The Old Broadway Synagogue, Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center and Yiddish New York present:
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KLEZMER RETURNS TO OLD BROADWAY!
Featuring music by Margot Leverett (clarinet), Aaron Alexander (poyk-drum, fiddle) & Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer)
Saturday Night, January 24, 8:15PM
at the Old Broadway Synagogue
(15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan)
Suggested donation: $10
A concert featuring three of the contemporary Yiddish music scene's leading performers - featuring the return to the Old Broadway Synagogue of acclaimed klezmer clarinetist Margot Leverett, percussionist Aaron Alexander and tsimbl (cimbalom/hammered dulcimer) player Pete Rushefsky. This program is presented by the Old Broadway Synagogue in partnership with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Yiddish New York and the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center.
Biographies of performers:
Margot Leverett: Clarinetist Margot Leverett was a founding member of the Klezmatics in 1985 before moving on to start her own band "Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys", an all-star band combining the best of Klezmer and Bluegrass. They toured widely and their music was choreographed by the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Margot has been featured as a guest soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, has toured Japan twice with The New York Ragtime Orchestra, and has been featured in several Off-Broadway productions. She was a staff instructor at KlezKamp for over 10 years and has also taught at Yiddish New York, KlezKanada, Klezkamp West, Klezmerquerque, and at colleges, music festivals, and Jewish organizations across the country and Europe. Margot lives in Kingston, NY.
Aaron Alexander is a drummer and fiddle player, has been playing klezmer music for 36 years and has been fortunate to be associated with many of the finest musicians in the klezmer and Jewish music field. He has been on Faculty at Yiddish New York, Trip to Yiddishland, Klez Kamp, Klez Kanada, Yiddish Summer Weimar, and in 2010 co-founded the NY Klezmer Series – a weekly concert, workshop, dance party and jam session series that features many wonderful klezmorim from around the world. Look for upcoming events by the NY Klezmer Series soon. Alexander has performed and recorded with Theo Bikel, Pete Sokolow, The Mazeltones, Greg Wall, Klezmerfest!, Alicia Svigals, Strauss/Warschauer Duo, The Klezmatics, Michael Winograd, Pete Rushefsky, Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars, and has released several recordings as a leader – The Klez Messengers, Midrash Mish Mosh, Blues for Sparky and more.
Pete Rushefsky - A leading performer, composer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and collaborates with a number of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene including Andy Statman, Jake Shulman-Ment, Adrianne Greenbaum, Eleonore Biezunski, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Michael Alpert, Madeline Solomon, Zhenya Lopatnik, Zoe Aqua, Aaron Alexander, Margot Leverett, Alicia Svigals, Keryn Kleiman, Eleonore Weill, Alex Parke, Ira Temple, Lauren Brody, Avi Fox-Rosen and Michael Winograd. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. He is a founder of the annual Yiddish New York festival, curated the Yiddish program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of articles on traditional music and culture.
We are grateful for the support of the Atran Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
