Hadass Pal-Yarden

A day with HADDAS PAL-YARDEN at LIBRA RADIO:
Thursday, 02. 02.2006

One hour show with HADDAS PAL-YARDEN
Thursday, 02. 02.2006 at 23.00 (Central European Time)

Hadass Pal-Yarden is an Israeli Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) singer and a doctorate student of Ethnomusicology. During her master studies, she researched the subject of Nowadays Performances of Ladino songs' Corpus in Jerusalem.

Hadass spends the third year in Istanbul in the conservatoire of Istanbul Technical University, as a doctorate student, studying folklore and classical Turkish music and Turkish Music’s Makam.
Hadass had preformed all over Israel and cooperated with musicians and informants of Ladino music. She gave concerts in Thessalonika, Turkey and Israel with the leading Ethnic music players Yurdal Tokcan (Ud) and Göksel Baktagır (Kanun) and took part in Cihat Ashkin’s CD “Ege’nin Türküsü” (KALAN, 2000) as a soloist of the Turkish Zeybek “Ferahi”. Had Participated in Yinon Muallem’s Cd, “Changing Moments” (BEYZA, 2003), as soloist of the Israeli song “Shir La’Yakinton”. Nowadays she is completing her own album of Ladino songs from Turkey and the Mediterranean in “KALAN MUSIC” CD Company. Her CD, called “YAHUDIJE”, consist on urban ladino music from Jerusalem, Thessalonika, Istanbul and Izmir.
Yahudije, the name used for the Ladino (Judeo-spanish) language of the Jewish population in the Ottoman times, reflected a simple reality: most Jewish people in the Ottoman Empire were of Spanish origin and spoke Ladino.

This album is absolutely beautiful!
The repertoire for the cd is chosen among the songs from a huge collection that ethnomusicologist Hadass Pal-Yarden have been collecting for so many years now. We listen to the urban music from Istanbul, Izmir, Thessalonika and Jerusalem fertilized with rich and colourful arrangements. Musicians are very experienced and singing parts are done with a lot of passion. This necklace of precious musical pearls should find its place in a cd collection of every ethno music aficionado who has got some pride.

Hadass Pal Yarden at the 21st Annual Jewish Music Festival

Israeli singer Hadass Pal Yarden and Ensemble Yahudice:“Sounds of traditions, music of the future”.

Hadass Pal Yarden and Ensemble Yahudice: Ladino music from Istanbul to Jerusalem.

Sunday, March 19, 7:30 pm. Thrust Stage / Berkeley Repertory Theatre 2025 Addison St., Berkeley $26 / $22. Presented in association with the Consulate General of Israel, The Israel Center and Golden Horn Records.

Monday, March 20, 7:30 pm. Lehrhaus Workshop: Urban Ladino Music of Turkey Hadass Pal-Yarden, of Yahudice. $15/ $12, BRJCC 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley.

Festival dates: March 11 – 26, 2006. At the Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley. Info: www.brjcc.org/jewish_music_festival/, or call 510.848.0237

Thank you, Hadass!