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Sunday May 20, 2012
7:00PM - 10:00PM
Schmekel
Category :: Community
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Their music offers a Bar-Mitzvah buffet of punk, klezmer, jazz, rock and polka influences, while their lyrics combine bawdy humor and critical awareness, encouraging audiences to laugh at dirty jokes while deconstructing systems of oppression. Schmekel has been featured in The New York Times, The Jewish Daily Forward, Time Out New York and Jewcy.
“The music itself merges traditional klezmer scales and rhythms with the aggressive energy of early gay punk bands like Pansy Division. If the musical satirist Tom Lehrer were to write a hard-core anthem about sex reassignment surgery, with a driving guitar lick, a “Hava Nagila” breakdown and a keyboard line lifted from Super Mario Brothers, it might approximate the Schmekel sound.” –The New York Times
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In partnership with the J's GLOE-GLBT Outreach & Engagement
Co-sponsored by: DC Trans Coalition and Jews United for Justice
Thank you to our venue: Chief Ike's Mambo Room
For More Information:
Location/Venue:
Chief Ike's Mambo Room
Address:
1725 Columbia Road NW, Washington, DC
Contact Name:
Lili Kalish
Email:
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