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— 2024 —

Brief News

We are honored that music from Metropolitan Klezmer (our version of Yiddish instrumental tune Der Gasn Nigun from our debut disc Yiddish For Travelers) is the first cue on the soundtrack of Ralph Arlyck’s documentary feature I Like It Here premiered at the New York Jewish Film Festival in Jan. 2023.

Bandleader/film scholar Eve Sicular was awarded a Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship Alumni Grant for New Yiddish Culture, to create a new version of Farlangen from Henekh Kon's 1937 Dybbuk soundtrack.

Find Out More About Music from Yiddish Cinema

Ulmer's Yiddish Films

Eve Sicular's full exploration of director Edgar Ulmer's "Canon of Cinema Contagion: Gothic Yiddish Plague Meets TB Screen Crusade" now up at Yiddishkayt.org

A new klezmer tradition takes root in Brooklyn’s Prospect Parkarticle in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency with a few words from US Klezmer scene veteran, Eve Sicular.

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DEC Retreat, NYSCA

So many people came up to me to share how much they enjoyed your performance and how special it was to hear this music live and learn a bit about the group's long history.

Ana Fiore, Director, Grants & Services, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)

DEC Retreat, NYSCA

It was truly pleasure for all of us the have Metropolitan Klezmer perform at our DEC Retreat - thank you for making it happen!

Leanne Tintori Wells, Program Director, Dance/ Presenting/ State & Local Partnerships, New York State Council on the Arts [NYSCA]

A Family Hanukkah Concert

I heard it was a great show. Wishing you continued success.

Ronit Widmann-Levy, Director of Arts & Culture, Oshman Family JCC Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life, Palo Alto CA

Arts Brookfield

Thank you to Metropolitan Klezmer for a fantastic performance today. As always, it was a huge hit with our tenants.

Courtney Whitelocke, Event Manager, Arts Brookfield U.S. Office Division

Two Bridges Music Benefit Concert

Thanks to you for delivering such a lively show and really connecting with the audiences. The feedback was overwhelmingly enthusiastic.

Cyrus von Hochstetter, Two Bridges Music Director, Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, Inc.

First Fridays + Concert Series, Long Beach NY

We had so much fun! Thank you and your band for the Joy!

Edie Kalickstein, Long Beach Public Library

Outstanding! Thank you.

Long Beach Arts Council

Falcon Ridge Folk Festival

MK was very, VERY well received at Falcon Ridge this year

Anne Saunders, Artistic Director, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

It was such a pleasure to have Metropolitan Klezmer join Ghouls & Gourds... an amazing array of talent! Thank you for a beautiful show! (Gotham's greatest players of Yiddish party music)

Anita Jacobs, Director of Public Programs, Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Lincoln Center's New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Thank you for Metropolitan Klezmer's wonderful presentation of 'Music from Yiddish Film.' I'm still hearing from delighted patrons several weeks later how much they enjoyed this program.

Evan Leslie, Artistic Producer, Lincoln Center's New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

School of Music Northern Arizona University

Last night's performance was exciting, uplifting, and well received — exactly what I had hoped for... Thanks to Metropolitan Klezmer for enriching our lives and [bringing] the musicians to Flagstaff.

Todd E. Sullivan, Director, School of Music Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

The Emelin Theatre

Thank you for a terrific concert with Metropolitan Klezmer

Elliot Fox, Executive Director, The Emelin Theatre, Mamaroneck

Mizel Arts and Culture Center at the J

We were again delighted with your amazing concert for JAAMM this year.

Steve Wilson, Executive Artistic Director, MACC at the J, Denver, Colorado

Lincoln Center

Last night's performance was a blast! You all are AMAZING! Please keep us updated on your performances!

On behalf of the entire staff of the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center thank you for such a wonderful performance. We were thrilled to present Metropolitan Klezmer and were blown away by your artistry. The night was full of beautiful music and amazing energy. Please extend our gratitude to your entire ensemble who simply were fabulous.

Jordana Phokompe, Associate Producer, David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center

Thank you! Thank you!

Your entire band is such an amazing group! You were all so very entertaining mixing music & humor — you must re-write ALL of Guys & Dolls!

Hillary McAndrew, Senior Manager, Meet the Artist & Community Programming, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Brookfield Arts + Events

We had a great time and the ensemble was wonderful! Thank you so much!

Karen Kitchen, Producing Director, Brookfield Place: Winter Garden Holiday Fest

Just wanted to say thanks again for all of the Metropolitan Klezmer performances in December — they definitely are a highlight of our holiday season. I hope you have a terrific 2015!

Elysa Marden, Producing Director, Brookfield Arts + Events

UBS Atrium Music Series

Nice to meet you and your band mates today... very well-played and enjoyable show.

Bruce Sherman, Director, UBS Atrium Music Series

Congratulations on a wonderful performance today. Really enjoyed your show. So much talent and intelligence together.

