KlezKamp 20

At: The Hudson Valley Resort and Spa, Kerhonkson, New York 2004 marks the 20th edition of KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program. And while this is our birthday celebration, KlezKampers are the ones who receive the gifts. Our theme, Doyres/Generations, explores how Yiddish culture and KlezKamp is passed through generations featuring KlezKamp doyres: Chana Mlotek and son Zalmen, mother/daughter Elaine Hoffman-Watts and Susan Watts, Anita Norich and father Isaac, Pearl Sapoznik and son plus others. Our anniversary gives us a chance to dip into our archives to show rare classroom videos of beloved KlezKamp teachers no longer with us, and to also issue a special commemorative 2-CD anthology highlighting 20 years of our incomparable staff concerts. more....

We are pleased to offer this year, expanded vocal music and Yiddish language programs and welcome new staff including choral director Eleanor Epstein, Parisian Yiddish language instructor Yitskhok Niborski, Canadian-Yiddish author Chava Rosenfarb and actor Hy (Khayim) Wolfe who will be interviewing and performing with Yiddish theater greats Mina Bern, Shifra Lerer and David Rogow. And as always, we honor the great klezmer masters of our generation German Goldenshteyn, Paul Pincus and Pete Sokolow. < /br>< /br> A change is our new home: the fully restored classic Catskill resort, the Granite Hotel in Kerhonkson, New York. Now called the Hudson Valley Spa and Resort(http://www.hudsonvalleyresort.com), a $30 million renovation has created the seemingly impossible: Hilton quality in a heymish Catskill location, a hotel, as my mother would say, mit ale pistshefkes (with all the extras), including wireless internet access, full health club, spa, indoor pool and luxuriously appointed guest and classrooms. The kitchen, headed by Executive Chef /Culinary Institute of America graduate Edward Kelly, produces abundant traditional regional favorites with attention given to vegetarian and children' menus, all under the strict supervision of Rabbi Gershon Kreuser of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. < /br>< /br> While much has changed, what has not is our commitment to creating an inspiring cornucopia of all things Yiddish: our full instrumental, vocal and dance program, klezmer jams, multi-tiered language sessions, history, literature, translation workshops, plus our unbeatable children and teen program. Evening events many of which are open to the public and broadcast on local public radio outlet WJFF (90.5 FM/ http://www.wjffradio.org) include after dinner family activities, concerts, cabarets, and dancing to live music until all hours. < /br>< /br> Since 1985, thousands of participants from around the world have made the pilgrimage to KlezKamp. This year, why not you? Come to the Capitol of Yiddishland.

SIMSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY Celebrates with Klezmer Music

The SIMSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY as part of it's celebration of the Isaac Bashevis Singer Centennial presents a Celebration of Klezmer Music with Members of the Wholesale Klezmer Band October 3, 2:00 PM Family event Free admission Boy Scout Hall Simsbury, Connecticut Contact: Jackie Hemond Jives98@hotmail.com. (860) 658-7663, (860) 658-6732 (fax) Members of the Wholesale Klezmer Band will be appearing at Boy Scout Hall in Simsbury on Sunday, October 3rd at 2:00 p.m. The concert will be for families and will last about an hour.

View our complete calendar at:< /br> http://www.WholesaleKlezmer.com/calendar.html< /br> Click reload on your browser to be sure you see the most recent version.< /br> Directions:< /br> View a map at: http://www.simsbury.lib.ct.us/map.gif< /br> The Simsbury Public Library is located on Routes 10/202. It is the third building on the LEFT northward past the intersection of Route 167. Boy Scout Hall is very close to the Simsbury Public Library on the same side of the road. It is just south (actually the next building to the library, but set back from the road). It is between the Simsbury Public Library and the large white Congregational Church which is on the corner of Rtes. 10 & 202 and 167. Boy Scout Hall shares the same driveway as the large white church. < /br>< /br> Via I-91: Take Exit 35, Bissell Bridge. Turn onto West Wolcott Avenue (a RIGHT turn from I-91 South, a LEFT turn from I-91 North). Follow West Wolcott Avenue to the intersection of Route 185, and turn RIGHT onto Route 185. Follow Route 185 to the intersection of Routes 10/202, and turn RIGHT onto intersection of Routes 10/202, and turn RIGHT onto Routes 10/202. < /br>< /br> Via I-84: Take Exit 39, Route 4, Farmington. Follow Route 4 to the intersection of Routes 10/202 (Waterville Road), and turn RIGHT onto Routes 10/202 North. At the intersection of Route 44, turn LEFT onto Route 44 West. Continue a short distance, and turn RIGHT onto Routes 10/202 North (Hopmeadow Street).

