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- Date
- time Eastern Time
- location Multicultural Arts Center
41 Second St.
East Cambridge, MA 02141 - cost $25 (early bird); $50; $10 (students)
- organizer Boston Festival of New Jewish Music; Co-sponsored by Hebrew College Soul Sounds, Hadar Boston, and Base Boston
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Hosted by the Boston Festival of New Jewish Music
Hebrew College Soul Sounds is excited to join Hadar Boston and Base Boston to co-sponsor a pre-concert lecture and concert with Kedmah on Sunday, March 15 at 7:30 PM at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge, MA.
Kedmah is an ensemble of musicians and prayer leaders excavating the power and beauty of Mizrahi Jewish expression through ancient poetry and song. Led by Rabbi Yosef Goldman and Yoni Avi Battat — and including Hebrew College Artist-in-Residence Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer `10 — Kedmah honors the artists’ Iraqi, Syrian, and Yemenite ancestry in conversation with their intersecting musical influences.
From Temple times to today, piyyutim utilize complex and beautiful poetry to infuse spirit and meaning into both sacred and ordinary moments of human experience. The stirring melodies are rooted in the illustrious tradition of maqam — a distinct system of musical expression found exclusively in the music of the Arab world – with similar systems in places like Turkey, Iran, and North Africa.
Kedmah honors and reinvents these living sacred traditions rendered with deep reverence for tradition and boldly adapted with an ear towards our modern musical world.
evening Schedule
6:30 – 7:15
Pre-concert Lecture/Text Study with Rabbi Yosef Goldman
7:30-9:30
Performance
With deep gratitude to our Soul Sounds series sponsors Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation; Suzanne Priebatsch; Susan and James Snider; Diane Troderman, and an anonymous donor.
(Interested in sponsoring an upcoming event or course in honor or memory of a loved one? Contact Rosa Franck, Director of Development, at [email protected].)