Celebrate Hanukkah At New York Museum

Melding masterful musicianship with deep-prooted spirituality, Andy Statman’s music has been hailed as a “beautiful new experience” by The New York Times. On Wednesday, December 5, at 7 p.m., celebrate the second night of Hanukkah with the eclectic and traditional stylings of the Andy Statman Trio in Edmond J. Safra Hall at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

Tickets are $25 adults, $20 seniors, $15 students/members.

Andy Statman is a musical innovator whose style emerged as a result of the numerous musical
traditions he has studied. At 15, Andy took Bluegrass mandolin lessons fro m a young David Grisman.

By 17, he was playing saxophone and learning jazz. At 19, his interest turned to the folk music of Eastern Europe which led to serious study wit h a number of musicians including one of the fathers of contemporary Klezmer music, Dave Tarras. His recordings include Songs of Our Fathers and In the Fiddler’s House wit h Itzhak Perlman.

The Museum’s three-floor Core Exhibition educates people of all ages and backgrounds about the rich tapestry of Jewish life over the past century before, during, and after the Holocaust. Current special exhibitions include From the Heart: The Photojournalism of Ruth Gruber, Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust, and The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish American Dream.

The Museum offers visitors a vibrant public program schedule in it s Edmond J. Safra Hall. It is also ho me to Andy Goldsworthy’s memorial Garden of Stones, as well as James Carpenter’s Reflection Passage, Gift of the Gruss Lipper Foundation. -- www.mjhnyc.org

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