Yearly Archives: 2003

New Groups

Sefarad

medieval musiciansSefarad in Israel
Avi Avital, Mandolin, Bari Moscovitz-Seidelman, Guitar, and Silvia Corsi, Actress, come together as Sefarad, a program that “combines unique musical arrangements of Ladino songs and ancient Sephardic Jewish Romances…”

CD Releases

Tefilati

Daniel ben Shalom has a new CD, “Contempory original musical artist from Israel combining jazz, blues, rock and more with the essence of spirituality and soul.”

CD Releases

THE HEART’S ABODE

Eduardo Paniagua focuses on poems from the Golden Age of the Sepharad in Al-Andalus, with Sephardic melodies and contrafactum pieces from the Andalusian-Maghrebian music of the Sufi brotherhoods and from the Moroccan and Garnati nawbat.

Events, WHERE: Europe

Geneva – HOTEGEKLEZT

en concert à la Fondation de l’Hermitage
2 route du Signal, Lausanne
le 27 septembre 2003 à 20h et à 22h
pour la “Nuite des Musées”
dans le cadre de l’Exposition “Frantisek Kupka”

Anne-Claire Monnier – chant
Bianca Mihaies-Favez – violon
Michel Borzykowski – saxophones
Christine Niggeler – accordéon
Mirella Vedeva – contrebasse

A bientôt!
Michel
borzykowski@infomaniak.ch
Homepage AMJ: http://www.club-association.ch/amj
Geneva klezmer page: http://borzykowski.users.ch

Events, WHERE: Canada

Toronto

MORRIS WINCHEVSKY SCHOOL
585 Cranbrooke Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6A 2X9 Telephone: (416) 789-5502 Fax: (416) 789-5981 E-mail: mws@on.aibn.com KLEZ-MORE!!
A Celebration of the Morris Winchevsky School’s 75TH Anniversary

The Morris Winchevsky School celebrates its 75th anniversary with a reunion concert – KLEZ-MORE!! The public and alumni are invited to join the celebration on Sunday, September 21, 7:30 p.m. at the Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St. W., Toronto.

The evening features some of Toronto’s leading Jewish musicians. The KLEZMER SWINGTET – led by Jonno Lightstone, with Tony Quarrington and Jordan Klapman – swings Yiddish favourites. DAVE WALL AND MARILYN LERNER will include their fresh and stunning original settings of Yiddish poetry to music that blends classical, jazz and Jewish traditions, from their well-received new album, Still Soft-Voiced Heart.…
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Events, WHERE: USA_NY

New York

The monthly Kavehoyz, sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture begins its second season with a performance by Chaim Freiburg, who sings the repertoire of the great Yiddish singer, Sidor Belarsky.
Admission $5 includes coffee and pastries. What a deal!
Thursday, September 18th, 700 PM. 2003
Congress for Jewish Culture, 25 E. 21st. NYC between Park and Broadway.
info: 212-505-8040

Events, WHERE: USA_NY

Klezska- New York

Klezska will be playing two shows on Sat. the 13th @ 8 & 10PM with a $10 cover at a new club that opens up this week. Satalla (which is owned by an Israeli) features music from all over the world. They serve food as well and there is plenty of free parking on the street in the evenings. You can hear some of their music at www.klezska.com.
Satalla is located on 26th Street between 6th Ave. & Broadway.

Events, WHERE: USA_South

The Alexandria Kleztet – Pikesville, MD

On Saturday, September 13, will be playing as part of the inaugural “Arts in the Park” festival in the Sudbrook Park neighborhood of Pikesville, MD. The festival, which will feature live music, arts, and crafts, will take place at the Sudbrook Stream Valley Park. It’s free. Concert goers are encouraged to bring some chairs or blankets and make a day of it. The group will be playing from 3 until 4 pm. The Kelly Bell Band will be headlining at 5 pm. For more information, visit www.sudbrookpark.org.