Amos Funk / Sarah Kenyon – Estudio Ruta 7 Sarah Aroeste es muchas cosas: madre, cantante, músico, compositora, autora, educadora, activista cultural sefardí. Y este mes, mientras Aroeste se prepara para lanzar el primer álbum de Hanukkah totalmente en ladino del mundo, podemos agregar a la lista de «creadores de historia». …
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“Sephardic Soul Music» online concert with Gerard Edery
“Sephardic Soul Music» online concert I would like to invite you all. Many Sephardic songs from my repertoire. When? Saturday, February 20th at 7.00pm (UTC+1) Cost? Free for everyone Consider donation Where? Online Concert on my Fanpage and Website Click «Interested» or «Going» below to not miss the concert! More …
Read More »Flory Jagoda Dedicated Her Life to Preserving Ladino Music—and Inspired Me to Do the Same
Like her most famous song, “Ocho Kandelikas,” Jagoda exuded an infectious joy. “I only got to know Flory personally when she was already in her 90s, but her influence on the Ladino world has had an immeasurable hold on me since I started my career in Ladino music 20 years …
Read More »Orla Synagogue Concert – Medieval Sepharad The Gerard Edery Ensemble & Kaja Mianowana Online Retransmission – 12.12.2020 Free online concert, «Medieval Sepharad» at the historic Orla Synagogue. Please follow this link for all details and program. https://www.gerardedery.com/orla-concert-medieval-sepharad. Where: Facebook and YouTube When: 2020.12.12 at 7pm CET (1pm New York) The …
Read More »Hidden Voices—Ladino Songs from over 100 years ago – 22 Nov 2020, 19 hs (Israel), Free
The Jewish Music Research Centre is proud to present Hidden Voices—Ladino Songs from over 100 years ago: Hadass Pal-Yarden, a special concert presenting material contained in the new release, Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs from the EMI Archive Trust (1907-1912). The event features Hadass Pal-Yarden, one of Israel's leading vocalists in …
Read More »Bob Dylan’s Sephardic-Ashkenazi Jewish Odyssey
Mazel tov to Bob Dylan on winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. Unlike the film or comic book industries, pop music has never been particularly Jewish. There have been Jewish managers and behind-the-scenes men like Brian Epstein or Leonard and Marshall Chess, but, on the whole, pop music since the …
Read More »El premio Nobel de Literatura 2016 fue otorgado al sefaradí Bob Dylan
El cantante y compositor estadounidense recibió el esperado galardón, cuyo anuncio había sido demorado una semana. El premio Nobel de Literatura 2016 fue otorgado al cantante y compositor estadounidense Bob Dylan, por «crear nuevas expresiones poéticas dentro de la gran tradición de la música norteamericana», informó la secretaria general de …
Read More »Lecture: Sephardic Music and Its Connections to Spain and Portugal with Dr. Judith Cohen- Thursday, August 18, 1–2 pm
Discover the roots and development of Sephardic music with ethnomusicologist and traditional singer Dr. Judith Cohen (York University). Dr. Judith Cohen is an ethnomusicologist, medievalist and singer. A Montrealer, she has lived in Toronto for many years and teaches in the music department of York University. She is internationally known …
Read More »Paying Vocal Homage To His Roots
David Serero. Michael Datikash / JW When David Serero’s great-grandfather, who was the chief rabbi of Fez, would stroll through the streets of the then-capital of Morocco, both Jews and Arabs would rise to their feet in his honor, according to Serero family lore. A century later, Serero, an acclaimed …
Read More »Guava Rugelach Lounge: Susana Behar
Susana Behar Miami’s renowned Ladino chanteuse brings a new program of Latin-American musical exploration celebrating the geographical diversity of Sephardic culture. All performances take place under the palms in our outdoor cafe setting at Next@19th on the campus of Temple Israel and Bridgepoint Academy. Tickets are $12 and $10 for …
Read More »Milken Archive of Jewish Music Introduces: Sephardi and Near Eastern Inspiration in the Music of American Jewry (Volume 2: A Garden Eastward)
Think of them as the first world musicians. Music did not always travel as easily as it does today. Yet hundreds of years before the Internet made sharing music as easy as sending an e-mail, Sephardi Jews – those who originated on the Iberian Peninsula and subsequently dispersed across the …
Read More »Art, dance, music, faith
New organization links Jewish art and spirituality How does Jewish art work? For graphic designer Randy Burman of Miami, it only took reading the Song of Songs in the Bible. «If I let my hand do the drawing, the letters started dancing — they took on a life of their …
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