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ASCAP Award Winning Singer-Songwriter
LAURA WETZLER in
?Music of the Jews of Italy?
Sunday, May 20, 2pm
The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
420 Tompkins Ave, Staten Island, NYC
Reservations: (718) 442-1608 seating limited
Free to the Public; Refreshments will be served.
The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum is the only museum of Italian heritage in the U.S.
Award winning singer-songwriter Laura Wetzler sings the songs of 4 Jewish communities (Italiani, Sephardi, Levantini and Ashkenazic) 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, herself of Italian Jewish and German Jewish/Survivor origin, tours nationally in over
150 solo concerts and lectures each year, singing
World Jewish Roots Music in Hebrew, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish),Yiddish and English, 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 mp3CD
?An amazingly gifted singer, songwriter and ethnic folklorist.? David Amram
?glorious singing?exciting, up-beat, joyous.? Workman?s Circle NYC
"Beautiful concert!" Pearl Ann Margolit, National Yiddish Book Center
?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 University___________________________________________________________________
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