Tokyo String Quartet to honor Jews' 350 Years in America

The Tokyo String Quartet theme for their 2004-2005 residency at the Y will be "Immigrant Composers". Saturday, Oct. 23 at 8pm at the 92nd Street Y Tisch Center for the Arts starts a series of music by Jewish composers who fled the growing anti-Semitism of Nazi Germany and Austria for the US, and others. Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942), his brother in law, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) will have works performed over the course of the series. Dates in the series also include Saturday Feb. 12 and Saturday, May 7. See the 92nd St. Y website www.92Y.org for more details.

Music of Korngold, Brahms, Prokofiev

The 92nd Street Y Tisch Center for the Arts "Chamber Music at the Y" series, Tuseday Oct. 26 at 8pm. and Wed. Oct. 27 at 8pm.< /br> Tickets $35..< /br> Pianist Leon Fleisher joins violinists Jaime Laredo and Ida Kavafian and cellist Sharon Robins for Korngold's Suite, Op. 23 (1930) which was written for two violins, cello and piano-left hand. With the addition of Jennifer Koh on violin and Ida Kavafian switching to viola, they will perform Brahms Piano Quintet in fi mine. Alo is Profkofiev's Sonata in C major for two vilins by Laredo and Koh. < /br>

Korngold's career stretched from imperial Austria to the golden age of Hollywood. This is part of the Celebrate 350: Jewish Life in America.

Second Annual Interfaith Symposium of Music

A Symposium of Psalms < /br>< /br> Join the Jewish Music Commission of Los Angeles and the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church on November 7 2004 at the second annual city-wide interfaith symposium devoted to music. This year the Workshop (3:00 p.m) will explore the role of the Psalms, a fertile source of spiritual and cultural inspiration in the Jewish, Protestant and Catholic faiths with presentations and panel discussions by leading Los Angeles clergy, scholars and composers. < /br>< /br> Registration is required for the 3:00 p.m. Workshop and seating reservations are highly recommended for the 7:30 p.m. Concert. For more information, call 310.271.5194 or visit www.jmcla.org... more info...

Conducted by Dr. Nick Strimple, the Concert (7:30 p.m.) will feature appearances by Cantors Joseph Gole and Jonathan Grant, the LA Zimriyah Chorale, and the Southern California Choral Society. The program will include Psalms drawn from Gregorian chant through modern-day sacred compositions.

Yiddish Poetry and Song

A Celebration of Contemporary Yiddish Poetry and Song with Beyle Schaechter- Gottesman< /br> Sunday, September 26, 2:30 pm< /br> Tuttleman Library Reading Room< /br> Gratz College, Philadephia, 7605 Old York Road, Melrose Park, PA < /br> Free and Open to the Public. < /br> To reserve a space, call Rita Ratson at 215-635-7300, ext. 177.< /br>

This program features modern Yiddish poetry and their translations, song and musical arrangements and commentary by the poet/composer herself. Selections include Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman's "Zumerteg" (Summer Days), "Af di Gasn fun der Shtot" (On the Streets of the City) and "Perpl Shlenglt Zich der Veg" (Purple Winds the Road). Also participating ­ Kathryn Hellerstein, Chair of University of Pennsylvania Jewish Studies Program; Alexander (Sender) Botwinik, Musical Director; Itzik Gottesman, Associate Editor, Yiddish Forward; and Sherman Labovitz, Yiddish singer.

Music at "New York Nosharound: Jewish Food Festival"

Accordionist Odile Lavault and Sylvie Braitman will be providing music for COPIA (Napa's wonderful Food and Wine Museum)'s celebration of New York food. October 3rd is dedicated to Jewish Food with " New York Nosharound: Jewish Food Festival". 2PM to 4PM (we play from 1 to 3PM) 500 first Street. Napa. CA www.copia.org

"Muwashshahaat" concert at SOAS

SOAS, London, [Brunei Gallery Theatre]. Saturday 9 October at 7.30pm. University of London, Thornhaugh Square, London WC1 [tube: Russell Square] < /br> Admission is free. However in order to reserve a place you have to send your name (s) by e-mail to: ee11@soas.ac.uk so that they can be put onto the list.

The concert is going to include a shadow theatre performance showing the roots of Karaghiozis in medieval Cairo in 1310!.< /br> Full details of the Concert [and the Conference of which it is part] can be found at < /br> www.geocities.com/Muwashshah

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Homesick Songs by Golem

"Golem's new CD, Homesick Songs, is a party in a box. A snapshot of shtetl life through the filter of a much younger generation.

