For immediate release...
Contact: Dena Ressler ([EMAIL PROTECTED], 781-643-1957)
or Pete Rushefsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED], 716-713-4293)
PRESENTING:
Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) and Dena Ressler (clarinet).
"From Belaia Tserkov to Syracuse: klezmer music then and now." Original compositions by Pete Rushefsky, tunes collected by Moshe Beregovski in Dena Ressler's ancestral town, and other rarely performed treasures - for hammered dulcimer and clarinet. Live on New York's Lower East Side
Tonic's Klezmer Brunch, curated by David Krakauer
Date: Sunday, September 14, 2003
Time: Two sets: 1:30 and 3:00
Place: Tonic (www.tonicnyc.com), 212 358-7501
107 Norfolk St. (between Delancey and Rivington)
F train to Delancey Street; J, M, & Z trains to Essex; 14A bus to Rivington/Delancey
Admission: $10 per set or $15 for both.
BIOGRAPHIES
PETE RUSHEFSKY
Tsimblist
Pete Rushefsky is a leading revivalist of the tsimbl, or Jewish hammered dulcimer. A string instrument played like a xylophone, the tsimbl spread from its medieval roots with migrating Jewish musicians throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Sadly, as a result of pressures such as the Holocaust, assimilation in the New World and changing musical tastes, the Jewish tsimbl tradition died out in the first half of the twentieth century.
Today Pete Rushefsky is one of a handful of brave young klezmer musicians to use musicological field and archival research in recreating a performance style for this mystical zither. Accomplished as a soloist and a sympathetic accompanist, Rushefsky is a popular teacher at KlezKamp and KlezKanada and performs with some of the leading performers of the klezmer revival, including Steven Greenman, Rebecca Kaplan and Alicia Svigals. He won much critical acclaim for his recent album with violinist Elie Rosenblatt entitled "Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer and Violin" (available from Hatikvah Music and Amazon.com) and appears with Michael Alpert and Deborah Strauss on Yiddish poet/songwriter Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman's new CD "Af di gasn fun der shtot - On the Streets of the City" (Yiddishland Records). Additionally, Rushefsky has authored a pioneering instructional book/tape entitled "The Essentials of Klezmer 5-String Banjo, Volume I" (available from Elderly Instruments). He has recently relocated to Syracuse, NY along with a horde of string instruments.
Dena Ressler
Clarinetist
A staff member at the Klezmer Institute at New England Conservatory of Music and KlezKamp, Dena has taught a klezmer history class at the Conference on Judaism in Rural New England and developed a educational/entertaining musical program presented at museums, open-air concerts, schools, and libraries.
A co-founder of di bostoner klezmer, she has performed at the National Yiddish Book Center, at Boston's Museum of Science, and for an internationally touring photo exibit introduced by Elie Weisel. A veteran performer, her music has enlivened numerous weddings, bar/bas mitzves, holiday celebrations at shuls, public concerts, and nursing homes (some of her favorite audiences!) with her own group and as a sub for Metropolitan Klezmer, Klezamir, and the Wholesale Klezmer Band. She currently lives in the goles/galut near Boston, MA.
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