Trio Sefardi
Vocal and instrumental (instruments include viola da gamba, Renaissance violin, rebec, Pontic lyra, lute, guitars, percussion
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Trio Sefardi
Vocal and instrumental (instruments include viola da gamba, Renaissance violin, rebec, Pontic lyra, lute, guitars, percussion
About
Trio Sefardi performs traditional Sephardic songs, sung in Ladino. The trio was formed in 2010, and has performed at the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery of Art, Piccolo Spoleto, Vilna Shul (Boston), the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Jewish Culture (NYC), the Washington Folk Festival, Lisner Auditorium (featured artists in the 2011 production "Andalusian Treasures," and at synagogues and Jewish cultural centers on the East Coast. We have produced four CDs.
Music
The roots of Sephardic music are in Spain, though most Sephardic songs played these days are of more recent vintage, dating back no more than a century or two. We always feature the songs we learned from our mentor, Flory Jagoda, a 2002 National Heritage fellow and composer of the widely known Hanukah song "Ocho Kandelikas," with whom we performed often over more than twenty years. We also perform songs from other sources, mainly from the Balkans and Turkey, and a few from North Africa. A vast majority of secular Sephardic songs have been created and performed by women, encompassing such things as love, loss, courtship, marriage, and holidays. Two members of Trio Sefardi, lead vocalist Susan Gaeta, and guitarist/lutenist Howard Bass, toured with Flory Jagoda nationally and internationally during the last fifteen years of her performing career.
