May 2006

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2006 Festival Highlights Jewish Music, Motown
by Jan Powers

This year, the Heritage Festival has been fortunate in obtaining two grants to support the presentation of Klezmer music and an exhibit featuring the Jewish Heritage. Klezmer music, traditionally played by itinerant musicians, is lively instrumental folk music derived from Eastern European folk songs, Hebrew melodies and polkas.

PennPat, Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, will assist in bringing Klingon Klez, a Philadelphia-based group made up of some of the same musicians who played joint Arab-Jewish music for peace at the 2004 Festival. Our Jewish Heritage exhibit will be funded by the Ark Foundation of Gettysburg. We’re hoping also to have Middle Eastern food to go along with the toe-tapping, knee-slapping, danceable music.

Soulful Harmony, a group of eight musicians from Lancaster, play superb laid-back Motown, with exciting percussion and great vocals. They promise to lay it on us, smooth and silky, at the 2006 Adams County Heritage Festival, scheduled for Sunday, September 17, from noon until five, at the Gettysburg Rec Park

Although we’re still putting together the rest of the program, you can count on the bagpiper to open the Festival and the children’s play, this year titled “Hip Hop Aesop,” to close it. We’re also looking for two important things: volunteers (call Cynthia Reimel at (717) 334-9171 or e-mail achf@icpj-gettysburg.org) and good weather. If you can help, let us know.

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