new Kabbalah Music CD/Laura Wetzler concerts

[Laura Wetzler <LAURAWETZLER...>]

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"fascinating new album... vastly impressive...superb performances...
a magnificent achievement" Robert Sherman, The New York Times/WQXR/WFUV
Announcing a new CD from ASCAP Award Winning Singer-Songwriter
Laura Wetzler
Kabbalah Music: Songs of the Jewish Mystics
Meditations, Devotions and Ecstasies, New and Old,
 From Around the World
Worldbeat Jewish Music from Uganda, Italy, India, Spain, Yemen, 
Iraq,Greece, Morocco, Eastern Europe, & the U.S., and new music by Laura 
Wetzler.
Special Musical Guests:
Alicia Svigals and Lorin Sklamberg, of the Klezmatics;
J.J. Keki and Gershom Sizomu, (Abayudaya Jews of Uganda)
Master percussionist Amir Chehade; Michael Hess and Eve Sicular from 'Met' 
Klezmer;Nikki Parrot from Mikve; Produced by Laura Wetzler
15 songs celebrating traditional mystical imagery from the Torah, the 
Zohar, the Hechalot poets, Ibn Ezra, Gerondi, the "Ari," Najara, Alkabetz, 
Labi, Shabazi, Nachman of Bratzlav, Levi Yitzak of Berdichev, Sarah Bas 
Toivim, and more. Sung in English, Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish, Ladino 
(Judeo-Spanish) and Lugandan-Hebrew dialect. A 24-page booklet with 
translations, transliterations and historical notes is included. Laura 
recently returned from a song-sharing trip to Mbale, Uganda and Addis 
Ababa, Ethiopia. She is on a 60 date summer concert/lecture tour.
CD Available from amazon.com; cdbaby.com; jewishmusic.com; soundswrite.com.

Please save these dates!
Sunday, Aug. 18th, 2002 2pm
The National Yiddish Book Center, 1021 West St. Amherst Ma 413 256-4900
Sunday, March 9 2003 3pm The Merkin Concert Hall
129 W67th St. NYC, NY 212 501-3340
Kabbalah Music: Songs of the Jewish Mystics
Meditations, devotions and ecstasies, new and old, from around the world

Up Coming Public Concerts:
Saturday, June 15, 9pm
Unitarian Church, 399 Main St., Greenfield, Ma (413)-773-5018.
Contemporary American Folk, great American classics plus songs
from the new Kabbalah Music CD
Sunday, June 30th, 2pm
1794 Meeting House, 666 South East St. New Salem, Ma (978) 544 5200
www.1794 meetinghouse.org Contemporary American Folk, great American 
classics plus songs from the new Kabbalah Music CD
Laura is one of the very best" Pete Seeger
"In a time of renewed interest in traditional music, there are only a 
handful of singers who can really perform the enormously sophisticated and 
varied styles of Jewish music from around the world.>Laura Wetzler is one 
who is keeping the flame alive. She is an amazingly gifted singer, 
songwriter and ethnic folklorist." David Amram
"Glorious singing?exciting, up-beat, joyous." Workman?s Circle NYC
"Moving artistry" Ken Meltzer, WQED-NPR
"A rich, resonant voice weaving traditional, ethnic and contemporary 
threads into intelligent, literate songs." Richard Fox, WCUW Airwaves; Top 
10 The Phoenix
ASCAP Award winning singer-songwriter-guitarist LAURA WETZLER tours 
nationally in over 150 concerts and lectures each year, singing 23 
different programs, featuring World Jewish Roots Music in Hebrew, Yiddish 
and Ladino (Judeo-Spanish,) original Contemporary American Folk, and the 
great classics of American song. Her debut CD, Songwriter?s Notebook, is 
currently receiving airplay on over 500 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, cdbaby.com, and 
laurawetzler.com, and is featured on The Best of Independent American Music 
Compilation CD.
For information on 23 different programs, to hear and order music; or find 
downloadable press photos, visit www.laurawetzler.com