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For Immediate Release Contact: Alexa Shelton 860-215-9287 or ashelton@trcc.commnet.edu Klezmenschen of Eastern Connecticut to Perform at Three Rivers Community College Thursday, May 18, 2017, 6:30 p.m. The Klezmenschen of Eastern Connecticut, led by Roz Etra on accordion and keyboard, will perform an early-evening concert at Three Rivers Community College on Thursday, May 18 at 6:30 p.m. The concert is being presented by Adventures in Lifelong Learning in conjunction with the College, and is free and open to the public in the Multi-purpose Room (F-117) at Three Rivers. Klezmenschen has been playing Klezmer music for more than a decade, with a varying line-up of musicians. Klezmenschen’s players include Norwich resident and veteran presenter for Adventures in Lifelong Learning, Faye Ringel on keyboard and vocals; Mystic’s Mickey Weiss on clarinet, New London’s Barry Weiner, flute, Lenny Askinazy and Stan Walczyk, trumpet; Barry Greenhalgh of Old Mystic, fiddle; John Listorti of Norwich, saxophone; and Martin Rutchik of Mystic, drums. They will also be joined by brass virtuoso Gary Buttery on tuba. What is Klezmer music? Remember the wedding dances in Fiddler on the Roof? The clarinet solos of Benny Goodman? Or today’s young musicians who mix Afro-pop and hip-hop with Eastern European melodies? All these and more are Klezmer. It’s a joyful music that makes you want to take hands in a circle and dance the hora, but it will make you nostalgic for a vanished world in songs that bring you to laughter through tears. Photo Caption: KlezmenschenThreeRivers.jpg, The Klezmenschen of Eastern Connecticut playing at Three Rivers in November of 2016.