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Mes joyeux compagnons

Since 2010, the band Kalarash has explored klezmer music and music from the Balkans (Romania and Greece) with their string instruments, violin, double bass, tsimbl, and polyglot vocals. …

The Jews in Maghreb through their singers and musicians in the 19th and 20th century

Specialist of Iranian Jewish culture, Alain Chaoulli presents in his book a wide panorama of Judeo-Arab-Andalusian music of the three countries from the Maghreb, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia …

Cohen, Judith

A singer and performer on medieval and traditional instruments, ethnomusicologist and university lecturer, Judith Cohen was born in Montreal (Canada). Since the 1970’s, she travelled frequently (Eastern Europe, Spain, Portugal, …

Judith Cohen – On the roads of the world

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – FEBRUARY 11, 2020, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H00 Singer, multi-instrumentalist, ethnomusicologist, Judith Cohen travelled since over 50 years on the roads of Judeo-Spanish music, from Spain to Portugal, from Morocco to the Balkans and Turkey …

Balagan Box : Boogie Balagan

Hosted by Laurence Haziza, broadcasted on Radio Shalom on March 4, 2006. Laurence Haziza invites Gabri and Azri, two Israeli musicians who form the band Boogie Balagan which mixes Western rock and traditional Eastern music, and that present their first album Lamentation Walloo. …

Le Petit Mish-Mash

New CD, released on December 6, 2019 in France, featuring 15 tracks of klezmer, gypsy and Romanian music …

The Oriental festival

LE FESTIVAL ORIENTAL – NOVEMBER 4, 2019, RADIO J (94.8), 16H05 - Broadcasts 44 and 45, hosted by Avner Azoulay …

Jacques OFFENBACH

Illustrated biography, released in October 2019 by Editions Bleu Nuit, on the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth of Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) …

Decile a mi Amor

These recordings are a tribute to the rich musical tradition of the Sephardim from Tetuan, under the direction and based on the research of the Israeli ethnomusicologist Susana Weich-Shahak, and supported by The Salonika and Greece Jewry Heritage Center …

Jacques Offenbach and friends – European Institute of Jewish Music’s gala concert – 2019 Edition

Watch video excerpts of the fifth edition of the European Institute of Jewish Music’s gala concert, which took place on November 17th, 2019, at the Cortot Hall (Paris), with the …