CD RELEASE PARTY:
OCTOBER 24th at the Knitting Factory, Tribeca, NY, 8pm
Golem presents its new album, with an exciting bill of all new-generation Jewish music: Juez, the Sarah Aroeste Band, and special guest Frank London sitting in with Golem! "HOMESICK SONGS" will be in stores nationwide on OCTOBER 19th. Each track on the album evokes old-world cities, towns and countries longed for by homesick immigrants. It's Jewish music that rocks - not just for your grandma!" BUY IT NOW EXCLUSIVELY AT www.golemrocks.com

NUSACH INTERNET RADIO NETWORK

For the Yomim Norayim
Cantor Stephen Robbins
Cantor Lisa Levine
Cantor Lawrence Fine and the Belsize Square Synagogue (London) Choir
Cheif Cantor Shmuel Barzilai and the Vienna Choir Boy's
with compositions by Salomon Sulzer

There are 9 1/2 hours of music now with more to come....
Visit us during the day for some beautiful music of the High Holidays
http://www.live365.com/stations/53860
I will continue to update the station over the next several weeks, removing selichot services after selichot to make room for Yom Kippur music. Eventually there will be 15 hours of music. Once at that point, I will change the playlist from CD mode, to a shuffle so there will be a variety of Cantors during each hour of programing.

Rabbi Winston Weilheimer
Host/OWNER
Nusach, THE ORIGINAL SOUL MUSIC!
http://www.angelfire.com/art2/nusach/

THE FIRST S'LICHOT and PAUL SCHOENFIELD

THE FIRST S'LICHOT and PAUL SCHOENFIELD... two more CDs from the Milken Archive!

THE FIRST S'LICHOT (Naxos ID 8.559428-29)
Fulfilling a long-held dream of Jewish music-lovers, the landmark recording on this double-CD set features the complete s'lichot (penitential) service that according to Orthodox and traditional practice is held at midnight on the Saturday before Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year). The purpose of the s'lichot service is to prepare congregants for the solemn period of repentance and renewal known as the High Holy Days, which begins with Rosh Hashana and culminates in Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). The Milken Archive recording presents the entire service as it would actually be experienced in the synagogue. It demonstrates the integration of formally composed liturgical settings within the overall context of the prayers, in conjunction with cantorial chanting and improvisation, in the continuous flow of the service from beginning to end. Performed by celebrated cantor Benzion Miller and the Schola Hebraeica, the world's only fully professional male choir devoted to Judaically related music, this s'lichot service includes liturgical settings by legendary figures including Yossele Rosenblatt, Israel Schorr and Joshua Lind. It is conducted by Neil Levin, music director of the Schola Hebraeica and artistic director of the Milken Archive, and was recorded in London's historic orthodox New West End Synagogue according to the highest standards of liturgical and musical authenticity. Also included are four celebrated cantorial pieces for other services throughout the year, performed by Cantor Miller with the London Synagogue Singers. Comprehensive commentary and new English translations of the prayers accompany the set. A two-hour radio program entitled "Music for the High Holy Days: A Season of Forgiveness," featuring the complete midnight penitential service as recorded on the new Milken Archive CD, will be distributed by the WFMT Radio Network to radio stations throughout the country during the first two weeks in September, prior to Rosh Hashana September 16-17 and Yom Kippur September 25. This special program, produced by Larry Josephson, will include commentary by Neil Levin, artistic director of the Milken Archive, and Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. For local stations and times, please visit the Milken Archive Web site after mid-August at www.milkenarchive.org. For details about this CD, go to http://www.milkenarchive.org/cds/cds.taf?cdid=26

PAUL SCHOENFIELD (Naxos ID 8.559418) Features world premiere recordings of music by Paul Schoenfield, whose works are drawn from an eclectic amalgam of sources-popular, vernacular, folk and classical art music. It features three compositions that celebrate the richness of traditional Jewish melodies, dances, and folklore: the Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, commissioned and premiered by Robert Vernon, principal violist of the Cleveland Orchestra, who performs it on this disc as well; Four Motets, a haunting a cappella choral work in which Renaissance counterpoint is infused with 20th-century harmonic sensibilities; and scenes from the mystical opera The Merchant and the Pauper, in which a supremely beautiful maiden stranded on an island wilderness is reunited with her betrothed-an allegory of the Jewish people vis-à-vis ultimate cosmic repair and messianic redemption-as related in an old Hassidic tale. Yoel Levi conducts the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin; Avner Itai leads the BBC Singers; and Kenneth Kiesler directs members of the University of Michigan Opera.
For details about this CD, go to http://www.milkenarchive.org/cds/cds.taf?cdid=25
Read an interview with conductor Kenneth Kiesler at http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf?function=detail&ID=63

GET READY: KlezKamp 20: Doyres / Generations

December 26-31 2004/5765
The Hudson Valley Resort and Spa
Kerhonkson, New York

2004 marks the 20th edition of �KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program.� And while this is our birthday celebration, KlezKampers are the ones who receive the gifts.

