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Previous events

Date Event Location
 —  — Cotham Club Jam Cotham Club, Bristol BS6 6DR Cotham Club, Bristol BS6 6DR
 —  — Yiddishsong / Klezmerjazz / Middle Eastern Folk Burdall's Yard, Bath BA1 5NH Burdall's Yard, Bath BA1 5NH
 —  — Yiddishsong / Klezmerjazz Southbank Club, Bristol BS3 1DB Southbank Club, Bristol BS3 1DB
 —  — Yiddishsong / Klezmerjazz / Middle Eastern Folk Creative Innovation Centre, Taunton TA1 3PF Creative Innovation Centre, Taunton TA1 3PF
 —  — Chai For All at St Werburghs City Farm Fair St Werburghs City Farm, Bristol BS2 9YJ St Werburghs City Farm, Bristol BS2 9YJ
 —  — Chai For All at Bristol Harbour Festival Jelli Shack at Millennium Square , Bristol BS1 5SZ Jelli Shack at Millennium Square , Bristol BS1 5SZ
 —  — Chai For All at May Day at Boiling Wells St Werburgh's City Farm, Bristol BS2 9XY St Werburgh's City Farm, Bristol BS2 9XY
 —  — Mazl & Brokhe: Yiddish Song Tobacco Factory Bar, Bristol BS3 1TF Tobacco Factory Bar, Bristol BS3 1TF
 —  — Mazl & Brokhe: Yiddish Song The Bell Inn, Bath BA1 5BW The Bell Inn, Bath BA1 5BW
 —  — Klezmer and Yiddish Song with special guest violinist Piotr Jordan Cotham Club, Bristol BS6 6DR Cotham Club, Bristol BS6 6DR
 —  — Cafe Conscious Fundraiser St Luke's Church, Bristol BS5 9FB St Luke's Church, Bristol BS5 9FB
 —  — Mazl & Brokhe: Yiddish Song The Shakespeare, Totterdown, Bristol BS3 4UD The Shakespeare, Totterdown, Bristol BS3 4UD
 —  — Mazl & Brokhe: Yiddish Song The Star, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 3AF The Star, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 3AF
 —  — Mazl & Brokhe: Yiddish Song The Greenbank, Bristol BS5 6DP The Greenbank, Bristol BS5 6DP
 —  — Schtumm Presents...Chai For All / Radio Banska The Queens Head, Box, Corsham The Queens Head, Box, Corsham
 —  — Mazl & Brokhe: Yiddish Song The Lansdown, Bristol BS8 1AF The Lansdown, Bristol BS8 1AF
private event  
A Flower is not a Rat: Stories to heal the world. Ruth Steinberg with Chai For All Cotham Club at Cotham Parish Church, Bristol BS6 6DR Cotham Club at Cotham Parish Church, Bristol BS6 6DR
 —  — Chai For All at Clevedon Literary Festival Clevedon Community Bandstand, Clevedon BS21 7EH Clevedon Community Bandstand, Clevedon BS21 7EH
 —  — Mazl & Brokhe: Yiddish Song The Barrelhouse, Bristol BS8 1AW The Barrelhouse, Bristol BS8 1AW

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CURRENT PROJECTS 

EXODUS: A MUSIC AND STORYTELLING PERFORMANCE (working title)

The Chai For All Ensemble are working on a performance of Jewish music and stories; some of them Arabic and Sephardic, and Middle Eastern music and stories; some of them Jewish and Palestinian. We hope our show will express the beauty of the intricately interconnected cultural and human reality. 
 

YIDDISH SONG / MIDDLE EASTERN SOUNDS

Yalla! An infectiously entertaining mish-mosh of powerful Yiddish music hall songs and whirling klezmer and Middle Eastern dance tunes.

Marianna Moralis' impassioned vocals lead the party, driving fabulous New York Yiddish theatre songs, old world Yiddish folk songs, and ​​cheerful singalongs; David Mowat (trumpet), Knud Stüwe (guitar) and Simon Leach / Brendan Hockey (percussion) propel the joyous and sizzling arrangements with their impressive playing and enormous sense of fun.

With fantastic music, brilliant audience rapport and more than a touch of goodtime showbiz, this is a set guaranteed to raise the spirits. Sababa!
 

SOUND IS RESISTANCE

During their tour of Palestine in 2018, the Chai For All Ensemble heard a story about the wheat variety 'Abu Samra', which Zaid Hilal and Hind Hilal turned into a lovely song, performed during our UK tour of ‘Our Homeland Lives in Us: Longing, Belonging & Palestine’. In April 2019 Chai For All Ensemble members Katie Stevens, David Mowat and Michael Loader, with Peter Churchill of the Bonfire Radicals, returned to listen to many more Palestinian stories, which were used to inspire our ensemble show ‘Sound is Resistance: Stories of Palestine in Music and Song’.

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