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| Admission: | $8 for Members/$12 General. Tickets include Museum admission. To purchase tickets in advance visit thecjm.org or call 415.655.7881. | ||
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About the Program
San Francisco, get ready to get down to the sensational sounds of "Havana Nagila" and other lost hits off of the 1959 Irving Fields Trio album Bagels and Bongos as 93-year-old Irving Fields makes his San Francisco debut at the Contemporary Jewish Museum's Jews on Vinyl Revue on April 30, 2009. It's the live show you just didn't realize you were waiting for.
In addition to Fields' cocktail-hour Latin Jewish mash up, Korean singer Johnny Yune reprises favorites off of his 1975 release, Ose Shalom, which features some of the greatest hits from the Hebrew and Yiddish songbook, all in the original languages. The night will also be filled with funky beats spun by DJ Sabbo, an award-winning song writer and producer and part of the Israeli DJ Crew Soulico.The once-in-a-lifetime, live event brings the albums featured in the Museum's current Jews on Vinyl exhibition (on view through June 9) to swinging life. The exhibition, based on the new book by Roger Bennett and Josh Kun, And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost (Crown Press, 2008), offers a unique high fidelity window onto Jewish America from the 1940s to 80s.
