RE: London Festival (11June - 13 July)

[Jewish Music Institute <jewishmusic...>]

We are thrilled that Basya Schechter?s Pharaohs Daughter will be making
their UK debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and also at the Millennium Dome
in London in the Closing days of the Tenth London International Jewish Music
Festival on 12 July 2000.  She will be headlining the month-long festival
along with other international Klezmer ensembles:

Kol Simcha from Switzerland 11 June who will be opening the Festival
Klezmer en Argentina (22 and 26 June)
Lucie Skeaping and the Burning Bush 26 June
Gregori Schechter?s Klezmer Festival Band   July
Brave Old World 13 July

Also Jazz and Fusion as well as classical, Sephardi and Classical,
Hungarian, Russian, Israeli music and firs UK appearance of the French
Ensemble the Yiddishe Mamas and Papas
The draft details are on our website and will be updated in the next couple
of weeks.  If any one wants a more accurate calendar I can email them the
document.
>From Geraldine Auerbach
Director, Jewish Music Institute
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Tel 020 8909 2445   Fax 020 8909 1030
E-mail jewishmusic (at) jmi(dot)org(dot)uk <mailto:jewishmusic (at) 
jmi(dot)org(dot)uk>
Website www.jmi.org.uk <http://www.jmi.org.uk/>


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Fay Singer
Sent: 07 April 2000 07:38
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: Re: PD's Upcoming concerts

Maybe in South Africa one day, Basya?

-Fay-
----- Original Message -----
From: Basya Schechter <mailto:basya (at) ultinet(dot)net>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <mailto:jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: PD's Upcoming concerts

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
to top)

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