College klezmer bands from Columbia, Princeton, Brown and Yale universities, and the New England Conservatory of Music, will perform sets of klezmer music on Sunday, Feb. 24, as part of the fourth annual Klezmerpalooza festival.
The concert will take place at 2 p.m. at Toad's Place, 200 York St. Tickets are $10 for non-students; students are admitted free.
Earlier that day, klezmer pioneer Henry Sapoznik will lead a master-class workshop in klezmer performance at 10 a.m. in the Branford College common room, 74 High St. This event is free and open to the public.
Klezmer music is a highly energetic form of Jewish folk music of eastern European origins and fused with elements of Yiddish language and culture. "Over the past 30 years, the music has experienced a renaissance in the United States, inspiring dozens of new bands and countless solo artists, and drawing in huge crowds of enthusiasts," says Yale senior Joshua Wolf, a member of the Yale Klezmer Band. "It has grown in the United States into a large musical genre, and contemporary artists often fuse klezmer with other styles of music like jazz, rock, funk or classical."
This year's Klezmerpalooza festival brings the annual event back home to Yale. Jeffrey Perlman, who graduate from Yale in 2001, started the festival in 1999 in order to bring together the collegiate klezmer community and to increase public awareness of the genre. "The festival has grown over the past years and has been a huge success at Brown in 2000 and Princeton in 2001, attracting hundreds of fans and introducing many newcomers to the wild sounds of klezmer music," comments Wolf.
Sapoznik is one of the founding musicians of the recent klezmer revival. A renowned performer on banjo, he is also a teacher and producer. He has written extensively on klezmer music since the 1970s and is the director and cofounder of Living Traditions Inc., a non-profit organization that seeks to preserve Yiddish culture.
The Klezmerpalooza festival will be "a day of peace, love and klezmer," promises Wolf and the other organizers of the event.
For further information, contact Joshua Wolf at (203) 436-0223 or send an e-mail to joshua.wolf@yale.edu. Information is also available on the Klezmerpalooza website at www.yale.edu/klezmer.
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