Voices of Sepharad will perform a wide-ranging concert of traditional and contemporary Judeo-Spanish music in Stewart Hall at Ritsche Auditorium (702 First Avenue S., St. Cloud) at St. Cloud State University 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7.
Admission to the event is free. The concert is part of the university’s fall semester multi-disciplinary series, Sephardim, the Jews of Spain: 1492 and Beyond. For further information, contact Lisa Splittgerber at: splittgerber@stcloudstate.edu.
The concert will feature tender ballads, festive party songs, and devotional prayers from nearly every corner of the Sephardic diaspora, including Morocco, Greece, Bosnia, Turkey, Rhodes, and the Spanish-Portuguese community once rooted in the Netherlands.
In observance of the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, which represented a tragic progression in the Nazi agenda to annihilate Jewish culture, the ensemble will perform “Todos si hueron (They Have All Gone),” by the Bosnian Sephardic musician Flory Jagoda.
Active since 1986, Voices of Sepharad has performed to critical acclaim in every region of the United States and in Canada, Spain, and Poland. The ensemble’s musicians include vocalist and Artistic Director David Jordan Harris, percussionist Mick LaBriola, guitarist and oud player David Burk, and violinist David Stenshoel.
