Jewzapalooza

Amazing Upcoming Jewish Music Events in Austin:

May 30, 7:30 PM
JCC Education Building Multipurpose Room

Friday Night Alive!  (Jewzapalooza Edition!)

There’s never been a Friday Night Alive like this before!
Featuring stars of Austin’s first Jewish music and heritage festival:
Jewzapalooza Austin!

Sing, sway, celebrate & pray in this his all-music rock Shabbat with Kol Halev and Rabbi Kerry Baker,
Cantor Robbi Sherwin and the all-star Friday Night Alive! Band – a community oneg to follow –
bring a friend and a nosh and help welcome the Sabbath Queen with high energy worship,
contemplative prayer and people from all over the Austin Community! Free (of course!!)

Please support Jewish music!!

Jewzapalooza Austin!
Austin’s first jewish heritage festival!

I’m proud that, Sababa! (www.SababaMusic.com) is headlining Saturday night,
along with the amazing Noah Budin. See bio, below.  
“It will be exciting to perform in front of a hometown crowd!”

Saturday, May 31 & Sunday, June 1, 2008

JCC Community Hall Stage
Dell Jewish Community Campus, 7300 Hart Lane

JAM WITH YOUR FAM! BRING THE WHOLE MISHPACHA!

Two days of music including Rock, Jazz, Klezmer, Soul, American folk music,
and Jewish standards.
 
    
THE LINE-UP

SATURDAY, MAY 31

7 PM Box office/Market doors open
8 PM Noah  Budin – soulful, dynamic folk troubadore
9 PM Sababa! - Robbi Sherwin, Steve Brodsky, & Scott Leader – high-energy folk/rock

SUNDAY, JUNE 1

1 PM  Box office/Market doors open
2 PM  Yom Hadash - Family Concert – Jewish rock at its best!

5 PM Box office/Market doors re-open
6 PM Neil Blumofe – avante-gard sacred jazz
7 PM Mark Rubin and His Jews of the Golden West – the best of Western Klez – no place but Austin!
8 PM Sam Glaser – snap, crackle & pop! One of the top Jewish performers today!
9 PM Doors/Market close

Market includes jewelry vendors, food, drinks and more!

You may also call TicketWeb toll-free at (866) 468-7621
   

SATURDAY NIGHT
$25 General
$22 JCC Members
 $18 Students and Seniors
   
SUNDAY, 2 PM*
$5 Children 12 & under
$7 Children 13 & up,
 Adults and Seniors

SUNDAY NIGHT
$25 General
$22 JCC Members
$18 Students and Seniors
    
WEEKEND PASS
$40 General
$32 JCC Members,
Students, and Seniors

Benefit Weekend Pass
Includes special recognition and one premium seat to all three events while available**
A special $100 pass will benefit the family of Paul and Annie Skelton. Paul is battling lung cancer, and 75% of the tickets sold at this level will help with his medical expenses.

*Tickets for the Sunday, 2 PM Family Concert may only be purchased at the door.
**Benefit Weekend Passes may only be purchased by phone at (512) 735-8058.

Artist Bios

Noah Budin is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, recording artist, actor, storyteller, educator and program director. Currently, he is touring the country performing his original music. In the 1980’s and 90’s, he toured as a member of the Chicago-based a cappella music and comedy group, “Four Guys Standing Around Singing.” He has performed on college campuses, at festivals, parties, and clubs, including Catch A Rising Star in New York, Boston, Chicago and Las Vegas. His stage credits include playing the roles of Sal Antonucci and Vinnie Black in Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding at the Hanna Theater in Playhouse Square in Cleveland, Lazar Wolf in Cain Park’s production of Fiddler on the Roof, and Stanley Berent in The End of the World by Arthur Kopit at the Absolute Theater Company in Chicago, IL.

