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AYRE - May 20 & 21, 2012
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KOSHER GOSPEL - May 31, 2012
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SINGING AND SWINGING - June 3, 2012
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2012 Concert Series: "Cultural Collaborations"
The Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival celebrates multi-cultural strands of Jewish music, from the African American influences of gospel and jazz to an interfaith Sephardic song cycle.
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About the Festival
Praised as "one of the highest-quality concert series in town" (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review), the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival is an annual summer concert series devoted to improving cultural life for Pittsburgh's Jewish and artistic communities at large.
The 2012 Festival, "Cultural Collaborations” (May 20-June 3) will go beyond traditional Eastern Europe to explore the multi-cultural threads woven through a diverse people not defined by "race". Ayre (May 20-21) features clarinetist extraordinaire David Krakauer in a Sephardic song cycle by Osvaldo Golijov that features Hebrew, Christian, and Arab texts. Joshua Nelson shows us what Kosher Gospel is all about (May 31) with his infectious Kosher Gospel Singers and band. The Festival closes with an overflow of local talent: Singing and Swinging showcases the young students of HaZamir Pittsburgh and Nizan Leibovich's Zohar Chamber Singers singing, and theOrtner Roberts Duo swinging with local jazz legend Roger Humphries and the amazing Vince Giordano.