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The 24th Annual
Jewish Music Festival
SF Bay Area, CA
A Program of the Jewish Community Center East Bay
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Dear Chana,
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This newsletter comes to you after a visit to gloriously-springtime
Amherst, Northampton
and Boston, where
I visited with Ari Davidow, founder
of Klezmershack,
the online home of "world music from a Jewish slant," and his partner Judy
Pinnolis founder of the Jewish Music Web Center.
Both websites and people are great resources for Jewish music. I also finally made
a trip to the National
Yiddish Book
Center, where Hankus
Netsky (JMF, 2005), their
Vice President of Education, and
founder of the internationally renowned pioneering Klezmer Conservatory
Band showed my friend and I around. He led us directly to the sheet music
section, where I found gems such as the Marseilles
in Yiddish and the Yiddish poetry of Aliza Greenblatt, Woody Guthrie's
mother-in-law, set to music. I've been following the progress of this amazing organization
for a long time. What I didn't know, is that lots of the music and books are for
sale. I left poorer in pocket, richer in spirit.
Other Festival news: Our 2008 JMF artist
residency project and finale concert known as the Ark continues its maiden
voyage-virtually on the KQED program SPARK, June 11 (see below.) And-as the
finale concert of the Jewish Cultural Festival in Cracow, Poland,
Saturday, July 5. This is a really good excuse to check out that festival and root for the home
team!
Ellie Shapiro
Festival Director
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Relive the Ark on KQED's SPARK
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KQED's SPARK chronicled the Festival's first ever artist residency: The Ark presents Cyclical Rituals (part 1): Spring. Also in this episode, festival veteran and mandolin virtuoso David Grisman (JMF 2003). KQED-TV 9 and KQET-TVWednesday, June 11, 7:30pmFriday, June 13, 11:30pm(For KTEH-TV 54 please check www.kteh.org) For full SPARK listings as well as a short preview of the episode click here.
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THE BREW: Beth Custer Ensemble and Black Olive Babes
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 JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
Saturday, May 31, 8:00 pm
$10 JCC East Bay members, $15 general
Tickets and info at the Brew website.
The Beth Custer Ensemble's diverse array of projects-from
musical theater productions (Ballad of Pancho & Lucy, Le The, and June in a
Box, all with collaborator Octavio Solis) to silent film scores to avant-pop
compositions-fluidly blend the group's influences of jazz, funk, and Latin rock.
Featuring the crème de la crème of Bay Area musicians, including drummer Jan
Jackson (who plays with Grammy-nominated Will Bernard), guitarist David James
(The Coup, Spearhead), iconic pianist Graham Connah, bassist Lisa Mezzacappa,
and, of course, Beth Custer (Club Foot Orchestra, Clarinet Thing), the band
bursts forth with a genre-defying repertoire.
Black Olive Babes, a new project led by Juliana Graffagna-a
twenty-year veteran of the premiere women's vocal ensemble KITKA-kick off the
evening with a mix of concert and dance tunes derived from Albanian, Romani,
Greek and American traditions, showcasing a catalogue that jumps effortlessly
from the American ballad Wayfaring Stranger to the Albanian standard Valle
Korcare.
Co-presented by the Jewish Music Festival and Berkeley Hillel
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DAWN 2008
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Featuring Dengue Fever and special guest Jonathan Safran Foer
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street, between 3rd and 4th Streets
San Francisco, CA Saturday, June 7, 8:00
$12 Advance Tickets, $10 Community partners/ CJM members/students, $15 General Admission
For tickets and info visit the DAWN2008 website.
An all-night cultural arts
festival celebrating the grand opening of
San Francisco's new Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Jewish Holiday Shavuot.
Featuring:
DENGUE FEVER
Bay Area exclusive performance
by Cambodian-American psychedelic pop sensation
AND SPECIAL
GUEST, JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
Author
of the international bestseller Everything
Is Illuminated
Plus:
Live Bands,
Theatrical and Spoken Word Performances, Film Premieres, Original Scores,
Visual Arts, Dancing, DJs, Lectures, Readings,
Comedy, Open-Space Discussion Forums and Special Guests.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
and Reboot, a non-profit organization that provides a forum to
explore Jewish culture and traditions, co-present DAWN '08, an all-night
cultural arts festival celebrating the grand opening of San Francisco's new
Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Jewish Holiday Shavuot.
Taking place simultaneously
throughout the Museum, Dawn '08 will feature a packed, late-night evening of
headlining performances and events AND the opportunity to explore the Museum's
new building and exhibitions before the doors open to the public the following
morning.
Want to go for free? We need a couple volunteers!
Email jmf@jcceastbay.org if you're interested.
Presented in association with the Jewish Music Festival
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Israel on the Bay
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Sunday, June 22
Golden Gate Ferry, Suasalito - Departs 5:45 / Returns 8:15
Pier 43 1/2, San Francisco - Departs 6:45 / Returns 9:00
$45 JCC members, $50 non-members
For tickets and info: 650.378.2702
An event of the Jewish Cultural Collaboration
(partially supported by generous grants from the Walter and Elise Haas
Foundation and the Koret Foundation). Don't miss an unforgettable
evening of Israeli music, dinner and dancing in celebration of Israel's
60th! Join friends from all over the Bay onboard the Royal Prince Ferry
for a rockin' & rollin' night. Price includes kosher-style dinner,
cruise, entertainment and first drink.
Want to go for free? We need a couple volunteers for the cruise! Email jmf@jcceastbay.org if you're interested.
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The Jewish Music Festival recommends:
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Neshama Carlebach in concert at Netivot Shalom
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 Netivot Shalom
1315 University Avenue, Berkeley
Thursday, May 29, 7:30 PM
$36
Click here for tickets and more info
One of the leading
superstars in Jewish entertainment, Neshama Carlebach is continuing the legacy
established by her father, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. Like her father, Neshama's talent and
charisma captivate and endear her to people of all ages and backgrounds. She continues to both deeply move and
entertain as she sings her father's incomparable melodies as well as inspiring
original compositions. Proceeds support scholarships at Netivot Shalom's
preschool and religious school.
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The 2008 Appeal Continues!
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 With the sounds of the 2008 Festival still fresh in mind, we ask you to help us set the stage for the festivals of tomorrow. Work is already underway on next year's 24th season and on our landmark quarter-century celebration in 2010.
Your donation of $36, $72, $180, $360 or more will enable us to book the artists and venues that will keep the Jewish Music Festival crossing generational, aesthetic and religious boundaries and soaring to new heights of artistic excellence.
Click here to donate!
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It's not too late to fill out the festival survey!
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We depend on your thoughtful responses to our surveys for programming, grant-writing and advertising. If you didn't fill one out during the festival, please take the time to do so now.
Please follow the link to whichever concert you attended. If you attended more than one concert please fill out only one survey.
Mayn Yiddishe Velt: Heather Lauren Klein
Frank London's A Night in the Old Marketplace
Cantor Benzion Miller
Teslim's Ladder of Gold
Golem
Israel @ 60 with Chen Zimbalista and Friends
The Ark presents: Cyclical Rituals (part 1): Spring
Community Dance Party
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| The Jewish Music Festival is a program of the JCC East Bay |
| The mission of the Jewish Music Festival is to present music
that celebrates the Jewish experience and explores what it means to be
Jewish in a multicultural world. The Festival produces creative and entertaining programs, challenges stereotypes, and fosters engagement
with the broader community.
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| This email was compiled by Rebecca Turnbull |
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