The 9th Annual "9 Days of Jerry" Are Coming - Gevaldt!!!

Radio Free Nachlaot  has been broadcasting the best music, talk and Torah live from Jerusalem "24/6" since November, 2009. RFN's "Where Shlomo Meets Jerry" format keeps our world-wide listening audience connected with Israel through music and culture.

Our non-commercial format has been self-funded with the help of listener donations over the years. We rely on the kindness and generosity of our friends and fans to support our annual fundraiser and keep us on the air another year!

The funds raised from this "Go Fund Me" campaign will be used to pay our broadcasting overhead for the next year. We need your support to stay on the air!

We'll be running the campaign all during our 9th Annual "9 Days of Jerry" (August 1st - August 9th, plus "Isru Jerry" August 10th, 2018) through Rosh HaShanah, or until our goal is met. Thanks in advance for your generous support!

RFN's FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN ROLLS ON UNTIL ROSH HASHANAH!

Dateline: Jerusalem

In an unprecedented outpouring of generosity, listeners world-wide have contributed amounts large and small to Radio Free Nachlaot's FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN, which began with the 9 Days of Jerry in August. As of this moment, we've raised $1401 of our $10K goal! 

We're asking our friends, families, fans, listeners, guests and random lovers of music, Israel and the Grateful Dead to please give us the GIFT OF LIFE!

$18 (18 in Hebrew is "Chai", "Life") is do-able by just about anyone. Of course we'll gladly and gratefully accept donations of any amount!

Please visit our GoFundMe Campaign Page and help us stay on the air!

 

Jerusalem Woodstock Revival VII - Today at Kraft Stadium!

What do you need for a "Summer of Love"?
Summer + Love + some really good music!

Thursday, July 30th at Kraft Stadium, Jerusalem - don't miss the 7th annual JERUSALEM WOODSTOCK REVIVAL!

It's Israel's psychedelic tie-dye cholent of a music festival, featuring Geva Alon doing "Neil Young", Funk 'N' Stein recreating "The Who", perennial favorite Libi & The Flashback bringing "Creedence Clearwater Revival" to life, Full Trunk doing "Eric Clapton", and last but not least - Aryeh Naftali and the Elevators - featuring RFN's own Steve Levine on keyboards - doing the "Grateful Dead"!

Bring the family, bring a picnic, bring your tie-dye tshirt and your best smile, because it's time to kick back, relax and let the good times roll!

Celebrating in that genre today, we're playing ALL the original Woodstock recoding - yes, everyone from Ritchie Havens, Janis, Jimmy, the Who, the Band, Creedence, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe, Sly & the Family Stone, Canned Heat and all the other artists who gave us that iconic moment in musical time - all day/all night right here on Radio Free Nachlaot - join the party, won't you?

WIN A MIRACLE! WE'RE GIVING AWAY "FARE THEE WELL" #DEAD50 WEBCASTS!

#‎Miracle‬ ‪#‎FareTheeWell‬ ‪#‎Dead50‬ 
WIN a FREE 5-show webcast package of ALL the Fare Thee Well shows (webcast by Live Alliance) by listening to Radio Free Nachlaot TUESDAY 10PM-12M Israel time (12N Pacific/3pm Eastern) Steve Levine will be giving away FREE webcast packages to those who play "The Grateful Dead Game" with him on-air during his live "Rock 'n' Roll Show" - if you don't want to chance it, you can purchase the entire 5-show webcast for only $79.95 (this price goes UP after May 15th) at http://www.dead50.net/pay-per-view/

The JetBlue Blues Hour - Coming June 11th!

Radio Free Nachlaot is so pleased and proud to present The JetBlue Blues Hour - a special hour of hand-picked Blues, designed to be your mid-week Internet Radio Vacation Get-Away!