Pablo Zinger, Director, Reportorio Espanol

Santa Klez special at Safra Hall, Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC

We continue to talk about how terrific it was having you here and what a wonderful day it was for us all.

Gabriel Sanders: Director of Public Programs, MJH

Jewish Heritage Reception at Gracie Mansion, New York

Thank you very much for the Metropolitan Klezmer's terrific performance at our Jewish Heritage Reception at Gracie Mansion. Our city is proud to be an international capital of Jewish communal life, and thanks in part to your talented quintet, we were able to host a fun and festive evening.

Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City

Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank NJ

Great show yesterday! Everyone was very happy with the performance.
Thanks again!

Izzy Sackowitz, Operations Director

Thank you! I am sorry I was unable to get down to the theatre myself but I am told that a fantastic time was had by all in attendance.

Numa C. Saisselin, CEO, Count Basie Theatre, Inc., Red Bank, New Jersey

BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown MD

Thank you, thank you, thank you for such a great show!

The singer, Missy, was fantastic, and all such wonderful musicians — the audience just loved it. They're asking me to ask you back next year! [and so they did... saying in 2011... ]

I heard nothing but rave reviews for the show, thanks so much for making our audience happy! I'll begin booking next season very soon and will be in touch.

Charlotte Sommers, Executive Director, BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown MD (Montgomery County, Maryland)

Dutchess County Jewish Federation

Everyone loved your Klezmer music. It truly made the gathering special. I have had the opportunity to hear a number of Klezmer groups 'in my day' but the Metropolitan Klezmer stands out as particularly versatile and engaging. Congratulations to all in the band and thank you again for helping to make the event for the Dutchess County Jewish Federation the success we all felt it was!

Fredrica S. Goodman

The American Civil Liberties Union (gala benefit, Ellis Island)

We are still getting wonderful feedback on [the ACLU's 75th anniversary gala, at Ellis Island] and especially how perfectly the band added to the event atmosphere.

Thank you again, to you and the band, for adding so much to the event.

Heather D. Artemis, Events Manager,Affiliate Support & Advocacy, American Civil Liberties Union

Center For Jewish History

Thank you for your wonderful music last night! It added so much to the evening and as a thread for the rest of the production. Your vocalist is fantastic as well as all the musicians.

Judith C. Siegel, Director of Special Projects, CJH

I keep hearing how much people loved your music last night. Your contribution to the evening was incalculable! It brought everything together.

Anna Cypra Oliver, Jewish Heritage Project: "Lifecycles of New York Jews: Refuge & Roots, Searching for Home in a New Land" CJH

Two Bridges Council

Thanks for your amazing performance yesterday. I really enjoyed your music and your musicians are all thrilling to listen to.

Cyrus von Hochstetter, Two Bridges Council, Abrons Arts Center

Temple Beth O'r/Beth Torah

Thanks for a great concert Sunday evening! It was so nice to have Metropolitan Klezmer celebrate its 20th anniversary with us here in Clark. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the program!

Cantor Steve Stern, Temple Beth O'r/Beth Torah, Clark NJ

New Year's Eve Millbrook

What a joy you AND your music have been!

Joyce Heaton, New Year's Eve Millbrook, Dutchess County NY

Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn NY:

It is my great pleasure to recommend Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos, and most especially leader of both bands, Eve Sicular.

During the past decade, I have presented Eve and her two ensembles at different venues and events in New York City, including the Brooklyn Museum's internationally acclaimed outreach program (First Saturdays) and this college's Free Sundays series of world music and dance.

Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos play with passion, panache, and pride. Both groups will charm the first-time listener while earning the respect of any critics, die-hard klezmer fans, and ethnomusicologists in the audience. I have watched diverse crowds of twenty-something Brooklyn hipsters get up and dance in the aisles with Orthodox Jewish couples three times their age. I have seen families with delighted kids shouting out for encores. I have watched people excitedly buying their first klezmer CD (perhaps their first world-music recording) in the lobby of my theater.

Eve Sicular is simply tops when it comes to making every performance a rewarding collaboration between presenter, artist, and audience. Talk with her about your goals for program content and audience development and you will find her a thoughtful, creative, innovative partner. Listen to her chat with the audience from the stage or in the lobby and you will find her a warm, engaging, and inspiring speaker (and a brilliant scholar). And to cap it off, Eve is also one of the most professional bandleaders you will ever encounter — she handles every business matter from booking to performance in a timely and efficient manner. Now that is a presenter's dream!

I will gladly provide any additional information, but my best advice is: Book them soon!

Mona Z. Smith, Executive Director, Performing Arts & Special Events

Thank you for an outstanding show this past Sunday. Our crowd loved your set! It is also rare that a group of performers come along that are as organized as they are talented. I thank you for that.

