Re: what, no klezmer?

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

I think I'd feel insulted if there were no Jewish music, but the
lack of one particular genre doesn't seem =necessarily= awful.
Emil Zrihan is very special. Anyone who misses this concert because
it isn't klezmer, or isn't Ashkenazic is losing out, imho.

Not that I would be any less thrilled to see the Klezmatics, or 
Nigunim, or the Klezmer Brass Allstars, to name some offshoots.

Having said that, I have some samples that I'm sending them to suggest
for next year of bands that we wouldn't see, otherwise. The more the
merrier--we should all send in samples of our favorite bands and 
make it clear that there's a market.

ari

At 03:09 PM 12/4/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I just got a brochure from a wonderful world music series in and around
>Boston and Cambridge, Mass. "World Music Winter Spring 2002." The series
>includes African artists (Baaba Maal, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Kania
>Kouyate), Flamenco, Asian (Shaolin Warriors, Ghazal, Gyoto Monks, Anoushka
>Shankar), Irish (Celtic Fiddle Festival, Mary Black, Altan, Solas, Mary
>BLack), Central/Eastern European (Muzsikas with Marta Sebestyen) , Cape
>Breton (Natalie MacMaster), Armenian (Richard Hagopian), American roots
>(Darol Anger, Michael Doucet, Richard Shindell).
>
>It even has one concert of Jewish music, featuring  Moroccan cantor/vocalist
>Emil Zrihan (APril 25, Somerville Theatre), which is great news. I've heard
>wonderful things about him, and it's about time Sephardic music got some
>play.
>
>What surprises me is that there isn't one single klezmer or Yiddish concert
>on this bill.
>
>Clearly the Klezmatics, Brave Old World, Andy Statman, KCB, Masada, Flying
>Bulgars, or one of the top European groups -- Di Naye Kapelye, say, or
>Cracow Klezmer Ensemble -- or one of the neo-traditional groups, Budowitz or
>Khevrisa, or Mikveh, especially Mikveh!, would fit quite nicely into this
>series., promoted by an organization called World Music
>(www.worldmusic.org).
>
>What does it say or suggest that Yiddish music didn't make the cut? Is it
>merely that the groups I've mentioned aren't doing much or any touring this
>winter and spring, or that they're all in-between projects?
>
>--Seth Rogovoy
>
>
>

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