conversation about the 29th jewish music festival with the interim director andy mushkin and anthony russell, a performer and yiddish singer. we ended our last segment with a little clip of anthony singing. i'm wondering if you can let us know a little bit about how you put together yiddish music and african-american music and come up with the ways in which you perform, in which you bring the music to the public. >> in that particular instance, jow issue cosmology is full of narratives and stories and songs about moses. that particular song is an israeli folk song about moses hitting a rock and water springing out from the torah. and likewise, in the african-american cosmology are there are a many of stories about most. there is this very famous song in which moses and the israelites are evokeed. so i combined both songs so it was this continuous narrative about moses, about the israelites, and about water. and by doing that, i'm kind of telling one story from two different sources, simultaneously. and that's kind of the space i'm traversing in this piece convergence. >> and for you, how do

i would like to introduce you to anthony russell who is a performer and singer here in the community. and also the interim executive director of the 29th jewish music festival. welcome anthony and andy. >> what is new at the 29th jewish music festival? >> we have just come off of a very successful floor performance run of a musical with english supertitles. it was put together by a very talented local group of singers and actors. we had four performances at the jewish community center at the east bay, which is the sponsor of the music festival. and had almost 800 people come to see live theater. it is amazing. and we move from that to the spring jewish music festival starting march 20 with a show at san francisco and an israeli rock star who is performing the music of his grandfather who was a pop star and songwriter in the 1930s and 40s. a special guest is another great israeli player. we go to saturday march 22, to freight and salvage in berkeley with a wonderful jazz band from the east coast that blends african-american music and jewish music. we have a similar but even more unique

is it stars russell crow and anthony hopkins. >>> an experience of a lifetime.he group took off sfo and their journey to ghana was the brain child of johnson. they're going to get a perspective on bay state neighborhood and life in africa. >> we'll see what we know here and go there. >> i'm hoping just to get a better appreciation for life here and a better understanding of the way other people live and bring some of that back here and share with other people my experiences. >> officer johnson says he was inspired to make this trip by the positive role models he had when he was being raised about i a single mother. >>> four pet owners have been infected by tuberculosis. each caught the disease from their cats. it's the first ever report of cats passing the disease to humans. the pet owners got involved by inhaling cough droplets that contain the tb bacteria. it's quite shocking, they say. >> that it happened surprises me, but anything can happen with tuberculosis. >>> veterans say the cats more than likely got infected by other animals like cows and badgers. cas

cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: russell crowe in "noah" and jennifer connelly is great in the movie, too. that's a great cast of -- >> jennifer connelly, ray winston, sir anthonyjimmy: i didn't know anthony hopkins was going to be -- that's right, oh she's great as well. you know, i was going to get you to do a little musical thing. i was gonna try to talk to you. we have a guitar in case, ready to go. [ cheers and applause ] >> why not? >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, do it. >> can i do that? >> jimmy: let's do something. >> cool. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: this is fun. all right. >> all righty. >> jimmy: all right. >> all right, so do you mind if we do an old australian folk song? >> jimmy: yeah, we love australian folk songs. >> by johnny cash. [ laughter ] ♪ ♪ i hear the train a-coming it's rolling around the bend ♪ ♪ i ain't seen the sunshine baby since i don't know when ♪ ♪ oh well i'm stuck in folsom prison and time keeps draggin' on i hear that train a-rolling way down to san antone ♪ ♪ well i bet there's rich folks eatin' in a fancy dining car ♪ ♪ i bet they're drinking coffee smoking their cigars ♪ ♪ you know i knew i had it coming knew that i could not