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Article: Tradition finds Voice.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- December 11, 1998
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For two decades, the Boston based Voice of the Turtle quartet has been keeping alive the Judeo-Spanish musical tradition with concerts around the globe, 11 recordings and collaborations with some of the world's most talented and committed traditional artists.
No collaboration is more appropriate for the group's 20th annual Hanukkah concert than its date tomorrow with Flory Jagoda and her family at the Somerville Theatre.
Jagoda is one of the oldest living practitioners of Sephardic music, songs considered a sort of lyrical history of the Spanish Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition during the 15th century and settled throughout the Mediterranean.
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