Wednesdays at 7pm Eastern (4pm Pacific, 2am Thursdays Israel time) beginning on Wednesday, June 11th, the JetBlue Blues Hour is surely destined to become destination radio!
Join us on the radio and if you're listening, Tweet #jetblueblueshour with your requests to @NachlaotRadio on Twitter

When you're ready to get away (mid-week or any time) visit JetBlue Airways - they go everywhere in the USA you need to go (and more recently they've expanded to include destinations from Anchorage to Lima, Peru - click here for where JetBlue flies)

Are you ready to get away with the JetBlue Blues Hour on Radio Free Nachlaot? Please fasten your seat belt and make sure your tray tables are folded and put away and that your seat is in an upright position, and that your carry-on items are safely stored beneath the seat or in the overhead bin - because we're ready to TAKE OFF!

BLUES FOR CHALLAH COMING UP DEC 13-15TH!!! SAVE $50 ON REGISTRATION!!!

STILL TIME TO REGISTER AND SAVE $50!!!

Blues for Challah Encores at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center!

December 13th - 15th

Visit www.isabellafreedman.org/gratefuldead and use the code B4CHIGHER2013 to save $50 while registering!

Meet RFN's Lorelai Kude at Blues for Challah!

She'll be broadcasting the "One More Saturday Night" Moetzi Shabbos Jam live from Isabella Freedman, you can hear it on Radio Free Nachlaot - but don't you want to be there in person?

WE HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT! 

If you have to travel by air to get there, don't forget about JETBLUE AIRWAYS - they're our official travel sponsor (of course! You know, JetBLUE, BLUES for Challah, Stella BLUE, etc.!)

Klezmer Music On Our Minds

The word "Klezmer" is believed to have come from a melding of two Hebrew words, "Kli" -- instrument -- and "Zemer" -- music. Klezmer music has come to characterize the style of secular musical entertainment which is played in Ashkanazi communities.

Klezmer music evolved in the shtetels of Eastern Europe, some say as early as the 13th century.  By the 15th century Jewish writers were writing about "klezmorim" who travelled from community to community, playing the tunes that combined the feelings of despair that Jews felt in their insecure lives with a specifically Jewish joy of life. Klezmer music as it is known today evolved in Bessarabia in the 19th century as secular instrumental music based on synagogue liturgy, specifically on hazzanut -- cantorial music. The Klezmer music was also heavily influenced by the Roma -- gypsies -- both musically and linguistically. The Roma influenced the klezmorim in other ways as well and most klezmer musicians became wanderers, moving from town to town as they transverse the countryside to play their music wherever they could find jobs. In return today's Roma music includes vestiges of Yiddish-speaking klezmorim's influence. 

Early klezmer music generally involved violins, clarinets and other stringed instruments with an occasional accordion or additional keyboard instrument. The choice of instruments was not accidental -- until 1855 Jewish musicians were forbidden by Ukrainian authorities from playing "loud" instruments. Later, when that ruling was dismissed, brass and percussion instruments joined klezmer bands.

Klezmorim often broke religious strictures. They played in churches and provided instruction for other, non-Jewish musicians. These sorts of activities did not sit well with the communities' rabbis who discouraged their followers from listening to the Klezmer music or hiring the musicians but the rabbis' disapproval didn't stop the shtetel Jews from listening to, and enjoying, the music. 

Klezmer musicians joined the mass immigration of Eastern European Jews to the new world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The new world, however, was not conducive to klezmer music and few klezmer musicians were able to make a living as klezmorim in America. Jews wanted to integrate into the mainstream American culture and were no longer entertained by Klezmer music, especially with its connotations to "old-fashioned" Yiddish and shtetel culture. 

Today's music critics acknowledge the klezmer influences in the compositions of some of America's greatest Jewish composers including Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and Ira Gershwin. They also point to some of the clarinet stylings of swing jazz bandleaders such as Artie Shaw and Bennie Goodman who seem to have been influenced by the klezmer music that they heard in their youth. One other -- non-Jewish-- composer who was vocal in acknowledging the influence that Klezmer music had on his work was Dmitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich included Klezmer chords in a number of his works which included the Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor and Piano Quintet in G minor. 

