2. Dear Friends:
In April, 1976, a small group of local musicians performed at
the North Berkeley branch of the public library. They called
themselves the Klezmorim and inadvertently launched the
klezmer revival - a new genre of music conceived by young
players who had begun searching for music their Eastern
European Jewish forebears would have heard. These artists
were making the music their own, feverishly weaving newfound
musical threads through post-war American roots in folk and
jazz, pop, rock n’roll, Balkan, and Middle Eastern tunes and beats.
Ten years later, the Klezmorim were playing national and
international tours, including Carnegie Hall. Back in Berkeley, a
small group of people had founded a Jewish community center.
One of the organizers, the late Ursula Sherman, had fled Nazi Germany with her family as a
teenager. She considered a Jewish music festival as a way to bring people together. The newly
acquired JCC building on Walnut Street with its wonderful courtyard was a perfect place. And
in 1986, the first Jewish Music Festival in the United States was born, dovetailing on the energy,
talents and personalities of the budding klezmer revival.
In 1998 Ursula asked me to co-chair the Jewish Music Festival.We shared a similar appreciation
forthepowerofmusictocelebratetherichvarietyofthehumanfamily.Wewantedtoshowcase
unique music inspired by the Jewish experience, and we wanted to share the vitality of its
expression with a broad audience. We both were also profoundly influenced by the American
folk music revival – including the late Pete Seeger as well as Ronnie Gilbert of theWeavers, who
we will honor Sunday March 8 at the Freight and Salvage on InternationalWomen’s Day, as part
of the Kitka performance. While the Jewish Music Festival provided a stage for the increasing
number of artists performing Jewish music, the Festival has also seen its role as providing
access to this music for local musicians and students. For many years, we have brought artists
into Bay Area schools, introducing young people to Jewish music from around the world – from
Iraq and Israel to New Orleans and Moldova. Instrumental jams, master classes, workshops, an
instrument petting zoo and public dance parties with instruction have also been an integral
part of Festival programs.
Since 2007, we have also commissioned new works by Bay Area musicians. This year, we have
commissioned jazz bassoonist Paul Hanson, who will premiere Homecoming on Wednesday
March 11, also at the Freight. It’s often said that it takes a village to raise someone right. I think
it is no wonder that Berkeley was where the first Jewish music festival took place and that
Berkeley and the Bay Area is home to so many talented artists. Our environment--natural and
cultural--nurtures creativity. For the past thirty years, this community – the Jewish Community
Center of the East Bay, our artists, donors, advertisers, volunteers, staff and colleagues,
committees, and above all, you, our audience have fostered a milieu for Jewish music to thrive,
and for its performance, in all its variety, to contribute to the cultural vitality of the Bay Area. It
has been a great privilege to be part of this pathbreaking project.
Enjoy our 30th anniversary season!
Ellie Shapiro, Festival Director
3. DI MEGILEH of ITZIK MANGER with NewYiddishTheater
February 26, 28, March 1, and 3, 8 pm; March 2 Matinee, 1:30 pm
Jewish Community Center of the East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
THE KLEZMATICS
Thursday, March 5, 8 pm
The New Parish, 579 18th Street (at San Pablo), Oakland
CANTOR JACK MENDELSON with
FRANK LONDON, ANTHONY COLEMAN,
GLENN HARTMAN and COOKIE SIEGELSTEIN
Saturday, March 7, 8 pm
Temple Sinai, 2808 Summit Street, Oakland
KITKA, with a special tribute to RONNIE GILBERT
CD RELEASE PARTY
Sunday, March 8, 8 pm
Freight & Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley
SWAY MACHINERY
CD RELEASE PARTY
Tuesday, March 10, 8 pm
Leo’s Music Club, 5447 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland
PAUL HANSON’s HOMECOMING
WORLD PREMIERE
Commissioned by the 30th Jewish Music Festival
Wednesday, March 11, 8 pm
Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley
DIWAN SAZ
WEST COAST PREMIERE
Special Guests:YAIR DALAL and DROR SINAI
Saturday, March 14, 8:30 pm
First Congregational Church, 2501 Harrison Street, Oakland
JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL FINALE and DANCE PARTY
with the INSTANT KLEZMER MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA, INSTANT CHORUS of
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, NIGUNIM COMMUNITY CHORUS and VERETSKI PASS
Jewish Community Center of the East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
Sunday, March 22, 1pm - 6pm
Schedule of Events
WORKSHOPS
Tuesday, March 17 – Thursday, March 19
(all times 7:30 pm)
Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
JEWISH DANCE MASTER
STEVE WEINTRAUB
Tuesday, March 17, 7:30 pm
Raise the Roof with Jewish Moves, PART ONE
Wednesday, March 18, 7:30 pm
Make‘Em Dance
(for musicians and bands) includes
Joshua Horowitz, of Veretski Pass
Thursday, March 19, 7:30 pm
Raise the Roof with Jewish Moves, PART TWO
RICHARD KAPLAN
Saturday, January 24, 7:30 pm
at the home of Allen and Hannah King, Berkeley
RHOSLYN JONES, soprano
SAM SIEGEL, countertenor
TODD WEDGE, tenor
Saturday, February 21, 7:30 pm
at the home of Amanda Kirkwood, San Francisco
LINDA HIRSCHHORN, GARY LAPOW,
and BETSY ROSE
Saturday, May 2, 7:30 pm
at the home of Dan Siegel, Oakland
Info at 510-684-5580
JMF HOUSE CONCERTS
Produced by Dan Siegel
4. Related Events
Shir Hashirim with special guests from Diwan Saz
Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi musical liturgy
Friday, March 13, 7:30 pm, Free
JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
Yair Dalal and Dror Sinai
March 13, 8:00 pm. Free
Temple Beth Sholom, 642 Dolores Avenue, San Leandro
A Musical Shabbat
Jewish Songlines | Judeo-Spanish andYiddish Music and Dance with
Esti Kenan-Ofri and Michael Alpert
Thursday March 19, 7:00 pm
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley
A unique encounter between two world-class interpreters of Jewish musical traditions from Central and
Eastern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Jewish Music & Poetry Project
Nanette McGuinness, Adaiha MacAdam-Somer and
DaleTsang
Sunday, April 19, 3 pm
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco
Tickets: $15 General, $10 Members, at the door only
New songs to poetry by Gertrud Komar, Elsa Lasker-Schueler and more
Sponsored in part by the Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation of the Jewish Community
Endowment Fund, Gaia Fund, Guzik Foundation, Koret Foundation, Kurz Family Foundation, Milton and
Sophie Meyer Fund, Claire Sherman and Ed Anisman, Walter and Elise Haas Fund and Ilene Weinreb
WALTER & ELISE
HAAS FUNDKurz Family Foundation
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.
