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New Mexico-based musician Jordan Wax and New York-based musician Jake Shulman-Ment will perform at the Velvet Elk Lounge in Boulder this Sunday, March 15 at 7 p.m. as part of the JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center’s Festo! Festo! show. The monthly event features musicians who specialize in Klezmer, Balkan and World Music.
This show marks the start of Wax and Shulman-Ment’s southwest tour with additional stops in Manitou Springs, Del Norte, Trinidad, Santa Fe, Tucson, Phoenix, and Sedona.
Hitting the road together for the first time, Wax and Shulman-Ment draw from many combined decades as bearers and innovators of klezmer and Yiddish song. They masterfully traverse oceans and centuries to conjure ancestral melodies and songs, landing in a playfully genre-bending 21st century America. Their live performance, rich with musical virtuosity as well as the oral history and lore that connects their music to centuries of culture, is a testament to the magic that has sustained secular Yiddish creativity in the face of incredible odds and continues to shed a unique light on the contemporary human condition.
Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $10-$20:
