Special start time for this concert: 8:30 PM
The internationally-renowned klezmer duo of Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer will make a return visit on Sept. 10 to open the 38th season of our Branford Folk Music Society concerts.
It will be a special night of music, storytelling and, yes, dancing. If you were present for the first concert offered several years back by the Strauss/Warschauer Duo you'll surely remember the marvelous dancing at night's end. Opening for Strauss and Warschauer will be Connecticut's own Henry "Hank" Savin, a teller of stories, legends and folktales, many of them from Eastern Europe. One important note: This concert - and this concert only for this season - will have an 8:30 p.m. starting time.
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For more than two decades, the Strauss/Warschauer Duo has been at the forefront of the international klezmer and Yiddish music scene. Deborah and Jeff were both long-time members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, one of the premier groups of the klezmer music revival, and have performed in concert and on film with legendary classical violinist Itzhak Perlman. They lead some of the most popular klezmer music, Yiddish song and traditional dance workshops throughout North America and Eastern and Western Europe.
Performances by the Strauss/Warschauer Duo are an integrated and intimate blend of songs, translations and instrumental music - grounded in tradition, yet thoroughly contemporary. They draw from klezmer, Yiddish, Hasidic and liturgical music and culture, adding their own original compositions and song settings. They sing and play in shifting combinations of violin, guitar, mandolin and accordion.
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Deborah Strauss (violin, accordion, vocal and dance) is an acclaimed klezmer violinist and a true descendant of the most eloquent traditional Jewish violinists. She has appeared on numerous recordings and was a long-time member of the Chicago Klezmer Ensemble. She studied violin at Rutgers University and ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago.
Jeff Warschauer (guitar, mandolin, vocals) is internationally renowned as a mandolinist, guitarist, Yiddish singer and teacher. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, is currently a member of the music faculty of Columbia University and is the founding artistic director and senior artistic adviser of KlezKanada. He is currently pursuing graduate study in cantorial music at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
