Welcome to the 2007 Jewish Music Festival
Pharaoh's Daughter
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In 2006, Pharoah’s Daughter received awards in the categories of Best Middle Eastern Blend and Best World Music at the New York Jewish Music and Heritage Festival.
Group founder *Basya Schechter*’s Hasidic music background and travel to the Middle East, Africa, Israel, Egypt, Central Africa, Turkey, Greece and Kurdistan inspired a retuning of her guitar to sound like a cross between an Arabic oud and a Turkish saz. The result lends itself to the harmonic minor melodies and odd time signatures that create her unique sound. She has recorded four albums, three with Pharaoh’s Daughter and one instrumental exploration with Persian santur player, Alan Kushan. The band also appears on three Tzadik label compilations: Voices in the Wilderness: the ten year anniversary of John Zorn’s Masada compositions, a collection of Sasha Argov music, and the music of Brazilian Jewish composer Jacob Du Bandolim, one of the founders of Brazil’s choro style.
Pharaoh’s Daughter has toured extensively through America and Eastern and Western Europe. The band had its debut at Central Park’s Summer Stage series in August 2004 and has played such prestigious stages as Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park, and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. When she is not touring or performing, Basya plays darbuka, riq and frame drum as part of the B’nai Jeshurun music ensemble that accompanies Friday night services.
Basya has been the recipient of numerous compositional and project grants from NYSCA (New York State Council of the Arts) American Composers Forum (for Trance, and multilayered sound and video installation collaboration with filmmaker Pearl Gluck) and the American Music Center.
- Aires de Sefarad
- Avi Avital
- Community Music Day
- Diaspora Blues
- Ensemble Lucidarium
- Klezmer Buenos Aires - Lerner Moguilevsky Duo
- Noa
- Opening Night: Musical Fortunes
- Pharaoh’s Daughter
- Poetry Slam on the theme of Diaspora
archives- Major Sponsors
- Alliance for California Traditional Arts
- Anisman/Sherman Family and Julie Sherman
- Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
- Creative Work Fund
- East Bay Community Foundation-Fund for Artists
- Gaia Fund
- Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
- Gottesman-Biddle Family Philanthropic Fund (JCEF)
- Guzik Foundation
- Walter and Elise Haas Fund
- The Jewish Community Foundation and the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay
- Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture (JCEF)
- Lufthansa German Airlines (Official Airline Sponsor)
- Koret Foundation
- Kurz Family Foundation
- San Francisco Foundation
- The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund