This year’s music programme of the Jewish Culture Festival includes not only 15 concerts, but also a large number of music workshops and lectures on music – finally in the title 33. FKJ there is the word ‘listen’. So we invite you to listen.
Main festival concerts will be held at the friendly Muzeum of Engineering and Technology. There will be 11 of them:
Sunday, June 23rd
20.00 – Opening concert: Maya Belsitzman, Matan Ephrat feat. Cracow Golden Quintet
Monday, June 24th
20.00 – Shtern faln – The Kadya Trio: Sveta Kundish – vocal, Dr. Alan Bern – composer, piano, accordion, Mark Kovnatskiy – violin
Tuesday, June 25th
20.00 – The Dream Past: A Sonic Conjuring – The Sway Machinery: Jeremiah Lockwood - guitar, vocal, Yuli Yael Be’eri - bass, vocal, John Bollinger - drums, Stuart Bogie – saxophone, Kenny Warren – trumpet
Wednesday, June 26th
20.00 – Nizozot – Bastarda Trio: Paweł Szamburski – clarinet, Tomasz Pokrzywiński – cello, Michał Górczyński – bass clarinet
Thursday, June 27th
19.00 – Voices of Yemen: Moshe Harir – vocal, oil can, Yair Tzabari – vocal, percussions, oud, Aviad Yihye – vocal, percussions, Ravid Kahalani – vocal, percussions, Boaz Gadka – vocal, percussions, Amitai Aricha – vocal, percussions, Rony Iwryn – percussions, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz – bass guitar, Ofer Mizrahi – guitar, Dan Mayo – drums
22.00 – Alex Roth’s Cut The Sky: Alex Roth – guitar, field recordings, special effects, Mikołaj Trzaska – saxophones, klarnety, Hubert Zemler – drums
Friday, June 28th
19.00 – Maqamat: Adon Olam – Elad Levi – violin, musical director, Nissim Lugasi – vocal, Persian tar, Yohai Cohen – vocal, Wassim Odeh – oud, Niri Sadeh – ney, Avishag Neriya – viola, Gaya Sela – keyboards, Adam Chichportich – guitar, lavta, Tiferet Teimans – clarinet, Daniel Merran – violin, Tamar Arad – qanun, Ido Levi – bass guitar, Itamar Panai – drums, Amitai Ezroni – percussions
Saturday, June 29th
18.00 – An Eastern Jewish Fantasia – Maqamat Master Ensemble: Nissim Lugasi – vocal and Persioan tar, Niri Sade – ney, Elad Levi – Andalusian violin, Wassim Odeh – oud, Gaia Sela – keyboards, Tamar Arad – quanun, Ido Levi – bass guitar, Amitai Ezroni – drums
22.00 – Yemen Blues: Ravid Kahalani – vocal, gimbri, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz – bass guitar, oud, Dan Mayo – drums, Rony Irvyn – percussion
Sunday, June 30th
19.00 – Hebrew Tangos – Warsaw Dance Combo feat. Karen Malka and Boris Martzinovski
In the Festival Tent Maya Belsitzman and Matan Ephrat will play a concert to welcome the Shabbat (Frida, June28th, 21.00), Strauss Warschauer Duo (Sunday, June 30th, noon) – will perform classics of the Yiddish music and finally MLDVA will be the last act of the 33rd JCF (Sunday, June 30th, 21.00). Jarosław Bester will play his solo accordion recital in one of the Kazimierz’s synagogues (Saturday, June 29th, godz. 23.00).
As you can see, there will be no Shalom on Szeroka Street this year. In the current political and social situation, we are unable to provide our audience with safety and comfort during a concert in such a specific space as Szeroka Street.
In addition to above mentioned concerts, we will also invite you to music workshops: Yiddish singing with Jeff Warschauer, Yiddish music with Deborah Strauss, nigunim singing with Paweł Szamburski, K. Mołodowska song workshops with Sveta Kundush and Alan Bern, Jewish oriental music workshops with teachers of Maqamat school in Safed, Israel. Alchemia will host traditional jazz sessions, while the FKŻ Tent will host Polish and Israeli DJs.
We will also invite you to pioneering deep listening workshops. Together with Rafał Mazur you will learn to listen and hear the real sounds of Kazimierz in its characteristic locations (High Synagogue, Old Synagogue, Nowy Square) and at very unobvious times.
In addition, Michał Jaczyński will talk about Jewish music in the interwar period, which will provide an excellent context for Janek Młynarski’s Sunday concert of Hebrew tangos. This lecture is very symbolic for us, because Michał was our volunteer a few years ago. Today he returns to FKŻ as a lecturer!
Details of all events will soon be available in the Program section at the top of the page.
See you on 33. FKJ!
