Celebrate May Day weekend with a backyard klezmer party!
3:00 - Phlox Carolina (kleztronica)
4:00 - Ira Khonen Temple (Yiddish tradapted queer trans antifolk music)
5:00 - Klezmer jam (bring an instrument, your voice, or just enjoy - all forms of participation welcome)
Drinks, snacks, and a few chairs will be provided - bring your own camping chair if you have one. Suggested donation $10-30 (NOTAFLOF).
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Ira Khonen Temple is a multi-instrumentalist, music director, and embedded cultural organizer living in Brooklyn, NY. Ira’s new album, Strange Tongue / Mistame-Loshn, is an exuberant and irreverent entanglement with Yiddish protest music, love songs, and anthems. It’s queer, trans antifolk music that is informed by klezmer and Romanian dance. It’s totally bilingual and an amazing gateway into a defiant tradition of survival and solidarity. Raucous and intimate in turns, this music makes as much space for joy as it does for grief.