Concert at the 16th World Congress of Judaic Studies

We're back! Apologies for not maintaining the blog as well as we hoped, we've all had a really busy and exciting year, with concerts, collaborations and a lot of other stuff that we'll write about soon.
For now, just an update from our recent concert at the 16th World Congress of Judaic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. We had a lovely time playing for the expert audience, and it really felt like family, especially since we got to meet a lot of the folks who had heard us 4 years ago at the 15th Congress.
Here's a clip of Nori, Yair and Yoni singing together with the very musical audience, as you can hear:

Concert at HUJI with Special Guest, Meirav Ben-David

It was great fun to host Meirav Ben-David, an amazing musician and singer, at our performance at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the context of the Scholion conference on "Jews and Cities: Modern Encounters and Solitudes." Meirav's presence was very inspiring, and reworking our arrangements for a female voice was an enriching experience as well. We definitely hope to have her back soon, and often!

Meirav Ben-David

DeutschlandRadio Profile About Tafillalt

Check out Jonathan Scheiner's interview with Tafillalt over at DeutschlandRadio Kultur at this link.

Photos from "Sounds of Israel" Up!

We've just added some photos from our singing workshop and concert at the Kulturkirche Altona! These were taken by Matthias Marmor and HamburgMusik. Special thanks to the Elbphilharmonie press office for passing these on, we all have very fond memories of our time in Hamburg!

© HamburgMusik

© Matthias Mramor

© HamburgMusik

© HamburgMusik

Article by Dr. Thorsten Flueh About Tafillalt at NightOutAtBerlin Blog

German-speaking visitors to this blog are warmly invited to read a truly fascinating report accompanied with photos from our concert at the NightOutAtBerlin blog.
Thanks so much for the review, Dr. Flueh! We hope to see you again soon.

Tafillalt in Berlin!

We had a wonderful time performing at the Lichtburgforum as part of their Klangspuren series. Special thanks to Sandra Anusiewicz-Baer, directur of culture at the Berlin Jewish Community, Gershom, and Doris for their wonderful organization and curatorial work.

"Sounds of Israel" Festival in Hamburg

We had a simply fantastic time playing at the "Sounds of Israel" Festival in Hamburg! Here is a picture from our concert at the beautiful Kulturkirche (Culture Church) in the Altona district of the city.



We'll be posting some audio from the concert soon, so stay tuned!

Special thanks to the warm and energetic audience at our concert, as well as the lovely local music lovers who showed up (over 200 of them) for the open singing workshop we held just prior to the show.

Tafillalt on Kol Berlin Radio

Ahead of our concert in Berlin this Tuesday, Aviv Russ of Radio Kol Israel spoke about us and played our music on his German-Israeli radio program, Kol Berlin. Thanks for the support, Aviv! You can check out the podcast at Kol Berlin's website, here, or best of all, come to our show on the 21st at the Lichtburgforum in Berlin (or in Hamburg on the 19th)!

Sounds of Israel Festival in Hamburg, February 2012

We'll be performing at the "Sounds of Israel" Festival at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie on February 19, 2012. You can read more about the festival and lineup at this article in the Neue Musik Zeitung. Its wonderful mix of very exciting performers and instruments. Hope to see you there!

Amira's Article About Our Lviv Tour

Hebrew-reading visitors to this blog are warmly invited to read Amira Ehrlich's article about our Lviv tour experience, published in the newspaper "Makor Rishon," and available online here.

Hello Blogosphere, Lviv Journal

Hello everyone! We're excited to share this blog with you - it will be a forum for news, updates, photos and more. For now, here are some photos and videos from our recent performances at the Klezfest in Lviv, Ukraine in July 2011.

Lviv is truly amazing, an unspoiled gem of great cultural, historical and architectural significance. The city has had a proud history as the capital of Galicia, and can hold its own with any large European city in terms of atmosphere. Yet it also has an untouched quality, and hardly any international retail merchants have set up shop. This lends the main streets a distinct feeling of individuality.

Charming cafes beckon everywhere, nestled between imposing churches and beautiful buildings.

Here the men in the band are looking cool (or about as cool as a Jewish music band can be) while checking out our performance space at the feet of the castle battlements.

Yoni and Yarden escaped the sound check to jam with some Eastern European musicians in a nearby square...

While Amira and Carmel went sightseeing

These great photos were taken by a fellow musician whom we met at the festival, Piotr Menachem Mirski from Lublin. His band the Klezmaholics are really groovy, and their metal-inspired rendition of Gesher Zar Meod was unexpectedly raw and moving. Check out their website at www.klezmaholics.jud.pl or read more about Piotr (who is also a philosopher by profession) here.

The concert itself was a very special affair, an outdoor marathon of about 15 bands. We were slated to go at the end, and it started to rain. However, the audience remained firmly in place, umbrellas in hand, and we shared a very special concert, accompanied by a light drizzle and the feeling of history which permeates the old Jewish Quarter in Lviv.

We met so many amazing musicians at the festival - just to mention a few: there were two local singers in their early 90s who were freakishly good: Arkadi Gendler and Alfred Schreyer, as well as a charismatic duo from Moldova, Efim Chorny and Susan Ghergus, and Berlin-based clarinet legend Christian Dawid.

A photo from the concert, courtesy of Amira:




A few youtube videos of our concert can be found here:

Special thanks to the indefatigable Tanya for organizing our tour, and to Veronica for being our very thorough chaperone...we hope to see you all again soon!