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‘Hip-hop travelogue’ beats on West Bank border

Yuri Lane differentiates 15 characters through voice, movement, and beatboxing. Yuri Lane differentiates 15 characters through voice, movement, and beatboxing. ( )
By Joel Brown
Globe Correspondent / April 27, 2012
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Yuri Lane began visiting Israel and the West Bank in the late 1990s, following his girlfriend, now wife, Rachel Havrelock, a religion scholar who studied on both sides of the Green Line that marks Israel’s pre-1967 borders. “From Tel Aviv to Ramallah: A Beatbox Journey,” their “hip-hop travelogue,” plays Saturday in Newton. “It’s not a political statement but a message of peace that starts and ends at a checkpoint,” Lane says.

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FROM TEL AVIV TO RAMALLAH:

A Beatbox Journey

Presented by: Ryna Greenbaum JCC Center for the Arts

At: Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, 333 Nahanton St., Newton, Saturday, 8 p.m.

Tickets: $26. 617-965-5226, www.bostonjcc.org


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