Анонс: 15 июня, 19.30

[klezmer]

Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 7.30 PM

National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene presents

DMITRI SLEPOVITCH & FRIENDS LIVE AT BARUCH.

featuring New York's finest Jewish musicians and their take on Litvish music

- MICHAEL ALPERT violin, guitar, singing
Michael Alpert is one of the leading and most important figures in the Klezmer / Yiddish Revival.
A scholar and a musician, a linguist and a dancer, a founding member of Brave Old World, Khevrisa, the Artistic Director of KlezKanada, klezmer / Yiddish song / dance instructor at several dozens major festivals world-wide... you name it.

- PETE RUSHEFSKY, cimbalom (tsimbl / hammered dulcimer)
Pete Rushefsky is one of New York's few (and finest) klezmer cimbalom-players, Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, co-founder of the An-sky Council on Jewish Folklore. P

- TAYLOR BERGREN-CHRISMAN, bass
Virtuoso bass-player and an emerging DJ, member of Golem, Foolish Band... An amazing musician!

- DMITRI SLEPOVITCH, clarinet, singing
Musician, scholar, revivalist, traditionalist and modernist. Artistic Director of Minsker Kapelye and Tamevate Kapelye (Foolish Band).

YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR songs from Raysn (Belarus), Dmitri Slepovitch's original and discovered songs, klezmer music from Belarusian villages.
Music you have never heard and will never forget.

Tickets (only $20!) are available at the Baruch Performing Arts Center box office (55 Lexington Ave. at E. 25th St., Main Patron Entrance) or online.
Box office phone: (646) 312-5073

MINSKER KAPELYE's CDs (GREAT KLEZMERS OF EAST & WEST, with Paul Brody's SADAWI) and TUTEJSI (THE LOCALS) will be available for sale at the entrance.