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A harmony-forward ensemble playing original & traditional music rooted in Eastern European, Yiddish, and Americana lineage.
May 26-31 2025: Klezmatics-palooza in Minneapolis!
GRAMMY-winning klezmer ensemble The Klezmatics appear in Minneapolis for the first time since 2014! Events presented by Minnesota-based Folk Will Save Us and Chicago-based Roots & Chords Music; this week of events highlights Klezmer and Yiddish music as Jewish cultural expression and as a contemporary evolving art form.
Monday, May 26: Klezmer Percussion for All w Richie Barshay
Tuesday, May 27: The Klezmatics in Concert at the Dakota (with special guest Red Thread)
Saturday, May 31: Lisa Gutkin with Di Bayke Klezmer Band, featuring Ahmed Ismail Yusuf + Araa Ensemble
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Monday, May 26: Klezmer Percussion for All
2:00-3:30 p.m., @ Tapestry Folkdance Center
Join Klezmatics percussionist Richie Barshay for a klezmer percussion workshop - free & open to all. This is a great chance to explore klezmer through a new lens, facilitated by a world-renowned teacher!
Register: klezmer [@] folkwillsaveus.org
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Tuesday, May 27: Klezmatics Concert at the Dakota (with special guest Red Thread)
TUES, MAY 27, 2025
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM (Doors 5:30pm, Music 7:00pm)
Etix (Buy Tickets): https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/75238335/the-klezmatics-minneapolis-dakota
Dakota Website Event: https://www.dakotacooks.com/event/the-klezmatics-may27-2025/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2076131829481883
The Klezmatics are Grammy-winning klezmer superstars who revolutionized Yiddish music. There, they emerged from New York City’s East Village in 1986. Moreover, they infused Eastern European Jewish roots with bold contemporary themes like human rights and anti-fundamentalism. Their eclectic sound blends Latin stomps, jazz riffs, and rhythms from the Balkans, Middle East, Africa, and America.
The Klezmatics have reimagined klezmer, inspiring generations of musicians for nearly forty years. Their achievements include thirteen acclaimed recordings and tours across five continents. Additionally, they have collaborated with artists like Itzhak Perlman, Tony Kushner, Chava Alberstein, and Arlo Guthrie. They are the only klezmer band to win a Grammy, earning the award for Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie.
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Saturday, May 31: Lisa Gutkin with Di Bayke Klezmer Band, featuring Ahmed Ismail Yusuf + Araa Ensemble
THE HOOK AND LADDER THEATER
Doors 7:00pm, Music 7:30pm
Eventbrite (Buy Tickets): https://LisaGutkinKlezmer-AhmedYusuf.eventbrite.com
Hook Website Event: https://thehookmpls.com/event/lisagutkinklezmer-ahmedyusuf/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/4092736487627366
Recognized for her work as violinist and vocalist for the ground breaking Jewish Roots band The Klezmatics and as fiddler for the “Downtown” Celtic band Whirligig, Lisa is also known for her scoring, performance, and music direction in the two time Tony award-winning play, Indecent. She had an on-screen cameo and compositions featured in Sex and the City; has performed in Sting’s Broadway musical The Last Ship; and her song Gonna Get Through This World – with words by Woody Guthrie – was hailed by Pete Seeger as “a piece of genius”. Lisa’s playing and stories are fun and poignant, and her voice has been praised by the LA Times as “hauntingly emotional.”
Red Thread plays original folk music illuminated from within by lineages of Yiddish, Balkan, Irish, and Scandinavian immigrant singers. With the tight harmonies of a family band and lush, innovative instrumentation, the ensemble shares traditional and new music with warmth and humor.
Red Thread is a collective of musicians, based in Minneapolis MN, fronted by songwriter and folklorist Sarah Larsson. Performers in Red Thread each study their own musical folk traditions, and bring arrangements to the group. Ensemble members include: Rada Kolarova, Josh Rosard, Kat Parent, Sophie Javna, Erika Lantz, Julia Hobart, Colleen Bertsch, Pat O'Keefe, Dex Wolfe, Jacqueline Ultan, and McKain Lakey. These musicians have studied with master-artists including Ethel Raim, Michael Alpert, Sam Lee, Dáithí Sproule, stringband master-artists in Transylvania, and others. Red Thread further unspools the line of folk tradition, merging rich vocal and string arrangements with the stories of real people’s lived experience that are embedded within folk songs.
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Eliana Durnbaugh | redthreadsings [at] gmail . com
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Sarah Larsson is a 2024 recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board's Cultural Expression grant.
Performances in MN are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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