2024 pERFORMERS
This year’s festival continues its diverse musical taste with Americana, Folk, Country, Blues and Roots music. And, yes, we even have Sephardic Jewish ballads in case you were wondering.
When singer, fiddler and songwriter Lily Henley set out to make an album of Sephardic Jewish ballads set to new melodies, she was looking for her own way to interpret a critically endangered tradition. On Oras Dezaoradas (out on Lior Éditions Records), Henley highlights the Ladino language, a threatened tongue that fuses old Spanish with Hebrew, Arabic, and Turkish elements that is spoken by less than 100,000 people in the world today. She found herself directly connected to centuries of women spread across a forced global diaspora.
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Adam Falcon
Adam Falcon is not your typical bluesman. In fact, there is nothing typical about the New York singer-songwriter. For starters, not many blues musicians can read and write music at his level of expertise. Falcon is a formally trained songwriter, who transcribes his songs, as well as a session guitarist. He does not copy typical blues riffs and licks, especially not the standard 12-bar blues. There is virtually no emulation of others, although he can play in the style of George Benson or Jimmy Johnson, depending on what is needed. His guitar technique is closer to a jazz/soul musician than typical blues players, but the blues element is omnipresent and profound.
Christine Santelli & Heather Hardy
"When Christine Santelli sings you can see the pain, the joy, the passion, and the experience of all women in the world all at one time. Its' deep. It's soulful. And its meaningful. She has the wisdom of the ages in her voice and you can see it right there on her face. She's a revelation."-Willie Nile
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