Sarah Lazarus Memorial Concert with ISLE of KLEZBOS ensemble
Sun, Oct 06
|Illinois Holocaust Museum
Acclaimed for their tight yet adventurous sound, lush arrangements, and solos that swing the Yiddish stratosphere
Time & Location
Oct 06, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Illinois Holocaust Museum, 9603 Woods Dr, Skokie, IL 60077, USA
About the Event
This concert is free to the public, but we ask that you please RSVP through this form. If you have questions about registration please be in touch with YIVO.
NYC-based ISLE of KLEZBOS approaches tradition with irreverence and respect. The soulful, fun-loving powerhouse all-women’s klezmer sextet has toured from Vienna to Vancouver since 1998. Band repertoire ranges from rambunctious to entrancing: neo-traditional folk dance, mystical melodies, Yiddish swing & retro tango, late Soviet-era Jewish drinking song, re-grooved standards, and genre-defying originals. ISLE of KLEZBOS concert footage has been broadcast internationally on CBS Sunday Morning, CNN WorldBeat, and PBS In The Life, and the band’s live and studio recordings have also been heard on The L Word (Showtime), WFMU, Northeast Public Radio (Live at the Linda), and film soundtracks for Grace Paley: Collected Shorts, Esther Broner: A Weave of Women, and I Guess I’m Not Going to Get to Vegas, among…