Events

The Annual Lost Mural Project
Musical Memories Concert
November 7-10, 2025 

Artist-In-Residence Community Weekend

2025 marks the Tenth Anniversary of the rescue, relocation and restoration of the Lost Mural. In celebration and in appreciation of our supporters, the Lost Mural Project is hosting fantastic artists for an artists-in-residence community weekend for its second annual “Musical Memories Concert” — the celebrated group called Ljova and the Kontraband, featuring the husband-and-wife duo of Moscow-born composer and fadolínist Ljova, and his wife, the Vilna-born vocalist Inna Barmash.

The musicians will be conducting community and student events with Burlington High School on Friday, November 7th, 2025, and master classes with the University of Vermont on Friday, November 7th, and one Monday, November 10th, 2025.
The Saturday night, November 8th, 2025, 7:30pm, community musiccal showcase at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue is free and open to the public.

The musicians will also perform for the community during the “Northern Nosh,” a Jewish food event at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, during the morning of Sunday, November 9th, 2025.

The Sunday night, November 9th, 2025, 7:30pm, concert at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue is a ticketed event featuring Ljova and the Kontraband and will benefit The Lost Mural Project.

For ticketing for the Sunday, November 9th, 2025 concert, use this link: https://ohavizedek.shulcloud.com/form/ljova

The November Artists-In-Residence weekend’s program will include klezmer and folk music emanating from Jewish sources: Yiddish wordless melodies, called “niggunim,” Eastern European tunes, and original arrangements of compositions by Ljova, and local Burlington composer, Michael Schachter. 

Ljova was born in Moscow, Russia, and is of Ukrainian-Jewish, German-Jewish, Polish and Romanian heritage. Inna Barmash was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. Inna sings in Yiddish, Russian and other East European languages.

The Lost Mural Project expresses its appreciation to the following sponsors of this musical performance:

Lead Community Sponsors:

Gerri Bloomberg & Sam Bloomberg
Irene Epstein & Merrill Epstein
Marjorie Lipson & Michael Lipson
Lisa Schamberg & Pat Robins

Additional Community Sponsors:

Janie Cohen & Larry Crist
Jean Markey-Duncan & Bob Duncan 
Rebecca Goldberg & Aaron Goldberg
Ginny Greenblott & Art Greenblott
Cynthia Pasackow & Jay Pasackow
Janie Potash & Jeff Potash
Carol Harris-Shapiro & Jon Harris-Shapiro 

About the Lost Mural Project’s Musical Memories Concert Series

The Lost Mural Project is pleased to sponsor this performance as the second concert of the Lost Mural Project Musical Memories Series.  Lithuanian immigrant Ben Zion Black, who painted the Lost Mural in a Burlington synagogue in 1910, was a mandolin player as well as a composer, director, singer and Yiddish music aficionado. 

The Lost Mural Project’s educational mission explores the diversity of our Vermont communities through artistic and musical presentations which highlight how culture and traditions are transmitted through art and music. Programs will include music and musical groups featuring Vermont’s immigrant communities, their music and traditional instruments to deepen our understanding of our collective journeys.

All Lost Mural Project events are filmed and made available to the public on the Lost Mural Project’s website on the events page, as well as through CCTV and the Media Factory.

Information on Ljova & the Kontraband can be found here:  https://www.ljova.com/kontraband/ and https://www.ljova.com/about/bio/

Information on Inna Barmash can be found here: https://innabarmash.bandcamp.com/album/yiddish-lullabies-love-songs

Sponsors will be featured in the event program, on the website at lostmural.org and in the video production of the concert.

For ticketing for the Sunday, November 9th, 2025 concert, use this link: https://ohavizedek.shulcloud.com/form/ljova

“Marty Fogel with Thread of Blue”

The Inaugural Concert for the Lost Mural Project Musical Memories Series 

November 14, 2024 

Ohavi Zedek Synagogue and the Lost Mural Project will host a concert featuring saxophonist Marty Fogel and his quintet, Thread of Blue, including Tom Cleary on piano, Dan Silverman on trombone, Jeremy Hill on bass and Geoff Bernstein on drums. The program will include improvisational jazz music emanating from Jewish sources: liturgical melodies, original pieces inspired by religious text, Eastern European tunes and original arrangements of songs by American Jewish composers Jerry Bock, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin and Kurt Weill.

