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Sephardic Music Festival

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Sephardic Music Festival Opening Night:
Smadar Levi, Sarah Aroeste, The Naming
 
 
Saturday/Dec 12/8:00pm doors, 9:00pm show
 
COST: $15 advance / $20 at the door
 
 
"This Hanukkah fest wants to school us in Jewish music and not just your grandpa's klez."
- Time Out NY
 
Shemspeed presents the opening night of its annual Sephardic Music Festival with a lineup showcasing some of the top female talents in modern Jewish music.  
 
The Naming
 
This new multi-disciplinary (original music, dance, story-telling, video art) work comes from the Persian Jewish vocal innovator Galeet Dardashti -- the driving force behind the popular all-woman Middle Eastern band Divahn. Dardashti unites the Persian classical music that made her grandfather a musical icon in Iran with a deep connection to Jewish poetry and song to create lush electronica-edged Middle Eastern compositions in Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Persian.
 
 
Sarah Aroeste
 
Ladino chanteuse Sarah Aroeste, inspired by her Sephardic roots from Spain and Greece, brings a fresh, sexy sound to Ladino and Sephardic music, fusing both original and 15th-century Ladino folk songs with rock, funk, jazz and blues.  
 
 
Smadar Levi  
 
An exciting new voice emerging from the NYC world music scene, Smadar Levi's gypsy-influenced pan-Mediterranean sound has won her wide acclaim. The Israeli-Moroccan's creative renditions of traditional tunes in Hebrew, Arabic, and Ladino moved the Epoch Times International to call her "a euphonious and haunting voice" for peace and unity, while the internationally-renowned nonprofit organization Seeds of Peace honored her with an award for "uniting cultures to achieve peace through music."
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