9/20 - The ¡Viva Yiddish! Project

Saturday, September 20, 2008
8pm-10pm
Free Admission
California Plaza, in Downtoan L.A.

Click here to visit The ¡Viva Yiddish! Project website. All concert, raffle, parking, directions, and picnic info is right here.

3/5/09 - The Klezmatics at Royce Hall

Thursday, March 5
Begins at 8:00 pm
Royce Hall at UCLA

Tickets just went on sale, buy them today!

Tickets are available for $60, $45 or $38 ($15 for UCLA students)
Purchase tickets on the UCLAlive website or by calling the UCLAlive box office at (310) 825-2102.

UCLAlive presents the Grammy Award-winning KLEZMATICS, live in concert at Royce Hall.

Help us sell out the show - your ticket will help raise money for Yiddishkayt!  Because Yiddishkayt made the shidekh, the match, that made this concert possible, we can benefit from a sold-out show. There has never been an easier way to help raise money for Yiddishkayt - all while seeing the Grammy-winning Klezmatics at the world-class Royce Hall.

Founded in 1986 as the result of a Village Voice ad, this freewheeling group of musicians from New York's East Village have become world-renowned klezmer superstars, perpetually reinventing and revitalizing this traditional genre to create exuberantly modern dance music. With their irresistibly eclectic mix of gospel, punk, Arab, African and Balkan rhythms steeped in Eastern European Jewish traditions, the ensemble has garnered numerous accolades, including a 2006 Grammy for Wonder Wheel (created from the never recorded lyrics of folk icon Woody Guthrie), and has collaborated with a diverse list of luminaries including Arlo Guthrie, Itzhak Perlman, Ben Folds Five, Chava Alberstein, and the late Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. "(They) aren't just the best band in the klezmer vanguard... they rank among the best bands on the planet. Jewish traditional music is just the starting point for songs that jump, rock and swing-sometimes all at the same time" [Time Out, New York].

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