JEWSNEWS Jewn/Jewly 2008

Hi to all JewsBrosFans out there, far and near,

In this newsletter we will tell you about a very special up-coming event featuring the Jews Brothers Band , the launch of the new cabaret show "Chanson", and a couple of special French Toast gigs as well as some YouTube treats.

So without further ado, we offer you..........

B L O O M S D A Y 2 0 0 8 - Celebrating James Joyce's Ulysses

When... when else?!.... : Monday June 16th, 8pm
Where.... where else?!..... The Dogs Bollix Pub, Newton Rd, Auckland, New Zealand Who .... who else?!.... The Jews Brothers Band with readings and startling enactments by Brian Keegan, Michael Keir Morrissey, Hershal Herscher, Linn Lorkin and Peter Scott.

The Jews Brothers Band will provide an appropriate musical
counterpoint to the literary proceedings and there will be wonderful turns by The Bloomsday Barbershop Quartet and operatic star Yuko Takahashi.

Entry : $15
Dinner + Show : $25
Doors open 5.30pm

The script is by Dean Parker who has written a fulsome description of the whole megilah for your further edification later in this newsletter.

But first, other Breaking News!!
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T H E P R E M I E R E O F " C H A N S O N"

CHANSON premieres at the Uxbridge Centre's Open Day.

Uxbridge Rd, Howick

Saturday 14th June @ 2pm.

FREE ENTRY

About the Show:

NZ's favourite chanteuse, Linn Lorkin, began her romance with Paris as a French language student at Auckland University . Then with a scholarship from the French government she left for Paris to pursue her studies at the Sorbonne. But Linn's other love, music, captured her attention and success as a piano player and singer stole her away from academia.

CHANSON is an original musical play based on the true story of her transformation from student to star performer of those gorgeous French "chansons" so loved by the francophile in us all.With a script by Anna Rugis, it features original songs by both Lorkin and Rugis as well as many French language favourites and some gorgeous gowns plus Hershal in a top-hat ! Linn even does a turn as Piaf .

Anna Rugis (songwriter/poet and ex backup singer for Van Morrison, Cat Stevens and The Kinks) and Hershal Herscher join Linn in telling the story of growing up to be a musician. Their previous outing as a troupe was the national tour of "Linn Lorkin's Kiwiana" and it was during that tour that the idea for Chanson was born.

The Paris romance is alive and well in NZ. What is it about the
French language and the sound of an accordion that makes us melt into a smile? Parisian melodies, a comedic script and acres of gorgeous three-part harmony make Chanson a delightful theatrical experience.

Catch CHANSON also at the following:
Saturday June 28th 8pm Lopdell Theatre Titirangi Door Sales $20 and $15 Presales at Titirangi Pharmacy

Sunday June 29th 4pm Artworks Community Theatre, Oneroa, Waiheke Island, $25 ($20concession)

Thursday July 3rd 7.30 pm Meteor Theatre, Hamilton, "Fuel NZ Theatre Festival 2008" www.ticketdirect.co.nz
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L I N N L O R K I N & T H E L A R R I K I N S

Linn and her trio can be heard every Friday night at One 2 One Cafe, 121 Ponsonby Road : Linn on piano, Kelvin Hair on guitar and vocals, Hershal on accordion, piano and flute and Woody or Jos on the cahon drum box. There's often a surprise ( last week Edwina Thorne sat in in with us playing a very groovy muted trumpet ) and it's always a fun, laid-back Friday night ! Expect a varied palette of jazz, nostalgia, chansons, Bacharach, Carole King, Paolo Conti and some great originals by Linn and Kelvin. No cover, Koha only.

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F R E N C H T O A S T A T " P A S T I S"/thursdays and then there's bastille Every Thursday 6.30 - 8.30 pm French Toast ( Linn, Hershal and Peter Scott) stroll their stuff at Pastis on the corner of Nelson and Victoria Street accompanied by beautiful French cuisine and a well-stocked comfortable bar. It's like going to France for the night. (Please note the following change: French Toast will be playing on Friday July 4th and not Thursday July 3rd)

And announcing Nuits de Bastille ( Bastille Nights)!!

