Shirim Klezmer Orchestra In Concert

Sunday, February 17 at 2pm

General Admission Tickets:
$12.50 Adults, $8.00 Kids & Seniors
($1.50 restoration fee included on adult tickets only)

Shirim Klezmer Orchestra has been delighting Boston area audiences for over 20 years with its humor, virtuosity and undeniable soul. This performance will be their "Klezmer Party" concert, featuring rocking klezmer music, a tribute to Artie Shaw's Jewish-influenced swing, their unique klezmerized classics, such as Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade and a rollicking klezmer version of the theme from "Psycho."

Shirim started performing in 1982 at the beginning of the current klezmer revival and has performed across the United States, Canada and Europe. The band has collaborated with children's author/artist Maurice Sendak to create the Parent's Choice award winning "Pincus & the Pig," a Jewish/klezmer adaptation of "Peter and the Wolf" and won a Gracie Award for their Hannukah project with NPR's Ellen Kushner, "The Golden Dreydl: a Klezmer Nutcracker." Shirim is featured on the soundtrack of Woody Allen's "Deconstructing Harry" and has released seven recordings on the Tzadik, Rykodisc and Newport Classic labels. The band has performed with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, the Niagara Symphony, and at major international jazz and klezmer festivals. More information on Shirim at www.shirim.com

The band boasts members who are highly respected veterans of the klezmer revival, Glenn Dickson on clarinet, David Harris on trombone, Michael McLaughlin on piano and accordion, Jim Gray on tuba, Eric Rosenthal on drums and Brandon Seabrook on banjo. Their concerts reflect both a seriousness of musicianship and a strong emotional resonance with the music.

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