The Klezmatics: Happy Joyous Hanukkah
Lyrics by Woody Guthrie
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DateDec 4, 2025
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VenueMartin Theatre
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Event Starts7:30 PM
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Public Gates5:00 PM
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Ticket Prices$45
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Reserved Seat Ticket: $45
Special pricing for students while supplies last: More Info
Before the Performance:
The Lawn Bar is open with casual bites and entrées and a full-service bar. Reservations are recommended for eating at Lawn Bar, but walk-ins are welcome!
Ravinia Café offers seasonal sips and snacks, including Hot Toddys and pretzel bites.
During the Performance:
In the plaza outside the Martin Theatre doors, a drink stand is open from 5:00 p.m. until 30 minutes before the end of the concert.
Food is not permitted in reserved seats, but drinks are welcome inside during the performance.
Cashless: Cash will not be accepted at onsite restaurants, bars, or concessions. Please bring a credit/debit card or other cashless forms of payment.
About the Performance
The Klezmatics are the only Grammy Award–winning klezmer band and one of the most iconic and adventurous groups in modern Jewish music. Since emerging from New York City’s East Village in 1986, they have led a global revival of klezmer—complete with accordion, alto saxophone, cimbalom, clarinet, kaval, and violin—combining Yiddish tradition with radical sensibilities in jazz, gospel, punk, classical, Latin, and Balkan music. In addition to celebrating their 40th anniversary, The Klezmatics return to their acclaimed revivals of Woody Guthrie’s original lyrics from the 1940s that redefined Jewish-American musical storytelling. This holiday program builds on the ensemble’s 2006 recording Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah, a collection of a dozen songs by the folk singer in collaboration with the Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt. Living in Brooklyn, Guthrie immersed himself in the Coney Island Jewish community and became devoted to sharing the spirit of Hanukkah and Jewish history in song.