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Few realize Afro-Cuban music's historical affinities with ancient Sephardic folk songs. The Moors, Jews, and Gypsies gave to medieval Iberia the essence of what became habanera and flamenco forms, which in the "new world" combined with transplanted African rhythms to become one of the world's most vital musical genres. This evening the highly accomplished, widely traveled singer and bandleader Yardena and her ensemble re-unite these long separated strands to offer us a unique, dynamic, joyous and soulful fusion of Sephardic Jewish/Middle Eastern music with Cuban rhythms.
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