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
&
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
Direct 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!
