Archive for June, 2011

Clare Burson comes to Amherst, MA!

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Indie songstress and former Yiddish Book Center intern, Clare Burson performs her Six Points project, Silver & Ash, an original concert which imagines Burson’s maternal grandmother’s life in Europe from before her birth in 1919 to her escape from Germany in 1938. The music also explores Burson’s own struggles with rupture, silence, guilt, empathy, and continuity and have garnered praise from the likes of NPR, The New York Times, and Billboard magazine.

2:00 PM
Cost: $18/member; $22/nonmember; $11/student
More info here.

Sway Machinery performs in Poland

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

If you happen to be in Poland, check out former fellow Jeremiah Lockwood and The Sway Machinery. They will be performing in a 400 year old synagogue in Krakow Poland with special guest, Malian music giant . On Saturday, they’re taking to the streets, performing in the main square of Krakow’s Old City

Wednesday, June 29th 2011
Krakow Jewish Culture Festival – 8 PM
ul. Miodowa 24
Krakow
Poland

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
Ulica Szeroka
Krakow
Poland

For more information about the festival, click here.

Judd Greenstein comes to London

Monday, June 20th, 2011

Six Points Fellow Judd Greenstein and violist Nadia Sirota are visiting London to hear the premiere of Two Boys by their old friend and close collaborator, Nico Muhly. Featuring as part of the ICA’s alternative club night Everything, Greenstein and Sirota will perform works composed by Judd and Nico at what promises to be a London debut to remember.

Free
For more info, click here.

Clare Burson coming to Washington, DC

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Catch indie songstress Clare Burson performing her Six Points Project Silver and Ash at the Washington Jewish Music Festival!

LA Application Due Today (June 1)!

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Today is the last day for polishing off your application, Los Angelinos. Feel free to send any last minute questions our way, but be sure to click the submit button before 11:59 PM PST!