EVENTS

2024.

January 17. Demystifying Sephardic Songs. Online for San Francisco Jewish Library

February 10. Shabbat presentation for Kol Ami, Toronto.

2023

December 20. House concert in Berkeley, with Trio Qirvah

December 17. "Haketía in Amazônia: Exploring music among Moroccan Sephardim in the Brazilian Amazon."

Association of Jewish Studies, San Francisco.

November 7. Zengierski Guest Lecturer 2023. University of Buffalo, Romance Languages and Literature.

October 22 and 25. Montreal Intercultural Storytelling Festival: Featured Artist.

October 15. "No quiero, madre: Canciones sefardíes cantadas por madre e hija."

Cervantes Institute, Istanbul, Türkiye.

October 11. "La ija i la madre, komo la una i la karne: Romansas i kantikas

de la tradision sefardi". Concert for Sefarad conference, Izmir, Türkiye

with Tamar Ilana, Linet Şaül, Kamila Şaül

October 10. Sephardic Studies conference, Izmir, Turkey: Music in

Portuguese Crypto-Jewish Life: a quarter-century of change and adaptation"

August 30. Guest appearance at concert of Fortuna, Sáo Paulo

August 29. Guest with Storyteller Fabio Lisboa, children's concert,

CEU Paraisópolis, Sáo Paulo

August 27. Moroccan Sephardic Songs demonstration, Amazônia Judaica conference,

Museu Judaico, Sáo Paulo

August 27, Concert with Beny Zekhry, Clara Kochan, Valeria Zeidan, Nicole Borger at Piu Piu, Sáo Paulo, Brazil

August 25, Sephardic concert, Moroccan Amazon Jewish Community, Manaus, Brazil

August 22. Sephardic concert, Moroccan Amazon Jewish Community, Belém do Pará, Brazil

August 21. Presentation on Sephardic, French Canadian and other Fieldwork. LabEtno, Ethnomusicology

Lab, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém.

August 20. “Para el novio una sardina”: Canciones tradicionales en Ladino, Haketía y Portugués. Closing concert, CIES.

August 18, 'Diziendo las zemirot’: Canciones de los Sefardíes del Norte de Marruecos. Rio de Janeiro, CIES conference.

August 12. Songs for the end of Shabat: Kahal Zahur, first official synagogue of the Americas, Recife, Brazil.

August 11. "La música sefardita: panorama". Institute of History & Archeology, Recife, Brazil.

August 11. Songs for Shabat: Sinagoga Israelita do Recife.

August 10. "Canções sefarditas e a música medieval." University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

August 2. Lunchtime concert, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

July 7. "Alan Lomax en Galicia 1952." Museu do Pobo Galego, Santiago de Compostela.

July 3. Keynote conference-talk, Zamora Sefardí conference, Zamora, Spain

June 26-30, 2023. ICTM-Mediterranean Musics. "Yendome para Marsilia". Marseille, France.

June 7-9, 2023. ICTM Global History of Music conference, Palermo, Italy. "Diaspora and Islands

at home: Changing repertoires in Portuguese Crypto-Jewish Communities"

May 29, 2023, 10 am. "Songs of The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem", Jewish Music Week, Toronto

April 22, 2023, 10 am. "Diziendo las zemirot": Guest leader, Music service, CityShul, Toronto

April 18, smARTS in Harmony: Music through Generations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgnuMitdi68

March 28. 8-10 pm. Featured artist at Mausiqi Global Jam Sessions (FabCollab.ca)

at Alternity, 333 Bloor St W.

March 18, 2023. Ukrainian Songs benefit with Sing With Ukraine, Palmerston Library, Toronto, 5 pm

March 16, 2023. Workshop, Sephardic Calendar Cycle Songs, Jewish Teachers Education, York University

March 13, 2023. Workshop releated to March 12, York University Music Depament, 6:30 pm

March 12, 2023. 7 pm. "And for the Groom a Sardine: Sephardic and related songs". With

Demetrios Petsalakis, oud.; Naghmeh Fahramand: tombek, daf. For inaugural series Jewish Music@ York - York University Koschitsky Centre for Jewish Studies/Music Department/Azrieli Foundation

March 9, 2023. Zoom repeat by request of January 22.

Jan. 29, 2023. 2 pm, "Kantar i Kontar", Ladino Day, New York City: Featured performer.

https://youtu.be/sGcyaMNAqzk

January 22, 2023. Sephardic & Related Songs at Darchei Noam Congregation. 864 Sheppard Ave. West, 7 pm. With Aaron Lightstone, oud. https://www.darcheinoam.ca/event/judith-cohen-concert.html ; repeated on request for limited online audience March 9

January 13-14. Ukrainian Winter Carols with Kosa Kolektiv. St Vladimir's Institute, and traditional street/house visits.

