Klezmer Swingers toe-tapping Jewish hooligan music of the Odessan waterfront and “roaring twenties”

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WILD WILD KLEZMER… TOO HOT HOT SWING
KLEZMER SWINGERS
“THE SORDID STORY OF OLD JEWISH ODESSA……… AND OLD NEW YORK”
MONDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2010 £8
Wally Fields takes the audience on a rip roaring roller coaster, helter skelter gallop, from the dives of Jewish Odessa to the speakeasies of New York…and traces the influence of the toe-tapping Jewish hooligan music of the Odessan waterfront, on “roaring twenties” downtown New York…and into the swing style big band jazz of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman. With a backdrop of the comic and brutal Jewish underworld in both cities; the environment is coloured by the presence of Gershwin, Kern , Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Jimmy Durante, Danny Kaye, and Jimmy Cagney...with Dutch Schultz, “Gurrah the Gorilla” Shapiro, and Murder Incorporated lurking on the
horizon. Hold your breath…!!!! www.tophatproductions.co.uk
Open at 6 when food will be available until 10 all tables allocated on arrival, diners get preferential seating. Tickets from www.quecumbar.co.uk www.wegottickets.com £12 on the door