The Jewish Music Festival is a fiscally-sponsored project of the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay.
6. Since their emergence more than twenty-five years ago, the Klezmatics have raised the bar for Eastern
European Jewish music. Often called a“Jewish roots band,”the Klezmatics have performed in more than
twenty countries and released eleven albums to date—most recently Live at Town Hall, recorded in their
homebaseofNewYork.OntheirGrammy-winning2006albumWonderWheel,theysetadozenpreviously
unsung Woody Guthrie lyrics to music, widening their stylistic base by largely diverging from klezmer.
They have also been the subject of a feature-length documentary film, The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground.
The Klezmatics have collaborated with artists as varied as violinist Itzhak Perlman, Pulitzer prize-winning
playwright Tony Kushner and Israeli vocal icon Chava Alberstein, plus many others working within
multiple genres. Today, with three original members—Lorin Sklamberg (lead vocals, accordion, guitar,
piano), Frank London (trumpet, keyboards, vocals) and Paul Morrissett (bass, tsimbl, vocals)—still on
board, alongside longtime members Matt Darriau (kaval, clarinet, saxophone, vocals), David Licht
(percussion), and Lisa Gutkin (violin, vocals), as well as Richie Bashay (percussionist), the Klezmatics are
the most successful proponents of klezmer music performing today.
Although tradition is at their core, since the beginning the Klezmatics have expressed contemporary
sensibilities. Says Frank London,“Our coherent political and aesthetic Yiddish / klezmer music embraces
ourpoliticalvalues—supportinggayrights,workers’rights,humanrights,universalreligiousandspiritual
values through particular art forms.We eschew aspects ofYiddish/Jewish culture that are nostalgic, tacky,
kitschy, nationalistic and misogynistic. We have shown a way for people to embrace Yiddish culture on
their own terms as a living, breathing part of our world and its political and aesthetic landscape.”
“People are quite detached from their Jewish roots,”says Gutkin.“The Klezmatics fill an incredible void.”
Indeed, the Klezmatics have always been as much about community as music. Says Lorin Sklamberg,“The
energy and support we received from the local community fueled the band. . . it [has] allowed us the
freedom to be us.”
Adapted from text by JeffTamarkin
Thursday, March 5, 8 pm
The New Parish, 579 18th Street (at San Pablo), Oakland
OPENING NIGHT
THE KLEZMATICS
7. Cantor Jacob Ben-Zion Mendelson is the subject of the film ACantor’s
Tale directed by Erik Anjou. For more than twenty-five years he has
taught at the Hebrew Union College School of Sacred Music, and at
the Jewish Theological Seminary. In 2006, he sang the memorial
prayer at the UN General Assembly, on the first international day
to Commemorate Victims of the Holocaust. His CDs include Cantorial Recitatives by Legendary Masters,
The Birthday of the World Parts I and II, A Taste of Eternity, narrated by Leonard Nimoy, Jewish Music and
More, recorded with his wife, cantor Fredda Mendelson, Hazonos, called “…jazz album of the year” by
Wired Magazine, recorded with Frank London and his son, Daniel Mendelson, and most recently, Further
definitions of the Days of Awe, with the Afro Semitic Experience, also featuring his son Daniel. Recently
retired from Temple Israel Center in White Plains, his current projects include The Cantor’s Couch—a one-
man show, and a sequel to A Cantor’s Tale.
Trumpeter/composer Frank London is a Grammy award winner for his work with the Klezmatics, His
projects include the folk-opera A Night in the Old Marketplace (based on Y.L. Peretz’s Bay nakht oyfn
altn mark) (JMF, 2008), Davenen for Pilobolus and the Klezmatics, Great Small Works’ The Memoirs Of
Gluckel Of Hameln (with Adrienne Cooper) and Min Tanaka’s Romance. He created the Hungarian-New
York collaboration Glass House Orchestra as a memorial to the 70th
anniversary of the Holocaust in
Hungary; their recording will be released this year. He received a Sundance Theater Lab residenciesy
for Hatuey: Memory of Fire, his ‘Yiddish opera in a Cuban Nightclub’ with librettist Elise Thoron. He is
currently preparing a special event for the 500th
Anniversary of the building of the Ghetto in Venice,
Italy; and is Artistic Director of KlezKanada; With the Klezmatics, he created Havana Nagila, a Cuban-
klezmer extravaganza that sold outTown Hall, NY; and composed music for Letters to Afar, Peter Forgacs’s
experimental film installation. Frank has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, Lester Bowie’s
Brass Fantasy, LaMonte Young, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, Jane Siberry, Ben Folds 5, Mark Ribot,
Karen O,Youssou N’dour, Maurice El Medioni, Itzhak Perlman and Gal Costa, and is featured on more than
four hundred CDs.
Anthony Coleman is a composer, improvising keyboardist, and teacher who joined the New England
Conservatory faculty in 2006, returning to a school where he studied in the 1970s. He holds a Masters
in Music from Yale. Commissioners and performers of his work include clarinetist David Krakauer (JMF
2004), accordionist Guy Klucevsek, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Kitchen House Blend (Lapidation, 2002), and
Merkin Concert Hall (Flat Narrative, 2008). Other key works include the cycle by Night (1987–1992), a
series of works inspired by Coleman’s experiences in (the ex-) Yugoslavia (CD Disco by Night, Avant 1993).
His ensembles have recorded extensively for Tzadik and include the trio Sephardic Tinge. Coleman has
also toured and recorded with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, Shelley Hirsch, Roy Nathanson, and
many others. Coleman has recorded thirteen CDs under his own name, and he has played on more than
a hundred CDs.
Accordionist Glenn Hartman has been playing music professionally since age fifteen. A founding
member of the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars (JMF 2006). He grew up in Long Beach, California but at
eighteen moved to New Orleans to study music at Tulane University. He received both a BFA and an
MFA from Tulane. His Masters thesis was entitled “The Historical Development of Klezmer.” During
Glenn’s years in New Orleans he played with many bands and musicians including Robbie Robertson,
Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Leo Nocentelli, Big Chief Bo Dollis, Monk Boudreaux, John Popper, Alex
McMurray, Washboard Chaz, and the legend, Jimbo Walsh. Hurricane Katrina forced Glenn to relocate to
San Francisco with his family. He is currently playing withThe Ark, a Jewish music super group created by
the Jewish Music Festival (JMF, 2008). He is also leading his own band – The Klezmer Playboys. Besides
Klezmer, Glenn plays many types of folk music, rock, funk and jazz.