January 6. Informal intimate mini-concert with Bella Rios, Sephardic Songs, Hotel Raquel Lobby, Havana, Cuba.

2022

November 2022, Music in Portuguese Crypto-Jewish Communities, Qesher

November 2022 Panel on Women's song in endangered Jewish languages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhDpK897f0I&t=110s

November 2022 Host, talk with author Richard Zimler,

York University Centre for Jewish Studies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tnoLPyT04Y&t=143s

September 2022, Music of Sefarad, Qesher

August 24, 2022. with Sing With Ukraine:

Zapovid Exclusive Subway Performance Benefit, Toronto.

August 2022: World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel:

- Folklore Division: From the Inquisition to Sete Maravilhas,

and "Three Cultures" festivals: Jewish belief, identity and

folklorization in Portugal and Spain

- AMILAT (Amazônia Judaica section) “Cantando la vida sefardí

en Amazonia, un proyecto etnomusicológico de piloto"

July 2022 "A Hidden Declared Maravilha? Portuguese Crypto-Jews

and their music practices in the 21st century", ICTM conference, Lisbon, Portugal;

guest performances with Adufeiras do Paúl, for conference and with Al'fado, Lisbon

June 27 Paper+Performance "Ea, Judeus, a enfardelar”: convivencia and songs in

pre-and-para-Expulsion Spain," ,; and guest performance

with Stefan Sablic's concert. Sefarad Conference, Beograd, Serbia

June 10 “Aní kinór lekhól sharím” – “Soy arpa de los poetas”: Concierto en

honor a Ibn Gabirol. Historic Nahon Synagogue/Cervantes Institute, Tangier, Morocco.

Spanish Embassy in Morocco. With Wafir Sheikh and Zahra al-Bouanani.

June 8. . "Retorno a Sefarad". Espacio Ronda, Madrid, with Wafir Sheikh and Bill Cooley

May 29: With #SingWithUkraine, SING! Festival, Toronto

May 27, Musical Talk: "Ladino Songs: the Lighter Side", Jewish Music Week, Toronto

May 11, "Miriam's Tambourine": with Ruth Danziger', Storytelling Toronto Festival 2022

May 10, Sephardic Brotherhood series, inaugural interview with Ian Pomerantz for series

on Sephardic music and musicology

April 30, with #SingWithUkraine, benefit concert with Vesuvius Ensemble, Heliconian Hall

April 9 Alliance Française Toronto, concert "Musical Journeys".

With Tamar Ilana, Naghmeh Fahramand, Rachel Melas, Demetrios Petsalakis and guests #SingWithUkraine

March 11: benefit concerts with @SingWithUkraine, The Opera House; several others

February 2022. Interview in Ladino for Ladino 21, online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EWFClCchGw

January 11: Interview, COZ 63, International Forum for Jewish Music Studies:

Judeo-Spanish songs: geographical and metaphorical travels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnpYUq-gyOQ

2021 (online except November 18)

December. 2021 Appearance in documentary “Les Clefs de Solly”, Gabriel Bouzaglo, Mikael Ohana, Elias Levy. Montreal: Buzzglow Agency. At 36’2, 37’37, 46’48, 53’50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ulWwpAygr4

November 22 "Evolving Roles of Women in Sephardic Song" (online) Centro de Estudos Judaicos da Amazônia (CEJA)

November 18. LIVE. Aga Khan Museum. With Tamar Ilana: https://www.facebook.com/agakhanmuseumtoronto/videos/638305453835910

November 11, 2021. Homenaje a Solly Lévy, Centro Cultural Sefarad, Argentina, Online. Details TBA

November 4, noon EST. "No hay boda sin tanyedera" - Songs and instruments

in the Ladino repertorie. American Sephardic Federation

October 21. See October 3.

October 18, "To Sefarad and Beyond", for Victoria Jewish Community Choir, 19:00 EST

October 14: see September 19

October 12, Ladino proverbs recited, for Transparent Language, Twitter curated by Ian Pomerantz

https://twitter.com/TLILanguages/status/1447963713022070785

October 8, Daily Antidote of Song, Washington DC, "Singing the Sephardic Ode to the Eggplant"

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=173147448331090

October 6, DorotUsa programme, New York. (online). Music of Sefarad

October 3, 16:30 EST, Qesher, see September 12

September 19. Music in the World of the Portuguese Crypto-Jews, Qesher

September : "Alan Lomax in Morocco and Spain",

ICTM-Mediterranean conference, Tangier, Morocco (new date from June 2020)

September 12, Qesher, requested repeat from June 24, July 8, and earlier

August 15. Ottawa (zoom), Qesher/Adath Shalom, as June 24

August 1. Invited performance for Festival de Haquetía prize awards (online), Brazil

@ 36"45' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8otfqQ6Erg&t=2214s

uly 28 Invited online set for 30th anniversary of the Sephardic Newsletter, ed. Y. Kerem

July 8. “La novia destrenza el pelo": As canções Sefarditas do Norte de Marrocos”.

