!!!

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring present...

The Fourth Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)—Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC
Sunday, May 20 6:00PM - 9:00 PM at the JCC led by Deborah Strauss!
In the Theater

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader Deborah Strauss. Live klezmer music will be provided by some of New York's hottest musicians: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer) and Nick Cudahy (bass).

And mark your calendars: Upcoming Tantshoys:
Wednesday, June 6 7:00PM – 10:00PM at the JCC led by Michael Alpert!

Cost is $10 ($8 for JCC and Workman’s Circle Members), pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

Support for the Yiddish Dance Project was provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Co-sponsored by KlezCalifornia, The Red Hot Chachkas and Bruce Bierman (Yiddish dance teacher) will be presenting their program, "Klezmer, Music with Soul" in Santa Rosa.

Led by Julie Egger and comprised of multi-talented performers on violin, clarinet, mandolin, accordion, bass, and drums, the group plays traditional Eastern European dance tunes, ranging from frenzied to tranquil tantsn (dances), plus original compositions and improvisions building on the klezmer tradition.

Absolute Music at the Friedman Center brings master musicians and presents classical, jazz, folk and klezmer music to the Jewish Community Center of Sonoma County.

The Friedman Center
4676 Mayette, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
May 27th, 2:00 - 4:00pm ~ Tickets: $15

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring present...

The Fourth Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)—Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC
Wednesday, June 6 7:00PM – 10:00PM at the JCC led by Michael Alpert!
In the Theater

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader Deborah Strauss. Live klezmer music will be provided by some of New York's hottest musicians: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer) and Nick Cudahy (bass).

Cost is $10 ($8 for JCC and Workman’s Circle Members), pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

Support for the Yiddish Dance Project was provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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After several years of trying to move dancing outdoors after our classic Israeli folk dance session stops in the summer -- it is finally going to happen. Thanks to Shimon Boyar and several volunteers from our sunday night dance session, people will now be able to continue doing the dances they love throughout the summer and doing it outdoors (just like the old days when all indoor folk dance sessions stopped for the summer in New York).

Here are the details:
Classic Israeli Folk Dancing Plus Some International
Every Sunday 6-9pm July-August 2007
Riverside Park -- Enter the park either at 103rd St. and walk south to the end of the soccer field or at 96th St. and walk north to just before the soccer field. Dancing will be in a plaza there above the basketball courts at around 101st St.

If you can't find the location or if there is a question about cancellation because of weather, call Shimon at 917-348-0972.

Small contributions to defray the cost of licenses and equipment will be appreciated

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The Hopkele Klezmer Keilidh phenomenon will hit Edinburgh for the first time this summer. Renowned Klezmer Dance Kaller Guy Schalom will lead and teach traditional Eastern European Yiddish circle, square and chain dances, including Freylekhs, Shers, Horas and Bulgars. And just to help put that extra "spring" in your step will be klez-fiddler extraordinaire Ilana Cravitz and the Hopkele House Band with the lively Jewish party music.

Sunday 26 August
15:00 - 18:00
€10
Tickets: 0131 225 5525 | www.dancebase.co.uk

Dance Base, Scotland's National Centre for Dance
tel: 0131 225 5525

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After several years of trying to move dancing outdoors after our classic Israeli folk dance session stops in the summer -- it is finally going to happen. Thanks to Shimon Boyar and several volunteers from our sunday night dance session, people will now be able to continue doing the dances they love throughout the summer and doing it outdoors (just like the old days when all indoor folk dance sessions stopped for the summer in New York).

Here are the details:
Classic Israeli Folk Dancing Plus Some International
Every Sunday 6-9pm July-August 2007
Riverside Park -- Enter the park either at 103rd St. and walk south to the end of the soccer field or at 96th St. and walk north to just before the soccer field. Dancing will be in a plaza there above the basketball courts at around 101st St.

If you can't find the location or if there is a question about cancellation because of weather, call Shimon at 917-348-0972.

Small contributions to defray the cost of licenses and equipment will be appreciated

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Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2007

Nostalgia Labor Day Weekend
on Broadway
for the 16th Annual

SHORASHIM
Roots of Israeli Folk Dance

Featuring two Special Guest Teachers to Celebrate
20 Years of the Rikuday Dor Rishon Dance Session

Workshops: Sat, Sun, & Mon: Ayalah @ 2pm; Seadia @ 4pm; - $15/workshop
Parties: Fri. & Mon. @ 8pm - $10/night;
Marathons: Sat. & Sun. @ 8pm - $20/night
Special Rate for the Whole Weekend: $130
Day Passes: Sat & Sun. - $45; Mon. - $35
Students (under 21) & seniors (over 65) with ID - $2 off any session

All events are in an air-conditioned dance studio with a wood floor at
Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway @ 104th St.
Information: 917-207-0093; www.rikud.net

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Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2007

Nostalgia Labor Day Weekend
on Broadway
for the 16th Annual

SHORASHIM
Roots of Israeli Folk Dance

Featuring two Special Guest Teachers to Celebrate
20 Years of the Rikuday Dor Rishon Dance Session

Workshops: Sat, Sun, & Mon: Ayalah @ 2pm; Seadia @ 4pm; - $15/workshop
Parties: Fri. & Mon. @ 8pm - $10/night;
Marathons: Sat. & Sun. @ 8pm - $20/night
Special Rate for the Whole Weekend: $130
Day Passes: Sat & Sun. - $45; Mon. - $35
Students (under 21) & seniors (over 65) with ID - $2 off any session

All events are in an air-conditioned dance studio with a wood floor at
Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway @ 104th St.
Information: 917-207-0093; www.rikud.net

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Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2007

Nostalgia Labor Day Weekend
on Broadway
for the 16th Annual

SHORASHIM
Roots of Israeli Folk Dance

Featuring two Special Guest Teachers to Celebrate
20 Years of the Rikuday Dor Rishon Dance Session

Workshops: Sat, Sun, & Mon: Ayalah @ 2pm; Seadia @ 4pm; - $15/workshop
Parties: Fri. & Mon. @ 8pm - $10/night;
Marathons: Sat. & Sun. @ 8pm - $20/night
Special Rate for the Whole Weekend: $130
Day Passes: Sat & Sun. - $45; Mon. - $35
Students (under 21) & seniors (over 65) with ID - $2 off any session

All events are in an air-conditioned dance studio with a wood floor at
Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway @ 104th St.
Information: 917-207-0093; www.rikud.net

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Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2007

Nostalgia Labor Day Weekend
on Broadway
for the 16th Annual

SHORASHIM
Roots of Israeli Folk Dance

Featuring two Special Guest Teachers to Celebrate
20 Years of the Rikuday Dor Rishon Dance Session

Workshops: Sat, Sun, & Mon: Ayalah @ 2pm; Seadia @ 4pm; - $15/workshop
Parties: Fri. & Mon. @ 8pm - $10/night;
Marathons: Sat. & Sun. @ 8pm - $20/night
Special Rate for the Whole Weekend: $130
Day Passes: Sat & Sun. - $45; Mon. - $35
Students (under 21) & seniors (over 65) with ID - $2 off any session

All events are in an air-conditioned dance studio with a wood floor at
Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway @ 104th St.
Information: 917-207-0093; www.rikud.net

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Start off the Jewish New Year with a celebration of old-country spirit and soul music!

Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
Including "Dancin' Steve" Weintraub

Sat, Sept 29, 2007, 8:00 pm
Beloit College
Eaton Chapel
Beloit, WI

Tickets: $15
Call 608-363-2242 for information
Call 608-363-2755 for tickets

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New Yiddish Dance Class at NY's 92 St. Y presented by Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the 92 St. Y.

CTMD announces a new partnership with Manhattan's 92 St Y to offer a series of Yiddish dance classes beginning in September led by Walter Zev Feldman and other master dance leaders.

Building on our monthly Tantshoyz (dance house) series at the JCC in Manhattan, the 92 St. Y classes will provide intermediate and advanced dancers with a more in-depth opportunity to explore classic Yiddish and coterritorial dances such as the sher, hora/zhok, freylekhs, honga, hora moldavaneasca and bulgar. Special focus will also be given to the expressive power and gestures of solo dance. Classes will feature live klezmer music performed by Jake Shulman-Ment on violin and Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).

Eight, three-hour sessions will be held on the following Sundays, from 2PM-5PM: September 30, October 21, November 18, January 20, February 17, March 30, April 27, and June 1. Cost for the series is $250 (interested participants must register for the entire series). To register or for more information, go to the 92nd St. Y website or call Pete Rushefsky at 212-571-1555 ext. 36 or email Pete.

And stay tuned for information about a new season of Tantshoyzen and a December 9 Symposium at NYU entitled Defining Yiddish Dance: Sacred, Secular, Borrowed and Transformed.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Yiddish Dance Project is supported by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Division of Folk Arts and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Start off the Jewish New Year with a celebration of old-country spirit and soul music!

Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
Including "Dancin' Steve" Weintraub

Sat, Oct 13 2007, 7:30 pm
Stevenson High School Performing Arts Center
1 Stevenson Dr.
Lincolnshire, IL

Tickets: Adults $15, Senior/Students $13
Call: 847.634.4000 x1882

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Start off the Jewish New Year with a celebration of old-country spirit and soul music!

Maxwell Street Klezmer Band

Sun, Oct 14 2007, 2:00-3:00 pm
Arlington Heights Library
500 N. Dunton Avenue
Arlington Heights, IL

Tickets: Free, limited seating:
Register on-line at www.ahml.info
...or call 847-392-0100

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Start off the Jewish New Year with a celebration of old-country spirit and soul music!

Maxwell Street Klezmer Band

Wed, Oct 17 2007, 1:30-2:40 pm
Skokie Theater
7924 N. Lincoln Ave.
Skokie, IL

Tickets: $9 Call: 847-677-7761

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New Yiddish Dance Class at NY's 92 St. Y presented by Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the 92 St. Y.

CTMD announces a new partnership with Manhattan's 92 St Y to offer a series of Yiddish dance classes beginning in September led by Walter Zev Feldman and other master dance leaders.

Building on our monthly Tantshoyz (dance house) series at the JCC in Manhattan, the 92 St. Y classes will provide intermediate and advanced dancers with a more in-depth opportunity to explore classic Yiddish and coterritorial dances such as the sher, hora/zhok, freylekhs, honga, hora moldavaneasca and bulgar. Special focus will also be given to the expressive power and gestures of solo dance. Classes will feature live klezmer music performed by Jake Shulman-Ment on violin and Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).

Eight, three-hour sessions will be held on the following Sundays, from 2PM-5PM: September 30, October 21, November 18, January 20, February 17, March 30, April 27, and June 1. Cost for the series is $250 (interested participants must register for the entire series). To register or for more information, go to the 92nd St. Y website or call Pete Rushefsky at 212-571-1555 ext. 36 or email Pete.

And stay tuned for information about a new season of Tantshoyzen and a December 9 Symposium at NYU entitled Defining Yiddish Dance: Sacred, Secular, Borrowed and Transformed.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Yiddish Dance Project is supported by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Division of Folk Arts and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Middle-Eastern super-party with DJs from Los Desterrados, Shisha Sound System and Emunah, plus belly dancers, films, photography, VJs...

｣5 at Ditch Bar, 145 Shoreditch High St, London.
Saturday 27th October 2007, 9pm - 3am.

Sponsored by Psychosemitic
www.myspace.com/psychosem

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Start off the Jewish New Year with a celebration of old-country spirit and soul music!

Maxwell Street Klezmer Band

Sun, Oct 28, 2007, 7:00 pm
Skokie Central Traditional Jewish Congregation
4040 Main Street
Skokie, IL

Tickets $25 (Children under 16: $10)
info: 847.674.4117

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring present…

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)—Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC
Thursday, Nov 1 7:00PM – 10:00PM at the JCC with Zev Feldman
334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader Deborah Strauss. Live klezmer music will be provided by some of New York's hottest musicians: Michael Winograd (violin), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer) and Nick Cudahy (bass).

Cost is $10 ($8 for JCC and Workman’s Circle Members), pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

Support for the Yiddish Dance Project was provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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A Klezmer dance party at The Village Temple, 33 E. 12th St. in Manhattan on Friday, November 2nd, from 9 - 10 p.m. It is free and open to the public!

Come to a Shabbat service from 7 - 8 with a Yiddish sing-along, then a hearty oneg with Jewish soul food - also free! Then dance it off with Klezmer duo, Sruli and Lisa.

tel: 212-674-2340
www.VillageTemple.org

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Jewish Song and Dance Workshop
Thursday, Nov 8, 5-6:30pm
Winthrop Junior Common Room at Harvard
36 Mill St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Join members of Harvard's Yiddish program, the Israeli dance workshop, RecKlez (the Harvard Klezmer Band), and Harvard Hillel's new a capella group to sing Yiddish songs, clap klezmer beats, dance Israeli-style, and more. Bring voices, instruments, hands, and feet.

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New Yiddish Dance Class at NY's 92 St. Y presented by Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the 92 St. Y.

CTMD announces a new partnership with Manhattan's 92 St Y to offer a series of Yiddish dance classes beginning in September led by Walter Zev Feldman and other master dance leaders.

Building on our monthly Tantshoyz (dance house) series at the JCC in Manhattan, the 92 St. Y classes will provide intermediate and advanced dancers with a more in-depth opportunity to explore classic Yiddish and coterritorial dances such as the sher, hora/zhok, freylekhs, honga, hora moldavaneasca and bulgar. Special focus will also be given to the expressive power and gestures of solo dance. Classes will feature live klezmer music performed by Jake Shulman-Ment on violin and Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).

Eight, three-hour sessions will be held on the following Sundays, from 2PM-5PM: September 30, October 21, November 18, January 20, February 17, March 30, April 27, and June 1. Cost for the series is $250 (interested participants must register for the entire series). To register or for more information, go to the 92nd St. Y website or call Pete Rushefsky at 212-571-1555 ext. 36 or email Pete.

And stay tuned for information about a new season of Tantshoyzen and a December 9 Symposium at NYU entitled Defining Yiddish Dance: Sacred, Secular, Borrowed and Transformed.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Yiddish Dance Project is supported by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Division of Folk Arts and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Sunday 25th November 2007
Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
6pm – 1a.m. £5 on the door.

London’s only Balkan/Russian/Baltic/Gypsy/Klez/Mash/Thrash/Trash/KULTURKlash!!!

‘The Arts Club's most adventurous and anarchic night (and that's saying something)’ Time Out
The Commissar continues to pledge exclusive music, performance from Friends of Gagarin, poetry from Tim Cumming, Marxist-Leninist alienation from art/animation/video installations for the Proletariat from state artists Adrian Philpott & Cathy Gale; frozen vodka & rakiya galore and resident DKs (Dancefloor Komissars) Max Reinhardt & Misha Maltsev sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til’ the road of excess has led us to the place of wisdom. Early evening come to feed your soul with wintery home-cookin in the Kitschen and take a rest from your fight for Revolutionary Determinism for a few moments in the Kinodrom with new and classic shorts from Eastern Europe.

Radio Gagarins’ bi-monthly Experiments in Sunday Socialism sessions fill Notting Hill Arts Club to overflowing with a tundra melting mix of live music, digital DJ prowess, performance art, east European cinema, poetry, puppetry, poverty, latkes, blinis and vodka. Live acts have included Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz, Oi Va Voi, DJ Shantel, Sophie Solomon, Nayekovichi, Mukka, London Sevdah, Martin Green & Joe Townsend, London Bulgarian Choir, Graham Lewis (Wire) with Scifi Kane, Luminescent Orchestrii, Geoff Berner, The Destroyers, Mammatrix, Emunah & Ghetto Plotz.

