SEPHARDIC & FLAMENCO SONGS - MARCH 2024
SINGING
Friday
7 pm
Explore singing in a community sing-along!
Sephardic & Flamenco Songs
March 2024
March 8, 15, 22, 2024
Workshop Lead: Tamar Ilana & Judith Cohen
Led by Tamar Ilana (March 8 & 15) & Judith Cohen (March 22)
Immerse yourself in the joy of communal singing during this workshop! Participants will explore fundamental warm-up vocal exercises, embrace singing in another language, and enjoy the experience of singing within a large group. Instead of delving into the technical aspects of singing, our focus will be on the delight that songs and the act of using our voices bring. During the workshops, we will learn how to sing a Sephardic song and a Flamenco song. The workshop series will culminate in a live performance at the March 23rd Saturday Mingling!
Photos by Mariana Hernandez
Tamar Ilana Tamar Ilana is a Jewish-Indigenous multilingual singer and flamenco dancer. Tamar's music and fierce talent reflect her life growing up in multicultural Toronto; accompanying her ethnomusicologist mother, on village fieldwork expeditions and on stage as a child; and living in Ibiza, Barcelona, Paris and Seville. Tamar is a renowned flamenco dancer and multilingual singer, and in 2011 she founded her flamenco/global roots project, Ventanas. Together they have released three albums, been nominated for four Canadian Folk Music Awards including Best Traditional Singer, and toured Canada, US and Colombia. They are currently working on their 4th album and will be embarking on their first European tour in October 2023. Tamar has collaborated with such renowned artists as Jesse Cook, Measha Brueggergosman, Anna Colóm (RosalÃa), Manu Soto, Jim Creeggan (Barenaked Ladies), Suba Sankaran, Meesha Shafi, and Margaret Atwood. Tamar has also been featured in award-winning international musicals in New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, the UK and Germany. Tamar Ilana is the Executive and Artistic Director of FabCollab, a performing arts organization based in Toronto, Canada. Tamar was one of the first Toronto-based artists to pivot to live-streaming during the COVID-19 pandemic, successfully making the transition to online as a presenter and performer. In August 2020 she co-founded FabCollab in order to continue this work, and, with FabCollab, has since created numerous programmes and presented over 200 IBPOC womxn and minority artists at iconic Toronto sold out venues, live streaming to audiences of 40,000+ in partnership with the National Arts Centre, Lula Lounge, Koerner Hall, Small World Music and the Aga Khan Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum.
Photo by Cassandra Popescu