MED-REN-KLEZ-JAM
Sun, 07 Jan 2024 (EST)
08:00PM - 11:00PM
Jalopy Theatre
315 Columbia St
Brooklyn, New York 11231
Medieval, Renaissance and Klezmer dance tunes
with Avery Gosfield, Eléonore Weill and Ilye Shneyveys (8:00 – 9:30)
Klezmer Jam session (9:30ish – 11:00)
Doors open: 7:30 P.M.
Concert: 8:00 – 9:30 P.M.
Followed by a Jam Session until 11:00 P.M.
MED-REN-KLEZ-JAM
When a Medieval and Renaissance roots music expert like Avery Gosfield (recorder, percussion,) gets together with two of Brooklyn’s finest interpreters of Yiddish, Klezmer and Eastern European (but not only) music: French vocalist multi-instrumentalist Eleonore Weill, and the astonishingly talented accordion (and nearly everything else) player Ilya Shneyveys, you know you’re in for an evening of astonishing, unpredictable sounds. The concept is not so much “World” as “Time” music - jumping through the ages, fusing old and new rhythms, tunes, and styles (with plenty of improvisation thrown in for good luck) making new sounds from old stuff. Because, in the end, it doesn’t matter from where or when the music comes from, as long as it makes you want to dance.
KLEZ-JAM
Jam Session (9:30 – 11:00)
Bring your instruments along for a Klezmer Jam Session led by mult-instrumentalist Ilye Shneyveys with a few medieval and traditional French songs thrown in.
Born in Philadelphia, based in Europe, Avery Gosfield has been playing and researching Medieval and Renaissance Roots Music - the tunes that the normal people might have played, sung or danced to in the Renaissance – ever since she can remember. In 2004, this research led her to some unknown Jewish poems, which she set to old music, pursuing the early-Jewish link with passion. With her early music group Lucidarium, she has played in most of the major Early and Jewish music festivals of Europe and North America.
French vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Eleonore Weill is acclaimed for her soulful interpretations of Yiddish, East European and French traditional music. Hailing from a musical family in Southern France and now based in Brooklyn, Weill performs and records in a variety of ensembles, from klezmer to Romanian and Occitan folk music. Performing on recorder, wooden flutes, piano, accordion and hurdy-gurdy, Weill’s music is informed by her conviction that traditional songs have great power to create social change.
Ilya Shneyveys (accordion/piano) is an international performer, accordionist and multi- instrumentalist, teacher, composer, arranger and producer of contemporary Jewish music, from klezmer and Yiddish folk song to fusion and experimental projects. Long-time faculty member at Yiddish Summer Weimar, he is the artistic director of the Yiddish psychedelic rock band Forshpil and the Caravan Orchestra, for which he was awarded the 2017 Shimon- Peres-Prize.Originally from Riga, Latvia, Ilya has been traveling the world for the last 15 years promoting Yiddish music and culture and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.
with Avery Gosfield, Eléonore Weill and Ilye Shneyveys (8:00 – 9:30)
Klezmer Jam session (9:30ish – 11:00)
Doors open: 7:30 P.M.
Concert: 8:00 – 9:30 P.M.
Followed by a Jam Session until 11:00 P.M.
MED-REN-KLEZ-JAM
When a Medieval and Renaissance roots music expert like Avery Gosfield (recorder, percussion,) gets together with two of Brooklyn’s finest interpreters of Yiddish, Klezmer and Eastern European (but not only) music: French vocalist multi-instrumentalist Eleonore Weill, and the astonishingly talented accordion (and nearly everything else) player Ilya Shneyveys, you know you’re in for an evening of astonishing, unpredictable sounds. The concept is not so much “World” as “Time” music - jumping through the ages, fusing old and new rhythms, tunes, and styles (with plenty of improvisation thrown in for good luck) making new sounds from old stuff. Because, in the end, it doesn’t matter from where or when the music comes from, as long as it makes you want to dance.
KLEZ-JAM
Jam Session (9:30 – 11:00)
Bring your instruments along for a Klezmer Jam Session led by mult-instrumentalist Ilye Shneyveys with a few medieval and traditional French songs thrown in.
Born in Philadelphia, based in Europe, Avery Gosfield has been playing and researching Medieval and Renaissance Roots Music - the tunes that the normal people might have played, sung or danced to in the Renaissance – ever since she can remember. In 2004, this research led her to some unknown Jewish poems, which she set to old music, pursuing the early-Jewish link with passion. With her early music group Lucidarium, she has played in most of the major Early and Jewish music festivals of Europe and North America.
French vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Eleonore Weill is acclaimed for her soulful interpretations of Yiddish, East European and French traditional music. Hailing from a musical family in Southern France and now based in Brooklyn, Weill performs and records in a variety of ensembles, from klezmer to Romanian and Occitan folk music. Performing on recorder, wooden flutes, piano, accordion and hurdy-gurdy, Weill’s music is informed by her conviction that traditional songs have great power to create social change.
Ilya Shneyveys (accordion/piano) is an international performer, accordionist and multi- instrumentalist, teacher, composer, arranger and producer of contemporary Jewish music, from klezmer and Yiddish folk song to fusion and experimental projects. Long-time faculty member at Yiddish Summer Weimar, he is the artistic director of the Yiddish psychedelic rock band Forshpil and the Caravan Orchestra, for which he was awarded the 2017 Shimon- Peres-Prize.Originally from Riga, Latvia, Ilya has been traveling the world for the last 15 years promoting Yiddish music and culture and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.