Cookie Segelstein, violinist and violist received her Masters degree inViola fromTheYale School of Music
in 1984. She is the founder and director ofVeretski Pass, a founding member of TheYoungers of Zion with
Henry Sapoznik, and plays in Budowitz. She has also performed with Kapelye, the Klezmer Conservatory
Band, and many others. She presents lecture demonstrations and workshops on klezmer fiddling all over
the world, including Living Tradition’s Klezkamp, KlezCalifornia, KlezKanada, Yale University, University
of Wisconsin in Madison, and others. She was featured on the ABC documentary,“A Sacred Noise”, heard
on HBO’s“Sex and the City”, appears in the Miramax film,“Everybody’s Fine”starring Robert De Niro, and
heard on several recordings with Veretski Pass, Budowitz, the Koch International label with Orchestra
New England in The Orchestral Music of Charles Ives, and many others.
Saturday, March 7, 8 pm
Temple Sinai, 2808 Summit Street, Oakland
HOZONOS: CANTOR JACK MENDELSON with
FRANK LONDON, ANTHONY COLEMAN,
GLENN HARTMAN and COOKIE SIEGELSTEIN
8. Kitka is an American women’s vocal arts ensemble inspired by traditional songs and vocal techniques
from Eastern Europe. The Oakland-based octet has earned international recognition for its distinctive
sound, exploring a vast palette of ancient yet contemporary- sounding vocal effects. The ensemble’s
earthy to ethereal timbres evoke an astonishing range of subtle to extreme inner states, instincts,
and emotions. Kitka’s commitment to presenting traditional song as a living and evolving expressive
art form has led to adventurous collaborations with some of the world’s most exciting indigenous
musicians and contemporary composers ranging from Le Mystères des Voix Bulgares to Meredith
Monk. Currently celebrating its 35th season, Kitka began as a grassroots group of amateur singers
from diverse ethnic and musical backgrounds who shared a passion for the stunning dissonances,
asymmetric rhythms, intricate ornamentation, and resonant strength of traditional Eastern European
women’s vocal music. Since its informal beginnings, the group has evolved into an award-winning
touring ensemble known for its artistry, versatility, and mastery of the demanding techniques of
regional vocal styling, as well as for its innovative explorations in new music for women’s voices.
Kitka’s wide-ranging performance, teaching, and recording activities have exposed millions to the
haunting beauty of their unique repertoire. Kitka has released eleven critically acclaimed recordings.
Their most recent CD, Eric Banks’ I Will Remember Everything give voices to the long-censored love
poems of“Russia’s Sappho,” Sophia Parnok. (www.kitka.org)
A frequently occurring symbolic word in Balkan women’s folksong lyrics, Kitka means “bouquet” in
Bulgarian and Macedonian.
Sunday, March 8, 8 pm
The Freight And Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley
KITKA
9. 2015 JMF Shofar Award
Ronnie Gilbert, Recipient
Broadcast through an animal’s horn to climax High Holiday services, the blowing of the shofar evokes awe,
wonder and mystery. These primal sound bursts resonate across space and time, binding the generations. Such
is the power of music.
In 2008, JMF inaugurated the Shofar Award by honoring trumpeter, composer and bandleader Frank London for
his creativity, generosity of spirit and profound contribution to contemporary Jewish music. In 2010, Barbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett scholar and head curator of Polin: the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw
received this award. This year, we honor singer, actor and community activist Ronnie Gilbert for dedicating her
rich voice and background of Jewish values to the lifelong pursuit of social justice.
From Ronnie Gilbert: I was about ten. It was Saturday morning. Mom poked me awake.“Get dressed, get dressed,
we’re going downtown for something really special today, a big rally with a really wonderful singer.”Wonderful
enough for me to miss my Saturday morning cowboy movie? I didn’t think so as we rode the subway to the
Manhattan event, really a public meeting of the ILGWU, my factory worker mother’s union.
At 37th Street and 7th Avenue hundreds of people stood jammed together listening to speeches delivered from
a platform at the back of a truck. Squashed among dour-faced strangers listening to incomprehensible words,
tears of disappointment and fury at my mother welled when she suddenly grabbed my arm and pointed up
to the stage. “Look Ronnie, look! There’s Paul,” A very tall Black man was standing at the microphone, smiling.
Grim expressions vanished, applause and cheers rocked the street; it was as if someone had sprayed a can of
sunshine on the demonstration.
Paul Robeson, singing star and actor, football hero and lawyer -accused in those first McCarthy days of being un-
American - had come to sing for the adoring mostly Jewish at that time garment workers. When everyone finally
hushed, he leaned down toward the microphone and in a voice so deep my own chest seemed to rumble, he began
to speak,“Comrades, your people and mine . . .“ My mother fumbled for a handkerchief, as tears rolled down her
cheek. News had been coming through of the persecution of Jews by the nazi death machines. Robeson sang:
When Israel was in Egypt Land, let my people go
Oppressed so hard they could not stand, let my people go . . .
Resistance to oppression remained Robeson’s theme, whatever he sang, from Negro spirituals to Yiddish poetry:
Zog nit keynmol az du gayst dem letzten veg,
Vayl kumen vet noch undzer oysgebenkte shuh,
Es vet a poyk tun undzer trot - mir zaynen do! (Ghetto Partisan Song)
Don’t say it’s the end of the road
The blood we spilled here feeds
New courage, new vigor
And tells the earth,“We are here.”
A native New Yorker, Ronnie Gilbert was singing on the radio by age twelve. After
performing in various choral and vocal groups, Ronnie joined forces with Pete
Seeger, Lee Hays and Fred Hellerman to form The Weavers in 1947. The quartet,
featuring Ronnie’s soaring contralto, exposed their listeners in the late Forties,
Fifties and early Sixties to traditional and newly-written folk songs ranging from
early“world”music (“Wimoweh,”“Tzena, Tzena, Tzena,”“Guantanamera”) to classic,
comforting standards (“On Top of Old Smokey,”“Goodnight Irene,”“Kisses Sweeter
than Wine”) to idealistic social comment (“This Land is Your Land,”“If I Had a Hammer”and“Wasn’t That a Time.”
