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Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird with Beatboxer Yuri Lane

Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:00 PM

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American Premiere and CD Release Party

Direct from Berlin, Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird’s second CD Partisans & Parasites is an explosive mix of klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk folk. With Yuri Lane, pioneer of the art of Beatbox Theater, known internationally for his one man hip-hop play From Tel Aviv to Ramallah and his beatbox harmonica videos on YouTube.

“Kahn writes like the rainy ghost of Woody Guthrie hitched a ride with 
Tom Waits to New Orleans, spilling accordions, ukuleles, busted pianos, and broken dreams all over the road from Brooklyn to the bayou.” – Detroit Metro Times

Presented in association with the Hub of the JCCSF; co-sponsored with Gaia Fund

Rickshaw Stop Club, 155 Fell St., San Francisco
$12 students/seniors/JCC members, $14 general

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