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Please post. Thank you! Maggie Sash, more info: www.laurawetzler.com
ASCAP Award Winning Singer-Songwriter
LAURA WETZLER
?A World of Jewish Roots Music?
5000 years of songs from the Mid-east, Europe, Africa, Asia and the U.S. 
sung in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino(Judeo-Spanish) and English.
Thursday, April 26, 2001 6:30 pm
New York Public Library- Riverdale
5540 Mosholu Ave. (East of Riverdale Ave at 256th St.) Riverdale, NY info: 
(718)549-1212
?Glorious singing?exciting, up-beat, joyous.? Workman?s Circle NYC
?An amazingly gifted singer, songwriter and ethnic folklorist.? David Amram
ALSO:
"Music of the Jews of Italy"
Sunday, May 20, 2pm
The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
(The only museum of Italian Heritage in the U.S.)
420 Tompkins Ave, Staten Island, NYC
Free to the Public. Reservations: 718 442-1608 seating limited
Award winning singer-songwriter Laura Wetzler sings the songs and tells the 
stories of 4 distinct Jewish communities who have made their home in Italy 
over the past 2000 years in a unique, multi-cultural concert event. Also on 
the program will be popular Italian favorites.

ASCAP Award winning singer-songwriter LAURA WETZLER, tours nationally in 
over 150 solo concerts and lectures each year, singing World Jewish Roots 
Music in Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), Contemporary American 
Folk and the great classics of American song. Her CD, Songwriter?s Notebook, 
is currently receiving airplay on over 350 college, public and AAA radio 
stations around the world. Laura has shared stages with such artists as Pete 
Seeger, Dave Mallet, Odetta, Richie Havens, The Klezmatics, and many others. 
Songwriter?s Notebook is available from Amazon.com, laurawetzler.com, and is 
also featured on The Best of Independent American Music Compilation CD. 
Laura was recently featured in the Israeli Embassy tribute to legendary 
Israeli composer, Issachar Miron (Tzena,Tzena) and in her sold out concert 
entitled "Kabbalah Music:Songs of the Jewish Mystics" at The Open Center in 
NYC.
?Laura is one of the very best? Pete Seeger
?Impressive poetic gifts? Bob Sherman, The New York TIMES/WFUV
?moving artistry? Ken Meltzer, WQED-NPR
?{Her music} grabs you and won?t let go?best of all is her voice
which boasts a colorful, expressive range? Seth Rogovoy, WAMC-NPR
?A rich, resonant voice weaving traditional, ethnic and contemporary threads 
into intelligent, literate songs.? Richard Fox, WCUW Airwaves
Top 10 The Phoenix
?Exactly what our World Week celebration is all about? Rutgers Univ.
For More Information & Downloadable Press Photos: 
www.laurawetzler.com/presskit
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