The Maxwell Street Klezmer Quintet performs a concert led by founder Lori Lippitz, who created the band to bring back to life the lost art and culture of the community that was destroyed in the Holocaust. The band was named in tribute to the spirit of Chicago’s early immigrants, whose music uniquely blended folk songs from their eastern European roots with early American jazz and swing.This event is part of the Wilmette Public Library's One Book, Everybody Reads program, which is featuring author Affinity Konar's Holocaust novel Mischling this spring.
The One Book series is funded by Friends of the Wilmette Public Library. Community partners for the 2017 One Book program include The Book Stall, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, The Klezmer Music Foundation, League of Women Voters of Wilmette, Make It Better, NS/Modern Luxury, Rotary Club of Wilmette, Sheridan Road, Unsilence, Village of Kenilworth, Village of Wilmette, Wilmette Beacon, Wilmette/Kenilworth Chamber of Commerce, Wilmette Harbor Rotary Club, Wilmette Life, and Wilmette Public Schools District 39.
For more information, visit www.wilmettelibrary.info/onebook or call 847-256-6930.
Thursday Apr 13, 2017
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CDT
April 13 at 7:00 p.m.
Wilmette Public Library Auditorium
1242 Wilmette Avenue, Wilmette 60091
No admission fee
Barbara Goodman
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