We Can Rise: Chana Rothman CD Release Party and Zeek’s New Jewish Music Launch Event

October 24, 2007 06:30PM

Mercury Lounge

217 E Houston St./Lower East Side

Presented by Oyhoo Records, 14th Street Y, Jewschool.com and Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture.

Canadian-raised Brooklynite Chana Rothman takes you on a roots-driven lyrical journey of spoken word, acoustic reggae, and freestyle rhymes. Incorporating both ancient and modern Hebrew into her message of empowerment and unity, Chana’s crew will rock out the evening way past “laila tov.�

Featuring: Dan Friedman (Da Ali G Show, Zeek), Yoshie Fruchter (PITOM, Soulfarm), C Lanzbom (Soulfarm), Amichai Lau-Lavie (Storahtelling), Jay Michaelson (God in Your Body, Zeek), Joey Weisenberg (Romashka), and special guests.