Co-Produced by YaD Arts / Adrian Philpott/ Ariadne Arendt/ The Shrine
www.yadarts.com

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring present…

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)—Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC
This event has been cancelled, but there is a whole Yiddish Dance Symposium followed by a Yiddish dance on December 9.

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New Yiddish Dance Class at NY's 92 St. Y presented by Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the 92 St. Y.

CTMD announces a new partnership with Manhattan's 92 St Y to offer a series of Yiddish dance classes beginning in September led by Walter Zev Feldman and other master dance leaders.

Building on our monthly Tantshoyz (dance house) series at the JCC in Manhattan, the 92 St. Y classes will provide intermediate and advanced dancers with a more in-depth opportunity to explore classic Yiddish and coterritorial dances such as the sher, hora/zhok, freylekhs, honga, hora moldavaneasca and bulgar. Special focus will also be given to the expressive power and gestures of solo dance. Classes will feature live klezmer music performed by Jake Shulman-Ment on violin and Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).

Eight, three-hour sessions will be held on the following Sundays, from 2PM-5PM: September 30, October 21, November 18, January 20, February 17, March 30, April 27, and June 1. Cost for the series is $250 (interested participants must register for the entire series). To register or for more information, go to the 92nd St. Y website or call Pete Rushefsky at 212-571-1555 ext. 36 or email Pete.

And stay tuned for information about a new season of Tantshoyzen and a December 9 Symposium at NYU entitled Defining Yiddish Dance: Sacred, Secular, Borrowed and Transformed.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Yiddish Dance Project is supported by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Division of Folk Arts and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring present…

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)—Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC

Thursday, January 24, 2008
7:00PM–10:00 PM
At the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.
In the Theater

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader Zev Feldman. Live klezmer music will be provided by some of New York's hottest musicians: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer).

Cost is $10 ($8 for JCC and Workman’s Circle Members), pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

A new international Yiddish Dance Action Network has been created to help research and promote Yiddish Dance around the world. For more information, contact Pete Rushefsky.

And if you have old family videos with footage of traditional Yiddish Dance we’d love to know about it!

Support for the Yiddish Dance Project was provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Dance Your Sapozkelekh Off – Sunday 27 January 2008. Doors open 7.30pm

Hopkele Productions presents the 2nd anniversary Klezmer Keilidh. The barn dance for the 21st Century – Yiddish style – will be at Cecil Sharp House, NW1.

If you're in London this weekend, whisk away those winter cobwebs with klezmer dance kaller Guy Schalom, who will lead and teach traditional Eastern European Yiddish circle, square and chain dances. Fiddler Ilana Cravitz and the Hopkele House Band (Neyire Ashworth (clarinet), John Bone (accordion) and Paul Tkachenko (bass)) will help put that extra spring in your step with live klezmer music. Suitable for all ages and dancing abilities.

The Hopkele will be at Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London, NW1 7AY. (Tube: Camden Town and Chalk Farm, northern line).

Buy your tickets online at www.ilanacravitz.com/shop.html for the special advance price of £10. Hopkele information hotline: 0782 551 0881. Tickets on the door: £12 (£10 concs).

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Chilli Fried Peppers
Cool global Jewish music

Thursday, February 7, 2008
8:30pm - 11:30pm
Darbucka
182 St John Street
London, United Kingdom
View Map
Nearest Tubes: Farringdon / Angel

Laoise Davidson DJing at this event if you wanna come down and check it out - ill be playing some kool klezmer and yiddish swing. And if you havent heard it, Max Pashm's band is great, mixing dance grooves with Klezmer... promises to be an excellent evening....
£5 / £3 concs

Further info: 02074908772
www.chillifried.com

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Kurt Bjorling and the Chicago Klezmer Ensemble will be perfoming this weekend at the University of Chicago Folk Festival

www.uofcfolk.org/2008/

Steve Weintraub will join the band to teach a free workshop this Sunday in Yiddish dance, focusing on the classic wedding dance, the sher—a kind of square dance. The workshop will be from 1 to 3 pm at Ida Noyes Hall.

The band will also be performing as part of the evening program, which starts at 6pm.

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring present…

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)—Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC

Thursday, February 14, 2008
7:00PM–10:00 PM
At the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.
In the Theater

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader Deborah Strauss. Live klezmer music will be provided by some of New York's hottest musicians: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) and Jeff Warschauer (guitar/mandolin/cobza). Beginners welcome!

Cost is $10 ($8 for JCC and Workman’s Circle Members), pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

A new international Yiddish Dance Action Network has been created to help research and promote Yiddish Dance around the world. For more information, contact Pete Rushefsky.

And if you have old family videos with footage of traditional Yiddish Dance we’d love to know about it!

Support for the Yiddish Dance Project was provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Come dance away the cold days of winter & delight to a klezmer concert on President’s Day weekend in beautiful Saratoga Springs, NY at the annual Dance Flurry! www.danceflurry.org/festival. Flurry events include:

• Yiddish Dance lead by Avia Moore with music by di bostoner klezmer on Sunday, February 17th from 11:30 A.M.-12:45 P.M. as well as dances and dance workshops in Contra, Swing, Latin, Zydeco, Waltzes, Texas Two-Step, Salsa, etc.
• a klezmer music concert on Sunday by di bostoner klezmer on Sunday, February 17th from 3:30 to 4:30 We will charm you with original compositions, tangos, waltzes, and good old danceable bulgars & freylekhs … as well as a host of other concerts, music workshops, and open jamming
• Classes—including a wind styles class co-taught by Brian Bender and Dena Ressler with three other musicians on Sunday from 10-11 A.M. and an accordion styles workshop the same day co-taught by Barry Shapiro with six! others from 1:30-2:45 P.M.

Tickets: Buy discounted full-festival tickets on-line (save $15) before 1/28 or just for one day (at-door tickets never sell out; no reservations are required)

Sunday: the day of the Yiddish music and dance happens—runs from 9 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Cost is $25 students and seniors, $30 other adults, and $3 kids.

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New Yiddish Dance Class at NY's 92 St. Y presented by Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the 92 St. Y.

CTMD announces a new partnership with Manhattan's 92 St Y to offer a series of Yiddish dance classes beginning in September led by Walter Zev Feldman and other master dance leaders.

Building on our monthly Tantshoyz (dance house) series at the JCC in Manhattan, the 92 St. Y classes will provide intermediate and advanced dancers with a more in-depth opportunity to explore classic Yiddish and coterritorial dances such as the sher, hora/zhok, freylekhs, honga, hora moldavaneasca and bulgar. Special focus will also be given to the expressive power and gestures of solo dance. Classes will feature live klezmer music performed by Jake Shulman-Ment on violin and Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).

Eight, three-hour sessions will be held on the following Sundays, from 2PM-5PM: September 30, October 21, November 18, January 20, February 17, March 30, April 27, and June 1. Cost for the series is $250 (interested participants must register for the entire series). To register or for more information, go to the 92nd St. Y website or call Pete Rushefsky at 212-571-1555 ext. 36 or email Pete.

And stay tuned for information about a new season of Tantshoyzen and a December 9 Symposium at NYU entitled Defining Yiddish Dance: Sacred, Secular, Borrowed and Transformed.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Yiddish Dance Project is supported by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Division of Folk Arts and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

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KlezKanada presents a World-Class Klezmer Concert and Dance Party. The event takes place Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 9pm at Kola Note (5240 Avenue du Parc, Montreal).

This exciting evening features a line-up of internationally acclaimed klezmer musicians. From Montreal to New York, from concert halls to nightclubs, these performers create a buzz wherever they appear. Grammy award-winning trumpeter Frank London is famous for his work with klezmer supergroups The Klezmatics and The Klezmer Brass Allstars. Renowned Yiddish singer Michael Alpert has been a pioneering figure in the renaissance of Klezmer and Yiddish music for the past 30 years. Cookie Segelstein and Josh Horowitz are founding members of Veretski Pass and loved for their virtuosic traditional style. The dynamic Strauss/Warschauer Duo features two of the most astonishing and popular performers and teachers in the international klezmer and Yiddish music scene.

Special guests for the evening include cello visionary Matt Haimovitz, the first classical musician to play at NY's notorious CBGB club. Also Montreal's Shtreiml, New York's fastest rising young clarinet star Michael Winograd and more!

Dancing will be led by Avia Moore and Michael Alpert.

One show only, Saturday, February 23, 2008 at Kola Note, 5240 Avenue du Parc, Montreal. Doors will open at 8:30 pm, the show will commence at 9 pm. General admission tickets $20, student tickets $10. Available at the door. For sponsorship tickets, please call 514.993.2842. A partial tax receipt will be issued. For more information, contact Avia Moore by email or by phone 514.993.2842.

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Saturday - March 1st, 10pm - 4am
Sound Advice keep their weekly going strong with special guest DJ Balagan!
@ Supreme Trading
213 N. Bedford st.
Brooklyn
(718) 599-4224

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Sunday 16th March 2008
Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
6pm – 1a.m. £5 on the door.

London’s only Balkan/Russian/Baltic/Gypsy/Klez/Mash/Thrash/Trash/KULTURKlash!!!

‘The Arts Club's most adventurous and anarchic night (and that's saying something)’ Time Out

The Commissar continues to pledge:
Live: ROHAN KRIWACZEK and Angelina and her Gypsy Soul Punk and more to be confirmed….
PLUS performance from Friends of Gagarin, poetry from Tim Cumming, Marxist-Leninist alienation from art/animation/video installations for the Proletariat from state artists Adrian Philpott & Cathy Gale; frozen vodka & rakiya galore and resident DKs (Dancefloor Komissars) Max Reinhardt & Misha Maltsev sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til’ the road of excess has led us to the place of wisdom. Early evening come to feed your soul with wintery home-cookin in the Kitschen and take a rest from your fight for Revolutionary Determinism for a few moments in the Kinodrom with new and classic shorts from Eastern Europe.

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The Red Hot Chachkas

JSOF/JCCSF Purim Dance Party, San Francisco :: 8-11 PM, Saturday March 22

Dancing, costumes, food, wine with "Jewish Singles Over Forty" at Kanbar Hall, JCCSF, 3200 California St. at Presidio Ave., San Francisco. More info and tickets

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Community Dance Party 2008
Sun, Mar 30, 2008 4:00 PM

JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709
$12 JCC East Bay members, seniors, students $15 general

Get down as the artists of the Ark take off! Jewish dance specialist Bruce Bierman fits the moves of the ancestors into the grooves of your imagination.

read on »»

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New Yiddish Dance Class at NY's 92 St. Y presented by Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the 92 St. Y.

CTMD announces a new partnership with Manhattan's 92 St Y to offer a series of Yiddish dance classes beginning in September led by Walter Zev Feldman and other master dance leaders.

Building on our monthly Tantshoyz (dance house) series at the JCC in Manhattan, the 92 St. Y classes will provide intermediate and advanced dancers with a more in-depth opportunity to explore classic Yiddish and coterritorial dances such as the sher, hora/zhok, freylekhs, honga, hora moldavaneasca and bulgar. Special focus will also be given to the expressive power and gestures of solo dance. Classes will feature live klezmer music performed by Jake Shulman-Ment on violin and Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).

Eight, three-hour sessions will be held on the following Sundays, from 2PM-5PM: September 30, October 21, November 18, January 20, February 17, March 30, April 27, and June 1. Cost for the series is $250 (interested participants must register for the entire series). To register or for more information, go to the 92nd St. Y website or call Pete Rushefsky at 212-571-1555 ext. 36 or email Pete.

And stay tuned for information about a new season of Tantshoyzen and a December 9 Symposium at NYU entitled Defining Yiddish Dance: Sacred, Secular, Borrowed and Transformed.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Yiddish Dance Project is supported by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Division of Folk Arts and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring present…

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)—Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC

Thursday, April 17, 2008
7:00PM–10:00 PM
At the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.
In the Theater

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader and klezmer revival pioneer Zev Feldman. Live music will be provided by some of New York's leading klezmer musicians: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl). Beginners welcome!

Cost is $10 ($8 for JCC and Workman’s Circle Members), pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

A new international Yiddish Dance Action Network has been created to help research and promote Yiddish Dance around the world. For more information, contact Pete Rushefsky.

And if you have old family videos with footage of traditional Yiddish Dance we’d love to know about it!

Support for the Yiddish Dance Project was provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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New Yiddish Dance Class at NY's 92 St. Y presented by Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the 92 St. Y.

CTMD announces a new partnership with Manhattan's 92 St Y to offer a series of Yiddish dance classes beginning in September led by Walter Zev Feldman and other master dance leaders.

Building on our monthly Tantshoyz (dance house) series at the JCC in Manhattan, the 92 St. Y classes will provide intermediate and advanced dancers with a more in-depth opportunity to explore classic Yiddish and coterritorial dances such as the sher, hora/zhok, freylekhs, honga, hora moldavaneasca and bulgar. Special focus will also be given to the expressive power and gestures of solo dance. Classes will feature live klezmer music performed by Jake Shulman-Ment on violin and Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).

Eight, three-hour sessions will be held on the following Sundays, from 2PM-5PM: September 30, October 21, November 18, January 20, February 17, March 30, April 27, and June 1. Cost for the series is $250 (interested participants must register for the entire series). To register or for more information, go to the 92nd St. Y website or call Pete Rushefsky at 212-571-1555 ext. 36 or email Pete.

And stay tuned for information about a new season of Tantshoyzen and a December 9 Symposium at NYU entitled Defining Yiddish Dance: Sacred, Secular, Borrowed and Transformed.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Yiddish Dance Project is supported by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Division of Folk Arts and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring present…

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)—Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC

Thursday, April 17, 2008
7:00PM–10:00 PM
At the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.
In the Theater

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing. Live music will be provided by some of New York's leading klezmer musicians. Beginners welcome!

Cost is $10 ($8 for JCC and Workman’s Circle Members), pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

A new international Yiddish Dance Action Network has been created to help research and promote Yiddish Dance around the world. For more information, contact Pete Rushefsky.

And if you have old family videos with footage of traditional Yiddish Dance we’d love to know about it!

Support for the Yiddish Dance Project was provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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New Yiddish Dance Class at NY's 92 St. Y presented by Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the 92 St. Y.

CTMD announces a new partnership with Manhattan's 92 St Y to offer a series of Yiddish dance classes beginning in September led by Walter Zev Feldman and other master dance leaders.

Building on our monthly Tantshoyz (dance house) series at the JCC in Manhattan, the 92 St. Y classes will provide intermediate and advanced dancers with a more in-depth opportunity to explore classic Yiddish and coterritorial dances such as the sher, hora/zhok, freylekhs, honga, hora moldavaneasca and bulgar. Special focus will also be given to the expressive power and gestures of solo dance. Classes will feature live klezmer music performed by Jake Shulman-Ment on violin and Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).

Eight, three-hour sessions will be held on the following Sundays, from 2PM-5PM: September 30, October 21, November 18, January 20, February 17, March 30, April 27, and June 1. Cost for the series is $250 (interested participants must register for the entire series). To register or for more information, go to the 92nd St. Y website or call Pete Rushefsky at 212-571-1555 ext. 36 or email Pete.

And stay tuned for information about a new season of Tantshoyzen and a December 9 Symposium at NYU entitled Defining Yiddish Dance: Sacred, Secular, Borrowed and Transformed.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Yiddish Dance Project is supported by the Forward Association, the New York State Council on the Arts Division of Folk Arts and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

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We are dancing every Sunday at the Stamford JCC (1035 Newfield Avenue, Stamford, CT) !!

