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"The Story is Enough": The Rebbe's Orkestra Klezmer & Judaic band in concert - a special KlezmerQuerque 2016 PRE-Festival event
San Miguel Chapel
Santa Fe, NM
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Tickets only available at the door-cash only $18-student Snr. with ID/ $20-general. You can also hear us at KlezmerQuerque in Albuquerque: briefly on Friday night 2/12, 7:55-8:10PM and as the opening act on Saturday 2/13, 7-7:25PM (and later on that night jamming with the guest artists for the dance party). Visit us and LIKE us on facebook and sign up for our monthly email newsletter.


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"The Story is Enough": The Rebbe's Orkestra Klezmer & Judaic band in concert - a special KlezmerQuerque 2016 PRE-Festival event
The Rebbe's Orkestra presents "The Story is Enough" - A special KlezmerQuerque pre-festival concert celebrating Judaic music passed down through the generations from varied cultural and historic traditions.  The 6-member nationally recognized ensemble, which was founded in Albuquerque in 1996, will tell the story through ballads, folk songs, romances, chants, coplas, nigunnim, and even a Benny Goodman piece  all in the languages of Hebrew, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), Yiddish, and English  plus one song each in Hungarian, Greek, Romany and Arabic. The Rebbe's Orkestra's instrumentation includes accordion, violin, Bb and Bass clarinets, bowed psaltery, guitar, bass, mandolin, tenor banjo, Macedonian tamburas, pennywhistle, and percussion instruments such as the daide, riq, tar drum, tupan, cymbal, snare drum, woodblocks and Turkish wooden spoons. Several klezmer instrumental tunes for which the band is famous, will also be incorporated into the program.

Incorporating the sounds and rhythms of Jewish music from many parts of the world, The Rebbe's Orkestra brings a unique style to Klezmer -the instrumental dance music rooted in the Jewish wedding ceremonies of Eastern Europe. Recording, touring and performing professionally throughout the southwest since 1996, the ensemble has been exploring and researching the ways in which Jewish musicians have interacted with surrounding musical traditions over the centuries. From Spain to Iraq, Poland to the Mediterranean: The Rebbe's Orkestra plays tunes and songs as widely divergent as the geography and yet with surprisingly similar themes.

In addition to playing for hundreds (maybe thousands by now!!) of weddings and Bar Mitzvahs, The Rebbe's Orkestra has performed at Globalquerque, The Outpost Performance Space, The Santa Fe Museum of International Folk Art, The Crestone Colorado Music Festival "Crestfest", The ABQ Folkfestival, AMP Concerts, and has shared the stage with klezmer luminaries such as clarinetist Margot Leverett, flutist Adrianne Greenbaum, 2015 NEA folk heritage award winner Michael Alpert, drummer Elaine Hoffman-Watts and trumpeter Susan Watts of the Hoffman family klezmer dynasty, and many others at KlezmerQuerque festivals 2003-2015. In 2010, The Rebbe's Orkestra released its first CD "Klezmer y mas" to widespread acclaim.

The Rebbe's Orkestra is led by Beth Cohen on violin, mandolin, tenor banjo, bowed psaltery, penny whistle and vocals. Beth is a well-known vocalist, string musician and music teacher in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, who has been running her own music studio in Albuquerque since 1983. She teaches private lessons in voice, violin, guitar, piano and mandolin to students of all ages. In 1991, Beth received her Bachelor of Music degree in voice (performance) from the University of New Mexico. Since 1995, she has been the music director and Cantorial soloist at Congregation Nahalat Shalom where she also directs the 25-piece Community Klezmer Band, tutors the pre-Bar/Bat Mitzvah students, directs and performs in Alavados Holy-days band --and co-produces/coordinates the renowned annual Klezmer music and dance festival "KlezmerQuerque".  Over the past 30 years, Ms. Cohen has taught music, band and orchestra in both public and private schools in Albuquerque & Santa Fe. Growing up in a home where both parents spoke Yiddish, Beth learned to sing in Yiddish--although she has (regrettably!) never learned to speak this unique and expressive language. Since 1996, Beth has performed in Goddess of Arno Balkan dance band. Between 1984 and 1999 she was a member of Svirka-women's Balkan chorus, the folk quartet Ellis Island Tradition and the vocal trio Earth Angels. From 2006-2014 she was also a member of 'Gamelan Encantada.' Beth played violin with the Canadian world-touring group Classic Albums Live  http://classicalbumslive.com/  at Popejoy Hall on the 'Beatles' Abbey Road & Greatest Hits' U.S. tour in 2013. Throughout her life, Beth has performed in all kinds of ensembles including Celtic, classical, cowboy/western, blues, Reggae and Middle Eastern.

Other members of the band are Barbara Friedman on bass, tambura and vocals. Barbara provides the solid foundation for the band's rhythmic drive. For over 40 years she has been singing and playing music professionally as a member of Goddess of Arno Balkan band, Svirka women's Balkan Chorus, Erenler, Wired for Sound and other popular Middle Eastern and Balkan groups in New Mexico. An avid collector, student and performer of Eastern European music, Barbara regularly attends ethnic music workshops and studies with the top musicians and ethnomusicologists from Europe and the USA including Esma Rhedzepova, Queen of the Macedonian Gypsy singers & Merita Halili, the famous Albanian vocalist.  In addition to adding rhythmic solidity to the band, her bass playing adds a unique melodic layer to their sound: lending a trombone-like quality to the melody line. Barbara is also skilled on the Macedonian tambura, which she plays on some of the band's Sephardic pieces and her powerful voice adds another layer to the band's dynamic sound. At Congregation Nahalat Shalom, Barbara performs in Alavados-Holy Days band and she is a special guest member of The Community Klezmer Band.

