February 27, 2019, 11:30 – 12:00 PM., Naples Klezmer Revival Band will perform for Naples Senior Center, Naples, FL
PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES
December 3, 2018, Monday, 5:00-6:30 PM, Community Wide Chanukah Celebration, Mercato, Naples, FL
December 6, 2018, Thursday, 5:00-8:00 PM, Chanukah Celebration at Marbella Lakes
December 8, 2018, Friday, 12:00-2:00 PM, Bar Mitzvah, Temple Shalom, Naples
December 17, 2018, Monday, 5:15-6:00 PM, Cocktail Hour at the Glenview
January 16, 2019, Wednesday, 6:00 PM, Jewish History Month Klezmer Concert, South Regional Library (8065 Lely Cultural Pkwy.,Naples, FL 34113)
2017-2018 SEASON’S COMPLETED PERFORMANCES
October 28, 2017, 7:30 pm, KLEZMER COMEDY AND KNISHES, Shalom Life Center (13411 Shire Lane), Ft. Myers, FL
November 18, 2017, 4:00 pm, Naples Music Club Members’ Recital, “Music Carnival”, First United Methodist Church, Naples, FL
December 3, 2017, 3:00 pm, Musical Moments, “Holiday in Paradise”, Robert & Karin Moe Auditorium & Film Center, Bonita Springs, FL
December 13, 2017, 5:45 – 7:15 pm, Jewish Federation Community Chanukah Celebration, outdoors at The Mercato Shopping Center, Naples, FL, sponsored by Jewish Federation of Collier County.
January 7, 2018, 4:00 pm, A Community Day of Music showcasing the many musical talents of the Naples Temple Shalom family, Naples, FL
January 17, 2018, 6:00-7:30 pm Concert, South Regional Library, Naples, FL, in celebration of Jewish Literature and Music Month, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Collier County.
March 1, 2018, 5:30 pm, Purim and Israel Birthday Celebration, Chabad of Naples.
April 8, 2018, 3:00 pm, Musical Moments, National Potpourri,
Centers for the Arts, Bonita Springs, FL
April 21, 2018, Klezmer Program, Port Charlotte
May 5, 2018, Joshua’s Bar Mitzvah, Hyatt House, Naples, FL, Private function
June 16, 2018, 7:00 PM, Klezmer Concert, Glenview, Pelican Bay, private function, Naples
2016-2017 SEASON’S COMPLETED PERFORMANCES
September 14, 2016, 12:30 – 1:00 PM., Naples Klezmer Revival Band will perform for Naples Senior Center, Naples, FL
December 26, 2016, 5:45 – 7:15 pm, Jewish Federation Community Chanukah Celebration, outdoors at The Mercato Shopping Center, Naples, FL, sponsored by Jewish Federation of Collier County.
December 27, 2016, 5:45 – 7:15 pm, Chabad of Bonita Springs Chanukah Celebration, outdoors at Coconut Point Plaza in Estero, FL
January 18, 2017, 6:00-7:30 pm, Concert, South Regional Library, Naples, FL, in celebration of Jewish Literature and Music Month, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Collier County, featuring Michael Winograd.
Clarinetist Michael Winograd is one of the most respected and versatile working musicians in klezmer music today. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Michael spends much of his time in transit, performing and teaching throughout the world. He is one third of the transatlantic klezmer/cabaret collective Yiddish Art Trio, clarinetist of Tarras Band, a classic 1950’s Jewish American tribute group, and the co-founder and director of the ground breaking, borderless world fusion band Sandaraa. Michael also collaborates with Cantor Yaakov ‘Yanky’ Lemmer and Klezmatics trumpeter Frank London in Ahava Raba, a group that explores the spiritual sides of Ashkanazy Jewish Music. He has played along side Itzhak Perlman, The Klezmer Conservatory Band, Socalled, Budowitz, Alicia Svigals and more.
February 26, 2017, 3:30 – 5:00 pm, Chabad of Chabad of Naples Cocktail Reception for Ambassador of Israel, Naples, FL, Private Function
March 15, 2017, 12:30 – 1:00 PM., Naples Klezmer Revival Band will perform for Naples Senior Center, Naples, FL
2015-2016 SEASON’S PERFORMANCES
November 21, 2015, 4:00 pm, the Band will be performing as part of the Naples Music Club Members’ Recital – “Forgotten Gems”. Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church, Naples, FL
December 6, 2015, 2:00-4:00 pm, Concert at Temple Beth El, Ft. Myers, FL
December 7, 2015, 5:45 – 7:15 pm , Jewish Federation Chanukah Celebration, outdoors at The Mercato Shopping Center, Naples, FL, sponsored by Jewish Federation of Collier County.
