Chevan and Byrd in concert at National Yiddish Book Center

[DAVID CHEVAN <dchevan...>]

The National Yiddish Book Center presents:

Warren Byrd and David Chevan

in a concert of interpretations of Jewish and African-American Sacred Music

Date: Sunday, April 7
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: National Yiddish Book Center

The National Yiddish Book Center is located on the campus of Hampshire
College, Route 116, Amherst, Massachusetts

Warren Byrd and David Chevan will be making their debut appearance in
Amherst, Massachusetts when they perform on Sunday, April 6 at the National
Yiddish Book Center.  In concert the duo weave stories and music together as
they  interpret and explain pieces from the Jewish and African-American
sacred traditions.  The combination of their sophisticated jazz artistry,
wit, and reverence for the material makes for a moving, one-of-a-kind
musical experience.  Chevan and Byrd have giving their concerts of sacred
jazz around the country. They were featured artists at the 2001 Festival of
Jewish Music in Washington, DC and were recently invited to perform on the
main stage at the 2002 Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz.  For more
information about this event please call the National Yiddish Book Center
(413) 256-4900.

The event will be made even more special as Byrd and Chevan celebrate the
release of their new CD, THIS IS THE AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE.  The
recording, scheduled for release on Friday, April 5 is a mix of Jewish and
African-American sacred music, klezmer, sacred music by Jazz composers, and
original compostions. It features Chevan and Byrd's group, The Afro-Semitic
Experience.


"Communication on the most elemental level and yet, at the same time, the
most elevated" George Robinson, The Jewish Voice

"Leave it to the artists among us to heal the breach. On their new CD, "Let
Us Break Bread Together: Further Explorations of the Afro-Semitic
Experience", pianist Warren Byrd and double bassist David Chevan explore and
celebrate the musical ties that have bound these two traditions together
across centuries of suffering and redemption. . . . Listening to this CD is
a bit like checking out a funky little club in the basement of a church or
shul. Or listening to a sermon on a bus ride headed South". Martin
Goldsmith, former host and senior commentator for NPR's Performance Today,
The Forward

"Your musical partnership and your mutually respectful engagement in one
another's musical and spiritual traditions model the kind of dialogue
between the black and Jewish communities that so many of us aspire to. Your
presentation had the remarkable effect of moving, delighting and edifying us
all at the same time."  Rabbi Dan Polish, Director of the UAHC Commission on
Social Action of Reform Judaism

"Bref. C'est beau."  Le Jazz Hot

For more information about David Chevan and Warren Byrd  visit David
Chevan's web site located at
 www.chevan.addr.com


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