Klezmer Reimagined: Alicia Svigals w/Uli Gessendorfer at Sixth Street Synagogue

Klezmer Reimagined: Alicia Svigals w/Uli Gessendorfer
Jazz pianist Uli Geissendoerfer‘s sidelong look at Alicia’s klezmer fiddling offers a fresh per spective on this ancient and beautiful tradition.

Alicia Svigals is the world’s leading klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, who she co-led for seventeen years. She has played with and composed for violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, the late poet Allen Ginsberg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, singer/songwriter Debbie Friedman, Hasidic superstars Avraham Fried, singer/songwriter Diane Birch, Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar, and many others. She has appeared on David Letterman, MTV, Good Morning America, PBS’ Great Performances, on NPR’s Prairie Home Companion, Weekend Edition and New Sounds, and on the soundtrack for the L-Word. She also has a busy party band, sought after for weddings and bar/bat mitzvahs....

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Klezmer Reimagined: Alicia Svigals w/Uli Gessendorfer
Jazz pianist Uli Geissendoerfer‘s sidelong look at Alicia’s klezmer fiddling offers a fresh per spective on this ancient and beautiful tradition.

Alicia Svigals is the world’s leading klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, who she co-led for seventeen years. She has played with and composed for violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, the late poet Allen Ginsberg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, singer/songwriter Debbie Friedman, Hasidic superstars Avraham Fried, singer/songwriter Diane Birch, Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar, and many others. She has appeared on David Letterman, MTV, Good Morning America, PBS’ Great Performances, on NPR’s Prairie Home Companion, Weekend Edition and New Sounds, and on the soundtrack for the L-Word. She also has a busy party band, sought after for weddings and bar/bat mitzvahs.

More info about Alicia Svigals: http://www.aliciasvigals.com/

Cover: $15 (includes a drink).

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