PAST SHOWS
The Ancient Law, silent film with live original music by Alicia and pianist Donald Sosin
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Presents (with Emory University)
Rich Theater at Woodruff Arts Center
September 6, 2018 7:30 PM
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
Trondheim Klezmer Festival, Norway
September 2, 2018 7PM
Klezkanada Laurentian Retreat
Workshops and concerts in Quebec's Laurentian Mountains
August 20-26, 2018
Yiddish Seminar in Sweden
With Patrick Farrell and Svetlana Kundish
August 10-12, 2018
A Musical History of the Lower East Side
Irish-American Historical Society
June 12, 2018 7:00 PM
A program of songs reflecting the historically rich ethnicity of the New York City’s Lower East Side: Irish laments, Yiddish and Ladino music, operatic and Neopolitan songs, German lied, jazz and blues. With Charles R. Hale, (Narrator, Writer); Ashley Bell, (Opera Singer); David S. Goldman, (Vocalist, Guitarist, Music Director); Niamh Hyland, (Vocalist); Yuri Juarez, (Guitarist, Composer) Alicia Svigals, (Violinist) and Mala Waldron, (Vocalist, Pianist).
The Ancient Law, silent film with live original music by Alicia and pianist Donald Sosin
La Jolla JCC (San Diego area)
June 6, 2018 7 PM
The Ancient Law, silent film with live original music by Alicia and pianist Donald Sosin
Villa Aurora artist residence, Los Angeles
June 5, 2018 7:30 PM
Concert/dinner party! Hosted by chef Philip Gelb
Alicia's one-woman show, with Masumoto peaches and Jewish food
Sound and Savor
West Oakland, CA
June 4, 2018 7 PM
The Ancient Law, silent film with live original music by Alicia and pianist Donald Sosin
San Francisco Silent Film Festival
June 3, 2018 2 PM
Klezmer workshop at Freight and Salvage, Berkeley, CA
For any and all instruments, amateurs and pros, klezmer experts and newbies!
June 2, 2018 12-2 PM
WAITLIST ONLY: Concert/dinner party! Hosted by chef Philip Gelb
Alicia's one-woman show, with Masumoto peaches and Jewish food
Sound and Savor
West Oakland, CA
June 1, 2018 7 PM
The Yellow Ticket
The Ashokan Center
Olivebridge, NY
May 20, 2018 7:30 PM - with klezmer fiddle workshop at 1:30 PM!
The Yellow Ticket
presented by David Krakauer at
National Sawdust
Brooklyn, NY
May 19, 2018 7 PM
Archive Transformed residency at University of Colorado, Boulder
Closing night public concert, with pianist Uli Geissendoerfer
Boulder Public Library
May 17, 2018 6 PM
The Ancient Law, silent film with live original music by Alicia and pianist Donald Sosin
Toronto Jewish Film Festival
May 6, 2018 2 PM
The Yellow Ticket
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
March 27, 2018
Alicia Svigals and Patrick Farrell, with special guests Bosse Nordenfelt on bass and Salomon Helperin on trumpet
Gothenburg, Sweden
Världskulturmuseet (The Museum of World Culture)
March 15, 2018
dance workshop: 6 PM
show: 7 PM
post-show dancing: 8 PM
Alicia Svigals and Patrick Farrell, with special guest Bosse Nordenfelt on bass
Stallet
Stockholm, Sweden
March 14, 2018
klezmer jam session: 6 PM
dance workshop: 7 PM
show 8 PM
Post-show dancing: 9 PM
Fuerth International Klezmer Festival
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express: with Michael Winograd, Patrick Farrell and Don Godwin
Fuerth, Germany
concert: March 9, 2018
workshops: March 10 and 11, 2018
Beregovski Suite album release concert! A duo project with pianist Uli Geissendoerfer, and Alicia's first solo album in 20 years!
Joe's Pub in NYC
February 4, 2018 7 PM
Joining silent film pianist Donald Sosin, with drummer Allison Miller, accompanying a screening of:
Three Musketeers (1921)
MoMA, NYC
January 19, 2018
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
South Street Seaport Hannukah Party
Front and Beekman Streets
December 12, 2017 6 to 8 PM
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
Winter's Eve Festival
Dante Park Main Stage, Broadway and 63rd St.
