The Jazz Heritage Center and Judah L. Magnes Museum to Host Afternoon Reception, Concert to Celebrate Jews of the Fillmore Exhibition this Sunday, July 19, 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.

The Jazz Heritage Center and Judah L. Magnes Museum to Host Afternoon Reception, Concert to Celebrate Jews of the Fillmore Exhibition this Sunday, July 19, 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Specially Commissioned Admission-Free Concert by John Schott at Yoshi's

SAN FRANCISCO , July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jazz Heritage Center and Judah L. Magnes Museum today announced a special celebration to take place on Sunday, July 19, from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. to include an art show, film screening, live jazz, bites from local Fillmore restaurants and an interactive walking tour to celebrate its latest exhibition Jews of the Fillmore. Three years in the making and created through a lead grant by the Koret Foundation, Jews of the Fillmore honors the once-thriving Jewish neighborhood from 1906 through 1950 and pays homage to some of its landmarks. Visitors to the Jazz Heritage Center will enjoy FREE admission to all the day's festivities but registration is requested and available at this link: www.jewsofthefillmore.com

Visitors to the Jazz Heritage Center will enjoy:

3 p.m. Jazz Heritage Center Koret Heritage Lobby (1330 Fillmore)

Pre-Concert Mixer & Jews of the Fillmore Exhibition Viewing
Music by: Dewayne Oakley & Wayne Anderson Duet

4 p.m. Yoshi's San Francisco (1330 Fillmore Street)

Opening Remarks & State Proclamation presented by Senator
Mark Leno

Performance: A specially commissioned ensemble featuring
Grammy Award-winning guitarist John Schott, T.J. Kirk,
clarinetist Ben Goldberg, accordionist Maria Abe and
trombonist Rob Ewing

Music will include a mix of sacred and secular Jewish music,
jazz, and big-band swing music.

5 p.m. Jazz Heritage Center Lush Life Gallery (1320 Fillmore
Street)
Art Showing: "Reflections on Jazz, History & Heritage"
Music by: Frank Jackson, F. Allen Smith and Frank Fisher

Guide by Cell Audio Walking Tour
Grab your cell phone and embark on your own self-guided
journey into the Fillmore's rich history. Here's just some
of what you'll learn:

-- Two synagogues, three kosher restaurants, four
Jewish bakeries, five kosher meat markets, at least
three Jewish delicatessens and one Jewish liquor
merchant (keep in mind this was during Prohibition)
were located within a two-block radius between
Fillmore, Buchanan, McAllister, and Golden Gate.

-- The Fillmore was home to San Francisco's first
professional hockey team, which played at the
Iceland Pavilion in the early 1930s.

-- The Fillmore was commonly referred to by residents
as a combined version of New York's Broadway, Fifth
Avenue, and Coney Island.

-- The Chutes, a block-wide amusement park bordering
Fillmore, Webster, Turk and Eddy, was one of San
Francisco's major attractions in 1909, and featured
the giant water slide of its day, movies,
vaudeville acts (including Sophie Tucker at the
American Theater) and even a zoo.

-- The Fillmore was the early childhood home to
one of the world's most famous violinists, Yehudi
Menuhin.

Media and Education Screening Center (1330 Fillmore Street)
Visitors can get an even more in-depth look at the Fillmore
by catching highlights from award-winning PBS documentary
"The Fillmore" in the JHC's state-of-the-art screening room.

The Jews of the Fillmore Afternoon Celebration is sponsored by Koret Foundation; Magnes Museum; Em Johnson Interest In kind sponsors: Yoshi's San Francisco; 1300 Fillmore; Gussie's; Sheba's Lounge; Jazz Cellars Winery; Brassfield Winery.

Exhibition Credit Lines: Jews of the Fillmore is supported by a lead grant from the Koret Foundation; the Lehrhaus Museum Partnership Fund available through the Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation; the Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropic Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund; Fred Levin and Nancy Livingston and The Shenson Foundation, in memory of Ben & A. Jess Shenson. Additional support has been provided by generous members of the Judah L. Magnes Museum. The Judah L. Magnes Museum is a beneficiary of the Jacques and Esther Reutlinger Foundation and of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.

Source: Jazz Heritage Center

CONTACT: Angela Nibbs of Jazz Heritage Center, +1-415-225-7090,
press@jazzheritagecenter.org

Web Site: http://www.jewsofthefillmore.com/

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