(HOUSATONIC, Mass.) – Vocalist Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell will perform “Convergence: Spirituals from the Shtetl, Davvening from the Delta,” a recital blending Yiddish art songs and African American spirituals, at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House on Saturday, August 8, 2015, at 8pm. As a Jew-by-choice, Russell, a former professional opera singer, discovered the soul-deep connections between…
(GHENT, N.Y.) – Jewish world-beat jazz quartet Sha’ar performs a Candlelight Concert at ?Omi International Arts Center on Saturday, February 28, 2015, at 6:30pm. ?The quartet features acclaimed musician (and 2007 Music Omi alumni) drummer/percussionist David Freeman, along with guitarist Oren Neiman, Iván Barenboim on clarinet and bass clarinet, and bassist Doug Drewes. Sha’ar is…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Jewish soul singer Neshama Carlebach, the protege and musical heir of her father, the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, who in the 1960s and ‘70s brought an approach to Jewish liturgical music that was steeped in tradition yet utterly contemporary, will perform with her band at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, November 8, 2014,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Matisyahu introduced a new, broadened musical persona earlier this year with his album, Spark Seeker, and the former Hasidic reggae star is previewing his next project, Spark Seeker: The Acoustic EP – due out January 15, 2013 – in a limited run of live shows that stops at Club Helsinki Hudson on…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Hagar and Miriam. Judith and Hannah. The Bible is full of stories – often overlooked, underwritten or ignored – about women. The Patriarchs get all the play, but there’s plenty of drama in the stories of the Matriarchs and their sisters and cousins. Which is what motivated songwriter-vocalist-violinist Alicia Jo Rabins…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Saxophonist Charles Neville of the Neville Brothers will join co-director Paul Green and friends on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, at 7:30 p.m., at Congregation Knesset Israel in Pittsfield in the kickoff concert of a three-week festival of Jewish music in the Berkshires celebrating cross-cultural connections. Other concerts in the series will explore…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The 25th anniversary celebration of the Berkshire Jewish Film Festival will feature Joshua Nelson and his Kosher Gospel. This concert will be held on Monday, August 22, 2011, at the Duffin Theater at Lenox Memorial High School at 8 with a dessert reception at 7 before the concert. Joshua Nelson was born…
