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23rd Jewish Music Festival in San Francisco Bay Area |
 The Jewish Music Festival (JMF), now in its 23rd year, will be taking place throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, March 22-30, 2008. The multi-cultural event challenges notions of any modern-day Jewish ghetto, where traditional meets experimental, sacred meets secular, and Jewish meets the world. Festival organizers consciously cross wires between time and place, making connections across Bay Area communities and from local to global scenes.
Among the diversity of offerings at eight venues around the Bay Area, the Festival includes: an unprecedented weeklong, nine-artist residency and commissioned work; the debut of the West Coast’s first Jewish music prize called the Shofar Award (named for the Jewish iconic ram’s horn instrument); the Festival’s first offering of an all-festival pass ...
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