Orchestra Euphonos, Sergiu Popa, Jake Shulman-Ment & Eleonore Weill

projects will perform individual sets and collaborations for a not-to-be-missed concert featuring master musicians touring from New York City and Montreal.Orchestra Euphonos is a Bay Area-based Eastern European folk and klezmer band. Their uplifting sound is characterized by a brass and woodwind melodic front line. Orchestra Euphonos performs songs and melodies from Romania and Moldova. Their performances are joyous occasions filled with wild takes on old favorites, group improvisations and more than a few opportunities to dance.Peter Bonos (trumpet), Balder Ten Cate (cimbalom), Zina Pozen (accordion), Matthew Stein (Violin), Asaf Ophir (clarinet) Travis Hendrix (bass), & Ivan Velev (percussion) https://youtu.be/PKXazsvfpkohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_IwA7ygXUQSergiu Popa - AccordionSergiu was born in 1981, in Chisinau, Moldova. He had completed his studies at Stefan Neaga music college as well as two years of studies at the Conservatory of Moldova before emigrating to Canada in 2002. Since a young age, he also simultaneously studied traditional folk and Roma (Gypsy) styles with his father, Ion Popa, himself a well-recognized Gypsy accordionist in Moldova. Over many years of playing alongside his father at weddings, he became familiar with Jewish, Turkish, Russian, Serbian and Bulgarian styles as well. Despite his young age, he is quickly establishing a reputation as one of most brilliant accordionists in Canada today. He has co-founded the Sergiu Popa Ensemble with his wife (violinist Jessica Gal), a group which was discovered by Musique Multi-Montréal, a reputable world music agency, in 2006. Since then, they have performed at numerous festivals and concert series in Quebec, and were selected to receive the 2007 Radio-Canada Étoiles Galaxie award.http://www.sergiupopa.com/en/index.htmlJake Shulman-Ment - violin, vocals, accordion, guitarEleonore Weill - vocals, flutes, accordion, hurdy gurdyInternationally acclaimed musicians from New York and France, Jake Shulman-Ment and Eleonore Weill share an exceptionally expressive and intimate understanding of klezmer and Yiddish folk song. In this program, they perform old songs of political and social resistance, wandering, and love, instrumental dances and improvisations, and spiritual melodies. Combining music they have played since childhood with material they have collected along their many roads through Europe and North America, as well as original compositions, they explore the boundaries of Yiddish music with creative repertoire, instrumentation, and interpretation. The concert will also include participatory dancing.http://www.jakeshulmanment.comhttps://www.eleonoreweill.comhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz0ebnGwT3Uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ICUhuzryPI