Sy Kushner Website

Sy Kushner has a website that lists his recordings and music books, and a blog. http://www.nulitemusic.com/site/

Avi Fox-Rosen's HANUKAH SPECTACULAR at Banjo Jims!

Avi Fox-Rosen's HANUKAH SPECTACULAR!
9pm - Benjy Fox-Rosen Band (yiddish art song, klez, pez)
10pm - Special Hanuka Lamp Screwing Ceremony led by Avi
10:15pm - Yiddish Princess (rock in yiddish)
11:15 - Breslov Bar Band
Celebrate the Miracle of Successfully Resisting Cultural Hegemony!
"But, how?" you ask.
Easy Peasy!!! By going to hear your three favorite bands playing perverse derivatives of Jewish music. And screwing the 5th bulb into Avi Fox-Rosen's Electric Hanuka Lamp.

Banjo Jim's
700 East 9th Street
New York, NY 10009-5309
(212) 777-0869
www.banjojims.com

Jewish People's Philharmonic Chanukah Concert

NYC Sephardic Music Festival -- TONIGHT!!

Sunday December 13th
years NYC Sephardic Music Festival.
Elie Massias will be playing songs in Hebrew, Spanish, Ladino and French, originals and some of the classics rearranged from the shuls of Gibraltar's Sephardic Community. Elie will be playing Guitar, Cajon and Soprano Saxophone and creating loops in real time through the Boomerang looping machine. The music will draw from the sounds of Andalucia's Flamenco, African rhythms, Sephardic and the many other musics he learned through the years
Ladino Chanteuse Rivka Amado and her band will also be performing.

Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
3 West 70th St. at Central Park West NY NY
7pm | $15 adv or $18 door | all ages
phne 212-873-0300 x221

A Heymishe Yiddishe Chanuke TODAY!

The American Society for Jewish Music
The American Jewish Historical Society
Present
A Heymishe Yiddishe Chanuke
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 3 PM
With
Zalmen Mlotek and Guests from
The National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene
(All songs will be accompanied by English supertitles, as is the custom at the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene.)

Master Storyteller Isaiah Sheffer
of NPR's Selected Shorts
Program followed by Menorah lighting, singing and reception.
$18 General; $12 Members;$9 Students & Seniors
For tickets call (212) 868-4444, or _www.smarttix.com_
(http://www.smarttix.com/)
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC

Chanukah Party at WSJC Featuring Pey Dalid

Come join the West Side Jewish Center for our annual Chanukah Concert!
Congregation Beth Israel West Side Jewish Center
Featuring: Pey Dalid!
Wednesday, December 16th @ 7 PM
West Side Jewish Center
347 West 34th St. (Between 8 & 9 Ave.)
New York, NY
Latkes!
Donuts!
And More!
$25/person
Please call the office for reservations: 212-502-5291

Yale Strom -- In Memory Of

Dec. 16th at 7pm the world premiere of
YALE STROM'S quartet "IN THE MEMORY OF..."

In the summer of 2008, musician Yale Strom traveled to Romania and discovered a musical treasure trove. In the upstairs women's balcony of the 1871 synagogue of Carei he found a box of old books including the cantor's music book with over 250 melodies notated by hand. THIS ROMANIAN JEWISH MUSICAL TREASURE HAD BEEN LOST UNTIL STROM'S DISCOVERY. In Memory of is a performance based upon the cantorial music he uncovered, and is dedicated to the Jews who perished during the Holocaust. Virtuoso cellist Mike Block and his string quartet will perform the new compositon.

After the quartet Cantor Ari Priven (Cong. Bnai Jeshurun) will sing some of the melodies from the "lost" cantor's book and then Yale Strom and Mike Block will perform melodies from the same work as klezmer pieces.

