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Bunny Breakfast returns March 24 Klezmer clarinet! Scholar-musician Ken Frieden featured in Sunday concert here
By Kathryne Rakowski
Mark your calendars for breakfast with the Easter Bunny on Sunday, March 24 from 8-10 a.m. at the Applebees in North Syracuse, located at 628 S. Main St. All are welcome to the annual Bunny Breakfast Flapjack Fundraiser, now in its 12th year, to benefit the CanTeen Kids Zone at the North Syracuse Family Festival which will be held in May. The funds raised from the Bunny Breakfast will help support all the activities the Kids Zone has to offer. According to Patricia Fergerson, chairperson of Friends of the Village of North Syracuse, this is a good cause well worth supporting. “We always have fun things for the kids like a bounce house and face painting,” she said. “We’re hoping to have more this year for the older aged children like some games they’d enjoy.” Tickets for the breakfast are $10 for adults and $7 for children and seniors. Tickets must be purchased in advance and can be reserved by contacting Tony Burkinshaw in the Village of North Syracuse Parks & Recreation Office at 315-458-8050 before March 17. Breakfast includes three pancakes, two pieces of bacon and unlimited orange juice or coffee. In addition to breakfast, the Easter Bunny will be on hand for pictures.
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Clarinetist Ken Frieden and his Wandering Klezmorim will perform a free concert at Liverpool Public Library at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 3, as part of the library’s winterspring concert series, “Melting Pot Music.” The library is located at 310 Tulip St., in Liverpool.
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The 12th annual Bunny Breakfast will be held March 24 to benefit the CanTeen Kids Zone. Youth who attend the CanTeen, a youth center in Cicero, will be volunteering at the breakfast as greeters and servers. Fergerson encourages families to come enjoy a good breakfast because it
supports an event that is beloved in the community. “By supporting the fundraiser you’re supporting a family oriented event that has something to offer everyone in the whole village,” Fergerson
said. For more information about the breakfast or festival, visit the North Syracuse Family Festival Facebook Page at facebook.com/ NorthSyracuseFamilyFestival/.
Liverpool Chamber to host online auction By Kathryne Rakowski
The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce is preparing for its fourth annual Spring into Auction online auction to benefit the chamber begining March 29. A variety of items and experiences with values of $25 to $1,000 will be available to bid on. Funds raised will support the chamber’s many programs, though the fundraiser is about more than just raising money to support their mission of helping businesses thrive, said Chamber Director Lucretia Hudzinski. “It’s a great way for us to bring in income, but it’s also a way for us to touch base with the community and for people to see all that we have to offer,” she said. “There are
so many ways we help businesses grow.” The chamber hosts learning programs and networking opportunities such as Coffee and Friends which is hosted twice a month. The chamber also coordinates holiday events such as their Christmas Program where they gave away $1,500 worth of gift cards, and a Valentine’s Day program where they provided over 1,300 cards to local seniors and veterans. They also provide goody bags to small businesses during Small Business Week, and plan ribbon cutting ceremonies for a variety of businesses throughout the year. “We love to support our local businesses and the community as a whole,” Hudzinski said. Auction l Page 2
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The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce’s Spring into Auction begins March 29 and will feature a wide variety of items to bid on.
By Russ Tarby Contributing Writer
he Wandering Klezmorim featuring clarinetist Ken Frieden performs a free concert of Old World Jewish jazz and original compositions at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 3, at the Carman Community Room, Liverpool Public Library, 310 Tulip St., in Liverpool. Besides being a world-class musician, Frieden works as the B.G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies at Syracuse University. Frieden’s consummate clarinet work recreates the music of Old World Yiddish conclaves dating back to the 15th century. Klezmer music was later carried to America by immigrants in the 1890s. The music is easily identifiable by its expressive melodies reminiscent of the human voice, complete with laughing and weeping. The Wandering Klezmorim includes Frieden on clarinet, Baldwinsville native Judy Schmid on accordion, Sam Young on euphonium and Mark Wolfe on drums. In the summer of 1996, the Wandering Klezmorim were featured at the Ninth Annual Klezmer Festival in Safed, Isreal. In April 2002, Frieden played clarinet and served as assistant musical director for Syracuse Stage’s production of “The Dybbuk.” He also performed and recorded as a member of Jonathan Dinkin & Klezmercuse. Like all klezmer combos, the Wandering Klezmorim perform music for circle dances such as horas and freylekhs as well as waltzes, mazurkas and polkas. One of the most popular New World Yiddish hits is 1932’s “Bei Mir Bistu Shein,” which has been performed and recorded by many contemporary klezmer bands both in Europe and America. As a Judaic scholar, Ken Frieden studies Yiddish and Hebrew writing in the broader contexts of European and world literature. From this comparative perspective, he recently completed his fifth book, “Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction.” The library’s winter-spring concert series, “Melting Pot Music,” continues at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 11 with Irish tunes performed by fiddler Diamond Joe Davoli and pianist Bob Halligan. And the concert series concludes on April 14 with lively African dance tunes performed by the Kambuyu Marimba Ensemble. The “Melting Pot Music” series is presented by the library in collaboration with the Liverpool Is The Place Concert Committee; with financial support from NYS Council on the Arts administered here by CNY Arts; 315-457-0310; Lpl.org.
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business news: Liverpool Chamber names 2023 Business of the Year.
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sports: C-NS, Liverpool hoops reach Class AA semifinals.
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