THE NEXT SEPHARDIC MUSIC FESTIVAL WILL BE HELD IN NYC, DEC 20TH THROUGH THE 27TH 2011

The Sephardic Music Festival showcases the remarkable diversity that exists within the Jewish community. Its tapestry of harmonies, rhythms, and cultural motifs are as rich, vibrant, and diverse as the Jewish world itself. Popular perceptions of Jews and Jewish culture are dominated by Ashkenazi images and symbols like bagels, gefilte fish, klezmer, and Yiddish. This is the first music festival to focus exclusively on the less familiar but captivating culture of the Jewish communities of Spain/Portugal, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

The festival showcases artists from all over the world, representing cultural traditions from Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) to Mizrahi (Middle Eastern/North African) to Yemenite (Judeo-Arabic). In addition to traditional liturgical music, Shabbat songs, Sephardic folk tunes, and classic love poems (Romanceros), the festival also presents artists who fuse traditional rhythms, melodies, and themes with modern styles such as electro, hip hop, and dance music. The Sephardic Scholar Series, an important part of the Festival, brings performers, ethnomusicologists, and experts together to illuminate the historical and sociological roots of Sephardic music and culture.

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Dec 20: Nuriya, Pharaoh’s Daughter, Haale @ LPR (INFO)
Dec 21: Ladino & Flamenco @ The Spanish Portuguese Synagogue (INFO)
Dec 22: tba (INFO)
Dec 24: Miki Gavrielov & LPR (INFO)
Dec 24: HEEBONISM & LPR (INFO)
Dec 25: Kosher Food & Music Fest (INFO)
Dec 26: Gerard Edary, Asefa, Oudblues @ tba.(INFO)
Dec 27: Sephardic Scholar Series @ TBA (INFO)
Dec 27: Sephardic Story Slam @ Stand-up NY (INFO)