Yuval Ron: Featured Oud Soloist at the San Francisco World Music Festival

Presented by Eugene & Elinor Friend Center for the Arts
and the San Francisco World Music Festival
in association with the Consulate General of Israel

This world premiere, a specially commissioned composition, features several master musicians from Afghanistan Azerbaijan, China, India, Iran, Israel, Kurdistan and the U.S. The international collaboration is led by composer and kamanche master Imamyar Hasanov in a groundbreaking and memorable concert. More about Yuval Ron

This concert is part of the Daniel Pearl World Music Days commemoration.

With the cooperation of the Consulate General of Spain and the Israel Center of the Jewish Community Federation.

Sunday, September 23, 7:00 p.m.
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Avenue, San Francisco.
Tickets: JCCSF Members: $18, Public: $22. Call JCCSF Box Office at 415.292.1233

West Bank Story: Special Screenings with Composer Yuval Ron and Live Music

A special screening of the Oscar-winning short film, West Bank Story, with its score’s Israeli composer Yuval Ron and the Yuval Ron Trio. West Bank Story, directed by Ari Sandel, is a musical comedy set in the fast-paced, fast-food world of competing falafel and shawarma stands in the West Bank, in which an Israeli soldier falls in love with the Palestinian daughter of the rivaling fast-food establishment. The special screenings will be followed by Q&A with the composer and a live performance of Yuval Ron trio.

Monday, September 24, 8:00 p.m.
Temple Beth El/JCC, 3055 Porter Gulch Rd., Aptos, 95003
Info and tickets: (831) 479-3444 / www.tbeaptos.org

Tuesday, September 25, 7:00 p.m.
Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco
Info and tickets: 415.826.2402 / www.redpoppyarthouse.org

Smadar Levi in a Ladino Music Concert

Presented by Eugene & Elinor Friend Center for the Arts
and the San Francisco World Music Festival
in association with the Consulate General of Israel

This exciting Israeli-Moroccan singer’s renditions of traditional Pan-Mediterranean music are presented in Arabic, Hebrew and Spanish. Her seductively beautiful voice and her stirring message of peace transcend language and time. More about Smadar Levi...

This concert is part of the Daniel Pearl World Music Days commemoration.

With the cooperation of the Consulate General of Spain and the Israel Center of the Jewish Community Federation.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007. 8:00 p.m.
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Avenue, San Francisco.
Tickets: $20.00 member/$24.00 public/$15.00 student. Call JCCSF Box Office at 415.292.1233

Balkan Beat Box World Music

Balkan Beat Box is steeped with an intense lifetime of research into their own non-Western roots as well as other cultures. A quasi-circus event, BBB performs with a core of six musicians, collaborating with artists from Israel, Bulgaria, Morocco, Spain and Turkey, who draw on a variety of styles from around the world. Every event keeps the audience guessing what the next surprise will be.

Saturday, September 29, 8:00 p.m. (doors) 9:00 (concert)
Great American Music Hall, 859 O’Farrell St., San Francisco
Tickets: $15.
Info: www.gamh.com / 415.885.0750
Presented by the Israel Center

Established in 1948 as an unpretentious choir of kibbutz members in the Valley of Jezreel, the Gevatron has gained and maintained, since the early 1960s, the status of Israel’s national singing ensemble....

Sunday, October 7. 8:00 p.m. More...

Teapacks in Concert

Israeli band in a Middle Eastern-Rock fusion.

October 9 - 14, 2007.

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