Despite the group’s commercial popularity (beginning with “Goodnight Irene,” their hit records sold in the
millions of copies), the politically aware Weavers were blacklisted during the anti-Communist hysteria of the
McCarthy era. With The Weavers unable to tour, Ronnie moved toward a solo career as singer and actor in the
early Sixties, recording albums and appearing in plays off and on Broadway. She subsequently earned an M.A.
in clinical psychology and worked as a therapist before returning to the theater.
Drawn out of musical retirement by longtime devotee Holly Near for a series of 1983 concerts, Gilbert
continued her musical partnership with Near and recorded three albums on Near’s record label (formerly
Redwood Records) including a solo release, Spirit Is Free. Ronnie and Holly’s historic tour with Arlo Guthrie and
Pete Seeger is preserved on Appleseed’s H.A.R.P: A Time to Sing. Her one-woman theater piece, Mother Jones
was based on the life of the legendary American labor activist. Ronnie also wrote the lyrics and co-authored the
musical play Legacy, inspired by StudsTerkel’s oral history ComingofAge. Ronnie performed an auto-biographical
song/talk called “Ronnie Gilbert: A Radical Life with Songs” for cross-generational communities (JMF 2004). She
continues her commitment to feminism and global peace activism through strong participation in the Women
in Black network, challenging U.S. policy in the Middle East and around the world. Her memoir Ronnie Gilbert: A
Radical Life in Song is scheduled for publication in the fall by University of California Press.
10. Commissioned by the 30th
Jewish Music Festival
Sunday, March 8, 8 pm
The Freight And Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley
THE PAUL HANSON ENSEMBLE PRESENTS HOMECOMING
The composition is twelve songs built around the theme of post-modern homecoming-from a
Berkeley-bred composer whose four years in Japan made him ponder his family’s Jewish and radical
past. Each musician has opportunities to improvise within a chamber jazz setting, but Homecoming
ultimately is one of the first large-scale Jewish pieces ever written for bassoon. The bassoon’s
somewhat muted, old-world reedy quality lends itself to playing that style of music. Paul drew on
archival tapes in his family’s possession, as his father was in the Klezmorim, the iconic Berkeley band
that launched the international klezmer revival.
Paul Hanson - An award-winning classical
bassoonist and jazz saxophonist, Paul Hanson
hasrewrittentherulebookandsetnewstandards
for the bassoon, the most classical of woodwind
instruments. Paul’s repertoire encompasses
musical aspects of all modern styles of
improvised music. As an improviser, he has
recorded and/or performed with Bela Fleck and
the Flecktones, Wayne Shorter, Medeski Martin
& Wood, Patrice Rushen, Abraham Laboriel, Will
Kennedy, Bob Weir’s RATDOG, Peter Erskine,
Billy Childs, Billy Higgins, Ray Charles, Charlie
Hunter, Dennis Chambers, T. Lavitz from Dixie
Dregs, Jeff Sipe, Jonas Hellborg, Omar Sosa,
Bob Moses, Kai Eckhardt, Peter Apfelbaum and
the Hieroglyphics Ensemble, The Paul Dresher
Ensemble, Davka, St. Joseph Ballet Company,
The Klezmorim, Cirque Du Soleil, as jazz soloist
with the Oakland East Bay Symphony Orchestra,
as classical soloist with the Napa Symphony
Orchestra (non-improvising) and many more.
As a sax player, Paul has recorded and/or
performed with Eddie Money, Boz Scaggs, The
Temptations, Tower of Power, Kotoja, What It Is,
Samba Ngo, Steve Smith,Tom Coster and others.
He has toured throughout Europe, Japan and
the States, in addition to his most recent stint
for four years in Japan as a musician with Cirque
de Soleil. As a performer/educator, Paul has
performed and taught master classes at IDRS festivals from Rotterdam to Texas.
“… Hanson produces a sound so full, lithe and flexible that it’s easy to forget the mind-boggling
intricacies of the instrument that’s producing it. When he alters his sound electronically, the bassoon
can take on eerie, jaggedly distorted or ethereal timbres. It’s hard to overstate just how unlikely a
quest Hanson has undertaken in transforming the bassoon from a symphony orchestra instrument
into a viable workhorse for extended solos.” -Andrew Gilbert, DOWNBEAT Magazine
Moses Sedler - cello Moses has a background rooted in classical music, as well as improvisatory
music, with influences of Indian classical music, and eastern European folk music. Moses studied
composition at Cornish College of the Arts and north Indian classical music with Ali Akbar Khan.
He has worked with Davka, Lines Ballet, The Picasso String Quartet, Kunst-Stoff, Janice Garrett and
dancers, Kitka, and Open Eye Pictures.
Jeff Denson - bass Jeff has played with emarkable musicians including Anthony Davis, Mark Dresser,
Joe Lovano, Jane Ira Bloom, Kenny Werner, Dave Douglas, Bob Moses, Giacomo Gates, Howard Alden
and many more. Jeff has recorded ten albums as leader/co-leader on Enja Records. Jeff is also a
composer and full professor at The California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley. He has a Doctorate in
Contemporary Music from the University of San Diego.
11. Alan Hall - percussion has performed and/or recorded artists such as Taylor Eigsti, Russell Ferrante,
Billy Childs, Kenny Werner, Art Lande, Christian Jacob, Kit Walker, Tom Coster, Eddie Harris, Bob
Sheppard, Paul McCandless, John Handy, Kai Eckhardt, Kenny Washington, Betty Buckley, Joyce
Cooling, Victor Mendoza, Cirque du Soleil,Teatro Zinzanni San Francisco and many others. He teaches
at Cal State University East Bay, the California Jazz Conservatory and UC Berkeley.
Mads Tolling - internationally renowned violinist and composer, is a two-time Grammy Award-
Winner; a former member of both Turtle Island Quartet and bassist Stanley Clarke’s band. Since
2007 Mads has led the Mads Tolling Quartet. “The Playmaker” released in the fall of 2009, features
Stanley Clarke, Russell Ferrante & Stefon Harris. He has received rave reviews in Downbeat, Strings,
Washington Post & SF Chronicle. He has performed with Chick Corea, Ramsey Lewis, Kenny Barron &
Paquito D’Rivera. His composition Begejstring (“Excitement”) premiered with the Oakland East Bay
Symphony in February, 2015.