December 12, 2015, 8:00 – 9:30 pm, Concert at Bonita Beach “Center for the Performing Arts“, 10150 Bonita Beach Road, Bonita Springs, FL
December 13, 2015, 2:00 – 2:30 pm, Mini-Concert prior to showing of “Sholem Aleichem” film at JCMI Film Festival, Marco Island, FL
January 10, 2016, 2:00 – 4:00, Chabad of Naples, Sanctuary Dedication, featuring Cantor Yanky Lemmer, world famous cantor from New York.
January 20, 2016, 6:00-7:30 pm Library Concert , in celebration of Jewish Literature and Music Month, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Collier County.
Featured guest: Pete Rushefsky. Pete is one of the foremost “cimbalom” performers in the U.S., a typical instrument in Central Europe, like a hammered dulcimer. He has performed internationally at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and Cite de la Musique (Paris). He has concertized and recorded with classical violinist Itzhak Perlman and has played with many of klezmer and Jewish music’s leading performers, including Cantor Yitzchok Meir Helfgott, Andy Statman, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Alicia Svigals, Michael Winegrad, Lisa Gutkin, Michael Alpert, Adrianne Greenbaum, and Jake Shulman-Ment. He also serves as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance in New York City, dedicated to maintaining the vitality of immigrant performing arts traditions. The Center’s An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture works to research and preserve Jewish music and dance traditions.
January 31, 2016, 2:30 PM, “Klezmer, Cake, & Coffee”, Community Hall, Temple Beth Israel, 1910 S. Pebble Beach Blvd, Sun City Center, FL
February 28, 2016, 4:00 pm, “Fiddler on the Roof” with Ellen Katz and Cantor Azu. Temple Shalom, Naples, FL
June 8, 2016, 12:30 – 1:00 PM., Naples Klezmer Revival Band will perform for Naples Senior Center, Naples, FL
2014-2015 SEASON’S PERFORMANCES
October 29, 2014, 12:30 – 1:00 PM., Naples Klezmer Revival Band will perform for Volunteers of the Jewish Family and Community Services, Naples, FL
November 23, 2014, 2:00 – 4:00 PM., Bayshore CAPA presents the Naples Klezmer Revival Band in Concert at Temple Shalom, Naples, FL
December 17, 2014, 5:00-7:00 PM – Chabad of Bonita Hannukah Springsat, Coconut Point, FL
December 18, 2014, 5:45-7:00 PM, A Hannukah Celebration, Mercato Shops, NAPLES, FL,
January 14, 2015, 6:00 – 7:00 PM., Naples Klezmer Revival Band in concert at the Collier County South Regional Library, Naples, FL
February 18, 2015, 12:30 – 1:00 PM., Naples Klezmer Revival Band will perform for Volunteers of the Jewish Family and Community Services in Naples, FL
February 21, 2015, 2:00-2:30, Kezmer: Ethnic Music for Dance and Celebration, featuring Art Isenberg, piano and Martin Cohn, clarinet, as part of the Naples Music Club’s Musical Safari Day, North Naples Church, Naples, FL
March 7, 2015 , 7:00 PM, private function at Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort (Tiburon Golf Club), Naples, FL
May 13, 2015, 12:30 – 1:00 PM., Naples Klezmer Revival Band will perform for Volunteers of the Jewish Family and Community Services in Naples, FL
January 12, 2014, Performance at Beth Tikvah of Naples, FL, “Yiddishkeit Night”, an entertainment featuring Yiddish-English raconteur extraordinaire Alf Kwinter and the Naples Klezmer Revival Band.
January 15, 2014, 6:00 – 7:00 PM., Naples Klezmer Revival Band in concert at the Collier County South Regional Library, Naples, FL
“Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer are sweet and soulful performers who draw from klezmer, Yiddish, Hasidic and liturgical music and culture, adding their own original compositions and song settings. Their music is grounded in tradition, yet thoroughly contemporary.
They were both longtime members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, one of the premiere groups of the klezmer revival, and have performed with legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman on film and in concert. Now in their 18th year as the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, they have performed to overwhelming acclaim in such diverse venues as the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Great Britain’s Fiddles on Fire, the Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow, Poland, and the Art of Yiddish in Los Angeles with actor and singer Theodore Bikel."