Our theme, �Doyres/Generations,� explores how Yiddish culture �and KlezKamp � is passed through generations featuring KlezKamp doyres: Chana Mlotek and son Zalmen, mother/daughter Elaine Hoffman-Watts and Susan Watts, Anita Norich and father Isaac, Pearl Sapoznik and son plus others. Our anniversary gives us a chance to dip into our archives to show rare classroom videos of beloved KlezKamp teachers no longer with us, and to also issue a special commemorative 2-CD anthology highlighting 20 years of our incomparable staff concerts.

We are pleased to offer this year, expanded vocal music and Yiddish language programs and welcome new staff including choral director Eleanor Epstein, Parisian Yiddish language instructor Yitskhok Niborski, Canadian-Yiddish author Chava Rosenfarb and actor Hy (�Khayim�) Wolfe who will be interviewing and performing with Yiddish theater greats Mina Bern, Shifra Lerer and David Rogow. And as always, we honor the great klezmer masters of our generation German Goldenshteyn, Paul Pincus and Pete Sokolow.

A change is our new home: the fully restored classic Catskill resort, the �Granite Hotel� in Kerhonkson, New York. Now called the �Hudson Valley Spa and Resort� (http://www.hudsonvalleyresort.com), a $30 million renovation has created the seemingly impossible: Hilton quality in a heymish Catskill location, a hotel, as my mother would say, mit ale pistshefkes (�with all the extras�), including wireless internet access, full health club, spa, indoor pool and luxuriously appointed guest and classrooms. The kitchen, headed by Executive Chef /Culinary Institute of America graduate Edward Kelly, produces abundant traditional regional favorites with attention given to vegetarian and children�s menus, all under the strict supervision of Rabbi Gershon Kreuser of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.

While much has changed, what has not is our commitment to creating an inspiring cornucopia of all things Yiddish: our full instrumental, vocal and dance program, klezmer jams, multi-tiered language sessions, history, literature, translation workshops, plus our unbeatable children�s and teen program. Evening events� many of which are open to the public and broadcast on local public radio outlet WJFF (90.5 FM/ http://www.wjffradio.org) include after dinner family activities, concerts, cabarets, and dancing to live music �til all hours.

MORE New York Jewish Music and Heritage Festival at Satalla

Satalla 37 W. 26th St
www.satalla.com
September 7, 2004. 8pm, $12
Smadar

With lyrics in Greek, Spanish, Hebrew and Moroccan, SMADAR performs Moroccan Gypsy music with a unique Middle-Eastern sound. They will perform material from their brand-new release, "Smadar." Members of the band are: Smadar Levi (vocals); Uri Sharlin (piano, accordion); Harel Shachal (saxophone); Pedro Da Silva (sitar, Portuguese guitar); Emanuel Mann (bass); Tomer Tzur (drums), and Ramzi Eldibi (darbuka)

10pm, $12
Matt Temkin's Yiddishe Jame Band featuring Ashira

Hip version of songs in English written by Jews, rocking versions of Yiddish songs written about Jews, and soulful versions of Hebrew songs written for Jews - all sung by the stunning voices of the female vocal trio ASHIRA (Arianne Slack, Laura Lenes, and Leah Moss), and backed by the swinging MATT TEMKIN'S YIDDISHE JAM BAND (Dan Cousin, musical director). Bringing together musical influences from all the 350 years that Jews have been residing in America,this is an experience that can be had only one-way: in person and live!

New York Jewish Music & Heritage Festival

As the New York Jewish community's 350th centerpiece, the New York Jewish Music & Heritage Festival will be a vibrant celebration of the evolution of Jewish Culture and its positive impact on American culture over the last 350 years. From the famous to the unknown, over 50 concerts will help demonstrate the passion of the Jewish people in New York and America.

92nd St. Y 1395 Lexington Ave. | www.92y.org8pm • Tickets: $42 seated / $125 VIP Seating & Artist Reception GREAT JEWISH ARTISTS PERFORM GREAT JEWISH COMPOSERS Neil Sedaka performs Irving Berlin & Sedaka Fred Hersch performs Leonard Bernstein & George Gershwin Soulfarm performs Bob Dylan Debbie Friedman performs Laura Nyro Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier perform John Zorn Lisa Loeb & Jill Sobule perform Simon & Garfunkel Philip Glass performs Philip Glass David Broza performs Carole King

