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Judith Cohen, Charlottesville, VA, 2 Mar, 2014

Judith Cohen: Current research on folk music in Portugal

March 3, 2014 - 3:30–4:30 pm
Harrison Auditorium
Univeristy of Virginia
112 Old Cabell Hall
Charlottesville, VA

Free

Dr. Judith Cohen is an ethnomusicologist and singer specializing in Sephardic music and music among the Crypto-Jews of Rural Portugal. She is the Spain Consultant for the Alan Lomax Recordings, and also works with medieval music, pan-European balladry, Balkan music and Spanish, Portugese, Yiddish, and French-Canadian traditions. She teaches at York University in Toronto. Recently, she was invited to Morroco to give workshops and concerts returning old Morrocan Sephardic songs to a small town whose longtime Jewish presence is now only a memory.

More info: music.virginia.edu/node/2394

Posted by Ari Davidow on March 2, 2014 4:00 PM |

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