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Klezmer Brunch at Porto Franco Art Parlor
The gonifs
The gonifs play klezmer music & Yiddish songs about love, jail, social justice and potatoes. Peter Jaques (clarinet) & Jeanette Lewicki (accordion, Yiddish singer) have been playing Jewish music together since 1996 in SF Bay Area klezmer weddings, in concert halls, peace marches, dreams and subways around the world. The band's current lineup includes Daniel Fabricant (bass), Darren Johnston (trumpet), and Aaron Kierbel (drums) along with special guests such as violinist David Chernyafsky (of the SF Symphony) & bassist Richard Saunders ( of the SF Klezmer Experience). Peter Jaques also leads the Brass Menazeri, and Jeanette Lewicki is the editrix of the zine Yiddish Tango Illustrated as well as a founding member of Accordionists Against the Death Penalty and of accordion duo Max & Minka. The gonifs plan to record for Porto Franco Records in the spring of 2011.
KLEZMER
A Brief History of traditional instrumental music of Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe.
Klezmer bands were known since the fifteenth century, many early bands included women musicians, a practice that returned in the beginning of 20th century. The repertoire was not strictly Jewish because they often played at non-Jewish weddings and festivities. It included popular local tunes such as gypsy melodies, later Ukrainian and Russian dances hopack and kozachok, and also polka, mazurka, waltz, and gavotte. Some Jewish musicians traveled to Constantinople where Yiddish tunes mixed with Greek and Turkish music. There was lack of notation before the mid-nineteenth century. There were no klezmer schools but there were guilds, which trained musicians and protected their territory. Klezmer community had its own professional terminology of mixed and modified Yiddish, Polish, Hebrew, and German words. Some of them sneaked into criminal argot in such places as Moldavanka district in Odessa, where criminals, black marketers, prostitutes, and musicians lived close to each other. By the end of the nineteenth century there were about three thousand klezmer bands in Russia including two thousand in Ukraine. At that time klezmer was mostly influenced by music from Moldavia, Romania, and Bessarabia. At the beginning of the 20th century a lot of Jews emigrated to America and brought klezmer music with them.
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LocationPorto Franco Art Parlor
953 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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