Israeli Dancing with Leng & Yigal! Did you think you can't dance? Think again!!

Join our beginner session for basic steps and you are on your way!

Beginner's class: 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Intermediate/Advanced: 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Only $10! Special discount for Stamford JCC Members ($8)!

Beautiful hardwood floors, very good sound system, very friendly dancers, delicious light refreshments ... what more can we ask for?

Listen to beautiful Israeli music & live drumming! It's also a great way to exercise!

We get dancers from New York City, local Connecticut towns (Stamford, Norwalk, Westport, Trumbull), in addition to Westchester and New Jersey!

Inquire about an upcoming Wednesday evening session!

www.ctisraelidance.com, or call 203.912.4086

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KLEZMER DANCE NIGHT with Live Music
A workshop and social evening hosted by Yiddish Australia for teens and
adults Sunday 15th June 7.30pm At the Kadimah
7 Selwyn st Elsternwick, $10
Bookings and enquiries: 0416170495 Please note: all
are welcome but instructions will be given in Yiddish

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KLEZMER CONCERT followed by a dance party
with
Budowitz Ensemble & Avia Moore, KlezCanada, caller

IN MONTRÉAL (Quebec),
Saturday, June 21st 2008, 8pm
Cirque Éloize, 417 Berri st in Old Montreal
Champs de Mars (metro station)

Tickets: 35$ adulrs; 25$ seniors, 10$ students
For more information :
Montreal Baroque Festival
www.montrealbaroque.com
514.845.7171 or 1.866.845.7171, ext 2

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We are dancing every Sunday at the Stamford JCC (1035 Newfield Avenue, Stamford, CT) !!

Israeli Dancing with Leng & Yigal! Did you think you can't dance? Think again!!

Join our beginner session for basic steps and you are on your way!

Beginner's class: 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Intermediate/Advanced: 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Only $10! Special discount for Stamford JCC Members ($8)!

Beautiful hardwood floors, very good sound system, very friendly dancers, delicious light refreshments ... what more can we ask for?

Listen to beautiful Israeli music & live drumming! It's also a great way to exercise!

We get dancers from New York City, local Connecticut towns (Stamford, Norwalk, Westport, Trumbull), in addition to Westchester and New Jersey!

Inquire about an upcoming Wednesday evening session!

www.ctisraelidance.com, or call 203.912.4086

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We are dancing every Sunday at the Stamford JCC (1035 Newfield Avenue, Stamford, CT) !!

Israeli Dancing with Leng & Yigal! Did you think you can't dance? Think again!!

Join our beginner session for basic steps and you are on your way!

Beginner's class: 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Intermediate/Advanced: 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Only $10! Special discount for Stamford JCC Members ($8)!

Beautiful hardwood floors, very good sound system, very friendly dancers, delicious light refreshments ... what more can we ask for?

Listen to beautiful Israeli music & live drumming! It's also a great way to exercise!

We get dancers from New York City, local Connecticut towns (Stamford, Norwalk, Westport, Trumbull), in addition to Westchester and New Jersey!

Inquire about an upcoming Wednesday evening session!

www.ctisraelidance.com, or call 203.912.4086

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June 29 - The Freylech: Dance Parties at the JCC
Get ready to stomp, shvitz and boogie down for an evening of Yiddish dancing led by master dance leader Bruce Bierman. Some of the Bay Area's best klezmer groups will perform live music for all ages.

The Jewish Dance Theatre, directed by Bruce Bierman, is now an artistic company in residence at the JCC East Bay. Bruce will lead dance classes pulling from different Jewish traditions, and the JDT will host monthly dance parties at the JCC throughout the course of the summer. Look forward to a slate of stellar fall productions from this ensemble. Co-presented by KlezCalifornia and the Jewish Music Festival. For complete details, click HERE.

Sundays June 29, July 27, August 31
Dance lesson: 7:00-8:00pm
Live music/group dance: 8:00-10:00pm
$10/evening

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We are dancing at the Stamford JCC (1035 Newfield Avenue, Stamford, CT) !!

Israeli Dancing with Leng & Yigal! Did you think you can't dance? Think again!!

We are pleased to announce our new Wednesday evening session, starting July 2 at the Stamford JCC in the dance studio!

We’ll be dancing from 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM. We worked very hard to get this session organized and started. Those who asked us to open another session and were enthused about an evening session, please be sure to come and show your support so that the JCC will know that there is enough interest to sustain this class. If there is not enough support, we will have to close it. We would like to be able to continue this session in the Fall, either on a Wednesday, or another week night, depending on the availability of the studio.

Beautiful hardwood floors, very good sound system, very friendly dancers, delicious light refreshments ... what more can we ask for?

Listen to beautiful Israeli music & live drumming! It's also a great way to exercise!

We get dancers from New York City, local Connecticut towns (Stamford, Norwalk, Westport, Trumbull), in addition to Westchester and New Jersey!

www.ctisraelidance.com, or call 203.912.4086

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Pandemic (balkan sleaze/gypsy crunk/bhangraton/ethnomesh/reggaeton/boznian hip hop/klezmer bass and more)

Friday July 4 (and every first friday)
@the Brillobox
4104 penn ave
lawrenceville/bloomfield
10pm-2am, $4
www.myspace.com/pghpandemic
tel: 412.251.6058

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BALAGAN BOOGALOO is BACK!

The Balagan is Back and this time at Galapagos!
co-hosted by Nina Safar and Roy Baron

**Break Dancers, Suprises and Diwon on decks makin you dance all night. It all goes down - Thursday July 10th at 9:30pm.
RSVP gets you in for only $5** otherwise its a ten spot at the door.
RSVP to Shemspeed

Location: Galapagos BACK ROOM Diwon on decks! 70 N 6th St. Williamsburg

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Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company and Bente Kahan in Concert in Echoes
July 16 & 17, 7:30PM
Part of the Guest Artist Series at Dance Theatre Workshop
219 West 19th Street, NYC
Tickets: $25, Members $15. Buy 2 tickets to any two programs and get 20% off.
212-924-0077 or www.dtw.org

Carolyn Dorfman and Bente Kahan, a celebrated Jewish-Norwegian artist residing in Wrølaw, Poland, are currently collaborating on ECHOES: an evening of dance, music and theater that embraces the best of Dorfman and Kahan's individual repertoires, cabaret-style intimacy and their newest collaboration. The work incorporates choreography from Dorfman's highly acclaimed dance piece, Cat's Cradle and Kahan's one woman "tour de force" theatre piece, Voices of Theresienstadt. Mayne Mentshn, originally created with support from the Foundation's The Pearl S. Zeltzer Fund for Jewish Choreography*, will also be excerpted.

*the Fund is currently supporting the New Dance from Israel initiative; no applications are available or will be accepted at this time.

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Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company and Bente Kahan in Concert in Echoes
July 16 & 17, 7:30PM
Part of the Guest Artist Series at Dance Theatre Workshop
219 West 19th Street, NYC
Tickets: $25, Members $15. Buy 2 tickets to any two programs and get 20% off.
212-924-0077 or www.dtw.org

Carolyn Dorfman and Bente Kahan, a celebrated Jewish-Norwegian artist residing in Wrølaw, Poland, are currently collaborating on ECHOES: an evening of dance, music and theater that embraces the best of Dorfman and Kahan's individual repertoires, cabaret-style intimacy and their newest collaboration. The work incorporates choreography from Dorfman's highly acclaimed dance piece, Cat's Cradle and Kahan's one woman "tour de force" theatre piece, Voices of Theresienstadt. Mayne Mentshn, originally created with support from the Foundation's The Pearl S. Zeltzer Fund for Jewish Choreography*, will also be excerpted.

*the Fund is currently supporting the New Dance from Israel initiative; no applications are available or will be accepted at this time.

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On Sunday July 20th, JDub is celebrating its 5th Anniversary with a FREE event at the Prospect Park bandshell as part of the annual Celebrate Brooklyn festival series. The event, which runs from 5-9 PM (doors open at 4) will feature Golem, Soulico, DeLeon, Sway Machinery, and Michael Showalter hosting, as well as cool special guests like Brian from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Israeli godfather of hip-hop Sagol 59 and a marching band.

JDub has brought some of the most interesting music of the last five years--yeah, those are JDub artists above, and doesn't even include SoCalled or former stablemate, Matisyahu. This is the place to be on July 20th.

Celebrate Brooklyn @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Doors open at 4 PM; music starts at 5 PM
$3 suggested donation to Celebrate Brooklyn
www.briconline.org/celebrate/072008.asp

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RadioGagarin Sunday 20th July 2008, from 6pm

London's only Balkan/Russian/Baltic/Gypsy/Klez/Mash/Thrash/Trash/KULTURKlash!!!

'The Arts Club's most adventurous and anarchic night (and that's saying something)' —Time Out

The Commissar continues to pledge:
UK debut of French Roma band Gadjologie, Angelina and the Gipsy Punks, Bow Mods, Zoe Klinger's Friends of Gagarin, Lenin's Talkin' Blues project, and Mishka the Bear, Max Reinhardt & Misha Maltsev sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til' the road of excess has led us to the place of wisdom. Early evening come to cool your soul with summer home-cookin in the Kitschen and new and classic shorts from Eastern Europe.

Radio Gagarins' bi-monthly Experiments in Sunday Socialism sessions fill Notting Hill Arts Club to overflowing with a tundra melting mix of live music, digital DJ prowess, performance art, east European cinema, poetry, puppetry, poverty, latkes, blinis and vodka. Live acts have included Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz, Oi Va Voi, DJ Shantel, Sophie Solomon, Mukka, London Sevdah, London Bulgarian Choir, Graham Lewis (Wire) with Scifi Kane, Luminescent Orchestrii, Geoff Berner, The Destroyers, Mammatrix & Ghetto Plotz.

Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate W11
£5.00 on the door
For more information, call 02076295555

Co-produced by Adrian Philpott / The Shrine/ YaD Arts / Oi Va Voi

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June 29 - The Freylech: Dance Parties at the JCC
Get ready to stomp, shvitz and boogie down for an evening of Yiddish dancing led by master dance leader Bruce Bierman. Some of the Bay Area's best klezmer groups will perform live music for all ages.

The Jewish Dance Theatre, directed by Bruce Bierman, is now an artistic company in residence at the JCC East Bay. Bruce will lead dance classes pulling from different Jewish traditions, and the JDT will host monthly dance parties at the JCC throughout the course of the summer. Look forward to a slate of stellar fall productions from this ensemble. Co-presented by KlezCalifornia and the Jewish Music Festival. For complete details, click HERE.

Sundays June 29, July 27, August 31
Dance lesson: 7:00-8:00pm
Live music/group dance: 8:00-10:00pm
$10/evening

JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, CA 94709

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KlezFest: Music, Song and Dance

Sunday 10 - Friday 15 August
Registration and official opening: Sunday 4:00pm
Workshops and activities: Monday to Friday 9:00am to 11:00pm

KlezFest is a stimulating week of intensive, inspirational workshops and masterclasses in Klezmer, Yiddish Song and Yiddish folk dance based in the centre of London. Led by top professionals in the field from all over the world, and offering a packed programme designed to suit participants from a wide variety of experiences, Klezfest is ideal for amateur or professional musicians, singers and dancers of all backgrounds. Find out if you can take part in KlezFest...

Directed by Frank London, with SongFest directed by Shura Lipovsky and DanceFest by Andreas Schmitges. With special guests Moshe Berlin (Israel), Steve Weintraub (USA) and Joanne Borts (USA). An incredible week of Klezmer classes, workshops, masterclasses, jams and concerts in the heart of London. See www.jmi.org.uk for full details

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KlezFest: Music, Song and Dance

Sunday 10 - Friday 15 August
Registration and official opening: Sunday 4:00pm
Workshops and activities: Monday to Friday 9:00am to 11:00pm

KlezFest is a stimulating week of intensive, inspirational workshops and masterclasses in Klezmer, Yiddish Song and Yiddish folk dance based in the centre of London. Led by top professionals in the field from all over the world, and offering a packed programme designed to suit participants from a wide variety of experiences, Klezfest is ideal for amateur or professional musicians, singers and dancers of all backgrounds. Find out if you can take part in KlezFest...

Directed by Frank London, with SongFest directed by Shura Lipovsky and DanceFest by Andreas Schmitges. With special guests Moshe Berlin (Israel), Steve Weintraub (USA) and Joanne Borts (USA). An incredible week of Klezmer classes, workshops, masterclasses, jams and concerts in the heart of London. See www.jmi.org.uk for full details

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KlezFest: Music, Song and Dance

Sunday 10 - Friday 15 August
Registration and official opening: Sunday 4:00pm
Workshops and activities: Monday to Friday 9:00am to 11:00pm

KlezFest is a stimulating week of intensive, inspirational workshops and masterclasses in Klezmer, Yiddish Song and Yiddish folk dance based in the centre of London. Led by top professionals in the field from all over the world, and offering a packed programme designed to suit participants from a wide variety of experiences, Klezfest is ideal for amateur or professional musicians, singers and dancers of all backgrounds. Find out if you can take part in KlezFest...

Directed by Frank London, with SongFest directed by Shura Lipovsky and DanceFest by Andreas Schmitges. With special guests Moshe Berlin (Israel), Steve Weintraub (USA) and Joanne Borts (USA). An incredible week of Klezmer classes, workshops, masterclasses, jams and concerts in the heart of London. See www.jmi.org.uk for full details

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KlezFest: Music, Song and Dance

Sunday 10 - Friday 15 August
Registration and official opening: Sunday 4:00pm
Workshops and activities: Monday to Friday 9:00am to 11:00pm

KlezFest is a stimulating week of intensive, inspirational workshops and masterclasses in Klezmer, Yiddish Song and Yiddish folk dance based in the centre of London. Led by top professionals in the field from all over the world, and offering a packed programme designed to suit participants from a wide variety of experiences, Klezfest is ideal for amateur or professional musicians, singers and dancers of all backgrounds. Find out if you can take part in KlezFest...

Directed by Frank London, with SongFest directed by Shura Lipovsky and DanceFest by Andreas Schmitges. With special guests Moshe Berlin (Israel), Steve Weintraub (USA) and Joanne Borts (USA). An incredible week of Klezmer classes, workshops, masterclasses, jams and concerts in the heart of London. See www.jmi.org.uk for full details

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KlezFest: Music, Song and Dance

Sunday 10 - Friday 15 August
Registration and official opening: Sunday 4:00pm
Workshops and activities: Monday to Friday 9:00am to 11:00pm

KlezFest is a stimulating week of intensive, inspirational workshops and masterclasses in Klezmer, Yiddish Song and Yiddish folk dance based in the centre of London. Led by top professionals in the field from all over the world, and offering a packed programme designed to suit participants from a wide variety of experiences, Klezfest is ideal for amateur or professional musicians, singers and dancers of all backgrounds. Find out if you can take part in KlezFest...

Directed by Frank London, with SongFest directed by Shura Lipovsky and DanceFest by Andreas Schmitges. With special guests Moshe Berlin (Israel), Steve Weintraub (USA) and Joanne Borts (USA). An incredible week of Klezmer classes, workshops, masterclasses, jams and concerts in the heart of London. See www.jmi.org.uk for full details

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KlezFest: Music, Song and Dance

Sunday 10 - Friday 15 August
Registration and official opening: Sunday 4:00pm
Workshops and activities: Monday to Friday 9:00am to 11:00pm

KlezFest is a stimulating week of intensive, inspirational workshops and masterclasses in Klezmer, Yiddish Song and Yiddish folk dance based in the centre of London. Led by top professionals in the field from all over the world, and offering a packed programme designed to suit participants from a wide variety of experiences, Klezfest is ideal for amateur or professional musicians, singers and dancers of all backgrounds. Find out if you can take part in KlezFest...

