Polina Shepherd

Sing with Me online session
2021-05-31 18:30 - 19:15, 2021-05-27 18:30 - 19:15, 2021-05-24 18:30 - 19:15, 2021-05-20 18:30 - 19:15, 2021-05-17 18:30 - 19:15, 2021-05-13 18:30 - 19:15, 2021-05-10 18:30 - 19:15, 2021-05-06 18:30 - 19:15 UTC and 1 more date
Sing with Me Russian & Yiddish Song Sessions Online are open to everyone. Join here. Project page.
Twice a week 10.30 am PDT / 1.30 pm EST / 6.30 pm UTC / 7.30 pm CET
We have a lovely group of people joining from USA, Brazil, Iceland, Canada, France, Germany, the United Arab Emirates and other corners of the world. Join us, it’s good for you!

Mondays – Yiddish, Thursdays – Russian songs in 40 – 45 minute sessions.
A new song in every session.
Learn about cultural context and style.
No knowledge of languages is needed.
Song sheets are shown on the screen during sessions.
Session videos are posted on Youtube.
Come to as many sessions as you like.
Payments are appreciated but you can also join free of charge.
A Zoom link for each session, printable song sheet with music, lyrics, translation and transliteration appear on the project page minimum two hours before the session.

Monday 3 May – SWM 111 – Yiddish song
Thursday 6 May – SWM 112 – Russian song
Monday 10 May – SWM 113 – Yiddish song
Thursday 13 May – SWM 114 – Russian song
Monday 17 May – SWM 115 – Yiddish song
Thursday 20 May – SWM 116 – Russian song
Monday 24 May – SWM 117 – Yiddish song
Thursday 27 May – SWM 118 – Russian song
Monday 31 May – SWM 119 – Yiddish song
Thursday 6 May – SWM 120 – Russian song
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A Besere Velt Spring Concert Boston - online concert
2021-05-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Join us at Singing for a Better World virtual concert! Enjoy the lively music of A Besere Velt Yiddish chorus & guest artists Polina Shepherd, Lorin Sklamberg, Daniel Kahn, Anthony Russell, and Judy Bressler in an inspiring concert to keep on moving forward towards a better world.
We’ll weave new and classic Yiddish songs with visions of justice and freedom. There will also be exquisite guest artist performances, solo and in collaboration with A Besere Velt, as we look towards a brighter future together. The concert will premiere on YouTube with live chat.
Sliding scale ticket prices. Learn more and get your tickets today: https://www.circleboston.org/abetterworld

This worldwide broadcast will weave new and classic Yiddish songs with visions of justice and freedom. There will also be exquisite guest artist performances, solo and in collaboration with A Besere Velt as we look towards a brighter future together. The concert will premiere on YouTube with live chat. Scroll down for artist and honoree bios.

Ticket Pricing

Circle Supporter: $108 – $1,080
Full-price ticket-holder: $36 – $108
Young adult / low-income: $18 – $36

Your financial support will help Boston Workers Circle continue to provide vibrant and accessible community and social justice programming. Due to the pandemic, this is the second-year in a row that we have been unable to host an in-person concert. Please consider donating generously for your ticket to this virtual concert if you are financially-able. Enjoy the music of our wonderful Yiddish chorus and friends while supporting Boston Workers Circle!
If you are unable to make a contribution now but would like to attend, please reach out to bethany@circleboston.org and we will try to match you with a sponsor for your ticket.

Polina Shepherd is an internationally renowned performer, bringing traditional Yiddish songs up to date with passion and a haunting soul deeply rooted in east European Jewish folk sound.

Lorin Sklamberg is lead singer of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, a leading exponent of Yiddish song and traditional Jewish vocal techniques with a crystalline, expressive sound.

Daniel Kahn is a Detroit-born, Germany-based troubadour and translator who combines Yiddish, English, German, and Russian in a radical mixture of Klezmer, lyrical folk ballads, dark cabaret, and political punk.

Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell is a classically-trained vocalist, composer, and arranger specializing in Yiddish song, ranging from classic art song to eclectic cafe repertoire.

Judy Bressler is a third-generation performer from the family of Yiddish theater luminaries Menashe Skulnick and Lucy Gehrman. She has been a leading voice in the revival and continuation of Yiddish music and a founding member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band.

A Besere Velt – A Better World – is proud to be a “voice” for justice. This 80-member community chorus of the Boston Workers Circle Center, conducted by Derek David, weaves the heartache and irrepressible idealism of Yiddish folk music into a vision of justice and humanity for the 21st century.

