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Judy Frankel

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Check out Judy's new book with companion CD Sepha rdic Songs in Judeo-Spanish
Fifty hauntingly beautiful traditional and original Sephardic songs from the repertoire of Judy Frankel, internationally acclaimed concert artist/lecturer. Ms Frankel has brought her outstanding musicanship and intimate knowledge of Sephardic music to audiences world-wide. All selections appear with melody line, chords, transliterations, translations and annotations. A compact disc featuring 17 songs found in the book, is included.

Shows:

Sunday, August 19 at 7:30pm
Brandeis-Bardine Institute
'Concert Under the Stars'
Brandeis, CA

ALBUMS: Stairway of Gold, Sephardic Songs of Love and Hope, Silver and Gold, Tresoros Sephardis (Sleep My Child)
Judy Frankel is included with Aretha Franklin, Patsy Cline and Ani di France in the 6-CD "DIVAS" compilation of internationally renowned women singers recorded on the Rounder Records label.

FILM AND VIDEO APPEARANCES: "Trees Cry for Rain", "Havana Nagila" (U.S.); "Aristides de Sousa Mendes" (Portugal). "The Many Faces of the Sephardim", "My Family Came from Rhodes", "Secret Jews of the Southwest" (U.S. videos)

MAJOR CONCERT APPEARANCES: Berkeley, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Newport, New York, Phoenix, Portland, Providence, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Seattle, Tulsa; Barcelona, Havana, Krakow, Lisbon, Madrid.

MEDIA APPEARANCES: TV- Boston (PBS and CBS), Dallas (NBC- "Good Morning Dallas"); Lisbon and Macau (LTP). RADIO- Berkeley (KPFA) ,Boston (WCRB), Cupertino (KKUP), Honolulu (NPR), Los Angeles (KCSN), San Francisco (KALW, KKHI, KUSF and NPR- "West Coast Weekend"); Radio Madrid, Spain...

CRITICAL ACCLAIM:
Lilith
- "Frankel's voice is warm and graceful, assured and unpretentious...

Option Magazine-
"We're just lucky we have Judy Frankel's lovely alto (like Joan Baez, but better)...

Tucsan Citizen-
"Frankel's pure, vibrate-less tone, unfailing pitch and clarity of enunciation served all the music well.

Sing Out!-
"Her voice is graceful, ravishing... meltingly warm delivery...

Dirty Linen- "
...(one) of today's most evocative Jewish singers... Moment Magazine's readers voted Judy Frankel one of the ten best Jewish musicians in the U.S. along with Itzhak Perlman, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Debbie Friedman and the late Shlomo Carlebach.

Additional Sephardic Artists:

  • Consuelo Luz
  • Savina Yannatou
  • Rita Glassman
  • Pharaoh's Daughter
  • Fortuna

    Audio Samples
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    Una Tarde De Verano from "Silver & Gold"
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    La Vida Do Por El Riki from "Sephardic Songs Of Love And Hope"
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    'Scalerica de Oro from "'Scalerica de Oro"
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    PO Box 470515
    San Francisco, CA
    94147-0515 USA

     
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