Boom Pam at the MFA in Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston presents Boom Pam "The hottest ethnic beat group in Zion .

Boom Pam come to the Museum of Fine Arts on Wednesday 27th June as part of their popular summer outdoor music series, held in the beautiful Calderwood Courtyard.

Boom Pam first hit the music scene in Tel Aviv in 2004 with their cover of Aris San s 1969 hit Boom Pam . Since then, the hype surrounding these musicians has boomed. They are an intriguing yet simple mix of electric guitars, drums and tuba. Boom Pam s original music and arrangements of Balkan, Jewish, Greek and Mediterranean songs, seasoned with dueling guitars and a rock attitude. With this uplifting combination of music, Boom Pam is a band that shouldn t be missed. You won t be able to resist getting up for a dance.

Crazy Balkan time signatures and minimalist percussion make [Boom Pam s] self titled album irresistible to the musically curious, whether your usual fare is rock or world music Spin the Globe world music

The music brewed up by the Boom Pam four is the acoustic equivalent of a high energy drink Soul Seduction

Ticketing Information

Members, seniors, students $20; nonmembers, general admission $25.

For more information, and to book tickets, call the Remis Auditorium Box Office (voice) 617-369-3306, (TTY) 617-369-3393 or visit www.mfa.org/concerts.

Concerts in the Courtyard
Calderwood Courtyard
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue

Boom Pam
7:30 pm
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Eisenberg's Mary Christ Performed by Svigals

Premiere of a unique collaboration -- Evan Eisenberg's new novel, Mary Christ, set to Alicia Svigals' music and performed live Monday, June 25 at 8 pm, at Ansche Chesed, 251 W. 100th St. (at West End Ave). On the roof if weather allows, indoors otherwise. Suggested contribution: $5.

A presentation of the Scribblers on the Roof series at Ansche Chesed.

Evan Eisenberg (The Recording Angel, The Ecology of Eden) will read selections from Mary Christ, a recently completed anti-historical novel, accompanied by klezmer fiddler Alicia Svigals. He may also read a couple of his humor pieces from Time, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Slate, or the New York Times. Also reading will be Elizabeth Frank, author of the novel Cheat and Charmer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her biography of the poet Louise Bogan.

Alicia Svigals is the world's leading klezmer fiddler and a co-founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, with whom she performed for seventeen years. She has played with and written for violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, the late poet Allen Ginsburg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, singer/songwriter Debbie Friedman, Hasidic superstars Avraham Fried and Lipa Shmelzer, and many others. She has appeared on David Letterman, MTV, Good Morning America, PBS' Great Performances, on NPR's Prairie Home Companion, Weekend Edition and New Sounds, and on the soundtrack for the L-Word. She also has a busy party band, sought after for weddings and bar/bat mitzvahs.

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Sharon Farber Commission Premiers this October in Israel

Composer Sharon Farber has recently been commissioned by The Israeli Chamber Orchestra to compose a new work, which will open up the 2007/8 Season. The piece, entitled Translucent Rocks will be premiered on October 15th, 2007 in Israel.

Ms. Farber is also the recent First Prize Winner of the Cincinnati Camerata Composition Competition with her piece The Third Mother/Mothers' Lament. This A cappella piece was written in memory of slain reporter Daniel Pearl and premiered by The Los Angeles Master Chorale. Ms. Farber¹s commissioned works have been performed internationally, and her acclaimed concert piece for choir, orchestra and ethnic instruments, ASHKINA, (featuring the renowned musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek), was performed in Boston by the prestigious MUSICA SACRA choir in March, 2007.

In April, Ms. Farber was the first Woman Composer On The Cover of Film Music Magazine. The article focused on her recently completed score for the feature film WHEN NIETZSCHE WEPT for Millennium Films (starring Armand Assante) based on Irvin Yalom's bestseller book. Her next feature will be UK director Sean Martin's film, Folie`a Deux