After 10 years in NY, and 2 years in LA and countless features in outlets such as the #NYTimes, #NPR and #WallStreetJournal, #OvationTV, #CBS and much more. I’m gearing up to bring the Sephardic Music Festival to Miami! The Sephardic Music Festival’s goal is unifying people through culture and education, celebrating diversity and common ground. By way of this work, we put forth a public Jewish face to multi-cultural, inter-faith, creative, and collaborative bridge-building. You can check out volume 1 & 2 of the SMF compilations, which include songs from everyone from #Matisyahu, Yasmin Levy to Axum and Watcha Clan on @Spotify and them other platforms. SELECTED QUOTES: “This Hanukkah fest wants to school us in Jewish music—and not just your grandpa’s klez.” – Time Out NY “eclectic lineup of traditional and contemporary artists, including many dedicated to fusing disparate sounds or bridging new and old.” – The NY Times “Thanks to events like the Sephardic Music Festival, the sounds of Sephardic Jewry are at last beginning to get their due.” – The Forward “For most New Yorkers, “Jewish music” means klezmer: plaintive fiddles, wailing clarinets and other vestiges of a largely vanished Eastern European culture. But at the Sephardic Music Festival, a New York City tradition…, the world of Jewish music gets explored from an entirely different angle, focusing on the aural legacy of Jewish communities from Spain and the Muslim world.” – The Jerusalem Post “Our Hannukkah-side suggestion is the annual Sephardic Music Festival…look at this festival as the un-Ashkenazi festival.” – National Public Radio, WNYC “In 1942, Columbus sailed the ocean blue – and Spain and Portugal cast out their native Jews, now known as Sepharadim. Some of those exiled folks picked up Balkan rhythms and Middle Eastern percussion in their new homes, adding global influence to existing Sephardic sounds. This five-day fest focuses on that musical tradition and history, with a concert that fuses Iberian staples with tango, a story slam invoking diasporic trials and dozens of international bands and solo performers reinterpreting centuries-old folk tunes.” – Time Out Press & Details @ www https://www.instagram.com/p/B5G8qlEBgWY/?igshid=kwhth7xmexgm
