Polina Shepherd

Iowa city: Polina Shepherd in concert with Oleg Timofeev (seven string guitar)
2018-12-17 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
Iowa, USA Agudas Achim Synagogue, 401 Oakdale Blvd, Coralville, Iowa 52241
7pm
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY FOR RUSSIAN MUSIC, ARTS, AND CULTURE (IARMAC) and @Agudas Achim Congregation IC PROUDLY PRESENT
SONGS OF THE STEPPES AND THE SHTETL – Poli.na Shepherd (UK) in concert
For her ONLY concert in Iowa, the Yiddishe Diva will be joined by Oleg Timofeyev (Russian seven-string guitar) and Natalia Timofeyeva (cello).
Polina Shepherd was born in Siberia and grew up in a home where songs were regularly sung at a family table. Now an internationally renowned singer, she brings the songs of the Steppes and the Shtetl up to date with passion and haunting soul. Her singing, though based on traditional forms, cuts a sound deeply rooted in east European Jewish and Russian folk. Growing up in Tatarstan also placed her close to Middle-Eastern ornamentation and timbre, which can be heard in her unique vocal style and four-octave range.
While the concert is free and open to the public, suggested donations are $15 (general) and $10 (students and seniors).

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The Stranniki in Chicago
2018-12-16 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | 210 Live, 210 Green Bay Rd, Highwood, IL, 60040, United States
THE STRANNIKI https://www.facebook.com/lzevent/– די װאָגלערס
What? The Russian word Stranniki means to us World wanderers, but why wander?… You and I, your folks and mine, us human souls, pilgrims of continents and witnesses of time? In the 21 century?… Why? Don’t we have the internet at home?
An “avant bard” & “wandering scholar” Psoy Korolenko (Russia/US) & an etherial singer Polina Shepherd (Russia/UK) present their take on the Wandering Jew and the Russky Brodyaga (Vagabond).
Psoy and Polina have both been at the forefront of the international Ashkenazi music scene for many years. After a mini tour in NY in 2015 & a show at the conference Mediating a New Cold War in the Digital Age at Dartmouth College in 2016, the duo toured the USA from Washington CD to LA in December 2017 with a programme Shlepping the Steppes and the Shtetl. Watch video here
This collaboration defines original & fresh repertoire based on their original Yiddish and Russian songs as well as multilingual interpretations & translations. They create a balance between serious listening and popular music, avant-garde & classics, folklore, chamber music, theater song & cabaret, reflecting the multi-cultural and international nature of diverse world & Jewish cultures. Rooted in Russian and Yiddish folk, their multilingual journey starts in the Steppes and the Shtetl, then takes us to the new world and other planets.
Pavel Lion, a.k.a. Psoy Korolenko, is a Moscow based singer/songwriter, translator, scholar and journalist. Picture a jetlagged Allen Ginsberg hopped up on a double espresso: a polyglot people-pleaser, a born performer, a half-serious shaman…. a practitioner of what he calls “spell art,” which is to say art that casts a spell on its befuddled, bemused, blissed-out audience. (“Forward”).
He has been referred to as a ”wandering scholar” and an ”avant-bard”. His multilingual one-person cabaret-esque show balances folk and klezmer music, free-style poetry and intellectual comedy. Psoy writes and sings in English, Russian, Yiddish, and French.
On stage since 2000, he has published one book of selected essays and song lyrics ”The Hit Of The Century”, and 14 CDs – some of them in collaboration with active Jewish and Klezmer musicians (“Opa!”, Daniel Kahn, Igor Krutogolov, “Oy Division”).
Psoy is a member of the organizing committee for a Russian American music festival JetLAG, a guest of many klezmer music festivals, and an ex-artist in residence at the Trinity College (Hartford), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA). An author of insightful and sophisticated Russian sung poetry, Psoy is also known for his keen and explorative vision of the art of translation, “tradaptation” and what he calls Spell-Art (i.e. playing with foreign text, emphasizing linguistic distances, multilingual songs etc).
POLINA SHEPHERD (vocals, piano):
“The Robert Plant of klezmer” (Seth Rogovoy, The Essential Klezmer), performs an explosive mixture of songs of the Steppes and the Shtetl spiced up by Tatar Bazaars and washed down with an Odessa fisherman’s tune: Russian and Yiddish, folklore and fakelore, the powerful and the profound.
“Русский Аллен Гинзбург” ПСОЙ КОРОЛЕНКО и “еврейский Роберт Плант” ПОЛИНА ШЕПЕРД объединились в новый проект ‘’THE STRANNIKI’’!