Directed by Frank London, with SongFest directed by Shura Lipovsky and DanceFest by Andreas Schmitges. With special guests Moshe Berlin (Israel), Steve Weintraub (USA) and Joanne Borts (USA). An incredible week of Klezmer classes, workshops, masterclasses, jams and concerts in the heart of London. See www.jmi.org.uk for full details

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June 29 - The Freylech: Dance Parties at the JCC
Get ready to stomp, shvitz and boogie down for an evening of Yiddish dancing led by master dance leader Bruce Bierman. Some of the Bay Area's best klezmer groups will perform live music for all ages.

The Jewish Dance Theatre, directed by Bruce Bierman, is now an artistic company in residence at the JCC East Bay. Bruce will lead dance classes pulling from different Jewish traditions, and the JDT will host monthly dance parties at the JCC throughout the course of the summer. Look forward to a slate of stellar fall productions from this ensemble. Co-presented by KlezCalifornia and the Jewish Music Festival. For complete details, click HERE.

Sundays June 29, July 27, August 31
Dance lesson: 7:00-8:00pm
Live music/group dance: 8:00-10:00pm
$10/evening

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Come, Listen, Dance! Leading klezmer flutist and dance leader Adrianne Greenbaum will join Shir Madness Klezmer Band of Newton, Massachusetts, in a rollicking evening of Jewish music and Yiddish and Israeli dancing. Refreshments, of course. Free and open to the public. Saturday evening, September 13, 2008, 7:30 pm, at the Lutheran Church of the Newtons, corner of Center and Cypress Streeets in Newton Center.

Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Havurah
617-965-6862
www.jrf.org/shirhadash

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THE FREYLEKH: Klezmer Dance Party & Cabaret

Sunday, September 28
JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley
Yiddish Dance: 7:00 pm
Live music & cabaret: 8:00 pm
$10 members, $15 general,
$5 Kinder 12 and under
Noshes served

Ring in 5769 with the Bay Area's hottest new klezmer dance party and cabaret featuring members of the shtetl rock band KUGELPLEX. Get ready to stomp, shvitz and boogie down for an evening of Yiddish dancing led by master dance leader Bruce Bierman with special New Year's guest vocalist, Heather Lauren Klein and the Heather Lauren Klein Trio.

Co-presented by the Jewish Music Festival and KlezCalifornia

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen's Circle present …

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)-Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC with master dance leader Zev Feldman!

Sunday, October 5th, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader Zev Feldman. Live music will be provided by some of New York's leading klezmer musicians: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl / hammered dulcimer). Beginners welcome!

Admission: $10 ($8 for JCC and Workmen's Circle Members). Pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

And save the date for another upcoming Tantshoyz::
Sunday, November 16th, 7-10PM at the JCC.

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Paper Promises: Presented by Jewish Dance Theater
Sunday October 19, 8:00pm
$15 member, $20 general
JCC East Bay
1414 Walnut St., Berkeley

Come join visionary performance artist Melusina Gomez and experimental Klezmer musician David Rosenfeld for an evening of danced thoughts, quiet reflections and wild wishes, inspired by the letters, poetry and stories of women through six centuries, including , 'Ariake-Poems of Love and Longing' ,'The Girl Who Loved the Wind'.and 'The Finger' penned by the legendary Kabbalist Rabbi, Issac Luria. Paper Promises glides through a landscape of visual art, soundscape, resigned absurdity, and butoh inspired imagery and dance, ultimately asking the question: What does life promise us?

Presented by the Jewish Dance Theatre and co-presented by the JCC of the East Bay
Tickets available at the door.

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Chag Sameach everyone. I'm very happy to announce that Chicago now joins NYC and the Bay Area in what I may dare to call the "Tanzhoyz Movement". (Who's next, I wonder) I'll be hosting monthly Yiddish dance parties with live music! Here's to getting those dances back into the community. Wish us luck!

Join us at the HOPKELE
Chicagoland's NEW monthly Klezmer Dance Party
Led by Internationally renowned Yiddish DanceMaster STEVE WEINTRAUB
With LIVE music provided by KURT BJORLING and Members of CHICAGO KLEZMER ENSEMBLE

Last Wednesdays of the month (mostly)
NEXT HOPKELE
October 29, 7:30pm to 9:30pm
At JRC
303 Dodge Avenue
Evanston, Illinois

847-328-7678
$8 / $5 JRC members and students

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen's Circle present …

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)-Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC with master dance leader Zev Feldman!

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader Zev Feldman. Live music will be provided by some of New York's leading klezmer musicians: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl / hammered dulcimer). Beginners welcome!

Admission: $10 ($8 for JCC and Workmen's Circle Members). Pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

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Celebrate Hannukah with holiday songs, dances and sufganiot at what has become our biggest party of the year. If you missed our great party on the first night of Hanukah you have a chance to come to this one on the last night -- which will be even better.

Bring a Hanukiah for candle lighting. Refreshments welcomed (kosher only)
Sunday December 28 at 7pm - 8th Night of Hanukah

Live Music featuring Rose & Meir Beer, back by popular request with a band for singing & dancing followed by an all-request session

No partner needed.
Contribution-$10

Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway at 104th St.
Information (917)207-0093 / www.rikud.net
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Sunday, 11 Jan 2009, 1-3pm
Klezmer Brunch
Red Poppy Art House
San Francisco

Klezmer brunch is back! Come on out and help make this a regular event.

We’ll have bagels and other tasty brunch delights for sale. Special guests include dance maven Bruce Bierman and diva vocalist Jewlia Eisenberg.

$10-$20 sliding scale.
www.RedPoppyArtHouse.org

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Radio Gagarin 2009 - A new beginning
Sunday 18th January, from 6pm

'The Arts Club's most adventurous and anarchic night (and that's saying something)' Time Out
Featuring: 6 Day Riot
'With Tamara Schlesinger's vocal travelling on the top like a jockey on the hump of a camel it makes for an interesting ride.' Americana UK

Hooverville
'Inspires envy and resentment in all who witness its power' Cynthia Stalin

Chancery Blame & the Gadjo Club
'The full moon gypsy rock ....from car crash fast to heart wrenching melodrama' \ Kronstadt Martyrs Weekly News

Naomi De Kleined
'She like to fiddle, fiddling is what she do. She fiddle whenever she can...' Garstang Gazette

Plus film from Kinodrome feat. East European Cinema
plus ZOE KLINGER'S FRIENDS OF GAGARIN Trotsky's TALKiN BLUES Buro Unplugged
Dancefloor Comisars: DJ's MAX REINHARDT & LEMEZ LOVAS

Notting Hill Arts Club,
21 Notting Hill Gate W11
£5.00 on the door
For more information, call 02076295555

Co-produced by Adrian Philpott / The Shrine/ YaD Arts / Oi Va Voi

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Sing-Along of Israeli Folksongs
to celebrate nature & the land
as a warm up for the upcoming holiday of Tu B'shvat plus

A Marathon of Israeli Folk Dancing
including dances related to the holiday with Special Guest SARA BURNBAUM

Sun. Jan. 18, 2009
7pm Sing-Along / 8:30pm Dance Marathon

Contribution -- $15
You may also bring refreshments to add to the holiday goodies provided

Bridge for DANCE
2726 Broadway at 104th St.

Information:
Haim 917-207-0093; rikud.net
Moshe 917-478-3371; rikudim.net

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A Tickle in the Heart feat. Andrea Pancur

25.01.2009, 11:00 Uhr - Tanzfrühschoppen
Theater im Fraunhofer - "Volksmusiktage"
Fraunhoferstr. 9
80469 München
T. 089-267850
www.fraunhofertheater.de

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THE FREYLEKH---a mad hot klezmer dance party
Sunday January 25th /
7pm Yiddish dance lesson, 8:00pm Live music and dance party
JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut St.
Berkeley, CA
(510) 848-0237

Featuring: David Rosenfeld and members of the shtetl rock band, Kugelplex and Bruce Bierman--Yiddish dance maven who 'fits the moves of the ancestors to the grooves of your imagination'

$10-20 sliding scale.

presented by Klez California and co-presented by the Jewish Music Festival

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Sunday 25 January 2009
Doors open 7.15pm. First dance at 7.45pm

Hopkele!
Klezmer dance with live band
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY

Dancing! Doughnuts! Live klezmer!! The popular klezmer keilidh returns for its third annual jamboree. Guy Schalom leads and teaches Yiddish dances, with Ilana Cravitz on fiddle and the Hopkele House Band: Ros Hawley (clarinet), Yair Schleider (accordion), and Paul Moylan (bass). See the Hopkele Productions Homepage: www.ilanacravitz.com/hopkele.htm

Tickets £12 full price; £10 concs and advance booking. Online booking with e-tickets is at www.ilanacravitz.com/shop.html, or you can book by post via 0771 494 5971.

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Women's Voices for AVIsrael "השמיעיני את קולך"
A Special Benefit Concert By Women For Women

Monday, January 26, 2009, 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Yad L'Banim Concert Hall היכל התרבות רעננה
147 Achuza Street רח' אחוזה 147
Tel: 09 761 0380

A beautiful evening by women for women featuring:
Author Naomi Ragen, Singer/Songwriter Nomi Teplow and The Leora Damelin: Women's Dance Company.
MC: Oshra Koren – Head of MATAN Ra'anana

All proceeds to benefit Deaf Children at AVIsrael.

Doors open at 7.30PM – Evening starts at 8.00PM

Tickets: 55₪ and 75₪
To order tickets please contact:

Jozie Eisner – mobile – 054-5505576
Cecile Rechtman – mobile - 050-7593713
Millie Wolf – mobile - 054-6777048.

Light refreshments will be served.

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Los Angeles Jewish Symphony & BODYTRAFFIC
World Premiere of "Transfigured Night"
Wednesday, January 28th at 8PM
Sinai Temple, 10400 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Free Parking Available: Enter on Ashton Avenue

Price: $100 Patron of Dance (includes dessert reception with performers)
$36 Reserved Seating
$25 General Admission
$18 Students & DRC Members
$15 Preview (Tuesday, January 27th at 8PM)
Tickets: www.bodytraffic.org
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/51001
(424) 204 - 9097

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen's Circle present...

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)-Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC with master dance leader Deborah Strauss!

Thursday, January 29th, 2009
7:00 PM-10:00 PM
JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader Deborah Strauss. Live music will be provided by some of New York's leading klezmer musicians, including Jeff Warschauer (guitar) and Jake Shulman-Ment (violin). Beginners welcome!

Admission: $10 ($8 for JCC and Workmen's Circle Members). Pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

And save the date for these upcoming Tantshayzer at the JCC in Manhattan:
* Thursday, February 19th, 7PM - 10PM
* Thursday, April 23rd, 7PM - 10PM

Additionally a new international group, the Yiddish Dance Action Network has formed to help research and promote Yiddish Dance around the world. For more information contact Pete Rushefsky at 917-326-9659.

Also... if you have old family videos with footage of Yiddish Dance we'd love to know about it!

Support for the Yiddish Dance Project was provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the Atran Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Sing-Along with live music to celebrate nature & the land
With singer-guitarist Tzippy Bronstein & other musicians
plus A Marathon of Israeli Folk Dancing
with Special Guests
doing as many requests as we can during the night

Sunday Feb. 15
7pm Sing Along
8:30pm Dance Marathon
Contribution -- $15
(you may bring refreshments as well)

Bridge for DANCE
2726 Broadway at 104th St.
Information call (917)207-0093;
www.rikud.net
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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the JCC in Manhattan and the Workmen's Circle present...

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)-Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC with master dance leader Deborah Strauss!

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
7:00 PM-10:00 PM
JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader Deborah Strauss. Live music will be provided by some of New York's leading klezmer musicians, including Jeff Warschauer (guitar) and Jake Shulman-Ment (violin). Beginners welcome!

Admission: $10 ($8 for JCC and Workmen's Circle Members). Pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

And save the date for this upcoming Tantshoyz at the JCC in Manhattan:
* Thursday, April 23rd, 7PM - 10PM

Additionally a new international group, the Yiddish Dance Action Network has formed to help research and promote Yiddish Dance around the world. For more information contact Pete Rushefsky at 917-326-9659.

Also... if you have old family videos with footage of Yiddish Dance we'd love to know about it!

Support for the Yiddish Dance Project was provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the Atran Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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FAU Libraries & Klezmer Company Orchestra Present
Kultur Festival 2009
A Celebration of Jewish Music & Arts
February 25-March 1, 2009 @ Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

Tango & Tantz
Saturday February 28, 2009 @ 6 p.m.
Live Oak Pavilion
Tickets $5

Tango & Tantz will be a lively social gathering, and participants will have fun with traditional Latin and Jewish folk dancing led by professional instructors. Similarities between the two dance styles will be explored as we alternate between genres throughout the session. Previous dance experience is not required, and all ages are welcome.

For tickets, call 800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com/kulturfest.html. For more information on KCO, visit www.klezmercompany.com. A limited number of festival passes are available and must be purchased by phone or in person at the FAU Box Office

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Join us at the
Next Hopkele is March 25 7:30pm to 9:30pm
$8/ JRC members and students $5
Chicagoland's New Monthly Leading and instruction by internationally renowned Yiddish Dance Master,
Steve Weintraub
LIVE music provided by Chicago Klezmer Ensemble, Kurt Bjorling, and members of Klezmer Dance Party!
Beginners welcome! Come learn the dances and have fun.
No need to bring a partner.
At JRC 303 Dodge Ave., Evanston, Illinois call 847-328-7678.
Hopkele is (usually) on the last Wednesday each month.

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The Other Seder Songs
Thursday 26th March, 7:30pm

Los Desterrados, Oi Va Voi and the Yiddish Twist Orchestra will rock out the JCC's Other Seder. For the third consecutive year, we present our unique take on the Seder, as each band performs a song inspired by the after-dinner songs as the launching point for their set.

Cualos son los uno
Six-piece Los Desterrados, who released their third album, Miradores at the end of 2008, bring their mix of ladino, flamenco, Moorish and Gypsy flavours to the Seder.

"Los Des take the Medieval music of the Sephardic Jews, with its strong Latin influences, and drag it effortlessly into the 21st Century with lashings of Spanish folk and Balkan Soul to deliver a series of rousing, melancholic songs that pulse with rhythm and feeling" (London Metro)

Adir Hu
London's superfly klezmer / punk / gypsy outfit Oi Va Voi give us a sneak preview of their forthcoming third album, Traveling the Face of the Globe.

"Kudos, culture, vision.Oi Va Voi. Remember the name"YTO Merlin
(Evening Standard)

Chad Gadya
The JCC's own creation, the fabulous Yiddish Twist Orchestra, will set the dance floor swinging with their hard-dancing, pulp fiction style 50s and 60s Yiddish surf twist!

Hosted by Judy Batalion and accompanied by the tunes of DJ Max Reinhardt and visuals by imagician Miki Shaw, The Other Seder Songs returns to the beautiful Wilton's Music Hall for a night of music and dance.