November 27, 2017 6:15 PM
The Yellow Ticket
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto/Pordenone Silent Film Festival
Pordenone, Italy
October 1, 2017
The Yellow Ticket
Jewett Art Center
Wellesley College
September 23, 2017
Let's Dance Boston
The Greenway, Boston, MA
Sunday, September 17, 2017, 3 PM
The Yellow Ticket
Dairy Arts Center
University of Colorado Boulder
September 15, 2017
The Yellow Ticket
Vassar College
September 10, 2017
The Yellow Ticket
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Emory University
September 7, 2017
Alicia Svigals duo with accordionist Lauren Brody
In conjunction with an exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State, 3 years before the Constitutional Amendment was passed on August 18th, 1920, sponsored by the Putnam County League of Women’s Voters.
We'll be playing our special women's repertoire for the occasion!
Tompkins Corners Cultural Center, Putnam Valley, NY
Saturday, August 19, 2017, 7:30 PM
Alicia Svigals and Lauren Brody
Yidstock Festival
National Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, MA
July 16, 2017, 3 PM
Talk: The Mysteries of Klezmer Violin Unveiled
Yidstock Festival
National Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, MA
July 16, 2017, 4:30 PM
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
PS21 Performance Spaces for the 21st Century
Opening Night Celebration
Chatham, NY
July 15, 2017, 8 PM
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
Music in Abe Lebewohl Park
10th St. and 2nd Avenue (outdoors), Manhattan
June 29, 2017, 12 PM
From Yiddish Folk to Jazz: An Arts Salon
Museum of American Jewish History
Philadelphia
June 27, 2017, 7 PM
Alicia Svigals and Lauren Brody
YIVO Jewish Culture series
Riverdale Temple, Bronx NY
June 11, 2017, 2 PM
Guest appearance on WAMC Northeast Public Radio's Person, Place, Thing, hosted by Randy Cohen
Broadcast live from the Van Alen Institute in NYC
Monday, May 15, 2017, 7:00 PM
Our Leading Ladies: Folksbiene Gala Concert
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, 10012
Sunday, May 14, 2017, 6:30 PM
Alicia Svigals and Patrick Farrell
Lower Delaware Youth Ensemble Annual Workshop and Concerts
SUNY Oneonta
Sunday, May 7, 2017, 2 PM concert, 4 PM open rehearsal with LDYE
Monday, May 8, 2017, 10 AM concert, 12 PM improvisation workshop for strings
Guest appearance with Japanese alt-chanson sister duo, Charan-Po-Rantan
Joe's Pub, New York, NY
Monday, April 4, 2017, 7:30 PM
ACLU Benefit: Musical Mavericks
Symphony Space, NY
Saturday, April 15, 7:30 PM
Yiddish Songs of Love and Resistance
With Amanda Miriam-Khaye Seigel, Joyce Rosenzweig and Steve Zeidenberg
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, NY
Sunday, April 2, 2017, 2 PM
The Yellow Ticket
Michigan State University
March 25, 2017, 7:30 PM
Alicia Svigals and Lauren Brody
Temple Israel of Putnam Valley, NY
February 26, 2017, 2 PM
Alicia Svigals and Lauren Brody, with Yiddish Dancemaster Steve Weintraub
Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University
1871 N High St, Columbus, OH 43210
February 19, 2017, 3 PM
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express, with Yiddish Dancemaster Steve Weintraub
Kenyon College, Rosse Hall Auditorium
February 18, 2017, 8PM
The Yellow Ticket
San Francisco JCC
January 19, 2017, 7 PM
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
The Yellow Ticket
Stanford University, CA
January 18, 2017, 7:30 PM
Klezmer instrumental workshop
Oakland, CA: write houseconcert@att.net for info and tix
January 17, 2017, 7:30-9:30 PM
Intimate house concert with cymbalom player Cory Beers
Woodland Hills (Los Angeles), CA
January 16, 2017, 7 PM
Preceded by klezmer instrumental workshop 3:30-5:30 PM
Winter's Eve at Lincoln Square
Dante Park Main Stage, Broadway and 63rd St. in Manhattan
November 28, 2016, 6:15 PM
Virginia Film Festival/ University of VA
November 6, 2016
Alicia Svigals duo with accordionist Christina Crowder
Wellfleet Harbor Actors' Theater (WHAT)
September 21, 2016, 7:30PM
Kinoteka, Warsaw, Poland September 8, 2016, 7pm
Kino Kijow Centrum, Cracow, Poland
September 5, 2016, 7pm
White Stork Synagogue, Wroclaw, Poland
September 3, 2016, 9pm
Alicia Svigals duo with accordionist Lauren Brody
Tompkins Corners Cultural Center, Putnam Valley, NY
August 20, 2016
Alicia Svigals duo with accordionist Lauren Brody
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NY, NY
August 3, 2016
Fiddlers on the Roof
Giant klezmer fiddle band concert/party on the roof
Manhattan JCC
Thursday, June 30, 2016
New York, NY
All fiddlers welcome to perform with us! Signup to receive music in advance and attend pre-show workshop.
