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Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:54 AM
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:
Watch the video now!
Save the Date: July 11, 2010 and come celebrate Dan Plonsey’s Bar Mitzvah
Beyond the Pale
Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:00 PM
This explosive acoustic sextet from Toronto draws from klezmer, Balkan, Rumanian, bluegrass, jazz, reggae and funk to create a unique sound not to be missed!
Freight and Salvage Coffee House
2020 Addison St., Berkeley
(510) 644-2020
Sounds of the 25th Jewish Music Festival (Audio Clips)
Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Back to the Roots: Notions of Jewish Musical Revival
Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:00 PM
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Forshpeis (Festival appetizer)
Efforts to revive Jewish music date back more than a century. Music scholars Benjamin Brinner (UC Berkeley), Judah Cohen (Indiana University) and Edwin Seroussi (The Hebrew University), will explore early attempts to restore Sephardic and Ashkenazi musical traditions. They will be joined by Martin Schwartz (UC Berkeley), whose record collection was seminal to the klezmer revival. Moderated by Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes).
Co-sponsored by the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture. Presented in association with the Jewish Music Forum and the Judah L. Magnes Museum
Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
510-848-0237
$10
Yuval Ron: Sacred Jewish and Muslim Music of the Middle East
Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:00 PM
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Pre-Concert Public talk 7:00 – 7:30 pm
The Yuval Ron Ensemble, with Dervish Aziz, from the Mevlavi Sufi Order
World-music artist, composer, producer, educator and peace activist, Yuval Ron and his ensemble unite the sacred music traditions of Judaism, Sufism and the Armenian Church.
Presented in association with the Centers for Jewish Studies and for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Progressive Jewish Alliance and Congregation Sherith Israel
JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
$25 general / $20 seniors, students and JCC members
Zmiros
Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Service and Concert
Stunning sacred songs for Shabbos and Pesach with Lorin Sklamberg and Frank London, of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics
Temple Beth Sholom
642 Dolores Ave.
San Leandro, CA 94577
FREE
510-357-8505
Diaspora Redux - American Premiere
Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:00 PM
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A brilliant septet from New York, Berlin and Buenos Aires – three great melting-pots and cradles of contemporary jazz, klezmer, tango, and avant-garde music. Created and directed by Alan Bern of the world renowned band Brave Old World, and including Klezmer Buenos Aires, musical wizardry from Argentina
Freight and Salvage Coffee House
2020 Addison St.
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 644-2020
$30.50 in advance/ $31.50 at the door
More info at www.thefreight.org/diaspora-redux
Master class: Improvisation in New Jewish Music
Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:30 PM
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until 4:30 pm
A four hour Master class with Alan Bern (Brave Old World), Paul Brody, Cesar Lerner and Martin Lillich.
Freight and Salvage Coffee House
2020 Addison St
Berkeley, CA
(510) 644-2020
$50
Enroll Now!
Saints and Tzadiks
Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:00 PM
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Through archives and old recordings, Grammy-winning vocalists Susan McKeown and Lorin Sklamberg and band have gathered a rich mix of songs from Jewish and Irish traditions on love, death, betrothal, betrayal and the demon drink. Be prepared to laugh, cry, mourn and rejoice.
Freight and Salvage Coffee House
2020 Addison St.
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 644-2020
$24.50 in advance/ $25.50 at the door
More info at www.thefreight.org
Klezmer Buenos Aires
Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:30 PM
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Matinee
This brilliant duo presents a stellar blend of klezmer, Argentinean folk music, tango and jazz improvisation. Their stunning virtuosity on flutes, wooden flutes, bagpipe, duduk (wind instrument), clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, harmonica, accordion, piano and percussion sounds more like an orchestra than a duet.
JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut St.
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-848-0237
$15 General/ $12 Members, Seniors, and Students
July 2010 Events
Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:01 PM
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!
Dan Plonsey's Bar Mitzvah Preview with Anna Halprin
Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:00 PM
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Contemporary Jewish Museum
$18 students, seniors, JCC East Bay and CJM members / $22 INCLUDES MUSEUM ADMISSION
A preview of Dan Plonsey’s Bar Mitzvah–in its world premiere at the CJM July 11–followed by a discussion with dance pioneer Anna Halprin and the show’s choreographer and composer.
Like many American Jews of his generation, composer Dan Plonsey was not raised within a context of traditional ritual, and his 13th year passed without a bar mitzvah. When his son began to prepare for his own bar mitzvah, Plonsey was inspired to join his son by preparing for his own, and to create a musical theater piece about the experience. The resulting work asks profound questions about the goals, meaning, and expectations of traditional ritual in a post-modern world.
Dan Plonsey’s Bar Mitzvah was written by Dan Plonsey and Eric Kupers, with additional lyrics by Joe Karten, Mantra Plonsey, Naomi Seidman and Sarah Willner. Music composed by Dan Plonsey, with dance choreography by Eric Kupers.
A reception follows the discussion.
SIMCHA! The Jewish Music Festival’s 25th Anniversary Party
Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:00 PM
12 noon – 5pm
FREE
Yerba Buena Gardens Third and Mission Streets, San Francisco
Bring a picnic and instruments and celebrate a quarter century of Bay Area Jewish music with ongoing performances, instrumental jams, a parade, and an Instrument Petting Zoo for all ages and backgrounds. Artists include: Eprhyme, Glenn Hartman and the Klezmer Playboys, Peter Jacques, Elana Jagoda, Kugelplex, Joe Nguyen, Kat Parra, Dan Plonsey and the Dandelion Dancetheater, Red Hot Chachkas, Dror Sinai, Gerry Tenney and California Klezmer, Vocolot, and Joshua Walters.
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of San Francisco. In association with Yerba Buena Gardens, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Community Music Center, the Hub (JCCSF) and Zambaleta World Music Institute.
For more information: 510-848-0237 ext. 119
World Premiere Dan Plonsey’s Bar Mitzvah with Dandelion Dancetheater
Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:00 PM
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1pm
Contemporary Jewish Museum
$18 students, seniors, JCC East Bay and CJM members / $22 INCLUDES MUSEUM ADMISSION
For tickets and information: 1.800.838.3006
Winner of the prestigious United States Broad Fellow Award, fearlessly experimental Bay Area composer Dan Plonsey and award-winning choreographer Eric Kupers explore what it means to become an adult in today’s complicated world through music and dance.
Co-sponsored by the East Bay Community Foundation – Fund for Artists, Zellerbach Family Foundation and W. and F. Hewlett Foundation. Presented in association with the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
World Premiere of Dan Plonsey's Bar Mitzvah with Dandelion Dancetheater
Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 4:00 PM
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4pm
Contemporary Jewish Museum
$18 students, seniors, JCC East Bay and CJM members / $22 INCLUDES MUSEUM ADMISSION
For tickets and information: 1.800.838.3006
Winner of the prestigious United States Broad Fellow Award, fearlessly experimental Bay Area composer Dan Plonsey and award-winning choreographer Eric Kupers explore what it means to become an adult in today’s complicated world through music and dance.
Co-sponsored by the East Bay Community Foundation – Fund for Artists, Zellerbach Family Foundation and W. and F. Hewlett Foundation. Presented in association with the Contemporary Jewish Museum.