MORE INFORMATION HERE: https://www.circleboston.org/abetterworld
Programme: Singing For A Better World Programme
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Yiddish harmonies in style for The Workers Circle (New York) ONLINE 10
2021-05-12 18:00 - 19:30 UTC
3 March – 12 May – online choir
Yiddish harmonies in style – The Workers Circle (New York) Choir

Wednesdays 1:00 – 2:30 pm NYC / 6 – 7.30pm GMT.
Mar. 3, 10, 17, 24 Apr. 7, 14, 21, 28 May 5, 12
New and traditional songs in 2-4 part vocal harmonies will bring us as close to being a choir as singing online can be. Make it sound rich and modern yet with a proper nod to tradition, embellish it with krekhtsn and sing, sing, sing, because it’s good for the spirit. All singers are welcome. Learning with sheet music and by ear. Song sheets with music, transliterations and translations will be provided. Watch a video of our autumn choir course.
More information coming soon.
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2021-05-05 18:00 - 19:30 UTC

​Intercontinental Yiddish Dance Jam
2021-05-02 19:00 - 20:30 UTC
Join us for a dance party online hosted by Steve Weintraub, a teacher, choreographer, and performer of Jewish dance. Steve will be joined by an international roster of special guests, including Merlin and Polina Shepherd! This is your chance to move with each other in a community across the ocean. And, as this will come right after May Day, I think a little solidarity is in order.

2pm EDT – 7pm UTC+1

DANCERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
Capitalism is a fiction, but Parnasse is a necessity, so please consider a $5 USD donation per person.
​A dank in faroys!
Please follow this link to make a donation and request a zoom meeting number.
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2021-04-28 18:00 - 19:30 UTC

Sing For Earth Day
2021-04-22 19:30 - 22:00 UTC
This event is a final one in the 2021 Sing For Earth project after , which includes weekly workshops led from 11 March by a variety of inspiring and experienced songwriters, artists, natural voice practitioners, movement facilitators and environmentalists. Learn more here
Meeting weekly and culminating in our online celebratory event for
Earth Day on Thursday April 22nd. 7.30pm – 10pm.
Polina will be a guest performer in this event with some pagan Russian folk songs about nature.
The project supports environmental initiatives.
Visionary founder of Tree Sisters and Jojo Mehta co founder of The Stop Ecocide Campaign will be some of the Guest Presenters on Earth Day Thursday April 22nd.
​Our shared aims are to cultivate gratitude, support wellbeing, revive joyful connection with each other and nature, helping to strengthen individual and community resilience, to cultivate embodied loving connection with nature as nature, for what we love most, we will protect.
BOOKINGS are open for all the sessions or each one individually including the final event here, with a three tier fee to make it accessible to you: click here to book your place
We are advocating for and supporting these two organiations:
The Earth Protector Communities, a sister organisation set up to support The Stop Ecocide Campaign.
StopEcocideCampaign
Our Earth Day event will be fund raising for Tree Sisters
www.treesisters.org

More about Sing For Earth here.
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2021-04-21 18:00 - 19:30 UTC

Yiddish harmonies in style for The Workers Circle (New York) ONLINE 6
2021-04-14 18:00 - 19:30 UTC

Sing with Me 110
2021-04-12 18:30 - 19:15 UTC
Sing with Me Russian & Yiddish Song Sessions Online are open to everyone. Join here
PROJECT PAGE
Twice a week 10.30 am California / 1.30 pm New York/ 6.30 pm UK time / 7.30 pm most of Europe

Mondays for Yiddish, Thursdays for Russian songs.
A different song taught in every session, each meeting being 40 – 45 minutes.
No knowledge of languages is needed.
Session info uploaded to this page and shown on the screen during the session.
Videos are posted online afterwards.
Come to as many sessions as you like.
Payments are really appreciated but you can join us free of charge.
A Zoom link for each session, as well as a printable song sheet with music, lyrics, translation and transliteration appears here minimum two hours before the session.

Spring 2021 run
Thursday 11 March SWM 101 Russian song
Monday 15 March SWM 102 Yiddish song
Thursday 18 March SWM 103 Russian song
Monday 22 March SWM 104 Yiddish song
Thursday 25 March SWM 105 Russian song
Monday 29 March SWM 106 Yiddish song
Thursday 1 April SWM 107 Russian song
Monday 5 April SWM 108 Yiddish song
Thursday 8 April SWM 109 Russian song
Monday 12 April SWM 110 Yiddish song + final party
We have a lovely group of people joining from Russia, USA (from Hawaii to New York), Australia, Brazil, Iceland, Canada, France, Germany, Ukraine and New Zealand…
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Sing with Me 109
2021-04-08 18:30 - 19:15 UTC