Multnomah Arts Center, Portland, OR
Klezmer instrumental workshop
Monday, June 6th 7pm
Especially relevant for strings but open to all instrumentalists, both students and professionals.
Proficiency on instrument should be intermediate and up, but no previous knowledge of klezmer necessary.
To register, write klezmerbyaliciasvigals@gmail.com.
Congregation Neveh Shalom
Alicia Svigals and Christina Crowder
Sunday, June 5, 2016, 7pm
Portland, OR
Temple Beth Am
Alicia Svigals and Christina Crowder
Saturday, June 4, 2016, 7pm
Seattle, WA
PLUS: Afternoon klezmer workshop in Ravenna location, 12:30-3:00, $30, open to all instrumentalists. For details and to register, write to bmaslan08@gmail.com, or call 206 784-8250.
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Thursday, April 14, 2016, 5 PM
Leonard Berstein Festival of the Arts
Wasserman Theater
Brandeis University, MA
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Saturday, April 9, 2016
Brooklyn Heights Synagogue
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Thursday, April 7, 2016, 7:30 PM
Sage Auditorium at Cornell University, NY
NEW YORK KLEZMER SERIES at JALOPY THEATER
All-star Fiddle Kapelye, and Dance Party led by Steve Weintraub, 8:30 pm.
Alicia is teaching a pre-concert workshop at 6:30, open to all instrumentalists.
Evening ends with a jam session, open to all.
March 3, 2016
Brooklyn, NY
LINCOLN SQUARE WINTER'S EVE FESTIVAL
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
November 30, 2015
New York, NY
YELLOW TICKET
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Grinnell College, IA
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 7:30 PM
New York, NY
YELLOW TICKET
Friday, November 6, 2015
Cinematheque, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Fidl! Klezmer Violin and Jam
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Museum at Eldridge Street
New York, NY
LOWELL FOLK FESTIVAL
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
Friday to Sunday, July 24 to 27, 2015
Lowell, MA
MUSIC IN ABE LEBEWOHL PARK
Free and outdoors!
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
Thursday, July 16, 2015, 12:30-1:30 PM
10th St. and 2nd Avenue
VIOLIN "MASS APPEAL"
Outdoor stage, Joe's Pub, Manhattan
June 21, 2015, 3PM
Free to listen, and to participate!
Bring your violin and join Alicia Svigals as she presents a new participatory suite of horas, bulgars, freylekhs, and more! This piece is open to all players with good sight-reading abilities and is part of Make Music New York’s Mass Appeal series. Presented by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's KulturfestNYC, the first international festival of Jewish performing arts.
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Detroit Institute of Art
April 24, 2015
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Irvington Town Hall, Irvington, NY
April 19, 2015
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Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
March 28, 2015
WITH ACCORDIONST WILLIAM SCHIMMEL
Rockland Conservatory of Music
March 7, 2015 7 PM
rocklandconservatory.org/tickets
WITH YULZARI LEV DUO
Barbes, Brooklyn
February 3, 2015, 7 PM
ALICIA SVIGALS' KLEZMER FIDDLE EXPRESS
North Miami Beach, FL
Julius Littman Performing Arts Theater
January 25, 2015
ALICIA SVIGALS AND BILL SCHIMMEL
Seduction in Eynaim: A Maternal Song Cycle
14th St Y - NYC
January 9 and 11, 2015
ALICIA SVIGALS AND CHRISTINA CROWDER
Hampshire College
November 13, 2014
THE YELLOW TICKET
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
September 18, 2014
SELICHOT CONCERT
Brooklyn Heights Synagogue
September 20, 2014
THE YELLOW TICKET
Ashkenaz Festival, Toronto
Harbourfront Centre Theatre
August 31, 2 PM
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
Queens Botanical Garden, NYC
July 27, 6:15 PM
Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
Montana Folk Festival, Butte MT
July 11-13
THE YELLOW TICKET - New version of the score, with Seattle Symphony clarinetist Laura DeLuca!
