Mazel Tov Cocktail Party! to Bring Their Message of Unity to Caffe Lena, July 16th

SARATOGA SPRINGS – Celebrating unity with a healthy dose of fantastic musicianship, Mazel Tov Cocktail Party! will take the stage at Caffe Lena on July 16th. Blending a myriad of different cultures and their traditional music, this will surely make for an entertaining night of music.

Mazel Tov Cocktail Party! (a “good vibes explosion”) celebrates our shared humanity with a multi-generational, multi-ethnic group of collaborators that embrace the diversity of today’s America through their unique take on a multitude of traditional roots music. Featured on shows such as NPR’s Morning Edition and France’s RFI Sessions Live, Mazel Tov Cocktail Party was created in response to the current climate of polarization that pervades our daily lives.

In these uncertain times, it’s a chance to come together to celebrate our common humanity and foster joy, positivity, and togetherness. Mazel Tov Cocktail Party has received rave reviews across North America and Europe: France’s Le Monde says: “Mazel Tov Cocktail Party is a breath of fresh air, an incentive to dance … In the face of the overwhelming negativity and alarming rise of hatred and intolerance in today’s world, let’s breathe and dance together … More than a suggestion, an injunction.”

Roots World says: “An informal cocktail party typically lasts a few hours, and this one ends all too soon. Five stars.”

Mazel Tov Cocktail Party has performed at venues that include Paris’ famed 2000-seater Theatre du Chatelet and Viena’s Porgy & Bess Club, and in venues large and small in France, Holland, Austria, and the USA. Conceived and created by Grammy-nominated “ebullient clarinet wizard” (Time Out NY) David Krakauer and multi-instrumentalist/producer Kathleen Tagg, Mazel Tov Cocktail Party showcases an international crew of high-octane musicians. Krakauer is the Godfather to Tagg’s quirky keys & production, Iranian dynamo Martin Shamoonpour’s hand drumming, jazz guru Jerome Harris’ driving bass, rapper Sarah MK’s trenchant rhymes & guitar-meister Yoshie Fruchter’s sinuous lines. In addition, Jeremy Flower, Socalled and Selwa Abd (aka Bergsonist) produced beats to round out the sound for layering with the live performance.

Together they bring their enormous musical and cultural diversity to the project and collaborate to create powerful original material. Old forms are celebrated both by bringing them into the 21st century and expanding the context to make room for new stories. Mazel Tov Cocktail Party’s influences are global, but the sound they create collectively has produced something uniquely their own. Familiar dance forms such as Polka or Square Dance never sounded this way before, with hand drumming, propulsive electronic beats, lyrics calling for catharsis and positivity, deep grooves and Krakauer’s wailing clarinet crying out for us to join together, celebrate and feel the power in our aliveness.

TICKET INFORMATION:

Doors open at 6:30 pm for the 7:00 pm show. Tickets are $32.00 for general admission, $28.00 for members, and $16.00 for students and children. To get your tickets, please click here. For those that wish to catch the show via livestream, they may do so by purchasing access for $5.00. To purchase access to the livestream, please click here.