I.L. PERETZ FOLK SCHOOL ENDOWMENT TRUST 7

TICKETS The I.L. Peretz Folk School Endowment Trust • Maslowsky Family’s Yiddishe Concert and the Rady Jewish Community Centre are & Gray Academy Choir $20 (June 22) thrilled to present the 7th Mameloshen: Monday, June22 7:30 p.m. • Mir Trogn a Gezang Festival of Entertainment & Culture $ Debbie - We Carry a Song 27 in June 2015. The Maslowsky Maslowsky A Tribute to Chana Mlotek z”l by her son Family’s Zalmen Mlotek and Her Grandchildren This unique series will once again provide (June 24) Yiddishe Concert audiences the opportunity to celebrate the richness One of the great musical families of • Theresa Tova and Matt Herskowitz $ the fabled North End reunites on stage 27 and beauty of Yiddish while enjoying high-calibre for Mameloshen 2015. (June 29) Jerry events featuring local and out-of-town performers. Gray Academy Students Maslowsky MAMELOSHEN FESTIVAL Return to the Mameloshen Festival stage PACKAGE SPECIAL to perform classic Yiddish songs • All Three Events for One Special Package Price $55 Wednesday, June 24 7:30 p.m. Prices include GST. The National Yiddish Theater – Rush Seating. No refunds on Tickets or Package. presents All performances at the Muriel Richardson Auditorium, I.L. PERETZ FOLK SCHOOL Mir Trogn a Gezang Winnipeg Art Gallery E NDOWMENT T RUST - We Carry a Song

Zalmen Mlotek A tribute to Chana Mlotek z”l by her son Zalmen Mlotek and her grandchildren

Monday, June 29 7:30 p.m. Theresa Tova Theresa and Matt Herskowitz Tova The Yiddish Diva is coming to Winnipeg with an evening of Yiddish Song. Rady JCC: 204-477-7510 Mameloshen Festival Producers All performances at the Muriel Richardson Auditorium, www.radyjcc.com Winnipeg Art Gallery Tamar Barr Laurie Mainster Transportation is available for seniors for a nominal charge. Rady JCC I.L. Peretz Folk TICKETS & PACKAGE Please arrange for transportation when ordering tickets. Assistant Executive Folk School Rady Jewish Community Centre Transportation supported by the Daniel Tallman Family Director Endowment Trust 204-477-7510 I www.radyjcc.com Fund at the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba. Monday, June 22 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 24 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 29 7:30 p.m. The Maslowsky The National Yiddish Theater – Folksbiene presents Theresa Tova and Family’s Mir Trogn a Gezang Matt Herskowitz - We Carry a Song Yiddishe Concert

Theresa Tova Debbie Maslowsky

Jerry Zalmen Maslowsky Mlotek

The Maslowsky Family A musical tribute to the late Yiddish folklorist and song anthologist Theresa Tova and virtuoso composer/pianist Matt Herskowitz One of the great musical families of the fabled North End Chana Mlotek whom Isaac Bashevis Singer described as the Sherlock combine Tova's love of Yiddish (her mameloshn) with Matt's reunites on stage for Mameloshen 2015. Debbie and Jerry Holmes of Yiddish song. Chana devoted her life to the preservation unique approach to classical music. A sultry voiced singer who Maslowsky bring alive their special take on Yiddish hits from their of Yiddish songs that expressed the emotions, dreams and struggles has embraced Yiddish song, together they have modernized it decades long repertoire. Jerry has performed for over 50 years of the Yiddish speaking populations of Eastern Europe over ten and incorporated it into classy and emotionally heartfelt throughout the city. He spent 18 years with the Sarah Sommer centuries, as well as of those masses who migrated to the far corners concerts. Tova tours the world as a ‘Yiddish Diva”, playing to Chai Folk Ensemble as singer, dancer and MC. Jerry performed multicultural crowds at intimate and prestigious venues in over 100 shows at the Hollow Mug Dinner Theatre as well as of the earth bringing their cultural treasures with them. The concert Toronto, Montreal, Paris, Luxembourg, Argentina, Germany, performing over 18 years with his band, Special Blend. Debbie is performed by the internationally renowned performer and Poland, and New York, to name a few. Tova’s three CD’s Telling began performing with the Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Ensemble authority in the realm of Yiddish music, Zalmen Mlotek, Chana's Stories, Tova Live at the Top O’ The Senator and You Ask Me and later as a professional actor with Rainbow Stage, Winnipeg son. He is joined by his sons, and Elisha Mlotek, who Jewish Theatre and the Manitoba Theatre Centre, most recently have grown up performing the music preserved and published by Why Tova Sings Beyle, have won rave reviews. Matt Herskowitz as a lead in their production of Cabaret. Debbie was last seen on their grandmother, and have embarked on unique life journeys has carved out a unique and personal voice in music. Over the course of the last decade, Matt has produced a series of critically- the Mameloshen stage in A Tribute to the Barry Sisters and inspired by their cultural and spiritual identities. Each has acclaimed recordings, premiered his works in settings from Fiddler on the Roof and last summer she was inducted onto the performed in , and in many concerts to preserve New York's Central Park to Germany's Köln Philharmonic, Rainbow Stage Wall of Fame. She has been featured in film and their family legacy. In this concert the grandchildren explain and collaborated with top classical, jazz and pop artists, and has television and taught and coached musical theatre students. contextualize the musical gems that Chana unearthed, and perform performed at music festivals across the globe. Gray Academy Students them with heart and soul. They are the newest link of the Goldene Under the direction of David Vamos, Gray Academy students Keyt - the golden chain of Yiddish cultural continuity. return to the Mameloshen Festival stage performing classic Yiddish TICKETS & PACKAGE songs. They have appeared at all the Mameloshen Festivals. All performances at the Muriel Richardson Auditorium, Rady Jewish Community Centre Winnipeg Art Gallery 204-477-7510 I www.radyjcc.com