August 1st through A
Friday & Sunday $2395
Crab Legs
complete dinner
in the shell
holidays. His public performance
career started early: as youth cantor
at a neighborhood synagogue and at
Interlochen's National Music Camp,
where he majored in choir and oper-
etta. In high school, he discovered Pete
Seeger's banjo playing and learned to
play that instrument, plus guitar.
As part of Toronto's folk
boom of the 1960s, Posen
refocused his sense of musi-
cal purpose. In 1970, he began
graduate studies in folklore
at Memorial University of
Newfoundland, absorbing the
music of fishermen singing in
their kitchens and of the Irish
and country music entertain- Shelley
ers in popular nightspots.
While pursuing a doctorate in folklore
at the University of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia, Posen lived for 18
months in an Ottawa Valley village,
where he studied Irish-Canadian sing-
ing traditions.
Beginning in 1983, Posen worked
out of Ottawa as a professional con-
sulting folklorist and museum guest
curator, while taking on a variety of
musical activities including the direc-
tion of the Congregation Beth Shalom
men's choir.
He helped form the close har-
mony vocal trio Finest Kind, with
Ann Downey and Ian Robb, in 1990.
Currently, the Ottawa-based Posen
also is curator of Canadian folklife
for Quebec's Canadian Museum of
Civilization.
Posen began writing songs seriously
in the 1990s in a wide variety
of genres and styles, blending
Hebrew, Yiddish and English
in some of his tunes. His solo
CDs of mostly his own mate-
rial include Manna, a tsimmes
of songs, both funny and sad,
about Jewish food, family and
festivals; and Menorah: Songs
Posen
from a Jewish Life. They are
available on his Web site at
www.shelleyposen.com .
You can hear Posen in person 7:30
p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 3-4,
when he participates in "A Musical
Party in the Round" at the Ark in
Ann Arbor. The in-the-round gather-
ing of folk favorites trading songs
also includes "one-man-folk-festival"
Michael Cooney, Michigan-raised
Chicago soprano Anne Hills and Mike
Miller of the Philadelphia Folksong
Society. Tickets are $20. (734) 734-
1761 or www.theark.org .
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created for the site were noticed
by SNL bigwigs, and Samberg
was invited to join the SNL cast.
Taccone has a major support-
ing acting role in Hot Rod, and
Schaeffer directed the film.
Comic Take
Sex and the City co-stars Kim
Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker
apparently have breached whatever
differences they may have had and
are buddies again. This reconcilia-
tion has cleared the way for a Sex
and the City movie that is now set
to start filming in September.
The Village
Voice recently
published a satiri-
cal piece by Lynn
Yaeger in which
she sets forth a
possible script for
the upcoming Sex
Sarah Jessica
movie.
Parker
As Sex viewers
know, lead character Charlotte York
converted to Judaism near the
end of the series to marry Harry
Goldenblatt, a Jewish divorce law-
yer. Charlotte wasn't able to bear a
child, but in the last episode of the
TV show Charlotte and Harry found
out that they'd been approved to
adopt a Chinese baby girl.
In Yaeger's movie "script,"
Charlotte and Harry are now the
parents of a brood of kids adopted
from around the world, all of whom
are being raised Jewish. Here's
Yaeger's imagined dialogue:
Charlotte (voice rising): Mai Pang
Goldenblatt, settle down and study
your Haftorah portion! Hussein
Goldenblatt, a yarmulke is not a
miniature Frisbee! No, Krishnamurti
Goldenblatt, you may not go para-
sailing Friday night, that's the
Sabbath! Latifah Goldenblatt, stop
pulling Hiawatha Goldenblatt's hair,
or I won't help you with your Queen
Esther costume!
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