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Klezmatics with special guest Joshua Nelson

Klezmatics with special guest Joshua Nelson

Saturday, Mar 13 (2010) 8:00p to 10:00p
at Somerville Theatre, Somerville, MA
Price: $28.00
Phone: (617) 625-4088
Age Suitability: None Specified
Tags: jazz, latin, jewish, african, punk, world music, gospel, klezmer, hebrew, yiddish, passover, kosher, arab, woody guthrie, somerville theatre, mark your calendar, klezmatics, joshua nelson, brother moses smote the water

The Grammy Award–winning Klezmatics and African-American Jewish gospel singer Joshua Nelson team up to create a vibrant, rousing live performance just in time for Passover. Brother Moses Smote the Water features age-old Hebrew Passover songs, Nelson’s own brand of “kosher gospel” and traditional Yiddish Klezmatics anthems.
Categories: Music, Performing Arts
Creator:  Tharrah
Creator:  Tharrah
Klezmatics with special guest Joshua Nelson News & Announcements

It’s music steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic musical influences including Arab, African, Latin and Balkan rhythms, jazz and pun
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The Klezmatics
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The Klezmatics take one of the wildest approaches to klezmer, the traditional dance music of the Eastern European Jews. Although their music is heavily influenced by the recordings of Abe Ellstein and Dave Tarras in the 1940s and 1950s, their lyrics comment on a wide variety of political and social
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Joshua Nelson
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In the 17 years since Joshua Nelson first sang along with a Mahalia Jackson album he discovered in his grandparents' home when he was eight-years-old, he has spread th e sheer joy of spiritual music to audiences from New Jersey to Jerusalem and throughout the world....
Gospel
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Somerville Theatre
55 Davis Sq
Somerville, MA 02144
(617) 625-5700
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