New Beginnings Commissioned by the Solomon Schechter High School of New York Words and Music composed by Paul Suchow (ASCAP), sung by Elaine Suchow (BMI) (copyright 2004, all rights reserved). Produced at Zephyr Music New Beginnings, commissioned by the Solomon Schechter School of New York was written by Paul Suchow in collaboration with his wife and singer Elaine Suchow as a tribute song for the 350th Celebration of Jewish Life in America. Paul, a New York based accomplished composer, arranger, and guitarist is no stranger to writing music for an important cause and counts Pete Seeger as one of his mentors and close friends. Music has the opportunity to transcend important messages in a way that other forums cannot. This song marks a prominent time in Jewish history and forever will be a reminder of “Our Legacy” as a people. “Youth are our legacy and future and it is a privilege having the Solomon Schechter High School of New York choir participate in singing our story of struggle, courage and the human spirit”. For more information, you can contact Paul at 917 509-0037, 718 896-4603 or e-mail at pesuchow@hotmail.com.

To celebrate this momentous occasion, on Sunday, September 12th, 10,000 to 15,000 people are expected to descend on Lower Manhattan to watch a reenactment of the landing. Surrounding this historic event, the New York Jewish Music & Heritage Festival will produce an all day-extravaganza at the South Street Seaport as the focal point of a one-week festival. From 10am-1pm the main stage will host special speakers and a play about the landing. From 1pm-8pm a stellar line-up of music and comedy will entertain an expected audience of over 10,000 people from neighborhood families to international tourists. The setting will include one large stage on Pier 17 with tall ships anchored nearby, arts & crafts, and cause-related tables creating a festival atmosphere

Toronto Jewish Folk Choir

The Toronto Jewish Folk Choir is accepting new members for its 2004-05 season. The SATB choir was featured at this year's Ashkenaz Festival and begins rehearsals for the new season on Wednesday, September 29, 7:30 p.m. at the Morris Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke Avenue (just east of Bathurst, five blocks north of Lawrence), Toronto. Interested new members are welcome to take part. For further information, call Jean Shek at 416-489-7681 or e-mail Howard Kaplan at tjfolkchoir@sympatico.ca .

This is the 79th season for the choir, and its third under the inspiring leadership of conductor Alexander Veprinsky, a graduate of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory in Ukraine in operatic and symphonic conducting. Moscow Conservatory-trained Lina Zemelman is returning for her 28th season as pianist. The choir's repertoire this year will include music on Jewish themes, mostly in Yiddish, but also in Hebrew, Russian, Judeo-Spanish and English, as well as classical works on Jewish themes, and music of other cultures. While it is not necessary to read music, members may tape rehearsals and are encouraged to learn their parts at home between rehearsals.

Streams in the Desert

Cantor Aviva Rosenbloom, cantor for 29 years of Temple Israel of Hollywood, CA (www.tioh.org) just released a new CD. It is a collection of songs written and adapted by Aviva, and available through SoundsWrite. Cantor Rosenbloom writes: "The songs are uplifting and empowering, especially for Jewish women." :
Contact: cantor@tioh.org or write to:
Cantor Aviva Rosenbloom
Temple Israel of Hollywood
7300 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046

Tot Shabbat This album of traditional and updated songs is for young children Aviva is accompanied on guitar, keyboard and organ, and sings with a small children's choir. Also available at soundswrite.com or at the above address.

AMJ Concert in Switzerland

Chers amis, J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer: Samedi 28 ao?04 ࠱8h: une conf鲥nce de Bertrand Kiefer, r餡cteur en chef de "M餥cine et Hygi讥": "Un malaise dans la compassion" suivie d'un repas d'apr賠les recettes du Dr Patrick Ruedin et d'un concert de Hotegeklezt "klezmer duo" Itzik Lechtman (accord鯮) & Michel Borzykowski (saxophone) H? de Mauvoisin (pr賠de Verbier, Valais, Suisse) R鳥rvations: tel 027 778 11 30 ou mflorey@cortex.ch Au plaisir de vous y rencontrer... Michel Borzykowski borzy@freesurf.ch site klezmer: http://borzykowski.users.ch site AMJ: http://www.amj.ch

“Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar”

“Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar” to perform as part of the New York Jewish Music & Heritage Festival on Thursday, September 9th in historic Astoria synagogue Astoria (Queens), NY, August 16, 2004

