Sunday, April 18 at 7:30 pm MICHAEL WINOGRAD TRIO (with special guest Dan Blacksberg) New & traditional klezmer, Yiddish song & improv "The wedding band of choice for the hippest of shtetls." – City Paper "Formerly deceased, the music now enjoys rude good health. A perfect example of this sea change in musical fortunes." – The Forward Tickets are $20, $10 discount, $30 for supporters, $5 for 12 and under.
Thursday, April 22 at 7:00 pm Free KLEZMER WORKSHOP with Dan Blackberg Both events are at Crossroads Music 48th and Baltimore Ave. (in Calvary United Methodist Church) http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org or 215-729-1028 A leader in the second generation of the klezmer revival, clarinetist and composer Michael Winograd is considered a modern master of the klezmer clarinet style and has also developed his unique voice in the area of free-jazz with his group Infection. Since graduating with distinction from the New England Conservatory of Music, Michael has taught and performed all over the world, including at 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. Benjy Fox-Rosen is a Brooklyn based bassist, singer, and composer. He has performed internationally as a member of Luminescent Orchestrii, a Balkan inspired string band, and is a founding member of PLAY! ensemble. In 2007 Benjy was a recipient of the Bronfman Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Student Artists. He also performs regularly with Transylvanian folk band Metrofolk, Jake Shulman-Ment, The Amazing Frozen String Quartet and with his own band, Minutn fun Bitokhn, focusing on the songs of, and original setting of poems by, Mordechai Gebirtig. Patrick Farrell is a Brooklyn, NY based accordionist, brass fanatic, composer and bandleader who has been described as a "wizard" by Feast of Music and as a player of "mordant wit and blistering speed" by Lucid Culture. An open-eared approach and consistent curiosity about music have led him to study and perform in an ever-expanding variety of musical fields, including collaborations in theater, dance and spoken word. He has travelled extensively in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, where he regularly studies with his primary accordion teacher, Goran Alachki of Skopje, Macedonia. Daniel Blacksberg has played trombone with just about every klezmer band on the East coast that's had one, as well as many in Europe, all while residing in the city of brotherly love. He's a regular with Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars and is a member of Alan Bern's Klezmer/Gypsy music supergroup The Other Europeans. He's been a featured performer and teacher at festivals and workshops everywhere from Toronto to Charlottesville to Weimar, Germany to Krakow, Poland. In addition to performing with the Michael Winograd Trio on Sunday, Dan will be hosting a special klezmer workshop and jam at Crossroads the following Thursday. Here you can learn to play the instrumental Jewish music of the Old World and New with one of the best trombonists in the business. The event will be about half workshop, where the group will delve into a small number of tunes to learn the style and the ornamentation and half jam where the people can play the tunes they already know and let all the work settle in. This is a great opportunity for those who have been playing klezmer for a long time or those who just have a passing interest in Eastern European folk music. UPCOMING EVENTS Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 7:30 pm JAYATEERTH MEVUNDI Indian classical vocalist of the Kirana gharana "Took [Kolkata's Nazrul Mancha] conference by storm. His presentation of Sudhkalyan followed by Pahari Thumri and Bhajan is still ringing in my ears. Jayatu Jayateerth! – Dhaka Daily Star Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 7:30 pm (kid's show at 4:00 pm) ALASH ENSEMBLE Tuvan throat-singing "Utterly stunning. Audience members picked their jaws up off the floor." – Washington Post. "Seemed to demonstrate superhuman powers using their vocal chords." – Cornell Daily Sun Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 7:30 pm Generations of Resistance, featuring: ANNE FEENEY - unionmaid, hell raiser, and labor singer "Congratulations on your fine songwriting!" - Pete Seeger "Anne Feeney is the best labor singer in North America." - Utah Phillips EVAN GREER - Songs to inspire hope, build community and incite resistance "Songs [that] will be heard at the barricades for years to come." - Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine "An eloquent and energetic writer." - Howard Zinn ROY ZIMMERMAN - Funny songs about ignorance, war, and greed "Lacerating wit & keen awareness of society's foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer." - Los Angeles Times "Reintroducing literacy to comedy songs." - Tom Lehrer Friday, May 21, 2010 at 7:30 pm BRUCE MOLSKY & ALE MOLLER - Appalachian old time and Swedish traditional music "The Rembrandt of Appalachian fiddling." - Darrol Anger. "Among the most talented, active and prolific on the Swedish scene." - Dirty Linen Crossroads Music is in part supported by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Samuel S. Fels Fund. This project is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), its regional arts funding partnership. State government funding for the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity-Announce." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. You may post announcements to this list, but this list attempts to prevent discussion. Please use univcity to discuss messages on this list. Subscribers of univcity receive all mail to this list.
