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25th Jewish Music Festival, March & July, 2010

The 25th Jewish Music Festival invites you to share our joy as our friend Dan Plonsey becomes a Bar Mitzvah!

Thanks to a generous matching grant of $7,500 from The East Bay Community Foundation’s Fund for Artists, the JMF commissioned a new multimedia piece by Bay Area composer Dan Plonsey and choreographer Eric Kupers to premiere as part of our silver anniversary season. Thanks to your love of the arts and willingness to give, we have reached our goal.

Your invitation to Dan Plonsey’s Bar Mitzvah:

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Save the Date: July 11, 2010 and come celebrate Dan Plonsey’s Bar Mitzvah

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July 2010 Events

Please click here for the July 11 and 18, 2010 JMF Electronic Press Kit

Free Outdoor Music Festival

The Jewish Music Festival culminates its 25th Silver Anniversary season
July11, 2010, noon to 5 pm, with a FREE OUTDOOR MUSIC FESTIVAL in Yerba Buena Gardens, in the heart of downtown San Francisco. Artists include Eprhyme, Glenn Hartman and the Klezmer Playboys, Peter Jacques, Elana Jagoda, Kugelplex, Ira Levin, Joe Nguyen, Kat Parra, Red Hot Chachkas, Dror Sinai, Gerry Tenney and California Klezmer, Vocolot and Joshua Walters. Plus klezmer, maqamat (Middle Eastern modes) and Middle East percussion jam/ workshops, an Instant Chorus, and an Instrument Petting Zoo, in association with the Community Music Center and Zambaleta World Music Institute.

Plus: the Bowls Project: Secrets of the Apocalyptic Intimate – Charming
Hostess, 12 – 5 pm

In association with New Frequencies, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Plus Instrument Making Workshop, 1 – 4 pm
FREE with admission to the Contemporary Jewish Museum

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Plus – World Premiere: Dan Plonsey’s Bar Mitzvah with Dandelion
Dancetheater, 1 and 4 pm

$22 / $18

Anna Halprin

Special Preview: Thursday, July 8, 7 pm, $22 / $18 with special guest
speaker Anna Halprin, a dance pioneer who redefined the boundaries
between art, ritual and community.

In association with the Contemporary Jewish Museum

Controlled Chaos and Brawny Braininess

Watcha ClanDirect from Marseilles, France — Watcha Clan with Charming Hostess

Nomadic genre bending music with Berber, Algerian, Sephardi, Ashkenazi and French influences. With a Bay Area band renowned for its eerie harmony, hot rhythm and radical braininess.

Sunday, July 18, 8 pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
$25 / $20

Co-sponsored by Gaia Fund

_Presented in association with New Frequencies, Yerba Buena Center for
the Arts_

In the meantime, take a look at the 25th Jewish Music Festival, Part I,
March, 2010.

Check back soon for the complete July schedule of events!

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