7th International Jewish Music Festival in in Amsterdam, Brussels and Antwerp

[Christian Hansson <christian...>]

Thanks, Jeff, for announcing your European concerts here. It's hard to find out 
where concerts take place if you don't already know where to look. I nearly 
missed a Klezmatics concert in my country because of poor announcement and 
advertising.

There's a complete festival program at the festival web site at 
http://www.joods.nl/jmf/. Unfortunately it's all in dutch (only!), but you can 
have a look at the festival program by clicking the Programma & Workshops link 
and the artists featured under Artiesten. Other artists who will perform, 
besides Jeff and Deborah,  include David Krakauer, the Nigunim Project (Caine, 
Sklamberg and London) and Davka.
 
Christian
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Ämne: Strauss/Warschauer Duo in Europe November 26-28, 1999


> The Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer Duo will be performing in Amsterdam, 
> Brussels and Antwerp, as part of the 7th International Jewish Music Festival. 
>  Concert dates and venues are as follows.  Hope to see you there!  
> 
> Friday, November 26 at 8:00 PM  
> Salon Cristofori
> Prinsengracht 581-583
> Amsterdam
> Telephone:  31 20 - 626 84 95
> 
> Saturday, November 27 at 8:00 PM  
> La Tentation  
> Lakensestraat 28
> Brussels
> Telephone: 32 2 537 45 47  
> 
> Sunday, November 28 at 3:00 PM
> Wereld Culturen Centrum Zuiderpershuis  
> Timmerwerkplaats 40  
> Antwerp  
> Telephone 32 3 - 248 70 77  
> 
> Sunday, November 28 at 11:00 PM (tentative)  
> Performing as part of final concert
> For information on this concert please call the festival organizers: 
> Ideeel Organiseren
> 31 20 - 535 69 10  
> 
> The Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer Duo brings together two musicians 
> whose individual backgrounds in klezmer music and Yiddish song create a 
> performance style that is traditionally informed yet uniquely their own.  
> Singing and performing on violin, guitar, mandolin and accordion they weave 
> songs, translations and instrumental music into a sound which encompasses an 
> exceptional range of colors and textures-from delicate and refined to 
> exuberant and foot-stomping.  
> 
> As a duo, they have performed to overwhelming critical and public acclaim in 
> such diverse venues as the Amsterdam International Yiddish Festival, the 
> Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow, the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto and the 
> Folksbiene Yiddish Theater in New York City.  They can be heard together on 
> Jeff's solo CD, The Singing Waltz: Klezmer Guitar and Mandolin and on the 
> Ellipsis Arts compilation, Klezmer Music: A Marriage of Heaven and Earth.  
> They are currently working on their first duo CD.  
> 
> The New York Times called their music "terrific."  
> 
> "Phenomenal."  Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland).  
> 
> Deborah Strauss (violin, vocals, accordion) is considered one of the finest 
> practitioners of traditional Jewish violin today.  She is a member of the 
> Chicago Klezmer Ensemble, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and performs in a 
> duo with Jeff Warschauer.  In addition, she is currently collaborating with 
> composer Josh Waletzky on Crossing the Shadows, a program of his original 
> Yiddish songs and melodies.  Deborah is featured in the Emmy award-winning 
> film, Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House and performs with Mr. Perlman in 
> concert.  She tours internationally and teaches privately and at many Yiddish 
> culture workshops including KlezKamp, KlezKamp West, Buffalo on the Roof and 
> KlezKanada.  Deborah received her graduate training in ethnomusicology at the 
> University of Chicago. 
> 
> Jeff Warschauer (guitar, mandolin, vocals) is known internationally as one of 
> the foremost exponents of the klezmer mandolin, as an innovator in the 
> development of an authentic klezmer guitar style, and as an expressive 
> Yiddish singer.  He has played and taught throughout North America, in 
> Eastern and Western Europe, and in Australia and New Zealand.  He is a member 
> of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, plays in a duo with violinist Deborah 
> Strauss, has performed with the Bolshoi Ballet, and has been composer, music 
> director and/or featured instrumentalist for numerous theatrical productions, 
> recordings, and film soundtracks.  He also performs with Josh Waletzky, Shura 
> Lipovsky, Michael Alpert and Zalmen Mlotek.  Jeff has appeared with Itzhak 
> Perlman on film, in concert and on two CDs.  Jeff's solo CD, The Singing 
> Waltz: Klezmer Guitar and Mandolin, on the Omega label, has received 
> widespread critical acclaim.  In 1986 he won the Amalgamated Bank Prize for 
> Yiddish Studies at the Oxford University Summer Programme, and in 1995 
> returned to Oxford to lecture on klezmer music.  In 1990, Jeff was awarded a 
> Massachusetts Artists Fellowship.  A graduate of the New England Conservatory 
> of Music, Jeff has taught for many years at KlezKanada and the KlezKamp 
> Yiddish Folk Arts Program.  
> 
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