Sarah Van Buren, Performing Arts & Special Events

92nd Street Y

We cannot thank you enough for your participation in our Musical Introduction Series concerts. All of the schools were thrilled by the band's exciting playing and thoughtful interaction with the audience.

The impact of having such a dynamic and culturally rich performance from Metropolitan Klezmer for the diverse group of young people that we serve through Educational Outreach is immeasurable. As an ensemble, your flexibility and willingness to work with us to create an engaging, interactive concert program was invaluable.

The program itself was varied and interesting, introducing students to traditional and original klezmer in a truly unique way, and with a contemporary flavor. They especially enjoyed the way the band demonstrated their instruments and that many of the members of the band played more than one instrument!

We have received lots of positive feedback from many teachers and school administrators who were impressed by the band's stellar musicianship and educational style, as well as your relaxed and approachable demeanors.

We are very proud to have hosted such an outstanding ensemble and truly hope that you all had as wonderful an experience as everyone involved with the 92nd Street Y's Musical Introduction Series did.

Thank you for sharing your musical gifts, teaching artistry, humor and joy with more than 3,000 public school children throughout New York City.

With thanks and gratitude,

Larisa Gelman, Director, Educational Outreach, School of the Arts, 92nd Street Y, New York City, NY

Hudson Square LentSpace

I just wanted to say thank you and to all of your musicians for an amazing performance at LentSpace today! You were all such a pleasure to work with, and you sound amazing. Please keep me informed of upcoming shows and gigs!

Shin Otake, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Kineret, Atlantic Beach

I cannot begin to thank you and the band for your performance last night. I received so many phone calls today and every one mentioned how great you and the band were. You were just fantastic! We all had a wonderful evening and really enjoyed your performance. I especially enjoyed your explanations and how you made the evening feel so comfortable and lively. Just exceptional! Thanks again for making our evening so spectacular!

Karen Nessim, Co-Chair/Kineret, Atlantic Beach

Touro Law Center

Thanks to you Eve and to your wonderful group. Terrific program. Kudos from everyone around here.

Professor Dan Subotnik, Touro Law Center, Central Islip, Long Island NY

Cooperstown Concert Series

We had a great experience with you and your band the other night — top to bottom. Couldn't have been better. Congrats on your drawing power. Nicely done, and very well played.
Your troupe brightened up our 'winter' (which really hasn't arrived yet)... Groups like yours are also a shining example — Everytime you think the culture is in the tank, then you see a show like we saw the other night. Beats the heck out of other entertainment options.

Tim Wiles, Cooperstown Concert Series co-director

Riverspace Arts, Nyack NY

Hooray for us! It was a really great show... Thank you again, for a great show, and for EVERYONE being such a pleasure to work with. It's been a real pleasure!

Melanie Rock, holiday show series producer

Kane Street Synagogue Family KlezFest

Wonderful concert — great musicians, wonderful variety of tunes
Thanks to everyone at Metropolitan Klezmer and to you for all your work on our behalf!!!

Elise Bernhardt, Kane Street Synagogue Family KlezFest coordinator

The 92nd Street Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall

The concert at the The 92nd Street that featured Metropolitan Klezmer and [guest artist/emeritus MK member] Howie Leess on tenor sax and clarinet was an immense success on so many levels... The Y was thrilled to have a nearly full house [approximately 700 audience members]... and might I add that the verbal feedback was incredibly good. The program was balanced and lyrical, the vocalist superb and all in all, it was a totally splendid afternoon...

Jo Frances Brown, Program Coordinator, Stein Memorial Concert

World Financial Center's Festival of Sound & Light

Your band sounds amazing.

John Louis Pedat, Halfmoon Records [Talent Programmer, Winter Garden WFC]

There's definitely no need to feel farklempt with these kind of celebrations.

VOLUME nyc, Voices of Lower Manhattan

Parkway Central Library, Free Library of Philadelphia

Thanks again for a great concert.

Paul Savedow, Manager, Education, Religion and Philosophy Department, Free Library of Philadelphia PA

Temple Tikvah, New Hyde Park, NY

The congregation LOVED you and the group. We are looking towards future Klezmer like programs. How about one of your lectures/film presentations? A pleasure to work with you. See you in Florida in February.

June Schwarz: Temple Tikvah, New Hyde Park, NY

Sidney Albert Albany Jewish Community Center

Klezmer program included varied selections of beautiful music, which touched and moved us... A high-quality concert... One of the highlights of our year.

Claire Sigal, Programming/SAAJCC

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College

My warmest thanks for a job well done. The patrons are still talking about the concert.

Alfred Fredel, Producer

American Friends of the Israel Museum

Metropolitan Klezmer really outdid themselves and made a magical evening... Your performance was soulful and beautiful

Monique Birenbaum. Development Director

CNN WorldBeat: Crazy for Klezmer

If you have any other CDs, I'd love to hear more! Here's the footage, your band was wonderful.

Neil Curry, Producer (Turner Broadcasting & BBC)
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