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Golem, Rogovoy, take klezmer on trans-Atlantic tour

12.12.05
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – New York-based Yiddish/klezmer outfit Golem and klezmer expert Seth Rogovoy are teaming up for a series of year-end collaborations, beginning with “Helsinki’s Hanukah KlezFest,” at Club Helsinki with two shows on Sunday, December 18, after which they will travel to England for the weeklong, international Limmud conference at Nottingham University, where separately and together they will lecture, perform, and teach classes and workshops on klezmer and other topics.



Helsinki’s annual Hanukah-themed event features a concert by Golem, whose members will also participate in “Rockin’ the Shtetl,” Rogovoy’s multimedia presentation that will kick off both shows (the evening show is sold out, but there are still tickets available for the afternoon show at 2 p.m.), taking concertgoers on klezmer’s historic journey from Old World shtetls to New World nightclubs and concert stages. Since publication of his groundbreaking guidebook, The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover’s Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music (Algonquin Books, 2000), Rogovoy – who writes frequently for The Forward and Hadassah Magazine, and who is editor-in-chief of Berkshire Living Magazine and a commentator on WAMC Northeast Public Radio -- has been widely recognized as a leading authority on the history of klezmer music, and has presented his multimedia program at colleges, universities, and cultural centers across America and in England.



Led by singer/folklorist/accordionist Annette Ezekiel, Golem performs Yiddish folk and theater music with Balkan, Slavic and Gypsy influences. The group specializes in uncovering obscure, forgotten chestnuts of the Eastern European repertoire as well as reviving old favorites like “Rumania, Rumania,” “Belz,” and “Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn” in lively, new cabaret-style arrangements, performed by Ezekiel, whom Hadassah Magazine called “Molly Picon in a catsuit,” and co-vocalist Aaron Diskin. The group’s most recent CD, “Homesick Songs,” features nostalgia for Old World villages, shtetls and cities left behind but not forgotten. Golem also includes fiddler Alicia Jo Rabins, formerly of Northampton and familiar to Berkshire audiences as a member of old-time trio Underbelly and as a founding member of the trad-rad folk group The Mammals.



Golem and Seth Rogovoy have performed together at venues including MusicFest 2004 in Detroit, the JCC in Washington, D.C., and the Guthrie Center in Housatonic, Mass.



Limmud, a Jewish learning conference that annually attracts over 2,500 participants from England, Europe, and Israel to the campus of Nottingham University, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. At this year’s conference, which takes place December 25-29, Rogovoy will teach an in-depth course on the history of klezmer and a two-part workshop examining the Jewish textual roots of Bob Dylan’s lyrics; Golem will perform; and Golem and Rogovoy will reprise their “Rockin’ the Shtetl” program.



To mark the Hanukah holiday, which begins one week after the December 18 show, Helsinki Café will offer a menu of Jewish specialties, including potato latkes and borscht. Brunch seating begins at noon; afternoon show, ideal for families, begins at 2 p.m. Dinner seating starts at 5; evening show begins at 7. Tickets to Helsinki’s Hanukah KlezFest -- which as predicted sells out -- are $20. Advance tickets guarantee admission; reservations guarantee preferred seating. Club Helsinki is located at Main and Railroad Streets in Great Barrington (entrance through the Triplex parking lot). For more information and reservations call 413-528-3394.







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