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Yid Vicious Bastille Day Events (MN) 7/11-12/09

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:09 am
by David Spies
Twin Cities (MN) Yid Vicious Bastille Day Weekend Events 7/11-12/09
(Gophers! Here's your chance to catch a full-fledged Yid Vicious Party!) 8)
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Verily will Yid Vicious bring the bulgars to the Twin Cities for a summer weekend of steamy klezmer madness. This will be the Madison band’s third foray to Minnesota in living memory. Yid Vicious looks forward to venturing northward once again and hopes their antics will be enjoyed by discerning Minneapolis audiences.

Yid Vicious has been entertaining, dancifying and occasionally baffling audiences throughout the Midwest for one and a half decades with their unique take on the traditional Yiddish music of Eastern Europe and the Ukraine as it was transplanted to America. Neither a rock band nor a strictly acoustic folk ensemble but with elements of both, Yid Vicious strives to explore the diversity and excitement inherent in such a diasporic music.

And really, what better way to celebrate Bastille Day than by enjoying peppy, celebratory klezmer? What better way to cast off the oppressive monarchy of boredom, or something, than with a people’s uprising of dancing and fun, or whatever? Feudalism: no! Freylekhs: yes!

Yid Vicious Minneapolis Kleztacular Dance Party!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
10:00 pm - Midnight (doors open at 9:30 pm)
Bryant Lake Bowl-Cabaret Theatre
810 West Lake St.
(corner of Bryant and Lake)
Minneapolis, MN 55408
612-825-3737
tickets $10

http://www.bryantlakebowl.com/map.html
http://twincities.decider.com/events/yi ... us,103129/
http://www.citypages.com/events/yid-vicious-949387/

AND

The Bastille Day Block Party at Café Barbette
Sunday, July 12, 2009
4:00 pm (Arrive early-we’re kicking things off with a brief, energetic set!)
Café Barbette
1600 W. Lake St.
Minneapolis, MN 55408
612-827-5710
All ages – free of charge

http://twincities.decider.com/events/ba ... rty,91331/

http://www.yidvicious.com
http://www.reverbnation.com/yidvicious

"Few bands, regardless of genre, make music as celebratory as Yid Vicious...Yid Vicious flavors Eastern European and Russian Jewish musical traditions with contemporary spices and serves it to the masses."
-Michael Popke, Shepherd Express
http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/article ... cious.html

"truly trippy…a surf guitarist straight out of The Ventures and a Theremin player making those eerie electric wooooooing sounds you hear in 1950’s space alien movies...a marvelous moment, yet another reason why I love live music. The pleasures are visceral, surprising and life affirming."
-Mark Eisen, Isthmus
http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/artic ... icle=24754


http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8 ... 0466953615

David Spies :tuba:
Yid Vicious Klezmer Ensemble

Re: Yid Vicious Bastille Day Events (MN) 7/11-12/09

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:42 am
by Sean Greene
Dave, it has been too long since I have enjoyed some good, wholesome "steamy klezmer madness". Wish I could have been there. Hope we can cross paths next time I'm in Madison!

Re: Yid Vicious Bastille Day Events (MN) 7/11-12/09

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:00 pm
by David Richoux
Any of you "Upper Midwest Guys" ever heard of this band?
http://www.brassmessengers.com/

I saw them last year at HonkFest and they were great - some of the best Sousaphone action I have heard in a long time!