Proceeds benefit The Lost Mural Project and Full Circle Preschool.

 About the Lost Mural’s Musical Memories Concert Series

The Lost Mural Project is pleased to sponsor this performance as the inaugural event of the Lost Mural Project Musical Memories Series.  Lithuanian immigrant Ben Zion Black, who painted the Lost Mural in a Burlington synagogue in 1910, was a mandolin player as well as a composer, director, singer and Yiddish music aficionado.  The Lost Mural Project’s educational mission explores the diversity of our Vermont communities through artistic and musical presentations which highlight how culture and traditions are transmitted through art and music. Programs will include music and musical groups featuring Vermont’s immigrant communities, their music and traditional instruments to deepen our understanding of our collective journeys.

Once you hit play below, the sound begins at 1:14 after the introductory pages.

“Vermont Eats”

Eastern Europe to Burlington 

June 6, 2024 

The Lost Mural Project and the Vermont Historical Society joined together to celebrate the culture that European Jews brought to Burlington at the turn of the twentieth century. With the legacy of the Lost Mural, the Copper Ark, and Ohavi Zedek’s More Magic from the Kitchens of OZ cookbook, we invite guests to engage with the thriving Jewish community that immigrated to Vermont starting in the 1880s, resulting in Burlington’s Old North End neighborhood, known as “Burlington’s Little Jerusalem.”

Vermont Eats is a series of cultural events focused around food and understanding the communities that contribute to Vermont’s unique identity and story. This event featured a performance from the Marty Fogel band with Marty Fogel playing the clarinet and saxophone, Geoff Bernstein playing drums, Michael Schachter playing the keyboard, Dan Silverman playing the trombone, and John Thompson-Figueroa playing bass. 

Dr. Samuel Gruber PhD presented a keynote, Picture This: Art and Life for Vermont's Jewish Immigrants, about the history of the Jewish community in Burlington. 

“Revel & Reveal” 

Donor Event & Community Klezmer Music Concert Celebration

June 28, 2022

The Lost Mural Project & the Friends of the Lost Mural are delighted to celebrate the successful rescue, relocation and full restoration of the 1910 Lost Mural.

A donor recognition event to thank our supporters and to mark the public reveal of the Lost Mural’s marvelous colors as originally painted in 1910 by the artist, Ben Zion Black, honored The Honorable Madeleine M. Kunin for her leadership and guidance during the journey of the Lost Mural to this momentous occasion.

The “Revel & Reveal” Donor event celebrating the Lost Mural occurred on Tuesday, June 28th, 2022.

The video of the FaceBook Live Event is here and is one hour long:

The following persons spoke at the event (in order):

Jeff Potash & Aaron Goldberg, Lost Mural Project Co-Founders; the Honorable Madeleine M. Kunin; Karen Mittelman, Executive Director, Vermont Arts Council; Joshua Perelman, Chief Curator & Executive Director, National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA; Senator Patrick Leahy; Congressman Peter Welch; and Kathryn Becker Van Haste, Senator Bernie Sanders VT State Director.

The Lost Mural Project & the Friends of Lost Mural hosted the community for an in-person musical celebration on Tuesday, June 28th with the Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band at OZ, with Yiddish music and dance!!

The “Revel & Reveal” Event & Community Klezmer Music Concert Celebration are supported in part by grants from the Vermont Arts Council & the Vermont Humanities and will be recorded as part of the educational mission of the Lost Mural Project.

Donations can be made in honor or in memory of friends and family for a community educational exhibit about the Lost Mural Project and Burlington's Little Jerusalem neighborhood at https://www.lostmural.org/make-a-donation.

Thanks for your assistance, services and support of the Lost Mural Project!

Please contact Aaron Goldberg, Lost Mural Project’s Co-Founder & President, at agoldbergvt@gmail.com for media inquiries and public and/or private tours.