What do you get when you mix these traditional sounds with a modern day twist and add influences such as gospel, Arab and African rhythms? You get The Klezmatics and you get them for one show only. This Saturday, November 29 KlezKanada presents a "Groyser Kontcert" featuring "Frank London and The Klezmatics" world-renowned superstars of the klezmer world at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall in NDG and it's sure to be a foot-stomping kind of show.
This Grammy Award winning American neo-klezmer music group was formed in New York's East Village in 1986 and has released six albums and performed in over 20 countries, always pushing the boundaries of traditional music and collaborating with non-Jewish musicians to produce a cross-cultural take on klezmer music. Their album "Wonder Wheel" mixed their traditional sounds with the English lyrics of folk icon Woody Guthrie and went on to win a Grammy in the category of Best Contemporary World Music Album. Most recently, they collaborated with Ben Folds Five.
The Kontcert is in support of the unique "KlezKanada Youth Scholarship Fund" which awards 100 Scholarships to students of the Arts from around the world to attend the annual week-long KlezKanada Festival of Jewish/Yiddish music and culture, held in August in the Laurentians. It offers students an opportunity to study and perform with a world-renowned faculty of 60 whose expertise covers every aspect of Jewish music and culture.
KlezKanada was founded in 1996 by Dr. Hy Goldman and his wife Sandra to teach, nurture and present to a broad public the best of Jewish traditional arts and Yiddish culture, as both an ethnic heritage and a constantly evolving contemporary culture and identity that will be passed down from generation to generation. Hy Goldman, with a full-schedule as a Doctor at the Montreal Children's Hospital with many accomplishments to his name in the field of medicine, has served as its chairman since its inception.
<@Ri>The Klezmatics perform on Saturday, November 29, at 8:30 p.m. at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall (7141 Sherbrooke Street West). For tickets and/or information, call 514-345-2610, ext. 3249 or 514-848-4848 or visit www.klezkanada.org>@$p>
Superstars of the klezmer world perform in NDG
Superstars of the klezmer world perform in NDG
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November 24, 2008
- Published on February 6, 2010
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Toula Foscolos
The music is positively infectious and immensely danceable. Klezmer from the Yiddish kley for instrument and zemer for song is a tradition that goes back centuries and is steeped in Jewish Old World history and Eastern European influences.
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