BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:722@tikkunvor.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T210000 DTSTAMP:20260405T230949Z URL:https://www.tikkunvor.org/events/klezmer-shabbaton-concert-2/ SUMMARY:Klezmer Shabbaton: Concert DESCRIPTION:KLEZMER SHABBATON &\; CONCERT\n\nCelebrate Shabbat (Shabbes) and the world of Yiddish music\, language and culture with the Strauss/Wa rschauer Duo and Pete Rushefsky.\n\n3-5 pm Afternoon lecture and music ses sion:  Learn Yiddish music and culture from leading experts in the field\ n\n7-9 pm Evening concert with the Strauss/Warschauer Duo and Pete Rushef sky.\n\nRegister for one or both events:\n\nhttps://tikkunvor.wildapricot. org/event-6624188\n\nTickets are $10 per person for each event.\n\nOther o ptions:\n\nContributor:  $50 (includes 2 tickets to both events)\n\nSpons or:  $250 (includes 4 tickets to both events)\n\nABOUT THE FEATURED ARTIS TS:\n\nDeborah Strauss is an internationally acclaimed klezmer violinist who has been performing\, recording\, and teaching worldwide for more than 30 years. She is one-halfof the Strauss/ Warschauer Duo with her husband\ , Cantor Jeff Warschauer\, was a long-time member of the Klezmer Conservat ory Band and was featured in the Emmy Award-winning film\, Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler’s House . A highly regarded Yiddish dancer and an award- winning educator\, Strauss taught for 20 years at Yiddish cultural schools in Manhattan and on Long Island. She has served as Education Director of Reconstructionist Congregation Kehilat Shalom in Belle Mead\, New Jersey\, and is the Yiddish Culture Organizer for the new Arbeter Ring/ Workers Ci rcle Sixty Plus initiative\, Zol Zayn Yidish! Let there Be Yiddish! As a p erformer and teacher\, Strauss is a mainstay at the Jewish Culture Festiva l in Krakow\, KlezKanada\, Yiddish Summer Weimar\, and Trip to Yiddishland .\n\nCantor Jeff Warschauer is a hazzan\, educator and highly accomplishe d musician with a sweet\, soulful voice and a friendly\, engaging presence . Ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary\, Jeff is a faculty member o f Columbia University and JTS and has served congregations in New Jersey\, New York\, Connecticut\, Ohio\, Pennsylvania\, Maine and Vermont. Jeff is also internationally renowned as a leading klezmer mandolinist\, an innov ator in the development of klezmer guitar style\, a Yiddish and Hebrew sin ger\, and a skillful and inspirational educator. One half of the Strauss/W arschauer Duo\, he was a longtime member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and has been featured in concert and on recordings with Itzhak Perlman\, J oel Grey and the late Theodore Bikel. Jeff is also a Founding Artistic Dir ector of KlezKanada.\n\nPete Rushefsky is a leading performer\, composer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer)\, Rush efsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as p art of the Klezmer Conservatory Band\, and collaborates with a number of l eading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance\, one of the nation’s leading organizations dedicated to sustaining and prese nting diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. A founder of the annual Yiddish New York festival\, Rushefsky curated the Yiddish pr ogram at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of articles and books on traditional music and culture. He won the Jewish Music Institute (IMJ Sao Paulo’s) 2022 Bubbe Award for best new klezmer composition. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR