Tsimbl, Fidl un Kol @ Tonic (NYC) this Sunday!!!

[Pete Rushefsky <klezbanjo...>]

Just a reminder-- hope to see you there...
  TSIMBL, FIDL un KOL
Yiddish Village Music & Song

Featuring:  Pete Rushefsky, Elie Rosenblatt & Rebecca
Kaplan

Live at Tonic?s Klezmer Brunch, curated by David
Krakauer

Date:  Sunday, March 10, 2002
Time:  2 sets - 1:30 & 3:00 PM
Place:  Tonic, 107 Norfolk St. (NYC - Lower East Side)
(F train to Delancey/Essex St.)
www.tonicnyc.com
Admission:  $10 per set or $15 for both

Munch your brunch to the magical shtetl sounds of
three of the finest young interpreters of European
klezmer string music & Yiddish folk song.

Yiddish Lexicon:
Tsimbl = the traditional Jewish hammered dulcimer of
Eastern Europe
Fidl = Fiddle or violin
Kol = Voice

Look for the new CD by Elie Rosenblatt & Pete
Rushefsky entitled 
Tsimbl un Fidl:  Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer &
Violin 

A downloadable .jpg of the album cover can be found
at:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005O0PM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Available at:
· The Center for Jewish History 
· Workmen?s Circle / Arbeiter Ring 
· Eichler?s
· West Side Judaica
· www.hatikvahmusic.com 
· www.amazon.com

?...spare, emotionally intense and well-played and
conceived... a klezmer equivalent of the
period-instruments movement in classical music?
-George Robinson, NY Jewish Week

?...a welcome and lovely recording of a repertoire
that is new to most klezmer fans?
-Ari Davidow, The Klezmershack

Elie Rosenblatt & Pete Rushefsky are two of the
leading performers of klezmer music?s next generation.
Their new CD, entitled Tsimbl un Fidl:  Klezmer Music
for Hammered Dulcimer & Violin, is rooted in the
earliest recordings of Jewish klezmer music from the
first decades of the twentieth century.  Changing
musical tastes and recording technology paved the way
for clarinets and jazzy brass bands to dominate
American klezmer music.  However, the pairing of
tsimbl (hammered dulcimer) and fidl (fiddle or violin)
formed the nucleus of the older, folkier European
klezmer style.    Alternatively mournful and raucous,
Rosenblatt & Rushefsky provide the perfect soundtrack
for your neighborhood Polish tavern or village dance. 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS...
  
Rebecca Kaplan has created a vibrant performance style
for Yiddish folk song which is grounded in Jewish
sensibility.  She performs as a singer,pianist, and
drummer with Pete Rushefsky, and as a freelance
Yiddish singer in the Boston area, where she is an
elementary school music teacher.  She has performed as
a singer, oboist, and pianist with klezmer bands in
Indiana and in her native Syracuse.  Becky has been a
scholarship recipient at KlezKamp, which she has
attended five times, and at KlezKanada.  

A Montreal native, Elie Rosenblatt is one of the
finest young klezmer violinists on today?s scene.  He
is a senior at New York?s Yeshiva College and studies
at the Belz School of Jewish Music at Yeshiva
University.  He is a recipient of the Marienhoff
scholarship and has been a scholarship recipient at
the KlezKanada festival for four years. Coming from a
family that is musically inclined, Elie has sung in
many choirs and has been playing violin since he was
eight years old.

Pete Rushefsky is a leading revivalist of the tsimbl,
or Jewish hammered dulcimer.  He has performed across
Upstate New York with the 12 Corners Klezmer Band, the
Klezbeets, the Catskill Klezmorim and Rebecca Kaplan. 
He is the author of a pioneering instructional book on
adapting the American 5-string banjo for klezmer, and
appears on the 12 Corners Klezmer Band album Git Azoy
(It?s Good This Way).  A veteran of KlezKamp and
KlezKanada, Pete was born and raised in Rochester, NY
and now lives in Buffalo.


Contact Information:
Elie Rosenblatt, elrosen (at) aol(dot)com, (514) 487-5456
Pete Rushefsky, prushefsky (at) yahoo(dot)com, (716) 883-5938
Rebecca Kaplan, rivkele (at) juno(dot)com, (781) 729-4166





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