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40th anniversary benefit dance party

Thursday, June 5, 2008 • 9:00–11:30 PM
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Hiro Ballroom
371 West 16th St at 9th Ave, NYC
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From the Ukrainian Community Cultural Initiative

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and its Ukrainian Wave Community Cultural Initiative in collaboration with The Ukrainian Museum and New York Bandura Ensemble/Bandura Downtown present

Border Ballads from the Steppes:
Mapping Ukraine in Song

with Julian Kytasty and
the New York Bandura Ensemble

Friday, May 9, 2008 –7:00 PM
Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th Street
(between 2nd and 3rd Aves.)

The evening's program features traditional Ukrainian ballads researched and performed by third-generation Ukrainian-American bandura virtuoso and singer Julian Kytasty, accompanied by the musicians of the New York Bandura Ensemble. The Ukrainian bandura is a harp-like lute with an unfretted neck and thirty or more strings. Drawn from the same historical period as the Museum's "Mapping of Ukraine" exhibition, the songs and instrumental music bring to life the dance of shifting borders - political, cultural, and personal - that characterizes Ukraine's early modern period. The Mapping of Ukraine: European Cartography and Maps of Early Modern Ukraine, 1550-1799 is a major exhibition of antiquarian maps opening at the Museum on April 20th and remaining on view until October 5. Curated by University of Saskatchewan International Relations scholar Bohdan Kordan, the exhibition features 42 original maps published by European mapmakers over a 250-year period.

Tickets $15 with discounts available for Museum and CTMD members and seniors.
To reserve tickets contact the Museum at 212-228-0110.
Tickets include gallery admission and a reception to follow the concert.

 

Next Yiddish Dance Tantshoyz

Thursday May 29, 2008
7:00 - 10:00 PM

Workshop/Dance Party at the JCC in Manhattan (76th and Amsterdam).

Deborah Strauss will teach you the steps. A live klezmer band will feature some of New York's hottest klezmer musicians — Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl - the traditional hammered dulcimer of klezmer music). The event is targeted to adults with beginners and teens absolutely welcome.

Admission: $10/$8 for JCC and Workmen's Circle members.

 
From the Pachamama Peruvian Arts, Peruvian Community Cultural Initiative

Pachamama Peruvian Arts Sudent Presentation

Friday, June 20, 2008
7:30-10:00 PM

At PS 212, 32-25 Street, Jackson Heights, Queens.
Subway #7 to 82nd Street, (walk 3 blocks north).
Bus: Q32 to 81st Street.

Go to: Pachamama Peruvian Arts for more information about our exciting programs.

 
From the Chinese Community Cultural Initiative

 

 
From the Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture without Borders Organizing Committee, Mexican Community Cultural Initiative

We congratulate Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture without Borders on its successful transition to an independent not-for-profit cultural organization. Please visit their website at www.manoamano.us

What's a Community Cultural Initiative?

NEW CD!
Dave Tarras: Music for the Traditional Jewish Wedding

Dave Tarras CDCTMD is pleased to announce the reissue of our historic 1978 recording, Dave Tarras: Music for the Traditional Jewish Wedding. In this landmark recording legendary klezmer clarinetist Dave Tarras (1897-1989) returns to the repertoire he had learned as a young man in Europe. Joined by his colleagues of many years – Sam Beckerman on accordion and Irving Graetz on drums – Tarras performs the kind of music that was played at Jewish weddings from his native region in the old Ukrainian province of Podolia.

A new 24-page booklet includes detailed track annotations and a new essay on Tarras by Walter Zev Feldman.

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