Klezmer music began to experience a revival in the late '70s and early '80s. Artists including Giora Feidman, Zev Feldman, Andy Statman, the Klezmorim and the Klezmer Conservatory Band drew their repertoire from surviving klezmorim of Eastern Europe and from recordings of the early 20th century klezmer bands.  These recordings proved to be vital in the Klezmer renaissance. Such recordings and transcriptions enabled the new klezmer performers to capture, not only the right notes of the original klezmer tunes, but the nuances, gradations and distinctions that would have otherwise been lost to history.  

In their "Rebirth of a Folk Tradition" the Lowell Milken Archive adds to musicologists' efforts to archive Klezmer music. The Milken Archives were created by education philanthropist Lowell Milken to preserve and disseminate music related to the American Jewish experience, encourage the creation of the new music that speaks to the American Jewish experience compile and publish historical documentation that illuminates the cultural, historical, political, social, and religious contexts of American Jewish music.  

The Milken Archives' fifth volume, Rebirth of a Folk Tradition, includes ten tracks under the titles "Kli'Zemer" and "Celestial Dialogues," These archives will help to ensure that Klezmer music can continue to develop and evolve, and Radio Free Nachlaot will continue to feature Klezmer music as part of our regular lineup during our "Israeli Soul Afternoon" programming, Monday through Friday from 1pm through 6pm Israel time. 

JOIN US AT THE MOSHAV COUNTRY FAIR ON MONDAY!

 

It's Chol haMoed, our favorite vacation time of year (and aren't we lucky, we get it TWICE a year)! And as has become our minhag, Radio Free Nachlaot will be broadcasting LIVE from the famous Moshav Mevo Modiin in Israel during the 12th Annual Moshav Country Fair, Chol haMoed Sukkot 5774!

We'll be live from 11am - 11pm (or thereabouts) Israel time on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd  

Join us and thousands of our world-wide listening audience as we enjoy a day at the Fair, with music from a real all-star lineup!


11 am     Josh Lauffer
12 pm    Benyamin Steinberg
1 pm      Gavriel Naftaly
2 pm      Yerachmiel and Arba Minim
3 pm      Shlomo Katz
4 pm     Yehuda Katz
5 pm     BenZion Solomon & Sons
6 pm    Hamakor
7 pm    Shivat Zion
8 pm    Shivi Keller
9 pm    Aryeh Naftaly & Elevators 

Our broadcast this year is sponsored by Dr. Tova Goldfine, known far and wide as our beloved "Dr. Tova," whose work as a Chiropractor has brought relief and healing for uncountable patients during her 30 years of practice, and an Anonymous sponsor on behalf of the Hochbaum Family and the Holy City of Hevron. We're grateful for the support of our sponsors - and you should be too, because without them we wouldn't be able to do this broadcast for y'all! 

Tune in to Radio Free Nachlaot to hear our live broadcast from Moshav Mevo Modiin starting around 11am Israel time on Monday, September 22nd - and join us in celebrating Moadim l'Simcha during Chol haMoed Sukkot!

Yom Kippur on Shabbos - The Shabbat Shabbaton!

A wonderful calendar confluence- Yom Kippur falls out on Shabbat this year, making it a "Shabbat Shabbaton,"  the Shabbat of all Shabboses, the highest and holiest day of the year.

We'll be eating manna, the food of angels - we'll be wearing white, we'll be so close to the World to Come that we'll be tasting it and breathing it - and we invite you to meet us there, between the Cherubim, where heaven and earth kiss and make up, where all our hurts are healed and we are assured of our acceptance, forgiveness and restoration with both G*d and our fellow humans.

We're broadcasting special Yom Kippur-themed shiurim and music today as we lead up to about 6pm Israel time, when we'll be off the air until Moetzi Shabbos - Saturday Night - when we'll switch it up to bring in the joyous time immediately following Yom Kippur - join us, won't you?

Have an easy, meaningful and redemptive fast - "Tzom Kal" - and G'mar Chatimah Tovah, you should be written in the Book of Life - signed, sealed and delivered for a health, happy, peaceful and productive New Year!