ПОЛИНА ШЕПЕРД (Брайтон, Великобритания, ранее Казань, Россия), певица, композитор, пианистка, руководитель хоров, объединяющая восточно-европейские, балканские, тюркские, русские и еврейские музыкальные традиции в ряде сольных и совместных проектов под общим названием The Polina Shepherd Vocal Experience. Интересная деталь: по материнской линии она потомок семьи легендарного странствующего поэта и философа Григория Сковороды.
ПСОЙ КОРОЛЕНКО, “молодежный филолог и акын”, “бродячий учёный”, “авантбард” и “современный скоморох”, автор, переводчик и исполнитель песен, так же, как и Полина, многие годы участвует во многих совместных проектах, связанных определёнными музыкально-поэтическими традициями и общей внутренней творческой логикой. Кстати, поскольку его настоящее имя Павел, то можно сказать, что они с Полиной тёзки!
THE STRANNIKI – дуэт, который существует уже два года, и впервые будет представлен в Чикаго. В этом экспериментальном фолк-кабаре замысловато переплетаются русский и идиш, фольклор и камерная песня, оригиналы и переводы, старинное и современное, лёгкость и серьёзность, классика и цирк. Ключевые темы – дом, дорога и один необъятный большой мир. Внимание: некоторые песни очень громкие!
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DINING: Chef Peter McCarthy serves up an eclectic mix including phenomenal smoked dry-rub chicken and ribs, seafood, vegan options and delectable desserts.
SEATING: Patrons can dine at tables or couch seating–the same seating where they will see the show.
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The Stranniki in Boston
2018-12-14 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
The Stranniki in concert. LEXINGTON, MA, USA
Please get in touch for venue and booking details, number of tickets is strictly limited.
An “avant bard” & “wandering scholar” Psoy Korolenko (Russia/US) & an etherial singer Polina Shepherd (Russia/UK) present their take on the Wandering Jew and the Russky Brodyaga (Vagabond).
This collaboration defines original & fresh repertoire based on their original Yiddish and Russian songs as well as multilingual interpretations & translations. They create a balance between serious listening and popular music, avant-garde & classics, folklore, chamber music, theater song & cabaret, reflecting the multi-cultural and international nature of diverse world & Jewish cultures. Rooted in Russian and Yiddish folk, their multilingual journey starts in the Steppes and the Shtetl, then takes us to the new world and other planets.
Pavel Lion, a.k.a. Psoy Korolenko, is a Moscow based singer/songwriter, translator, scholar and journalist. Picture a jetlagged Allen Ginsberg hopped up on a double espresso: a polyglot people-pleaser, a born performer, a half-serious shaman…. a practitioner of what he calls “spell art,” which is to say art that casts a spell on its befuddled, bemused, blissed-out audience. (“Forward”).
POLINA SHEPHERD (vocals, piano):
“The Robert Plant of klezmer” (Seth Rogovoy, The Essential Klezmer), performs an explosive mixture of songs of the Steppes and the Shtetl spiced up by Tatar Bazaars and washed down with an Odessa fisherman’s tune: Russian and Yiddish, folklore and fakelore, the powerful and the profound.
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New Jersey: Lorin Sklamberg & Polina Shepherd in concert
2018-12-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Bashenniki, 431 Harmon Cove Towers. Tower 3, apt 431, Secaucus, NJ, 07094, United States
December – New Jersey, USA По-русски читайте ниже
Lorin Sklamberg – voice, guitar, accordion, piano (New York, USA)
Polina Shepherd – voice, piano (Brighton, UK)
431 Harmon Cove Towers (Tower 3, apt 431), Secaucus, New Jersey
The Izba, the Shtibl and the Global Village: A melange of Russian song and Yiddish / klezmer with the lead singer of the Grammy winning Klezmatics and a Siberian-born British singer
Russian Art songs (Romance), folk and Soviet melodies in Yiddish, bilingual Odessa songs, Russian lyrics put to klezmer tunes, Soviet collective farm songs from a century ago and original material exploring the connection between the Steppes and the Shtetl.
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По-русски:
ЕДИНСТВЕННЫЙ КОНЦЕРТ УНИКАЛЬНОГО ДУЭТА. НЕ ПРОПУСТИТЕ!
Как всегда, башенники вступают в очередной праздничный
сезон во всеоружии. Вас ожидает уникальная песенная программа на русском, идиш и английском под названием “Изба, штибл и мировая деревня” с участием Лорина Скламберга (Lorin Sklamberg), солиста легендарной группы The Klezmatics (Grammy Award 2016), и русской певицы-сибирячки Полины Сковороды-Шеперд (Polina Shepherd) из Татарстана. Завсегдатаи башенной площадки помнят Полину по аншлаговому выступлению в дуэте The Stranniki c Псоем Короленко. На этот раз вашему вниманию предлагается другой дуэт с ее участием, тоже русско-идишский с вкраплениями английского, в котором, однако, бОльшее внимание уделяется гармонии голосов и тембров.
