What I'm Doing This Weekend: Taste of Limmud -- Join Us!

This Sunday is an event that I and many volunteers have worked long and hard to bring to our Atlanta community: Limmud Atlanta & Southeast's Taste of Limmud.

Our whole family is excited. Even our daughter is excited about Camp Limmud. She goes there while us adults get adult time. Ahhh.

What I'm looking forward to most:

(1) Learning from Jonathan Sarna again -- a wonderful teach from Brandeis is coming to talk about: Jewish Law and American Civil Liberty: Historical Confrontations and Contemporary Implications

(2) Being with my adult friends without kids (How often does that happen?)

(3) Presenting an excerpt from a PresenTense Fellowship training with Shelby Zitelman of PresenTense: Visioning For A Better Future: Your Venture, Your Life, Your Change

(4) Being an Indie Innovator and seeing our wonderful Innovators shine and let Atlanta know about their projects! 

(5) Meeting and hearing Prodezra Beats!

(6) Dancing with my husband and little girl at the after-concert with Naomi Less & Prodezra Beats (brought to us by Atlanta Jewish Music Festival).

Woo hoo. Let's get this party started. If you want to join us, Register Here.

Coming to Atlanta Feb 4-10: SoCalled...

Hosted by Atlanta Jewish Music Festival, Socalled is a world-class artist you don't want to miss!

From AJMF:

"Klezmer-hip hop maestro Socalled is a musician, producer, composer, arranger, magician, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist based in Montreal.

Born in Ottawa and raised just north of there, in Chelsea, Quebec, he grew up taking piano lessons and loving funk and hip hop. When Socalled first heard klezmer music on an old Yiddish record, he was fascinated by the cool sounds he could sample to make hip hop beats. Then he realized that integrating this Jewish music from the 1930s into his songs was a way of representing himself and his cultural heritage. It enabled him bring something of his own to funk and hip hop, giving him what he calls "a real reason to make music."

Known for his genre-bending approach and his collaborations with musical giants of funk, klezmer, hip hop, lounge and classical music, Socalled has performed all over the world. He has released three CDs: Socalled Seder; and HipHopKhasene; and most recently, Ghettoblaster, recorded with Yiddish singer Theodore Bikel, lounge pianist Irving Fields, musician and producer Gonzalez, master clarinetist David Krakaeur, country singer Katie Moore, rapper C-Rayz Walz, and funk trombone legend Fred Wesley, among others.

All of these wonderful lunatics, and so many more, appear in the Reframe Films/NFB The Socalled Movie"

The Socalled Movie Premiers in Atlanta at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at The Buckhead Theatre. $20 ticket includes party, film and post-film concert featuring Socalled and Katie Moore. Party @ 6:00 PM. Program @ 7:30 PM. Buy tickets NOW >>

Find out more about Socalled here: http://www.socalledmusic.com/. You can listen to a few of his tracks here: http://www.myspace.com/socalled. Definitely check out his most popular music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tS4OWiozmw (over 2 million hits!!)

20 For 20 : 20% of Music CD Sales Goes to Atlanta Jewish Music Festival

20 For 20: For the next 20 days, now through the end of Hanukkah, December 9th, 20% of ModernTribe.com's music CD sales goes to Atlanta Jewish Music Festival (AJMF).

Plus, you can donate to AJMF through ModernTribe: 100% of proceeds goes to support the new and totally awesome Atlanta Jewish Music Festival.

So -- try some new music! and help bring Atlanta the festival our fabulous city deserves.

ABOUT AJMF

Lead by ModernTribe friend Russell Gottschalk and launched last year with bands: 4th Ward Afro-Klemzer Orchestra, Girls In Trouble, DeLeon, and Moshav, the burgeoning Atlanta Jewish Music Festival (AJMF) is on its way to rock Atlanta with progressive contemporary Jewish music. Our next festival is May 19-21!

Full disclosure: I'm on the steering committee for AJMF.

So, try some new -- great -- music + help bring AJMF -- coming MAY 19-21 2011 -- with an $18 --  $36 -- $54 donation. Shop Now!