> From:
kaila@...
>
> Hi List,
>
> I¹m really excited to announce the Second Annual
> Pomegranates & Figs: A Feast of Jewish Music
>
> A Double Bill Featuring:
> ALICIA SVIGAL¹S KLEZMER EXPRESS: West Coast Edition
> (with Nicolai Prisacar accordion and Dan Fabricant, bass)
>
> &
>
> TESLIM (Kaila Flexer & Gari Hegedus)
>
> Wednesday, December 16 and Thursday, December 17 (the sixth and seventh
> nights of Hanukah in case you were wondering), 2009 at 8:00 at the (new)
> Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA.
>
> To make the evening more heymish (³homey²), audience members can schmooze,
> kibbitz and nosh before the concert and at intermission on sweets and
> savories.
>
> What¹s not to like?
>
> Tickets: $22.50 in advance and $23.50 at door.
>
> Half-price tickets for youths 18 years old and under.
>
> Seniors and Freight members get a $1 discount.
> For more information on how to buy tickets:
> www.freightandsalvage.org/tickets.html
> <
http://www.freightandsalvage.org/tickets.html>
> or call 510-644-2020
>
> Get your tickets early! Last year we were at a much bigger hallŠthis is the
> new Freight, which is bigger than the old Freight, but still, not huge!
>
> About me and Gari you know alreadyŠ.if not, go to www.kailaflexer.com
> <
http://www.kailaflexer.com> and look around.
>
> Here¹s about AliciaŠshe is hands-down my favorite klezmer musician of all
> time! I LOVE her playing!
>
> ALICIA SVIGALS¹ KLEZMER EXPRESS: WEST COAST EDITION
>
> Her fiddle ruled...-New York Times
> Violin playing with ...depth and urgency...-L.A. Times
> String work of uncommon beauty...-Jazziz
>
> Alicia Svigals: For sixteen years, Svigals toured the world with the
> Klezmatics and recorded albums which reached the top ten of the Billboard
> and European world music charts. She appeared with them on Prairie Home
> Companion, Rosie O'Donnell's Kids are Punny, Good Morning America, MTV News,
> Nickelodeon, and NPR's New Sounds and Weekend Edition. With poet Allen
> Ginsburg and Israeli singer Chava Alberstein. Svigals and the Klezmatics
> recorded two albums with Itzhak Perlman; one of which is among the
> best-selling folk albums of all time. They performed with him on PBS'
> Emmy-winning Great Performances documentary In the Fiddler's House and on
> Late Night With David Letterman, and appeared together in concert at Radio
> City Music Hall, Tanglewood, and Wolf Trap.
>
> Alicia plays and writes music ranging from heavy metal to Greek island
> fiddle. Her rock career includes stadium shows with Robert Plant and Jimmy
> Page of Led Zeppelin, and albums with Bob Newirth and John Cale (Velvet
> Underground and Rolling Thunder Revue) and the Ben Folds Five. She's
> improvised live and on CD with New Music artists Marc Ribot and John Zorn.
> Her composing credits include PBS documentary The Uprising of 1934,
> featuring singer Peggy Seeger in Svigals' old-timey score, and arrangements
> for songwriter Debbie Friedman's Carnegie Hall shows and live album. She is
> featured on Hasidic superstar Avraham Fried's new album Avinu Malkeynu, and
> her own Hasidic music arrangements and fiddling are showcased on her most
> recent CD Vodkazak, commissioned by a Lubavitcher rabbi. Most recently, her
> performance of Osvaldo Golijov's Rocketekiya, a quartet released as part of
> the Milken Archives for Contemporary Jewish Music's landmark series of
> recordings. Alicia is currently collaborating with post-Holocaust author
> Thane Rosenbaum, whose novel The Golems of Gotham -- the third volume in
> Rosenbaum's acclaimed post-Holocaust trilogy - and its main character, a
> klezmer fiddle playing child in New York City, is based in part on Alicia.
> Alicia Svigals leads workshops for adults and children, writes and lectures
> on Jewish music trends, and loves playing weddings and bar/bas mitzvahs.
> During the past two decades, she has almost singlehandedly revived
> klezmer fiddle playing.
>
> www.aliciasvigals.com <
http://www.aliciasvigals.com>
>
> Accordionist Nikolai Prisacar was born and raised in Moldova, where he
> worked as a musician and conductor. He moved to North America in 1995, and
> currently resides in Sacramento, California. He received his Master of Arts
> degree in Music and Music Education at the National Cultural Education
> College and the Moldavian National Conservatory, and served as conductor of
> the National Academic Dance Company Zhok from 1966 to 1985. His recent
> performing credits include the North End Klezmer Project, California Wind
> Orchestra, Ciocarlia, Next Village, Kaila Flexer¹s Fieldharmonik, and Third
> Ear. Prisacar serves as a rehearsal accompanist for the Sacramento Ballet.
>
> Bassist Daniel Fabricant has performed with Petula Clark, Joan Rivers, Keely
> Smith, Connie Francis, Andrea Marcovicci, Mary Wilson, Spencer Day and
> others. He currently plays with Nice Guy Trio, Los Boleros, Lavay Smith and
> the Red Hot Skillet Lickers, and others. He recently completed his education
> degree at San Francisco State University and teaches private guitar and bass
> students as well as classroom general music. He is also an in-demand
> arranger, writing charts for Terese Genecco¹s Little Big Band, Shotgun
> Players Theater Company and Veronica Klaus.
>
>
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