The
Klezmer Band
Calendar of Public Performances

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Upcoming Performances

Saturday evening, December 11, 2010
at 8 pm

Concert at Caffe Lena

47 Phila Street
Saratoga Springs, NY
Directions

Recent Performances

Saturday evening, April 4, 2009
at 7 pm

Concert and Dance
at Heath Elementary School

18 Jacobs Road, Heath, Mass.
Presented by Heath Elementary Parent Teacher Partnership in consort with the Heath Rural Strings Program
Admission is FREE, donations benefit the Heath Rural Strings Program
Information and Directions: 413-337-5308
http://www.heath.mtrsd.k12.ma.us

Saturday evening, March 21, 2009
at 7 pm

Concert and 100th Anniversary Celebration
at Temple Bnai Israel

345 Jackson Street
Willimantic, Connecticut
Directions

Sunday, February 1 at 1 pm

Seeking the Thirty-Six

World Premiere of a film by Nico Lanson, Stephen Billias, and Dennis Lanson, with soundtrack music by the Wholesale Klezmer Band.
Location: Temple Israel of Greenfield,
27 Pierce Street
Greenfield, Massachusetts 01301
Phone: 413-773-5884
Directions

December 13-14, 2008

The Shalshelet Festival of New Jewish Liturgical Music
has selected
Der Meshiekh Vet Ersht Kumen
a song by Yosl Kurland of the Wholesale Klezmer Band,
for its festival concert in Washington, DC on Saturday evening, December 13th.

Yosl will sing at the concert and participate in workshops on the music on Sunday, December 14th
For more information see http://www.Shalshelet.org

Saturday evening, December 20, 2008

Yosl Kurland of the Wholesale Klezmer Band, will join a dozen musicians, singers and storytellers at the 27th annual
Winter Solstice Celebration
at the Round House in Colrain.

Yosl will tell the story of the Colrain 6th grade class trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC and teach a Yiddish children's song he wrote about how you count people without giving them a number. Yosl will close the evening with his award winning song, Der Moshiakh Vet Ersht Kumen.
For information and directions, see http://RoundHouseCulture.com

Saturday Evening, November 15, 2008

Workshop: How to Dance at a Jewish Wedding
and
Concert

at the Student Center
Bennington College
Bennington, Vermont
Directions

Sunday afternoon, March 2nd, 2008
at 2 pm

Concert at The National Yiddish Book Center

on the campus of Hampshire College
South Amherst, Massachusetts
Directions

Friday, October 12 through Sunday, October 14, 2007
Yosl (Joe) Kurland, Khaye (Peggy) Davis and Borukh (Brian) Bender of the Wholesale Klezmer Band will be participating in

A Great Day on Eldridge Street

Yosl and Khaye will perform a Broyges Tants in the Saturday evening
Klezmer Hootenany with Yale Strom and Guests
8pm, Free, with a reception afterwards open to the public.
First come, first served.
Elebash Recital Hall (350 SEATS).
The Graduate Center, CUNY,
365 Fifth Ave., at 34th Street in New York City

Saturday evening, December 8th, 2007 at 7 pm
Concert at

Congregation Gates of Heaven

852 Ashmore Avenue
Schenectady, NY 12309
518-374-8173
for benefit of the
Temple Community Service Corps
Directions

Congregation Gates of Heaven

WHAT'S NEW

from the

WHOLESALE KLEZMER BAND?

Now in our twenty-eigth year, we are featuring new songs, stories and instrumental tunes by our members at our concerts:

Yosl Kurland sings "Moyshe Kapoyer" his song about children's logic and the strange backwards, inside-out, upside-down things that children do. Yosl says it took him twelve years to gather the examples to use in the song. Yosl also teaches the audience to sing "Nisht Eyns," a counting song that he wrote for the children's program at Klez Kamp. The song, whose title in English means "not one" teaches the lesson that as Jews, we are not supposed to assign numbers to people because to do so dehumanizes them. In between singing of this song, Yosl tells the story of accompanying his son's sixth grade class, of which his son was the only Jewish member, to visit the Holocaust Museum during their class trip to Washington DC.

On the instrumental side, our clarinetist, David Tasgal leads us in "Reyzele's Hora" which he composed as a love song to his wife.

What isn't new is the way we bring joyous and meaningful Jewish music to Jewish and non-Jewish audiences, with subtitles and storytelling so that everyone understands and feels included.