- This event has passed.
Chanukkah in Chelm at Ashkenaz – with Saul Goodman’s Klezmer Band!
December 15, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
$12 – $20
What better way to usher in the choliday season that with Chanukkah stories and music? And where better to hear such stories than at Ashkenaz?
Joel will be spinning traditional Yiddish folktales from Chelm, the mythical town of fools, located in the Jewish imagination somewhere on the road from Warsaw and Chotzenplotz. Though these stories are fun anywhere, any time, they’re particularly delightful around Kchaanukkah, which starts one week later, and best of all with Klezmer music by Saul Goodman.
You’ll discover just how the very first schlemiel came to be, hear other Yiddish tales, and pick up some favorite new Yiddish words as well. There will also be a first-ever Honukkah spelling bee, with prizes, and activities by PJ Our Way, publishers of a special edition of Dreidels on the Brain. This event is also co-sponsored by Silk Road House, beloved home to storytelling in Berkeley.
Tickets are $15 in advance (at Ashkenaz website) $20 on the day of, with kids 12-under free. Best for children ages five and up.
For this evening’s concert, Saul Goodman’s Klezmer Band will feature Mike Perlmutter on clarinet and bass clarinet, Dave Rosenfeld on mandolin and violin, Ilana Sherer on violin, Dan Cantrell on accordion, Jonathan Simon on xylophone, percussion, and foley, and Aaron Kierbal on drums.
Unfortunately, Saul Goodman himself – who has not been seen in many a year – will be present only in spirit. Currently he’s being held in a Ukranian jail cell, under suspicion of smuggling a xylophone into Lower Slobovia. But, as the band always says, itsallgoodman.
