On Saturday, September 9, at 8:15 pm in Hockett Family Recital Hall in the Whalen Center for Music, Journey West will present a multimedia concert, including Klezmer music, Middle Eastern music, music from across Europe, and traditional American fiddle music. The concert is free and open to the public.
The program will emphasize the relationship of Jewish musical traditions to the regions where Jews have lived, and Journey West will be performing selections from the Mizrahi (Middle Eastern and North African), Sephardic and Ashkenazic diasporas. Journey West will also portray the influence of Roma, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman classical music on the development and evolution of Klezmer music via the musical folk traditions of Romania. For this concert Journey West will be joined by Imad Yassin, an Iraqi violinist, and Basam Batbouta, an oud player from Syria.
Journey West supports and performs with refugee musicians and donates 5% of their income from performance fees and CD sales directly to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). For more information see journeywestmusic.com.
The concert is co-sponsored by Ithaca College’s Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs, the Anthropology Department of Ithaca College, and Group 73 of Amnesty International, Ithaca, NY.
For more information about the concert, please contact Rebecca Lesses, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Jewish Studies Program at rlesses@ithaca.edu or 607-274-3556. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should also contact her as soon as possible to make arrangements for attendance.
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