Grantee Database
Kugelplex
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
General Operating Support
Award Amount
$38,499.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Kugelplex Klezmer Ensemble will continue operations from 2023 – 2025, producing concerts, cross-cultural collaborative projects, workshops, classes and Jewish lifecycle ritual performances.
Organization Summary
Kugelplex is the West Coast’s last remaining – and most venerable – full time working klezmer band. Since 2001, the ensemble has played thousands of lifecycle events and concerts in the Bay Area, California, and throughout the United States. We teach workshops and create collaborative, multidisciplinary performance works with renowned collaborators. Previous collaborators include Joan Baez, San Francisco Symphony, Oakland Symphony, Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Frank London (founder of the Klezmatics), Kitka, Rumen Sali Shopov, Jewlia Eisenberg, and many others.
Our solidary-building projects engage master culture bearers from Arabic and Romani communities to create ambitious community-engaged music and dance works.
Organization
Kugelplex
Address
1616 Wellington Street
Oakland
94602
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(510) 838-6669
Congressional District
12
State Assembly District
18
State Senate District
9
