Fire Museum: Shande, Ther, Song People
Sat, Dec 13
|The MAAS Building
Our favorite Duke of Syracuse, Jack Braunstein is releasing his debut album Shande. Support from some from some great Philly bands.
Time & Location
Dec 13, 2025, 7:30 PM
The MAAS Building, 1320 N 5th St, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
About the event
ticket link- $10 to $20
Shande (שאַנדע): A ‘shande’ is a damn shame. A Yiddish epithet whose frightful power is reserved for only the most disgraceful offenses under heaven, it is a devastating word to the Jewish ear. But for Jack Braunstein’s experimental 12-piece folk-rock ensemble from Philadelphia, it’s an oddly fitting name. With explosive politics and off-puttingly beautiful arrangements, their music is a strange and compelling new entry into the long lineage of diaspora Jewish songwriters demanding more of this world.
Inspired by the boundary-crossing approach of Clube Da Esquina–the community of Brazilian musicians, composers and poets centered around Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges in 1970s Belo Horizonte–Shande features a collective of friends and collaborators from the worlds of free-improv creative music, klezmer and freak folk writing and performing arrangements for Braunstein’s stark and knotty songwriting. The result is a uniquely rewarding listen that speaks in love and…