Wiltons Music Hall, 1 Graces Alley, London E1 8JB

£12 in advance, £15 on the door

Book online at JCC for London
Produced by YaD Arts for jcc

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Klezmer Music and Dance, with Hankus Netsky, Dena Ressler, and Judy Bressler

Sunday March 29, 2009
1:00 - 2:30 pm
Springstep, 98 George P Hassett Drive, Medford MA

Pre-register: $6 Youth / $8 Adult + 50 cent fee
At the door: $8 Youth / $10 Adult

Part of a series: Spring Sundays Workshops for Families & Children

Get ready to dance at your great grandparents' wedding! Join Hankus Netsky, clarinetist Dena Ressler, and dance caller Judy Bressler and learn line, circle, and set dances from the "Old Country"! Join in the fun and learn dances such as the Freylakhs, Bulgar, Hora, and Sher!

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Boston Workmen's Circle.

tel: 781-395-0402
springstep.org

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Henry Sapoznik, Award Winning Author, Producer, and Performer of Traditional Yiddish Music, Brings Acclaimed KlezKamp to Wisconsin

KlezKamp Road Show
April 18, 19 & 20, 2009
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Free and open to the public.

Sunday and Monday provide intensive workshops and presentations dedicated to traditional Yiddish folk arts including music, crafts, visual arts, Yiddish language, folksongs, a listener’s guide to the Klezmer ensemble, old time dances and much more. Guest presenters include singer and artist Susan Leviton, internationally recognized Yiddish dance teacher Steve Weintraub, author Michael Wex, and visiting scholar and KlezKamp founder Henry Sapoznik.

(Full schedule at www.arts.wisc.edu/artsinstitute/IAR/sapoznik/events.html#workshops. Space is limited; participants must register at www.conneyproject.wisc.edu/klezkamp-registration/ or by calling or (608) 265-4763).

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Henry Sapoznik, Award Winning Author, Producer, and Performer of Traditional Yiddish Music, Brings Acclaimed KlezKamp to Wisconsin

KlezKamp Road Show
April 18, 19 & 20, 2009
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Free and open to the public.

Sunday and Monday provide intensive workshops and presentations dedicated to traditional Yiddish folk arts including music, crafts, visual arts, Yiddish language, folksongs, a listener’s guide to the Klezmer ensemble, old time dances and much more. Guest presenters include singer and artist Susan Leviton, internationally recognized Yiddish dance teacher Steve Weintraub, author Michael Wex, and visiting scholar and KlezKamp founder Henry Sapoznik.

(Full schedule at www.arts.wisc.edu/artsinstitute/IAR/sapoznik/events.html#workshops. Space is limited; participants must register at www.conneyproject.wisc.edu/klezkamp-registration/ or by calling or (608) 265-4763).

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This event has been cancelled

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)-Dance Party/Workshop at the Manhattan JCC with dance leader Zev Feldman and live klezmer music featuring Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer).

Thursday, April 23, 2009
7:00 PM-10:00 PM
JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader Deborah Strauss. Live music will be provided by some of New York's leading klezmer musicians, including Jeff Warschauer (guitar) and Jake Shulman-Ment (violin). Beginners welcome!

Admission: $10 ($8 for JCC and Workmen's Circle Members). Pay at the door. Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659

Additionally a new international group, the Yiddish Dance Action Network has formed to help research and promote Yiddish Dance around the world. For more information contact Pete Rushefsky at 917-326-9659.

Also... if you have old family videos with footage of Yiddish Dance we'd love to know about it!

Support for the Yiddish Dance Project was provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the Atran Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Sunday, April 26, 7:00-9:30pm
Freylekh! at JCC of the East Bay, Berkeley

KlezCalifornia and JCC of the East Bay present the Jewish Dance Theatre's Freylekh! Join us for a dance lesson with Yiddish dance master Bruce Bierman, 7:00-8:00pm, free as part of Bay Area National Dance Week. Live klezmer music and dance party, 8:00-9:30pm, with members of the band Kugelplex, some of the Bay Area's best klezmer musicians. $10-$20 adults (sliding scale), $5 kids. Come to dance or just to watch and listen. Where else can you hear live klezmer music for such a price? Bring your friends, too. For more information, click HERE or call 510/848-0237. Co-sponsored by the Jewish Music Festival and Lehrhaus Judaica. The dance party after this one will be Sunday, May 31. Put in on your calendar now!

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Radio Gagarin
Sunday 17th May, from 6pm

'The Arts Club's most adventurous and anarchic night (and that's saying something)' Time Out

Featuring LOS DESTERRADOS after our sell-out Other Seder Songs at Wiltons Music Hall!!
plus ZOE KLINGER'S FRIENDS OF GAGARIN
DANCEFLOOR KOMMISSARS: DJ's MISHA MAALTSEV + ARIADNE ARENDT & LEMEZ LOVAS
FILM: Kinodrome feat. gems of East European Cinema

Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate W11
£6.00 on the door

For more information, call 02076295555

Co-produced by Adrian Philpott / The Shrine/ YaD Arts / Oi Va Voi

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Balkan Beat Box listening party at Afro Funke:
Weekly Funk Invocation
Giveaways all night + listen to the entire Nu Made(Remixes) album and dance
the night away

Thursdays @ Zanzibar
1301 5th St. Santa Monica, CA. 90401
9pm | 21+ | 310.451.2221 | $7-$10
zanzibarlive.com

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A Saturday Night Post-Shavuot Special

Sing-Along -- Erev Zemer
of Hebrew & Yiddish Folksongs

To celebrate
the 61st Birthday of Israel,
Yom Yerushalayim & Shavuot

Led by Master Musician

SHLOMO SHAI

Followed by
A Marathon of
Classic Israeli Folk Dancing
to Songs of the Beautiful Land of Israel

Saturday May 30
9:30pm - ??

Contribution: $15

Bridge for DANCE
2726 Broadway at 104th St.

Information: 917-207-0093
Web: www.rikud.net

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Sunday, May 31, 7:00-9:30pm
Freylekh! at JCC of the East Bay, Berkeley

Join us Sunday May 31st for a dance lesson with Klezmer dance maven Bruce Bierman, 7:00-8:00pm. Live klezmer music and dance party, 8:00-9:30pm, with the acclaimed Heather Klein's Inextinguishable Trio!. Alla Gladysheva on piano and Jonathan Russell on clarinet.with special guest: David Rosenfeld of Kugelplex. $10-$20 adults (sliding scale), $5 kids. Come to dance or just to watch and listen. Bring your friends, too. For more information call 510/848-0237.

Co-sponsored by the Jewish Music Festival and Lehrhaus Judaica.

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Sunday 31 May
Doors open 7.15pm

Hopkele—THE Klezmer Keilidh
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY

Back by popular demand—the original and best klezmer barn dance. No prior knowledge of Yiddish dance required, as Guy Schalom will show you the steps. And, with live klezmer that will have you dancing the night away,

Ilana Cravitz heads up the incredible Hopkele House String Band (Pete Cooper, Kate Hands (fiddle), Matt Bacon, Aidan McGee (guitar), Francesca Ter-Berg (cello), Paul Tkachenko (bass).

Doors open 7.15pm for first dance at 7.45pm.

Tickets £10 in advance – book online or call 07714 945971 for details of postal booking

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Thursday, June 4
Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo, Berkeley CA
Klezmer Céilidh
THE MAD MAGGIES and GO VAN GOGH
Doors at 8:00 p.m.; Show at 8:30 p.m.
$7

A Céilidh (pronounced kay-lee) is a traditional Gaelic dance party, from the days before discos and nightclubs. But the 2 bands tonight are anything BUT traditional, merging Klezmer, Ska, Celtic music and much more into their own unique, high-energy styles.

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The Washington Jewish Music Festival - 6/4-6/11

Israeli Dance Workshop
Ina and Jack Kay Community Hall, Washington DCJCC
6:00 pm

Experience Israeli dance with the most popular instructor in the Greater Washington area! Mona Goldstein has been instructing and choreographing Israeli folk dance for years, and founded the entertainment company Mona Israeli Dance. She currently teaches her popular RikudDC session Sundays at the Washington DCJCC. Mona will have you moving to the energetic beats of classic and contemporary Israeli tunes. Beginners and experienced dancers are welcome.

Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Address:
1529 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20037

If you'd like to attend this event you can RSVP online.

Presented in partnership with Teev Events, Inc.
Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel

For information: 202-777-3251 or wjmf.org.

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Balkan Beat Box
@ Bellhouse (149 7th St., Brooklyn, NY)

June 7, 2009
Doors 7:30 pm / Show 9:00 pm

$20 Advance / $25 at the door
21+

for ticket information visit: www.ticketweb.com

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Balkan Beat Box
@ Showbox at the Market (1426 st Ave., Seattle, WA)

June 8, 2009
8 pm

$15 Advance

for more ticket information visit: www.ticketmaster.com

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Balkan Beat Box
@ Crystal Ballroom (1332 W. Burnside, Portland, OR)

Jun 9, 2009
Doors 7 pm / Show 9 pm

$18 Advance BUY from JDub for cheaper service fee
$22 Day of Show

All Ages

for more ticket information visit: www.ticketmaster.com

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Balkan Beat Box
@ Key Club (9041 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA)

June 10, 2009
Doors 8:30 pm / Show 10 pm

All Ages

$17 advance
$22 day of show

for ticket information visit: www.ticketmaster.com

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Sunday 21 june, 3rd 'Fête des Musiques 2009 Juives'—Maison de la Culture Juive, Cirque Pauwels, Chemin d’Alsemberg Bruxelles

from 11-13h dance lead by Andreas Schmitges (A Tickle in the Heart) with live music from Queen Emma Klezmer (Duo) Emma Stiman and Pit Hermans. € 6,-

from 13h till the evening concerts, free entrance.

Info +322-343 62 24

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Sunday, June 28, 7:00-9:30pm
Freylekh! at JCC of the East Bay, Berkeley

Join us Sunday June 28th for a dance lesson with Klezmer dance maven Bruce Bierman, 7:00-8:00pm. Live klezmer music and dance party, 8:00-9:30pm, with the acclaimed Heather Klein's Inextinguishable Trio!. Alla Gladysheva on piano and Jonathan Russell on clarinet.with special guest: David Rosenfeld of Kugelplex. $10-$20 adults (sliding scale), $5 kids. Come to dance or just to watch and listen. Bring your friends, too. For more information call 510/848-0237.

Co-sponsored by the Jewish Music Festival and Lehrhaus Judaica.

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August 18th

CAN!!CAN, Electro Morocco, Describe, Y-Love, Diwon, Darshan, Eprhyme & guests …
at Mexicali Blues Live
1409 Queen Anne Road, Teaneack, NJ
www.mexicalilive.com
6pm doors | 8pm show
TICKET LINK - www.ticketweb.com

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Thursday, Aug 20
For an evening of dancing and klezmer/gypsy/world music, join hot local klezmer band Kugelplex at Ashkenaz, followed by Caspian Hat Dance from Amsterdam. The evening begins with a klezmer dance lesson with Bruce Bierman.

Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA
www.ashkenaz.com
All ages all the time. Wheelchair accessible

Doors at 7:30 pm; Show at 8:30 pm
Klezmer dance lesson with Bruce Bierman at 8:00 pm
$10 advance & students / $13 day of show

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The internationally renowned and
only annual rural–based summer festival of
yiddish / jewish culture and the arts returns for a 14th year in 2009

Monday August 24th, 2009 (5pm) to Sunday August 30th, 2007

KlezKanada takes place at Camp B'Nai Brith—St. Agathe (Lantier), Quebec Online Directions

Registration now open—register online, even.
www.klezkanada.org

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The internationally renowned and
only annual rural–based summer festival of
yiddish / jewish culture and the arts returns for a 14th year in 2009

Monday August 24th, 2009 (5pm) to Sunday August 30th, 2007

KlezKanada takes place at Camp B'Nai Brith—St. Agathe (Lantier), Quebec Online Directions

Registration now open—register online, even.
www.klezkanada.org

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August 25th

Moshiach Oi! CD Release Party feat. Juez and Burning Bush
at Piano's
8pm | 21+ | $10ADV/$12DOOR
158 Ludlow St
New York, NY.

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The internationally renowned and
only annual rural–based summer festival of
yiddish / jewish culture and the arts returns for a 14th year in 2009

Monday August 24th, 2009 (5pm) to Sunday August 30th, 2007

KlezKanada takes place at Camp B'Nai Brith—St. Agathe (Lantier), Quebec Online Directions

Registration now open—register online, even.
www.klezkanada.org

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August 26th

An evening with Eprhyme (CD Release Party)
featuring live performances by Eprhyme, Darshan and Girls in Trouble & Homeboy Sandman
at Drom
85 Avenue A
New York, NY.
9pm | $10ADV/$12DOOR
TIX: dromnyc.com

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The internationally renowned and
only annual rural–based summer festival of
yiddish / jewish culture and the arts returns for a 14th year in 2009

Monday August 24th, 2009 (5pm) to Sunday August 30th, 2007

KlezKanada takes place at Camp B'Nai Brith—St. Agathe (Lantier), Quebec Online Directions

Registration now open—register online, even.
www.klezkanada.org

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August 27th

Electro Morocco, CAN!!CAN, Describe, Y-Love, Diwon, Six Point Star, & Eytan
at Bellhouse
149 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY.
8pm | 18+ | $12ADV/$15DOOR
TIX: www.ticketweb.com

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The internationally renowned and
only annual rural–based summer festival of
yiddish / jewish culture and the arts returns for a 14th year in 2009

Monday August 24th, 2009 (5pm) to Sunday August 30th, 2007

KlezKanada takes place at Camp B'Nai Brith—St. Agathe (Lantier), Quebec Online Directions

Registration now open—register online, even.
www.klezkanada.org

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The internationally renowned and
only annual rural–based summer festival of
yiddish / jewish culture and the arts returns for a 14th year in 2009

Monday August 24th, 2009 (5pm) to Sunday August 30th, 2007

KlezKanada takes place at Camp B'Nai Brith—St. Agathe (Lantier), Quebec Online Directions

Registration now open—register online, even.
www.klezkanada.org

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The internationally renowned and
only annual rural–based summer festival of
yiddish / jewish culture and the arts returns for a 14th year in 2009

Monday August 24th, 2009 (5pm) to Sunday August 30th, 2007

KlezKanada takes place at Camp B'Nai Brith—St. Agathe (Lantier), Quebec Online Directions

Registration now open—register online, even.
www.klezkanada.org

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Sunday 6 September, 1-6pm

Klezmer in the Park, featuring Hopkele Productions
Regents Park, London

An opportunity to dance with Ilana Cravitz and Guy Schalom all afternoon to the UK's foremost klezmer bands. See http://www.jewishculture.org.uk/klezmerinpark2009.html for more details.

Free event

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The Fireflies

Wednesday 9th September -
The Crane Lane theatre, Cork.
Midnight. Admission free.

