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tawell Regional Arts will present ‘joyful Jewish jazz’ when Klezmania performs at Stawell Bowling Club on August 23.
Touring company ‘Just Shows To Go’, with State Government support through Creative Victoria, is touring Klezmania into Victorian regional centres this month. The Stawell show, starting at 5pm, is part of Stawell Regional Arts’ Cafe Culture Series 2015. Klezmania has been performing for more than 20 years. Promotors describe the band DV ÂľRYHUĂ€ RZLQJ ZLWK JHQUH EXVWLQJ H[XEHUDQFH Ă€ DYRXUHG with klezmer energy and passion. ‘Long regarded as one of Australia’s foremost musical RXWÂż WV WKH\ EULQJ WR WKH VWDJH the sounds of klezmer, blues, jazz, ska and Gypsy swing. As balladeers of Aussie folk, the touchingly romantic and traditional Yiddish, they leave you wanting more. They carry the audience along an emotional excursion, spicing the playlist with humour, folk tales, anecdotes and engaging explanations of all things Yiddish.’ Klezmer is traditional Eastern European Jewish music of festival, dance and celebration. Klezmania features the brother-sister team of Freydi and
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ENERGETIC: Klezmania will perform at Stawell Bowling Club on August 23. Lionel Mrocki who were born into a world of Yiddish theatre, folk songs and klezmer, performing on stage since childhood. Lionel has played with many Jewish bands and also performed in Yiddish theatre as both an actor and musician. Promotors said he ‘has the ability to make his clarinet convey many emotions from weeping to laughing out loud’. Freydi has a naturally warm stage presence and is a wonderful singer. She is masterful at imparting information about all things Yiddish.
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Freydi represented Australia at an international Klezmer festival in Canada. Multi-instrumentalist David Krycer, who has played with Judith Durham, Barry Humphries, Mike Rudd and Bill Putt from Spectrum, was formerly the bass player in the band but is now its guitarist. Evgeny Belenko, who has also appeared on stage as part of the Culture Series as the falsetto-singing double bass player in the group ‘Bohemian 1LJKWVÂś QRZ Âż OOV WKH GRXEOH bass role. Klezmania’s repertoire
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moves from the diverse cultures of the ‘Old Europe’ of Romania, the Balkans, Turkey and the Ukraine to the immigrant destinations of the USA and Australia. Tickets for the BYO event are on sale at Stawell Library, 5358 1274. Tickets are $20 and students 16 years and under and accompanied by an adult can attend free of charge. Tickets will also be available for purchase on the day at the door at $25. More information is available by calling 5358 2059 or emailing djc2@bigpond.com.
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1. How many people have walked on the moon? A. 2. B. 4. C. 8. D. 12 2. Mercury and what other element are the only two elements that are liquid at room temperature? 3. Divers have explored some of our deeper Wimmera lakes using SCUBA equipment. What does SCUBA stand for? 4. What geographical landmark near Ararat has a two-word Djab Wurrung name that translates to mean ‘home of the black cockatoo’?
5. True or false? The only mistletoe plants growing in Australia have been introduced from European and American woodlands to meet the romantic cultural whims of immigrants. 0DQ\ $XVWUDOLDQ WURRSV ¿ JKWLQJ LQ New Guinea during the Second World War had to endure complications caused by the disease malaria – even after they returned home. How did they catch this disease? 7. The female mosquito feeds on blood. What does a male mosquito eat?
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Answers: 1. D. 12. 2. Bromine. 3. Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. 4. Mt Langi Ghiran. Langi means ‘home’ and ghiran ‘black cockatoo’. 5. False. Australia has 90 species of parasitic mistletoes and they are abundant throughout the Wimmera-Mallee. There are particularly obvious clumps in the canopy of roadside plantations. 6. From mosquito bites. 7. Plant nectar. 8. The Great Barrier Reef. 9. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. 10. The Americas. The oldest known use was by the Mayans and Aztecs in Central America.
Holy Trinity Lutheran School Horsham “Feed my Lambs�
Middle School Open Day All members of the public are invited to come and view the recently completed Stage 1B of the Holy Trinity Middle School.
Sunday, August 23
11am: Noon: 12.30pm: 1pm: 2pm:
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