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About Jubilee Klezmer
What is jubilee klezmer?
JUBILEE KLEZMER ENSEMBLE (JKE)
The musicians in Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble share a love of the lively music from "the old countries."
We play a tsimmes of styles from Russia, Poland, Rumania, & Ukraine.
We are an instrumental trio made up of Clarinet, Accordion and Bass, often adding violin or mandolin.
We are frequently joined by Larry Kass, singing traditional Sephardic love songs and lullabies in the original Ladino tongue.
JKE plays a wide variety of ancient to modern Klezmer and Israeli music, making Jubilee an ideal choice for concerts, festivals, weddings, parties, dances, and religious services.
This band also has a large repertoire of traditional Israeli dance music and enjoys performing for and with dancers. Throughout the year, Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble also does many educational lecture/performances where band members talk about the history of Klezmer music and demonstrate a variety of Klezmer music styles.
Who Are We?
REMEMBERING sonia tubridy
Sonia Tubridy, accordion, grew up in NYC and Israel, receiving classical training as a pianist and conductor at the Tel Aviv Music Academy. Living on Kibbutz Hazorea as a high school student, she also became an accordionist, playing every Friday night for folk dancing. Since moving to Guerneville in 1975, she was active as a piano teacher, accompanist, chamber musician, director of the River Choir and local children's choirs and music director for many theaters. Theater projects were Chutzpah for WCTAG and Songs of Edith Piaf for Cinnabar Theater. She was also co-founder of the Coffee Concert chamber music series. As an accordionist, Sonia was a member of Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble. She was Cultural Coordinator of Russian River Jewish Community. In her spare time she studied cello and banjo. She is greatly missed, but her legacy lives on.
paul Alexander
Paul Alexander, clarinet, is a native of New York City and currently resides in Petaluma. He started learning to play the clarinet at the age of ten. He trained in classical music, but also enjoys wailing in the swing style of Benny Goodman. Paul has played with Sonoma State Orchestra, The Rohnert Park Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, and numerous chamber groups in the Bay Area. He played klezmer and Israeli dance music with Limonim and then the Red Hot Chachkas. Paul founded Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble in the year 2000.
REMEMBERING ALBY KASS
Alby Kass, vocalist, grew up in New York City, learning and singing Yiddish songs with his mother. He performed Yiddish songs, both in concert and at home. For four years he played the role of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof at a variety of venues in Sonoma County. He also played a leading role in Chutzpah, a play by local playwright, Pauline Pfandler about the lives of the early Jewish chicken farmers in Petaluma. Alby sang in the River Choir in Guerneville for 30 years, and was a delight to all who knew him.
LARRY KASS
Bio coming.
RICHARD SAUNDERS
Richard Saunders is a fixture in the San Francisco bay area music scene. He has been playing professionally for over fifty years. He has performed and recorded with the San Francisco Klezmer Experience (Klez-X), Jessica Williams, Dan Hicks, Country Joe and the Fish among others. He has toured with Freddie Hubbard, Terry Gibbs and recorded numerous movie, television and commercial scores. He lives in Oakland with his wife Millie, a Unitarian minister.
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GUS GARELICK
Gus Garelick is an outstanding fiddler, mandolin player, and teacher, specializing in many styles, from Bluegrass to Zydeco, Classical, Klezmer, Italian, and more. He has been active in the North Bay musical scene for over 40 years, has produced radio programs for KRCB FM in Santa Rosa, and continues to write a regular column for The Fiddler Magazine. Gus is the Music Director for the Gravenstein Mandolin Ensemble, based in Sebastopol. He has recorded three albums of traditional Italian music with The Hot Frittatas and has appeared with the Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble numerous times over
the years. Gus grew up in Detroit in a Jewish/Russian household and studied music and literature at the University of Michigan He lives in Santa Rosa.
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