[SixthSt] Special holiday house concert
If, like us, you get cabin fever around the holidays, we have the perfect house concert for you. Please join us for an evening of fun and wonder.
Concerts@SixthSt in Media, PA present
A special holiday house concert featuring
SEAN ALTMAN/JEWMONGOUS
Sunday, December 28th, 2014 - 7pm
Suggested donation to Sean - $20-ish
This will be Sean's fourth appearance at our little house concert series - a record! In the spirit of not doing the same show twice, half of the show will be Sean's patented power-pop gems, and in the other half Sean will be performing his seasonally-appropriate Jewmongous songs. Here's an example of the latter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAcf1RF2ps
Ex-Rockapella star Sean Altman's unkosher comedy song concert JEWMONGOUS is "tuneful and sharply witty" (Los Angeles Times), "relentlessly clever" (Chicago Tribune) and "bawdy with a wicked modern streak" (Washington Post), combining "the tunefulness of the Beatles and the spot-on wit of Tom Lehrer" (Boston Globe). Altman, who "writes hilarious and irreverent acoustic rock songs about his awakening Jewish awareness" (Jerusalem Post), is "part of a new breed of Jewish hipster comedy that includes Jon Stewart, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman and Heeb Magazine" (Philadelphia Daily News).
Sean is a former, founding member of Rockapella and led that pioneering vocal group through its heyday years on the Emmy-winning PBS-TV series, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, for which Altman co-wrote the famous theme song. His classic Passover song "They Tried To Kill Us (We Survived, Let's Eat)" has been featured on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Altman has twice performed for The President at the White House Chanukah Party, he has shared concert stages with Billy Joel, Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Stewart, Jay Leno, Joey Ramone and Moby, and he has recorded with artists as diverse as XTC, John Cale, Richie Havens and They Might Be Giants. Altman sings vocal standards at the bedside of hospital patients as a volunteer with Musicians On Call and has performed JEWMONGOUS throughout the USA, Europe, Israel and once in China.