Our performer
Nani Vazana – world-touring singer-songwriter and 2024 winner of the LIET Song Festival for Minority Languages
With a ship’s-horn power voice & irresistible stage presence, LIET International Song Competition winner Nani Vazana breathes life into the endangered Ladino Language. Nani’s heard Ladino from her Moroccan grandmother in hiding, as her father forbade the language at home. Her songwriting fuses Sephardic fairytales with contemporary storytelling and the sounds of the marketplace with Flamenco drama. Vazana’s new album Ke Haber was documented for the Library of Congress, ranked #11 on the International World Music Chart and #13 on World Music Chart Europe 2022.
1. No Kero Madre
2. Cuando El Rey Nimrod
3. Puncha Puncha
4. En Ke’elohenu
5. Una Segunda Piel
INTERMISSION
6. Fada de mi Korazon
7. La Komida La Manyana
8. Landarico
9. Morenika
10. Adio Kerida
11. Çok Seni Severim
Thank you to our lead sponsor
SILVER SPONSORSHIP
Agnes Klein
Wishing much success for this event. Ladino music has its own distinctive melody and rhythm.
Jeremy Rudin and Nina May
ANGEL DONATIONS
Judith Levy-Goulet
Janice Pleet
Olga Streltchenko
Neil Tolson
Our Chai membership is an $1,800 voluntary donation above and beyond KBI membership which supports and sustains enhanced programming at KBI. It includes free participation in most of our programming throughout the year, including this evening’s event. Thank you to our Chai Members:
- Tina Azarin
- David Lyman and Jackie Luffman
- Jeremy Rudin and Nina May
- Jaimee Mitzmacher
- Victor and Miriam Rabinovitch
- Kivi Shapiro
- Jeffrey Taylor