Saturday July 12th and Monday July 14th. Set-price menu - $45 . Costumes and merriment will abound . Music by French Toast. Ph.309-4264
for bookings

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THE NEW LOOK ROUGE RECORDS WEB-SITE

Visit our re-designed web-site to order CDs from The Jews Brothers Band, French Toast and Linn Lorkin. We've now got Paypal facilities! Our latest release is the beautiful TRAFFIC IN GOLD by the fabulous singer/songwriter Anna Rugis.

www.rouge.co.nz Then there's always www.jewsbrothers.com or www.myspace.com/thejewsbrothersband

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THE JEWS BROTHERS ON YOU TUBE

Two recent clips of the JBB on YOUTUBE, live at the Whammy Bar, K Rd, Auckland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU96j4DxDCw&feature=related My Yiddish Swing

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=QuiwaBMpIQE - Dunkin' Bagels

Then there's Joseph Herscher's amazing Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg contraption with Music by The Jews Brothers! -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrCb_fNmSTA#

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And Now..... Read more about

B L O O M S D AY A T T H E D O G S B O L L I X ( courtesy of dean parker)

:And lo there came about them all a great brightness and they beheld the chariot, clothed in the glory of the brightness, having raiment as of the sun, fair as the moon and terrible that for awe they durst not look upon Him! And there came a voice out of heaven, calling: Elijah! Elijah! And he answered with a main cry: Abba! Adonai! And it was Him, Mr Leopold Bloom, of 7 Eccles St, Dublin, right by the Mater Hospital and just off Lower Dorset Street down by the wharves, and he was descending in his raiment and glory to a South Pacific public house called the Dogs Bollix which sat snugly next to the one street that defies the city council's attempts to turn Auckland into a world-class city - Karangahape Road!"

Monday, June 16, is Bloomsday, the day literature lovers everywhere celebrate James Joyce's comic Irish masterpiece ULYSSES.

Acclaimed as one of the greatest modernist novels of last century, ULYSSES is set during the hours of one day, June 16, 1904, and records the mock-heroic odyssey round Dublin city of Leopold Bloom, wandering Jew. Its frank depiction of sexuality, particularly female sexuality, saw it banned in its author's land of birth, with the DUBLIN SUNDAY EXPRESS providing a fairly typical reaction: "The obscenity of Rabelais is innocent compared with the leprous and scabrous horrors of Joyce's book. All the secret sewers of vice are canalised in its flood of unimaginable thoughts, images and pornographic words." The market had the last say: a signed first edition
will now set you back half-a-million dollars.

The twenty-fifth anniversary of Bloomsday was celebrated in Paris on June 16, 1929 with Joyce and a party taking lunch on the city outskirts followed by a pub crawl back into the centre; somewhere along the way they lost Samuel Beckett.

The fiftieth anniversary was celebrated in Dublin with five Irish literary figures attempting to tour all the Dublin sites mentioned in ULYSSES; they got stuck in a pub and never made it.

The world's first Bloomsday celebration of the new millenium was in New Zealand; at one minute past midnight, June 16, 2000, Auckland radio's Planet FM commenced broadcasting a 5-hour recorded reading of ULYSSES. The following year a celebratory cabaret became an annual Auckland event and so,
next Monday night Bloomsday will be celebrated in what has become a tradition at the Dogs Bollix pub, just off Karangahape Rd, starting at 8pm.

Dublin's Brian Keegan will be reading from the Good Book, Linn Lorkin and the Jews Brothers band will be providing an appropriate musical setting aided by mezzo soprano Yuko Takahashi. As well, this year, Auckland actor Michael
Morrissey, who brilliantly starred in THE HOLLOW MEN at the Maidment, will be appearing in a range of terrifying roles, including a trans-gender brothel madame who fiendishly transmogrifies into the Prime Minister herself.

For James Joyce himself reading from Finnegans Wake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOQi7xspRc

a n d L A S T B U T N O T L E A S T.....J E W I S H J O K E T I M E

"Doctor, I want you to make a plan so that I can live to 100 and mine wife to 99."

"Mr. Schwartz, why do you want to outlive your wife?"

"I want at least one good year."
Oy!

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A priest and a rabbi are seated together on a plane.

After a while the priest turns to the rabbi and asks, "Is it still a requirement of your faith that you not eat pork?"

The rabbi responds, "Yes, that is still one of our beliefs."

The priest then asks, "Have you ever eaten pork?"

To which the rabbi replies, "Yes, on one occasion, I did succumb to temptation and tasted a ham sandwich."

The priest nodded in understanding and went on with his reading.

A while later, the rabbi spoke up and asked the priest, "Father, is
it still a requirement of your church that you remain celibate?"

The priest replied, "Yes, that is still very much a part of our faith."

The rabbi then asked him, "Father, have you ever fallen to the temptation of the flesh?"

The priest replied, "Yes, rabbi, on one occasion I was weak and broke with my faith."

The rabbi nodded understandingly.

He was silent for about five minutes, and then he said, "Beats a ham sandwich, doesn't it?