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Yemen Blues
Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Aug 4, 8pm @ City Winery the annual free festival of music and dance presents Yemen Blues. Organized by charismatic Israeli-Yemenite singer Ravid Kahalani and composer/bass player Omer Avital, Yemen Blues is a super group of top musicians form New York, Israel and Uruguay that creates the ultimate African groove by combining West African soul and American blues and jazz with the traditional music and chants of Kahalani's Yemenite roots. Yemen Blues closes out a concert that also features renowned Malian singer Khaira Arby and the N.Y. debut of UkanDanZ featuring Ethiopian-born Asnake Guebreyes fronting a Western quartet.
For more information about City Winery: click here For more information about Lincoln Center: click here or call (212) 875-5766 |
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The Alaev Family
 Aug 8, 7:30pm @ Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the annual free festival of music and dance, presents the U.S. debut of The Alaev Family, a Bukharin groove band from Israel with deep roots in the music of Tajikistan and Jewish Bukhara. Playing as many as nine drums, Allo Alaev leads the family ensemble of two sons and four grandchildren. The Alaev Family opens the evening on a shared bill with acclaimed classical Indian Carnatic violin master Dr. L Subramaniam's "Global Fusion" program.For more information, please click here or call 212-875-5766 |
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Shai Wosner in Concert
August 10 at 10:30pm - An all-Schubert program:
Impromptus Nos. 1-2, D899
Sonata in A Major, D959
August 24 at 10:30pm - With Martin Fröst On Clarinet and with Lisette Oropesa, Soprano:
Schubert - The Shepherd on the Rock, D965
Brahms - Sonata in F Minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 1
Schubert - Hungarian Melody, D817
Brahms - Selection of Hungarian Dances
(arr. Clarinet and Piano)
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New York International Film Festival (NYCIFF)
An evening to enjoy five great short films from Israel presented for the festival. There will be a Q&A after the screenings. Films:
A Wonderful Day by Yossi Meiri & Ariel Wesibrod
Occupy Rothschild by Israel Winkler & Eldad Bouganim
Wall to Wall by Tal Haring
Busted by Asaf Yecheskel & Rotem Geva
Word Games by Avri Olschwang
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TheaterCan presents "Dogs"
A theater director sets out to create an Arab-Jewish Romeo & Juliet musical. When five men come together to work on the show, the rehearsal room becomes a battlefield and the production threatens to be a hysterically spectacular disaster. This event is a part of the New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC).
Dates and Times:
8/16 @ 6PM
8/9 @ 5PM
8/21 @ 2PM
8/23 @8 PM
For more information, please click here or call 347-893-7793 |
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TheaterCan presents "Honest"- A Monodrama in a Pub
Have a drink at the bar and meet Dave, a young civil servant who's always brutally honest. After a few drinks at the pub, Dave is ready to share his hilarious views on life and the dramatic night that everything changed.
8/21 @ 7 PM
8/25 @ 4 PM
8/26 @ 1 PM
For more information, please click here or call 347-893-7793 |
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Israeli Consulate, NY |
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