what atract you to the jewish music festival here. >> i grew up playing folk music. my father loved european music and he was part of a band that started in the mid 70s called -- and he was in the 19 sop and i turned out to be i guess about 15 years later i was in the band as a clarinet

playerand bazoo. it has heart. melodies that somehow we main in the back f your head. some of the ribbons are exciting. tenaltie se. mi the record norsecond and major third. it is exciting stuff. it is very familiar at the same time. for us we had a family band. we played together. we played a ton of tunes that had just been transcribed by a guy named david who went to east europefind he has tunes. i department note it at the time but it was a new happen hadding at that time. for me growing up as a kid, i liked the music i played it. semiprofessional l and as a hobby. >> we will take a quick break

and come back and continue our conversation about the jewish music festival.

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welcome become to. what did we just hear as we came back. >> that was the traditional opening to a lot of jewish music, and it is a improvised joined from a record called in the land of plenty released in 2008. the name is -- of demons. it goes much, much different after that and it is based on you juryish themes. >> a lieutenant of music relies on improvisation and always a similar trough at vocabulary but it seems similar to gads and there's a in which the structure of it happens but there's a lot of -- >> that's very fair. there's also some similar i

thes. dixie land you will have various of the melody at the same time which is something else we have. and more modern terps you will have structured ae areas where a series are of cords and we're -- maybe there's not always the time pont like in american jazz where you will have say drones or user a series of groufs. there's ai lot of similarities. it is similar to fact it is never far fa the melody but you embellish the melody, maybe it doesn't go as far as the modern jazz but there's always great -- very much a parrel. >> how did you find paul and bring him to the jewish music festival. >> we are only festival of jewish music that commissions new work and it is something we are very, very proud of. we have been doing it now, this will be the start of 2006 doing

this. we have commissioned several projects at this timement i think you came to me, paul. >> i was in a cirque de soliil. >> i am not -- all of these miles per hours, they're from everywhere. japanese are very much rooted in their culture. i thought about that for a second. what do i have that's like that. one thing i did remember is in a family like ours that's multicultural, nor wee ja dad, jewish mother. we played tunes together. stuff that was discoveredto a lot of the exemployeeses puss cool travelers. and that's really kind of what did it for me. i remember that very much.

you can improvise and expabd but you are never far awade from melodies that make you you feel something. >> it seems that arts fast values are layered. in this case of thish music festival. it is sell are toy and it is evolving musicality. it seems it functions in a broader cultural way to introduce people to a different culture and give people kind of a doorway into a different house, a different way of arranging furniture, a different way of talking and i am wondering over the 30 years of the jew music festival how you have seen those things interplay in the community and how it is enriched the community at large. >> a large part of the audience is not jewish which is wop dearful because it is so rich

and so deep and they come a concert and hear this music and for some people it has been a way into the whole world, this culture, had thousands of years old. the music shares humanity on the we have a lot of festivities this year that happened last year to sell is out crowds. if people want to hear the sounds of the language, i would

go to look at the mcgilla which is the story: we have is a premier with paul handson. we have and we take a quick break and come back in just a moment.

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>> about the jewish music festival. in a moment we will share a treat with you with paul play a piecement we with would like to ask you to set up what we will listen to. >> what we will hear today is a little bit of an old traditional l roman ina tune. actually, it is a bull gar january. it is a ion i played a long time ago with my family and rearranging this and adding some things to it for the concert coming up. this is a precursor to what's going to happen when we perform. this a little introduction. >> grammy a ward winning musician and composer paul handson. >> ♪ [ music ] ♪

>> oh, paul, beautiful. the basoon. >> what is it. >> an older instrument distant to the are recorder. we back at about 1600 started to normalize. thed modern dates back to about 120 years wag the new pipingerring system. basically-o instrument but since it is double reed it has an interesting possibility that a lot of people haven't got into so much. there's an interesting reflection that you can use many this type of music i play which is eastern european or

jewish music and it is dark. it is kind of covered. it is very mel l low. very is vocal and it is kinds of ways to different tones the things in between so it is in and out of -- that you would find in middle east and jewish music. is so it has a great range. you can play baseline, melody, in mid expel that's what atracted me to it. >> it is considered part of the woodwind. >> yes, woodwind family, orchestra i have been known to -- what i do is play jazz on bassoon. unusual music that you don't norm mri play on an instrument. >> we will take a quick break and come right back about thank you juryish music festival.

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and paul handson, a grammy award winning bassoonist. we have a wonderful clip to share. what is our clip? >> okay. it is an israeli group that is puss lick christian and youish from northern israel pr the galley, and a galley and a guest artist is a 13-year-old singer. it is nickname for mohammed and means is cute. he has got chops that are like

carrasu. >> he is arabic and it is a language that's represented many the festival. this the ensemble per forms music through the the middle east, and here is it is. >> here we g. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪[ music ] ♪ . [cheering and applause]

♪[ music ] ♪ he is having a great time. >> to me it is like he's channeling. that's pure love, pure music, pure joy and the audience is giving it right back to him. >> how old is he. >> he's 13. >> had he will be saturday night, march 14th. people go to jewish music festival.org to get the information or it will be brown

paper tickets to get your tickets saturday night march 14th. it will be a concert in oakland where we are finalizing venue. it is probably in new paris which is a wonderful club in oakland. >> but the web site will have the -- >> the absolute. yes. so, jewish music festival.org or brown paper tickets for tickets and that will be available starting in january but he's march 14th. >> so what diversity between paul handson and everything else in between? what are the other highlights of festival? >> we have this musical at the beginning. we have keepga which is gorgeous, gorgeous harmony from east european women's vocal ensemble. we have sway machinery. people might know the band has been very, very popularment he's formally with the band.

this is his own band. it will be a cd release party. we have paul handson is twice. it is the only program that will be done twice. it is once many the east bay and once at the contemporary jewish museum on thursday, march is 1 and 112. jewish music festival dotorganize and the dance that goes with the music. steve will be doing a whole week of workshop and the really -- we are dong a pop up community of hallelujah. we will teach iton the spot. the four parts will be on the web site. the artistic director of the conspiracy of beards is going to be the director. i did this in the summer.

200 people singing hallelujah, that's going to be sunday, march the 22nd at the jewish community egypt iser of the east bay in burke lee. >> that's wonderful. a pop up for those who don't know is. >> it is a corr us that p hahs just like hah. >> sing because you love to sing. you will sing like you have never sung and you will have the time of your life. >> what kind of time commitment. if you want to be a pop up. >> show up. >> how long are you will. >> it is an hour and a half but the finale will also be an ainstant orchestra and a dance and it will be with -- if you like traditional music, we are going to go without the best there is. that is this ensemble called redsky pass and that's happening sunday, march 2 the 2. >> it is a wide range of audience participation

listening to being part of a pop up chorus. >> and dancing. a large part of what we are about is getting people to get in touch with their own musicians, own creativity, own artistic potential. s0q if something is interested in dance that information is also on the web site. >> everything will be. the whole week will be dedicated to learning jewish dances, march 17, 18, 19. three workshops and march 22 the finale. >> we come to the end of our time together as kind of putting a calm in the conversation. thank you for being with usment we will leave you with just a little clip repeat of of paul playing the bassoon as we say good-bye and thank you for being here with us on the mosaic. ♪[ music ] ♪

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