A Community Experience to Uplift Your Soul with neshama Carlebach

A Community Experience to Uplift Your Soul Neshama Carlebach performing with Reverend Roger Hambrick & the Green Pastures Baptist Choir
WHEN:
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 8:00 pm - Doors Open at 7:00 pm
WHERE:
The Parker Playhouse - 707 NE 8th Street, Fort Lauderdale,
Florida 33304 - 954-462-0222

ADMISSION:
$26.50, $46.50, $66.50 - Special VIP Meet & Greet $101.50
Tickets available at the Parker Playhouse Box Office and online. There is a 10% discount for group sales over 20 people available at the box office and a 5% early bird special for advanced sales before January 25th.

SOUL STIRRING & UPLIFTING CONCERT PROMOTES UNITY AND HEALING PARTIAL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT GLOBAL SMILE FOUNDATION DEDICATED TO TRANSFORMING SMILES AND LIVES

International Recording Artist Neshama Carlebach to Perform with The Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir at The Parker Playhouse - January 31, 2012

Fort Lauderdale, Florida (January 19, 2012) - International recording artist Neshama Carlebach invites South Florida to a musically uplifting evening at the Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale, Tuesday, January 31, 2012, starting at 8:00 pm. The Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir, led by the Reverend Roger Hambrick joins this captivating and spiritual singer in a performance that is at once uplifting, inspiring and a celebration of her late father's legacy, the incomparable Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach.

Neshama follows in her father's footsteps hoping to continue his mission of spiritual unity and healing through her music. He traveled the world spreading messages of love and peace and his life story is the inspiration behind the Broadway bound "Soul Doctor: Journey of A Rock-Star Rabbi" currently playing at the Parker Playhouse.

A portion of the proceeds from the concert will be donated to the Global Smile Foundation; through its outreach programs this organization alleviates the suffering of underserved patients born with facial congenital deformities with special emphasis on cleft lips and palates.

"My collaboration with Reverend Hambrick and The Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir is the ultimate manifestation of my father's dream for humanity," says Neshama. "Our work together has expanded my horizons and shown me that true spiritual unity is possible. We feel that music can help bring healing and beauty to our broken world."

The concert appeals to people of all faiths, backgrounds and perspectives. The powerful vocals and beautiful harmonies of the Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir complement Neshama's deeply moving and entertaining style as she sings her father's melodies, and inspiring original compositions.

Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio at the Kennedy Center

Video from the Kennedy Center concert:
http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M4915

Concert de Mashke aux Trois Arts

Concert de Mashke aux trois arts
Saturday, February 18 at 9:00pm
Location: café des trois arts, 21 rue des rigoles, métro jourdain
Mashke (chant yiddish et musique klezmer)
Chant et accordéon : Violaine Lochu
Clarinettes : David Zouker
Guitare, Bouzouki, Mandoline : Loïc Audry
Percussions : Nicolas Durolin

Mashke c’est la rencontre de quatre musiciens aux origines et univers différents. Tous sont animés par l’envie d’injecter dans le répertoire traditionnel des musiques juives d’Europe centrale leur propre réalité, d’autres sonorités. Mashke c’est la volonté de mêler les mots et les langues, d’allier cultures et territoires hétérogènes, de revisiter et réinterpréter ces magnifiques mélodies. Mais c’est avant tout une invitation au partage, à la danse et au chant tout autant qu’au rêve, à l’émotion et à la réflexion.

Mashke s'est agrandi!
Notre nouveau musicien, Loïc Audry, saura vous faire voyager du bout des doigts.Chaleur méditerranéenne à la mandoline, sonorités mystiques au bouzouki et rythmes manouches effrénés à la guitare sont au rendez vous. Venez découvrir ces nouvelles couleurs intimistes mais aussi endiablées lors de ce prochain concert!

