Mar 09
Tags: Plaxico Burress, purim, synagogue
A very truncated version of the Gordys played at the United Synagogue of Hoboken’s Purim festival tonight. Instead of our usual sprawl of 8 or 9 players, we were pared down to just Adam on clarinet, Barbara on accordion, me on guitar and Justin on bass. Not even a drummer! But we did a pretty good version of our world-famous Klezmer set, as Adam and his wife led lots of circle dancing on the floor in front of us.
Highlights included:
- Seeing Pamela, a fellow Gordy who has been AWOL in Weehawken with her brand-new baby while the house in Hoboken is pretty much rebuilt from the roof down;
- Seeing several young kids in Star Wars costumes (Purim has been described as a kind of Jewish Halloween);
- Doing an encore for an enthusiastic crowd;
- For our encore, playing Barbara’s Freilach, a brand-new original tune written by our very own Babs!
I missed out on the upstairs festivities, which apparently featured Adam as Plaxico Burress. Really.
— Dave
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