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Matzah logged? Here's the event that can cure what ails you!!!
SEPHARDIC MUSIC FEATURED AT KOL AMI
Mimouna, an after-Passover celebration that originated in Morocco, will be
held on Saturday night, April 21 at Kol Ami in Cheshire, CT As is customary
for this festival, a dessert spread of fruit, pastries, and sweets will be
served.
The doors will open at 8:30 pm.
Admission is $12.
Kol Ami is located at 1484 Highland Avenue (Route 10) in Cheshire, CT. For
more information, call Kol Ami at 203-272-1006 or Willa Horowitz at
203-248-0291. Or E-mail me at willadance (at) aol(dot)com
Reservations are suggested.
Music will be provided by the Gerard Edery Ensemble from New York City.
Edery is a classical baritone and virtuoso guitarist with a repertoire
encompassing a dozen different languages. Considered one of the leading -
and most innovative - interpreters of Sephardic song, he was honored with the
1997 Sephardic Musical Heritage Award. He has performed atLincoln Center,
the Jewish Museum, the Smithsonian Institute, the Library ofCongress, the
Holocaust Museum in Washington, and Seiji Ozawa Hall atTanglewood. He also
has several recordings.
Performing with him will be George Mgrdichian on the oud,the Middle Eastern
lute. Robert Sherman of The New York Times calls him "the world's
unquestioned master player of the oud." Percussionist Rex Benincasa is the
third member of the Ensemble.
The word Mimouna is said to originate from the Hebrew/Aramaic word "mammon,"
which means prosperity, or from the Hebrew word "emunah," faith. In any
case, Mimouna at Kol Ami has been designed as an evening built on the
concepts of hospitality, friendship, and community.
Sephardic Jews or Sephardim is the term used to describe Jews whose ancestors
came from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain or Portugal) who when they were
expelled from Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1947 found new homes mainly in
the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. The musical traditions of the Sephardim
comprise an intermix between Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic called Ladino and are
based in poetry and music that developed into secular and liturgical songs.
I'm very excited about this. I wrote a grant in order for Mimouna to happen
and it is!!! Please forward this announcement to your friends, family,
colleagues, synagogues, Jewish organizations, fellow folkdancers and folk
music lovers, music students and whomever else you can think of! If you have
teenagers involved in youth groups this will be a great event for them.
I'm looking forward to seeing you all there!
Willa
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Willa Horowitz
Leader and teacher of Israeli, Jewish and International folk dance
130 Mount Sanford Road
Hamden, CT 06518
203-248-0291
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