WOW, WE SCORED!!! Our Interviews with MICKEY HART, CRYSTAL MONEE HALL and Incredible Records Founder JONATHON LIPSIN Sunday Sept. 1st at 7pm Israel time!

Friends - We're still HIGH from the MICKEY HART BAND concert in Jerusalem which took place at the magical, magnificent amphitheater venue on Jerusalem's Mt. Scopus, overlooking the Judean desert all the way to the Dead Sea.
Undoubtedly it was the concert of a lifetime for Israel-based Deadheads, who welcomed Mickey Hart, the first member of the Grateful Dead ever to play in Israel (and, by the way, also the first and so far only Dead member to play in both Egypt AND Israel!).

The revelation of the evening was Tony Award-winning vocalist CRYSTAL MONEE HALL, who embodied Shechina with her amazing voice, bringing it down and giving it over like it's never been done before!

We'll be airing our exclusive interviews with both Mickey Hart and Crystal Monee Hall on Radio Free Nachlaot's "Sunday Night Live" show Sunday, September 1st at 7pm Israel time.

This is "appointment listening," people! Tune in to hear Steve and Lorelai live from Undisclosed Studio B in Jerusalem, discussing the concert in-depth and playing both interviews, both of which will later be available for download from our web site.

"Sunday Night Live" on Radio Free Nachlaot will also feature Lorelai's interview with Jonathon Lipsin, founder of the legendary Incredible Records, who flew into Israel from Switzerland for the Mickey Hart concert and has been hanging out in the Holy Land for a couple of weeks.

Jonathon Lipson has more music industry stories to tell than there are ears to hear them in the entire human race. This man is like the Forest Gump of the music industry - the likes of Paul Robeson and Pete Seger were regulars at his parents dinner table in Toronto where he grew up "a red diaper baby," secular Zionist turned Israeli soldier, entrepreneur and founder of what Leonard Cohen called "The Greatest Record Store in the World."

 Read more about Jonathan Lipson in this article about the closing of his store after 30 years, and listen to our interview with him on "Sunday Night Live," Sunday September 1st, 7pm Israel time (9am Pacific, 10am Mountain, 11am Central, 12Noon Eastern) on www.radiofreenachlaot.com

WIN TWO TICKETS TO MICKEY HART IN JERUSALEM FROM RADIO FREE NACHLAOT!

Come one, come all - all ye Grateful Dead / Mickey Hart / Rhythm Devils / Drum Ki lovers, friends and fans ... It's time to score some goodies from Radio Free Nachlaot!


Win 2 Tickets to MICKEY HART (Grateful Dead) @ Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival -Steve Levine will be giving them away Tuesday night after 10pm Israel time during Radio Free Nachlaot's "That's Rock 'N' Roll" Show - listen to win at www.radiofreenachlaot.com (you know we're "Where Shlomo Meets Jerry" (and Jerry's friends!!!) ♥

If you're worried about not being able to win tickets, just CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS TO SEE MICKEY HART IN JERUSALEM ON THURSDAY AUGUST 22nd!

 

MICKEY HART BAND COMING TO ISRAEL AUGUST 22nd!!!

The biggest news EVER for Deadheads in the Holy Land - 

Legendary Grateful Dead Percussionist MICKEY HART is coming to Israel!

Mickey and his band will be headlining the Jerusalem Season of Culture series, and playing at the Mt. Scopus Ampitheater on AUGUST 22nd.

Tickets are 135NIS if purchased before July 31st, after that ticket prices are 150NIS. CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS!

Do we really have to explain to you what this means, or the significance? Mickey is the only member of the Grateful Dead to visit Israel (so far - hey Bobby, Phil, Billy ... we're waiting!!!!) and it's going to be a GEVALDT - all Israel-based Deadheads (and percussion aficionados) MUST attend!!! 

Keep tuned to Radio Free Nachlaot for all things Mickey as we get closer to the show - ticket giveaways, trivia games and more as we celebrate Mickey Hart coming to Israel!