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SUNDAY JULY 20

O Ksenos

at Amber Lane Cafe
Northampton, MA

Greek rebetika, nisiotika, and dimotika with:

Heather Kuhn (vocals), Clarissa Lyons (clarinet), Rafe Wolman (violin, guitar, percussion voice), Jesse Bay (Irish bouzouki, guitar, percussion, and voice)

Rebetika - the music of marginalized communities, including refugees, working-class individuals, and those involved in the underworld in in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Greece. It became a way for these communities to express their experiences, struggles, and hopes.

Nisiotika - songs of the Aegean islands
Dimotika - mainland folk tunes.

When: Sunday, July 20, 2-4pm
Where: Amber Lane Cafe (formerly Iconica), 1 Amber Lane, Northampton, MA

6/1/25: World Music Mini-Fest, Peskoempskut Park, Turners Falls • 4/18/25 K8A: Kaethe Hostetter and O Ksenos, Montague Common Hall • 3/15/25 Moira Smiley concert and workshop, Montague Common Hall • 1/24/25 Ramon & Jessica and Call Me Bea at Unnameable Books, Turners Falls • 12/11/24 The Art of Makam: Tev Stevig and Myrtle Street Klezmer in concert, Montague Common Hall, Montague • 11/9/24 Lisa Sokolov: The Voice of Embodied Prayer concert and workshop in Greenfield and Northampton • Oct - Dec 2024 The Art of Makam Workshop Series with Tev Stevig, Montague • 9/27/24 Montague Marching Band at the Montague Village Store • 6/8/24 Montague Marching Band, Myrtle Street Klezmer at Good Music Makes Good Neighbors Festival, Montague • 5/31/24 Then Millau Ellenika (trad. Greek music) at Leverett Village Co-op • 5/25/24 World Music Mini-Fest at Peskeompskut Park, Turners Falls • 5/5/24 Ramon & Jessica / Mare Berger at Unnameable Books, Turners Falls • 5/3/24 Montague Marching Band plays First Friday, Turners Falls • 3/1/24 Pop-up Greek, Leverett Village Co-op • 2/22/24 Montague Marching Band plays 50th Anniversary Celebration of Lovejoy's Nuclear War at Shea Theater, Turners Falls • 1/20/24 Myrtle St. Klezmer and Orkestar Banitsa workshop and concert at Montague Common Hall • 10/31/23 Montague Marching Band at Montague Center Halloween Festival • 8/14/23 Klezmer in the Park at Peskeompskut Park, Turners Falls • 5/6/23 Isaac Taylor, Cloudbelly, Miners at Montague Center Common Hall • 9/24/22 Ramon & Jessica, Caroline Davis, Myrtle St. Klezmer at Peskeompskut Park, Turners Falls •

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