       
                 Sababa!
    Scott Leader/Robbi Sherwin/Steve Brodsky

Sababa! features Steve Brodsky (vocals, guitar), Robbi Sherwin (vocals, mandolin), and Scott Leader (piano, guitar, vocals), three well-known Jewish music composers and performers, who blend their unique styles, energy and harmonies to create exciting, new Jewish music. The group is known as the “Crosby Stills & Nash of Jewish music,” and their songs are widely used in synagogues, camps, and youth groups across North America. Brodsky currently resides in Denver, CO, where he is Administrative Director for Sounds Write Productions, the largest publisher, wholesale and retail distributor of Jewish music in North America. Sherwin, an award-winning Jewish songwriter from Austin, currently serves as the spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Butte in Crested Butte, CO, and tours the country as a cantor and artist-in-residence. Leader, one of the most exciting singer-songwriters in Jewish music today, is a cantorial soloist and exceptional musician, and travels the country performing concerts and leading services. He resides in Phoenix, AZ, and runs Southwest Studio & Soundworks, a high-end recording facility.

Yom Hadash features Jon Nelson (lead vocals, bass, acoustic guitar), John Dorizzi (drums, percussion), Michael Gauvin Smith (electric guitar, vocals), George Simon (bass guitar), and Ted Armstrong (piano, B3 organ). The band resides in the Boston area, and has been at the forefront of inspirational world music for over a decade. Their original songs, sung in both English and Hebrew, fuse rock, pop, and world music with traditional Jewish melodies and traditions. Nelson is a cantorial soloist and youth coordinator. Dorizzi is a percussion accompanist at the Boston Conservatory of Dance, and also a drum instructor in the area. Smith has performed with members of such bands as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bon Jovi, N’Sync, and Run DMC, and like Armstrong, was a touring member of The Bay City Rollers. Armstrong has also shared the stage with blues legends, including Bo Diddley. Simon is a real estate developer and sports fan.

Neil Blumofe is hazzan (cantor) at Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin. He is a sacred singer, composer and teacher. A classically-trained pianist, schooled in jazz saxophone in New Orleans, he was trained in the vocal cantorial arts at the Jewish Theological Seminar in New York City. A graduate of Tulane University, Blumofe is an avante-garde jazz singer who has recorded with first-rate modern jazz musicians, including Jason Marsalis and Roland Guerin.

Mark Rubin and His Jews of the Golden West is led by Rubin, an Austin-based bass, tuba, baritone horn, guitar and banjo player. He is known around the world, appearing on 3 different occasions in the annual Krakow Jewish Cultural Festival with celebrated klezmer musicians, teaching music in Germany, and marching in Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans with the Panorama Brass Band. This “Gentleman Musicianer and Sorry Entertainer” was once described by local DJ, reporter and music aficionado Andy Langer as “Part Renaissance man, part neurotic outsider, he’s definitely the only tattooed, 330-pound bassist in Austin prone to casually slipping Yiddish phrases into conversations.” Rubin’s MySpace page claims he is alternately proud, thrilled, inspired and appalled by Southern Culture, as well as fiercely Jewish, but in a strangely Goyische way. Rubin regularly collaborates with area artists, as will be represented in His Jews of the Golden West.

Sam Glaser tours internationally as a performer, composer, educator and cantorial soloist. Considered one of the top ten Jewish artists in the U.S. by Moment Magazine and an ASCAP Award-winner, his music has become part of the fabric of Jewish life in communities nationwide. He has performed around the world from Sydney to London to Hong Kong to Tel Aviv, and across the United States in venues including L.A.’s Greek Theater, Dodger Stadium, and Universal Amphitheater, as well as synagogues and Jewish Community Centers. Glaser has served as Executive Director of the Jewish Music Commission, Music Coordinator for the University of Judaism, Producer of the American Jewish Song Festival, and Musical Director of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute. In his recording studio, Glaser Musicworks, he scores for film, television and radio, and produces albums for a wide variety of recording artists. He currently resides in Los Angeles.