May 19 at 8:00pm is the Chava Alberstein concert featuring music fro her new CD “End of the Holiday”, which is her 54th recording. It is a collection of musical sketches reflecting life in modern Tel Aviv. For more info go to www.92Y.org The Y announces that …

“Two days before the concert at the 92nd Street Y, Alberstein is scheduled to receive a lifetime achievement award from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. Yediot Aharonot, Israel’s largest daily, named Alberstin the most important female musician in Israel’s history. She is a six-time winner of the Kinor David prize, Israel’s Grammy Award. She also has established herself as a world-music performer whose influences range from Pete Seeger and Jacques Brel to the music of Greece, North Africa, the Middle East and South America.”