Debo Orlofsky - accordion and vocals (a.k.a. Debra Orlofsky) has been singing in and around ABQ since the late 1980's.  Following a few stints in hippie-punk and goth-rock bands, Debo performed as the lead singer of Splinter Fish, a seminal alternative band on the ABQ music scene.  Well-known for her powerhouse vocals and presentation, inventive lyrics and percussion, and heart-grabbing harmonizing, Debo was invited to sing with Animal Opera, a local group of "all-stars" that rocked the NM desert with African dance music.   She was also part of the world beat rock band, Manna from Nowhere.  Debo sings and plays accordion and piano in the rockin' country blues band Alpha Blue that showcases her original songs. In her own Big Rock Studio, she engineered and mixed Alpha Blue's debut CD, "Agave Summer" - a spaghetti-western/middle-eastern folk-rock opera - which was released in the summer of 2004.  Debo studied classical piano as a child, picking up the accordion by accident several years ago.  Knowing how little respect the accordion has had in American pop music since the guitar assumed preeminence, she tried to put it down but found it was much too tightly strapped on.  After a few close encounters of the Klezmer kind, she found her way to The Rebbe's Orkestra and all have decided that it was destiny.

Randy Edmunds - guitar, tambura and vocals, is a founding member of The Rebbe's Orkestra. He is a versatile rhythm guitarist who is experienced with the complex rhythmic and harmonic patterns of Balkan, East European and Middle Eastern music. His guitar work provides a unique texture and fullness to the band's harmonic layer. Randy also plays the Macedonian tambura on several of the group's Sephardic pieces, and his lyric baritone voice adds another thread to the tapestry of sound woven by the band. He studied violin as a child in his home state of Louisiana and later picked up the guitar when he attended college in Texas. Randy's musical roots lie in the American genres of old-timey, gospel, bluegrass and country-western. He eventually expanded his repertoire to include Israeli, Greek, Rom (Gypsy), and Balkan folk songs after he discovered some Yiddish folk songs in a folk song book he was studying. Randy has performed ethnic music for many years in a duo with wife Beth Cohen, as a member of Goddess of Arno Balkan band, as a guest artist with Svirka women's Balkan chorus, and as a member of Sandanski men's Balkan Chorus. He was also a founding member of the folk trio Village Idioms and he's a special guest artist in The Nahalat Shalom Community Klezmer band. Randy also works full-time as a personal care attendant for disabled people.

Mary Masuk--percussion, and vocals. Mary plays doumbek (Middle Eastern hand drum), tappan (balkan big drum), the riqq (Arabic tambourine), daide, snare drum, woodblocks, wooden spoons, and tar (frame drum). Her interest in hand drums began in the early 1990's when she asked a midwife coworker at Women's Health Services, Santa Fe: "What is that hour-glass-shaped drum you have sitting on your desk?" With the midwife's recommendation, Mary started taking percussion classes with noted Santa Fe drum teacher, Polly Tapia Ferber. She continued studies in following years, by using her vacation time from health care work to attend summer music and dance camps at the Mendocino Woodlands in California, where she was immersed in the strange and wonderful rhythms of the Balkans and Middle East and began her studies with master Lebanese percussionist Souhail Kaspar. Mary has produced concerts and workshops in Albuquerque featuring Souhail and his accompanying musicians. In 2006, she traveled to Turkey on a tour organized by the renowned Turkish folk dancer Ahmet Luleci and Souhail Kaspar, which focused on the traditional music and dance of Turkey. Mary was the percussionist with the Zevk Orchestra in Abiquiu, New Mexico and in 2005, she began performing with Albuquerque's The Rebbe's Orkestra-klezmer & Judaic band and Goddess of Arno, Balkan dance band as a guest percussionist. She is now performing with both groups as a full time member, recording with both groups. She is the main percussionist on The Rebbe's Orkestra popular CD "Klezmer y Mas." Mary recently retired from 38 years working as a nurse practitioner in women's health, performing at least 70,000 pap smears in that time. She is delighted now to have more time to dedicate to a different kind of performance!

Clara Byom - Bb clarinet and bass clarinet is a graduate student at the University of New Mexico in clarinet performance and musicology.  Her current research is on klezmer music immediately before the klezmer revival. Clara also hosts a klezmer jam session at Hillel House on the UNM campus in Albuquerque on the second and fourth Thursday of the month, and she performs in several folk ensembles including Goddess of Arno Balkan Band, The Thrifters and Di Kavene Kapelye Klezmer Trio. While Clara is classically trained in both clarinet and piano and particularly enjoys new classical music, as of late she has largely devoted her time and energy into studying folk music and especially playing klezmer, Balkan, English Country, and contra dance music on clarinet, bass clarinet, and piano.  

"The Story is Enough" will take place at The Historic San Miguel Chapel, which is located at 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, in Santa Fe, NM 87501.  There is limited seating - only 140 seats.  Paperless tickets can be purchased in advance online from Brown Paper Tickets www.brownpapertickets.com or via phone 24/7 toll-free 1-800-838-3006 for $15-general(plus $.99 + 3.5% service fee). At the door tickets will cost $20-general and $18-for students/seniors with IDs.  Doors will open at 7:00. For more information about The Rebbe's Orkestra, "The Story is Enough" concert & KlezmerQuerque Festival 2016 please contact: Beth Cohen in Albuquerque (505)243-6276  
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San Miguel Chapel (View)
401 Old Santa Fe Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87501
United States
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Santa Fe , NM United States
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