ROMEOVILLE Lewis University will welcome the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band to its Romeoville campus for a performance on Monday, Nov. 26 as part of the University s fall 2007 Touring Performing Arts Series. Open to the public, the performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Philip Lynch Theatre, located on the Lewis main campus on U.S. 53 in Romeoville. Tickets are 10 per person.

Founded in 1983, the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band provides a fun-filled show of traditional Jewish music, consisting of folk songs, theater medleys, jazzy Yiddish pop and much more. The band s collection of music from the 1930s-50s combined with warm comedy provides a rich, multi-dimensional experience of Eastern European culture. The band plays in honor of Jewish immigrants who moved to America in the early 1900s.

Musical vignettes of America as seen through immigrant eyes are also included in the band s performance. The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band has a string of recordings that started with its 1986 album, Maxwell St. Days (Global Village Music). The band also has appeared on PBS s World Stage, Art Beat Chicago, and has had their music featured in an episode of the ABC show Saving Grace. Prior to the performance, the band will offer two free pre-concert workshops at 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.

in Room A133 of the Academic Building on the Lewis main campus. The 3 p.m. workshop will feature band founder and vocalist Lori Lippitz. Lippitz will take her class on a journey through the history of Klezmer music, illustrated with vintage audio and video clips. The 4 p.m. workshop will feature the band s saxophonist Don Jacobs, who will talk and demonstrate repetition, trills, note-bending, grace notes, arpeggios, long notes, dynamics and playing in different tessituras.