Klezmatics Record Release party info

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JEWISH SOUL MUSIC FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

KLEZMATICS POSSESS THE KNITTING FACTORY
upstairs, downstairs, everywhere

To celebrate the release of their new full length album
POSSESSED, out April 8 on Xenophile Records

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Saturday, April 26, 1997
The Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, New York City
212-219-3006 for tickets
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The release celebration will fill the club upstairs and downstairs with great
music and performance, including:

* the Lower East Side political big top of the Circus Amok
* Shashmaqam, playing traditional musics of Jews from the Bukharan region of
Central Asia (where Jews and Muslims have lived together for centuries)
* feminist cheerleading from X-Cheerleaders performance group; the Hasidic
New Wave ("Sun Ra meets Jimi Hendrix at Jewish Wedding" -- featuring Greg
Wall and Klezmatic Frank London)
* the Richard Khuzami Pan-Middle Eastern Ensemble with belly
dancer/percussionist Shamira; long-time performers at the Mogador Cafe's
Wednesday belly dancing nites (an East Village institution), playing Egyptian
and Armenian musics
* DJ Rekha will spin bhangra and dance beats 11pm and on in the downstairs
Late Night Hang

And we wouldn't be surprised if the Circus spills out into the halls and the
street!

Evening Schedule is as follows:
6-7:30, early show, adults $15 and kids under 12 $8.  This show is seated and
is general admission.  Circus Amok and Klezmatics.

Big release celebration: 8:30pm and on, all tickets $15.  This party is
unseated and is general admission.  Circus Amok (throughout evening),
Shashmaqam (9pm), X-Cheerleaders (10:45pm), Klezmatics (11pm).

Downstairs in the Tap Bar all evening: 8-9pm Hasidic New Wave, 10-11pm
Khuzami Ensemble w/Shamira, 11pm and on DJ Rekha.