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Flory Jagoda The Celebration Concert

Coolidge Auditorium, The Library of Congress
Washington , DC

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This concert celebrates Flory Jagoda's internationally recognized career as singer, composer, and teacher of Sephardic song, and will honor her role as "keeper of the flame" for preserving, perpetuating and expanding this venerable Jewish cultural tradition. Musical colleagues from the Washington, D.C. area and beyond will join Jagoda to perform the songs that she has taught them in her quest to transmit her family's musical heritage and keep it vibrantly alive. The concert will be documented by JEMGLO, an award-winning documentary film company, and will serve as a central element in a film about Flory's life and music. JEMGLO's work focuses on Jewish culture in its many global and historical manifestations.

A 2002 recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship, presented by the National Endowment for the Arts, Jagoda later served as a Master Artist in the Folklife Apprenticeship Program for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

The concert is being presented under the auspices of the Homegrown Concert Series at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/folklife/.