Полина и Лорин известны в качестве “золотых голосов” всемирного движения Klezmer Revival. При этом оба имеют многолетнюю репутацию активистов и отщепенцев, позволяющих себе исполнять «Серенаду» Шуберта на идише, идишские гимны на русском, а пропагандистскую колхозную песню 1920-х годов — да хоть на трех языках, и уж точно на четырех инструментах… Лорин о себе заявляет, что будучи евреем, геем и коммунистом, он трижды отщепенец. Полина восстает против социума по-другому, представляя современный мир как большую и бездумную машину, но не теряя надежды, что Красота таки спасет Мир.
“Когда мы поем песни, то должны верить в то, что поем”, – говорит Скламберг. Может ли родившийся в Лос-Анджелесе верить в то же, что и уроженка Новосибирска? Изба и еврейский домик, штетл и русские поля? Далеко или близко? Бабушке и дедушке Полины удалось избежать Катастрофы, переехав из Киева и Одессы в Сибирь. Предки Лорина тоже эмигрировали из украинского местечка, но в Америку. У их дальних предков есть общая история, а они сами, по словам автора монографии The Ultimate Klezmer и некоторых текстов песен дуэта Seth Rogovoy, наделены “голосами, созданными звучать вместе”.
В неповторимом звучании дуэта вы узнаете русскую избу, еврейское местечко, призыв к молитве казанского муэдзина (Полина училась и работала в Татарстане), пять октав вокальной акробатики, новые авторские композиции, яркие и неожиданные музыкальные переплетения двух восточно-европейских культур и двух уникальных голосов. То есть именно так, как и должно быть в нашей мировой деревне.
**Посмотреть и послушать**
Поппури: youtu.be/P8Q6Fktn29E
Весёлая песня (идиш): youtu.be/1A2Gh0Px6EQ
Русские народные песни (идиш, русский): youtu.be/YlM7QEIrKqU
Колыбельная Светланы (идиш): youtu.be/zBfiNauGhsg
**Страница проекта**
https://www.polinashepherd.co.uk/projects/lp/
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The Stranniki in Brooklyn
2018-12-12 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
The Stranniki in concert. More information TBA soon.
THE STRANNIKI – די װאָגלערס
An “avant bard” & “wandering scholar” Psoy Korolenko (Russia/US) & an etherial singer Polina Shepherd (Russia/UK) present their take on the Wandering Jew and the Russky Brodyaga (Vagabond).
Psoy and Polina have both been at the forefront of the international Ashkenazi music scene for many years. After a mini tour in NY in 2015 & a show at the conference Mediating a New Cold War in the Digital Age at Dartmouth College in 2016, the duo toured the USA from Washington CD to LA in December 2017 with a programme Shlepping the Steppes and the Shtetl. Watch video here
This collaboration defines original & fresh repertoire based on their original Yiddish and Russian songs as well as multilingual interpretations & translations. They create a balance between serious listening and popular music, avant-garde & classics, folklore, chamber music, theater song & cabaret, reflecting the multi-cultural and international nature of diverse world & Jewish cultures. Rooted in Russian and Yiddish folk, their multilingual journey starts in the Steppes and the Shtetl, then takes us to the new world and other planets.
PSOY KOROLENKO (vocals & some piano):
Pavel Lion, a.k.a. Psoy Korolenko, is a Moscow based singer/songwriter, translator, scholar and journalist. Picture a jetlagged Allen Ginsberg hopped up on a double espresso: a polyglot people-pleaser, a born performer, a half-serious shaman…. a practitioner of what he calls “spell art,” which is to say art that casts a spell on its befuddled, bemused, blissed-out audience. (“Forward”).
He has been referred to as a ”wandering scholar” and an ”avant-bard”. His multilingual one-person cabaret-esque show balances folk and klezmer music, free-style poetry and intellectual comedy. Psoy writes and sings in English, Russian, Yiddish, and French.
On stage since 2000, he has published one book of selected essays and song lyrics ”The Hit Of The Century”, and 14 CDs – some of them in collaboration with active Jewish and Klezmer musicians (“Opa!”, Daniel Kahn, Igor Krutogolov, “Oy Division”).
Psoy is a member of the organizing committee for a Russian American music festival JetLAG, a guest of many klezmer music festivals, and an ex-artist in residence at the Trinity College (Hartford), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA). An author of insightful and sophisticated Russian sung poetry, Psoy is also known for his keen and explorative vision of the art of translation, “tradaptation” and what he calls Spell-Art (i.e. playing with foreign text, emphasizing linguistic distances, multilingual songs etc).
POLINA SHEPHERD (vocals, piano):
“The Robert Plant of klezmer” (Seth Rogovoy, The Essential Klezmer), performs an explosive mixture of songs of the Steppes and the Shtetl spiced up by Tatar Bazaars and washed down with an Odessa fisherman’s tune: Russian and Yiddish, folklore and fakelore, the powerful and the profound.

