Klezmer Workshop with Dan Blacksberg

Event Information
Event Date: 
March 30, 2017 - 7:30pm
Address: 
508 W. Oregon St., Urbana
Description: 

Dan is an incredibly talented young guy and a wonderful teacher, conversant in jazz, classical, improvisation, as well as klezmer. He’ll provide sheet music (including b-flat charts, etc.) and help us work on groove and style. I’ve taken a number of classes from him and attended one of his monthly klezmer jams in Philadelphia.

Dan Blacksberg Biography
A 2012 Pew Fellow in the Arts and graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Dan Blacksberg is one of the few musicians in the world who performs and teaches traditional klezmer on the trombone. Recognized as a master of the traditional trombone style, he can often be found performing with the field’s top artists. He is a founding member of Alan Bern’s The Other Europeans, and has performed and recorded with such luminaries as Frank London, Adrienne Cooper, Michael Winograd, Daniel Kahn, Hankus Netsky, Alicia Svigals, Elaine Hoffman-Watts, and more. Dan has taught and performed in festivals all over the world, such as Klezkamp, Klezkanada, Yiddish New York, Lowell Folk Festival, the Krakow Fesitval of Jewish Culture, and Yiddish Summer Weimar in Germany, and has been an artist-in-residence at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Admission: 
Cost: $10.00 (Note: No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Anyone who can contribute more, it would be much appreciated!)