March 31, 2014, 5:15 to 6:00 PM, Glenview at Pelican Bay, Naples, FL, Repeat Performance. Private Concert.
2012-2013 SEASON’S PERFORMANCES
December 10, 2012, 5:00-7:00 PM – Chabad of Bonita Springs at Cocoanut Point, FL
December 11, 2012 – Channukah Celebration, Hideaway Beach Club, Marco Island, FL
December 13, 2012, 6:00 PM – Chanukah Celebration, Jewish Federation of Collier County, Mercato Shops, Naples, FL
January 16, 2013, 6:00-7:30 PM, Naples Klezmer Revival Band in Concert at the Collier County Regional Library, Naples, FL
We are pleased to announce that Sergiu Popa returns as our special guest (see 2010 performances below).
January 27, 2013, 5:30-8:30 PM, “CD Release Party Concert”, Fred’s Fun, Food, and Spirits Restaurant,Naples, FL
January 28, 2013, 7;00 PM, “Klezmer Musicans Travel Home to Krakow”, The Women’s Circle of Chabad, Naples, FL. Ellen Friedland, the producer, will lead a discussion followed by a performance of the Naples Klezmer Revival Band.
March 3, 2013, 5:00-9:00 PM, Chabad Fundraising Gala, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Naples, FL, Private Function
2011-2012 SEASON’S PERFORMANCES
December 11, 2011, 3:00 PM, Day of Fun, Temple Sholom, Naples, FL
December 22, 2011, Thursday, 6:00 PM, Chanukah Celebration, Jewish Federation of Collier County, Mercato Shops, Naples, FL
January 18, 2011, 6:00-7:30 PM – Naples Klezmer Revival Band in concert at the Collier County South Regional Library, Naples, FL
The guest artist for this year is Jake Shulman-Ment.
Jake Shulman-Ment
Violinist Jake Shulman-Ment is among the leaders of a new generation of Klezmer and Eastern European folk music performers. His versatility as a violinist, composer, improvisor, teacher, and folk music researcher has established him as one of the world's leading practitioners of the klezmer violin. As a child in New York, Jake's immersion in Yiddish culture and the klezmer revival movement, as well as rock, jazz, and classical music, formed him into an eclectic musician with multiple influences at work simultaneously. In an effort to explore more deeply the roots of the Jewish music he grew up with, Jake has done extensive research and study with Roma musicians in Romania and Hungary. He has synthesized his experiences and travels into an original sound, sometimes departing quite far into a realm of experimentation, but always remaining true to his deep roots in traditional Jewish music.For more information, please visit: MySpace and CD Baby.
January 29, 2012, 11:00-Noon, Bayshore Cultural Festival of the Arts, Sugden Regional Park Drive, Naples, FL
February 12, 2012, 7:00 pm, “A Simcha in Song -A Musical Journey from Israel to Broadway”,a Cantorial Concert to benefit the extraordinary work of Hadassah, Temple Shalom, Naples, FL
2010-2011 SEASON’S PERFORMANCES
October 1, 2010, 8:00 PM – Simchas Torah Celebration at Temple Shalom, Naples, FL
October 7, 2010, 1:00 – 2:00 PM, Jewish Music in Israel and Around the World, Lely Palms Retirement Community, Naples, FL
Sergiu was born in 1981, in Chisinau, Moldova. He had completed his studies at Stefan Neaga music college as well as two years of studies at the Conservatory of Moldova before emigrating to Canada in 2002. Since a young age, he also simultaneously studied traditional folk and Roma (Gypsy) styles with his father, Ion Popa, himself a well-recognized Gypsy accordionist in Moldova. Over many years of playing alongside his father at weddings, he became familiar with Jewish, Turkish, Russian, Serbian and Bulgarian styles as well. Despite his young age, he is quickly establishing a reputation as one of most brilliant accordionists in Canada today. He has co-founded the Sergiu Popa Ensemble with his wife (violinist Jessica Gal), a group which was discovered by Musique Multi-Montréal, a reputable world music agency, in 2006. Since then, they have performed at numerous festivals and concert series in Quebec, and were selected to receive the 2007 Radio-Canada Étoiles Galaxie award. In 2008/09, Sergiu Popa was the 'artist-in-residence' of the Circuit 514, a partnership between CBC Radio 2, the Place des Arts, the Conseil des Arts de Montréal, Montréal Arts Interculturels and Vision Diversité
September 13, 2009, 6:00 to 8:30 PM – ” Klezmer and Knishes” sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte Counties at the Luna Rossa Restaurant located at Miromar Outlets, Estero, FL
October 3, 2009, 12:00 to 2:00 PM, Bni’ Mitzvah and 90th Birthday Celebration, Temple Beth Shalom, Ft. Myers, FL
October 9, 2009, 8:00 PM, Simchas Torah Celebration at Temple Shalom, Naples, FL
December 10, 2009, 6:30-9:00 PM, Chanukah Party for Pelican Marsh Social Club, Naples, FL
December 13, 2009, 5:00 PM , Naples Chabad Chanukah Celebration at Venetian Village.
