{"id":31420,"date":"2015-03-22T23:04:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T06:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=31420"},"modified":"2015-04-19T00:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T07:26:31","slug":"international-yiddish-music-festival-suzanne-dellal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=31420","title":{"rendered":"International Yiddish Music Festival – Suzanne Dellal"},"content":{"rendered":"

It will be a freilich groyse simkhe<\/em> this Passover holiday: the Suzanne Dellal Centre presents an International Yiddish Music Festival from April 4 – 6, 2015. The vibrant poetic character of the Yiddish language lends itself naturally to song, and there has been an enthusiastic resurgence of Yiddish culture worldwide, with musicians reviving and celebrating the traditional treasure of Yiddish song as well as composing and creating new songs in the mamaloshen<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Festival highlights:<\/p>\n

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Kayah\/Photo: Piotr Porebski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Polish singer-songwriter Kayah<\/strong> will be performing Yiddish and Klezmer songs from the rich heritage of Jewish-Polish musical culture, as well as Polish classics translated into Hebrew that have become an integral part of the Israeli songbook. Embracing pop, jazz, techno and ethnic music, popular singer has several albums to her name, which have sold in the millions. She released a joint album with Yugoslav composer Goran Bregovi\u0107 in 1999, and recorded a track\u00a0 – Embarcacao – with Cesaria Evora for the new release of her 2000 album YakaYaKayah, and has collaborated with Israeli musicians Idan Raichel and Yasmin Levy. More recently, she recorded an album with the Transoriental Orchestra in 2013, with Polish, Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish and Ladino songs. Kayah’s performance at Suzanne Dellal will feature soloists from the Transoriental Orchestra: Jan Smoczy\u0144ski \u2013 piano, Micha\u0142 Mi\u015bkiewicz \u2013 drums, Micha\u0142 Bara\u0144ski – bass.
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