KlezmerQuerque 2025 Schedule
March 7, 8, 9 2025 DETAILED SCHEDULE COMING SOON!
Friday March 7, 2025 6:30-9pm
KlezmerQuerque 2025 presents der Freylekher Shabes!
Celebrate Shabes (Shabbat) JOY in-person in our sanctuary. The participatory klezmer Shabes service from 6:30-7:45 PM can be danced to and includes prayers from Kabbalat Shabbat and the Ma’ariv services. Dances will be led by Rikud dancers and SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST ASYA VAISMAN SCHULMAN. We will also observe the candle lighting (symbolic)/ blessing, Kaddish Yatom, Mi Shebeirach, Kiddush and HaMotzi. The service will be followed by a Vegetarian Potluck dinner at 7:45pm. (Please bring a vegetarian dish to share!) Then we will be treated to a few tunes by Albuquerque’s own klezmer & Judaic band THE REBBE’S ORKESTRA -the band will be celebrating its new name: HIGH DEZERT KLEZMER! This will be followed by a BRIEF PERFORMANCE BY OUR SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST ZISL SLEPOVITCH, which will be followed by recreational Jewish dancing led by ASYA to the music of The Nahalat Shalom Community Klezmer Band until 9PM. Everyone is welcome to all or any part of the evening’s events. No charge, but donations are welcome to help the continuation of our festival.
For more information, contact Cantor Beth Cohen: cohenedmunds@netzero.net
Saturday, March 8, 2025 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
KlezmerQuerque 2025: Shabes Koydesh - Holy Shabbat Service
Nahalat Shalom3606 Rio Grande Boulevard NorthwestAlbuquerque, NM, 87107United States (map)
Details coming soon!
Saturday, March 8, 2025 7pm-9:30pm
KlezmerQuerque 2025 presents a Concert & Dance Party
Featuring our special guest artists Zisl Slepovitch and Asya Vaisman Schulman and local artists.
More details coming soon.
Nahalat Shalom3606 Rio Grande Boulevard NorthwestAlbuquerque, NM, 87107United States (map)
Sunday, March 9, 2025 10-11:30am
Music Workshop 1 with Zisl Slepovitch
Yiddish songs with nign (niggun - wordless tunes)-refrains. The subgenre of the Yiddish song that brings instrumentalists and singers on the same territory — when words aren’t enough. But what and how does the nign (niggun)-refrain really express and how to perform it. Be prepared to sing and, if you play an instrument, to play as well as sing.
Learning materials (handouts – song / melody charts with suggested chord symbols) will be provided by the instructor.
Prerequisites: Helpful but NOT required to take this workshop are sight-reading skills, Yiddish comprehension, vocal and instrumental abilities.
Sunday, March 9, 2025 1:30pm-3pm
Music Workshop 2 with Zisl Slepovitch
Musical treasures from Sofia Magid’s Jewish collection: klezmer tunes from Belarus and Ukraine, based on Zisl Slepovitch’s 2024 eponymous publication.
The scholarly legacy of Sofia Magid (1892–1954), an eminent Soviet ethnomusicologist and linguist makes a critical contribution to the Ashkenazic Eastern European Jewish music studies and performing arts. Among Magid’s field recordings made in the USSR between 1928—1949 are some of the very few sound documents of the Jewish folk singers and instrumentalists made on the cusp of the Holocaust. This collection researched, transcribed, and published by Dr. D. Zisl Slepovitch in 2024 contains roughly half of the previously unpublished set of instrumental repertoire recorded by Magid between 1928–1938 in Volhynia (Ukraine) and South-Eastern parts of Belarus.
Learning materials (handouts — melody charts with chord symbols) will be provided by the instructor.
Prerequisites: Helpful but NOT required to take this workshop are sight-reading skills (highly recommended though) and instrumental abilities (at least intermediate level).