Amazônia Judaïca (Brazil - online) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcuHzcAmrk&t=2795s

July 8. As June 24.

June 24. As May 30. Requested repeat of programme, new attendees.

June 14. "Belmonte dos meus amores: Music in Crypto-Jewish Portuguese Life". For

Joshua Horowitz' online lecture series 'The Promiscuous Wolrd of Jewish Music"

June 14. Inaugural (Zoom) workshop-performance for World Championship Storytelling Festival, AceNovation Singapore/Chennai

May 30. Qesher: Sephardic Music. On request, repeat from November 2020

May 26. 18:00 EDT. In Memoriam Solly Lévy. CIDICSEF, Argentina (online)

@44"15' https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=483627749596407

May 20. "Negotiating Professional and Personal Jewish Identity through Musical

Research and Performance.” First Moscow International Interdisciplinary Session on Jewish Art. Moscow (Online)

May 9. Victoria Jewish Community Choir: Introduction to Ladino Songs.

May 9. Toronto Storytelling Festival: Medieval Songs of Spring. (request link)

May 7. Toronto Storytelling Festival: Talking Stick. "And in their nets the fishermen found a

golden duke: The Ballad of the Death of the Duke of Gandía.” May 7 (request link)

May 5. Invited guest for FabCollab's Curtain Call series, https://www.fabcollab.ca/curtain- call. www.instagram.com/tv/COf_HRaJm0j/?igshid=15o21p36tchwj

March 6. Invited singer for “Kantikas de Amor I Vida”, Memorial concert for Flory Jagoda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Scu50fRbM

2020 (online from March)

December 3, 17:00 EST. Centro Cultural Sefarad, Buenos Aires:

La mujer y la música en las tres religiones en la España medieval.

www.youtube.com/c/eSefarad/live

November 18. Invited presenter, "Daily Antidote of Song/Archive Challenge". Library of Congress: American Folklife Center/Washington Revels. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=4013096075371812&ref=watch_permalink

November 18. Holocaust songs for presentation on Spain and Sephardic Jews in

the Holocaust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8bdhLtHcoQ&ab_channel=DreadMarIVEVO

My work with Sephardic Song: for the Centre for Jewish Studies, York University. https://youtu.be/k2F_0EvSfBM

November 15: Sefarad and its Music.

Qesher Series, Budapest.

November 7: "Debasho del limón la novia":

Adventures with Moroccan Sephardic Songs",

Hollywood Temple Beth El, Los Angeles. Start at 1 hr. 30": https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?

v=636549370373981&ref=watch_permalink

October 28 “’And for the groom a sardine’:

Sephardic Women’s Songs” Jewish Learning Works, San Francisco

October 22 and 25: Pop-Up concert (invitation), and lecture:

Society for Ethnomusicology (online) conference, Carleton University, Ottawa

October 5, "Sephardic Music: introduction and stories",

secular Jewish congregation, Toronto

ONGOING: Storytelling for 1001 Friday Nights, Toronto

August 23, Music among the Crypto-Jews of

Rural Portugal. For Sepharadic Genealogy, Amsterdam

August 17, “The Mazal of Mr. Gerry Neldo:

Moroccan Sephardic Songs”, for series directed by

Joshua Horowitz, “The Promiscuous World of Jewish Music”

August 11, “Everything (almost) you didn’t know

you wanted to know about Sephardic music”,

For Temple Shalom, Auburn, Maine

June 21 for European Day of Music at the

Museo Sefardí de Toledo

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3XrQeQKLvQ or

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=261995225059268

Global Rhythms online series produced

by Ensemble Topaz (Toronto), 24-5-2020

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wMdtw-ovbX0

Invited to represent the Cervantes

Institute in Tangier, Morocco,

for the online Mediterranean

music festival Baleàrics 2.0,

at 26:05: https://youtu.be/twcKQwkVfLc

"Sephardic Music Around the Mediterranean"

Prepared especially for the Museo Ebraico

di Lecce, Italy:

https://www.facebook.com/1108880472468013/videos/2885659088197654/

"The Bride Underneath the Lemon Tree"

Lecture on Moroccan Sephardic songs

for the Aga Khan Museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMYuBK6GECY

Invited participant in Covid-19 online

International "Unidos por el Ladino"

song"Esta montanya d'enfrente"

https://youtu.be/iC_MnKRt1TE

Toronto Storytellers: "Toronto Tells"

festival. "My Improbable Road from

Epidemiology to Ethnomusicology".

