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Christina Crowder.
Christina Crowder spends a lot of time conserving and preserving — music, and the environment.
An accomplished accordion player, Crowder preserves klezmer music, as a researcher, and as a performer. This Saturday night (March 2) her ensemble Bivolitz will perform the traditional Jewish Ashkenazic music at a concert at with special guest Julie Asuma Levene at Westville’s Congregation Beth El Keser Israel (BEKI) beginning at 7 p.m. (Suggested donation: $18.) The program will include music from a newly published folio from a preservation, study and performance organization Crowder co-founded called The Klezmer Institute.
Crowder is also busy working on conserving and preserving the environment in Hamden, where she lives. She vice-chairs the town’s Energy Use and Climate Change Commission. She’s active in numerous advocacy groups, which successfully promoted passage of a new law banning single-use plastic bags in stores. She’s working on addressing light pollution and the planting of more trees, as well.
She talked about all that Thursday — and performed klezmer tunes along with violinist Brian Slattery — on an episode of WNHH FM’s “Dateline Hamden” program. Click on the video below to watch the full episode.
