The Parizer yidish-tsenter – Medem Bibliotek is pleased
to inform all lovers of Klezmer music, Yiddish song,
dance… and also junior musicians that, this year, our 4th
annual klezfest “KLEZMER-PARIS 2006” is going to be
held in Paris, July, 6 to 10.
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
Maison de la culture yiddish – Bibliothèque Medem
18, passage Saint-Pierre Amelot – 75011 PARIS –
FRANCE
Tél. : 00 33 1 47 00 14 00 / Fax : 00 33 1 47 00 14 47
www.yiddishweb.com

This intensive training course is for those who wish to
develop their playing style and share this pleasure with
others musicians so that Klezmer is not only
concert music, but stays a living and popular music.

PROGRAM
Music, songs and dance workshops, conferences,
master classes, jam, performances… Some of those will
be open to all (musicians and non-musicians).

COURSE TEAM
DAVID KRAKAUER : clarinet founder of David
Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness , he guests numerous
groups including the prestigious Kronos Quartet.

JOSH DOLGIN (alias DJ SoCalled): accordion, piano,
machines (beats, loops, samples) manipulator of
digital and analogical rhythms, he has made himself
the champion of an improbable yiddish hip-hop from
Montreal to New
York!

YANKL FALK: clarinet, voice member of the
hungarian group Di Naye Kapelye he is also the
director of a number of bands and a consultant in the
theatre and movie industry.

BOB COHEN: fiddle, mandolin went to Hungary to do
research on the musical history of the carpathian
region. He created the Di Naye Kapelye &
Budapest Klezmer Band groups and has played with
Budowitz .

SHURA LIPOVSKY: voice, dance is recognized by
her peers as one of the major artists of yiddish songs
which she contextualises historically to illustrate
their place in yiddish culture. Shell will also conduct a
dance course in hasidic wisdom through movement, as
she has already done in Europe, Russia, United States
and Canada.

JOSHUA HOROWITZ : accordion, cymbalom now
with Veretski Pass and formerly with Budowitz , he is
the ethno-musicologist and theoretician of his
generation.

SUZAN WATTS : trumpet from the 4th. generation of a
klezmer family, she has played alongside the stars of
klezmer and leads the Fabulous Shpilkes group.

MARTHE DESROSIERES:flute, picolo, clarinet music
workshop coordinator, she will help initiate the younger
players to this music.

WORKSHOP OPEN TO ALL
Courses in French and English

Musicians: for those with sufficient mastery of their
instruments to be able to be at ease learning of music.
Sheet music will be provided but the work will be done
by ear.

Singers: who will be able to further their knowledge of
yiddish folklore, of the Hazanut , and of the interaction
between yiddish songs and klezmer music. Special
workshop.

Dancers: all levels, beginners to professional.

Juniors: specific classes of music, song and dance
reserved to the young (9/13 years old) with a minimum
of 3 years instrumental experience. Participants need to
bring their own instruments and parents are also invited
to participate in their classes.

SCHEDULE
Days: 10am- 6pm.
Evenings: meetings, film projections, jam sessions, end
of course party…

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
Maison de la culture yiddish – Bibliothèque Medem
18, passage Saint-Pierre Amelot – 75011 PARIS –
FRANCE
Tél. : 00 33 1 47 00 14 00 / Fax : 00 33 1 47 00 14 47
www.yiddishweb.com