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The Fireflies

Saturday 12th September - The Phoenix Restaurant, Keel, Castlemaine, Co. Kerry. This will be a lovely night. It's Lorna's birthday party which is always a great event. Everyone is welcome. The theme is Eastern Fire at the Phoenix - it's a fancy dress fundraiser for the All Ireland Air Ambulance. Cost €20 (less for kids/teenagers) includes seeing The Fireflies, world music DJs, and surprises (there's always surprises at the phoenix), as well as a slap up veggy buffet. Get dressed up to the nines and come and dance your socks off and eat lots of yum, in a beautiful venue, in a beautiful garden, not far from Inch beach. For info on camping, b and b, and other options call Lorna on 066 976 6284. Check out www.thephoenixorganic.com

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"Klezmer Tantz" dance event with Markus Muller and friends plus special guest Brian Bender (trombonist from USA)
Thursday, September 17, 20:00
Villa Leon (Nuremberg, Germany)
KUF/3
Schlachthofstr. / Philipp-Koerber-Weg 1
90439 Nürnberg
Info - 0911/ 2 31-74 00
Cost - 5 Euros
www.kuf-kultur.de/villa/eingang.asp

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On the weekend of September 12 & 13, 2009, the Winchevsky Centre 585 Cranbrooke Avenue, is hosting two exclusive events featuring The Klezmer Kids from Winnipeg:

1) a one-night only concert the evening of Saturday September 12th, 7:30 p.m., advance tickets are $18.00; children/students (ages 5-18) are $12.00; or at the door $22.00 and $15.00

2) an interactive family klezmer workshop with the Klezmer Kids & with Helen Winkler leading dancing, the morning of Sunday September 13th, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.$10.00 at the door, RSVP by September 10th to 416-789-5502.

tel: 416-789-5502
www.winchevskycentre.org

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On the weekend of September 12 & 13, 2009, the Winchevsky Centre 585 Cranbrooke Avenue, is hosting two exclusive events featuring The Klezmer Kids from Winnipeg:

1) a one-night only concert the evening of Saturday September 12th, 7:30 p.m., advance tickets are $18.00; children/students (ages 5-18) are $12.00; or at the door $22.00 and $15.00

2) an interactive family klezmer workshop with the Klezmer Kids & with Helen Winkler leading dancing, the morning of Sunday September 13th, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.$10.00 at the door, RSVP by September 10th to 416-789-5502.

tel: 416-789-5502
www.winchevskycentre.org

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The kids are in school and now It's time for the adults to have fun together!

We are happy to announce that after a long summer siesta Israeli Folk dancing @ Temple Shir Tikvah will resume on September 17th from 7:30-9:30 p.m.

• Repertoire includes original oldies to more modern dances.
• Bring your requests.
• No partner necessary. Friends are always welcome.
• Please wear soft soled shoes.
• Light refreshments.

Angela Schatz, the instructor, has more than thirty years of experience teaching Israeli Folk dance both in Israel and the U.S.

Starting September 17th Thursday
7:30-8:30 - Beginners
8:30-9:30 - Intermediate/Advanced

34 Vine Street, Winchester, MA
For directions: www.shir-tikvah.org

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Thursday, September 17, 2009, 7:30 pm

Between Jews and Sufis: Celebrating Peace in Fez
a lecture by Yuval Ron
An engaging talk with slides and live music on the recent Yuval Ron Ensemble tour to Morocco.

Last June The Yuval Ron Ensemble completed its first peace mission tour to a Muslim country—Morocco, bringing to tears both Muslim and Jewish audiences. Hear the story from musical director Yuval Ron who will share slides and music from the musical meetings with the tribal Sufi musicians and dancers of Morocco, and the search for the disappearing Jewish life in Todra, Marakech and Fez.

The Yuval Ron Ensemble became a media sensation at the Sacred Music Festival in Fez, Morocco. CNN, National Geographic, Mundomix.com and French TV Channel 5 all focused their stories about the Fez Festival on the Yuval Ron Ensemble. See the CNN special report.

Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90035-2657
one block west of Crescent Heights ample street parking
Suggested donation $10 Limited seating, please RSVP to 310-657-5511

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Workmen's Circle present...

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)-Dance Party/Workshop at the Workmen's Circle with master dance leader Zev Feldman!

Thursday, October 1, 2009
A discussion of archival video of dance will be held at 6:30PM
Dancing: 7:00PM-10:00PM
Workmen's Circle is at 45 E. 33rd St. between Madison and Park Ave. in Manhattan.

Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance events are held at the Workmen's Circle on the first Thursday of each month. Come learn the traditional Jewish dances of Eastern Europe. Beginners are welcome!

Parking is available on the street or in the lot next door. Admission $10, $8 for CTMD and Workmen's Circle members.

A presentation of CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture.

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West of Odessa and Karamfil will be performing at the Ontario Folk Dance Association's 40th Anniversary Banquet this Saturday evening (6-12) at the Estonian House, 958 Broadview Ave., north of Danforth in Toronto. Dancing will be led by Helen Winkler, who does such a great job as the dance leader at the Ashkenaz Fest. For more information see:

www.ofda.ca/banquet.html

West of Odessa, a Buffalo, NY/Hamilton, Ont. based trio will feature Moldavian/Ukrainian klezmer. The group includes clarinet, accordion, poyk and tsimbl. Karamfil, a performing group based in Rochester, NY features Macedonian/Bulgarian music performed on traditional folk instruments.

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Special NYC Friday Night Dinner with Participatory Yiddish Singing and Dancing with the Strauss/Warschauer Duo.

A Tribute to the Memory of our Beloved Teacher and Friend Pesach Fiszman A"H

Friday, October 30, 2009, 6:30 PM
RSVP ASAP!
The Workmen's Circle / Arbeter Ring invites you to come and spend a Shabes Dinner with us on Friday, October 30, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.

The program is dedicated to the memory of our dear teacher and friend, Pesach Fiszman. Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer will pay tribute and lead a spirited Yiddish Shabes including participatory singing and dancing.

Space is limited. Reserve ASAP!

Location: Workmen's Circle (45 East 33rd Street, NY, NY 10016)
Cost: $30 members, $36 nonmembers, $18 full-time students/children

For more information contact Sara Lerman
Phone: 212.889.6800 x252
Register Online: http://www.circle.org/Shabbes_regform.html

Der arbeter-ring farbet alemen hartsik kumen un farbrengen tsuzamen mit undz di shabesdike vetshere in AR binyen, dem 30 Oktober, 6:30 in ovnt. Di program iz gevimet dem lebn un oyftu fun undzer balibtn khaver un lerer, Pesakh Fishman, olevasholem.
Debra Strauss un Jeff Warschauer veln onfirn mitn ovnt.
Der optsol iz: $30 - mitglid, $36 - nit-mitglid, $18 - kinder un studentn.

rezervirt bald. dos ort iz bagrenetst.

nokh vayterdiker informatsye klingt 212-889-6800, ext. 252

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Workmen's Circle present...

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)-Dance Party/Workshop at the Workmen's Circle with master dance leader Zev Feldman!

Thursday, November 5, 2009
A discussion of archival video of dance will be held at 6:30PM
Dancing: 7:00PM-10:00PM
Workmen's Circle is at 45 E. 33rd St. between Madison and Park Ave. in Manhattan.

Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance events are held at the Workmen's Circle on the first Thursday of each month. Come learn the traditional Jewish dances of Eastern Europe. Beginners are welcome!

Parking is available on the street or in the lot next door. Admission $10, $8 for CTMD and Workmen's Circle members.

A presentation of CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture.

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Klezmer workshops and dance party
with The Casco Bay Tummlers Klezmer Band

The Folk Arts Center of New England presents concurrent workshops in klezmer singing and instrumental music, led by members of the Casco Bay Tummlers. A potluck supper follows,
then an evening of klezmer and international dancing with
music by the Tummlers. Beginners are welcome.

Payson Park Congregational Church parish hall,
365 Belmont Street, Belmont, Massachusetts

5:30–6:30 pm Singing and instrumental sessions
6:45–7:45 pm Potluck supper (kosher items welcome)
8:00–11 pm Dance party with dance instruction

Admission:
Singing or instrumental workshop $18, FAC members $15, students $12
Potluck supper no charge
Dance party $18, FAC members $15, students $12
Workshop and dance party $32, FAC members $26, students $20

For more information, facone.org/programs/program/klezmer.htm
Tel: 781-662-7475

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Portchester Community Centre, Westlands Grove, Portchester, Fareham PO16 9AD

Whether you want to dance or just sit back and listen, enjoy a Hampshire Hopkele, courtesy of Ilana Cravitz and Guy Schalom. A 21st Century spin on traditional Eastern European Yiddish dance.
Tickets £8

More information www.portchesterca.org.uk.

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Workmen's Circle present...

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)-Dance Party/Workshop at the Workmen's Circle with master dance leader Zev Feldman!

Thursday, December 3, 2009
A discussion of archival video of dance will be held at 6:30PM
Dancing: 7:00PM-10:00PM
Workmen's Circle is at 45 E. 33rd St. between Madison and Park Ave. in Manhattan.

Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance events are held at the Workmen's Circle on the first Thursday of each month. Come learn the traditional Jewish dances of Eastern Europe. Beginners are welcome!

Parking is available on the street or in the lot next door. Admission $10, $8 for CTMD and Workmen's Circle members.

A presentation of CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture.

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Brooklyn Bowl's First Annual
Matzah Bowl! — Inaugural Tribal Music Festival

• Days Like Months


• Pey Dalid


• Six Point Star


• Describe/Diwon


• Dov and Guests


• introducing Mike Kinkade of Kinkade LA

Thursday, December 24th
Doors 6:00pm / Show 8:15pm
18 and Over
$12.00
Buy Tix

Matzah Bowl! - Inaugural Tribal Music Festival

Brooklyn's latest and greatest music and entertainment space, Brooklyn Bowl, will be hosting their first annual holiday party and music festival on Thursday, Dec. 24th. The night will feature an eclectic array of well known "Bands of the Tribe" to inspire and entertain the 600 capacity crowd. Tickets will be 12 dollars online and 15 at the door. In line with the overall holiday season of giving that includes the Jewish holiday of Chanukah, we are offering 8 dollar tickets online through the first night of Chanukah, Friday Dec. 11, 2009. We expect to be sold out by this date. The show will be 18+ and will feature Bowling Specials, drink specials, surprise musical guests, and an array of menus from local Kosher restaurants, to order from. The two acts that will highlight the evening are Israeli rockers Days Like Months and Pey Dalid, [the later the original band of Hasidic Reggae Star Matisyahu ] who will be having their long awaited CD release party.

www.brooklynbowl.com

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Workmen's Circle present...

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)-Dance Party/Workshop at the Workmen's Circle with master dance leader Deborah Strauss!

Thursday, February 4: Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance events are now held at the Workmen's Circle on the first Thursday of each month. Come learn the traditional Jewish dances of Eastern Europe. This month's event will feature master dance leader Deborah Strauss with live klezmer music by Adrianne Greenbaum (flute), Michael Alpert (violin) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl).

Beginners are welcome!

The Workmen's Circle is at 45 E. 33rd St. between Madison and Park Ave. in Manhattan. Parking is available on the street or in the lot next door. Admission $10, $8 for CTMD and Workmen's Circle members. (A discussion of archival video of dance will be held at 6:30PM, with the dancing going from 7:00PM-10:00PM)

A presentation of CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture.

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Join in a night of song and dance featuring Ron Eliran, Israel's "Ambassador of Song", whose hits include Sharm-El-Sheikh and Lach Yerushalayim. Do Israeli folk dancing in the classic tradition at the longest running nostalgia session that provides a fun evening with friendly people. No partner is needed. Teaching of dances included.

Israeli Folk Song & Dance
Benefit for Haiti
Featuring Guest Singer
RON ELIRAN
whose hits include
Sharm-El-Sheikh & Lach Yerushalayim

Sunday Feb. 7
7pm - 11pm

Proceeds go to Magen David Adom's medical work in Haiti
Suggested contribution: $18 - Chai for life

Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway at 104th St.
Information (917)207-0093
www.rikud.net

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KLEZMER MASQUERADE BALL AT THE RAVENNA KIBBUTZ!

Come dance at a Klezmer Masquerade Ball, hosted by the Ravenna Kibbutz!

Just in time for Purim, come learn authentic Yiddish dances from Eastern Europe, complete with live music from the University of Washington Klezmer Band (and special surprise guests)!

Perfect for absolute beginners and experienced Yiddish dancers alike. Prizes given for the best masquerade costume.

Dancing, masks, homentashen, punch, and live music!

No admission fee; $5 suggested donation.

Location: The Ravenna Kibbutz, House Gimmel
Address: 6211 23rd Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98115
Time: 4:00-6:30pm
Price: Free; $5 suggested donation
www.ravennakibbutz.org

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Please join us on Sunday, March 14 for a rare double-header of Yiddish culture

for body and soul (layb un lebn) featuring special guest from New York (and St. Petersburg, Kiev, Berlin, etc.)

Michael Alpert - renowned performer, ethnographer, dance master.

Join us for either or both (2-4 PM and/or 4-6 PM) - special admission for both! (See below for full details

or follow this link: www.yiddishinstitute.org )

Both Events

General Admission: $20, Members: $18, FT Students: $12

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Sunday 27 March
7.30pm

Hampshire Hopkele
Holybourne Theatre, London Road, Holybourne,
Alton, Hants GU34 4EL

Dance your socks off with Guy Schalom, Ilana Cravitz and the Hopkele House Band.

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Workmen's Circle present...

Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance House)-Dance Party/Workshop at the Workmen's Circle with master dance leader Michael Alpert!

Thursday, April 1, 7:00-9:30pm: Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance events are now held at the Workmen's Circle on the first Thursday of each month. Come learn the traditional Jewish dances of Eastern Europe. This month's event will feature master dance leader Michael Alpert with live klezmer music featuring clarinetist Michael Winograd.

Beginners are welcome!

The Workmen's Circle is at 45 E. 33rd St. between Madison and Park Ave. in Manhattan. Parking is available on the street or in the lot next door. Admission $10, $8 for CTMD and Workmen's Circle members.

A presentation of CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture.

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Yiddish Dance Party to Live Klezmer Music! with Judy Bressler, Hanuks Netsky, and Dena Ressler

It's easy and great fun to learn to dance some communal Jewish folk dances of Eastern Europe including the circle freylekhs and slow Rumanian horas, the also circling Patsh Tants (hand clapping, foot stamping) and the lesser known but wonderful bulgar and sher.

Sunday April 18, 2010
2-3:30 p.m.
Arlington Senior Center
27 Maple Street, Arlington MA
Maple is off Pleasant Street (Route 60) in Arlington Center.

FREE

Yiddish dance leader and teacher Judy Bressler, founding member and long time vocalist with the Klezmer Conservatory Band, has performed and taught Yiddish song and dance around the world.

Hankus Netsky, KCB's founder and musical director, is a multi-instrumentalist with a recent Ph.D. in ethnomusicology.

Clarinetist Dena Ressler is co-founder of di bostoner klezmer.

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Klezmer dance and jam at NEFFA
Sunday April 25, 2010
Dance at 10 AM, jam at 1 PM
Mansfield High School, Mansfield MA

The New England Folk Festival will include two klezmer events.

At 10 AM, there will be a klezmer dance led by Jacob Bloom, with music by Shver un Shviger. It will feature easy traditional Yiddish dances, which can be followed with a minimum of teaching: mostly circle dances, and one or two couple dances, such as the freylakhs, bulgar, slow hora, chusidl, and grand march.

At 1 PM, the band will lead an open klezmer jam. Bring your instruments (or your voice)! No experience necessary, and sheet music will be provided.

For more info, see
www.neffa.org or
Shver un Shviger .

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KLEZZICS organise un évènement à ne pas rater !!!

Une EXCEPTIONNELLE APRES-MIDI de "DANSE du SHTETL" avec Walter Zev Feldman

Le *dimanche 25 avril entre 13h30 et 16h au Studio Bleu

Très rares sont les passages de Walter Zev Feldman dans notre capitale. A la faveur d'un bref séjour parisien, ce grand ethno-musicologue, musicien et danseur nous fait le plaisir et l'honneur d'animer une après-midi de *"DANSES DU SHTETL"*, avec la complicité d'Hélène Domergue-Zilberberg.

La musique "live" sera dirigée par l'exceptionnel violoniste Jake Shulman-Ment, accompagné de Marthe Desrosières, Ilan Moss, et des invités "surprise"...

