Recologie Klezmer Series presents Sy Kushner and Jeremy Brown on Wenesday July 1,2015 at Recologie Performance Space, 49 Lawton Street, New Rochelle, New York at 7:PM. There is a $15 music charge ply 2 drink minimum or food equivalent. Recologie serves gourmet vegan and vegetarian food.
The Recologie Klezmer Series is held on the first Wednesday of each month and hosts some of New York’s top klezmer musicians in an informal setting. The audience is encouraged to ask questions and engage in a dialogue with the musicians about klezmer and Jewish music in general. The July 1 performance will feature Sy Kushner, accordionist/composer who is curating the series and Jeremy Brown, violinist.
As a founding member and Musical Director of the Mark 3, Sy Kushner, in the 1960s, performed with the group all over the country including a concert before thousands at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. As a member of The Accordion Symphony Society of N.Y., Sy performed at Town Hall and the Singer Bowl at the 1964 World’s Fair. Sy has been involved with Jewish music all his life.
Sy grew up in a household full of cantorial and klezmer music. His father was a drummer and frequently took young Sy to gigs. In the 1960’s Sy specialized in contemporary Chassidic music as well as Israeli folk dance music. Twenty years ago Sy transcribed early 1900’s klezmer music from the original recordings and published two volumes. He then formed a group called The Sy Kushner Jewish Music Ensemble and released a CD titled “KlezSqueeze” which contained many of the tunes in those books. Sy then focused on composing for the first time in many years and has released 4 CD’s of his original music with his ensemble.
Jeremy Brown grew up playing classical violin and discovered improvisation and folk music during college at Berkeley, California. Since that time, Jeremy has played many styles of music, including klezmer, bluegrass, rock, and swing. In 2001, Jeremy released an album of original music titled,”This Year in St. Louis”. The album was very well received and and led to performances around the Midwest with Jeremy’s bluegrass band, “Treif”.
After moving to New York in 2004, he became an active member of the city’s Jewish music scene. He was a member of Art Bailey’s Orkestra Popilar. And is a member of Pitom, an experimental Jewish rock quartet with a recently released CD on John Zorn’s Tzaddik Records. Jeremy is a member of the Sy Kushner Jewish Music Ensemble and has recorded on all four of Sy’s CDs of original works.
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