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A Night of Simcha: Klezmer and Poetry! In-Person
Enjoy the klezmer musical stylings of Ira Khonen Temple and Michael Winograd, as well as the poetry of Esopus writer Andy Izenson!
Ira Temple is a multi-instrumentalist, music director, and embedded cultural organizer living in Brooklyn, NY.
Ira plays on and off Broadway, Recent credits include playing in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club on Broadway, Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, and music directing Indecent at the Weston Playhouse.
Ira is also an active simcha band leader, playing in and leading bands for every occasion.
Ira was a founder of the radical-traditional Yiddish music group Tsibele and works as the music director for Laura Elkeslassy’s Jewish Moroccan concert project Divas in Exile
Andy Izenson is a transsexual wizard, anarchosurrealist ancestor worker and Jewish ritualist, and probably your lawyer, who lives on a trans commune on unceded Lenape land in the Hudson Valley. You can find Andy's writing in the Advocate, Scarleteen, the Brill Journal of Religion and the Arts, the Journal of Critical Research on Religion, the Queer Magic Anthology, 24 Magazine, Sibling Rivalry Press, the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic Anthology, and the After Marriage Equality collection as well as the first Listen To Your Skin anthology.
- Date:
- Thursday, April 16, 2026 Show more dates
- Time:
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Town of Esopus Library
- Campus:
- Town of Esopus Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Teen event Adult music programs