MUSIC
SATURDAY, MAY 19
7:00 PM

Alicia Svigals:  The Yellow Ticket
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

$29 advance; $34 door
https://nationalsawdust.org/event/alicia-svigals-the-yellow-ticket/

The Yellow Ticket is an old German silent film about a Jewish woman in Tzarist Russia who is compelled by circumstances to get a "yellow ticket" registering her as a prostitute, which permits her to get around the travel restrictions imposed on Jews and pursue her medical studies in St. Petersburg during the day while working at a brothel at night (this is all historically accurate, by the way).  Who better to compose, play, and sing an accompanying score than Alicia Svigals?  She was, of course, co-founder of the great klezmerrevitalization band The Klezmatics and has powered on since:  a fabulous stylist, deeply imbued with the klezmer tradition but keenly attuned to contemporary styles.  She'll be accompanied by Marilyn Lerner, an improvising pianist from Toronto who herself has a foot in the klezmer camp.  (They're also putting this on in the Ashokan Center in the Catskills tomorrow, SUNDAY, MAY 20.)

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:   I have too much respect for Alicia Svigals to send you to Traif after this.  No, Ms. Svigals deserves a recommendation of Delaware and Hudson,* the wonderful Mid-Atlantic restaurant that, despite its Michelin star, remains one of New York's most criminally under-appreciated dining spots.