December 14, 2009, 5:45 to 7:00 PM -Community Chanukah Celebration, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Collier County at “The Mercato”, Naples, FL
January 20, 2010, 6:00-7:30 PM, Naples Klezmer Revival Band in concert at the Collier County Headquarters Library, Naples, FL
We are proud to announce our featured guest artist: Adrienne Greenbaum
Adrianne Greenbaum - www.klezmerflute.com is a nationally acclaimed klezmer and classical flutist. As a klezmer she is the founder and leader of "FleytMuzik," an ensemble with flute, violin, cimbalom and bass, and of "The Klezical Tradition" klezmer band where she performs on both flute and keyboard and leads Yiddish dance. She has been on the faculties of Living Traditions’ KlezKamp, KlezKanada, and Boxwood, was a premier participant with FleytMuzik at the KlezMore Festival in Vienna, and presents master classes in the art of klezmer performance to classical flutists. She has also performed with "Kapelye", with Adrienne Cooper in performances at the International Jewish Festival in Amsterdam and NYC‘s Jewish Museum and as accompanying artist with numerous cantors in concert as both pianist and flutist. As a clinician interested in sharing klezmer music with young people of all ages and backgrounds she also presents school workshops and directs three student klezmer ensembles in Connecticut and Massachusetts. "The Klezical Tradition" has won many awards for its recording Family Portrait, including Top 10 CD’s from both Moment Magazine and the NY Jewish Week. The band was also chosen to be included as a feature in the ABC-TV documentary A Sacred Noise: The New Jewish Music. After receiving over 10,000 albums from 85 countries, FleytMuzik is 1 of 8 albums nominated by Just Plain Folks indy awards for 2004 in the klezmer catagory for Best Album!
February 21, 2010, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Port Charlotte, FL, Temple Concert
March 7, 2010, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM – “IsraelFest” , sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte Counties, Ft. Myers, FL
April 27, 2010, 6:00 to 8:00 PM, the “SUNRISE”Awards Banquet for “People with Developmental Disabilities”, Lorenzo Walker Technical School, Naples, FL
2008-2009 SEASON’S PERFORMANCES
March 22, 2009, 11:00AM–1:30PM, Naples Chabad Benefit Dinner. Naples Beach Hotel and Club, Naples, FL
March 28, 2009, 11:00AM–1:30PM, Naples Klezmer Revival Trio will play at the “Flower Show” at the Naples Botanical Gardens, Naples, FL
Michele Gingras is Professor of Clarinet at Miami University in Ohio, where she was named Curry Distinguished Educator and Distinguished Scholar of the Graduate Faculty. Her book Clarinet Secrets—52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Clarinetist was published by Scarecrow Press in 2004. As a classical musician, she performed on four continents and released a CD of duets with Emmy-Award winner Richard Stoltzman in 2008.One day, around 15 years ago, a Jewish flute student stopped her in the halls of Miami U. and offered to loan her a recording of Giora Feidman, prominent Klezmer clarinetist. At that point, she knew nothing about Klezmer..She says " 15 minutes later my life was changed forever". She fell in love with Klezmer music and proceeded to study with some of the top Klezmer musicians in the world including Hankus Netsky, New England Conservatory of Music, David Krakauer of the Klezmatics, Eileen Stahl, clarinetist for the Klezmer Conservatory Band and Josh Moss, founder of the Cincinnati Klezmer Project. Michelethen began to perform Klezmer and has released several CDs since 1996. She performed as a klezmerclarinetist at several International Clarinet Association Conferences (including Europe), and at venues such as Indiana University, University of Denver, University of Oklahoma, Arizona State University, Cornell University, World JamFest in Cincinnati, the Berklee Performance Center, and many others. She has published many articles on Klezmer, edited klezmer music and included three sections on the subject in her book Clarinet Secrets. Her CD, "Klezmer's Greatest Hits" is available by emailing her at:gingram@muohio.edu. Michele says her most amazing experience in playing Klezmer music occurred in her very first performance. It was seeing the smiles on peoples' faces. She was making them happy as she played and they clapped and danced!Now, at Miami U, Michele is passing on the Klezmer tradition by teaching the genre to her pupils. Among them are Kinneret Sagee, who has gone on to play with the Toronto-based swing sextet " The Sisters of Sheynville" and teaches on the faculty of Klezkanada and Will Cicola, who has founded several bands and piblished articles about Klezmer in Interenational Clarinaet publications. They are "rising stars who will be heard from in the future".
