A Goyishe Christmas with Stephanie Blythe, Steven Blier & Two Barihunks

Joshua Jeremiah & John Brancy

We mentioned the New York Festival of Song's A Goyishe Christmas to You! Yuletide Classics by Jewish Songwriters back in July, but figured it was time for a reminder. There will be two performances at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center on Tuesday, November 29 and Thursday, December 1. The program includes not one, but two barihunks who have been featured on this site,  John Brancy and Joshua Jeremiah. They will joined by international opera star Stephanie Blythe, Lauren Worsham, Mary Testa, Josh Breitzer and the inimitable Steven Blier.

The evening will be filled by Yuletide songs from Jewish songwriters including Frank Loesser, Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn, Johnny Marks, Irving Berlin, Jay Livingston and many others. Rumor has it that the holiday classic "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer" will be sung in Yiddish, Klezmer-style. And you wonder why we love New York? 

There will also be a complimentary wine reception after the show and we'd love for our readers to send us your iPhone pictures with the singers. Send them to Barihunks@gmail.com. Call 212.501.3330 for tickets or visit the NY Festival of Song website.

Blythe and Blier together already guarantee an evening of fun of non-stop entertainment, so the two barihunks are icing on the Yule log.  Here's a little teaser for the show. 



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New York Festival of Song's Barihunk-filled New Season

Steven Blier's always entertaining and interesting New York Festival of Song has announced its 2011-12 five-program series at Merkin Concert Hall. As always, the Festival of Song will be programmed with some of the best young talent in opera and once again there will be plenty of barihunks to enjoy.

Andrew Garland

The season opens on Oct. 25 and 27 with In the Memory Palace: Games of Love featuring barihunk Andrew Garland, who will be joined by Michelle Areyzaga, Rebecca Jo Loeb and Paul Appleby. The program centers around the premiere of Gabriel Kahane’s song cycle, The Memory Palace, which evokes scenes of East Coast solitude with his haunting music and mordant lyrics.

Jesse Blumberg & Timothy McDevitt

On Novemeber 17th, the festival will reprise Manning the Canon: Songs of Gay Life with barihunks Jesse Blumberg and Timothy McDevitt, joined by Scott Murphee and Matt Boehler.  The program is a "touching celebration of the lives and art of gay men in works that reflect the heritage of gay composers in art song, as well as contemporary songs about the gay experience."

Joahua Jeremiah & John Brancy

On November 29 and December 1 the Festival will feature barihunks John Brancy and Joshua Jeremiah joined by Lauren Worsham, Mary Testa, Josh Breitzer for  A Goyishe Christmas to You! Yuletide Classics by Jewish Songwriters.

Jesse Blumberg

On February 14 and 16th, Jesse Blumberg returns for A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up along with Anne-Carolyn Bird, Liza Forrester, Alex Mansoori and Jesse Blumberg.  The show is described as a “quirky survey of the awkwardness, pain, lust and perversity of contemporary relationships."

The season concludes on March 11th with New York to Paris, Paris to Paradise featuring members of Caramoor’s 2012 Vocal Rising Stars program.

You can click HERE for tickets and additional program information.

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Joshua Jeremiah for dessert

Joshua Jeremiah will sing for his supper

If you're in New York City on Monday, June 6th, you will definitely want to head to Henry's on the Manhattan's Upper West Side. The inimitable Steven Blier, who leads the New York Festival of Song, has put together the tenth installment of "Sing For Your Supper," with some amazing talent that includes barihunk Josh Jeremiah.

The program is called "The Girls of Summer" and the theme is the pleasure of summer and the perennial allure of women. Jeremiah will be joined by Matt Boehler, Mary Testa, Andrew Owens and the amazing Laquita Mitchell. The show starts at 10 PM, but you'll want to come earlier for dinner at this popular bistro.

Reservations are required, so click on the highlighted text and book now!

A native of Myerstown, Pennsylvania, Josh Jeremiah graduated with a magna cum laude with a Bachelors of Music from the Shenandoah Conservatory and a Masters of Music and Artists Diploma from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. He has been a young artist program participant at the Seattle Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Wolf Trap Opera Company and Cincinnati Opera.

In Seattle he performed the title role of Gianni Schicchi, Sam in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, the title role of Falstaff and Uberto in Pergolesi’s La serva padrona. In Cincinnati Opera he performed the role of Judge 3 in Margaret Garner and Count Ceprano in Rigoletto.

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