35th? 37th? Levy Concert

Honestly, does the number of years really matter?

I found that I'd referred to the concert in May of 2016 as the 28th of these free, open to the public, concerts with a dessert reception beforehand.

Then, I wrote that the 29th Annual Levy Concert had been in October of 2018... which must have been wrong, as these events are always coinciding with Passover.

So, this year's would have to be the 37th or the 35th, depending on which of my previous values was correct.

But what about the missed annual event due to the pandemic in 2020?

Is that number skipped or does it stay as a placeholder?

I doubt any of that would matter to Jack and Miriam Levy.

It was important to them that people have something to brighten their spring, so they'd set up a fund to give folks music for dancing...

hallelujah!!!

 

This year, we were treated to a most curious and entertaining group: Six13.

Apparently, they had been here to the Savannah JEA before, but that was long before their most avid fans had been born.

That's that they said!

They consisted of six young men, all clad in blue gingham shirts and dark blue jeans, and they mostly sang in Hebrew.

For real!

And, although they did perform a few serious pieces, most of their songs were humorous, Jewish-centered, tunes which struck me as a mixture of the creative outputs of Adam Sandler, Weird Al Yankovic, and Raffi.

That certainly explained the enormous number of middle school-aged children present, as well as the grandparents of those kids!

My absolute favorite piece was a spoof of "Bohemian Rhapsody", but with all the lyrics changed to contain Chanukah references...

I'm so glad that one was in English!!!

I'll have to play around on their youTube site and see what other hilarity these six guys sing about!

Oh, but wait: the group has been around for more than 20 years.

So, the six men entertaining us might not be the ones in the videos...

that's okay, it's like that group from Italy that I heard at the SMF36!

The group has been around for more than half a century, but most of the people on that stage weren't even in their 40's.

Cool beans, I can accept that!

Now, I'm off to take four smiley-face pot holders to Tony and Laura.

At the same time that I'd given him a set, I'd bought one for me, too.

Mine were still fairly pristine, but theirs were showing signs of having been used, and used often, during those eight years.

I still use the orangey-peach ones that I've had for a few decades.

Time to give those cheerful yellow smiley faces to someone more appreciative than I!

(smile!)