28th Jewish Music Festival Highlights:

Theodore Bikel, Merima Ključo & Shura Lipovsky
David Krakauer, Matt Haimovitz, Lisa Delan & Kristin Pankonin
Michael Alpert & Julian Kytasty: Night Songs From a Neighboring Village
Veretski Pass Lecture/Demo Series
Polesye: Jewish Folksongs from the Shtetl
Shofar
Real Vocal String Quartet & True Life Trio
Polesye: Jewish Folksongs from the Shtetl
An-ski Expedition at 100: Panel with Michael Alpert, Gabriella Safran, & Nathaniel Deutsch
History of American Jewish Music, a lecture by Mark Slobin
Performance by Michael Alpert, in conversation with Francesco Spagnolo.
Bonnie Weiss Presents: A Tribute to Yip Harburg

Highlights of the 27th Jewish Music Festival, March, 2012:

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Ben Goldberg’s Orphic Machine performs Care, Live at the 27th Jewish Music Festival

Ben Goldberg’s Orphic Machine performs The Present, Live at the 27th Jewish Music Festival

Ben Goldberg “The Present” from Israel Perez on Vimeo.

Highlights of the 26th Jewish Music Festival:

Read a year-end review of the 26th JMF

Ger Mandolin Orchestra

26th Annual Jewish Music Festival Brochure

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Jewish Music Festival at Yerba Buena Gardens 2010 from Jewish Music Festival on Vimeo.

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Inspirational story of Avner Yonai’s discovery of his grandfather’s 1920s and 1930s Polish mandolin orchestra on Tablet Magazine…

International mandolin super-group revives the name and repertoire of a 1930’s Polish Jewish mandolin orchestra. And this September, they took the music back to its source. Full story and notes from the tour by one of the Ger mandolinists, Tim Connell.

The last Jewish Music Festival took place throughout the month of March, 2012.

Please browse the following links to view articles published in anticipation of our last spring festival season concert series.

JWeekly: Jewish Music Festival headliners are a pair of clarinet virtuosos

JWeekly: 27th annual Jewish Music Festival stretches the boundaries of Jewish music, culture

JWeekly: Jewish Music Festival is ours for a song

JWeekly: Oud of thunk it: Bustan Quartet groups for music festival

San Francisco Chronicle: Jewish Music Festival embraces the world

Berkeleyside: Out in Berkeley: Ben Goldberg’s Orphic Machine

Contra Costa Times: A month of Jewish Music Festival

How to do an archival recording right:

A review by Ari Davidow from The Klezmer Shack on Arkady Gendler’s first and only recording of yiddish song of his hometown in the Ukraine.