Yiddish harmonies in style for The Workers Circle (New York) ONLINE 5
2021-04-07 18:00 - 19:30 UTC

Sing with Me 108
2021-04-05 18:30 - 19:15 UTC

The Workers Circle Passover
2021-04-01 19:00 - 20:30 UTC
Join us for The Workers Circle #Passover celebration w/ works by Sholem Aleichem, Y. L. Peretz , A. Reisen, H. Leivick, B-Sch. Gottesman, also featuring brand-new compositions from our song/klezmer workshops including our #Yiddish Harmony choir.
Free, but registration is required.
Register and find more information here
This event will be held in Yiddish with transliteration and English translation.

Peysekh in Yidisher poezye, gezang un vort: a Khalemoyd-Peysekh farbrengen
Join us for a Passover celebration of live and pre-recorded poetry, prose, song and humor, all in Yiddish (with transliteration and English translation). Our performers are our beloved Yiddish teachers and selected students from our classes.
Listen to works by * Sholem Aleichem * Y. L. Peretz *Avrom Reisen * H. Leivick * Melekh Ravich * Mark Warshavsky * Dovid Edlstadt * Der Tunkeler* Beyle Schaechter Gottesman * M. Spector. We will also feature brand-new (shpogl-naye) compositions from our Yiddish song/klezmer workshops.
So, please join * Avrom Lichtenbaum * Yitskhok Niborski * Sheva Zucker * Paula Teitelbaum * Dov-Ber Kerler * Eve Jochnowitz * Dovid Braun* Miriam Koral * Mikhl Yashinsky * Miriam Trinh * Daniel Kahn * Deborah Strauss & Jeff Warschauer * Zisl Slepovitch* Polina Shepherd * Motl Didner * and students from our Yiddish classes, for a memorable Peysekhdik afternoon.

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Sing with Me 107
2021-04-01 18:30 - 19:15 UTC

Sing with Me 106
2021-03-29 18:30 - 19:15 UTC

Sing with Me 105
2021-03-25 18:30 - 19:15 UTC

Yiddish harmonies in style for The Workers Circle (New York) ONLINE 4
2021-03-24 18:00 - 19:30 UTC

Sing with Me 104 Yiddish song
2021-03-22 18:30 - 19:15 UTC

The Third Seder
2021-03-21 19:00 - 20:30 UTC
The Third Seder is a long standing Yiddish cultural tradition. For the first time, the MMJCCM will host a “third” seder, convened by our rabbi in residence Rabbi Avram Mlotek, featuring the leading stars of the Klezmer and Yiddish stage.
I am very pleased to be presenting one of my own songs in this programme, along with Merlin Shepherd.
Starring, in alphabetical order: Bob Abelson, Michael Alpert, Alan Bern, Nicole Borger, Joanne Borts, Josh Dolgin, Sarah Gordon, Adrianne Greenbaum, Elmore James, Daniel Kahn, Yeva Lapsker, Leon Lapsker Kahn, Yanky Lemmer, Marilyn Lerner, Shura Lipovsky, Frank London, Sasha Lurje, Avram Mlotek, Ravi Mlotek, Sarah Mlotek, Zalmen Mlotek, Eleanor Reissa, Merlin Shepherd, Polina Shepherd, Dinah Slepovitch, Zisl Slepovitch, Lorin Sklamberg, Steven Skybell, Eric Stein,Theresa Tova, Susan Lankin-Watts, Tatiana Wechsler, Steven Weintraub, Michael Winograd
Presented in partnership with The National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene, Base MNHTN, KlezKanada, The Forward, Forvertz, Kadimah – Jewish Cultural Centre, Yiddish Book Center, Sholem Aleichem College, Jewish Labour Bund Melbourne, Penina Zylberman Yiddish Cultural and Educational Foundation, Kleztival, Ashkenaz, Summer Yiddish Weimar, Shalom Foundation and I. B. Singer Yiddish Festival in Warsaw, YUNG YiDiSH Tel Aviv, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Museum of Jewish History – Living Memorial to the Holocaust, The Workers Circle Arbeter Ring, Lambert Center for Arts & Ideas and Vaybertaytsh.
We are proud to continue to offer virtual programming such as this for free or at low cost. If you are able, please consider making a gift to support the JCC. Every dollar counts.
The link will be emailed to you prior to the program.
FREE registration here: https://mmjccm.org/programs/third-seder-yiddish-passover-celebration
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Sing with Me 103 Russian song
2021-03-18 18:30 - 19:15 UTC

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2021-03-17 18:00 - 19:30 UTC
