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roll, all harnessed in a crisp sound that
is the live hookah experience. The disc
includes 11 original songs and a siz-
zling interpretation of Billy Preston's
"Sister Sugar," according to publicist
Holly Goodman.
Hookahville, the band's home-
thrown music festival held Memorial
Day weekend somewhere in rural
Ohio, will be a prelude to hookah's
first international show in Negril,
Jamaica. Though friends and fans are
invited to join the band for Jamm-aica
`99 in June, the music-filled campout
in Ohio that drew more than 11,000
people last year might be a more
viable escape for Michiganders.
Cleveland, Ohio, native Dave Katz,
the band's co-founder, is the oldest in
a musical family that includes brothers
who sing with the Cleveland
Orchestra Choir and in off-Broadway
shows. As a teenager in Shaker
Heights, Katz started a glam-rock
band named Haven and if ft home
before high school graduation to pur-
sue his music career in California.
"I made a video that rose to No. 3
on the charts in Europe," says Katz,
"and by the time I was 18, I had
moved to London to become a rock
),
'n' roll star.
Katz soon returned to Ohio, how-
ever, and reluctantly enrolled in classes
at Ohio State University. It was there
that he started a band called Local
Color and met the musicians who
would become ekoostik hookah.
Katz's musical heritage reaches back
to his grandfather, an opera singer in
Russia. "My grandfather was a
Conservative Jew who often sat in for
cantors at various synagogues," says
Katz. "My father also sang at the tern-
ple.
Katz was brought up in a Reform
synagogue and chanted his bar mitz-
vah service.
Other band members include
drummer Eric Lanese, Starbuck and
Sweney, all from Ohio, and Ed
McGee, a vocalist and rhythm guitar
player from New Hampshire.
Most music today knocks you over
and rapes you. We sort of pull the
crowd closer to us," said Sweney in a
recent interview. That's the essence of
the "hookahfied" sound.

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Praises

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"Honorable Menschen," those who work behind-the-scenes to make a difference in our
community, will be the focus of the 1999-2000 edition of the JN SourceBook.
Tell us about someone you know who is your mitzvah role model. Often these
"Honorable Menschen" work quietly with passionate dedication. Many of these individu-
als will be celebrated in the SourceBook for their unselfish acts of loving kindness.
Now is the time for you to sing their praises so they can inspire us all.

Nominations are being sought in these areas a
• Education/History
• Religious Life
• Entertainment
• Health and Medicine
• Goods and Services
• Celebrations/Hospitality

Mail or fax to:
Keri Guten Cohen
JN SourceBook Editor
at
(248) 354-6060, ext. 219,

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ekoostik hookah plays 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 3, at the Michigan
Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor.
$16.50. (248) 645-6666. For more
information, check out the band's
Web site at www.ekoostik.com

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