Mama Doni & The Mama Doni Band Present HAMENTASCHEN HIP HOP at Museum of Jewish Heritage, 3/20

In a spirit of outrageous fun, Mama Doni & The Mama Doni Band bring their special brand of "funky music with a Jewish twist" to an all-ages "Hamentaschen Hip Hop" show for Purim at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 20 at The Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, NYC. This concert is made possible by a generous gift from the Margaret Neubart Foundation Trust.

Doni Zasloff Thomas, a.k.a. Mama Doni, is the lead singer/songwriter of The Mama Doni Band, winner of the Simcha Award for "Inspiring Joy Through Music" in competition with more than 100 bands from 15 different countries at the 2008 International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam. The band celebrates Jewish culture with irrepressible zest in its high-energy, interactive family rock concerts filled with catchy pop songs that break the mold of traditional Jewish music. Quirky, offbeat, and unpredictable, The Mama Doni Band offers up a contagious and unexpected blend of reggae, rock, disco, Latin, klezmer and "Jewgrass" - all woven together with a hip Jewish sensibility and a zany sense of humor.

In a spirit of fun and ruach, Mama Doni's Purim show will be filled to the brim with dancing, sing-alongs, and a costume parade, with songs like "The Kooky Cookie," "Costume Conumdrum," and "Hey, Man! You're Acting Like Haman!" As a special treat, there'll also be songs from Mama Doni's new CD, Shabbat Shaboom, with reggae dancing to "Mazel Tov," rocking out to a Latin dance beat in "Challah-Day!," and some crazy "Jewgrass" dancing to a song all about family, "Mishpocha." Hip young kids and their even hipper parents and grandparents should be ready to get up and dance at this spirited Jewish rock concert! Mama Doni looks forward to meeting fans and signing copies of Shabbat Shaboom after the show.

According to The Star-Ledger, Doni Zasloff Thomas "is proud to have a schtick. And that schtick, she says, is to ‘Jewify' all forms of music - from country to reggae to holiday songs." Kids' media authority Amy Kraft, of Media Macaroni, enthused, "We were all laughing out loud ... Listen as Mama Doni spreads around some challah-day spirit in her inimitable cross between Sheryl Crow and Tone Loc."

Mama Doni, a resident of Montclair, New Jersey, hopes that her music will add some Jewish flavor to the lives of people everywhere. She speaks with great passion about preserving the priceless Yiddish and Jewish spirit by imbuing it with a contemporary vibe that connects to life in our times.

INFO: (646) 437-4202. www.mjhnyc.org

 

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