30th Jewish Music Festival
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The 30th Jewish Music Festival, February 26 – March 22, 2015
Events in Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco
Tickets http://www.jewishmusicfestival.org or 800-838-3006,
For 15% discount for groups of ten or more, contact the Festival office at 510-848-0237, x126
Highlights include Diwan Saz a Jewish-Muslim-Christian ensemble from Israel featuring piyutim, or Jewish liturgical poems, and Bedouin folksongs by a 14-year old prodigious singer; a World Premiere by jazz bassoonist Paul Hanson; a Punjabi-bhangra-Yiddish-funk party band Sharabi; Cantor Jack Mendelson sings classical hazonos (Jewish liturgical music). Sway Machinery fronted by Jeremiah Lockwood (of Balkan Beatbox fame), the women’s vocal ensemble Kitka, including a tribute to Ronnie Gilbert of the folk music revival group the Weavers; a pop-up community chorus of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, a reprise of last season’s hit musical theater piece Di Megileh of Itzik Manger, dance workshops, the Instant Klezmer Mandolin Orchestra and finale dance party with Veretski Pass.
The JMF is a fiscally-sponsored project of the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
