Family Music Day & Finale Dance Party
Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:00 AM
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Activities throughout the Day:
Sunday, March 29
JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley
11:00am Children’s Concert with folk-rocker Elana Jagoda and Zum Gali Gali
12:15-2:00pm Instrument Petting Zoo
Tony Phillips, mandolin; Jeanette Lewicki, accordion; Dan Ishoo, qanun; John Erlich, oud; Manar Azriek, percussion; Barbara Speed, clarinet; Julie Egger, violin; Rachel Melas, bass; Dan Plonsey, sax; Morey Garelick, banjo/dulcimer
12:30 – 1:00pm Yuri Lane Human Beatbox
1:15 – 1:45pm Ayelet Cohen Sings Tehillim
An award winning soprano, Ayelet has performed throughout Israel, Italy and the Bay Area. Her opera performances include leading roles with the Berkeley Opera, Oakland Opera, Pocket Opera and the Opera Festival of Rome.
2:00 – 2:30pm Hyim
The “hippie child who grew up on hip-hop,” Hyim is a singer-songwriter,
composer, playwright and poet.who began playing piano at the age of three, studied sitar in India, clave in Cuba, classical guitar in New Zealand, and (last but not least) the Torah.
2:00 – 4:00pm Jewish Dance Workshop with Bruce Bierman and Miriam Peretz
Bruce Bierman directs the San Francisco based Jewish Dance Theatre. He has performed and taught with the Aman Folk Dance Ensemble. Bruce is a student of the great Jewish dancer and choreographer, Felix Fibich and Yiddish dance teacher Steve Weintraub.
Miriam Peretz is an internationally acclaimed performing artist and dance instructor. She is assistant artistic director and principle dancer for Ballet Afsaneh with whom she has been a member since 1998.
2:30 – 4:00pm Festival Artist Jam Session with Daniel Kahn, Michael Winograd and other Festival artists
4:00 pm Finale Dance Party with Brass Menažeri
The Brass Menažeri (pronounced “Menagerie”) is the San Francisco Bay Area’s Klezmer Balkan Romani (“Gypsy”) powerhouse brass band. The energy is infectious—toes tap, bodies slam, sweat flies as vital energy radiates from the dance floor. The Brass Menažeri is a shining example of traditional Balkan repertoire and klezmer, combined with new sensibilities, innovative arrangements & original compositions at the hands & lips of American devotees.sweat flies as vital energy radiates from the dance floor. The Brass Menažeri is a shining example of traditional Balkan repertoire and klezmer, combined with new sensibilities, innovative arrangements & original compositions at the hands & lips of American devotees.
Presented in association with Freight and Salvage Coffee House
Co-sponsored with the San Francisco Foundation, the Gottesman-Biddle Family and the Anisman/Sherman Family, in memory of Ursula Sherman.
$25 family (2 adults and 2 children), $10 general
Listen to Modeh Ani by Elana Jagoda
Listen to Mandilátos (Handkerchief Dance) by Brass Menažeri