Calendar of Past Events
Friday, January 8, 2010
Kaila presents two workshops to The New Mexico
Music Educator’s Association and the New Mexico chapter of ASTA
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Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010
World premier of new piece for chamber orchestra by Flexer
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Event: Pomegranates & Figs: A Feast of Jewish Music
Featuring:
Alicia Svigals’ Klezmer Express:: West Coast Edition
Alicia is a fabulous fiddler and will be joined by virtuoso accordionist
Nicolai Prisacar and bassist Daniel Fabricant.
Teslim with special guests!
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue: The (New) Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
Location: 2020 Addison, Berkeley CA 94704
Tickets: TBA
For more information: 510-644-2020
http://www.freightandsalvage.org/
For more informaiton on Pomegranates and Figs, click here.
November 8, 2009
Doulble bill: Teslim & Moira Smiley & VOCO at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay, CA
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Cal Performances Presents
Cal Performances Presents: Pomegranates
& Figs
Featuring Teslim, Kitka and The Gonifs
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus
Location: Bancroft Way just west of Telegraph Avenue,
Berkeley, CA
Tickets: $20/$26/$32
For More information, visit:
http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/presents/season/2008/world_stage/pf.php
or call the Box Office: 510.642.9988
Pomegranates & Figs: A Feast of Jewish Music
A Triple Bill Featuring:
TESLIM (Kaila Flexer & Gari Hegedus)
Klezmer Band THE GONIFS
KITKA WOMEN’S VOCAL ENSEMBLE
Saturday, December 20, 2008 8:00 in Zellerbach Hall
UC Berkeley Campus, Berkeley, California
A Sightlines pre-performance talk will be given by Francesco Spagnolo, Head of Research at the Judas L. Magnes Museum.
In a season long on customs, Pomegranates & Figs: A Feast of Jewish Music promises holiday fare of a different stripe. The exuberance of klezmer music and Yiddish folk song combined with the soulful traditions of Sephardic music will warm Zellerbach Hall on Saturday, December 20 at 8:00 p.m. The triple bill features the driving, danceable rhythms of the klezmer band The Gonifs; the glorious harmonies of the seven-member Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble; and the Bay Area string duo Teslim, featuring violinist Kaila Flexer and multi-instrumentalist Gari Hegedus, “an utterly original pair of players” (San Jose Mercury News). Flexer—who was the force behind Klezmer Mania!—the much-loved Bay Area Jewish music event that occurred annually from 1989 to 2002—created Pomegranates & Figs to celebrate the diversity of Jewish music. The Gonifs, Kitka and Teslim will perform the evening before the first night of Hanukah, and will be joined onstage by special guest violinists Julian Smedley, Shira Kammen and Leah Wollenberg; harpist Liza Wallace; and percussionist Faisal Zedan.
Klezmer (literally klei zemer meaning “vessel of music,” or by extension, “musician” or “instrumentalist”) is an Ashkenazi Jewish music, which began in 15th–century Europe. As klezmer musicians immigrated to this country, especially in the 1920s, klezmer became tinged with the sounds of Tin Pan Alley and early jazz. Sephardic music originates from the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. Sephardic songs are sung in Ladino, a mixture of Spanish, Hebrew and the other languages of the countries that sheltered Jews.
To make the evening more heymish (“homey”), audience members can schmooze, kibbitz and nosh (“visit,” “chat” and “snack”) before the concert and at intermission on sweets and savories from Cal Performances’ newly renovated café operated by Downtown Café and located in the mezzanine of Zellerbach Hall.
A Sightlines pre-performance talk with Francesco Spagnolo, Head of Research at the Judas L. Magnes Museum, will be held Saturday, December 20, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. at Zellerbach Hall. This Sightlines event is free to ticket holders.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Utunes Presents: Teslim Concert
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue: First Unitarian Church of Oakland
Location: 685 14th St., Oakland, CA
For More information, visit: www.utunescoffeehouse.org
January-March 2009
Ten-week class at The JazzSchool, Berkeley CA
Balkan Ensemble Workshop
Time: Saturdays 10:00-11:30
Venue: The JazzSchool, Berkeley, CA
For More information, visit: www.jazzschool.com
April 18-May 23, 2009
Six-week class in Oakland CA
Balkan Ensemble Workshop:
Time: Saturdays 2:00-4:00 pm
For more information: kaila@kailaflexer.com
June 17, 2009
Fiddlin’ Mamas – A Benefit for Fiddlin’ Mama Briana Waters
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Freight & Salvage
Location: 1111 Addison (near San Pablo Ave.), Berkeley
Tickets: $18.50 in advance, $19.50 at the door
Advance tix available at the door
with
Maria Muldaur
Irene Sazer
Kaila Flexer (with Gari Hegedus)
Suzy Thompson
Bobbi Nikles
Stairwell Sisters & Misters
For more information: www.freightandsalvage.org
June 22-26, 2009 12:45-3:15
Kaila will teach Playing by Ear for Classsical Musicians at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
For more information, email: kaila@kailaflexer.com
June 27, 2009
The College of Music presents Teslim in concert
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Imig Music Building Chamber Hall (Room C199)
Location: 18th & Euclid (near UMC) University
of Colorado at Boulder
Tickets: Suggested donation $10-$15
For more info: 303-492-6352
November 8, 2009
Event: Double Bill featuring Moira Smiley & VOCO* and Teslim
Time: 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Doors open at 3:00 pm for buying tickets and claiming seats.
Venue: Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
Location: 307-11 Mirada Road
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
Tickets: $35 per person. Pay at the door at 3 pm, or
make reservations with payment in advance by emailing info@bachddsoc.org or calling Linda Goetz: 650 726-2020. Members get first seating reservations
without payment in advance. Members can make email reservations and receive
priority seating $5 discount for those under 25; children free if they
do not occupy a seat.
For more information: www.bachddsoc.org
or 650-726-4143 or email info@bachddsoc.org
*About VOCO:
Powerful, emotional music with lush four-part vocal harmony and delicious
vaudevillian combo of cello, accordion and banjo. Original improvisation-built
songs steeped in Appalachia and Eastern Europe. Named #1 a cappella group
in the U.S. in 2007. http://www.moirasmiley.com/