Re: finally, Mikveh....

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

Leave it to Harold Hagopian and Traditional Crossroads to come through- what
a great label!
                                            EK


----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Rogovoy" <rogovoy (at) berkshire(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 11:32 AM
Subject: finally, Mikveh....


> this just in from Rounder Records, promising the long-awaited debut
> recording of female superstar klezmer ensemble Mikveh in just two short
> months....
>
> Lauren Brody, Margot Leverett, Nicki Parrott, Adrienne Cooper, Alicia
> Svigals
> MIKVEH
> Traditional Crossroads TCRO 807 024 305-2
> Street Date: May 22, 2001
> Five of the top musicians on the international klezmer scene have joined
> forces to create music that engages the experience and spirit of Jewish
> women.  Combining historical and new Yiddish and English songs with
ecstatic
> klezmer melodies, Mikveh presents Jewish music through the prism of
women's
> lives -- from exuberant celebrations of fertility, work, a daughter's bas
> mitsveh, and forbidden love, to the quiet grief of miscarriage and the
> spirit of the Friday night table.
> Produced by Lorin Sklamberg & Harold Hagopian.
> Includes: "Royz royz," "Heart of the World," "Sorele's Bas Mitsveh," "A
gutn
> ovnt Brayne," "Borsht," "Gas nign," "Vos vet zayn," "Di fayerdike libe/Ay
ay
> ay mazl tov," "Yosemame/Orphan Mama," "Eyshes khayil," "Mazl tov," "Leyg
> dayn kop," "Di arbuzn," "Baleboste zisinke"
> Available on CD. UPC number 7-80702-4305-2-6
> File Under: World: Jewish/Klezmer
>
>
> Seth Rogovoy
> author of "The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots
and
> Soul"
> http://www.algonquin.com/catalog/pagemaker.cgi?1-56512-244-5
> "even the most clueless goy will be able to appreciate this art form" --
> Linda Daily Paulson, Dirty Linen Magazine
>
>

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