Epsilon Spires 190 Main St., in Brattleboro, VT is pleased to announce the upcoming performance by ISLE OF KLEZBOS. Scheduled for Thursday, August 10th at 8-10pm, the band's quartet special will perform music inspired by Yiddish cinema soundtracks as well as exhibiting source Yiddish film clips. The NYC-based Klezmer group approaches tradition with playful irreverence and deepest respect to create genre-bending soundtracks for Yiddish films both celebrated and obscure. Their repertoire ranges from rambunctious and exuberantly original fusion to entrancing Neo-traditional folk dance, mystical melodies, Yiddish swing & retro tango, late Soviet-era Jewish drinking songs, re-grooved standards, and genre-defying originals. Isle of Klezbos specializes in cine-concerts with re-imagined vintage music scores played in new Klezmer arrangements, juxtaposed with Yiddish film clips. This captivating "tour" is led by drummer/cinema scholar Eve Sicular, with live movie music adaptations as well as original sound footage from famous celluloid such as Der Dybbuk and Molly Picon hits Mamele and Yidl Mitn Fidl, plus lesser-known movie masterpieces from early sound feature Uncle Moses to operatic screen cantor Moishe Oysher's tour de force Overture to Glory [Der Vilner Shtot Khazn], as well as Edgar Ulmer's screwball comedy American Matchmaker, early Soviet Yiddish theater newsreels, and more. Debra Kreisberg / clarinet & alto saxophone; Rebecca Steinberg / trumpet; Shoko Nagai /accordion, piano, and playing the Epsilon Spires organ with bandleader Eve Sicular on drums. Sicular's archival research background is based on her curatorial roles at YIVO Institute Film Archives & the landmark MoMA retrospective "Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds" (and her subsequent lectures & publications on Music in Yiddish Cinema and The Yiddish Celluloid Closet). Since 1998 the group has performed their soulful brand of Klezmer fun-loving powerhouse arrangements and have toured from Vienna to Vancouver for the past 25 years. Broadcast credits include CBS Sunday Morning, The L Word, PBS, as well as over a dozen film soundtracks such as Grace Paley: Collected Shorts and Esther Broner: A Weave of Women. 

For more group information go to http://www.klezbos.com/about/#quotes ,http://www.klezbos.com/about/, https://klezbos.bandcamp.com/album/live-from-brooklyn, and https://www.youtube.com/evesicular
For ticket information go to https://www.epsilonspires.org/event-info/isle-of-klezbos-yiddish-cinema-revisited

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