Detroit Institue of Art (5:00 PM)
June 8, 2014
Presented by Cinetopia Film Festival
For tickets: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/films/drama/the-yellow-ticket/
LABAlive Presents: Mothers Without Boundaries
May 21, 2014, 7:30 PM
LABA: House of Study
344 E. 14th St., New York, NY 10003
“Seduction in Eynaim: A Maternal Song Cycle” by Alicia Svigals; with Bill Schimmel, accordion.
Svigals weaves together original settings of poetry and Biblical texts in Yiddish, Hebrew and English to create a musical work that speaks of fertility, fear and longing; and the double-edged helix of inheritance across generations of women. With Svigals on violin and vocals and virtuoso William Schimmel on accordion.
THE YELLOW TICKET
Seattle (7:30 PM)
May 12, 2014
Presented by Music of Remembrance, at Benaroya Hall. With clarinetist Laura DeLuca of the Seattle Symphony.
THE YELLOW TICKET
Swarthmore College, PA
April 4, 2014 (7:00 PM)
Lang Concert Hall
Panel discussion with the performers and Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore Dept of History), Laurie Bernstein (Rutgers Department of History) and Barbara Milewski (Swarthmore Department of Music) to follow.
KLEZMER DANCE PARTY, WITH YIDDISH DANCEMASTER STEVE WEINTRAUB
Newton, MA
Boston Jewish Music Festival
March 8, 2014 (8:00 PM)
THE YELLOW TICKET
Washington, D.C.
March 1, 2014 (2:30 PM)
National Gallery of Art
THE YELLOW TICKET
Cincinnati
February 8, 2014 (8:00 PM)
Mayerson JCC Jewish and Israeli Film Festival, opening night gala at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Scheuer Chapel
THE YELLOW TICKET
Harrisburg, PA
November 17, 2013 (7:30 pm)
Chisuk Emuna Congregation
THE YELLOW TICKET
North Adams, MA
November 16, 2013 (8 pm)
MASS MoCA
THE YELLOW TICKET
Houston
November 7, 2013 (7:30 pm)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet Street
Presented by the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston, the Houston Cinema Arts Society and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
LECTURE
Composers and Klezmers: Alicia Svigals on Bartók, Bloch, and the Score to The Yellow Ticket
Houston
November 6, 2013 (8 pm)
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston
THE YELLOW TICKET
Chicago
October 26, 2013 (8 pm)
University of Chicago, Logan Center for the Arts
THE YELLOW TICKET
Philadephia
May 9, 2013 (8 pm)
Co-presented by The Gershman Y and the National Museum of American Jewish History
ACOUSTIC CONVERSATIONS: WOMEN IN MUSIC
Philadelphia
May 5, 2013 (2:30 pm)
A panel discussion at the National Museum of American Jewish History with Alicia Svigals, Jeri Lynne Johnson, Founding Music Director of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, and Magdaliz Roura, Puerto Rican singer of folk and traditional music from all over Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the founder, manager, lead singer, and guitarist of the Latin Ensemble, Trio Crisol. Moderated by Andrea Clearfield, award-winning composer and founder and host of the Philadelphia performance series, The Salon.
THE YELLOW TICKET
Boston
April 29, 2013 (7:30 pm)
Co-presented by Boston Jewish Music Festival and the New Center for Arts and Culture at Coolidge Corner Theater in collaboration with the Boston Jewish Film Festival. Followed by a panel discussion with scholars from Brandeis and Harvard.
THE YELLOW TICKET
Kalamazoo
April 21, 2013
Southwest Michigan Jewish Film Festival
ALICIA SVIGALS' EVENING OF ALL NEW KLEZMER MUSIC, with clarinetist Michael Winograd, accordionist Patrick Farrell, and Don Godwin on tuba
New York
March 12, 2013 (7:30 pm)
The New York Klezmer Series: Tuesdays at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
THE YELLOW TICKET
Miami
March 3, 2013 (3 pm)
Presented by Next@19 at Coral Gables Art Cinema in collaboration with the Miami International Film Festival
THE YELLOW TICKET
Vancouver
February 17, 2013 (2 pm)
Presented by Chutzpah! The Lisa Nemetz International Showcase of Jewish Performing Arts at the Norman Rothstein Theatre
THE YELLOW TICKET
New York
January 10, 2013 (8:30 pm)
Walter Reade Theater
The New York Jewish Film Festival, a collaboration between The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center