Klezfest, A Celebration of Jewish Music | Dec 22

The Mercury Cafe celebrates Klezfest on Saturday, December 22 at 7:30pm. Klezmer music originated in the ‘shtetl’ (villages) and the ghettos of Eastern Europe, where itinerant Jewish troubadours, known as ‘klezmorim’, performed at joyful events (‘simkhes’), particularly weddings, since the early middle age till the nazi and Stalinian prosecutions.

Klezmer music and Yiddish songs include nowadays a huge repertoire in which the whole gamut of human emotions can be expressed, from joy to despair, from devotion to revolt and from meditation to drunkenness, without forgetting Jewish humor and… love!

Featuring Hal Aqua and the Lost Tribe, Rabbi Joe Black, and Steve Brodsky, Hadgaba

Mercury Cafe presents

Klezfest, A Celebration of Jewish Music

Saturday, December 22 at 7:30 pm

Tickets here!