Viva Yiddish!
Further proof that Los Angeles can be one big beautiful melting pot!
Yiddishkayt Los Angeles sponsors a night of Latin and Yiddish fusion!
SEPTEMBER 20, 2008 · 8pm - 10pm · FREE ADMISSION
"The Viva Yiddish! Project will present ear-blowing fusions of klezmer, pachuco, 1950s mambo, banda and more, played by a world-class collective of up to two dozen musicians. The all-star creative team includes Frank London (Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave, Klezmer Brass Allstars), Josh Kun (LA-based writer, critic, professor at USC), Michael Alpert (Brave Old World, Yiddish music scholar), and famous surprise musicians. Special guest appearance by Mike Burstyn."
This exciting event takes place this Saturday, September 20th at the California Plaza, 350 S Grand Ave starting at 8pm!
And it's FREE!
The California Plaza is a great place to sit outside on a warm summer night and enjoy a true Los Angeles experience!
Banda and Klezmer?
I wouldn't miss this for the world! You shouldn't either!
More Info at the link below.
http://www.yiddishkayt.org/old_site/vivayiddishproject1.html
Posted by Unknown @ 9/16/2008 10:28:00 PM
4 Comments:
Oh, oh, Joe B's lookin' to be a politician, lookin' for Jewsion-La-Fusion -- Klezmer music (played by dudes with goy names) and what Alarcon calls "greaser music." (Didja catch his "praise" for the Beach Boys last Friday as fusin' surfer music with soul and "greaser music" into one hellluvan LA sound?)
Will Mayor VillaBaboso be there dancing while wearing his kippah/yarmulke cap??
If lots of T.V. cameras are there you can be sure he will show up.
Good post Joe B, In the western US there's a history of interaction and intermingling between the Mexican American and Jewish populations that goes back hundreds of years to the first Europeans who came to settle the west. the Spanish and Spanish Jews and Arabs, up from Mexico into what is now the US southwest.
Most were Sephardic Jews who were victimized by the Spanish Inquisition and were either killed or became "Converso's" (Catholic converts). Many Sephardi converted just to save their ass's from torture and death but the first chance they got they got on a boat and went to the new world.
Unfortunately the "Inquisitors" followed the Conquistadors to the new world and started their shit here too.
The descendants of these "Converso's" who split Mexico and settled in the distant mountain villages of New Mexico and Calif are now Mexican Americans, but who share a lot of Jewish history and blood in their veins.
Closer to home the first large Jewish community in LA was on the East Side of LA, Boyle Heights, City Terrace, and was referred to as "Russian Flats" in my parents days.
Again there was a lot of interaction and intermarriage between the Jewish and Mexican American people that is evident to this day.
As a matter of fact my own wife is a product of a Jewish Father and a Mexican American Mother. It's an interesting combination, I benefit from her natural talent for learning and accounting, but when it comes to sex it sometimes might cost me a pound of flesh.
Sounds like the consumate celebration of advers-- uh, I mean, DIVERSITY! And how does a half Mexican-American, half Jewish boy commemorate his 13th birthday? With a BAR MEX-VAH!! Woo-hoo!!
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