Concert by the Russian bard Psoy Korolenko
Pavel Lion, a.k.a. PSOY KOROLENKO, is s singer/songwriter, translator, scholar and journalist. His one-person cabaretesque show balances folk and klezmer music, free-style poetry and intellectual comedy. Psoy writes and sings in English, Russian, Yiddish, French, and, recently, Portuguese.
On stage since 2000, he has released two books and 15 albums, both solo and collaborative. Psoy is a member of the organizing committee for a Russian American music festival JetLAG, a guest of many klezmer music festivals, an ex-artist in residence at the Trinity College (Hartford), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA).
He is actively collaborating with Daniel Kahn, Michael Alpert, Bob Cohen, Igor Krutogolov, Oy Division and other artists. An author of insightful and sophisticated Russian sung poetry, he is also known for his keen and explorative vision of the art of translation, “tradaptation” and what he calls "Spell-Art" (i.e. playing with foreignness, multilinguality and translations).
After the concert, he will be selling his poetry books and CDs.
Information about the concert:
NOV 15
7:00 PM
Giffels Auditorium