Octobernacle: Songs of Falling Leaves and Temporary Dwellings

This concert features original and translated songs by Psoy Korolenko and other authors, as well as the artist's renderings of traditional songs in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Russian, English, French and Portuguese.

Pavel Lion (more known under his stage name Psoy Korolenko), sometimes referred
to as a ''wandering scholar'' and ''avant-bard'', is a multilingual
singer-songwriter, translator, journalist and scholar, Ph.D. in Russian
literature, former artist/scholar-in-residence at Trinity College (Hartford),
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Dickinson College (Carlisle). Psoy released
more than 20 albums solo or in collaborations, several books of selected
essays, lyrics and translations. His own unique experimental one-person folk
cabaret reflects (on) and integrates traditions of Russian urban folk song /
guitar poetry, Yiddish folk and theater song, French chanson of 20 century and
others. Pavel Lion is a Recording Academy voting member and one of the
organizers of the open-air music festival JetLAG in Downsville, NY. He is a
co-creator and participant of a few international musical projects, including
the Grammy-nominated ''Yiddish Glory'' (in collaboration with Prof. Anna
Shternshis, Toronto U), a ''singing archive'' featuring new renderings of
lost-and-found Yiddish folklore songs written in Ukraine during WWII.

Sponsored by the Russian Department and Jewish Studies Program