{"id":30890,"date":"2023-08-16T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=30890"},"modified":"2023-09-28T16:07:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:07:45","slug":"some-hip-spanic-gigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/16\/some-hip-spanic-gigs\/","title":{"rendered":"SOME HIP-SPANIC GIGS"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nYiddishe Cup<\/strong><\/span> played on the Rio Grande for 2,500 cheering Mexican-Americans at the Chamizal National Monument, El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n

And yo– minus the band — played south of the border for 30 stone-faced Mexican ranchers. I heard a banda<\/em> group in El Fuerte, Sinaloa, northern Mexico, They were on a side street. I heard a lot of horns, including a tuba. The Mexican musicians were playing for a horse auction. One of the musicians lent me his clarinet. I have seen better clarinets and reeds. I played horribly because of that reed. My son the drummer and I played a Meron-style nig<\/em>n. The Mexicans clapped. My family was on a hiking trip in northern Mexico in 2008; that\u2019s how this banda<\/em> thing happened.<\/p>\n

I would like to play more Latin gigs. Kapelye, the klezmer band, once did a wedding in Mexico City. And Golem has played in Mexico a few times. To Yiddishe Cup\u2019s cr\u00e9dito, we have played not once, but twice, on the Rio Grande in El Paso.<\/p>\n

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Aside: in <\/strong><\/span>Cleveland I knew a dancer, Susana Weingarten de Evert, who grew up in Mexico City. Do all Jews in Mexico City have names like that?<\/p>\n

I hope so.<\/p>\n

Yo recuerdo when a Cleveland mom arranged a Jewish wedding for her daughter in El Salvador. I told the mom to fly down Yiddishe Cup. I said, \u201cI\u2019m sure the Jewish groom\u2019s family can afford it, or they wouldn\u2019t still be there.\u201d She agreed to the \u201cthey could afford it,\u201d but not the Yiddishe Cup part.<\/p>\n

Yiddishe Cup has cornered the Latin-American Jewish doctor market in Cleveland — a market that fits into the backseat of a Toyota Camry. We did a gig for a Mexican Jewish doctor who headed the Cleveland Clinic evil eye center (Cole Eye Institute). Latin Jews party second only to Russian Jews.<\/p>\n

Yiddishe Cup\u2019s Latin repertoire goes from \u201cOye Como Va\u201d to \u201cEl Rey.\u201d We played an Ecuadorian Jewish wedding in Cleveland where I explained the chair-lifting to the groom\u2019s gentile parents. I said in Spanish: “You will see people seated in chairs in the wind.”<\/p>\n

Y<\/span>iddishe Cup’s <\/span><\/strong>maximum hip-spanic gig was when we played “La Bamba” for an encore at our second outdoor concert in El Paso.<\/p>\n

I miss those Latin gigs. We haven’t done any lately. For the record, I hope to sing “B\u00e9same Mucho\u201d tomorrow night at Yiddishe Cup’s gig in University Heights, Ohio. There is a clamor (somewhere) for the Yiddishe Cup\/Latin thing.<\/p>\n

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Yidd Cup plays 7 pm tomorrow (Thurs., Aug. 17) at Walter Stinson Park, 2301 Fenwick Rd., University Heights, Ohio. Free. Bring a lawn chair or blanket.<\/span><\/p>\n

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