Christina and The Zamlers (Christina Crowder, Jack “Yankl” Falk , Andrew Ehrlich) invite you to join our “community expedition” into an extraordinary discovery: the unlikely release of thousands of unique musical manuscripts from a Kyiv archive, where they had lain unseen for more than 100 years. This concert will showcase some of the music and songs that have been rescued from obscurity — from deeply moving Hasidic nigunim and classically inflected klezmer concertos, to jaunty mazurkas, lively Jewish circle dances, and more.

The early 20th century ethnographer S. Ansky proposed a radical vision: that the folklore of the Jewish people is an oral Torah as important as the Talmud of the sages. Ansky – leader of the 1912-1914 ethnographic expeditions to Jewish Eastern Europe and author of The Dybbuk – hoped that the Jewish people would become zamlers (collectors) who would continue to engage with Ashkenazic folklore as a living, breathing legacy.

7:30 PM

All Ages $12-$18 sliding scale/Person. No one turned away for lack of funds