Thursday Nights are SUMMERNIGHTS at The Jewish Museum
The William Petschek Family Music Program
Tix: www.thejewishmuseum.org/SummerNights or call 212.423.3337
SummerNights 2011 is the 14th annual summer concert series featuring live music and
great art. Concerts begin at 7:30 pm in the Museum’s Scheuer Auditorium. Seating is
general admission.
Tickets: Members $10; General $15; and Students/Seniors (65+) $12
Slavic Soul Party! – Thursday, July 21
Brash and strong as slivovitz, these musicians forge virtuoso brass band music
melding Balkan and Gypsy sounds with American jazz and soul.
Michael Winograd Trio – Thursday, July 28
This ensemble offers a fresh approach to klezmer music that blends traditional
Yiddish songs with new compositions.
The Michael Winograd Trio will be performing on Thursday, July 28 at 7:30 pm as part
of The Jewish Museum’s popular SummerNights concert series. The ensemble –
clarinetist Michael Winograd, accordionist Patrick Farrell, and trombonist Daniel Blacksberg – presents a fresh approach to klezmer music that blends traditional
Yiddish songs with new compositions. Winograd has performed at such international
festivals as KlezKamp, KlezKanada, the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, the
Klezmer Workshop in Paris, the Winnipeg and Calgary Folk Festivals, and the Dawson
City Music Festival, and has been called “one of the truly great new
bandleader-composers on the New York City klezmer scene (The Forward).”
Hazmat Modine – Thursday, August 4
Hazmat Modine draws from American music of the 1920s and 30s through the 50s and
early 60s, blending elements of early blues, hokum jugband, swing, klezmer, New
Orleans R & B and Jamaican rocksteady.
The Jewish Museum is located on 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, in Manhattan.