RE: gigs gigs gigs

[Dick Rosenberg <drosenberg...>]

I don't really know of any "venue" for Klezmer music in Boston other
than the occasional show at Johnny Ds or once in a blue moon Club
Passim. (I sorely wish there were more). The JCC in Newton also seems to
occasionally have something Jewish (like a play).

Dick

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Ari Davidow [SMTP:ari (at) ivritype(dot)com]
>Sent:  Tuesday, July 04, 2000 2:13 PM
>To:    World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject:       gigs gigs gigs
>
>About once a month I get an e-mail from someone trying to find contacts,
>either in the Boston area where I live, or elsewhere, so as to get some gigs
>to finance a tour. It is, indeed, a vital area of supporting the people who
>make the music that I love so that they can afford to make the much.
>
>I haven't a clue as to how to help them. Is there an online resource of clubs
>that are hospitable to wandering performers of various types of Jewish music,
>be it traditional or ranging to the avant garde? Is there a better answer
>than to suggest that the artists contact everyone in the cities they wish to
>visit, whose e-mail addresses they can glean from the klezmershack
>directories?
>
>Ideas? Things of which I should have been aware prior to asking the question?
>
>ari
>
>P.S. The immediate cause of this e-mail is the suggestion that the brilliant
>Argentian Klezmer/Jazz duo, "Klezmer en Buenos Aires" who were just at the
>Jewish Music Festival in London, thence at the Knitting Factory in New York,
>should do some serious touring in this hemisphere.
>
>
>
>
>Ari Davidow
>ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
>list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>the klezmer shack: http://www.klezmershack.com/
>

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