Internationally-Acclaimed Singer-Song Writer Regina Spektor to Headline
Event
Tony and Emmy Award-Winning Actor Mandy Patinkin to Emcee Free
Community-Wide Festival
Sesame Street Muppets Oscar the Grouch and his Israeli cousin Moishe
Oofnik to Participate
WASHINGTON, May 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Israel@60: A Capital
Celebration will take place on Sunday, June, 1, 2008, from noon to 5:00
p.m. on the National Mall in the Nation's Capital. This free,
community-wide celebration will feature internationally-acclaimed
singer-songwriter Regina Spektor (who wrote and recorded a song in the new
"Narnia" movie); Tony and Emmy award-winning actor on both the television
and the stage, Mandy Patinkin, who will emcee the program; Sesame Street
Muppets Oscar the Grouch and his Israeli cousin Moishe Oofnik; and the
Israeli rock band Mashina. The event is sponsored by The Jewish Federation
of Greater Washington, in partnership with the Embassy of Israel and other
community organizations.
Regina Spektor, an emerging young Jewish artist whose music resonates
among a diverse age group and wide variety of audiences, brings her
personal sound and story to all of her performances. Spektor and her family
emigrated from the former Soviet Union when she was a child and settled in
the New York City area. Praised by such magazines as People Magazine, USA
Today, Alternative Press, Spin, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Blender,
and many others, Spektor is one of those rare talents who manage to outrun
the trends and force the rest of the world to keep up. Rolling Stone raves
Spektor breathes as much heartbreaking meaning and inflection into
individual syllables as most singers give entire words.
Since his Broadway debut in 1980, Mandy Patinkin has extensive credits
on and off Broadway, including Evita (TONY AWARD), Sunday In The Park With
George (TONY AWARD), Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual, The Secret
Garden, Enemy of the People (Williamstown Theater Festival), Henry IV, Part
I, Winters Tale, The Knife, and Leave It to Beaver is Dead. He has appeared
in over 20 films and has starred in numerous television shows, recently
including Criminal Minds on CBS. Patinkin is also famously known for his
role as Inigo Montoya, in The Princess Bride (1987), where he delivered the
oft-quoted line: "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father.
Prepare to die."
Spektor and Patinkin will be joined by other performers and
entertainers, including acclaimed Israeli rock band Mashina and Sesame
Street Muppets. Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington.
WHAT: National celebration of Israel's 60th birthday on National Mall
Multiple festival happenings, hands-on exhibits and activities for all
ages: music, dance, theater performances, Israeli food, children's
activities and family workshops.
WHO: Greater Washington celebration to include headline performer
singer/songwriter Regina Spektor, actor Mandy Patinkin, Sesame Street
Muppets Oscar the Grouch and his Israeli cousin Moishe Oofnik, Israeli rock
band Mashina, and others. Free and open to the public.
WHEN: Sunday, June 1, 2008; 12:00 Noon-5:00 P.M.
WHERE: Israel@60: A Capital Celebration will take place on the National
Mall, in front of The National Gallery of Art and The National Air and
Space Museum, between Archives-Navy Memorial and L'Enfant Plaza metro
stops. Parking is limited; take Metro.
For more information: http://www.shalomdc.org
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