Jams

Klezmer and baroque events Ilana is playing in, promoting, or otherwise involved with
 

Date

What and where

Details
4-5 September Festival of Jim

Near Lewes, Sussex

The second Festival of Jim will happen on 4 & 5 September in the beautiful wood where Jim Marcovitch is buried near Lewes. It will be an all day and night party remembering and celebrating a life lived full of music, friendship and fishing. Includes juggling, klezmer music and cocktails!

Tickets £20, £5 kids aged 3-16

Dozens of performers are already signed up. For more information and registration details visit www.ilanacravitz.com/jimfest.html or send an email to icravitz@hotmail.com.

Sunday 5 September

1-5pm

Klezmer in the Park

Regents Park, London

An opportunity to dance with Andreas Schmitges, Guy Schalom and Ilana Cravitz all afternoon to the UK's foremost klezmer bands. See http://www.jmi.org.uk/performance/2010/index.htm for more details.

Free event

Saturday 11 September

1.30-4.30pm

Klezmer Workshop in Lewes

 

Become a founder member of the Lewes Klezmer Ensemble! Ilana Cravitz teaches tunes, ornamentation, accompaniment and style. Open to any instrument.

Tickets £15, £10 concs.

Please book in advance by contacting Linda Hardcastle on 01903 770581; l.hardcastle@talk21.com. Download more details

Sunday 12 September

2.30-3.30

Hopkele @ The Thames Festival

House of Fairy Tales/Swamp Rock stage, at the Oxo Tower Wharf

Dance with Hopkele Productions and the London Klezmer Quartet is just one of the attractions at this riverside festival.

More details at

Sunday 26 September

3-4pm

Consort Music of the English Renaissance

St Bartholomew's Church, Orford, Suffolk

Music by Dowland and his contemporaries played by Galliada viol consort with John Hutchings (organ).

Tickets Available on the door £8 / students £4
Pre-booking from Framlingham Stationers, or Malcolm Blakeney 01728 648571; Warwick Faville 01728 638636.

Further information www.eastanglianacademy.org.uk. Galliada is Margaret Westlake (treble viol), Ilana Cravitz (treble and tenor viols), Marjorie Harmer and Anthea Smith (tenor viols), Anne Jordan (bass viol).

Monday 27 September

7.30pm

Fandango! at the Hurst Festival

88 Wickham Hill, Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex

A musical soiree in a private home as part of the Hurst Festival, Sussex. The Benavente Quintet plays Boccherini guitar quintets on period instruments. Judy Tarling and Ilana Cravitz (violins); Rosalind Hanson (viola); Lynden Cranham (cello); Peter Lay (guitar).

Tickets £12.50

Booking http://www.hurstfestival.org/prog27.html

Saturday 2 October

7.30pm

Fandango! in Leeds

Clothworker's Centenary Hall, School of Music, University of Leeds,

The Benavente Quintet plays Boccherini guitar quintets on period instruments. Judy Tarling and Ilana Cravitz (violins); Rosalind Hanson (viola); Lynden Cranham (cello); Peter Lay (guitar).

Information and tickets 0113 343 2584 or email concerts@leeds.ac.uk

Sunday 10 October

2-5pm

 

Klezmer workshop in Cambridge

The Hut, Fletcher's Terrace, Cambridge

Back by popular demand! Similar to previous workshops with Ilana, there will be a chance to learn a tune and some accompaniment, and look at some of the modes and style elements that make Klezmer so haunting and joyful. Open to any instrument.

Tickets £15 for the 3-hour workshop (includes tea and biscuits!).

Please book in advance by emailing klezmerworkshop@benorganizzato.com

Sunday 13 February 2011

Doors open 7.15pm. First dance at 7.45pm

 

Valentine's Hopkele

Klezmer dance with live band

Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY

 

Dancing! Live klezmer!! Romance??!!! The popular klezmer keilidh returns.

The ever-athletic Guy Schalom will lead and teach Yiddish dances, with The London Klezmer Quartet: Ilana Cravitz on fiddle,  Susi Evans (clarinet), Francesca Ter-Berg (cello) and Carol Isaacs (accordion). See the Hopkele Productions Homepage: http://www.ilanacravitz.com/hopkele.htm

Tickets £15 full price; £10.50 concs. Online booking (e-ticketing) @ £13.50/£10.50 available soon at www.guyschalom.com