John Schott - guitar A unique guitarist and composer in contemporary Jewish music, John went to
Cornish College of the Arts and studied with Thomasa Eckert, Janice Giteck, Jerry Granelli and Julian
Priester. He has played with The Rova Sax Quartet, John Zorn,TomWaits, Ledisi, and Peter Apfelbaum,
Ben Goldberg, The Paul Dresher Ensemble, Will Bernard and Charlie Hunter in T.J. Kirk, Carla Kihlstedt
and others. His CDs can be found on New World Recordings, Tzadik, and other labels.
2001 – CD - Arkady Gendler: My Hometown Soroke, Yiddish Songs of the Ukraine,
produced by Donald Brody, J. Lewicki and Ellie Shapiro
2006 – Jewish Fringes: Glimpsed from Afar, Paul Dresher, composer; El, Daniel
David Feinsmith, Composer; Belliebig Fűllen, Amy X Neuburg, composer;
Three Examples of Jewish Music and One Example of Non-Jewish, John Schott,
composer
2007 – Musical Fortunes, Dan Cantrell, composer, co-commissioned by the
Jewish Music Festival and Kitka
2007 – Film – Kitka & Davka in Concert: Old and New World Jewish Music,
produced and written by Leonard Merrill Kurz, directed by Ashley James, co-
sponsored by the Jewish Music Festival
2008 – The Ark presents Cyclical Rituals (part 1): Spring, Avi Avital, Mariana
Sadovska, Aaron Alexander, Glenn Hartman, Jewlia Eisenberg, John Schott,
Stuart Brotman and Jessica Ivry, composers; Frank London, composer and
musical director
2009 – CD – Might Be: The Ark Ensemble, producer John Schott and the Ark
Ensemble
2010 – Dan Plonsey’s Bar Mitzvah with Dandelion Dancetheater, composer Dan
Plonsey, choreographer Eric Kupers
2011 – Ger Mandolin Orchestra, Mike Marshall, musical director, Avner Yonai,
executive producer
2012 – Ben Goldberg’s Orphic Machine, Ben Goldberg, composer
2015 – Homecoming, Paul Hanson, composer
JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL PRODUCTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
12. Sway Machinery’s sound is rooted in the personal history of bandleader Jeremiah Lockwood,
whose education included singing in the choir of his grandfather, Cantor Jacob Konigsberg and
over a decade of playing in the subways of New York City with Piedmont Blues legend Carolina
Slim. Lockwood’s musical vision of worlds colliding has been aided and abetted by a stellar cast of
band mates: drummer John Bollinger, of Barbez; alumnae of Antibalas, including trumpeter Jordan
McLean, bass player Nikhil Yerawadekar and guitarist Timothy Allen. The band also includes Anthony
Braxton and Arcade Fire sideman Matt Bauder on tenor saxophone. Past members have included bass
saxophonist Colin Stetson, drummer Brian Chase, Israeli percussionist Tomer Tzur and saxophonist
Stuart Bogie.
In January of 2010, The Sway Machinery traveled to Mali to perform at the legendary Festival of the
Desert. While in Africa, the group recorded its second full-length album, The House of Friendly
Ghosts Vol.1, which came out on JDub Records in March, 2011. The record featured
collaborations with luminaries of Malian music, including Vieux Farka Toure and
Khaira Arby. In March 2015, Sway Machinery releases their third LP, Purity
and Danger, on 3rd Generation Recordings. On this new album,
the band delves into dialogue with ghosts and saints,
juxtaposing songs about the subway and dead
lovers with two hundred-year-old
cantorial melodies performed
for the first time in
generations.
Tuesday, March 10, 8 pm
Leo’s Music Club, 5447 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
SWAY MACHINERY
CD Release Party
13. Saturday, March 14, 8:30 pm
First Congregational Church, 2501 Harrison Street, Oakland
DIWAN SAZ
WEST COAST PREMIERE
Special Guests:YAIR DALAL and DROR SINAI
Diwan Saz is a multicultural Jewish, Christian and Muslim ensemble based in northern Israel that
performs ancient music from Central Asia, Turkey, Iran, and the Holy Land. The group marries two
great traditions that coexist in the Galilee - that of Hebrew and Arab music.
Yochai Barak, saz/baglama, musical director
Born and raised in the Galilean village of Yodfat, Yohai was the founder and creator of Diwan
Saz. Studying and traveling throughout Europe, Israel, and India, Yohai has learned from and
performed with noted musicians like Ross Daly, Kelly Thoma, Kutla Khan and Mehmed Erenler.
Yohai has transformed Diwan Saz from a small group of students and friends, into a gifted ensemble
representing the music of the Middle East.
Muhammad Gadir, vocalist
A traditional and folk Arabic singer, only fourteen years of age,“Hamudi”as he is affectionately called,
seems to possess the soul of an elder when he performs on-stage. Raised in the Bedouin Higarat
tribe, in the Northern Galilee village of Bir El-Maksur, Muhammad grew up riding horses, tending
sheep and goats, and absorbing the spirit and sounds of the Galilee. As the winner of the Arab Idol
Competition, he has gained fame and notice for his ability to express the musical traditions of his
people. His performances at the 2014 Sufi Festival, and Sacred Music Festival in Jerusalem are only
the beginning of this special musician’s journey.
Udi Ben Knaan, lira
A multi-instrumentalist, producer, and musical explorer, Udi was educated in classical Western and
Eastern music. Born in Beer Sheva, Udi began playing guitar at the age of fifteen and was a member
of the Israeli world music group Sheva. He has studied the Varnasi sitar tradition in India with
Govinda Go Swami. In Greece, he studied saz, lira, and Afghan rabbab with Ross Daly. He combines
a special love of Turkish and Greek music with his ability to fuse traditional and modern music.
Rabbi David Menahem, vocalist
A paytan (singer of Jewish liturgical poetry), musician and composer, Rabbi Menachem grew up in the
old neighborhoods of Jerusalem among paytanim and Kabbalists. From a young age he has performed
with Iraqi musicians from Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the Arabic Orchestra, and with his cousin
Hazzan Moshe Havusha, who taught him music and the Arabic Maqam. Performing in concerts and
festivals both in Israel and abroad, he plays an active role in the revival of piyutim and Middle-Eastern
music in Israel. He has recorded many previously forgotten piyutim passed on to him by his late
grandfather Hacham Gorji Yair. He also teaches workshops in piyutim.