Lullabies and Legacy: The World of Yiddish Children's Songs

Lullabies and Legacy: The World of Yiddish Children's Songs
Songs of the cradle and home life, kheyder and nature.
Tuesday, February 7 at 12:00pm
Tuesdays, February 7th - 28th from 12:00-1:30pm
Location: The Workmen's Circle
247 West 37th Street, New York, New York
For reservations call: 212-889-6800 x234
Or email: events@circle.org
http://www.circle.org/comeintothecircle.html

Klezmatics 25th Anniversary and CD Release

Sunday, February 26, 2012
4:00 & 7:00 PM
Gary and Laura Maurer Concert Hall
4544 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago
< /br> $25 General Public/$23 Old Town School Members/$21 Seniors & Children
BUY 4:00 PM TICKETS ONLINE | BUY 7:00 PM TICKETS ONLINE | BOX OFFICE: 773.728.6000

Grammy winners The Klezmatics erupted out of New York City's East Village in 1986 and revitalized klezmer for the new century with music that is steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic and danceable musical influences including Arab, African, Latin and Balkan rhythms, jazz and punk.

"ON HOLY GROUND TRAILER"

Yiddish Song of the Week

The Yiddish Song of the Week is a blog presented by the Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s An-sky Jewish Folklore Research Project (AJFRP). This initiative is part of a larger effort by the AJFRP to revitalize traditional Yiddish folksinging performance and research on the subject. The website emphasizes field recordings of traditional Yiddish folksingers from around the world contributed by folklorists, ethnomusicologists, musicians, singers and collectors. Each Yiddish song is presented with Yiddish words and translation, along with commentary from the contributor. Itzik Gottesman is the Director of An-sky Jewish Folklore Research Project.
http://yiddishsong.wordpress.com/

Leo Zeitlin music at JMF in NYC

The Jewish Music Forum of the American Society of Jewish Music will present rare evening event, on Thursday, February 9th at 7 PM. Because these evenings have been so popular, you will need to make reservations to attend (see information below).

The topic is "The Music of Leo Zeitlin," one of the composers of the St. Petersburg School from the early 20th Century. On this occasion the wonderful performers from YIVO's Sidney Krum Young Artis Series will provide live music examples to accompany the talk, which will be given by Professor Paula Eisenstein Baker, with Dr. Michael Steinlauf at respondent.

Joining the Krum Young Artists will be Cantors Robert Abelson, Maria Dubinsky, and Martha Novick. The evening session will be held at the YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, NYC), and will be taped for later broadcast on the web.

The talk is free and open to the public, so you need to make a reservation for seats. Please call YIVO at 212-294-6127.
The Center for Jewish History / 15 West 16th Street / NYC 10011
Phone: 212.874-3990 / Fax: 212.874-8605

Debbie Friedman's Shalom Aleichem

In her last year, Debbie Friedman composed a new melody to the Shabbat hymn "Shalom Aleichem". Here the high school choir, HaZamir, performs the piece in 2011,arranged by M. B. Edelman, Conducted by Cantor Leon Sher - HaZamir Bergen County, Cantor Sanford Cohn - HaZamir Hartford on Guitar, Scott Stein on piano

Debbie Friedman's Shalom Aleichem

In her last years, Debbie Friedman composed a new melody to the Shabbat hymn "Shalom Aleichem". Here the high school choir, HaZamir, performs the piece in 2011,arranged by M. B. Edelman, Conducted by Cantor Leon Sher - HaZamir Bergen County, Cantor Sanford Cohn - HaZamir Hartford on Guitar, Scott Stein on piano

Is It Ever Too Late?

Not too late... for next year.... A new Yiddish song for Chanukkah. Take a listen klezmers.

Veretski Pass with Benjy Fox Rosen Trio

Veretski Pass is joined by the perky Benjy Fox Rosen Trio , (Michael Winograd, Pat Farrell and Benjy), for a dance party extraordinaire at Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center,
1317 San Pablo Ave
Berkeley, California 94702
Doors at 7:00 pm
Dance Lesson at 7:30 pm with Dave Rosenfeld
Show at 8:30 pm, $10
Sweat it to 2 generations of great dance players!

