Oops! Correction: 20th Anniv. Part 2: Beacon, NY Oct. 20th

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The Wholesale Klezmer Band 20th Anniversary Celebration  Part 2

at the Beacon Sloop Club's annual Pumpkin Festival
Sunday, October 20th
Beacon Harbor Park, Beacon, NY
The festival runs from noon to 6 pm, we will be performing from 2:30 to 3:30 pm
Free and open to the public

The harbor is located at the site of the old Newburgh-Beacon Ferry 
Terminal, adjacent to Metro-North Commuter Railroad's Beacon Station. 
It's less than a mile south of the Newburgh Beacon Bridge.  If 
traveling by car, get off I-84 at the Beacon Exit and follow the 
signs to the railroad station.

In 1990 with the membership of Wholesale Klezmer Band looking pretty 
much as it does today, we received an invitation to play at the 
Beacon Sloop Club's annual Pumpkin Festival. Pete Seeger would be 
there, as well as the Sloop Clearwater and a number of other 
performers.  "Who's Pete Seeger?" asked one of our new members who 
shall remain nameless. "Who's Duke Ellington?" I answered.

It was a thrill to perform from the same stage as one of my lifelong 
musical heroes, but what followed from that performance was even more 
thrilling.  Pete and Toshi Seeger liked what they heard from us and 
when Pete was to host a Celebration of Folk Music for the 100th 
anniversary of Carnegie Hall, they invited us to perform for it 
together with Tommy Makem, Jean Ritchie, Ruth Rubin, Peter, Paul and 
Mary, Simon Shaheen, and Sweet Honey in the Rock and others.

With so many performers, we all had to strictly limit ourselves to 10 
minutes, and it was a challange to work out a 10 minute set that 
would include instrumentals, a song, and a translation of the 
Yiddish.  We chose to do the Wholesale Hora and Bulgar which Sherry 
had written to celebrate her joining us the year before, and a 
bilingual version of Arbetlozer Marsh so that I wouldn't have to 
spend time talking instead of making music.  Since there was a signer 
for the hearing impaired, the verses that didn't get translated into 
English got translated into Sign Language, so audience members who 
could read Sign Language got the full translation that other 
non-Yiddish speakers missed.

We've enjoyed going back to Beacon a number of times to perform, and 
have had the pleasure of sharing other stages with Pete Seeger and 
Peter, Paul and Mary. I hope we'll see some of you at the Pumpkin 
Festival. The Sloop Clearwater will be there with the information and 
membership booth. The Sojouner Truth will be taking guests sailing.

Zayt gezunt (be healthy),

Yosl (Joe) Kurland
The Wholesale Klezmer Band
Colrain, MA 01340
voice/fax: 413-624-3204
http://www.WholesaleKlezmer.com
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