From: London Klezmer Quartet [info_at_londonklezmerquartet_dot_com]
Sent: 01 August 2018 14:13
Subject: LKQ News (plus)
Dear friends
We hope you're enjoying the summer.
Here are some LKQ dates we thought you might like to know about in the
coming weeks, plus playing opportunities, and details of some of our other
musical projects. You can find more details and autumn LKQ dates on www.londonklezmerquartet.com.
Looking forward to seeing you soon.
Warmest wishes,
London Klezmer Quartet
07825510881
20-24 August, Klezfest 2018
SOAS,
Thornhaugh Street, London
Workshops, jams, concerts, dancing,
singing, and more, led by an international faculty, including Susi Evans &
Ilana Cravitz
Places still available: https://www.jmi.org.uk/event/klezfest2018/
Tuesday 21 August, 8pm - Socalled
Sings Yiddish With Strings
SOAS Main Building,
Thornhaugh Square, London
Preview of new repertoire being released
in the autumn by the legendary Josh Dolgin (vocals/accordion), with Ilana
Cravitz & Flora Curzon (violins), Meg Hamilton (viola), Francesca Ter-Berg
(cello)
Details & booking: https://www.jmi.org.uk/event/socalled-sings-yiddish/
Weds 22 August, 7.30pm - Klezfest
Music & Dance Party
JW3, London
Fran and Flora, Merlin & Polina
Shepherd, Alan Bern + faculty band with dance leading by Andreas Schmitges
Details & booking: https://www.jmi.org.uk/event/klezfestdanceparty2018/
1 September, 11.30am
London Folk Festival,
Cecil Sharp House, Camden, London
Details and tickets: http://www.londonfolkfestival.co.uk/line-up-2018/
2
September, 3pm (event runs 12.30- 6.15pm)
Klezmer in the Park, Regents Park Bandstand, London NW1
LKQ with special guest Kadialy
Kouyate (kora)
Free event
4 September, doors 8pm - Pear
O'Legs Records Presents: LKQ + Southfleet
The Harrison
(downstairs)
Details and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pear-olegs-records-presents-the-london-klezmer-quartet-southfleet-tickets-47043358953
Play Klezmer
First Sunday of every month,
8-10.30pm: 5 Aug, 2 Sept, 7 Oct, 4 Nov, 2 Dec
Harrison pub, Kings
Cross
20-24 August: Klezfest
(non-residential course)
SOAS, London
Details & registration: https://www.jmi.org.uk/event/klezfest2018/
16-18 November (residential course
using sheet music)
Benslow Music, Hitchin,
Herts
Details & registration: http://www.benslowmusic.org/index.asp?PageID=2141
30 November - 2 December
(residential course)
Halsway Manor, Somerset
Details & registration: https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/klezmer-music-weekend/
Other news from LKQ members
She'koyokh
4 Aug, 6.30pm - Cubitt Sessions
Kings Cross, London
5
Aug, 2.30pm - Lauderdale House, Highgate, London (trio)
2
Sept, 9pm Festival of Jim, Sussex
Details:
www.shekoyokh.co.uk
The Wolf of Baghdad
The Wolf of Baghdad is an
audio-visual journey through a Jewish family's memories of their lost Iraqi
homeland by Carol Isaacs (musician/artist AKA The Surreal McCoy).
Carol presents projections of the graphic memoir, sometimes with
commentary, and sometimes accompanied by live band 3yin playing the music of Iraq and its
Jews, an ancient community that lived there for more than two millennia.
Friday 3 August, 5.30pm
Pettman House, Hanover
Square, Herne Bay CT6 5NY
Illustrated talk and preview of ?The
Wolf of Baghdad' as part of the 6th annual HB Cartoon Festival. Free entry.
Details: https://www.facebook.com/HBCartoonFest/
2
September, 4pm (event runs 12.30- 6.15pm)
Klezmer in the Park, Regents Park Bandstand
Ayin,
new Judeo-Arabic band play a rare electric set, with special guest Camille
Maalawy. Free event.
Sunday
14 October, 10.45am
Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Kendal
Carol
presents some of the work in progress.
Details
and tickets: https://www.comicartfestival.com/the-wolf-of-baghdad
Wednesday November 7th (time tbc)
Oxford
Jewish Centre, 21 Richmond Road, Oxford OX1 2JL
An evening
remembering the Jews of Iraq, featuring ?The Wolf of Baghdad', Iraqi Jewish
guests adding their own stories, and some delicious Iraqi Jewish treats.
Enquiries: jane.itzhaki_at_gmail_dot_com
22
November, 7.30pm
JW3, London
Wolf of Baghdad: Artist Night. The artists and musicians involved in the Wolf of
Baghdad and the band 3yin will be speaking after the performance, about the
artistic inspirations that have compelled them to create innovative new work
based on their personal histories and heritage.
Lantana Ensemble
?Cats, Birds and County
Lasses', a programme based on folk melodies and
poems including music by Dowland, Purcell and Simpson. Plus first performance
of ?Jubilate Agno' by Ilana Cravitz. Dir. Peter Holman (chamber organ) with
Emily Atkinson (soprano), Ilana Cravitz and
Judy Tarling (baroque violin), May Robertson (baroque viola), Louise Jameson (baroque cello).
1 November, 7.30pm
Newington Green
Unitarian Church, Stoke Newington, N16, London
2 November, 7.30pm
Heath Street Baptist
Church, Hampstead NW3, London
Dangerous Song
Dangerous Song' is a new
Eco-Music performance project - a duo that uses sounds of endangered
animals (played on a digital wind instrument) combined with the amazing
voice of Lizzie O'Keefe. Presented with a one hour film of incredible
underwater cinematography. http://www.dangeroussong.com/
16-19 October, various venues
tbc.
For details email: ilanacravitz_at_gmail_dot_com