From: Klezmer plus news
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Sent: 31 May 2012 12:11
Subject: Klezmer plus news -
Summer 2012
Dear friends
Here's a selection of
music you can enjoy listening & dancing to or playing over the coming
months, including klezmer and classical gigs in Dorset, Gloucestershire,
London, Suffolk, Sussex and Wales; and jamming & workshops in Cambridge and
London.
Klezmer concerts
Friday 15 June, 8pm,
London Klezmer Quartet at Cafe Mostra. London N16
Enjoy the LKQ and
reasonably priced Turkish food at this friendly local restaurant.
Sunday 1 July, 11.20am London Klezmer Quartet at South London Day
Limmud. London SW1
An hour-long set at the
Jewish event in Ilana's alma mater - Pimlico School!
Saturday 14 July,
7.30pm, Klezmer Keilidh in Hastings. Sussex TN34
A huge outdoor knees-up
with the London Klezmer Quartet Big Band, featuring Steve Weintraub ('The
Yiddish Fred Astaire'). Free event as part of The UK Big Dance weekend.
Thursday 19 July, 9pm,
London Klezmer Quartet at the Green Note. London NW1
The band's summer show
at the popular world and folk music venue. Early booking is recommended!
Sunday 9 September,
1-5pm, Klezmer in the Park. London
NW1
The London Klezmer
Quartet and other top UK Jewish music acts entertain at the free annual
outdoor event in London's Regents Park.
Play klezmer
Sunday 10 June,
The London Klezmer Session: Workshop 1-2pm, Jam 2-4pm. London W1
The informal jam
sessions on the second Sunday of each month are back by popular demand! Bring
an instrument and a tune to share, or just come along to listen. The pub serves
food and there is plenty of room to chat and schmooze! Supported by the Jewish Music
Institute.
2-6 July, Summer Klezmer
Course at SOAS. London WC1
Come and discover the
joys of klezmer with two of the UK's top teachers and performers, Ilana Cravitz
(fiddle) and Merlin Shepherd (clarinet). Over the course of the week
you'll learn how to play the soulful and celebratory music of Jews from Eastern
Europe from the last century. Open to all instruments and ages. In
association with the Jewish
Music Institute.
More information
and online booking.
Sunday 8 July, 2-5pm,
Klezmer Workshop in Cambridge. Cambridge CB3
An afternoon workshop
with Ilana Cravitz for players of all ages and abilities. Learn a klezmer tune
and some traditional ornamentation and accompaniment. All instruments welcome.
Level: grade 4 or equivalent and above.
Sunday 15 July, 1-5pm,
Klezmer Music and Dance Workshop. London WC1
Join Steve Weintraub
(dance, US), fiddlers Jake Shulman-Ment (US/France) and Ilana
Cravitz (UK), cellist Francesca Ter-Berg (UK) and Carol Isaacs (accordion)
for a very special workshop for all ages and abilities.
Information and online
booking at the Jewish Music Institute website.
Other music
Tuesday 5 June, 6pm,
Vivaldi's Venetian Vespers.
Hadleigh, Suffolk
Peter Holman directs
Essex Baroque Orchestra and Psalmody, with Timothy Travers-Brown
(countertenor), Claire Tomlin & Sarah Kelly (soprano)
Sunday 24 June, 7pm,
Cafe Mozart concert. Minchinhampton,
Gloucestershire
Instrumental music by
Haydn and Bornhardt; Mozart arias arranged for two flutes; 18th century English
songs; settings of Goethe poems.
Performers: Rogers
Covey-Crump (voice); Jonathan Morgan&Jenny Thomas (flutes); Ilana Cravitz
(violin); Ian Gammie (viola da gamba)
See www.cafemozart.org for
more information
Monday 27 August,
Suffolk Villages Festival anniversary concert. Suffolk
The Suffolk Villages
Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary with a gala concert.
She'Koyokh concerts
The popular klezmer and
Balkan music band can be heard around the UK this summer:
10 June from
1pm, Horniman Museum Gardens, London SE23_at_ World City Music Village
23 June, Spitalfields
Festival
26 June, City of London
Festival
27 June, Beaminster
Festival, Dorset
28 June, Durweston
Village Hall, Dorset
29 June, Beyond the
Border Storytelling Festival, St Donat's, Wales