Yid Vicious w/ special guests the Vicious Brass Band and dulcimerist Phil Wendt

Saturday, June 12, 2004

Klezmer...

Wherein, Madison\'s prize-winning purveyors of ready-made Klezmer will, in addition to their usual hijinks, augment the hot air output of hornist Kia Karlen with such local valve-ticklers as:

David Austin, esteemed Yid Vicious alum; Bob Jacobson of the Theramones and Que Flavor; Anna Purnell of the Reptile Palace Orchestra and tuba maven David Spies of the Denton (TX) Klezmorim.

Who can imagine such unimagined flights of music brilliance, where Old World songs and dances of joy and woe clash with the cacophony of 100% genuine modern-day orchestra-grade musical instruments of forged metal tubing, manufactured and tuned to the most exacting specifications?

What can compare to the artistry of these titans of the tubes, this collective colossus of copper, who use air, force and saliva with such precision as to impress the most curmudgeonly of scholars, and who use these means to emote in a manner by turns moving and startling?

Take into consideration: included with the nominal price of admission, at no extra cost, you will witness the most astonishing spectacle of Phil Wendt, who, with delicate manipulations of tiny hammers on strings, evokes the most translucent and mysterious sound from the hammer dulcimer, whose subtle and ethereal tone stands in stark contrast to the thunderous shreiking brutality of the aforementioned amassed brass forces.

The venerable Mother Fool\'s coffeeiarium, long heralded as an important avenue of expression and discourse, where the most provocative and accomplished of performing and visual artists have long plied their trades, will host this once-or-twice-in-a-lifetime, not-to-be missed event in the heart of Madison\'s prestigious new condominium district.