w/Eleonore Weill – flutes

Zoe Acqua – violin

Eva Boodman – trumpet

Hannah Temple – accordion

”Tsibele (“tsih-bu-leh”) is a new-traditional klezmer band based in Brooklyn, New York. Their repertoire comes from Moldovan/Bessarabian music and the music of Jewish migrants from Europe to America, including the music of the Belf era. Tsibele’s music explores the limits of the klezmer idiom through improvisation and songs from the edges of klezmer. Tsibele” means little onion in Yiddish. ”

“Zoë Aqua is a violinist, composer and teacher living in Brooklyn. She is the founding music teacher at Family Life Academy Charter School II in the South Bronx, and teaches general music and violin to children in grades K-4. Upcoming performance projects include appearances with The Blue Dahlia and a collaboration with the Movement of the People Dance Company.”

“Eva Boodman is a trumpet player, educator and PhD student based in Brooklyn, NY. She has played in many Klezmer and Balkan brass bands, including Veveritse Brass Band and the Catherine Foster Brass Band, Montreal’s The Youjsh, and the Brussels street band Jour de Fête.”

Hannah Temple is a accordionist, trombonist, educator and agitator based in Brooklyn. She is long time member of New York’s radical brass band the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, and acts as musical director for radical purimshpil produced by the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee.

Holding a Masters Degree in Ethnomusicogy and Conservatory diplomas in Recorder and Piano, Eléonore Weill performs, sings and teaches in the NY area, Canada and Europe in various projects such as Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar Ensemble, Jake Shulman-Ment band, FADA, Sanda Weigl, LUM and the Rude Mechanical Orchestra.

This will be the last NY Klezmer Series Event of 2015