Date: Tuesday 29 May 2007

Time: 8pm

Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1

Price: £10 / £5

Fayvish, Yiddish Acoustic Pop music at its best, brings together what has been separated in the past: Acoustic Pop and Yiddish Song. Yiddish texts by Itzik Manger, Peretz Markish, Mordechai Gebirtig, Peretz Miransky or by the singer himself, meet with contemporary singer-/songwriter music. The songs are about love, wretched poets, revolution or leave-taking. A solo project of Fabian Schnedler, a respected Yiddish singer from Berlin (voice & guitar).

Fayvish is music of the global “shtetl” neither fish (not even gefilte!) nor meat, rather fish-burger with horseraddish...

Fabian Schnedler (b. 1973) studied singing with Andrea Hofmann and Jessica Ryder. He speaks Yiddish fluently, having studied at the University of Trier and having attended international Yiddish courses in Oxford and Brussels. His extensive knowledge of Klezmer music was gained at workshops given by Jewish music specialists including Michael Alpert, Adrienne Cooper, Sruli Dresdner, Alan Bern, Kurt Bjornling. He took a degree in Literature and Ethnomusicology at Freie Universitaet in Berlin. He also studied at Ernst Busch, Germany’s principal drama school, and toured with theatre companies including Robert Wilson’s ‘Saints and Singing’. He is a pioneer in Yiddish Acoustic Pop Music with his solo project Fayvish. He has sung with the Yardniks Klezmer Ensemble, and now plays the ‘poyk’ (drum) and guitar, leads dances and sings with Tants in Gartn Eydn, Berlin’s popular Klezmer dance wedding band.