Re: PD's Upcoming concerts

[Basya Schechter <basya...>]

    Two upcoming shows for PHARAOH's DAUGHTER (both include a little nosh)
     
    1.  APRIL 8th Saturday night we're playing at the West End Synagogue, a 
reconstructionist synagogue. 
    It's a really great place, where I teach liturgical music to the Hebrew 
school Thursdays.
    (69th st. & Amsterdam, NYC)
    8:30 refreshments served,
    9:00 an accappella group called MA NISHMA, 
    9:30 Pharaoh's Daughter
     
    $12 admission/$9 students
     
    2. APRIL 9th we're playing in Washington as part of the JAM tour:: 
(exerpted from a previous release)
     
    The JAM Tour: Pharaoh?s Daughter, 
    Paradox Trio & Zohar
    Sunday, April 9
    7:00 PM
    $20
    
    This performance is funded by a special grant from Laura Mulitz.
    
    There have always been strong ties between the avant-garde and Jewish 
    culture. Music has been no exception. This tour represents the cutting 
    edge of the Jewish music scene from The Knitting Factory (the bastion of 
    downtown cool) in New York City. These three bands are red-hot, 
    exemplifying the meeting of traditional music with the New York new 
    music sensibility. We are thrilled to present them to the Washington 
    community for the first time. Each band will play a one-hour set. Plenty 
    of drinks and snacks will be available between sets. 
    
    Pharaoh?s Daughter 
    >From Yiddish standards with Middle Eastern arrangements to new melodies 
    of liturgical staples like Lecha Dodi, Pharaoh?s Daughter will bring you 
    to your feet with their spontaneous and spiritual jams. Lead singer 
    Basya grew up Orthodox in Boro Park to which she attributes her melodic 
    sensibilities, her usage of niggunim, and many of her evocative lyrics. 
    But her influences were clearly enhanced by her hitchhiking adventures 
    throughout the Middle East and Africa, dancing in the Djem al Afna in 
    Marrakesh, and hanging out in smoky bars in Kurdistan where she 
    befriended local musicians and soaked up their unique sounds and 
    rhythms. The sounds of Pharaoh?s Daughter will leave a lasting 
    impression with their masterful ability to evolve from a hypnotic, 
    meditative sound into a full-throttle jam complete with high energy and 
    ecstatic grooves. 
    
    Paradox Trio 
    Paradox Trio, led by the Klezmatics? Matt Darriau, will present a 
    fascinating new project that only someone with Darriau?s experience 
    could take on: a selection of tunes that the Klezmer repertoire shares 
    with its Balkan, Turkish, Gypsy, and Mediterranean cousins. The fiery 
    ensemble builds on the rhythmically charged gypsy, jazz, and Klezmer 
    music by adding a distinctly New York vibe. Darriau?s rippling sax, 
    flute, and clarinet lines form thick mists of ethnicity that are 
    ruthlessly dispelled by angular guitar bursts from Brad Shepik, a pillar 
    in the new Eastern European/Arabic-inflected downtown consortium. 
    Cellist Rufus Cappadocia holds down the low end on his five-string 
    instruments and has no inhibitions about plugging in. Macedonian émigré 
    Seido Salifoski is the right percussionist for the job, with an 
    instrumental toolbox that includes the dumbek and the Balkan tupan. 
    Together, the band sculpts colorful musical mosaics with their 
    groundbreaking efforts to fuse old-world sounds with modern jazz. 
    
    Zohar: Uri Caine & DJ Olive 
    Traditional Judeo-Andalusian music meets postmodern downtown jazz when 
    two of the most in-demand jazz musicians of the past few years team up 
    for a startling blend of ancient tradition and post-modern 
    trail-blazing. The result is an eclectic meeting of Eastern Jewish 
    liturgical music with heavy groove jazz, creating a sound that covers 
    turf from synagogues to jazz halls to DJ booths. Uri?s spirited and 
    tactile approach to the keyboard is complimented by Olive?s swirling 
    beats and atmospheric samples of Moroccan legend Aaron Bensoussan?s 
    vocals. Musical boundaries stretch and disappear as Olive blends 
    Bensoussan?s powerful chants with Caine?s electrifying piano work. As 
    Eastern melodies, funky rhythms, and expansive jazz excursions blend 
    seamlessly together, Zohar indeed travels to new levels of soul. (back 
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