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| What a festival |
15/05/2010 by someone that loves to dance |
| It was again an amazing event this year. Lots of great music, dancing, jamming, swiming with happy and good people all around!!
For me the highlights where the preformances of 'The Shuk' and the show off ' Just married and Holler' The 2 bands just bring so much love on the stage and really know how to entertain a croud and bring warmth to everyone. I think if they come again next year they should be later in the evening program, so that even more people can enjoy them as I did! Other than that I just think the festival is a great place to meet people and to have a most wonderfull time!! |
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| Atmosphere = Great; Music = So so |
15/05/2010 by Jennifer Szapiro |
| This is my 4th Jacob's Ladder and I wanted to say "thanks" for another great weekend of great people, community, and organization!
As for the music, however, many of the acts are starting to sound like karaoke or hotel lounge bands playing tired cover songs ad nauseum.
The local music was PHENOMENAL - Sahara Pixie Band, Holler and Just Married, and others who DID include cover songs but worked them into an original playlist of music and creatively contributed to each cover song's uniqueness.
I'm not saying that a band that covers crowd favorites is useless, just that when covering a song on a mainstage in this envirinment, it should at least make people dance otherwise it really feels like karaoke.
I also think the Irish music was overdone. How about some more blues, motown, etc in the lineup next year.
One more suggestion: a set of speakers FACING the dancing areas on the side of the stage. One mus SERIOUSLY sacrifice sound quality in order to dance and that just seems silly.
Thanks again for all of your hard work!! You both are amazing! |
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| Loved it! |
15/05/2010 by Ruti Wajnberg |
| Hi Yehudit and Menachem,
Our third year attending Jacob's Ladder - a pleasure as usual. I thought The Shuk was a great addition this year - wonderful to ring in the Sabbath with some traditional music. Also, Holler and Just Married were a welcome hour - they should play separately next time so we can hear each band on its own.
Thanks again for providing such a wonderful festival, and looking forward to the winter!
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14/05/2010 by steve |
| Wonderful format...lots of choices...good performance...good fit for all segments of the audience (young, older, folkies, blues, etc.) Got a real sampling. Amazing connection between the performers and the audience on and off of the stage (and in the lobby). This made it the most worthwhile experience, personally and musically. As for performers: Henry's Notiions, Red Meadow, Jason Feddy, Holler, Cunla, Larry and Mindy, Tochner/Sheer were wonderful. As for improvements: Could add an open stage before Shabbat (for obvious reasons), more shade for the tent villages, free drinking water, and free hot water (for coffee and tea). |
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| loved it |
14/05/2010 by elaine black |
| loved the festival this year, even more than last year. friday night was tremendous. lsean altman and inna dukach were super (shame we did not have some more of her amazing arias!), jason feddy- a real treat - there was just so much good music going on both in the lobby and on stage. she rock, jug of punch , umma gumma, lilach shir, shay tochner.... i agree that our local talent is THE BEST! who could ask for more- good music, good company, clean loos and a lovely breeze. only complaint I have is that the water in the kinneret is a bit too cold! well done menachem and yehudit - you did it AGAIN. |
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| "JLFestival 2010" |
13/05/2010 by Ted Friedgut |
| Shalom Yehudit and Menachem: Another delightful festival! Henri's Notions were fine--you can invite them back any time. However it was the local talent that made the weekend so enjoyable. I only wish that I were twins so that I could take in more events. For instance I was sorry to have missed the Thursday afternoon sing along that was so enjoyable last year, and Pablo Lerner of whom I heard many positive comments. But you cannot win them all. The stars were undoubtedly Shai, Adam and Lilach on Friday night. A wonderful choice of songs, beautifully performed and strongly supported. Jug O' Punch MUST be included every year. They are the essence of JL--pure folk, performed with life and soul. The Arava Riders are another perennial to be maintained. I enjoy them greatly. I was highly impressed with the improvement in Hazel Hill. Their last appearance was not very exciting. This year they were great! Triolam had a fascinating choice of songs, nicely performed. Bring them back. Evergreen as well. What an interesting and innovative group. I caught