14. Rani Lorentz, bass
Rani grew up in a musical family and began performing throughout Israel as a bass player at the age
of fifteen in his father’s band. He spent a year in South Africa studying the music of the continent
and recorded an album dedicated to African music. In 2004, Rani toured the world with the group
Sheva and in 2011, he toured India as part of an initiative of the Indian and Israeli embassies. Rani
has performed and recorded with dozens of Israeli artists including Dayan Kaplan and Mark Eliyahu.
Mumin Sesler, qanun
Mumin Sesler was born in Edirne-Kesan, Turkey, where his father played clarinet, and his grandfather
was a Zourna master. Mumin began to study music when he was twelve. He has studied the Turkish-
Ottoman classical maqam traditions, as well as Israeli-mizrahit Jewish music, the music of the
Mediterranean and Iran. Mumin established the Sesler Music Studio in 2000 in Istanbul. As a qanun
and oud player, he has accompanied many famous singers such as IbrahimTatlises Sibel Can inTurkey
as well as Yasmin Levy and George Dalaras.
Eyal Luman, percussion
Eyal received his first musical inspiration from his grandfather who was a famed pianist in the Czech
Republic. After starting music study at age six at the Qiryat Atta Conservatory, he began performing
with local musicians as a jazz and rock drummer. At seventeen, he began to learn Middle Eastern
music and percussion. He studied for many years with the legendary Israeli percussionist Zohar
Fresco (JMF 2012). Eyal was a founding member of the Israeli world music ensemble, Dahara. He has
branched out into many other styles of world music including flamenco, and has performed with Esev
Bar, Eti Ankri, and Shlomo Bar (JMF 2003).
Tzipporah El-Rei, vocalist
Born in 1982 and raised in Beer Sheva, Tzipporah studied several singing styles at the Academy of
Eastern Music in Jerusalem. She focuses onTurkish singing of the Sufi-Baktashi style, performing with
several ensembles that include Piyut, Ladino, Greek Rembetiko, and traditional Turkish music. She
lives in the Judaen Desert where she receives much of her inspiration.
Lubna Salameh, vocalist
Born and raised in Haifa, Lubna demonstrated her singing abilities at a young age, performing in
school and various vocal competitions. In 1997, Lubna joined the prestigious Arabic Orchestra of
Nazareth as a lead singer. She has performed internationally in Europe, America, Jordan, Morocco
and Palestine.
Special Guests
Yair Dalal, composer, violinist, oud player singer and a teacher.
He has twelve albums representing Israeli, Jewish and Middle
Eastern cultures fused through music. Dalal’s family came to
Israel from Baghdad and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his
musical work, as are his skills in both classical-European, jazz and
Arabic music and his affinity for the desert and its inhabitants. He
creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions
of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences
ranging from the Balkans to India.
Dror Sinai, percussionist
He is an international performer, educator, and performing artist, as
well as the founder of Rhythm Fusion Inc. in Santa Cruz. In 2002, he
received the Gail Rich Award for supporting the arts, and is a founding
member of the World Music Committee for the Percussive Arts Society.
Dror has performed as a solo artist and in many ensembles with other
talented artists, including Omar Faruk Tekbilek (JMF, 2005), Yuval Ron
(JMF, 2010), Alessandra Belloni.
15. Steve is a teacher, choreographer, and performer of Jewish dance, particularly Yiddish dance, the
dance to klezmer music.
Born on Governor’s Island, Bar Mitzvahed in the Bronx, and living now in Philadelphia, Steven Lee
Weintraub received his dance training in Manhattan with Alvin Ailey and Erick Hawkins, among others.
He is in international demand as a teacher of traditional Yiddish dance at festivals and workshops
including Klezkamp, Klezkanada, and festivals in Krakow, Furth, Paris and London to name a few.
Steven delights in introducing people to the figures, steps and stylings of the dances that belong to
klezmer music. He has often been called the “Pied Piper of Yiddish Dance”; his years of experience
leading and researching Yiddish dance allow him to quickly weave dancers and music together in
astonishing ways.
Tuesday, March 17 – Thursday, March 19 (all times 7:30 pm)
Jewish Community Center of the East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
Tuesday, March 17, 7:30 pm
Raise the Roof with Jewish Moves, PART ONE
Learn steps, styles and stunts for lively circle
and chain dances.
Wednesday, March 18, 7:30 pm
Make‘Em Dance
(for musicians and bands)
includes Joshua Horowitz of Veretski Pass
Participants will split into two groups of
players and dancers. Musicians learn correct
tempos and feeling for each dance style.
Astonishing insights into playing klezmer
music guaranteed!
Thursday, March 19, 7:30 pm
Raise the Roof with Jewish Moves, PART TWO
Yiddish barn dancing, including the Jewish
square dance Sher, and a variety of social
dances with ballroom roots.
JEWISH DANCE MASTER STEVE WEINTRAUB
16. JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL FINALE and DANCE PARTY
with the INSTANT KLEZMER MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA, NIGUNIM
COMMUNITY CHORUS, INSTANT CHORUS of Leonard Cohen’s
Hallelujah, and VERETSKI PASS
Sunday, March 22, 1pm - 6pm
Jewish Community Center of the East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
1:00 – 1:30 pm Instant Klezmer Mandolin Orchestra
1:45 – 2:15 pm Nigunim Community Chorus
2:30 – 4:00 pm Pop-Up Chorus of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. All voices welcome!
Get a head start: See following page for lyrics. Voice parts are at www.jewishmusicfestival.org.
4:15 – 6:00 pm Dance Party with Veretski Pass. All feet welcome!
Instant Klezmer Mandolin Orchestra In the early twentieth century, among the many mandolin
orchestras playing light classical and popular music in Europe and America were those emphasizing
Jewish music. Carrying on this tradition, and named in recognition of its infrequent assembly,
spontaneous musical arrangements, genre, instrumentation, and plethora of plinky pluckers, the
Instant Klezmer Mandolin Orchestra features members of several of the Bay Area’s leading klezmer
groups, and as well as mandolinists prominent in other genres, celebrity cameos, and innocent
bystanders. The group originally formed to play at the San Francisco Festival of the Mandolins in
2005, returning several times. IKMO also performed in 2005, 2006, and 2007 at the Jewish Music
Festival of the JCC East Bay Community Music Day in Berkeley, where it was acclaimed as the most
populous group each year.
