Free Monthly Klezmer Jam Session in Brooklyn Starts Thursday, December 4, 2002

[Warschauer <Warschauer...>]

A quick ride on the F train to Park Slope!  Bring an instrument, or just come 
and listen.  Admission is free. See you there!    

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For immediate release

The Strauss/Warschauer Duo will kick off the first of its Klezmer Jam 
Sessions at Barbès on Thursday 12/04. 


Both as a duo and with the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Jeff Warschauer & 
Deborah Strauss are deeply committed to Klezmer & Yiddish music. The duo’s 
performances mix Klezmer, Hasidic and liturgical music along with their own 
compositions. They are equally at ease with traditional music as they are 
with more contemporary material, making them an integral part of the new 
Klezmer scene.

Their performance at Barbès, on December 5th, promises to be the first of an 
exciting series. Their first set will consist of the duo’s performance while 
the following sets will take the form of a jam session and be open to 
musicians and students of Klezmer music. 

Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer are both members of the Klezmer 
Conservatory Band and have performed with violinist Itzhak Perlman on film 
and in concert.  As the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, they have performed at the 
Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Amsterdam International Yiddish Festival, the 
Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow, and the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto. 

Deborah Strauss (violin, accordion, vocals) is one of the finest 
practitioners of traditional Jewish violin today.  She has appeared on 
numerous recordings and is a member of the Chicago Klezmer Ensemble.  Strauss 
studied violin at Rutgers University and ethnomusicology at the University of 
Chicago.  

Jeff Warschauer (guitar, mandolin,vocals) is known internationally as one of 
the foremost exponents of the klezmer mandolin, as an innovator in the 
development of a klezmer guitar style, and as an expressive Yiddish singer.  
Warschauer is also a composer whose music has been heard in films and theater 
productions, on Public Radio International and HBO.  A graduate of the New 
England Conservatory, Jeff's solo CD, The Singing Waltz: Klezmer Guitar and 
Mandolin, has received widespread critical acclaim.

Performance is on Thursday December 5th at 8pm. Admission is free.
 
Barbès is located at 376 9th st, at the corner of 6th avenue, in Park Slope, 
Brooklyn. 
F Train to 7th avenue. (718) 965 9177

For additional info, contact Olivier: 718 788 3891
Email: olivierconan (at) earthlink(dot)net

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