'Musiketan': new season starts on Sunday with Mor Karbasi

Described by London’s Jewish Chronicle as a purveyor of “Spine tingling Gypsy Music”, young London-based Israeli singer Mor Karbasi is to perform at Euskalduna Concert Hall in Bilbao on Sunday, october 5. She sings in Ladino, Spanish, Hebrew and on rarer occasions, English. Fortune has brought her a wonderful singing voice to add to her classically trained piano playing.

Not many songs still survive from 1492, when the Ladino speaking Jewish population in Spain fled the Inquisition - only the most beautiful are kept over such a period. Mor is bringing some of these songs back to a wider public. Her writing has been considerably assisted by her interesting lineage. She is directly descended from both Moroccan and Persian Jews.

She has been and indeed is, an avid supporter of Flamenco which provides a strong flavour throughout all her songs. Her early musical performances were with Pena Flamenca in Jerusalem which immersed her in Flamenco while her mother, Shoshana Karbasi, played Moroccan piyyutim (liturgical poems) and sang Andalucian Jewish ballads at their home. She continues to be a constant influence on her young daughter.

The Israeli is inaugurating the new season of 'Musiketan', a programme of intimate concerts of folk, alt-country, Americana and so on that are held at Bilbao's Euskalduna Concert Hall. Here is a list of the following concerts.

MOR KARBASI 5 October

HEIDI TALBOT 19 October

YELLOW SISTERS 16 November

THE BOWMANS 30 November

BELLA HARDY 14 December

CORINNE WEST 18 January

KIRSTY MCGEE 8 February

DEVON SPROULE 1 March

MADDY PRIOR 22 March

ANNE MCCUE 5 April

MIRIAM AÏDA 26 April

PURA FÉ 17 May

LUCY KAPLANSKY 31 May