Jewish Music Festival

Festival Events:

Program 2010:

• Friday, March 12, 2010, Berkeley, CA
  SHIR HASHIRIM @ Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
  
  • Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi musical liturgy with special guests.
    1414 Walnut Street
    Tickets: $Free
    Show: 7:30 pm
    Phone: 510.848.0237
• Sunday, March 14, 2010, Berkeley, CA
  Eliyahu & The Qadim Ensemble @ Ashkenaz
  
  • Mystical & Folkloric Music of the Near East.
    1317 San Pablo Avenue
    Tickets: $14/18
    Show: 7:30 pm
• Sunday, March 14, 2010, Berkeley, CA
  Back to the Roots: Notions of Jewish Musical Revival @ Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
  
  • 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).
    1414 Walnut Street
    Tickets: $10, Show: 3:00 pm
    Phone: 510.848.0237
• Friday. March 19, 2010, San Francisco, CA
  JOURNEY TO SHABBAT @ Congregation Sherith Israel
  
  • Cantor Rita Glassman Yuval Ron, ‘oud Jamie Papish, percussion
    2266 California Street at Webster Tickets: $Free
    Show: 6 pm
    Phone: 415.346.1720
• Saturday, March 20, 2010, Berkeley, CA
  Sacred Jewish and Muslim Festival of the Middle East @ Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
  
  • 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
    1414 Walnut Street
    Tickets: $20/25
    Doors Open: 7 pm
    Show: 8 pm
• Sunday, March 21, 2010, San Rafael, CA
  Les Yeux Noirs @ Osher Marin Jewish Community Center
  
  • Klezmer, Romani (Gypsy) and rock, this Paris-based sextet guaranteed to go straight to your feet.
    200 N. San Pedro Road
    Tickets: $23/26
    Show: 7:30 pm
    Phone: 415.444.8000
• Friday, March 26, 2010, San Leandro, CA
  Zmiros @ Temple Beth Sholom
  
  • Stunning sacred songs for Shabbos and Pesach with Lorin Sklamberg and Frank London, of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics.
    642 Dolores Avenue
    Tickets: $Free
    Show: 8 pm
    Phone: 510.357.8505
• Saturday, March 27, 2010, Berkeley, CA
  Diaspora Redux - American Premiere @ Freight and Salvage Coffee House
  
  • 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.
    2020 Addison Street
    Tickets: $30.50/$31.50
    Show: 8 pm
    Phone: 510.644.2020
• Sunday, March 28, 2010, Berkeley, CA
  Master class: Improvisation in New Jewish Music @ Freight and Salvage Coffee House
  
  • A four hour Master class with Alan Bern (Brave Old World), Paul Brody, Cesar Lerner and Martin Lillich.
    2020 Addison Street
    Tickets: $50
    Show: 12:30 pm
    Phpme: 510.644.2020
• Sunday, March 28, 2010, Berkeley, CA
  Saints and Tzadiks @ Freight and Salvage Coffee House
  
  • 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.
    2020 Addison Street
    Tickets: $24.50/$25.50
    Show: 8 pm
    Phone: 510.644.2020
• Monday, March 29, 2010, Berkeley, CA
  Klezmer Buenos Aires @ Jewish Community Center of East Bay
  
  • 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.
    1414 Walnut Street
    Tickets: $12/$15
    Show: 1:30pm Phone: 510.848.0237