Art Makers Outpost Salon Series Concert: Chicago Klezmer Ensemble & Ronnie Malley

Join us at the Sunday, February 23, 2025 Outpost After Dark Salon Series featuring the incredible musical stylings of the Chicago Klezmer Ensemble & Ronnie Malley!

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm at Art Makers Outpost!

Doors open: 5:45

Tickets $25 online each (anyone who is no longer sitting on a lap needs a ticket)

(*Tickets are $30 if purchased at the door)

Open Seating / Some standing room – first come first serve

SPONSORED BY: Evanston Family Chiropractic, Sketchbook, La Principal, Art Makers Outpost & Our Evanston

Headliner: Chicago Klezmer Ensemble

Chicago Klezmer Ensemble Concert 

The Ensemble develops modern klezmer music that draws directly from historical East European Jewish music and creates original interpretations and compositions which build upon that tradition.

The result is a repertoire that is equally at home on a concert stage or at a celebration. Earthy, emotional music that elevates the spirit and warms the soul.

The Chicago Klezmer Ensemble is led by clarinetist Kurt Bjorling.

Further instruments include fidl (violin) and tsimbl (Jewish style hammered dulcimer), also bass, accordion and harp.

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Bios:

Kurt Bjorling, clarinet, tsimbl, accordion

The ensemble’s director, is a noted performer, teacher, and researcher of klezmer music, having taught at numerous workshops and festivals worldwide since 1986. He teaches privately in a studio in Evanston.

Annette Bjorling, harp

Beyond merely adapting Jewish tunes to the harp, Annette creates a unique voice that fits naturally within the idiom of Yiddish music. She has performed and taught at festivals in Europe and North America. Annette teaches harp, in the Chicago area and online.

Joshua Huppert, violin,

is a private teacher of violin and viola. He performs with several groups, including the Boulevard String Quartet and the Evanston Symphony.

Joseph Spilberg, cello,

studied jazz bass at New York University and apprenticed with Tunisian Master Percussionist Najib Bahri in Chicago. Joseph is a founding member of Lamajamal and has performed and conducted workshops in Chicago and across the country.  Joseph served as Associate Director of Education at Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education for over ten years providing arts programming for underserved populations in Chicago public schools.

Opener: Ronnie Malley

Ronnie Malley is a Palestinian-American multi-instrumentalist musician, theatrical performer, producer, playwright, and
educator specializing in musical styles from the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and medieval Spain. Ronnie performs
with many global artists and ensembles and has worked on award-winning theatrical plays, films, and TV series. He appears
on numerous albums and has produced original and collaborative works including Ziryab, The Songbird of Andalusia, American Griot, and Little Syria. Ronnie received the 2023 Chamber Music America Michael Jaffee Visionary Award, 2020 Kennedy Center American College of Music Theater Festival Certificate of Merit for Music Direction, and several Jeff Award nominations for Best Original Composition. He holds a BA in Global Music Studies from DePaul University and a MA in Languages and Linguistics from University of Chicago, where he is currently a PhD student in Ethnomusicology.