While not a musical event, strictly speaking, Rivka Amado will be speaking about Sephardic Music at Congregation Shomrei Torah in Santa Rosa, CA, on Jan 14, 2019. See the event page for details. An excerpt:
Rivka Amado, PhD, is a musician and lecturer specializing in Judeo-Spanish music, culture and history with a focus on Sephardic women’s songs and spiritual experience. Join Friendship Circle for lunch and learn about the courage, endurance and recovery of the Sephardic Jews from 1391 (when the first major pogroms occurred in Spain), through the expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian peninsula – first from Spain in 1492, and then from Portugal in 1497. Learn about the Sephardic diaspora tracing to the Netherlands, France, Italy, North Africa, and eventually throughout the Ottoman Empire. Rivka Amado will accompany her talk with a musical Sephardic experience of traditional ladino music. We hope you join us for this unique and culturally enriching presentation! RSVP by January 9