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Yiddish Choirs - London Chanuka Candle Lighting
2018-12-02 16:00 - 16:30 UTC | London Jewish Museum, United Kingdom
The Brighton & Hove Yiddish choir / Chutzpah and the London Yiddish choir perform at the London Jewish Museum Chanuka event. 4pm – 4.15 concert, 4.30 Candle Lighting.
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The Brighton & Hove Russian Choir Anniversary Concert
2018-12-01 12:00 - 15:30 UTC | BHASVIC, 205 Dyke Road, Hove, BN3 6EG, United Kingdom
10 TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONCERT
HOVE: Main Hall, BHASVIC

Sussex Russian Centre Kalinka and the Brighton & Hove and London Russian Choirs would like to invite you to this special event dedicated to their 10th anniversary.
Both organisations were formed in December 2008, so this joint celebration will be a truly unique experience. The Choir will perform traditional folk and lyrical songs, classical and solo pieces. Polina Shepherd, the leader and a world-known soloist herself, will welcome you to the world of Russian music by presenting each song. The concert will include an interval.
You will also be invited to browse a variety of arts and crafts stalls, as well as an opportunity to buy some food and refreshments.
A welcoming speech by the Mayor of Brighton and Hove and cutting of the celebratory cakes will be the highlight of the afternoon.
The event will conclude at 15:30.

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Klezmer-Konzert in Nenndorf / Hannover
2018-11-24 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kirchengemeinde Bad Nenndorf, An der Kirche 1, Bad Nenndorf, 31542, Germany
Merlin & Polina Shepherd in concert. 7pm. Klezmer-Konzert.
Bad Nenndorf, Kirchengemeinde In Kooperation mit der GEW Schaumburg und der Jüdischen Gemeinde Schaumburg (Marina Jalowaja)
Ort: Ratsgymnasium Stadthagen (Friedrich Lenz, Marina Jalowaja, Andreas Kraus)
In Kooperation mit der GEW Schaumburg und der Jüdischen Gemeinde Schaumburg
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Merlin & Polina Duo in Hannover / Stadthagen
2018-11-23 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Ratsgymnasium Stadthagen, Büschingstraße 33, Stadthagen, 31655, Germany
POLINA & MERLIN SHEPHERD & DIE RATSBAND

Merlin Shepherd ist ein profilierter und anerkannter Meister der traditionellen osteuropäischen Klezmerklarinette. Aber er ist auch Lehrer, Forscher und ein inspirierter Komponist. Die Pianistin und Sängerin Polina Shepherd ist russisch – jüdischer Herkunft und gehörte zu den führenden jiddischen Chorleitern in der früheren Sowjetunion. Polina und Merlin zählen zu den innovativsten Musikern der Klezmerszene.

