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JOELLEN & THE URBAN GYPSIES + SCHMALTZ—SORRY TO SAY CANCELLED

Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

$20

Sorry to say this show has been cancelled.

Joellen and the Urban Gypsies bring the whimsical and imaginative mountain dulcimer player/builder and accordionist, Joellen Lapidus, together with the musical talents of extraordinary  jazz violinist Yvette Devereaux and multi genre upright bass player Oliver Steinberg.
“We present Americana/Roots/Folk/World music through an urban lens being equally comfortable playing square dance tunes from Appalachia, jazz standards from the 40’s, Indian Ragas, pop tunes and Klezmer.
We are musical “Urban Gypsies”, wandering the musical world,  gathering  up lovely, inspiring, funny, raucous tunes that help us all  feel and express the complex palette of human experience.”—Lapidus

SCHMALTZ: Schmaltz literally means chicken fat but musically means an overly theatrical, campy, and extremely rich performance.

Four extraordinary talented musicians, two from Eastern Europe, one from LA and one from New York City have embraced the modes melodies and rhythms of the Eastern European Jewish folk music called Klezmer. Mix in their urban exposure to classical music, blues, jazz, Indian and Middle Eastern music and you get SCHMALTZ. The interplay between Yvette Devereaux’s electrifying, cascading, haunting violin, and Leo Chelyapov’s soaring, chuckling clarinet is an explosion of dazzling musical technique gushing with delicate, raucous, humorous, deeply emotional, uplifting, ecstatic, transformative musical conversation. Klezmer’s infectious rhythms, sometimes delicate and sometimes fierce, are generated by Joellen Lapidus’ accordion and Igor Kogan’s upright bass. It’s very rich! “That’s why we call ourselves SCHMALTZ.”—Joellen.

http://www.lapidusmusic.com

 

Details

Date:
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Time:
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cost:
$20
Event Category:

Online tickets sales close at 6pm the night of the show.  Any remaining tickets are for sale at Boulevard Music when doors open At 7:30pm unless noted otherwise.  Tickets may also be purchased in person at Blvd Music or by phone (310) 398-2583 using a major credit card. 

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