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Check the schedule page-
But- it will include, the klezmer all stars at the GE stage on Friday of the Fest. Saturday at 4 there will be an interview of guitarist ,carl leblanc and I at the interview stage. Also a solo morning gig at The Bywater Bakery and Sunday night at Blue Nile with Andy j Forest.
A new All Stars site is up. Read all about it...or click here, we mean...
Photo by Doug Mason
Our upcoming shows during jazzfest:
Thursday April 26 at 9:30pm Siberia Lounge fro the Eastern European Bloc Party
Saturday April 28 at 4:20pm The Lagniappe stage Fairgrounds for the Jazzfest.
Wednesday May 2 at 11am Bywater Bakery
Friday May 4th at midnight at Sidebar -Klezmer All Stars Duo/Trio w/ Aurora Nealand
Saturday May 5th 10pm Vaughan's Lounge- double bill with The Morning 40 Federation
For more information and lineups check the new website I am on about here.
The new album is out, and I mean out!
Available online and at Louisiana Music Factory and Euclid records.
Glenn Hartman- Accordion
Mean Willie Green III- drums
Joe Cabral-bass
Jonathan Freilich-guitar
Have a preview-
Tomorrow night at the Little Gem Saloon
New Orleans Klezmer All Stars for the last gig of the weekend out for the jazzfest stretch. If you haven't been there yet. Things have been unusual and interesting (read exciting if you need more positive detail) at both the jazzfest slot and at the Hi Ho lounge.
Tomorrow will be no slouch as we return with our old drummer Willie Green (The Neville brothers, Bob Dylan and other minor figures, etc.) If you haven't ever seen him play yiddish music, you are only familiar with a few of his dimensions as an innovative musical contributor. Get out there for it! Together we are a fascinating New Orleans/World music machine.
Jazzfest-Our musical offerings for start tomorrow, Friday April 25th. 2:50pm at the Fais do-do stage. A great slot for hot klezmer fun in the sun!
Following that-we will be at The Hi Ho lounge on St. Claude Ave. The show starts at 10pm and it's a double bill with the unperturbable Iguanas. They have a new record and we have a new item for your digital devices as well.
our sets will feature the following local/global all-stars:
Ben Ellman-sax
Dave Rebeck-violin
Glenn Hartman-accordion
Joe Cabral-bass
Matt Perrine- trombone
Stanton Moore- drums
Jonathan Freilich- guitar
Playing Kaffee Burger, Berlin on March 20th with Glenn Hartman- accordion.
In case you are in Berlin or are interested...
(Also those more obscure shows)
Also playing in Kiel Germany on the 22nd of March
I'll be appearing at the Club Good Hurt in Venice, CA. The band will be THe New Orleans Klezmer All-Star trio featuring Erin Armstrong on woodwinds; Jon Graves on bass; jonathan Freilich-guitar.
We start at 8pm, there are more klezmer operations on the bill...
What follows is a piece written for Lee Barclay and Chris Porche West's great collection of short pieces by New Orleans residents from all across the city and its complex social layers. It was written after the 2005 hurricane that wiped out so much but then there was the city wide pondering over What Can't be Lost. The roster of contributors is epic and being invited to participate was an honor. It's still available here...
Though the book is a few months old now and the subject even older I'm still including it under "What's New?"...because it hasn't been seen outside the book yet.
Jewish-New Orleans Art?
Over the last 16 years, playing with the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars, I have had a close view of what a hybridized New Orleans- Jewish art form might be and, more interestingly, what forces in any locale might contribute to the alteration of certain sounds in music.
The common definition of Klezmer music is usually given by the translation of the word coupled with the origins of the sound. The word Klezmer is from two words, kley and zemer, meaning vessel of song. Some go on to say that this describes the musician who is the vessel who channels the melodies that in a sense are already out there in a metaphysical space given by God. From a cultural or ethno-musicological standpoint, Klezmer denotes Eastern European Jews playing the secular music of those regions but with an instrumental inflection from the liturgical-singing style of the Chazzans or synagogue cantorial soloists of those regions.
It is interesting how people begin to identify with phenomena such as sounds and places and relate to those things as being their own. Since this band started playing the bars of New Orleans in the early nineties, the energy of that world began to seep in. People wanted to dance, and they wanted rhythmic, ecstatic music that lasted for hours into the night. That was their idea of New Orleans music at that time. People who saw that element said that we were New Orleans players; that we played New Orleans Jewish Funk. On the other hand, many said that we were