Toyznt tamen = A Thousand Flavors

Location: Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street, NYC

Co-sponsored by YIVO and the Museum at Eldridge Street.

Celebrate the release of Toyznt Tamen = A Thousand Flavors, a new recording by Yiddish singer and songwriter Miryem-Khaye Seigel. The album features original Yiddish songs as well as adapted repertoire, from dynamic theatrical gems to subversive folk songs. Miryem-Khaye will be joined by Michael Winograd (arranger, clarinet), Patrick Farrell (accordion), Alicia Svigals (violin) and Rémy Yulzari (bass).

About the Performers

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel is a Yiddish singer, songwriter, actor, and researcher in the field of Yiddish culture. A fluent Yiddish speaker, Miryem-Khaye has performed, lectured and taught throughout North America and in Poland and Australia. She's appeared frequently with the Folksbiene (National Yiddish Theater) and Hankus Netsky's Hebrew National Salvage, and shared the stage with many luminaries of the Yiddish and klezmer scene. Her research project “The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater” received the 2011-2012 Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Toyznt tamen = A thousand flavors is her first solo album. www.amks.wordpress.com

Patrick Farrell is an accordionist, composer and bandleader based in Brooklyn, NY. His current projects include the avant/traditionalist klezmer group Yiddish Art Trio, unique and unusual duets with trumpeter Ben Holmes, chamber-folk ensemble Ljova and the Kontraband, and southern-Serbian style brass music with Brooklyn's Veveritse Brass Band. Farrell has appeared on over 35 recordings, most recently with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, and Yiddish Art Trio. He has studied accordion in Macedonia, Serbia, Germany and Romania, and has played in clubs, concert halls, streets, and serenades all over North America and Europe. www.pattysounds.com

Violinist/vocalist/composer Alicia Svigals is the world's leading klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics. She has worked with violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, poet Allen Ginsburg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, singer-songerwriters Diane Birch, Debbie Friedman, Chava Albershteyn, Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar, and many others. Svigals was awarded the Foundation for Jewish Culture's annual music award for her original live score to the 1918 film the Yellow Ticket. She was a 2014 fellow at LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture in NYC, and a 2014 NEA MacDowell fellow.

Clarinetist Michael Winograd is one of the most sought out Klezmer musicians today. He performs internationally with his own groups, the Yiddish Art Trio, Tarras Band, Yiddish Princess, and with Socalled, Budowitz, Frank London and others. He teaches regularly at KlezKamp, KlezKanada and other Jewish music workshops throughout North America and Europe. His newest album ITALICIZE Storm Game was released on Golden Horn Records in 2012.

Double bassist and composer Rémy Yulzari is reinventing the role of the double bass in solo and collaborative settings in a wide range of musical styles from a very broad geographical and historical spectrum. He is strongly committed to inventing a personal style that features improvisation and creativity. Rémy has performed in some of the most important concerts halls and music festivals worldwide. Mr. Yulzari studied at Paris and Lyon Conservatoires, and at The Juilliard School, becoming first ever double bassist to be invited into the prestigious Artist Diploma Performance program.