Klezmer Celebratory Music

The Oriental Cultural Forum invites you

to an evening of

Klezmer Celebratory Music

Wednesday 7^th April at 7.30

 

Klezmer is a celebratory music of East European Jews with Turkish and Arabic influences.

 

Carol Isaacs, piano accordion

A classically-trained pianist, keyboard player and accordionist, Carol works in the pop and world music fields. She has recorded and toured with many international artists including Sinead O’Connor (Ireland), The Indigo Girls (US), Natacha Atlas (Egypt), Abdel Ali Slimani (Algeria) and Phongsit Khampee (Thailand).

She also plays accordion with Francesca Ter-Berg in the duo, Kavona, who specialise in traditional klezmer music. Kavona have performed in a wide variety of places from London’s Jazz Café to Number 10 Downing Street. Kavona is also part of ‘Yalla’, an all-female interfaith Muslim and Jewish Hip Hop Klezmer collaboration.

 

 

Francesca Ter-Berg is a cellist based in London. She has spent the past few years studying and performing Traditional Jewish music from Eastern Europe all across the globe. Her recent endeavors have taken her to Germany, the South Bank and 10 Downing Street. She has an active interest in Indian Classical and Arabic musical traditions, as well as theatre and film soundtracks - you can find her around London as part of various collaborations. Francesca works for the Jewish Music Institute on their Outreach program and plays as part of the klezmer duo Kavona with Carol Isaacs.

 

 

Address: Poetry Café (Poetry Society), 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9B

Underground: Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line), Holborn (Piccadilly & Central Line)

Wednesday 7^th April at 7.30

Entrance £3