Nigunim Community Chorus The chorus meets weekly at the JCC East Bay. Its repertoire includes
traditional and contemporary songs in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and English, arranged for choral
singing. Participants develop musical skills, enrich their knowledge of Jewish music while having a
great time. Many members have been with the group for ten years or longer, and the group grows
from year to year. New singers are welcome!
Director: Achi Ben Shalom
Meeting Mondays, 7:30 - 9:15, JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley
For information about the new season contact Achi at mail@nigunim.org or call 510-528-8872.
Hallelujah, lyrics and music by Leonard Cohen. Performance by YOU! Add your voice to the
harmony! Join fellow fans of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah with a pop-up community sing. All singers
welcome, but you can get a head start on learning your part by downloading the music from www.
jewishmusicfestival.org . Conspiracy of Beards Artistic Director Daryl Henline wrote the arrangement
and will lead us all to the height of song. (See next page for lyrics.)
Composer and Arranger Daryl Henline focuses on writing music for voice. In 2013, he created Singing
Ginsberg for the Contemporary Jewish Museum in conjunction with the exhibition of the photos
of Allen Ginsberg. Other pieces include scores for Lotta’s Opera, Nights at the Circus, Nest and other
productions. Daryl is the Director of Conspiracy of Beards, a thirty voice men’s choir devoted solely to
the songs of Leonard Cohen.
Veretski Pass
Stuart Brotman, bass, basy (cello), tilinca and baraban, has been an accomplished performer, arranger
and recording artist in the ethnic music field for over fifty years. He has been a moving force in the
klezmer revival since its beginning, and has defined klezmer bass (“It’s a large instrument that plays
really low and has an accent.”) Stu holds a B.A. in music with a concentration in Ethnomusicology
from UCLA. He is featured in the films “Itzhak Perlman, in the Fiddler’s House” and “Song of the Lodz
Ghetto, with the Music of Brave Old World.” He produced The Klezmorim’s Grammy nominated album,
Metropolis, and has also recorded with Brave Old World, The Klezmorim, Kapelye, Andy Statman, the
Klezmer Conservatory Band, Davka, The San Francisco Klezmer Experience, and Khevrisa.
Joshua Horowitz, chromatic button accordion, cimbalom and piano, received his Masters degree in
Composition and Music Theory from the Academy of Music in Graz, Austria, where he taught Music
Theory and served as Research Fellow and Director of the Yiddish Music Research Project for eight
years. He is the founder and director of the ensemble Budowitz, a founding member of Veretski Pass
and has performed and recorded with Itzhak Perlman, The Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Theodore
Bikel, Brave Old World, Frank London and Adrienne Cooper. Joshua taught Advanced Jazz Theory
at Stanford University with the late saxophonist Stan Getz and is a regular teacher at Klezkamp,
Klezmerquerue, Klezkanada, KlezCalifornia and the Klezmer Festival Fürth. His musicological work is
featured in four books, including The Sephardic Songbook with Aron Saltiel and The Ultimate Klezmer,
and he has written numerous articles on the counterpoint of J.S. Bach. He is the recipient of more
than forty awards for his work as both composer and performer.
Cookie Siegelstein, violin and viola (please see bio on JACK MENDELSON PAGE)
18. FESTIVAL STAFF & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Festival Staff
Community Outreach – Eli Fisher
Graphic Design - Rhatura Bowden
Hospitality – Marcia Brooks
Legal Advisor – Tony Phillips
Music Hospitality – Denah S. Bookstein
Photographer – Lea Delson, Allan Stross
Printer and Mail House - Autumn Press
Publicity – Jean Shirk, Ellie Shapiro
Technical Coordinator – Peter Bonos
Videographer – Zachary Iannazzi
Volunteer & Hospitality Coordinator – Renee Enteen
Website: Peter Bonos, Peter Jacobson-LinkingArts,
Ellie Shapiro, Director
Peter Bonos, Production Coordinator
Steering Committee
Susan Seeley
Maxim Schrogin
Tony Phillips
Arthur Goldman
Shirley Issel
Amy Tobin
Artistic Advisors
Michael Alpert
Theodore Bikel (honorary)
Yair Dalal
Ari Davidow
Ronnie Gilbert
Barbara Kirshenblatt – Gimblett
Joshua Kun
Frank London
Francesco Spagnolo
Ramón Tasat
Advisory Committee
Denah Bookstein
Dmitri Gaskin
Arthur Goldman
Paul Hamburg
Emunah Hauser
Glenn Hartman
Mike Perlmutter
Tony Phillips
Ed Silberman
Laura Sheppard
Avner Yonai
JCC East Bay Board of Directors
John Ifcher, Vice President
Alissa Reiter, Vice President
Leah Greenblat, Secretary
Andy Ganes, Treasurer
Josh Langenthal,
Immediate Past President
Steven Douglas
Julie Elis
Nicki Gilbert
Arthur Goldman
Jana Good
Daniel Haut
Lee Marsh (Emeritus)
Jay Momet
Mark Moss
Maxim Schrogin
Michael Tannenbaum
Natalie Zatkin
Amy Tobin
CEO, JCC East Bay
Profound thanks to Autumn Press (Miguel Alson and staff), Ben Brinner, Downtown Berkeley Association, Suzan
Berns, Judith Bloom, Shira Cion, Jonathan Curiel, Wendy Cohen and Frances Dinkelspiel (Berkeleyside), Jack and
Ann Eastman, Susan Felix, Sue Fishkoff, Dan Pine and the staff of the “J”, Danielle Foreman, Norm Frankel, Renee
Gaumond and the staff of Freight and Salvage, Andrew Gilbert, Allison Green, Nahum Guzik, Jesse Hamlin, Paul
Hanson Trio – Paul Hanson, John Schott and Jeff Denson; Stephen Kent, Cantor Ilene Keys and the staff of Temple
Sinai, Allen and Hannah King, Amanda Kirkwood, Leonard Kurz, Dolores Leavitt, Mark Lempert, Camille Menke,
Luke Newton, Jason Perkins, Dawn Raymond and the staff of First Congregational Church (Oakland), Stephanie
Rapp, Amy Roth and Robert Epstein, Mark Schlesinger and Christine Russell, Dan Siegel, Francesco Spagnolo,
Erika Stalti, Dore Stein, Lisa Tabak, Kevin Vance, Ilene Weinreb, Avner Yonai
Above and Beyond Goddess of Diligence and Good Spirit Renee Enteen
A very special thanks to JCC East Bay CEO Amy Tobin and Chief Financial Officer Ron Feldman for their thoughtful
guidance throughout the year, and to Peter Bonos, Lea Cohen, Conrad de Guzman, Ted Higgins, Julie Iny, Bruce
King, Zachary Lee, Selena Martinez, Benji Marx, Andy Muchin, George Porter, Barbara Sutherland, Chuck Weis,
Noosh Yazdi, and the entire staff and board of the JCC East Bay
Volunteers - 2015: Aimee Waldman, Alex Hughes, Arinna Weisman, Barbara Kass, Barbara Lutz, Ben Steigler, Betty &
Herb Nudelman, Bonnie Cooperstein, Carole Baden, Carol Suveda, Carolyn Mixon, Charles Falk, Cheryl Grusky-Stein,
Dan Siegel, David Axel, Denah Bookstein, Diane Iglesias, Dorothea Dorenz, Dvora Gordon, Ed Silberman, Jan Herzog,
Jerry Derblich, Joan Ominsky, Julia Gilden, Karen Cilman, Laura Finkler, Laurie Gould, Leah Rolnick-Brunstein, Mandy
Bradt, Mel & Esther Mann, Mena Zaminsky, Mindy Bokser, Nancy Schneiderman, Neida Rosenthal, Polly Rosenthal,
Rachelle Halpern, Rachel Taylor, Ron Landskroner, Rosie Gozali, Rosie Kaplan, Sam and Vivian Trotz, Steven Falk,
Susan Goldstein, Steve Weitz, Susan Wittcoff, Tobie Lurie, Tree Gelb-Stuber, and Vina Cera
In-Kind Donors: Most of our business donors have supported us for many years. Because of them our musicians
from all over the world have felt welcomed and well-fed. Thanks to them, the Jewish Music Festival is renowned
for its hospitality. Please patronize these generous members of our community.
