Guide Category: Entertainers, Performers
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Jewish Performing Arts Academy
Instruction for high-school students in Jewish song--vocal and instrumental--and dance; four groups: the Shiga'on Singers, the Shiga'on Dancers, the Maxwell Street Junior Klezmer Band, and the Jewish Community Youth Orchestra; performances for community o
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Debbie Sue Goodman
Performs stand-up comedy based on her humorous books, "Still Single" and "Still Dating." She is also the author of the book, "My Husband the Stranger." Debbie Sue is an author, comedian, impersonator, vocalist and a dating advice columnist.
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Smoked Fish Productions
A comedian performing one woman shows.
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Stories by Stuhlman
Jewish storyteller.
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Alan Avrum Levin
Musician/singer/comedian performing one-man shows. Also one-man band at weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs with Israeli, Chasidic, klezmer, and American music.
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Nancy Shapiro-Pikelny
(847) 859-9166 [email protected] http://www.storytellernancy.com Acclaimed storyteller of Jewish folktales, family lore, original narratives and historical stories, including her renowned Holocaust story "A Window of Beauty." Educational and en
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Charlene Brooks
7855 N. Kilbourn Ave. Skokie IL 60076 (847) 721-6076 (847) 675-6731 (847) 675-6087 [email protected] Singer, songwriter and actress performing cabaret, Jewish, Hebrew, Broadway and jazz. Cantoral soloist. Author and performer of "Life Stinks! And Other Things
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JRC’s Heavy Shtetl Klezmer Band
Klezmer band made up of members of the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation.
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Shircago
Jewish a cappella vocal ensemble in original arrangements. Renaissance music to modern Israeli, American pop, religious, secular; for b'nai mitzvah, luncheons, conferences, and by private engagement.
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Liz Zoller Cohen
Singer, pianist, cantorial soloist. Popular, standards, jazz, Broadway, Jewish music and liturgy, cocktail piano for all occasions.