Ensemble Saltiel - Booking Opportunity
Boda: Kantigas de Novia
Sephardic Wedding Songs
Turkish-Austrian native Ladino speaker and singer Aron Saltiel and Ensemble Saltiel will present a program of recently collected and recorded rare Sephardic wedding music as part of the 26th Jewish Music Festival. The group is available for other U.S. performances in March.
This is a unique opportunity to experience the repertoire of a traditional Turkish Sephardic wedding – songs and music from the engagement, the preparation of the dowry and the trading of gifts, to the drawing up of the marriage contract, the ceremony and the subsequent week. The songs themselves were historically sung within the Istanbul-based Saltiel family. As a veteran researcher of this repertoire who grew up in the community, Aron is both an authority on the music and a great performer.
Accompanied by hugely famous Turkish and Roma virtuosos at the forefront of modern Turkish pop and folk music, Ensemble Saltiel recalls the historic collaboration of a capella singing combined with instruments such as oud, kanun (harp), zurna (Turkish oboe) kemenche (bowed lyre), clarinet, violin, darabuka (drum) and tambourine. The music is lush, nuanced and intricately interwoven with mesmerizing taksim (explorative instrumental improvisations).
Please consider including a performance by Ensemble Saltiel as part of a your congregation or local Jewish organization’s special events programming this spring. A performance by Ensemble Saltiel would also make for a uniquely authentic accompaniment to a wedding reception or ceremony.
The music can be seen and heard at www.alikobeni.com & Golden Horn Records (for audio content)Read further for more information on Ensemble Saltiel’s Boda: Kandigas de Novia