Alegio Chocolate
Bakesale Betty’s
Beauty’s Bagel
Berkeley Bowl
Berkeley Minicar
Betty’s Oceanview Café
Cheeseboard Collective
Farmer Joe’s Marketplace
Food Mill
Grand Bakery
Hagafen Wine Cellars
Judy’s Breadsticks
Juice Bar Collective
Peet’s Coffee (Vine & Walnut Streets)
Poulet Restaurant
Safeway (Shattuck, Solano, College,
Broadway and San Pablo)
Saul’s Restaurant and Delicatessen
Semifreddi’s Bakery
Sweet Adeline
Trader Joe’s (College, University)
Voila Juices
Zoe’s Cookies
19. JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL SUPPORTERS*
Presenting Sponsor
Gaia Fund
The Guzik Foundation
Walter and Elise Haas Fund
Koret Foundation
Kurz Family Foundation
Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation of
the Jewish Community Federation
and Endowment Fund (SF)
Claire Sherman and Ed Anisman
Ilene Weinreb
Concert Sponsor
Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund
Impresario
East Bay Community Foundation, Fund for Artists
Victor and Lorraine Honig Fund of the Common
Counsel Foundation
Shirley Issel
Hannah Kranzberg
Zellerbach Foundation
Top Fiddle
Berkeley Civic Arts Commission
Irwin and Rita Blitt
Susie Coliver, in honor of Ellie Shapiro’s return
Randall Goldstein
Fred Isaac
Tony Phillips
Maxim Schrogin
Seeley Family Foundation
Vincent Worms, c/o the Tides Foundation
Avner Yonai
High Note
Judith Bloom
Arthur and Carol Goldman
Bruce and Julia Hartman, in honor of Glenn Hartman
Dorothy and Lee Marsh
The Israel and Mollie Myers Foundation, on behalf of
Josh Langenthal and Dr. Diane Halberg
Alexandra Wall / Sarah Wall Memorial Trust
Peter and Deborah Wexler
Music Maven
Denny Abrams
Ursula Betz
Denah S. Bookstein
Susan Cohen and Robert Youngs
Benita Kline
Deborah Lans
Bernard Rubin
Marjorie Wolf
A Different Drummer
Zachary Baker
Sheila and Murray Baumgarten
David and Rachel Biale
David Saul Birnbaum Foundation
David Brown and Arlene Immerman
Jeffrey J. Carter, Attorney at Law
Susan David
Forrests Music, John Goebel
Jane Ginsburg
Sara Haber
Carole Joffe
Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow
Rosalind Leighton
Lois and Gary Marcus
Pauline and Michael Marx
Frank Olken
Janis Plotkin
James Rebhan and Barbara Hollinger
Rachel Richman
Gail and Tom Rosin
Bernard Rubin
Joel Rubinstein and Sylvia Sabel
Gail Sara
Susan Scott, in honor of Ellie Shapiro
Lisa Tabak
Dolores Taller
Sabina Ubell
Bill and Myrna Vidor
Diane and Joshua Wirtschafter
Chorus
Afikomen Judaica Bookstore
Diane and Edwin Bernbaum
Denah Bookstein
June Brumer
Barbara Conheim (check – High Holidays)
Shoshana Dembitz
Lew Douglas
Alisa Einwohner
Leah Emdy
Steven Falk
Hal Feiger
Anita Anna Feinstein
Nancy Friedman
Andrew and Lauren Elise Ganes
Julia Gilden
Paula and Eric Gillett
Amy Goodman
Jacob and Rena Harari
John Holme
Estie and Mark Hudes
Kitty Kameon
Gary Katz and Ilene Sakheim Katz
Judy Kunofsky
Jaime Levin
David Moyal and Nicole Howard
Frieda Pardo
Jacob Picheny
Jan Schreiber, Ph.D.
Eve Seligman-Kennard
Susan Swerdlow
Dr. Stephen Tobias and Alice Webber
Arnold Weinstein and Shelly Ress-Weinstein
Olga Winkler
*as of printing
20. In 2008, JMF brought together nine leading artists on the Jewish world music scene.
The Ark Project, directed by Frank London, of the Grammy-winning group the Klezmatics, became
the finale at the Cracow Jewish Culture Festival (2008), and performed at Other Sounds Festival,
Lublin, (2009); and the Art Pole Festival, Ukraine (2009).
Now, you can take this music home
Might Be, available in the lobby for $10.
SUPPORT THE JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL and GIVE YOURSELF THE GIFT OF MUSIC
AT THE SAME TIME!
