KlezKleveland.\u00a0 Check it out.\u00a0 This year.\u00a0 Or maybe in 2018.\u00a0 (To be announced.)<\/p>\n
KlezKleveland will be like KlezKamp<\/a> and KlezKanada<\/a>, but with more letters and more heymish — <\/em>with <\/em>a Midwestern “hi!” attitude.<\/p>\n Where: my house.<\/p>\n Accommodations: tent camping<\/strong><\/span> on my neighbor’s front lawn.\u00a0 Or you can camp inside his house.\u00a0 There’s no plumbing; his copper pipes are gone.\u00a0 Nobody lives there.<\/p>\n There will be shower trucks and port-a-potties in the driveway.\u00a0 Don Johns — only the best.<\/p>\n Kosher food available. (Queen Alice’s falafel truck.)<\/p>\n Gentiles welcome, of course.<\/p>\n Do I need to <\/strong><\/span>play an instrument to attend?<\/em><\/p>\n No, we’ll supply drumpets (combination trumpet and drums) made from leftover McDonald’s packaging.\u00a0 Drumpets, by the way, were invented by Dr. Craig Woodson<\/a>, a former Yiddishe Cup drummer.<\/p>\n Do I need to know Yiddish?<\/em><\/p>\n No, but be familiar with at least five Yiddish words besides bagel, schmuck, meshuge, chutzpah <\/em>and putz.<\/em><\/p>\n Faculty?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Yes.\u00a0 Eco-friendly Midwestern teachers like Steven Greenman<\/a>, violin; Adrianne Greenbaum<\/a> (originally from Akron, Ohio), flute; and Yosef Greenberger<\/a>, a Cleveland keyboardist.<\/p>\n “Klezmer Guy,” the KlezKleveland director, will lecture on klezmer biz — for instance, how to deal with bar mitzvah moms.\u00a0 He will participate in a mock-u-drama with a real mom, Alice Stratton . . .<\/p>\n Alice:\u00a0 I’m worried about my son’s bar mitzvah party.\u00a0 His friends, will they like klezmer?<\/p>\n Klezmer Guy:\u00a0 Of course they’ll like it.\u00a0 Kids love klezmer! They’re sick of rap.<\/p>\n There will be daily aerobics<\/strong><\/span> and spinning sessions on the deck next door with music by KnishKnash, a NYC klez-fusion band and eatery. \u00a0Free kikhl<\/em> (cookies) and wine coolers for all.<\/p>\n In the evening, teens perform an experimental Yiddish-inflected drama about scrap and Midwest Jews, adapted from Leonard Tennenbaum’s memoir Junk Is Not a Four-Letter Word. <\/em> The teens wear turtlenecks, Speedo trunks and Groucho glasses.<\/p>\n Students in the fencing class wear uniforms reminiscent of prewar German Jewish sports clubs.\u00a0 The outfits are black Yiddishe Cup T-shirts, provided.\u00a0 Bring your own trousers.\u00a0 White, please.\u00a0 Not cream-colored.\u00a0 White, meine Herren<\/em>!<\/p>\n KlezKleveland fencing instructors Daniel Ducoff (L.) and Alan Douglass.<\/p><\/div>\n Yosef Greenberger, Cleveland’s Ortho <\/strong><\/span>one-man-band keyboard wizard, will demonstrate proprietary synth settings that emit odors, such as latke<\/em> smells for Chanukah songs and cinnamon for Christmas carols. (Gotta eat.)<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Local experts will lecture on “co-territorial” music. \u00a0Polka DJ Tony Petkovsek speaks on “Johnny Pecon and Molly Picon: Mishpocha<\/em>?” \u00a0[Family.]<\/p>\n![\"KlezKleveland](\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/middfest-10_5_08-300x225.jpg\" "\\"middfest-10_5_08\\"")