Name: Mamaliga! The Boston Festival of New Jewish Music Emerging Artists
Start: 2022-09-11T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-09-11T17:00:00-04:00
Location: BackRoom at The Boston Synagogue

Mamaliga! The Boston Festival of New Jewish Music Emerging Artists

The Boston Festival of New Jewish Music brings awesome music out into the world every month. Follow us for CD release shows, original compositions, first-rate performers, and a wicked fun hang after each show. The Boston Festival of New Jewish Music is hosted by BackRoom at the Boston Synagogue and co-presented by JArts.

The Boston Festival of New Jewish Music

Great new bands playing great new music, free in-person and streaming

BackRoom at The Boston Synagogue

Join us for the second season of the Boston Festival of New Jewish Music, a free monthly concert series presenting original music drawing from the Jewish cultural experience. Hosted by <a href="http://bostonsynagogue.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">BackRoom at The Boston Synagogue</a>, co-presented by <a href="https://jartsboston.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">JArts</a>, and live-streaming everywhere, the Boston Festival of New Jewish Music highlights the best in Jewish-influenced music by composers and performers who live right here in our own backyard.This fall, we are delighted to share the Emerging Artists Series, a set of three concerts featuring upcoming bands and musicians based in the Boston area.All concerts will be performed live at the Boston Synagogue and live-streamed.---<h2>Season 2. Concert 1. Mamaliga!</h2>Boisterous and driving, lilting and elegiac, Mamaliga melds the klezmer melodies of old country Yiddishland with new era sensibilities, crafting intricate arrangements of original and traditional tunes to make you dance, laugh and cry – perhaps all at once!Mamaliga is a critically acclaimed Klezmer band based in Boston MA, and Brooklyn NY. After the 2021 release of their debut full-length album, Dos Gildn Bletl, Mamaliga has performed at Yiddish New York, KlezKanada, and was awarded best original Klezmer composition at the 2021 Bubbe Awards in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The band is comprised of Rebecca Mac and Rachel Leader on fiddles, Raffi Boden on cello, and Mattias Kaufmann on accordion. Listen to Mamaliga&#x27;s latest album, Dos Gildn Bletl: <a href="https://mamaliga.bandcamp.com/album/dos-gildn-bletl-the-golden-leaf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://mamaliga.bandcamp.com/album/dos-gildn-bletl-the-golden-leaf</a>Watch Mamaliga perform at the Lily Pad last year: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIG6RZdOS7g" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIG6RZdOS7g</a>Read our interview with Rebecca Mac and Mattias Kaufmann from Mamaliga: <a href="https://bostonjewishmusic.org/blog/mamaliga" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://bostonjewishmusic.org/blog/mamaliga</a>Learn more about Mamaliga: <a href="https://www.mamaligaband.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.mamaligaband.com/</a> <h2>About us</h2>The Boston Festival of New Jewish Music was created by local musicians who believe that:-	People find meaning and joy in art and community, and communities come together around shared experiences, especially regular meetings over time.-	We all benefit from hearing great concerts and musicians benefit from the opportunity to develop and present new works to people excited to hear them.- A strong cultural ecosystem is part of what makes the Boston area so vital and strong.-	Great Jewish music is great music. You don’t need to be from the South Bronx to love hip hop or from Panama to love reggaeton; why should you need to know the difference between the Torah and the Talmud to fall in love with Abigale Reisman’s violin or Zach Mayer’s saxophone? Our music is from a certain cultural place, but it’s for everyone.-	Art should be accessible to everyone in our broader community. Especially after the past 18 months has made hearing live music so difficult, we are doubling down on accessibility. Concerts are free and live-streamed for folks who can’t attend in person. For those who can, the venue is totally handicapped accessible and an easy walk from the Red Line, Orange Line, Green Line, and BlueBike stations.If you believe any of these things, or just want to hear some amazing concerts, join us for this second season of the Boston Festival of New Jewish Music. <h2>Accessibility</h2>The Boston Synagogue is handicapped accessible and an easy walk from the Red Line, Orange Line, Green Line, and BlueBike stations.If you need to drive, there are handicapped parking spots at the front door and no stairs from parking to seating or restrooms. It also has non-fixed seating, which means we can accommodate wheelchairs in any row and allow folks in wheelchairs to sit with their friends, families, or PCAs. If you have any questions about accessibility at the Boston Synagogue or on the Live Stream, please contact Nat Seelen at nat@bostonjewishmusic.org.<h2>COVID stuff</h2>Concerts at the Boston Synagogue will follow the Boston Synagogue’s COVID response plan, which is informed by public health guidance from the CDC, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the City of Boston. At this point, that means that we:- Require proof of vaccination for all artists, audience, and staff.- Require masks at all times while not eating or drinking. Artists may remove masks when performing and will maintain a 6-ft distance from the audience.- Limit capacity at the venue to allow for appropriate spacing of seating.Over the course of the pandemic, the Boston Synagogue has invested in updated ventilation, including a HEPA filtration system, and in improved AV equipment for live streaming. Based on the situation at the time of each concert, we may be required to further limit in-person seating. If this happens, we will contact ticket holders with alternative options for watching the concert.

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