Monday, November 15, 2021
What’s nu? Monthly concerts in Boston showcase Jewish music created during the pandemic
Clarinetist Nat Seelen noticed a trend among his colleagues in the Boston Jewish music world: They all had a lot of new music they'd written during the pandemic, but concert bookings and tours had not returned to their pre-COVID levels.
So Seelen is trying to reconnect musicians with audiences with the launch of the monthly Boston Festival of New Jewish Music, for which he serves as artistic director. This series of free concerts takes place at The Boston Synagogue in the West End, once Boston's most vibrant Jewish neighborhood.
"It used to be that a festival would be about bringing people from New York or Berlin or Tel Aviv to Boston," says Seelen, while taking a break from practicing and changing his 1-year-old's diapers in his Newton home. "But we have Boston musicians who tour to all of those places. And right now, since folks aren't touring a lot, the idea is to have them all play here and show what they've been working on."
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