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The Cedar PresentsJAKE SHULMAN-MENT and UKRAINIAN VILLAGE BAND with Di Bayke
Thursday, June 2, 2022 / Doors: 7:00 PM CT / Show: 7:30 PM CT
All Ages
Standing
$22 Advance, $25 Day of Show
This is a standing show with an open floor. To request seating or other access accommodations, please visit our Access Page: https://www.thecedar.org/access
General Admission tickets are available online.
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SHOW DESCRIPTION
Jake Shulman-Ment is at the helm of a new generation of Klezmer & Yiddish performers, called “one of the finest klezmer fiddlers on the planet” (NPR). Ukrainian Village Band is the Twin Cities’ own legendary Ukrainian zabava (party) band. These artists come together to celebrate Eastern European folk roots, journeying through traditions of ethnic groups asserting a right to cultural sovereignty, solidarity, and celebration.
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JAKE SHULMAN-MENT
Jake Shulman-Ment is at the helm of a new generation of Klezmer performers. He tours, records, and teaches internationally and has spent two decades traveling and living in Eastern Europe, learning violin traditions and researching old Jewish music from master fiddlers. Drawing from his upbringing in a community of people dedicated to practicing secular Yiddish culture in New York City as well as from his extensive research and study in Romania, Hungary, Moldova, Ukraine, and Greece, he has synthesized an individual style that is deeply rooted in the diasporic history of Yiddish culture. Jake speaks to audiences intimately through his singular voice on the violin, sings Yiddish folk songs of philosophy, love, and resistance, and shares stories and musings about life, music, wandering, and being human.
Born in New York City, violinist Jake Shulman-Ment is “considered one of the finest klezmer fiddlers on the planet” (Jon Kalish, NPR). He was featured in Csaba Bereczki's full-lenth documentary film Soul Exodus, and performed on screen in HBO's Succession and Martin Scorcese's The Irishman. A widely sought-out teacher of the klezmer fiddle tradition, Jake has been a faculty member of KlezKamp, KlezKanada, Klezmer Paris, the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, Yiddish Summer Weimar, Fiddle Tunes, Yiddish New York, and other festivals throughout the globe. He collected, studied, performed, and documented traditional music in Romania as a Fulbright scholar, and has lived and traveled in Hungary and Greece, learning traditional violin styles. In 2018 he received the prestigious NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Folk/Traditional Arts. Jake's debut solo album, A Redele (A Wheel) (Oriente Musik, 2012) was nominated for the German Record Critics' Award. His new group, Midwood, released its first album, Out of the Narrows, (Chant Records) in May 2018.
Jake tours and records internationally as a soloist and with Midwood, Frank London, Di Naye Kapelye, The Brothers Nazaroff, Michael Alpert, Joey Weisenberg, Duncan Sheik — and past Cedar Cultural Center favorites, Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird.
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UKRAINIAN VILLAGE BAND
Ukrainian Village Band (UVB) is a Ukrainian roots and Zabava (event & wedding) band playing folk & modern music of Ukrainians everywhere & of Ukraine's various ethnic communities. A beloved fixture in the Twin Cities’ folk and world party music scene, UVB has been delighting audiences for the last 15 years.
At any event where UVB appears, one will always find people dancing. Listeners can waltz and polka with with the band, or learn for the first time how to do the traditional village and courtroom dances to such tunes as Hopak, Arkan, Hutsulka/Kolomyjka, Kartoplja, Orlytsja, Karapet, Ojra and more! Audiences inevitably find themselves falling in love with all things Ukrainian — music of course, but let us not forget pyvo (beer), salo (smoked/salted pork fat), and good horilka (vodka).
UVB is comprised of a mix of Ukrainian-Americans and lovers of Ukrainian music, all of whom are distressed and devastating by Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. While the band members are performers onstage, they also are actively involved in organizing within Minnesota’s Ukrainian-American community, and appreciate any and all support going towards humanitarian and resistance efforts in Ukraine and in the US.
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DI BAYKE
Di Bayke Klezmer Band (“dee b-eye-keh”) plays the energetic party music of Balkan and Eastern European Jewish tradition. Formed in the summer of 2020 to play outdoors at block parties, rallies, and cultural events, Di Bayke takes its name from the acronym Backyard Klezmer Ensemble, with a pun on the Yiddish word Bayke, which means “fairy tale.”
Di Bayke seeks to create new magical worlds in the Twin Cities, cultivating joyful spaces for members of Jewish and non-Jewish community to share in Eastern European Jewish culture through music, and to grow to be active participants in an ever-evolving tradition. While some of the band members are lifelong members of Jewish community, others have experienced marginalization in other Jewish spaces, due to being religious/not religious enough, a person of the wrong gender, being of mixed background, or otherwise. Di Bayke’s performances and parties seek to get everyone dancing and feeling able to contribute to community cultural life.
The band is made up of Pat O'Keefe (Zeitgeist ensemble), Anthony Afful (The Brass Messengers), Rachel Calvert (Barbaro), Danny Lentz (Red Hot Django Peppers), Spencer Chandler (The Guthrie Theater/Indecent), and Sarah Larsson (The Nightingale Trio). Band members have studied with master-artists from the klezmer tradition, including Lisa Gutkin of The Klezmatics, Ethel Raim of The Pennywhistlers, Josh Waletzky, and Zoë Aqua at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
Di Bayke is a project of the Twin Cities Klezmer Collective and Folk Will Save Us.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis, United States
Tickets
USD 22 to USD 25