- Reedman Extrodinaire and longtime Rubinchik member Mike Stinnett has relocated to Austin with his family and we're pleased as punch to tell you that he's back to playing with us!! A veteran of our 1998 tour of France, Mike traveled with me to Klez Kanada '99 and had the opportunity to study with Jewish Dance Music Giants sax great Paul Pincus and clarinetist Ray Musiker.
Just found this
great
snippet of video recorded at the taping of a Hill Country Hanukah.
Hear us back up Cantor Neil and the Congregation Agudas Achim Choir on "Simu
Shemen."
- Follow this link for more photos and even more video, including performances by Galeet Dardashti of Divhan, and Cantor Robbi Sherwin.
- Check out Mark's adventures as a member of Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars, from Bloomington Indiana to Belgrade Serbia to Riga Latvia. Find links to many photos here.
- Reviewed in Germany! Check out this profile of our 1st CD from the German based Virtual Klezmer.
We're pleased to announce
that our good friend and sometime vocalist Neil Blumofe has released his very
first recording, "Hazzan Neil Blumofe." We accompany him on a few
tracks and Mark even got to sing some (putting the "harm" in harmony) on
one track. He had threatened to call it "Neil Blumofe Sings Sacred Songs
of Love," and friends that's just what it is. Neil is a especially gifted
transmitter of goodness and positive energy, and you don't even have to be
Jewish to be affected by his vibe. Check it out!!
- Here's the first review of the Hill Country Hanukkah CD!
- Many thanks for News 8 Austin for covering our "Many Cultures, Many Faiths" presentation on 12/7/01 at Agudas Achim. For more information on our guest musicians please visit their web sites and tell them we sent you! If you missed the interview w/ Mark and Cantor Blumofe, look here for the text version.
- Hill
Country Hanukkah CD is still available!
Just the perfect thing for your Holiday-gift-giving-season
needs. Recorded utterly live on KUT's Liveset and strangely broadcast on
New Years' Eve '00. Reflecting the wide range of Jewish culture in the Austin
community, this pan-Judeo musical event finds the band playing along w/
the Congregation Agudas Achim choir under the direction of Khazan Neil Blumofe,
folk singer Robbie Sherwin from Congregation Kol Halev, and sephardic singer
Galeet Dardashti. Recorded live and with the informal vibe of a great jam
session, buy it now on-line at our
secure site.
- Hear our music!! Recorded live by a fan in 2000 at this site. Or listen to 2 recently recorded tunes in Real Audio at Roots World Free Reed festival site
- Our soundtrack to the silent film classic The Golem has been mastered, and later in the year will be released on video and DVD! Here's more info.
- Read
a review of our 1st CD at Ari's Klezmer Shack.
Here's
Rubinchik fan Howard Freedman with the great Afro-American Western
film pioneer, Herbie Jefferies, the first black "singing cowboy."
- Finally,
here's some photos
from my Klez
Kanada summer of '99. (Here's Maestro German Goldenstyn teaching
with Micheal Alpert and Jeff Warchauer)