Klezmer Brunch at PFRBuy Tickets
Sunday, Sept 25, 1-3pm
Featuring the gonifs Jeanette Lewicki and Peter Jaques joined by Veretski Pass
Reservations highly recommended. Really. We’re not kidding.
Sliding scale ($0 to infinity)
The gonifs & very special guests are back for brunch. Longtime gonifs Peter Jaques & Jeanette Lewicki will be joined by the newest gang members: Cookie Segelstein (fiddle), Joshua Horowitz (19th-century button accordion) & Stu Brotman (cello bass). You may have heard them play brunch as Veretski Pass, the Bay Area’s world-class klezmer band; but today they’ll be honorary gonifs. We invited Cookie, Josh & Stu to play on our upcoming CD & it was so magical that we are thrilled to brunch with them. Jeanette will get to just sing & jump around while Josh plays accordion – a dream come true for at least one of us – and if folks are into it, we’ll lead some dancing. As always, there will be delicious home-cooked vegan food.
If you are willing to attend but not able to pay, please drop a message at sergei@portofrancorecords.com and make your reservation for free.
2 floor, no elevator.
KLEZMER
A Brief History of traditional instrumental music of Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe.
Klezmer bands were known since the fifteenth century, many early bands included women musicians, a practice that returned in the beginning of 20th century. The repertoire was not strictly Jewish because they often played at non-Jewish weddings and festivities. It included popular local tunes such as gypsy melodies, later Ukrainian and Russian dances hopack and kozachok, and also polka, mazurka, waltz, and gavotte. Some Jewish musicians traveled to Constantinople where Yiddish tunes mixed with Greek and Turkish music. There was lack of notation before the mid-nineteenth century. There were no klezmer schools but there were guilds, which trained musicians and protected their territory. Klezmer community had its own professional terminology of mixed and modified Yiddish, Polish, Hebrew, and German words. Some of them sneaked into criminal argot in such places as Moldavanka district in Odessa, where criminals, black marketers, prostitutes, and musicians lived close to each other. By the end of the nineteenth century there were about three thousand klezmer bands in Russia including two thousand in Ukraine. At that time klezmer was mostly influenced by music from Moldavia, Romania, and Bessarabia. At the beginning of the 20th century a lot of Jews emigrated to America and brought klezmer music with them.
Sunday, Sept 25, 1-3pm
Featuring the gonifs Jeanette Lewicki and Peter Jaques joined by Veretski Pass
Reservations highly recommended. Really. We’re not kidding.
Sliding scale ($0 to infinity)
The gonifs & very special guests are back for brunch. Longtime gonifs Peter Jaques & Jeanette Lewicki will be joined by the newest gang members: Cookie Segelstein (fiddle), Joshua Horowitz (19th-century button accordion) & Stu Brotman (cello bass). You may have heard them play brunch as Veretski Pass, the Bay Area’s world-class klezmer band; but today they’ll be honorary gonifs. We invited Cookie, Josh & Stu to play on our upcoming CD & it was so magical that we are thrilled to brunch with them. Jeanette will get to just sing & jump around while Josh plays accordion – a dream come true for at least one of us – and if folks are into it, we’ll lead some dancing. As always, there will be delicious home-cooked vegan food.
If you are willing to attend but not able to pay, please drop a message at sergei@portofrancorecords.com and make your reservation for free.
2 floor, no elevator.
KLEZMER
A Brief History of traditional instrumental music of Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe.
Klezmer bands were known since the fifteenth century, many early bands included women musicians, a practice that returned in the beginning of 20th century. The repertoire was not strictly Jewish because they often played at non-Jewish weddings and festivities. It included popular local tunes such as gypsy melodies, later Ukrainian and Russian dances hopack and kozachok, and also polka, mazurka, waltz, and gavotte. Some Jewish musicians traveled to Constantinople where Yiddish tunes mixed with Greek and Turkish music. There was lack of notation before the mid-nineteenth century. There were no klezmer schools but there were guilds, which trained musicians and protected their territory. Klezmer community had its own professional terminology of mixed and modified Yiddish, Polish, Hebrew, and German words. Some of them sneaked into criminal argot in such places as Moldavanka district in Odessa, where criminals, black marketers, prostitutes, and musicians lived close to each other. By the end of the nineteenth century there were about three thousand klezmer bands in Russia including two thousand in Ukraine. At that time klezmer was mostly influenced by music from Moldavia, Romania, and Bessarabia. At the beginning of the 20th century a lot of Jews emigrated to America and brought klezmer music with them.