The St. Petersburg School: The Music of Leo Zeitlin (1884-1930)" by Dr. Paula Eisenstein Baker

The Jewish Music Forum invites you to their next event of the 2011-2012 Jewish Music Forum season. Thursday, February 9, 2012, at the Center for Jewish History, Professor Paula Eisenstein Baker will present a pre-concert talk entitled, "The St. Petersburg School: The Music of Leo Zeitlin (1884-1930)." The event details are as follows:

Feb. 9th, 2012
Thursday, 7:00 P.M.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, New York 10011

Professor Paula Eisenstein Baker with YIVO’s Sidney Krum Young Artists. Leo Zeitlin belonged to a group of early 20th- century young Russian-Jewish composers--mostly students of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and members of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg--who were united by the idea of creating a Jewish national music movement. Fascinated by Zeitlin’s masterpiece “Eli Zion,” cellist Paula Eisenstein Baker started to investigate the life and works of this remarkable, but almost unknown, composer. The result was an important volume of chamber music coinciding with growing international interest in Jewish art music from early 20th-century Russia.

Paula Eisenstein Baker, Houston cellist and musicologist, is an authority on the early twentieth-century Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg, Russia. She has published articles on composer and society member Leo Zeitlin (1884–1930) in the YIVO Annual, the International Journal of Musicology and Shofar, and is co-editor of the volume of Zeitlin’s chamber music that will be published by A-R Editions, Inc. She has spoken about and performed works by members of the society for audiences throughout the United States, as well as in St. Petersburg, Vilnius, and London.

VANESSA PALOMA - AL PASAR POR CASABLANCA "Don Bueso"

Vanessa Paloma sings in the Southwest in this video.

Ya'alili by 8th Day

A chassidic duo blends pop with some instrumental elements of Sephardi music in this New York video taking place in a grocery store. Co-founded by brothers Shmuel and Bentzi Marcus, the duo has released 3 albums. 8th Day's sound is complimented by their catchy lyrics (mostly English with some Hebrew and Yiddish mixed in) and their spirited vocal harmonies. The group will appear at the
Hofstra Playhouse
Motzei Shabbat, January 7 at 8pm.
at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse.
118 Hofstra University, Hemstead, NY.
for tix: www.jewishtickets.com

This YouTube video has over a million hits.

JIC Choir at Ramat Tamir

JIC Choir at Ramat Tamir Beit Avot (Motzei Shabbat Parshat Shmot)
Saturday, January 14 at 10:00pm
Location: Ramat Tamir
Golda Meir Boulevard, Ramot Road
Tel: 02-5724444
http://www.ramat-tamir.co.il/

Adirah Sings in 3 Lanugages

Adirah Liebschutz is a singer and composer who was inspired to compose praise and worship songs based on Scripture and Jewish liturgy. Adirah has been profoundly moved by stories passed from survivors of the Shoah and Kristallnacht and have created a musical tribute from Tehillim (Psalms). Two of the songs appear on her first CD, Tehilim, and were composed by victims of the Holocaust. They were preserved in the memory of her mother-in-law, who was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, and passed on. Adirah has shared these memories on her CD in which she presents songs in 3 languages, Hebrew, Spanish and English. For more information:
http://www.adirahsings.com/

Jaffa Road in Concert in Toronto

Jaffa Road in Concert at Acoustic Harvest
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Time: 7:30pm until 10:30pm
at St. Nicholas Anglican Church
1512 Kingston Rd Toronto -

featuring:
Aviva Chernick - vocalist
Aaron Lightstone - oud, guitar
Chris Gartner - Bass
Jeff Wilson - Drums
Sundar Viswanathan - Sax, Bansuri
Doors at 7:30 concert at 8:00pm
Admission: $22 - Students / Seniors $20 Under 12 - $14
Wheelchair accessible.
Info: 416 264 2235 lillianw(at)uniserve(dot)com
www.acousticharvest.ca
www.jaffaroad.com

Cantor Yehuda Rottner Concert in Florida

Monday, February 6, 2012
7:30pm until 10:30pm

Description
Ab eclectic musical night filled with Chazzanut, opera, Israeli, Yiddish and Broadway musical

tickets are $30
Please rsvp by phone 786 470 9205
Ramada Plaza Marco Polo Beach Resort
19201 Collins Ave
Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160

