calendar listings november

[Joe Kurland <ganeydn...>]

A WEEKEND OF KLEZMER IN IOWA

THE WHOLESALE KLEZMER BAND, known for melding traditional Yiddish 
music and songs of social conscience in a lively, earthy style, will 
bring its music to Iowa City and Grinnell, Iowa on Nov. 4 and 5.

The eight-member band, which has performed at the Clinton inaugural 
celebration, at Carnegie Hall and up and down the East Coast, will 
make its Midwest debut with a concert Saturday at 7 p.m. at the 
University of Iowa Hillel, 122 East Market St, Iowa City. The event, 
sponsored by Hillel, the Iowa City Jewish Federation and Agudas Achim 
Congregation, is free and open to the public. (Reservations for the 
Federation 's Campaign 2000 Kickoff dinner at 5 p.m. can be made by 
calling Hillel at (319) 338-0778.)

Wholesale, with four recordings to its credit, will also present a 
concert Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Grinnell College's Sebring-Lewis Hall, 
as well as in two workshops that afternoon: a history of klezmer at 2 
p.m. in Room 252, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, and "How to Dance at 
a Jewish Wedding" at 3 p.m. in the Bucksbaum Center Rotunda.

Free and open to the public, the Sunday events are sponsored by the 
Grinnell College Music Department, Chaplain's Office, and Chalutzim 
student organization.


IOWA CITY:

DATE: Saturday evening November 4, 2000
TIME: 7:00pm
LOCATION: University of Iowa Hillel House, 122 E. Market St., Iowa City
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
SPONSOR: Hillel Jewish Student Center, Iowa City Jewish Federation 
and Congregation Agudas Achim
PHONE: 319-338-0778


GRINNELL COLLEGE, GRINNELL IOWA:

TITLE:  MUSIC DEPARTMENT GUEST LECTURE: Vessels Of Song: The Origins And 
Development Of Klezmer Music
PRESENTED BY:   Sherry Mayrent of the Wholesale Klezmer Band
DATE:   Sunday, November 5, 2000
TIME:   2:00 p.m.
LOCATION:       Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Room 152
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://finearts.grinnell.edu/calendar/  (click 
on the date and then details)

TITLE:  MUSIC DEPARTMENT GUEST WORKSHOP: How to Dance at a Jewish Wedding
PRESENTED BY:  Yosl Kurland and the Wholesale Klezmer Band
DATE:   Sunday, November 5, 2000
TIME:   3:00 p.m.
LOCATION:       Rotunda, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://finearts.grinnell.edu/calendar/ (click 
on the date and then details)

TITLE:  MUSIC DEPARTMENT GUEST CONCERT: Wholesale Klezmer Band
DATE:   Sunday, November 5, 2000
TIME:   7:30 p.m.
LOCATION:       Sebring-Lewis Hall
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://finearts.grinnell.edu/calendar/ (click 
on the date and then details)

For more information about the Wholesale Klezmer Band and its workshops, see:
        http://www.WholesaleKlezmer.com

        "The Yiddish word heymish -- meaning homey and familiar -- best
sums up The Wholesale Klezmer Band," writes Seth Rogovy in his recent book,
'The Essential Klezmer'. "Based in western Massachusetts since 1982, the
group plays a soulful brand of music with a distinctive, Old World flavor,
in spite of the fact that much of its repertoire is modern or original.''
        Wholesale's uncompromised European sound  -- a blend of original
songs and timeless melodies -- is steeped in the Jewish tradition of tikkun
olom, repair of the world.
        Dirty Linen magazine says, ''It is the balance they achieve between
social understanding and social satire that marks The Wholesale Klezmer
Band as a truly great klezmer band.''
        Online critic Ari Davidow writes, "This is not klezmer/funk fusion
or world music with kosher style ornamentations; this is the real stuff,"
"It's a new Yiddish music, mixing theater, tradition and a political
awareness and responsibility that is central to their faith .... an
exceptional band that honors tradition by carrying it forward.''


Zayt gezunt (be healthy),

Yosl (Joe) Kurland
The Wholesale Klezmer Band
Colrain, MA 01340
voice/fax: 413-624-3204
http://www.WholesaleKlezmer.com

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