Bklyn TRIPLE klezmer bill this Wednesday! (reminder)

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our busiest week of the year... gentle Brooklyn reminder: 
this Wednesday, December 17
Southpaw presents
Isle of Klezbos 10pm + Metropolitan Klezmer 9pm
with opening band Golem [punk-edged klez] at 8pm
Hanuka prelude in Park Slope, triple bill only $10!

Southpaw club: 718-230-0236  www.spsounds.com
125 Fifth Ave (just south of Flatbush; Sterling Place & St Johns)    
>>  Band line-up update ~ Michael Hess will play this show after all,
bringing his kanun (zither) and ney (flutes) for Metro tunes!
full Klezbos sextet, full eight-piece Metropolitan Klezmer
plus special guest old pal Harris Wulfson on violin
[featured artist on Yiddish For Travelers & Mosaic Persuasion]

new review of Metro & Klezbos' latest CDs (cdbaby.com, stores below):

"The drummer and founder of Metropolitan Klezmer, Eve Sicular, is also the 
leader of its all-female offshoot, Isle of Klezbos. Both bands are associated 
-- 
just like the Klezmatics -- with Manhattan's edgy incubators of Klezmer music 
and contemporary urban lifestyles.
    "Live recording[s] from Joe's Pub ... grace both new discs: a medley of a 
doyna, an old nigun, and 'Abi Gezunt' features vocalist Deborah Karpel... a 
guaranteed crowd-pleaser with lyrics by Molly Picon... Karpel is soulful in the 
band's spare arrangement of the poignant lullaby 'Unter Beymer' from a 1940 
Moyshe Oysher film. Isle's accordionist, Rachelle Garniez, explores fun 
connections between a Latin merengue party tune and a Yiddish theatre standard; 
and 
clarinetist Debra Kreisberg slides Klezmer into Brazil.
    "As for Metropolitan Klezmer, among their 'surprising finds' is the 
'Shadkhn [matchmaker] Tango from a 1940 Yiddish movie.  A Rumanian medley 
features 
the fine world-music accordionist Ismail Butera.
    "Short tracks of 1960s home recordings of Karpel's grandfather's warm 
Yiddish singing voice enrich the album. There's also a suite of songs from the 
Soviet Yiddish theatre. Album notes cover interesting historical information, 
including the closet struggles, both as a Jew and a gay man, of Lionel Bart [ne 
Begleiter], composer of the musical Oliver! from which the band arranges -- in 
Klezmer style -- the Jewish character Fagin's 'Pick a Pocket or Two.' "  - 
Gigi Yellen-Kohn, SEATTLE JEWISH TRANSCRIPT

all our CDs are at www.cdbaby.com, woodstockcd.com & all over the web,
PLUS stores including SoundTrack, Tower, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Virgin,
Workmen's Circle, West Side Judaica, Main Squeeze, Downtown Music Gallery, 
etc.
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both bands:  www.metropolitanklezmer.com
ISLE OF KLEZBOS & 
METROPOLITAN KLEZMER
151 First Ave #145, NYC 10003
tel:  212.475.4544
fax:  212.677.6304
info (at) metropolitanklezmer(dot)com

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