May 26, 2013, 1pm-5pm
Colony House, Washington Square
Free, donations welcome
1PM: Ministers of Apollo
The Ministers of Apollo will present a fife & drum performance featuring traditional military music from the American Revolution.
2PM: Mother Earth Singers
Traditional Native American drum and singing courtesy of the Dighton Intertribal Council.
3PM: Gerard Edery and Meg Okura
Gerard Edery, who has been hailed as “a master of Sephardic song.” by The New York Times, and violinist Meg Okura, will present “Treasures of Sephardic Song”. This concert traces the surprising and exotic musical synergies between Christians, Arabs and Jews from Medieval Spain to the present. Secular and liturgical songs from Ancient Persia, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, The Balkans and Syria will tell a rich musical story and promote the cause of cross-cultural appreciation and understanding.
4PM: Stuart Frank and Mary Malloy
Dr. Stuart Frank, Senior Curator at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, joins his wife, Mary Malloy, to sing 18th and 19th century ballads and songs. This concert is based upon Rhode Island sources in whalemen’s shipboard journals from the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s collection.