The Liberty Bell is famously engraved with a verse from the Torah, ‘proclaim liberty throughout the land,’ describing the Jubilee, the fiftieth year of freedom, which makes America’s 250th its fifth Jubilee.
It is an opportune moment to give extra thanks, with music and a few bells, for the freedoms of expression, assembly and religion that let us practice our faith openly and joyously,” says Rabbi Yossi Yaffe of Chabad of the Shoreline.
This year's musical lineup features the NY Klezmer Series All-Stars , Yehuda and Noah Solomon of Moshav and Soulfarm, and the Mr.
Shabbos Band .
The NY Klezmer Series All-Stars bring the sound that started it all: klezmer, the exuberant dance music Jewish immigrants carried from Eastern Europe and made their own in America.
This five-piece traditional band is drawn from the acclaimed New York Klezmer Series and led by its artistic director, Aaron Alexander , a drummer whose credits include the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars, Klezmerfest, and his own Midrash Mish Mosh.
Clarinet, fiddle, and brass trade soaring melodies over the irresistible rhythms of freylekhs and horas, the dance tunes that have filled Jewish weddings and celebrations for generations.
Yehuda and Noah Solomon bring together two of the most beloved names in modern Jewish music.
Brothers and longtime bandleaders, Yehuda fronts Moshav and Noah fronts Soulfarm , and between them they helped pioneer a whole generation of Jewish rock.
Raised in a renowned musical family of American expats in the Israeli village of Mevo Modi'im, they came of age between two traditions, and their sound lives right where those traditions meet: Hebrew words and soulful nigunim carried on the folk, bluegrass, country, and rock they grew up on, with a current of Middle Eastern melody running underneath.
On stage together the brothers trade verses and harmonies and turn a concert into a high-energy, heartfelt celebration, the kind of set that gets the whole crowd on its feet and singing along.
The Mr.
Shabbos Band is Josh Alpert on guitar, banjo, mandolin, trumpet, flute and bagpipes, joined by his brother Pesach Alpert on drums, Menashe Wagner on trombone, guitar and percussion, Mordechai Harris on bass, Cantor Eric Freeman, and Benny Shwarcz on guitar and percussion.
Together they play a unique mix of Jewish and biblical lyrics with country, bluegrass, and rockabilly.
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