The New York Jewish Music & Heritage Festival, which runs from September 7-14, is launching as part of the nationwide celebration of 350 years of Jewish life in America and commemorates the anniversary of the first Jewish settlers who landed in Lower Manhattan on September 12, 1654 after being expelled from Brazil. The festival includes over 50 groups in 15 venues. “Art Bailey’s Orkestra Popilar” will be performing in the historic Astoria Center of Israel synagogue, amid the magnificent murals created in 1928 by world-renowned artist Louis Pierre Rigal. The repertoire is a mix of early 20th century Jewish fiddle pieces, original compositions, improvisation, and features material originally recorded by Romanian-born cymbalom master and Lower East Side restauranteur, Joseph Moskowitz. Bailey says, "Our instrumentation creates an intimate sonic space that draws in the listener. We also include improvised sections in our music, mostly absent in the American Klezmer tradition, and tell stories by creating suites of tunes, breaking free of the single tune concept imposed by the three-minute recording." The synagogue’s foyer is transformed into a “café-style” setting, complete with intimate tables and delicious desserts. Bailey, a seasoned Klezmer performer who has toured nationally and internationally with the Klezmer Conservatory Band since 1997, leads the concerts and is excited about the opportunity to connect with listeners in a small, casual setting. The concert features accordion, violin, mandolin, and bass, and highlights both well-known and more obscure Klezmer tunes—as well as some of Bailey’s own original compositions. Bailey's concept of Jewish music owes more to Romanian and Hungarian Gypsy string ensembles than to the more familiar clarinet and drums based klezmer bands. Reminiscent of an even earlier time in the history of recorded Jewish music, the result is fresh, unique, and thoroughly engaging. Pianist and accordionist Art Bailey is active in the improvised and world music scenes, and has appeared or recorded with such diverse musical performers as jazz soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, classical violinist Itzhak Perlman, and the Del McCoury Band. Jewish music has long been a focus of his, and for many years has been a member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, in addition to working with many of the major participants in the klezmer world. Art Bailey’s Orkestra Popilar will be performing on Thursday, September 9th, from 7:30-9:30pm at the Astoria Center of Israel. The admission fee is $10; $5 for ACI members. Delicious desserts and coffee will also be available. In addition to the September 9th festival date, Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar appears bi-monthly at Café ACI, the Astoria Center of Israel synagogue's new cultural events space. ACI is less than 20 minutes from 59th and Lex in Manhattan! Take the N or W subway towards Queens to the 30th Avenue stop. Walk west on 30th Avenue (towards Athens Square Park) for about 4 blocks; turn right on Crescent Street and walk a half block down on the right. ACI is an egalitarian synagogue built around a warm, wonderful group of people that embraces a wide variety of perspectives on Judaism in a joyful and inclusive community. Astoria Center of Israel Synagogue is located at 27-35 Crescent Street, Astoria, Queens. For more information about the concert series or other events, contact the synagogue at: 718-278-2680 or visit our website at: www.astoriacenter.org. Musicians: Art Bailey (accordion); Yaeko Miranda (violin); Brandon Seabrook (mandolin); Nick Cudahy (bass)

Kenneth Kiesler on Milken Archive

A new interview with Kenneth Kiesler is featured on the homepage of the Milken Archive Web site. Also, the CDs page now features the Paul Schoenfield CD and the The First S'lichot - Midnight Service Naxos CD. For more information about the CDs, please click on the following link: http://www.milkenarchive.org/cds/cds.taf

NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week

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Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Smadar
Sephardic Music
8pm

Admission $12
With lyrics in Greek, Spanish, Hebrew and Moroccan, SMADAR performs Moroccan Gypsy music with a unique Middle-Eastern sound. They will perform material from their brand-new release, "Smadar." Members of the band are: Smadar Levi (vocals); Uri Sharlin (piano, accordion); Harel Shachal (saxophone); Pedro Da Silva (sitar, Portuguese guitar); Emanuel Mann (bass); Tomer Tzur (drums), and Ramzi El-Idlibi (darbuka).

The Matt Temkin's Yiddish Jam Band Featuring Ashira
Jewish/Yiddish/Klezmer
10pm
Admission $12
Hip version of songs in English written by Jews, rocking versions of Yiddish songs written about Jews, and soulful versions of Hebrew songs written for Jews - all sung by the stunning voices of the female vocal trio ASHIRA (Arianne Slack, Laura Lenes, and Leah Moss), and backed by the swinging MATT TEMKIN'S YIDDISHE JAM BAND (Dan Cousin, musical director). Bringing together musical influences from all the 350 years that Jews have been residing in America, this is an experience that can be had only one way: in person and live!
Ashira

Wednesday, September 08, 2004
NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week

