Oyhoo Festival: Pharaoh's Daughter, NYC, 13 Jan 2009
Pharaoh's Daughter
January 13, 2009, 9:00pm
City Winery
155 Varick Street
New York, New York 10013
(212) 608-0555
www.citywinery.com
PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER MEDITERRANEAN HEARTBEAT, CHASSIDIC SOUL, AMERICAN POP SENSIBILITY Pharaoh's Daughter blends pan-Mediterranean sensuality and psychedelic sensibility thrilling audiences at festivals, colleges, clubs and concert halls. Basya Schechter leads this musical, poetic journey through swirling Hasidic chants, Sephardic grunge, and spiritual stylings filtered through oud, percussion, flute, strings, vocals and electronica. "Hypnotic and charged," Washington Post. Their 2007 CD "Haran" recently won The Indie Acoustic Project Award for Best CD of 2007 in the category of World Music—Eurasia & Global.