(AMHERST, Mass.) – Acclaimed violinist and composer Alicia Svigals, considered by many to be the greatest living exponent of klezmer fiddle, will perform at the Yiddish Book Center on Sunday, September 9, 2012, at 2 p.m., with her ensemble, Alicia Svigals’ Klezmer Fiddle Express. During the past two decades, Svigals, a founder of the Klezmatics…
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – The world’s foremost klezmer fiddler, Alicia Svigals, brings her dazzling style of playing to PS21 on Sunday, June 24, 2012, at 2 pm. The concert will include traditional klezmer tunes, Yiddish songs, some original and new music, and the audience is encouraged to participate in the lively, expressive music by dancing, singing,…
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – String Theory, a series of three duo performances featuring three exceptionally accomplished string players from three diverse musical and cultural traditions, will take place in June at PS21, beginning on Saturday, June 16, 2012, with cellist Yehuda Hanani, continuing on Sunday, June 24, with Alicia Svigals, the greatest living exponent of klezmer…
This week’s cultural highlights include a restaging of Orson Welles’s landmark radio broadcast based on H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds at Shakespeare & Company; chamber concerts at Music & More and Tannery Pond; new age saxophonist Paul Winter at Hancock Shaker Village; and world renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals in Albany, N.Y. ‘WAR…
(ALBANY, N.Y.) – Violinist Alicia Svigals, the world’s foremost klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Klezmatics, will present a program of ecstatic Jewish melodies at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center on the uptown campus on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 7:30pm. Svigals will be accompanied by Patrick Farrell on accordion and Brian Glassman on…
