PAST SHOWS 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.
YELLOW TICKET
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
YELLOW TICKET
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.
YELLOW TICKET
Detroit Institute of Art
April 24, 2015
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Irvington Town Hall, Irvington, NY
April 19, 2015
YELLOW TICKET
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