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Concert: Ira Khonen Temple & Friends
Tuesday December 24, 2024 9:30pm - 11:00pm EST
Chapel - Hebrew Union College
Ira Khonen Temple is a multi-instrumentalist, music director, and embedded cultural organizer living in Brooklyn, NY. Recent credits include accordionist for Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish off Broadway, and music director of Indecent at the Weston Playhouse, Great Small Works’ Muntergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls, the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committe Purimshpil, and Zoe Beloff’s Days of the Commune. Ira was a founder of the radical-traditional Yiddish music group Tsibele. Ira creates music that is a doorway between past, present and possible futures. Working with people of diverse ages and backgrounds, Ira develops new Jewish culture that is politically fresh, relevant, and un-nostalgic while building connections between languages, communities, and time periods.
Speakers
avatar for Eleonore Weill

Eleonore Weill

French vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Eleonore Weill is acclaimed for her soulful interpretations of Yiddish, East European and French traditional Musics. Hailing from a musical family in Southern France and now based in Brooklyn, Weill performs and records in a variety of ensembles... Read More →
avatar for Beila Ungar
avatar for Zoë Aqua

Zoë Aqua

Zoë Aqua (violin) is an American violinist currently based in Romania. She was awarded a Fulbright research grant for the 2021-’22 and 2022-’23 academic years to study Transylvanian folk music pedagogy in Cluj, Romania. In September 2022, she released a full-length album of... Read More →
avatar for Kirsten Lamb

Kirsten Lamb

Kirsten Lamb is an award-winning double bassist, vocalist, and educator praised by the Boston Globe for her “versatility and assurance”.As a soloist, Kirsten performs original works for double bass and voice. She has debuted material at the Massachusetts State House and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and The Stone in New York City. Many prominent musicians have taken note o... Read More →
avatar for Raffi Boden

Raffi Boden

Raffi Boden is a NY based cellist, composer and educator known for his groovy bass lines and his versatility. With Magid Ensemble, Levyosn, and Mamaliga, he has performed internationally and been a guest artist at Yiddish New York, Yiddish Summer Weimar and KlezKanada. Raffi was in... Read More →
avatar for Ira Khonen Temple

Ira Khonen Temple

Ira Khonen Temple is a multi-instrumentalist, music director, and embedded cultural organizer living in Brooklyn, NY. Recent credits include accordionist for Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish off Broadway, and music director of Indecent at the Weston Playhouse, Great Small Works’ Muntergang... Read More →

Tuesday December 24, 2024 9:30pm - 11:00pm EST
Chapel - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012
  Concert (Hybrid)

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