KlezKamp!

Posted by on Oct 12, 2012 in Upcoming Events | 0 comments

KlezKamp!

Back to the Catskills!  This year’s KlezKamp theme is Jewish humor, so plan your trek to our ancestral homeland in Kerhonkson, NY for the December 23-28 2012 gathering.  I’ll be teaching traditional papercutting as well as a four-day course featuring a cappella folk music in context.  If you can imagine a hotel brimming with Jewish culture, children running around singing in Yiddish, a youth theater group constructing a bi-lingual event with costumes, props and live music, people actively involved in all manner of folk arts from foodways to ethnomusicology to instrument master classes to language lessons, then maybe you can imagine KlezKamp!  Check out the brochure here  and come home to the Catskills in December.  And for a glimpse into the world of KlezKamp check out this video, which includes a shout out at around 5:30 explaining what I try to bring to the mix each...

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Quaker Wildflower Document

Posted by on Sep 24, 2012 in Ketubah Art, News | 0 comments

Quaker Wildflower Document

In the Quaker tradition, a couple planning to marry seeks the counsel of the Meeting, and all those present at the marriage ceremony sign the wedding document as witnesses.  The image here is the ‘before,’ awaiting the signatures of bride and groom and the 200 who will gather to sign!  Simply crafted, this document echoes the design and coloring of the couple’s wedding invitation.  The text and area for signatures are surrounded by native North American wildflowers, inked in a mixed color that matches the wedding invitation ink color.  The document measures 18″ X 30″.  The columns of lines for witnesses are extremely light so as to not detract from the...

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Kesher Zion, Reading, PA – Weekend Residency

Posted by on Sep 19, 2012 in News, Upcoming Events | 0 comments

Kesher Zion, Reading, PA – Weekend Residency

An artist-in-residence program has come together at the Kesher Zion Synagogue in Reading, Pennsylvania, Friday, November 9th through Saturday night, November 10, 2012.  I’ll be presenting a short musical program on Friday night to introduce some Yiddish songs of spiritual yearning, and then on Shabbat after services I’ll be launching a lively discussion on Jewish arts by presenting my lecture on “How We Got from There to Here.”  I plan to have some charming and surprising show-and-tell items, including my ‘Bas Mitzvah Zombie Bookends,’ a relic from 1963 that really looks like a Roz Chast nightmare.  (You don’t know the cartoonist Roz Chast?  Treat yourself and Google her, then go buy any issue of The New Yorker!) The weekend of Jewish arts will culminate in a concert with the Old World Folk Band with whom I have been performing since… 1985!  Unbelievable! (The photo is an archival image which features a portion of the...

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PHC programs in December

Posted by on Sep 14, 2012 in News, Upcoming Events | 0 comments

PHC programs in December

The Pennsylvania Humanities Council “Commonwealth Speakers Program” is a wonderful vehicle for artists, lecturers and performers to share their expertise around the state with the council providing honoraria and travel expenses.  Two different communities will be taking advantage of the program in December as I travel to Williamsport (Sunday, December 2) and Reading (Thursday, December 6) to present my program “Women’s Voices in Yiddish Song.”  Have I piqued your interest?  Visit the Humanities Council website at...

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Morgantown, West Virginia

Posted by on Sep 13, 2012 in News, Upcoming Events | 0 comments

Morgantown, West Virginia

Tree of Life congregation in Morgantown will host me for a weekend residency October 26 – 28, 2012.  It’s a lovely congregation tucked into the mountains of West Virginia and I’m delighted to be able to return after many years.  I’ll be singing some niggunim during services Friday night and then delivering an interactive lecture on Jewish arts at the oneg shabbat.  After dark on Saturday night I’ll be presenting a concert based on my program on social justice in the needle trades titled, “Rage Against the Sewing Machine.”  I’m looking forward to the drive through the mountains and that spectacular geological wonder, the Sideling Hill road cut!  Visit the synagogue’s site at www.etzhaim.org...

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