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The Beatles were together for almost eight years. Gilbert and Sullivan's partnership lasted twenty-five years. And in 2023, Maxwell Street Klezmer Band will celebrate 40 years of bringing the Joy of Klez to Chicago and the world. Bringing together almost two dozen musicians and singers from around the country for a lively musical reunion, this concert will be a retrospective of the band's career as well as a premiere of new music.Lisa Fishman, who recently played Yenta in Joel Gray's Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish on Broadway, will be featured, along with Cantor Pavel Roytman, Bibi Marcell, Tanya Melamed, Natasha Bodansky, and band founder Lori Lippitz. Violinist and musical director Alex Koffman will be composing special pieces for this event will be violinist Alex Koffman, as well as saxophonist-clarinetist-flutist Shelley Yoelin, a founding member who was nominated for Best Jazz Instrumentalist in 2019 for the CV Music Awards, and singer-songwriter Rabbi Joe Black.
If you haven't attended a Maxwell Street concert before, expect to hear a Big Band sound with repertoire ranging from traditional Eastern European shtetl dances through the golden age of American Yiddish theater to brassy jazz-infused originals, all delivered with energy, warmth, and humor. The band has performed at Carnegie Hall, with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and toured throughout the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. Locally they are known for their steadfast commitment to the Jewish community and performing at weddings and bar and bat-mitzvah parties. “A shared life of simchas (celebrations)–you've been part of our lives, just as we've been privileged to be part of yours,” writes a grandmother who has invited Maxwell Street Klezmer Band to play at generations of family celebrations.
"The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band conjures joy from thin air while at the same time freeing the deep waters of the soul.” - Rich Warren host/producer Emeritus WFMT Radio, Chicago
https://www.klezmerband.com/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln Ave.,Chicago,IL,United States
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