Press Release: Maxwell Street CD Release Party

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Maxwell Street Klezmer Band CD Release Party

News Release Contact: Lori Lippitz (847) 675-4800

For release June 5, 2002

Chicago, IL   The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band will be at Barnes & Noble Book 
Store in Old Orchard Shopping Center, Skokie, Illinois, on Thursday, June 20, 
at 7:30 PM. The band will be releasing its fourth CD, titled Old Roots, New 
World, on the Shanachie label.

The group will be autographing the new CD during a free concert until 9:30 
PM, featuring music from the album.

In recommending the album, Theodore Bikel, folk singer and star of Fiddler on 
the 
Roof, comments, "These are fine musicians. They not only play well, but they 
care about the music. And when they care--I care."


Old Roots, New World is an evocative collection of traditional klezmer music 
and new compositions. It features a classical piece, Klezmer Rhapsody, which 
was written 
for the band's violinist, Alex Koffman, by Chicago composer Ilya Levinson. 
Several 
theater songs by Yiddish comedienne Molly Picon spice this potpourri of 
Yiddish music.