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Alicia Svigals Klezmer Express at Dweck-lec'-tic at Brooklyn Public Library Dweck Auditorium and Outdoor Plaza
Courtesy of Leah Biel | Posted on November 3, 2015
Where
Brooklyn Public Library Dweck Auditorium and Outdoor Plaza
Dweck-lec'-tic
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY
Map
718.230.2198
When
Thu, November 19, 2015
7:30 pm
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Musicians
Alicia Svigals
violinAbout
Alicia Svigals is the world's leading klezmer fiddler, a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics who she co-led for seventeen years, and a composer who was selected to be a 2014 MacDowell Fellow. She has played with and composed for violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, the late poet Allen Ginsburg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, singer/songwriter Debbie Friedman, Avraham Fried, singer/songwriters Diane Birch, Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar, and many others. She has appeared on David Letterman, MTV, PBS' Great Performances, NPR's Prairie Home Companion, Weekend Edition and New Sounds, and on the soundtrack for the L-Word. ...