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Daniel Kahn, Klezmore Festival Vienna 2025
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Klezmore 2025 Eröffnungskonzert – Daniel Kahn 'UMRU / unrest' (USA/D)
The 22nd KlezMORE Festival Vienna kicks off with a special opening concert at the renowned jazz club Porgy & Bess.
"UMRU / unrest" is the latest, boldest and most mature album by acclaimed songwriter and Yiddish troubadour Daniel Kahn. Born in Detroit and now living in Hamburg, he brings us a collection of songs both original and ancient, translated and recomposed. They are his alarming manifesto for radical Yiddish autonomy. These songs tell of a powerful diaspora - tearing down flags, subverting borders, denouncing oppression and celebrating freedom. They are simultaneously tender and lost, irreverent, broken and explosive. The album completes a trilogy: after his solo album Word Beggar from 2021 and the duo The Building & Other Songs from 2023 with the legendary violinist Jake Shulman-Ment, he now adds a third companion: Christian Dawid, the master multi-instrumentalist from Berlin, who enriches the album with clarinets, saxophone and percussion.
An event as part of KlezMORE 2025
Program and cast
Daniel Kahn: vocals, piano, zither, accordion
Christian Dawid: reeds, vocals
Jake Shulman-Ment: violin, vocals
PORGY and BESS Jazzclub
Porgy & Bess (actually, Jazz and Music Club Porgy & Bess ) is a jazz club in the Riemergasse 11 in the 1st district of Vienna. The club , founded in 1993 is considered " the most important jazz organizer and trendy meeting point " of the Austrian capital .
The program of Porgy & Bess speaks to a very large audience , about 70,000 guests a year ; is accordingly Jazz " understood very pluralistic ," and the program " even in fringe areas , such as electronic music , contemporary music and world music penetrated . " Many international artists , particularly from the U.S. space , see also Austrian musician here an opportunity to perform . The club also offers the stage for events, such as the award of the Austrian World Music Award.
Musicologist Christian Scheib According to the Porgy & Bess " at the same time essential for the development of the musical ( jazz ) reality of a City" and needs and uses ' plain commonplace as urban space music. " It creates itself " through artistic preferences, acoustic quality , capacity and real capacity, the necessary exclusion of other clubs. " Here, the different areas of the jazz clubs allow - the area in front of the stage with tables, upstairs gallery , a lateral area with a bar at counter - different intense concentration on the concert scene . For Jazzthetik Porgy & Bess is even a " traditional club . "
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