So I hear the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars tore it up when they Jewish Music Festival on Saturday at Oaklands First Congregational Church, just days after their righteous Mardi Gras return to their still-devasted hometown.
The band’s been living in San Francisco since Katrina busted up the music scene and everything else, but they’re making lots of memories here in the Bay Area:
Witnesses say towards the end of Sundays’s show drummer Dave Sobel (seen here, with Jewfro, slapping the skins at famed N’awlins hotspot Tipitina’s in 2003) abandoned his drums mid-song to place a “throne-like chair” in front the stage, grab his longtime girlfriend Jenny Bagert from the audience and place her on the throne.
While the band played on, Sobel kneeled down, pulled out a ring and and her to marry him. She must’ve said “yes,” because there was much “hugging and kissing” before he went back to his drums smiling to finish the song. Audience members then picked up Bagert in the chair and carried her around the room as Jews are wont to do on happy occasions. The audience chanted “mazel tov” as the All-Stars finished up their set.
Super cute, Dawg. But who will play at the wedding?
*Hat tip to Alix at the j.