[{"ID":35506,"post_type":"programs","title":"Folk Art Reflections: Concert with \u00c9l\u00e9onore Weill","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2025-11-20 20:55:18","name":"folk-art-reflections-concert-with-eleonore-weill","parent":0,"modified":"2025-11-20 20:57:21","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":36,"name":"Access","slug":"access","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":36,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":35507,"id":35507,"title":"Eleonore_20150605_350(1)","filename":"Eleonore_20150605_3501-scaled.jpg","filesize":441050,"url":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Eleonore_20150605_3501-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/folk-art-reflections-concert-with-eleonore-weill\/eleonore_20150605_3501\/","alt":"","author":"30","description":"","caption":"","name":"eleonore_20150605_3501","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":35506,"date":"2025-11-20 20:53:28","modified":"2025-11-20 20:53:28","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1702,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Eleonore_20150605_3501-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Eleonore_20150605_3501-300x199.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":199,"medium_large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Eleonore_20150605_3501-768x511.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":511,"large":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Eleonore_20150605_3501-scaled.jpg","large-width":2560,"large-height":1702,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Eleonore_20150605_3501-1536x1021.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1021,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Eleonore_20150605_3501-2048x1362.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1362}},"list_image":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Eleonore_20150605_3501-scaled.jpg","headline":"Folk Art Reflections: Concert with \u00c9l\u00e9onore Weill","di_date":"2025-12-22","excerpt":"<p>The Folk Art Reflections Music Series offers free, live music programs designed for individuals living with memory loss, their families, and care partners.<\/p>\n","start_time":"11:00 am","end_time":"12:00 pm","admission":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":"<p class=\"p1\">The Folk Art Reflections Music Series offers free, live music programs designed for individuals living with memory loss, their families, and care partners. This special, interactive performance will take place via Zoom, with an opportunity to sing along and speak with the musician.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Join us on Monday, December 22nd from 11 am &#8211; 12 pm Eastern Time, for a very special virtual concert with \u00c9l\u00e9onore Weill, a\u00a0Jewish French singer and multi-instrumentalist who performs Klezmer and Occitan dance tunes, original, old, traditional, well-known and forgotten songs of resistance, peace, justice and love in French, Occitan, English, and Yiddish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This program is free, but space is limited\u2014registration is required, and a Zoom invitation will be emailed to you. For more details, or to register:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:egronke@folkartmuseum.org\"><span class=\"s1\">egronke@folkartmuseum.org<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or 212. 265. 0605.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>About the Musician:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">French-American vocalist\/multi-instrumentalist\u00a0\u00c9l\u00e9onore\u00a0Weill is acclaimed for her soulful interpretations of Yiddish, French and Occitane traditional and original musics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hailing from a musical family in Southern France and now based in Brooklyn, Weill performs and records in a variety of ensembles. In addition to her acclaimed socially-conscious Yiddish music ensemble Tsibele, she performs internationally with the Baroque Music Center of Versailles (C.M.B.V.), Orchestre National de Toulouse, Frank London, Walter Thompson, Kenny Wollessen, Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar ensemble, Midwood, Les Saqueboutiers, Miqueu Montanaro, and many others. She has additionally received commissions for composition and performed with theater companies such as Doppelskope, Bread and Puppets, Ensemble Oneiroi, and Great Small Works. She has performed for audiences on a diverse range of stages including the Palace of Versailles, the Hammerstein Ballroom, Symphony Space, the Brooklyn and Philadelphia Folk Festivals, as well as at leading international Yiddish festivals including Yiddish New York, the Ashkenaz Festival (Toronto), Kleztival (S\u00e3o Paulo), KlezKanada (Quebec) and Yidstock (Massachusetts). With performance degrees from France\u2019s National Conservatories in Paris and Toulouse, Weill holds a Master\u2019s in ethnomusicology from the Sorbonne and Columbia University. Performing on recorder, wooden flutes, piano, accordion and hurdy-gurdy, Weill\u2019s music is informed by her conviction that traditional songs have great power to create social change.<\/p>\n","day":"22","month":"Dec","year":"2025","link":"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/folk-art-reflections-concert-with-eleonore-weill\/"}]