February 3, 2009, 5:30 to 8:00 PM, the “SUNRISE”Awards Banquest for “People with Developmental Disabilities”, Temple Shalom, Naples
February 15, 2009, Sunday, Private Wedding Ceremony and Reception, Fort Myers, FL
March 1, 2009, Sunday, Temple Shalom, Naples – “Dairy Potluck” performance from 5:00pm – 6:00 pm followed by a “Potluck” dinner – bring a dairy dish for 4-6 people. Free!
March 10, 2009, Tuesday – Erev Purim at Naples Chabad. Reservations required.
2007-2008 PERFORMANCES
October 5, 2007, 7:30 PM, Simcha Torah Celebration, Temple Sholom, Naples, Dinner Preceding at 6 PM
October 30, 2007, 8:00 PM, Participating in Naples Doctor Talent Fundraiser Show, Sugden Theater, Naples
November 17, 2007, 6:00 PM, Bosshardt / Wallsten Wedding, Naples Beach Hotel
December 6, 2007, 5:45 PM, Chanukah Celebration – free concert Sugden Plaza, in front of Sugden Theater – bring chairs
December 13, 2007, 5:45 PM, Naples Jewish Social Club Chanukah Dinner- Naples Country Club
December 15, 2007, 6:00 to 9:00 PM, Selby Gardens, Sarasota. Admission to Gardens required. Performance is Free.
January 15, 2008, 5:30 to 8:00 PM, the “SUNRISE”Awards Banquet for “People with Developmental Disabilities”, Temple Shalom, Naples
January 31, 2008, 6:00 PM, Naples Klezmer Revival Band in Concert, Collier County Headquarters Library, Orange Blossom Drive, Naples, FL
Guest clarinetist – Sarah Burk Sarah Burk
Sarah is founding member of the Cincinnati Klezmer Project and has been playing Klezmer music for 15 years, during which she has appeared with the Cincinnati Symphony, the West Virginia Symphony, on PBS, and numerous Klezmer concerts, wedding, bar/bat mitzvas in the greater Cincinnati area. She earned a doctorate degree in clarinet performance and musicology and a master’s degree in music from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music. She presently teaches clarinet and music history at Indiana State University, and performs with the ISU Faculty Woodwind Quintet.
Clarinetist Michael Winograd is one of the most respected and versatile working musicians in klezmer music today. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Michael spends much of his time in transit, performing and teaching throughout the world. He is one third of the transatlantic klezmer/cabaret collective Yiddish Art Trio, clarinetist of Tarras Band, a classic 1950’s Jewish American tribute group, and the co-founder and director of the ground breaking, borderless world fusion band Sandaraa. Michael also collaborates with Cantor Yaakov ‘Yanky’ Lemmer and Klezmatics trumpeter Frank London in Ahava Raba, a group that explores the spiritual sides of Ashkanazy Jewish Music. He has played along side Itzhak Perlman, The Klezmer Conservatory Band, Socalled, Budowitz, Alicia Svigals and more.
November 23, 2014, 2:00 – 4:00 PM., Bayshore CAPA presents the Naples Klezmer Revival Band in Concert at Temple Shalom, Naples, FL
January 14, 2015, 6:00 – 7:00 PM., Naples Klezmer Revival Band in concert at the Collier County South Regional Library, Naples, FL
opa returns as our special guest (see 2010 performances below).
Jake Shulman-MentNaples Klezmer Band On Stage at Sugden Theater
Perry Switzen, Arnold Saslavsky, Jane Galler, Martin Cohn, Stu Warshauer
Jane Galler
Adrienne Greenbaum
Adrienne Greenbaum
Michelle Gingras
Sarah Burk