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:721@tikkunvor.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T025431Z URL:https://www.tikkunvor.org/events/klezmer-shabbaton-concert/ SUMMARY:Klezmer Shabbaton: Lecture and Music Session 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\n3:30-5 pm Afternoon Song Workshop:  Y iddish songs and melodies from nature -- with the Strauss/Warschauer Duo\, Deborah Strauss\, and Cantor Jeff Warschauer.\n\n7:30-9 pm Evening concer t: EfntDemToyer: Open the Gate!  with the Strauss/Warschauer Duo and Pete Rushefsky.\n\nRegister for one or both events:\n\nhttps://tikkunvor.wilda pricot.org/event-6624188\n\nTickets are $10 per person for each event.\n\n Other options:\n\nContributor:  $50 (includes 2 tickets to both events)\n \nSponsor:  $250 (includes 4 tickets to both events)\n\nABOUT THE FEATURE D ARTISTS:\n\nDeborah Strauss is an internationally acclaimed klezmer vio linist who has been performing\, recording\, and teaching worldwide for mo re than 30 years. She is one-halfof the Strauss/ Warschauer Duo with her h usband\, Cantor Jeff Warschauer\, was a long-time member of the Klezmer Co nservatory Band and was featured in the Emmy Award-winning film\, Itzhak P erlman: 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 Direc tor of Reconstructionist Congregation Kehilat Shalom in Belle Mead\, New J ersey\, and is the Yiddish Culture Organizer for the new Arbeter Ring/ Wor kers Circle Sixty Plus initiative\, Zol Zayn Yidish! Let there Be Yiddish! As a performer and teacher\, Strauss is a mainstay at the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow\, KlezKanada\, Yiddish Summer Weimar\, and Trip to Yidd ishland.\n\nCantor Jeff Warschauer is a hazzan\, educator and highly acco mplished musician with a sweet\, soulful voice and a friendly\, engaging p resence. Ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary\, Jeff is a faculty m ember of Columbia University and JTS and has served congregations in New J ersey\, New York\, Connecticut\, Ohio\, Pennsylvania\, Maine and Vermont. Jeff is also internationally renowned as a leading klezmer mandolinist\, a n innovator in the development of klezmer guitar style\, a Yiddish and Heb rew singer\, and a skillful and inspirational educator. One half of the St rauss/Warschauer Duo\, he was a longtime member of the Klezmer Conservator y Band and has been featured in concert and on recordings with Itzhak Perl man\, Joel Grey and the late Theodore Bikel. Jeff is also a Founding Artis tic Director of KlezKanada.\n\nPete Rushefsky is a leading performer\, co mposer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer) \, Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlm an as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band\, and collaborates with a numb er of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Danc e\, one of the nation’s leading organizations dedicated to sustaining an d presenting diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. A f ounder of the annual Yiddish New York festival\, Rushefsky curated the Yid dish program 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 k lezmer 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