*Studio Bleu*
32 rue du Capitaine Marchal
75020 - Métro Gambetta

*Pas de niveau de danse requis
**Tout Public*
Participation aux frais : 10 euros

Et une petite *sélection de concerts*
recommandés par "Klezzics" :

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The Klezmer band Klezmerfest will be doing a special 11:15 AM concert w/ Special Guest Yiddish vocalist Michael Alpert this Wed. 4/28 at The Kaplan JCC on the Palisades 411 East Clinton Ave. Tenafly, NJ 07670 201.569.7900. We're performing our patented 'peak under the hood' of what makes a real Klezmer band tick and songs from our new CD 'Life Of The Party'. Just try and keep your feet still!

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Sunday, May 16, 3:00-5:00pm,
Simcha Dance Jam,
a monthly Jewish dance workshop with Bruce Bierman, at the JCC East Bay. In this new format, Bruce will teach Jewish dances of all kinds: klezmer/Yiddish, Hasidic, Israeli, Yemenite, and more. Presented by the JCC and KlezCalfornia.

More info: 415.789.7679,
www.jcceastbay.org
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Let's Go Dance@Jessie Series
A Klezmer Wedding Celebration with Kugelplex
Thursday, June 3, 6:00pm-7:30pm, Free
Jessie Square (Mission between 3rd and 4th Streets, San Francisco)

With Kugelplex, the Bay Area's most rockin' purveyor of old world Klezmer, join the wedding procession of Sharon and Amber into a madcap whirl of clapping, stomping and easy to follow dances led by Klezmer dance maven, Bruce Bierman. Enjoy the vocals of celebrated recording artist, Jewlia Eisenberg, and the comic antics of David Rosenfeld-as we celebrate love in a circle of dancing community.

Kugelplex will be celebrating marriage equality for all with a blowout dance party featuring our dear friends, Sharon and Amber, recently married when it was legal, and now very active in the fight for marriage equality. They are both wonderful spokespeople for legalizing same sex marriage. Unable to dance for their wedding ceremony at the time and because klezmer music and dance have their deepest roots in the Jewish wedding celebration, this will be the party we had always wanted to give them.

Let's Go Dance@Jessie is a free monthly open-air dance party in Jessie Square in front of the Contemporary Jewish Museum and next to St. Patrick's Church in downtown San Francisco on the First Thursday of each month from May to October from 6:00pm to 7:30pm. The series offers dance lessons and music from today's best Bay Area artists.

www.ybgf.org

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Simcha Dance Jam—Free the Jewish dancer within!

Sunday, June 20, 3:00-5:00pm,
JCC East Bay, Berkeley.

Join Jewish dance specialist and choreographer Bruce Bierman for a unique monthly workshop that aims to free the Jewish dancer within! It will begin with guided poses and stretches inspired by the angular shapes of the Hebrew letters. Then, participants will explore the expressive movements and dramatic gestures behind the four main Jewish dance genres: Yemenite, Hasidic, Klezmer and Israeli. Finally, fit the moves of the ancestors to the grooves of your own imagination, as
participants create spontaneous new dances using a treasure box of Jewish dance vocabulary. All levels and dance experiences welcome. $10-$15, sliding scale. Presented by the JCC KlezCalifornia, and Jewish Music Festival. More info: 510.848.0237 or www.jcceastbay.org.

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Ashkenaz presents The Essentials, starring Stu Brotman and Jim Rebhan

Wednesday, June 23, Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center, Berkeley. Celebrate this first klezmer dance night at Ashkenaz, a venue that features live music and dancing every evening. Enjoy a concert with the world-class klezmer music of Stu Brotman (Veretski Pass & Brave Old World) and Jim Rebhan (Ellis Island Old World Folk Band & California Klezmer). Bruce Bierman will give a dance lesson and lead dancing during the performance. Doors open 7:30pm, dance lesson 8:00pm, show and dancing at 8:30pm. Only $10! See you there! We're hoping for a great turn-out so we can persuade Ashkenaz to schedule klezmer dancing more often!

More info: www.ashkenaz.com
510.525.5054.

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Dinner and Klezmer Dance Party

Sunday, June 27, 6:00-9:30pm, Tannourine Restaurant, San Mateo. Delicious Lebanese food, klezmer music by "The Mavens of Klezmer"(Jeanette Lewicki on accordion, Mike Perlmutter on clarinet, and Richard Saunders on bass) and dancing with Bruce Bierman. If you missed similar terrific events at Tannourine in 2008 or 2009, this is your chance! $25 for a large meal (with vegetarian options) of appetizers, entree, coffee, tea, or soft drink, and the entertainment.

Dinner begins at 6:00pm, music at 6:30pm, dancing at 7:30pm. Co-sponsored by KlezCalifornia. Reservations: 650.638.1960.

More info: www.tannourinecuisine.com.

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25th Jewish Music Festival
July 11, 1 and 4pm
World Premiere Dan Plonsey's Bar Mitzvah with Dandelion Dancetheater
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street,
San Francisco
$18 students, seniors, JCC East Bay and CJM members / $22 INCLUDES MUSEUM ADMISSION

For tickets and information: www.jewishmusicfestival.org or 1.800.838.3006

Winner of the prestigious United States Broad Fellow Award, fearlessly experimental Bay Area composer Dan Plonsey and award-winning choreographer Eric Kupers explore what it means to become an adult in today's complicated world through music and dance. Co-sponsored by the East Bay Community Foundation Fund for Artists, Zellerbach Family Foundation and W. and F. Hewlett Foundation. Presented in association with the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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Seminar for professional Yiddish dance teachers & musicians : July 13-15

Dance faculty: Walter Zev Feldman, Sue Foy.
Music faculty: Alan Bern, Christian Dawid, Jake Shulman-Ment.
In 2010 we are offering a professional-level training seminar for Yiddish dance teachers and leaders and Yiddish dance musicians. Directed by one of the most eminent scholars, theorists and teachers of Yiddish dance... more

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Seminar for professional Yiddish dance teachers & musicians : July 13-15

Dance faculty: Walter Zev Feldman, Sue Foy.
Music faculty: Alan Bern, Christian Dawid, Jake Shulman-Ment.
In 2010 we are offering a professional-level training seminar for Yiddish dance teachers and leaders and Yiddish dance musicians. Directed by one of the most eminent scholars, theorists and teachers of Yiddish dance... more

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Seminar for professional Yiddish dance teachers & musicians : July 13-15

Dance faculty: Walter Zev Feldman, Sue Foy.
Music faculty: Alan Bern, Christian Dawid, Jake Shulman-Ment.
In 2010 we are offering a professional-level training seminar for Yiddish dance teachers and leaders and Yiddish dance musicians. Directed by one of the most eminent scholars, theorists and teachers of Yiddish dance... more

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Shalechet Aviv
Israeli Folk Dance Troupe
@ Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival
2:30pm, Sunday, July 18,
Dawes Park, Evanston

Shalechet Aviv's movements have roots in Romanian Hora, the Arabic Dabke and traditional Yemenite life cycle celebrations. This elegant troupe has traveled near and far to perform in a folk style reminiscent of dances from Eastern Europe and the Middle East that combined in the State of Israel.

Futher info: www.kfarcenter.org

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Some information from Hayim Kaufman of Rikud in NYC:

The classic folk dances of Israel are created to shiray Eretz Yisrael - the beautiful folk songs related to the Land of Israel. Many of these songs have Eastern European roots.

At Shorashim 2010, in addition to Dani Dassa teaching many of his great classic folk dances, a unique feature this year will be joint workshops by Ayalah Goren and Danny Pollock teaching dances created by choreographers no longer with us. Ayalah will focus on the first generation of choreographers whom she knew personally, including (with a sample popular dance) Leah Bergstein (Shiru Hashir), Zeev Havatzelet (Al Tiruni), (Zvi Friedhaber (Nitzanim), Shalom Hermon (Dayagim), Gurit Kadman (Etz Harimon)), Sara Levi-Tanai (El Ginat Egoz) and Rivka Shturman (Kuma Echa). Danny will teach dances of the next generation including Motti Alfassi (Kan Badarom), Shalom Amar (Bapardes), and Giora Kadmon
(Yeverechicha). Please join us in honoring these greats.

The 19th Annual
Shorashim Roots of Israeli Folk Dance
Nostalgia Labor Day Weekend on Broadway
Sept. 3 - 6, 2010

4 nights of marathons/parties & 3 days of workshops
Featuring Guest Teachers

DANI DASSA
CHOREOGRAPHER AS WELL AS MASTER TEACHER WHOSE CLASSIC
DANCES INCLUDE RACHEL, BEIN HARAY HEVRON, ASHRAY HA'ISH,
SHEDEMATI, JOSHUA, & MANY OTHERS THAT REMAIN POPULAR

AYALAH GOREN
ISRAELI FOLK AND ETHNIC DANCE EXPERT FROM JERUSALEM'S
ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DANCE WITH A VAST & MATCHLESS
KNOWLEDGE OF THE CLASSICS

DANNY POLLOCK
MASTER TEACHER OF ISRAELI FOLK DANCE FROM NEW YORK
WHOSE CLASSIC REPERTOIRE DANCE WORKSHOPS
ARE ALWAYS POPULAR

SCHEDULE & RATES

Friday Opening Night Party & Kabbalat Shabbat:
8pm - $15

Saturday through Monday Workshops: $15/workshop
2pm - Ayalah Goren & Danny Pollock
4pm - Dani Dassa

Saturday & Sunday Marathons:
8pm - $20/night

Monday Farewell Party:
8pm $15

Whole Weekend Special Reduced Rate: $140
Day Passes: Sat. & Sun. - $45; Mon. - $40

Students and seniors (ID required):
$5 reduction for any single session
-------------------------------------------------------------

All events are in a professional dance studio with a wood floor at
Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway @ 104th St.

Information (917)207-0093; www.rikud.net

Posted by Nat Seelen at 8:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Some information from Hayim Kaufman of Rikud in NYC:

The classic folk dances of Israel are created to shiray Eretz Yisrael - the beautiful folk songs related to the Land of Israel. Many of these songs have Eastern European roots.

At Shorashim 2010, in addition to Dani Dassa teaching many of his great classic folk dances, a unique feature this year will be joint workshops by Ayalah Goren and Danny Pollock teaching dances created by choreographers no longer with us. Ayalah will focus on the first generation of choreographers whom she knew personally, including (with a sample popular dance) Leah Bergstein (Shiru Hashir), Zeev Havatzelet (Al Tiruni), (Zvi Friedhaber (Nitzanim), Shalom Hermon (Dayagim), Gurit Kadman (Etz Harimon)), Sara Levi-Tanai (El Ginat Egoz) and Rivka Shturman (Kuma Echa). Danny will teach dances of the next generation including Motti Alfassi (Kan Badarom), Shalom Amar (Bapardes), and Giora Kadmon
(Yeverechicha). Please join us in honoring these greats.

The 19th Annual
Shorashim Roots of Israeli Folk Dance
Nostalgia Labor Day Weekend on Broadway
Sept. 3 - 6, 2010

4 nights of marathons/parties & 3 days of workshops
Featuring Guest Teachers

DANI DASSA
CHOREOGRAPHER AS WELL AS MASTER TEACHER WHOSE CLASSIC
DANCES INCLUDE RACHEL, BEIN HARAY HEVRON, ASHRAY HA'ISH,
SHEDEMATI, JOSHUA, & MANY OTHERS THAT REMAIN POPULAR

AYALAH GOREN
ISRAELI FOLK AND ETHNIC DANCE EXPERT FROM JERUSALEM'S
ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DANCE WITH A VAST & MATCHLESS
KNOWLEDGE OF THE CLASSICS

DANNY POLLOCK
MASTER TEACHER OF ISRAELI FOLK DANCE FROM NEW YORK
WHOSE CLASSIC REPERTOIRE DANCE WORKSHOPS
ARE ALWAYS POPULAR

SCHEDULE & RATES

Friday Opening Night Party & Kabbalat Shabbat:
8pm - $15

Saturday through Monday Workshops: $15/workshop
2pm - Ayalah Goren & Danny Pollock
4pm - Dani Dassa

Saturday & Sunday Marathons:
8pm - $20/night

Monday Farewell Party:
8pm $15

Whole Weekend Special Reduced Rate: $140
Day Passes: Sat. & Sun. - $45; Mon. - $40

Students and seniors (ID required):
$5 reduction for any single session
-------------------------------------------------------------

All events are in a professional dance studio with a wood floor at
Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway @ 104th St.

Information (917)207-0093; www.rikud.net

Posted by Nat Seelen at 2:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Some information from Hayim Kaufman of Rikud in NYC:

The classic folk dances of Israel are created to shiray Eretz Yisrael - the beautiful folk songs related to the Land of Israel. Many of these songs have Eastern European roots.

At Shorashim 2010, in addition to Dani Dassa teaching many of his great classic folk dances, a unique feature this year will be joint workshops by Ayalah Goren and Danny Pollock teaching dances created by choreographers no longer with us. Ayalah will focus on the first generation of choreographers whom she knew personally, including (with a sample popular dance) Leah Bergstein (Shiru Hashir), Zeev Havatzelet (Al Tiruni), (Zvi Friedhaber (Nitzanim), Shalom Hermon (Dayagim), Gurit Kadman (Etz Harimon)), Sara Levi-Tanai (El Ginat Egoz) and Rivka Shturman (Kuma Echa). Danny will teach dances of the next generation including Motti Alfassi (Kan Badarom), Shalom Amar (Bapardes), and Giora Kadmon
(Yeverechicha). Please join us in honoring these greats.

The 19th Annual
Shorashim Roots of Israeli Folk Dance
Nostalgia Labor Day Weekend on Broadway
Sept. 3 - 6, 2010

4 nights of marathons/parties & 3 days of workshops
Featuring Guest Teachers

DANI DASSA
CHOREOGRAPHER AS WELL AS MASTER TEACHER WHOSE CLASSIC
DANCES INCLUDE RACHEL, BEIN HARAY HEVRON, ASHRAY HA'ISH,
SHEDEMATI, JOSHUA, & MANY OTHERS THAT REMAIN POPULAR

AYALAH GOREN
ISRAELI FOLK AND ETHNIC DANCE EXPERT FROM JERUSALEM'S
ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DANCE WITH A VAST & MATCHLESS
KNOWLEDGE OF THE CLASSICS

DANNY POLLOCK
MASTER TEACHER OF ISRAELI FOLK DANCE FROM NEW YORK
WHOSE CLASSIC REPERTOIRE DANCE WORKSHOPS
ARE ALWAYS POPULAR

SCHEDULE & RATES

Friday Opening Night Party & Kabbalat Shabbat:
8pm - $15

Saturday through Monday Workshops: $15/workshop
2pm - Ayalah Goren & Danny Pollock
4pm - Dani Dassa

Saturday & Sunday Marathons:
8pm - $20/night

Monday Farewell Party:
8pm $15

Whole Weekend Special Reduced Rate: $140
Day Passes: Sat. & Sun. - $45; Mon. - $40

Students and seniors (ID required):
$5 reduction for any single session
-------------------------------------------------------------

All events are in a professional dance studio with a wood floor at
Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway @ 104th St.

Information (917)207-0093; www.rikud.net

Posted by Nat Seelen at 2:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Some information from Hayim Kaufman of Rikud in NYC:

The classic folk dances of Israel are created to shiray Eretz Yisrael - the beautiful folk songs related to the Land of Israel. Many of these songs have Eastern European roots.

At Shorashim 2010, in addition to Dani Dassa teaching many of his great classic folk dances, a unique feature this year will be joint workshops by Ayalah Goren and Danny Pollock teaching dances created by choreographers no longer with us. Ayalah will focus on the first generation of choreographers whom she knew personally, including (with a sample popular dance) Leah Bergstein (Shiru Hashir), Zeev Havatzelet (Al Tiruni), (Zvi Friedhaber (Nitzanim), Shalom Hermon (Dayagim), Gurit Kadman (Etz Harimon)), Sara Levi-Tanai (El Ginat Egoz) and Rivka Shturman (Kuma Echa). Danny will teach dances of the next generation including Motti Alfassi (Kan Badarom), Shalom Amar (Bapardes), and Giora Kadmon
(Yeverechicha). Please join us in honoring these greats.

The 19th Annual
Shorashim Roots of Israeli Folk Dance
Nostalgia Labor Day Weekend on Broadway
Sept. 3 - 6, 2010

4 nights of marathons/parties & 3 days of workshops
Featuring Guest Teachers

DANI DASSA
CHOREOGRAPHER AS WELL AS MASTER TEACHER WHOSE CLASSIC
DANCES INCLUDE RACHEL, BEIN HARAY HEVRON, ASHRAY HA'ISH,
SHEDEMATI, JOSHUA, & MANY OTHERS THAT REMAIN POPULAR

AYALAH GOREN
ISRAELI FOLK AND ETHNIC DANCE EXPERT FROM JERUSALEM'S
ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DANCE WITH A VAST & MATCHLESS
KNOWLEDGE OF THE CLASSICS

DANNY POLLOCK
MASTER TEACHER OF ISRAELI FOLK DANCE FROM NEW YORK
WHOSE CLASSIC REPERTOIRE DANCE WORKSHOPS
ARE ALWAYS POPULAR

SCHEDULE & RATES

Friday Opening Night Party & Kabbalat Shabbat:
8pm - $15

Saturday through Monday Workshops: $15/workshop
2pm - Ayalah Goren & Danny Pollock
4pm - Dani Dassa

Saturday & Sunday Marathons:
8pm - $20/night

Monday Farewell Party:
8pm $15

Whole Weekend Special Reduced Rate: $140
Day Passes: Sat. & Sun. - $45; Mon. - $40

Students and seniors (ID required):
$5 reduction for any single session
-------------------------------------------------------------

All events are in a professional dance studio with a wood floor at
Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway @ 104th St.

Information (917)207-0093; www.rikud.net

Posted by Nat Seelen at 2:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Some information from Hayim Kaufman of Rikud in NYC:

The classic folk dances of Israel are created to shiray Eretz Yisrael - the beautiful folk songs related to the Land of Israel. Many of these songs have Eastern European roots.

At Shorashim 2010, in addition to Dani Dassa teaching many of his great classic folk dances, a unique feature this year will be joint workshops by Ayalah Goren and Danny Pollock teaching dances created by choreographers no longer with us. Ayalah will focus on the first generation of choreographers whom she knew personally, including (with a sample popular dance) Leah Bergstein (Shiru Hashir), Zeev Havatzelet (Al Tiruni), (Zvi Friedhaber (Nitzanim), Shalom Hermon (Dayagim), Gurit Kadman (Etz Harimon)), Sara Levi-Tanai (El Ginat Egoz) and Rivka Shturman (Kuma Echa). Danny will teach dances of the next generation including Motti Alfassi (Kan Badarom), Shalom Amar (Bapardes), and Giora Kadmon
(Yeverechicha). Please join us in honoring these greats.

The 19th Annual
Shorashim Roots of Israeli Folk Dance
Nostalgia Labor Day Weekend on Broadway
Sept. 3 - 6, 2010

4 nights of marathons/parties & 3 days of workshops
Featuring Guest Teachers

DANI DASSA
CHOREOGRAPHER AS WELL AS MASTER TEACHER WHOSE CLASSIC
DANCES INCLUDE RACHEL, BEIN HARAY HEVRON, ASHRAY HA'ISH,
SHEDEMATI, JOSHUA, & MANY OTHERS THAT REMAIN POPULAR

AYALAH GOREN
ISRAELI FOLK AND ETHNIC DANCE EXPERT FROM JERUSALEM'S
ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DANCE WITH A VAST & MATCHLESS
KNOWLEDGE OF THE CLASSICS

DANNY POLLOCK
MASTER TEACHER OF ISRAELI FOLK DANCE FROM NEW YORK
WHOSE CLASSIC REPERTOIRE DANCE WORKSHOPS
ARE ALWAYS POPULAR

SCHEDULE & RATES

Friday Opening Night Party & Kabbalat Shabbat:
8pm - $15

Saturday through Monday Workshops: $15/workshop
2pm - Ayalah Goren & Danny Pollock
4pm - Dani Dassa

Saturday & Sunday Marathons:
8pm - $20/night

Monday Farewell Party:
8pm $15

Whole Weekend Special Reduced Rate: $140
Day Passes: Sat. & Sun. - $45; Mon. - $40

Students and seniors (ID required):
$5 reduction for any single session
-------------------------------------------------------------

All events are in a professional dance studio with a wood floor at
Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway @ 104th St.

Information (917)207-0093; www.rikud.net

Posted by Nat Seelen at 2:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Some information from Hayim Kaufman of Rikud in NYC:

The classic folk dances of Israel are created to shiray Eretz Yisrael - the beautiful folk songs related to the Land of Israel. Many of these songs have Eastern European roots.

At Shorashim 2010, in addition to Dani Dassa teaching many of his great classic folk dances, a unique feature this year will be joint workshops by Ayalah Goren and Danny Pollock teaching dances created by choreographers no longer with us. Ayalah will focus on the first generation of choreographers whom she knew personally, including (with a sample popular dance) Leah Bergstein (Shiru Hashir), Zeev Havatzelet (Al Tiruni), (Zvi Friedhaber (Nitzanim), Shalom Hermon (Dayagim), Gurit Kadman (Etz Harimon)), Sara Levi-Tanai (El Ginat Egoz) and Rivka Shturman (Kuma Echa). Danny will teach dances of the next generation including Motti Alfassi (Kan Badarom), Shalom Amar (Bapardes), and Giora Kadmon
(Yeverechicha). Please join us in honoring these greats.

The 19th Annual
Shorashim Roots of Israeli Folk Dance
Nostalgia Labor Day Weekend on Broadway
Sept. 3 - 6, 2010

4 nights of marathons/parties & 3 days of workshops
Featuring Guest Teachers

DANI DASSA
CHOREOGRAPHER AS WELL AS MASTER TEACHER WHOSE CLASSIC
DANCES INCLUDE RACHEL, BEIN HARAY HEVRON, ASHRAY HA'ISH,
SHEDEMATI, JOSHUA, & MANY OTHERS THAT REMAIN POPULAR

AYALAH GOREN
ISRAELI FOLK AND ETHNIC DANCE EXPERT FROM JERUSALEM'S
ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DANCE WITH A VAST & MATCHLESS
KNOWLEDGE OF THE CLASSICS

DANNY POLLOCK
MASTER TEACHER OF ISRAELI FOLK DANCE FROM NEW YORK
WHOSE CLASSIC REPERTOIRE DANCE WORKSHOPS
ARE ALWAYS POPULAR

SCHEDULE & RATES

Friday Opening Night Party & Kabbalat Shabbat:
8pm - $15

Saturday through Monday Workshops: $15/workshop
2pm - Ayalah Goren & Danny Pollock
4pm - Dani Dassa

Saturday & Sunday Marathons:
8pm - $20/night

Monday Farewell Party:
8pm $15

Whole Weekend Special Reduced Rate: $140
Day Passes: Sat. & Sun. - $45; Mon. - $40

Students and seniors (ID required):
$5 reduction for any single session
-------------------------------------------------------------

All events are in a professional dance studio with a wood floor at
Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway @ 104th St.

Information (917)207-0093; www.rikud.net

Posted by Nat Seelen at 2:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Some information from Hayim Kaufman of Rikud in NYC:

The classic folk dances of Israel are created to shiray Eretz Yisrael - the beautiful folk songs related to the Land of Israel. Many of these songs have Eastern European roots.

At Shorashim 2010, in addition to Dani Dassa teaching many of his great classic folk dances, a unique feature this year will be joint workshops by Ayalah Goren and Danny Pollock teaching dances created by choreographers no longer with us. Ayalah will focus on the first generation of choreographers whom she knew personally, including (with a sample popular dance) Leah Bergstein (Shiru Hashir), Zeev Havatzelet (Al Tiruni), (Zvi Friedhaber (Nitzanim), Shalom Hermon (Dayagim), Gurit Kadman (Etz Harimon)), Sara Levi-Tanai (El Ginat Egoz) and Rivka Shturman (Kuma Echa). Danny will teach dances of the next generation including Motti Alfassi (Kan Badarom), Shalom Amar (Bapardes), and Giora Kadmon
(Yeverechicha). Please join us in honoring these greats.

The 19th Annual
Shorashim Roots of Israeli Folk Dance
Nostalgia Labor Day Weekend on Broadway
Sept. 3 - 6, 2010

4 nights of marathons/parties & 3 days of workshops
Featuring Guest Teachers

DANI DASSA
CHOREOGRAPHER AS WELL AS MASTER TEACHER WHOSE CLASSIC
DANCES INCLUDE RACHEL, BEIN HARAY HEVRON, ASHRAY HA'ISH,
SHEDEMATI, JOSHUA, & MANY OTHERS THAT REMAIN POPULAR

AYALAH GOREN
ISRAELI FOLK AND ETHNIC DANCE EXPERT FROM JERUSALEM'S
ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DANCE WITH A VAST & MATCHLESS
KNOWLEDGE OF THE CLASSICS

DANNY POLLOCK
MASTER TEACHER OF ISRAELI FOLK DANCE FROM NEW YORK
WHOSE CLASSIC REPERTOIRE DANCE WORKSHOPS
ARE ALWAYS POPULAR

SCHEDULE & RATES

Friday Opening Night Party & Kabbalat Shabbat:
8pm - $15

Saturday through Monday Workshops: $15/workshop
2pm - Ayalah Goren & Danny Pollock
4pm - Dani Dassa

Saturday & Sunday Marathons:
8pm - $20/night

Monday Farewell Party:
8pm $15

Whole Weekend Special Reduced Rate: $140
Day Passes: Sat. & Sun. - $45; Mon. - $40

Students and seniors (ID required):
$5 reduction for any single session
-------------------------------------------------------------

All events are in a professional dance studio with a wood floor at
Bridge for DANCE 2726 Broadway @ 104th St.

Information (917)207-0093; www.rikud.net

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Shirim is playing this Saturday night October 9 at the Amazing Things Arts Center, 160 Hollis St. Framingham, MA (508-495-2787). Tickets are $18 (Stu/Sen $17, Mem $15). Bring the kids, bring your grandmother! Be ready to move! The band will be joined by special guest vocalist Claire Dickson. We got a great tip in today's Globe:

"The spirited klezmer outfit, a Boston area treasure for a quarter century, has performed internationally and collaborated with Maurice Sendak and Woody Allen, among others. Clarinetist Glenn Dickson, trumpeter Gary Bohan, accordionist Michael McLaughlin, tubist Jim Gray, and drummer Eric Rosenthal will be joined by amazing young singer Claire Dickson, a recent Downbeat magazine Student Jazz Award Winner, who will sing several classic Jewish jazz tunes." —Kevin Lowenthal, Globe Correspondent

What: Shirim Klezmer Orchestra
When: Saturday, October 9, 2010, 8:00pm
Where: Amazing Things Arts Center, 160 Hollis St, Framingham. MA 01702
508-405-ARTS (2787)
Why: For fun!

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Klezmer dancing at MIT!

Sunday October 17, 2010, 8 pm
Lobdell Dining Hall
MIT Student Center, 2nd floor
84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA
Admission by donation

Dance leader: Jacob Bloom
Music by Shver un Shviger

Jacob Bloom will teach some easy traditional dances, such as the freylakhs, bulgar, slow hora, chusidl, Yiddish sirba, and grand march. No experience necessary!

For more information, see:
mit.edu
www.facebook.com
gis.net
www.neffa.org

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Klezmer music and contra dancing with caller Jacob Bloom and ContraKlez
On Tuesday, October 19th
8:00 to 10:30 PM
MIT Student Center, room 407
More information at
mit.edu

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Tanzhoyz! Party like it's 1899!

Monday, October 25, 7:00pm
185 Van Horne Avenue
Montreal, QC

Shake your tuches to the sounds of Eastern-European Jewish music with dance-leader Avia Moore, Chrisitian Dawid clarinet, Alexis Basque trumpet, Rachel Lemisch trombone, Jason Rosenblatt piano, Thierry Arsenault poyk and other guests.

Venez vous dégourdir les semelles sous la maestria de la danseuse Avia Moore, avec un orchestre composé du clarinettiste Christian Dawid, du cornettiste Alexis Basque,de la tromboniste Rachel Lemisch et du pianiste Jason Rosenblatt, en compagnie d'autres musiciens invités!

Suggested donation at the door $7.

More info: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157922784239027

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Veretski Pass: Music from the Carpathian Bow
Saturday, November 13, 8:30pm
Subterranean Arthouse,
Berkeley, CA

Two sets, the second with klezmer dancing led by Bruce Bierman. Suggested donation: $10-$20; no-one turned away. More info: www.subterraneanarthouse.org.

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Thursday, December 2, 8pm, Hannukah Dance Blowout, Berkeley. Klezmer music with Kugelplex and Adama, Also on the bill Israeli Reggae artist, Lior Ben Hur, appearing with Kugelplex. Allen King will lead Israeli dance and Bruce Bierman will lead klezmer dance. At Ashkenaz, $10. More info: www.ashkenaz.com.

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Friday, December 3, Klezmer Hanukkah, 8:15pm, San Francisco. At Temple Sha'ar Zahav. Music by Cantor Sharon Bernstein and klezmorim Stuart Brotman and Sheldon Brown, with Bruce Bierman leading dancing. KlezCalifornia is a co-sponsor. More info: www.shaarzahav.org.

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Saturday, December 4, 7:00pm, Hanukkah Community Celebration, with Veretski Pass, Adama, Nigunim Chorus, and Rivka Amado. Candlelighting, performances, dancing and food. At JCC East Bay, Berkeley. Admission $15. KlezCalifornia is a co-sponsor.

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Wednesday, December 8 2010, 5:30 pm

Hanukkah Dance Party with the Mount Holyoke Klezmer Band,
Adrianne Greenbaum, director.
Warbeke Room, Pratt Hall, Mt Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA
Free

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Workmen's Circle are pleased to announce the return of our popular Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance series at a special new location! Come and learn the traditional Jewish dances of Eastern Europe! World renowned dance leader Michael Alpert will be teaching, and violinist Deborah Strauss will be leading the band. Beginners are welcome!

Thursday January 6
Ukrainian East Village Restaurant
140 Second Avenue by 9th Street in Manhattan's East Village.

Program goes from 7PM - 9:30PM.
Admission is $10, $8 for CTMD and Workmen's Circle members.

Hope to see you there!

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Come work off those extra holiday pounds to the sounds of Veretski Pass, internationally renowned klezmer music trio based in the East Bay. With a concert set, dance lesson, and dance party. Carpathian Jewish Fiddle band sounds, traditional Jewish dancing led by Bruce Bierman. See you there!

Thurs. Jan 6, 2011, Concert and Dance Party
with Dance Leader, Bruce Bierman
8:30 PM
Ashkenaz
1317 San Pablo Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94702
Tickets $10
Tel 510-525-5054

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