Location: Eldridge Street Synagogue
12 Eldridge Street (off Canal)
Tel: (212)219-0302
Seniors 12.00 Public 15.00

MIKE BLOCK
Hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the “ideal musician of the 21st Century”, Mike Block is a pioneering multi-genre cello player living in New York City. While studying at the Juilliard School, Mike joined The Silk Road Ensemble as its youngest member, and upon graduation in 2006, also joined Grammy Award winner Mark O'Connor in his Appalachia Waltz Trio. Since then, Mike has become an in-demand player in many musical genres, and has joined Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, The Knights, The Absolute Ensemble, Sirius String Quartet, yMusic, Bassam Saba's New York Arabic Orchestra, and a duo with Chinese Pipa virtuoso, Yang Wei. As a composer, Mike writes extensively for the Mike Block Band, and has also had his pieces performed at the Tribeca New Music Festival, and the MATA Festival

Lipa and Kessin

Hannah Sacks Bais Yaakov in conjunction with Xclusive Productions presents:
A CHICAGO CHANUKAH CONCERT
LIPA SCHMELTZER
Shua Kessin
also starring Shea Rubenstein
music orchestrated and conducted by Yisroel Lamm
December 14th, 2009 – Showtime 7:30pm
Evanston Township – 1600 Dodge Ave.
6:15pm bring ur family for dinner – Various foods for purchase
Tickets: $25, $36, $50, $75, VIP
For tickets please call: 773-850-9908 or visit JewishTickets.com

There's Still Time-- Tonight! IGNITE CHANGE @ the World Cafe

Sunday Dec 13th - IGNITE CHANGE @ the World Cafe
Lights Ignite Change at the World Cafe Live
on SUNDAY DECEMBER 13th, 7pm.
(Doors @ 6, Candle lighting @ 6:30)
World Cafe
3025 Walnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 222-1400
http://www.worldcafelive.com/
Some awesome Philly organizations represented - from The Collaborative to the Jewish Farm School to Gift of Life - and some great musicians lined up: NAOMI LESS, SARAH AROESTE, and CHANA ROTHMAN. Latkes, gelt, and sweet tunes. If you're in Philly, try to make it!!

(If you don't live in Philly...then please pass it along to a friend or family member. If you really love them, don't let them miss this special Chanukah event!)

Music, Justice, and Dreidles,
Chana Rothman, Naomi Less & Sarah Aroeste
The Collaborative
Jewish Farm School
Gift of Life Bone Marrow donation campaign
The Jewish Dialogue Group
Jewish Family and Child Services - Domestic Violence Prevention
The Renaissance Group
KI Reform Congregation
and World Cafe Live

Lazarus Quartet at City Winery

The Lazarus Quartet is playing at the City Winery's Klezmer Brunch series in Manhattan on Sunday, December 27th. There are two sets, at 11 AM and 12:30 PM, a $10 cover and brunch is available.
The repertoire draws heavily on the recorded works of Dave Tarras and Naftule Brandwein. They also perform material from the Bulgarian, Greek and Turkish musical traditions. The mission of the Lazarus Quartet is to present this music in a way that's reflective of their experiences as a Jazz musicians living in New York, so there is a lot of improvisation and spontaneity on stage. The Lazarus Quartet is Ben Holmes (trumpet), Uri Sharlin (accordion), Dan Loomis (bass) and Jeff Davis (drums).

Sunday December 27th City Winery Klezmer Brunch
sets at 11 AM and 12:30 PM
$10 Cover, brunch available
155 Varick Street
New York, New York 10013
(212) 608-0555
citywinery.com

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Shofar

Michael Chusid sent a link to his wonderful website about the shofar. He is a master of shofar blowing and a teacher to many in California area. He has put up a link to an entire book, Hearing Shofar: The Still Small Voice of the Ram’s Horn, he has written on the subject of the shofar, along with a Shofar Sounder's Reference Manual by Arthur Finkle. These useful resources are now made accessible to anyone via the website. What a gift! http://www.hearingshofar.com/