The Maxwell Street Band
Come enjoy a rich, multi-dimensional performance that combines dance music, folk songs, theater medleys, and jazzy Yiddish pop music from the 1930’s to the 1950’s.
Concert & Dance Party
Saturday, November 1
Location: Eastern Michigan University Student Center, Main Ballroom
- Doors open at 6:45 pm; music starts at 7:30 pm
- Opening act: Detroit’s Kidz Klez, followed by Maxwell Street Concert and Dance Party
- Cost: $18 per adult, $5 per student. Kids are free.
Visit www.jewishannarbor.org to purchase tickets.
Musician’s Workshop
Sunday, November 2
Location: JCC of Ann Arbor (2935 Birch Hollow Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48108) Newman Lounge
10:00 – 11:30 am. Learn and play klezmer music.
Register below. After you register, you’ll get a link to download mp3’s for the workshop.
Free to all musicians (recommended age 12 and up). Maxwell Street’s clarinetist, violinist, and pianist will lead a master class to teach musicians of all levels how to play in the klezmer style. The musicians will receive band arrangements and coaching. By the end of the workshop, the musicians will play together as an orchestra! Participants should be able to sightread music (or should come having already learned the assigned pieces by listening to MP3s provided in advance).
The Klezmer Concert & Workshop are organized in part by the Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Congregation with support from the Eastern Michigan University Jewish Studies, the JCC of Greater Ann Arbor, and an Impact Grant of the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, as part of the Ann Arbor Yiddish Festival.
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