Kitka & Davka In Concert - Old and New World Jewish Music
Kitka & Davka In Concert: Old and New World Jewish Music
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Produced and written by
Leonard Merrill Kurz
Directed by Ashley James
Edited by Kathryn Golden

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Award of Excellence, The Accolade Awards, 2007

Broadcast on over 40 U.S. public television stations as of October, 2007 and still counting. Selected for screening at the Dallas Video Festival, Florida Media Market, IndieFest U.S.A. and still going strong at the festivals.

“It’s a joy to hear the beauty and feel the cultural richness of Kitka & Davka in Concert, an attractively composed presentation of old and new Jewish music. While the production is obviously lifted by the power and depth of the music, it’s the skill of the filmmaker and production team that brings the experience to life. Most concerts on film are boring; Kitka & Davka succeeds as entertainment. That’s a high compliment. Viewers will also appreciate that the music is placed in historical context and that interviews are included as a DVD extra.”
— Thomas Baker, Ph.D., Chairperson, The Accolade

DAVKA:

“The wildest, most unhinged drum solos I have ever witnessed... It’s a rock show with pyrotechnic grandeur, just without the rock or the pyrotechnics.”
     — Rob Harvilla, EAST BAY EXPRESS

“Davka’s four musicians whirl their spells with a supple interplay of violin, cello, bassoon and percussion. Their compositions and improvisations, swirling around a center of enlivened klezmer melodies and pulsing Middle Eastern rhythms, weave a dancing, winding path through the diversity of Jewish cultural and historic experience…”
     — Jerry Karp, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

KITKA:

“Simply amazing harmonies…truly this is the most wonderful singing I have ever heard.”
     — David Crosby, CROSBY, STILLS, AND NASH

“The singing of KITKA was tangy, excellently in tune and verbally communicative.”
     — Andrew Porter, THE NEW YORKER

“KITKA’s songs are hauntingly beautiful, simple, yet otherworldly. The rich sound these women produce resonates as if energized by the universe itself, as if it were calling all live beings and still matter into togetherness and unity.”
     — Ching Chang, SAN FRANCISCO BAY TIMES

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