Shaun and Marianne in the Lobby and enjoyed them immensely. They perform well and their choice iof material is great. Red Meadows has great blues and folk, but the rock is a little too strong for me. I could certainly have done without Rebbe Soul and withoutr the Shuk, neither of whom had anything significant to contribute to JL. On the topic of rock-perhaps you can extend the Thursday and Friday night programs until two or three a.m. and put the rock there. The young people who cheer for it are up anyway and will stay up for it, while we old fogies enjoy blues and folk--softer stuff that we can him and tap to. And where was the Gospel? Since the Abrams brothers there has been all too little of this mainstream genre. There must be some around. Perhaps it may be found in Dimona??? Anyway, the whole clan enjoyed the festival and we look forward to next year. Am I correct that the attendance was a little smaller than previous years? Perhaps the prices of tickets and hotel have reached a cieling??? A small anecdote: We gave two young people a ride back to Jerusalwem and I asked them whether they had been at JL before. "I was five years old when my parents first took me" he replied. "I was a couple of years older my first time." said she. Last time we gave someone a ride it was also a young lady who had first come to the Festival as an infant. It gets to be hereditary. Keep it up |
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| suggestion |
12/05/2010 by sylvia kruger |
| this was my first festival, as i am an olah hadasha.
however, i could be the mother of some of the old woodstockers at the festival.
i enjoyed the festival thoroughlly - the kinneret, the lovely grounds, the music everywhere -
especially enjoyed henrri's notions, when jill and i discovered that we both live/
have lived in tuscaloosa!!
it made their music estra special.
in the 30 some years of the festival, has there ever been one focusing on jewish/israeli music?
like old pioneer songs, current israeli music, klezmer, sephardic, litergical varieties from around the world, ladino, arabic, israeli/ragge
(like my grandson),
mideastern music and instruments (my professional
grandson-in-law), etc etc etc
i would like to learn to play some israel;i songs to play on my harmonica!!!!
i also think there should be a longer harmolnica session, or more than one - it was so well received, burt not long enough!
thanks for listening.
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| Folk festival? |
12/05/2010 by Elaine C. |
| I really enjoyed the festival again this year, but unfortunately there was not enough "folk" music according to my taste, as it used to be some years ago.
Lilac Sheer and Shay Tochner saved Friday night with their amazing top level act with Adam Mader, which was actually the only acoustic folk act on the main stage that evening. and , needless to say, the most professional show for both Thursday and Friday nights. Dov Hammer's blues act was also very good and did what it was supposed to do, made the younger crowd dance, but unfortunately most of the older crowd had left during the act before...
I do understand that it is not easy to please both the younger and the older crowd at the same time, but I think that this is a material for thought and some sort of a challenge for the festival organzers...
I loved also Jug of Punch Saturday morning, and I would really love to see them on main stage prime time...
Thanks again, Yehudit and Menachem for your wonderful work!!
See you next year! |
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| A real community |
11/05/2010 by The Aviv family |
| Thank you! We loved being part of the JL community this weekend.
Red Meadows was wonderful, SheRocks really had us partying and Lilac and company gave a great performance. Sean Altman's comical songs were a great addition.
The basket weaving was great and my 11 year old spent hours there. The woman who ran it made the kids feel at home and I 'm sure he would spend the two days with her agian if she returned. |
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| None, so far |
11/05/2010 by leon Gelkoff |
| After several years of missing the festival it was great to come back. The organisation was excellent, the atmosphere great the music was good. It's nice that Irish music is now so popular in Israel, it would be nicer if it wasn't only the mournful stuff that has taken hold, something of the Dubliners style would be appreciated, also it would be nice to hear some English and Scottish stuff, maybe even Ewan McColl !!! |
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| What took me this long??? |
11/05/2010 by Jeanette Marmor |
| It was my first Jacobs Ladder and I cant forgive myself for never going before!! I enjoyed everything. The music was wonderful, everything was so organized and I just loved it all and will be coming every year from now! THANKS SO MUCH!!!! |
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