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Brivele: Khaveyrim Zayt Greyt (Friends, Get Ready)
Town Hall’s Spring 2024 Artist-in-Residence, Maia Brown, returns to the stage with her band, Brivele, to celebrate the release of their third album, Khaveyrim Zayt Greyt.
Brivele is a Seattle-based duo who braid together Yiddish song, anti-fascist and labor balladry, folk-punk, and contemporary rabble-rousing in stirring vocal harmony. In Yiddish, Brivele (בריוועלע) means “little letter.” Like letters, songs travel — through time and over borders. They pick up dirt, aromas, fingerprints. They are sent to lovers, they foment revolution, they get stolen and censored, burned and salvaged, sewn into our clothes.
Khaveyrim Zayt Greyt, Yiddish for “Friends, Get Ready,” traverses 19th & 20th century texts with present day resonance: songs newly translated or entirely reimagined in Yiddish and English; the poetry of censored Proletpen writers newly set to music; new klezmer interpretations of old melodies, and one modern cover of a British anti-fascist ballad by The Young’uns.
This album encompasses the band’s transition from a trio to a duo, including songs recorded both with and without Hannah Hamavid (vocals, violin, ukulele). These shifting harmonies join a broader chorus within the album, where you also hear:
voices of the unemployed and imprisoned
voices of people facing and fighting evictions
voices of McCarthy-era blacklisted poets
voices of writers murdered by the state
voices of workers; of immigrants
voices of disillusionment and steadfastness
voices in love
voices of resistance.
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3006415-0
