OL' BROADWAY PURIM PARTY!
Featuring music by Avi Fox-Rosen (guitar/mandolin) & Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer)
Saturday Night, March 23, 8:30PM Megillah Reading, 9:15PM Party at the Old Broadway Synagogue (15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan)
Admission Free!
Join us for the Old Broadway Synagogue's Purim Service and Party (15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan) on Saturday, March 23, 2024. After reading the Megillah, we'll feature music by two of the contemporary Yiddish music scene's leading performers - Avi Fox-Rosen (guitar/mandolin) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer). Plus food, friends and fun! This program is presented by the Old Broadway Synagogue in partnership with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Yiddish New York.The fun continues on Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 8:00am with Shacharis, Megillah and a festive breakfast!
Biographies of performers:
Avi Fox-Rosen is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn, NY, equally at home in theater, rock, Yiddish, klezmer or improvisational music worlds. He’s collaborated with many of the leading lights in Yiddish music over the last 20 years including Adrienne Cooper, Daniel Kahn, Sarah Gordon, Michael Winograd, Basya Schechter, Matt Darriau, Frank London and many others, including his brother, bassist and singer Benjy Fox-Rosen. Avi’s a member of .357 Lover, whose dynamics include power-chord riffs and densely-packed, narrative structures, a homunculus of Queen and Tiny Tim. As a songwriter, Avi makes music with a sardonic sense of humor, dense and dark lyrics, and enchantingly twisted melodies. New York Music Daily has heralded Avi’s work as “consistently excellent”.
Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) 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, Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Eleonore Biezunski, Michael Alpert, Madeline Solomon, Zhenya Lopatnik, Zoe Aqua, Jake Shulman-Ment, Keryn Kleiman, Eleonore Weill, Alex Parke, 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.
