“I want them dancing in the aisles,” said Craig Taubman, a guitar-strumming crooner who is reprising his first sold-out Orange County performance at 2 p.m. on Sept. 21 at Irvine’s Barclay Theater in a benefit for Irvine’s Tarbut V’ Torah Community Day School.
The Los Angeles recording artist and producer composes and reinterprets Jewish melodies with accessible, contemporary riffs. Taubman’s popularity shifted to high gear since debuting a joyful “Friday Night Live” Shabbat service in 1998 at Los Angeles’ Sinai Temple, which he performed in June in Orange County.
The concert is a new fundraiser for the school, which is expecting nearly 600 students when classes commence this month, said Doris Jacobson, the school’s development director. Tarbut V’ Torah previously relied on several philanthropists to subsidize its annual deficit, which student tuition could not meet. Last year, the school held fundraising “salons” with parents, she said.
2 p.m. The Barclay Theater, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine. $72 (preferred seating), $36 (adults), $18 (children). For more information, call (949) 509-9500, ext. 3007.
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