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Vote 100: Celebrating Women Composers - Brighton
2018-11-17 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | George’s Church, Brighton St Georges Rd, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 1ED, United Kingdom
“Vote 100: Celebrating Women Composers” marks the centenary of women gaining the vote through democracy in action.
‘Lead On’ – by Lucy Pankhurst, a relative of leading suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, features among music by a diverse range of women composers. Performances includes premieres of a recently rediscovered song by Alma Mahler and a trio written in 1915 by Morfydd Owen.
Vocalists include Polina Shepherd, Rozanna Madylus and special guests including TableMusic, vocal/instrumental group HEARD Collective – Daisy Chute and Cerian, choir Women of Note, guitarist Brian Ashworth plus multi-pianist ensemble the Zongora Piano Group among others.
Music by 18 composers: Norah Blaney, Tracy Chapman, Rebecca Clarke, Litha Efthymiou, Lilian Elkington, Shena Fraser, Augusta Holmès, Cecilia McDowall, Morfydd Owen, Lucy Pankhurst, Alma Schindler-Mahler, Thea Musgrave, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Polina Shepherd, Laura Shur, Dame Ethel Smyth, Avril Coleridge-Taylor and Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir.
WITH SPECIAL GUEST PRESENTER: Caroline Lucas MP
EXPLORE. ENGAGE. EMPOWER: This community & cultural event in Parliament Week is contributed by MOOT – music of our time Registered Charity 1169015
#UKPW18
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KlezMore Bratislava Doppelkonzert
2018-11-05 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/Bratislava) | MILOS RUPPELDT MUSIKSCHULE Bratislava, Panenská 11 , Bratislava , 81103, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
POLINA SHEPHERD (GB/RU), KARIN SARKISJAN (AM)
Preview – Kooperation mit Bratislava – Doppelkonzert

POLINA SHEPHERD (GB/RU)
Polina Shepherd transferiert die Songs der Steppen und Shtels ins Hier und Jetzt. Sie schöpft dabei aus einer Vielzahl traditioneller Formen, von der jüdischen Musik Osteuropas bis zu russischer Folklore – Shepherd kam in Sibirien auf die Welt. Sie interpretiert ihr Material mit Leidenschaft und Seele, begeistert mit ihrem ureigenen Gesangsstil, ihre Stimme umfasst dabei 4 Oktaven.
Besetzung:
Polina Shepherd: Stimme, Klavier

Polina Shepherd was born in Siberia and grew up in a home where songs were regularly sung at the family table. Now an internationally renowned singer, she brings the songs of the Steppes and the Shtetl up to date with passion and haunting soul. Her singing, though based on traditional forms, cuts a sound deeply rooted in East European Jewish and Russian folk songs.
KARIN SARKISJAN (AM)
Geboren in Armenien und mittlerweile in der Slowakei lebend, verfolgt Karin Sarkisjan als Sängerin und Instrumentalistin ihre künstlerische Vision. Geschätzt von Klezmergrößen wie Lorin Sklamberg oder Michael Alpert gehört sie zu den gefragtesten Stimmen der slowakischen World Music Szene, singt unter anderem bei der Preßburger Klezmer Band, Balkansambel, Shum Davar und anderen.

Besetzung:
Karin Sarkisjan: Stimme, Klavier
Born in Armenia and now living in Slovakia, Karin Sarkisjan shaped her own musical vision, in the process becoming one of the most prolific voices of the Slovakian World Music scene. Appreciated by fellow Klezmer artists like Lorin Sklamberg or Michael Alpert, Sarkisjan sings with the Preßburger Klezmer Band, Balkansambel, Shum Davar and others.
Tickets:
www.ticketportal.sk
Veranstaltungsort:
MILOS RUPPELDT MUSIKSCHULE
Panenská 11
81103 Bratislava
www.zusruppeldta.eu
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East European Winter song choral workshop
2018-10-12 - 2018-10-14 | Reykjavik, Iceland
East European Winter song choral workshop. Watch this space for more info.
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