Hasidic New Wave
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Hasidic New Wave (featuring trumpeter Frank London of the Klezmatics, saxophonist Greg Wall, guitarist Kenny Wessel, bassist Fima Ephron and drummer Aaron Alexander) have used their knowledge of traditional Jewish and contemporary African-American musics to forge a new synthesis that has garnered acclaim for their four CDs and their live shows.
New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars
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Opening Night | Bring in Da Klez Bring in Da Funk This event is sold out
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The New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars (NOKAS) have carried on with their own interpretation of the klezmer tradition since 1991. New Orleans, where arcane cultural borrowing is normal, seems to be a natural home for a music that has always blended diverse styles. Yet, "when we first started playing this music, people had no idea what it was (many still don't)," explains Arthur Kastler, the band's original bass player, "They would stand there with… Full Description
Rashanim
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Rashanim is a trio of guitar, bass and drums/percussion combining the power of rock with the spontaneity of improvisation, deep Middle Eastern grooves, and mystical Jewish melodies. The 'Jewish power trio' is led by Jon Madof on guitar and includes Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (Pharaoh's Daughter) on bass and Mathias Kunzli (Lauryn Hill) on drums and percussion. The band gets its name from the noisemakers used during the Jewish holiday of Purim.
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Sam Turner's Dom Pakka Chikki
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Legendary percussionist Sam Turner will be accompanied by his DC-based group Dom Pakka Chikki (percussionist extraordinaire Jason Walker and fellow drummers Mark Suresh Schlanger and Lisa Raye). The group combines traditional ethnic rhythms with original vocals to provide a satisfying mix guaranteed to please all who partake.Sam Turner has worked nationally and internationally with stars such as Machito, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard and many others.… Full Description
The 18th Street Singers
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The 18th Street Singers are a group of young people living, learning, and working in the DC area. The forty-voice a cappella ensemble is dedicated to the highest standards of musicianship and strives to give their audiences an appreciation of the power and beauty of choral music.Full Description
Vulgar Bulgars
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Opening Night | Bring in Da Klez Bring in Da Funk This event is sold out
The Vulgar Bulgars, Central Virginia's hardest working, hardest playing Klezmer group, are a quartet of young, energetic musicians who share a passion for performing and a love of soulful Klezmer music. Since 2003, they have played Klezmer music extensively in Virginia and Washington DC, serving up their hot freilachs and sweet horas at weddings, parties, cafes, bars, street corners, farmer's markets and festival stages from Massachusetts to Key West.
Yakar Rhythms
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Yakar Rhythms’ members (Alioune Faye, Ousmane Sall and Abdulaye Diop) have played with all the leading Senegalese artists from Youssou N’Dour to N’Diaye Rose and have recorded internationally with such luminaries as Stevie Wonder and Peter Gabriel.
dj handler
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dj handler (Erez), founder of Modular Moods Records and the Sephardic Music Festival, fuses live and recorded sound, while referencing Ashkenazic cantorial music, traditional Yemenite melodies, baile funk and Afro beat. London Radio's 104.4 FM called him "One of New York’s hottest Jewish musicians" and Heeb Magazine listed him in their "Hundred Heeb."
DJ Shotnez
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DJ Shotnez (Ori Kaplan) of Balkan Beat Box, whose techno fusion beats were recently featured on NPR's "All Things Considered," and formerly of Gogol Bordello, blends Middle Eastern, Gypsy, Balkan, Jewish and Arabic elements. He received the Jerome award for Young Jazz Composers in 2001 and has spearheaded the Eastern European cultural revolution in NYC.
Y-Love
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Y-Love (Yitz Jordan), a convert to Chassidus (the mystical branch of Orthodox Judaism), is an innovative freestyler who weaves seamless rhymes in English, Arabic, Yiddish, Hebrew and Aramaic, the ancient language of Jewish law. With each word, Y-Love breathes new life into Judaism and hip-hop.
Yofiyah
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A vocal visionary and originator of Kabbalah Kirtan, Yofiyah is known for her dynamic style of chanting, and ability to engage people in the intensity and joy of kirtan. Yofiyah offers you a powerful, direct, and personally transformative entry to this ecstatic spiritual practice based on the chanting of sacred Hebrew texts and Names of God. Susan's latest CD is titled "Kiss the Beloved: Kabbalah Kirtan" (2004).
Yofiyah is also the creator of Vocal Discovery, a unique… Full Description
Jake Break
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Jake Break is a souled-out independently affiliated producer. His music bridges Afro Beat, Brazilian jazz and funk rhythms with layers of instruments that stray from your cousin's boom-bap loops. His style is 60's pleats, hair-greased, and satin sheets, 80’s turbo creased, 70's jazz-fusion funked out, 90's bubble fat geese-tommy hilfiger fleece. …
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Michal Cohen
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Michal Cohen's reputation is building as one of the most eclectic and exciting vocalists on the East Coast. Since graduating from Berklee College of Music, she has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space and Joe's Pub. Her recordings include collaborations with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Uri Caine, DJ Cheb I Sabbah, JazzHole and many more, and she has toured in the United States, Mexico, Canada and the Far East. She was featured as lead vocalist in the acclaimed film Divan.… Full Description
Adrienne Cooper
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Adrienne Cooper is one of the most influential performers of Yiddish vocal music and has appeared in venues around the world. Her singing has been featured on film, radio, television and some twenty recordings including Partisans of Vilna, the only Yiddish recording ever nominated for a Grammy.
Marilyn Lerner
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Marilyn Lerner, an exhilarating jazz pianist and improviser, performs to acclaim internationally, from her native Montreal to Havana, Jerusalem, Amsterdam and Ukraine. Her groundbreaking recordings have garnered recognition, including Best Jazz Recording 2004 for her "Special Angel" duo with legendary guitarist Sonny Greenwich.
Mark Suresh Schlanger
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Mark Suresh Schlanger has been playing hand drums for 15 years. He has studied percussion in Cuba, NYC, and WDC, and has accompanied African, Afro-Cuban, Middle-Eastern and modern dance classes. A certified yoga instructor with a degree in psychology and an MBA, Mark combines drumming with movement and self exploration activities, in order to encourage others to…
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Steve "Steinski" Stein
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Steinski (advertising writer, DJ and record collector Steve Stein) produced his first record in 1983 with his partner Double Dee (Douglas DiFranco). Within two weeks "The Payoff Mix" became a Top 10 record on urban radio nationwide, and it is still one of the most in-demand bootleg recordings in hip hop. It became the first record in a series now known as The Lessons, the second of which Fatboy Slim called "the record that always gets the crowd going."
The Washington Jewish Music Festival
Washington District of Columbia Jewish Community Center · Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts
1529 16th Street NW · Washington DC 20036 USA
tel (202) 777-3250 · fax (202) 518-9420
The Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation is the major sponsor of the Seventh Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival. The Festival is supported in part by a grant from the United Jewish Endowment Fund. The Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts is supported by a grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
info @ wjmf · www.wjmf.org
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Washington District of Columbia Jewish Community Center · Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts
1529 16th Street NW · Washington DC 20036 USA
tel (202) 777-3250 · fax (202) 518-9420
The Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation is the major sponsor of the Seventh Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival. The Festival is supported in part by a grant from the United Jewish Endowment Fund. The Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts is supported by a grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
info @ wjmf · www.wjmf.org
Copyright © 2006, Washington District of Columbia Jewish Community CenterAll rights reserved. Redistribution of any part of this World Wide Web site -- including stills, photographs, multimedia clips, logos, graphics, text, and links -- is prohibited without permission.