DIVAHN
Middle Eastern and Sephardic Music
8pm

Admission $12
DIVAHN's Middle Eastern/Sephardic grooves were home-grown in Austin, Texas! This bold all-lady ensemble infuses traditional Jewish songs with sophisticated harmonies and funky arrangements. The group has engendered a national following with their riveting live shows including instruments such as tabla, cello, violin, didgeridoo, doumbek, and banjo and glowing vocals spanning Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, Persian, Arabic, and Aramaic. Through their music, the group underscores common ground shared between diverse Middle Eastern cultures and religions. Join Divahn for a special performance at Satalla celebrating the 350th anniversary of Sephardic immigration to the U.S.
The Klez Dispensers
Klezmer: The Next Generation
10pm
Admission $12
Formed in 1998 and considered one of the best of the new generation of klezmer bands, the KLEZ DISPENSERS perform a diverse repertoire spanning traditional klezmer, a wide variety of jazz styles, and original compositions. They are currently a 7-piece band, comprised of Alex Kontorovich (clarinet); Ben Holmes (trumpet); Amy Zakar (violin); Audrey Betsy Wright (alto & tenor saxophone); Adrian Banner (piano); Julian Rosse (bass), and Gregg Mervine (drums).

Thursday, September 09, 2004
The Village Klezmer Quintet
Old World Klezmer
8pm
NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week
Admission $12
The youthful, vibrant sound of the VILLAGE KLEZMER QUINTET brings the Old World melodies and rhythms of the Eastern European Jews to today’s cafes, clubs, and celebrations all around NYC and beyond. Among the most seasoned musicians on the local scene, the band's members are: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin); Jeff Perlman (clarinet, bass clarinet); Ben Holmes (trumpet); Joey Weisenberg (mandolin, guitar), and Travis DiRuzza (bass).

Saturday, September 11, 2004
Sally Fingerett of The Four Bitchin' Babes
Musical Comedy - Jewish Festival Contemporary Musical Review
10pm

NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week
Admission $15
"One of the best lyricists on the singer/songwriter circuit. Her song 'Home Is Where The Heart Is' ought to be required listening." THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE "A thoughtful, tuneful collection of keenly observed narratives, poignant ballads, giddy lovestruck odes." THE WASHINGTON POST
SALLY FINGERETT, a self-proclaimed "Mental Yentl," and founding member of the Funny Female Folkestra, The FOUR BITCHIN' BABES, performs selections from her one-woman show "Faces on the Wall." Take Joan Rivers & Nora Ephron, Bette Midler & Carol King, Victor Borge & Jackie Mason, put them all in a microwave, blow them up, realign their molecular structure, re-do the nose and - voila! - SALLY FINGERETT, one quirky Jewish Diva.

Sunday, September 12, 2004
Klezska
Klezmer/Ska Music
2pm
NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week
Admission $12, Children Under 12 years of age $7
Maximum of $40 per family

Each member of KLEZSKA! a virtuoso in his or her own right, as a group they have created a totally original, powerful and perfect union of Klezmer with traditional Jamaican Ska and Reggae music. Just returning from their first Israeli tour, the band will perform their rocking repertoire, along with some new tunes that they have prepared for this special all-ages show.

Mikveh
featuring Alicia Svigals,Susan Watts, Nicki Parrott & Lauren Brody
The Women of Klezmer
5 pm

NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week
Admission $12
Supergroup MIKVEH features the top women in Klezmer, including renowned Yiddish singer Adrienne Cooper, Klezmatics founder Alicia Svigals on fiddle, charismatic trumpeter Susan Watts of the Hoffman klezmer dynasty, ethnic accordion wizard Lauren Brody, and soulful bass player Catherine Popper. Together, they rock out with sizzling dance music and riveting Yiddish/English songs, both ancestral and brand new.

Monday, September 13, 2004
NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week

An Evening of YIDDISH SOUL starring Joanne Borts w/
Howard Leshaw and the Golden Land Orchestra
Jewish Festival
7:30pm

Admission $12
One of this generation's Yiddish superstars, JOANNE BORTS has starred in "The Golden Land," "On Second Avenue" and "Those Were the Days"; has appeared on Broadway and in national tours of "Fiddler On the Roof" and "Hello Dolly," and has directed the hit revue "Kids & Yiddish." HOWARD LESHAW is a world-renowned band leader and woodwind vituoso. Yiddish Soul is a talent- and charisma-filled feast of favorites from theater, vaudeville, and cabaret.

Reuben Hoch & the Chassidic Jazz Project
Judeo-Cuban Jazz Fusion
9:30pm

Admission $12
Based out of Miami, THE CHASSIDIC JAZZ PROJECT is dedicated to bringing the music of the Jewish people to a larger audience by utilizing jazz as a vehicle for musical expression. Led by drummer and composer Reuben Hoch, the group includes jazz guitarist Tom Lippincott, violist Marie Randel, cellist Barbara Corcillo, Cuban saxophonist Felipe Lamoglia (Arturo Sandoval), bassist Ed Schuller (Joe Lovano), and percussionist Bobby Thomas Jr. This will be the group's debut N.Y. performance!

