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“How can I go on singing about a penthouse way up in the sky,” Lena Horne once asked, “When, with housing restrictions the way they are now, I would not be allowed to rent that place? I can’t get up in a nightclub in a thousand-dollar dress and start singing ‘Let My People Go’…I never …
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On May 12th, our “Jews on Vinyl” exhibit will be opening up at the Skirball Cultural Center in LA and will remain up through September. We cannot think of a better way to stay cool during the long, hot summer than relaxing in a recreated 1950s living room and listening to some classic Irving Fields …
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Great piece by Alexander Gelfand at Tablet today about the legendary Klezmer innovator and clarinest Dave Tarras who fused the music he had learned as a kid in the Ukraine with the Tin Pan Alley songs and jazz he was exposed to in New York. For those who want to rock, enjoy his version of …
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The Jews on Vinyl exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is closing this June and moving to the Skirball Culutral Center in Los Angeles. If you’re in San Francisco and you haven’t checked it out yet- go now! And if you’ve seen it before, well go see it again and bring the …
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Avram Grobard, iconic Israeli folksinger and former owner of the “El Avram” nightclub in Greenwich Village (1967-82), will be playing an intimate show in South Orange, NJ on May 2. Avram is a good friend to the Idelsohn Society, an amazing performer, and a great man. Those who remember Avram’s performance at our Joe’s Pub …
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