Krakauer and Haimovitz at Joe's Pub in NYC

After returning from a whirlwind tour in Europe in "Krakauer Plays Zorn" with the Madness Orchestra, David Krakauer is back in the U.S. Looking ahead to what's next on his agenda, he'll be playing with cellist Matt Haimovitz at Joe's Pub in New York City

Joe's Pub with Matt Haimovitz
Akoka: The End of Time
featuring Socalled with Maria Bachmann & Geoffrey Burleson

WHERE: Joe's Pub - 425 Lafayette Street, NYC 10003
WHEN: Saturday, January 14, 2012
TIME: 9:00 PM
TICKETS: $20 -
Purchase Tickets

Clarinetist David Krakauer, praised internationally for his astounding ability to play in a myriad of music genres with "prodigious chops" (The New Yorker) and "soulfulness and electrifying showiness" (The New York Times), along with musical pioneer cellist Matt Haimovitz, will present Akoka: The End of Time featuring beat architect Socalled, with violinist Maria Bachmann and pianist Geoffrey Burleson, at 9pm on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street, NYC).

Akoka: The End of Time comprises Krakauer's own composition Akoka, Messiaen's masterwork Quatuor pour la fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time), and Socalled's astonishing coda Meanwhile. This is the second concert of DK55, in a series of concerts in New York celebrating Krakauer's 55th birthday. Further concerts to be announced.

This innovative program is centered around Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, which was composed and premiered in a prisoner of war camp during World War II in the midst of tremendous upheaval. Henri Akoka was the Jewish clarinetist in the prison camp who performed the world premiere. This program has a musical focus on Akoka's story, bringing out the human aspect of this composition as seen from the perspective of someone caught in terrifying events beyond his control. Quartet for the End of Time will be performed in its entirety between two new works - an opening piece by Krakauer called Akoka (a raw improvisation that takes as its point of departure some of the musical gestures of the Messiaen) and a closing piece by Socalled called Meanwhile (sequences and samples of the acoustic recording of the Messiaen combined with sound images that illustrate the violence and turbulence of the piece). Akoka: The End of Time lifts Messiaen's original work out of the polite context of a chamber music concert and places it in a dramatic setting that drives home the gravity and impact of the work, while bringing it into the 21st century.

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YIVOSounds Remembers Adrienne Cooper

http://yivosounds.com/
Posted January 4 2012

Canadian Radio to Honor Adrienne Cooper

On Tuesday, January the 10 2012 at 8PM (Eastern time), there will be a show about Adrienne Cooper on Radio-Shalom Montreal 1650 AM. You can tune in if you are in Montreal or close enough, or listen to it on line at www.radio-shalom.ca. In French, go on tag : "emissions", then choose "les faces caches de la musique Juive." Hosted by Helene Engel.

The Klezmatics Present: An Evening of World Music

Monday, January 9, 2012
Time 8:00pm until 11:00pm
Where Highline Ballroom, 431 West 16th Street, New York, New York
Join the Klezmatics and their guests, the legendary Irish band Lúnasa and New York’s French swing ensemble Les Chauds Lapin, for an unforgettable evening of world music at NYC’s Highline Ballroom.

The Brothers Nazaroff!

Sunday, January 8, 2012
Time 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Barbes
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.), Brooklyn, New York

The joyous public debut of the united heirs of legendary outsider Yiddish troubadour Nathan "Prince" Nazaroff, recorder of the mysterious 1954 Folkways EP "Jewish Freilach Songs", the missing link between our post-modern Babylonian exile and the lost Atlantis of Yiddish "Middle-Europe". Scattered all over the globe from Moscow, Berlin, Budapest, and New York, the lost Nazaroff brothers come together one time only at Barbes, in Brooklyn. Together, Pasha Nazaroff, Danik Nazaroff, Meyshke Nazaroff, Zaelic Nazaroff, and Yankl Nazaroff will celebrate the discordant, obscure, jubilant, ecstatic legacy of their Happy Prince.