Tuesday, September 14, 2004
NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week

Naftule's Dream
Avant-Jewish Jazz
8pm

Admission $12
After emerging in the 1990's as a major force in the Radical Jewish Music movement out of New York, NAFTULE'S DREAM continues to break new ground, to attract new fans and to amaze large and diverse audience worldwide with their unique blend of modern composition, freely improvised rock fusion and Jewish roots music. Weaving fiery improvisation into complex arrangements in a style reminiscent of Mingus, informed by Threadgil, the Boston-based band has created an instrumental music which has been called "startlingly original and audacious." (Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times)
Kleztraphobix
Contemporary Klezmer Music
10pm

Admission $12
While firmly entrenched in tradition, the KLEZTRAPHOBIX draw on the diverse musical experiences of the band's members to create a fresh, vibrant expression of the art of Klezmer. Their somewhat unusual instrumental lineup makes this group one of the most exciting bands on the contemporary Klezmer scene. Individually and collectively, they have played every type of music imaginable, from the NYC Opera to Funk to Big Band Swing to Bluegrass to Modern Jazz to Rock and Roll to Zydeco to Cantorial, and of course, Klezmer. They are committed to creating new Klezmer music, and often feature the original compositions of the members of the band. The Kleztraphobix are: Psachya Septimus (accordion); Rich Melnikoff (percussion); Ron Caswell (tuba); Michael Cohen (clarinet), and Jordan Hirsch (trumpet).

Sunday, September 19, 2004
Kapelye
Klezmer Music
5pm

Admission $12
The New York Times says: “Of the many klezmer bands, the one that comes closest to the ideal is Kapelye.” Kapelye, now in its 25th year of recording and touring worldwide, is one of the original bands responsible for the renewed interest in klezmer music. Kapelye’s popular appeal over the years has won it a brand new audience as teens and college age fans of alternative rock and folk music have found a kindred spirit in the band’s passionate, often highly spirited performances.
The Washington Post says: “Anyone would be hard pressed to keep his toes restrained while listening to the sounds of this talented ensemble.”
Kapelye’s fusion of Old World traditions with New World influences creates a unique brand of entertainment that reaches out to each member of the audience. An evening with Kapelye will be one that you will remember for a long time.
Netherlands Jewish Week says: “….a great success. A wildly enthusiastic audience called Kapelye back for three encores.”
Kapelye is made up of” Eric Berman, tuba/bass
Ken Maltz, clarinet
Peter Sokolow, keyboard/vocal

Sunday, September 26, 2004
Klezmerfest
Klezmer Music
5pm

Admission $12 Klezmerfest! celebrates the great tradition of Yiddish instrumental music-from the shtetls of the old country to the contemporary sounds of today's Lower East Side revival. Freylachs, bulgars, doynas and chassidls, along with old favorites from the days of Yiddish theater make for an enjoyable, heart warming and foot stomping evening of music for the whole family. Klezmerfest! has been delighting audiences for years at such venues as the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the Eldridge Street Project, the Knitting Factory, and synagogues and schools throughout the Northeast. Their latest CD is entitled "Party Music".
Klezmerfest! is well know for their award winning "Klez for Kidz program". The group is made up of leading players from the New York City scene: Greg Wall, clarinet (from Hasidic New Wave, Later Prophets, Neshama Carlebach, and other downtown projects); Jordan Hirsch, trumpet (of the famous Neshoma Orchestra); accordionist Zev Zions (you've seen him on Andy Statman's instructional video); bassist Brian Glassman (of Neshama Carlebach's band and Statman) and the masterful drummer Aaron Alexander (Hasidic New Wave, Klezmatics, Frank London's Klezmer Brass Band, Mazeltones). Let Klezmerfest bring you back to the days when klezmer was Jewish wedding music, and Jewish wedding music was............. PARTY MUSIC!

Lox & Vodka

Lox & Vodka is thrilled to be part of the Jewish-American Festival Reunion!!! on Monday, September 6. 3:00 at Hopkins Plaza, Baltimore, Maryland. With an 8 piece band, great horns, awesome rhythm section, top notch vocal harmonies, sing-a-long, clap-a-long and dancing. Admission is $3 per person, and children under 12 come free. More....

For more information about the Festival, go to: http://www.jewishamericanfestival.com/ Directions from Washington DC and Points South - Take I-95 North toward Baltimore and take Exit 53, the Downtown/Baltimore City exit (also the I-395 exit). Take I-395 Downtown and proceed for two blocks to Pratt Street. Turn right onto Pratt Street and go 3 blocks to Charles Street. Turn left onto Charles Street. Go two blocks to the intersection of Charles and Redwood Streets. There are two parking garages on the left, the Arrow Parking Garage and the Down Under Parking Garage.