Tsimbl & Clarinet: Pete Rushefsky & Dena Ressler @ Tonic (NYC) Sept 14

[Pete Rushefsky <klezbanjo...>]

For immediate release...

Contact: Dena Ressler (klezmer (at) yiddishmusic(dot)com, 781-643-1957)

or Pete Rushefsky (prushefsky (at) yahoo(dot)com, 716-713-4293)

PRESENTING:

Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) and Dena Ressler (clarinet).

"From Belaia Tserkov to Syracuse: klezmer music then and now." Original 
compositions by Pete Rushefsky, tunes collected by Moshe Beregovski in Dena 
Ressler's ancestral town, and other rarely performed treasures - for hammered 
dulcimer and clarinet.  Live on New York's Lower East Side

Tonic's Klezmer Brunch, curated by David Krakauer

Date: Sunday, September 14, 2003

Time: Two sets: 1:30 and 3:00

Place: Tonic (www.tonicnyc.com), 212 358-7501

107 Norfolk St. (between Delancey and Rivington)

F train to Delancey Street; J, M, & Z trains to Essex; 14A bus to 
Rivington/Delancey

Admission: $10 per set or $15 for both.

 

BIOGRAPHIES

PETE RUSHEFSKY

Tsimblist

Pete Rushefsky is a leading revivalist of the tsimbl, or Jewish hammered 
dulcimer. A string instrument played like a xylophone, the tsimbl spread from 
its medieval roots with migrating Jewish musicians throughout Central and 
Eastern Europe. Sadly, as a result of pressures such as the Holocaust, 
assimilation in the New World and changing musical tastes, the Jewish tsimbl 
tradition died out in the first half of the twentieth century.

Today Pete Rushefsky is one of a handful of brave young klezmer musicians to 
use musicological field and archival research in recreating a performance style 
for this mystical zither. Accomplished as a soloist and a sympathetic 
accompanist, Rushefsky is a popular teacher at KlezKamp and KlezKanada and 
performs with some of the leading performers of the klezmer revival, including 
Steven Greenman, Rebecca Kaplan and Alicia Svigals. He won much critical 
acclaim for his recent album with violinist Elie Rosenblatt entitled "Tsimbl un 
Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer and Violin" (available from Hatikvah 
Music and Amazon.com) and appears with Michael Alpert and Deborah Strauss on 
Yiddish poet/songwriter Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman's new CD "Af di gasn fun der 
shtot - On the Streets of the City" (Yiddishland Records). Additionally, 
Rushefsky has authored a pioneering instructional book/tape entitled "The 
Essentials of Klezmer 5-String Banjo, Volume I" (available from Elderly
 Instruments). He has recently relocated to Syracuse, NY along with a horde of 
string instruments.

 

Dena Ressler

Clarinetist

A staff member at the Klezmer Institute at New England Conservatory of Music 
and KlezKamp, Dena has taught a klezmer history class at the Conference on 
Judaism in Rural New England and developed a educational/entertaining musical 
program presented at museums, open-air concerts, schools, and libraries. 

A co-founder of di bostoner klezmer, she has performed at the National Yiddish 
Book Center, at Boston's Museum of Science, and for an internationally touring 
photo exibit introduced by Elie Weisel. A veteran performer, her music has 
enlivened numerous weddings, bar/bas mitzves, holiday celebrations at shuls, 
public concerts, and nursing homes (some of her favorite audiences!) with her 
own group and as a sub for Metropolitan Klezmer, Klezamir, and the Wholesale 
Klezmer Band.  She currently lives in the goles/galut near Boston, MA.



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