Lenka Lichtenberg & Fray with guest artist Yair Dalal

APAP showcase Lenka Lichtenberg with guest artist Yair Dalal
January 7, 2012 at 7:30 PM
New York Hilton, Regent Parlor 2nd floor, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan
Lenka Lichtenberg & Fray with guest artist Yair Dalal
Nominated 2011 World Music Artist of the Year by Canadian Folk Music Awards, the Prague-born Yiddish singer-composer with a captivating voice mesmerizes world and Jewish audiences everywhere with her latest project Fray. Her showcase also provides an intriguing preview of "Lullaby in Exile", her Yiddish/“Babylonian” collaboration with maestro Yair Dalal.

Podcast on Adrienne Cooper

Podcast of the Memorial Service in New York for Adrienne Cooper from The Forward http://forward.com/articles/148921/

Yaffa Yarkoni: A Voice for Peace; Gave Voice to Israeli Pride; Supported National Morale for Half Century

Yaffa Yarkoni, (December 24,1925-Jan 1, 2012). Born in Giv' atayim, Israel. Yarkoni, as many of her generation, was the child of immigrants from the Caucuses. She was the daughter of Malka Alhassof and Avraham Abramov, the middle daughter of three children. Each parent had migrated early in the 20th century. Avraham Abramov, a fabric and carpet dealer, met Malka in Tel Aviv and married her there. Later, he left his family and moved to South Africa. Meanwhile, Malka was left to raise the children. She owned Tslil coffee house in Givatayim (Givat Rambam). All three young children (including Yaffa's siblings Binyamin, Tikva) proved to have musical talent in singing, dancing and playing musical instruments. They started off in a teenage group Basmati. Yaffa attended Gertrude Kraus Dance School and from there succeeded in landing a place with the dance troupe of the Palestine Opera Company. In 1944, she married a young solider, Yosef Gustin, who was in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army. He was stationed in Italy and killed just before the end of the World War II. Yaffa was not yet 20 years old.

Yaffa developed a successful singing career in the new State of Israel, starting off singing songs of the Palmach while in the Army's Givati Brigade. She was a radio operator during Israel's War of Independence. She started singing for large groups at that time, appearing in the army choral troupe and continued to bolster the nation's morale through many of the tough wars for the next fifty years and became known as "the Singer of the Wars," a designation she didn't like. In 1948, she married Shaike Yarkoni and had three children, Orit, Tamar and Ruth.

After her first album was a hit, she started recording songs for the troups with Hed Artzi, a new record label in Israel. Such memorable tunes as "Bab el Wad" were sung worldwide. In 1967, Yarkoni was chosen to sing "Jerusalem of Gold" in front of the Western Wall after Israel recaptured the city. She traveled throughout the world singing Israel's new Hebrew songs to sell-out audiences in world venues such as New York's Carnegie Hall, the Paris Olympia and London's Palladium. In 1998, she was awarded the Israel Prize during the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the State. In 2000, a CD, "Rumania, Rumania" of Yarkoni singing Yiddish songs (with arrangements by Glenn Osser) was produced by Simon Rutberg of Hatikvah music. She felt it was OK to sing in languages, even if she didn't understand them (she didn't know Yiddish, but she did learn French, Spanish and even enough to sing in Japanese). She also recorded with Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz artist. In 2002, after a controversial radio interview in which she opposed some political actions of the Israeli government, Yarkoni received hate mail and had her life threatened. Many of her concerts were canceled and there was a boycott called of her music. Later, such harsh attitudes by many softened, due to her great service for so many decades to the country. In 2005, nearing age 80, she sang again for the 57th anniversary of Israel, but also agreed to appear at the Vox Club for gay fans in Tel Aviv. Her show of support by agreeing to sing there was very well received among that community. Yarkoni died Jan. 1, 2012, age 86, from a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease. She was honored in Israel with music on radio, TV and in national salutes by politicians and citizens.



See: Washington Post Obit at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/yaffa-yarkoni-israeli-wartime-singer-who-criticized-military-dies-at-86/2012/01/01/gIQAN2t8TP_story.html

See: Jerusalem Post Obit at:
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=251767

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