Kat Parra & The Sephardic Music Project – San Francisco

2009 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Jazz vocalist Kat Parra and her exploration of the exciting and vibrant music of the Sephardic Jews.

Jazz vocalist Kat Parra explores the exciting and vibrant music of the Sephardic Jews, inviting the listener on a journey, traveling from the Iberian Peninsula, with all of its Moorish influences, across the ocean into Latin America.

In aiding in the preservation of Ladino, a dying language of the Spanish Jews, it is Parra’s hope to inspire and lift the universal consciousness into a conversation of hope and peace between all religions and cultures of the world. Parra will be joined by musical director and pianist Murray Low, Masaru Koga (woodwinds), Stephanie Antoine (violin), Peter Barshay (acoustic bass), Katja Cooper (drums) and Paul van Wageningen (drums).