Exploring Klezmer: Ashkenazi Music and Songs
This fun, upbeat, and interactive performance program introduces klezmer music, the Yiddish language, and instruments from three different instrument families. Klezmer music is Eastern European Jewish (Ashkenazi) secular celebration music. Students will have fun learning about different musical instrument families (woodwind, string, and brass) as they move and sing along to a lively set of traditional tunes played on clarinet, violin, trombone, and double bass. They will also enjoy learning about klezmer music and its significance in secular Ashkenazi Jewish culture both in Eastern Europe and in the United States as they define popular Yiddish words and sing along to songs with Yiddish lyrics.
Program available in person, or live online.
Audience Limit: 300
Curriculum Connection: Ashkenazi Jewish Culture, American history, European history, immigration, diaspora, folk music, instrumental music
Video: Remote Arts Learning Showcase (Ezekiel's Wheels begin at 31:16)
Single Performance: $1,155
Additional Performances: $925
Travel: $100 per day
Pricing may vary for weekends/out-of-school time
Processing Fee of $45 added to all contracts
Provisions:
- 4 reserved parking spaces (with 1 close to an entrance or access to loading zone)
- Access to a power source
Performance space:
- At least 10x10 feet with 10 feet between band and audience
Arrival time before first performance: 45 minutes needed in the performance space to set up
Strike time: 30 minutes
Time needed between performances: 10 minutes
Please introduce the performers as an Arts for Learning Massachusetts ensemble.
