Monday, June 2nd, 8pm at Makor in NYC: Sanda Weigl's "Gypsy Killer"

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                            SANDA WEIGL: "GYPSY KILLER"

Location:        Makor

Date/Time:       Monday, June 2nd, 8pm

Price:             $15.00 all sections

Tomorrow evening at Makor (for the few not in the know, a very warm and 
vibrant Jewish cultural arts space in Manhattan, a few blocks from Lincoln 
Center 
at 35 West 67th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue) there 
will be a very special performance by Sanda Weigl.  Her music is steeped in the 
Romanian gypsy tradtion, and featured on the program with Sanda will be 
Anthony Coleman and Ted Reichman.  From what I understand, Pablo Aslan will be 
playing bass and there will be two or three other musicians in the ensemble. I 
thought this performance might interest members of the list for a varitey of 
reasons.  Firstly, this is music very much infused by the same musical treasure 
trove that also provides all manner of inspiration and sustenance to a 
tremendous 
variety of klezmer music.  And then certainly the name Anthony Coleman rings 
a bell for many list members as one of the pivotal "neo-klezmer" innovators 
with all of his activities associated with the Knitting Factory.  In fact the 
title "Gypsy Killer" is also the rubric on Sanda's recent CD, put out on the 
Knitting Factory label (www.knittingfactory.com).  

At the Makor website there is the following blurb:

"After escaping political persecution in East Berlin, Sanda Weigl came to New 
York with only her voice-establishing herself as the 'Downtown Gypsy Queen'. 
Weigl has recently been invited to collaborate on the upcoming Kronos Quartet 
album. San Diego's Union Tribune says of Weigl, "Sounding at times like a Tom 
Waits-bred cross between chanteuse Cesaria Evora and German vocal visionary 
Dagmar Krause, Sanda draws from her Romanian Gypsy heritage to create music 
steeped in tradition, yet very much of the moment." Pianist Anthony Coleman and 
accordionist Ted Reichman join her as featured guests."
    
Sanda Weigl and Anthony Coleman will also be appearing the following week 
(next Monday, June 9th) at the 32nd International Moers Jazz Festival (for 
those 
of you in Europe and able to make the trek!) and there is a nice assessment of 
Sanda's upcoming performance there at the following link:
<A HREF="http://www.moers-festival.com/festival/sanda.html";>
http://www.moers-festival.com/festival/sanda.html</A>


Michael Spudic
Forest Hills, New York