May 23, 2020

BUSted Storytellers LA Transit Workers

online benefit festival. "Ay ay ay, it's the

Montreal Tramway", May 17, 2020

May 2020 CurtainCall with Tamar Ilana, FabCollab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Msi6URPwI&list=PLFUxcL8koHPkM5uvkJ9M781fhXzzpw8Yd&index=2

2020 - postponed till 2021 because of pandemic.

May 2020: Lecture-concert for Global Nação

conference, New York City

May 2020: Lecture-concert: "The Lighter Side of

Judeo-Spanish Song", Jewish Music Week, Toronto

June 2020: "Alan Lomax in Morocco and Spain",

ICTM-Mediterranean conference, Tangier, Morocco

July 2020: Concert + workshop for Makom

/ Tres Culturas, Seville, Spain

March - Toronto Storytelling Festival - Storytelling events in Toronto cancelled -

Coronovirus precautions

To February 2020

2020

Aga Khan Museum, solo Pop-up Performances Jan. 15, 18, 19

February 13, 2020. "The Bride Under the Lemon Tree: Musical worlds of Moroccan Jewish women" Aga Khan Museum lecture. 1:00 pm. https://www.agakhanmuseum.org/programs/the-bride-under-the-lemon-tree-with-dr-judith-cohen

February 23. Solo concert "Songs of Travel" for "EtCetera - Canadian Cultural Mosaic", 7 pm, 701 Sheppard West (events room), Toronto.

February 29: "Soundscapes of Sefarad" - lecture-concert for "

Lyric Landscapes" - medieval Romance language symposium,

University of Indiana, Bloomington.

Institut Européen des Musiques Juives, Paris, France. Interview (in French):

https://www.iemj.org/en/onlinecontent/radio-programs/radio-shows-from-the-eijm/judith-cohen-on-the-roads-of-the-world.html

2019

December 2019 + January 2020: various dates,

vocals + percussion with Kosa Koliadnyky,

Ukrainian polyphonic winter season songs

December 15-17, 2019 San Diego : Association for Jewish

Studies, Beating the Water" to Mimouna: Music

among the Judeus of Portugal 25 years later.

December 28: Songs for Los Angeles Sephardic Community Hanuka event.

November 27, 2019 "Songs of Travel", Artery House

Concert, Toronto.

November 19. Lennox & Addington County Museum, Napanee.

Ontario. Sephardic and Ashkenazi Songs of the Holocaust, for the

Anne Frank Exhibition.

October 30. Concert for "Los Corassones Avlan" , Primo Levi

Center, The Jews of Rhodes, New York City.

October 29. Lecture-concert on Sephardic and

medieval music, Fordham University, Bronx, NY

October 28. Concert for Shrine World Music, New York City.

September 16. Solo performance, Storytellers of Halifax.

September 14. Paper, UNESCO ICH and Traditions of Spain

and Portugal, Conference on ICH and the Atlantic,

Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia.

August 10-17: teaching Balkan Sephardic songs

at Balkan Camp, Iroquois Springs, NY

June 19-22: Braganza, Portugal. Tras-os-Montes

"Terras de Sefarad" conference: "'Siete Dias Enserrados': Music among

Sephardim and Ashkenazim in the Holocaust"

Lecture with live singing ; Workshop in Sephardic music

June 23-26: Lisbon, Sosiedad Sefarad conference: "'There will

always be a gap': Moroccan Sephardim in Montreal"

June 27: Belmonte, Portugal: special concert for the Jewish community

June 28: Lisbon, Cervantes Institute: concert of Sephardic songs, 19:00

June 30-July 2: Zamora Sefardí conference: Concert, June 30,

in La Hostería Real; “Lekha dodi – Gens du pays”: del Atlántico

marroquí al Atlántico canadiense (July 2);

Filandón: Romances de Doña Urraca" evening, July 2

July 3: For UNED course in Avila: "¿A quién apartenece esa

memoria? La música sefardí en la memorias de los Sefardíes

- y en las memorias construidas de las fiestas “medievales”"

July 5: Toledo: Music section of University of Castilla-

La Mancha course on Sephardic culture

July 13 : Museo Sefardí, Toledo. Concert-workshop.

July 16, Madrid. Centro Sefarad-Israel.

Concert with Wafir Gibril

July 18-22 Granada, fieldwork research, Alan Lomax recordings

July 25, Hervás, Spain. Workshop in traditional percussion instruments, with Begoña Martín.

June 2-5 New York City, Board Meeting, Association of Jewish Studies.

May 18 Order of Good Cheer Coffee House, Port Carling, Ontario: https://www.facebook.com/events/1082867891896519/

"Judith Cohen et ses invitées - femmes du monde",

Alliance Française, Toronto.

March 16, 2019, 8 pm.

https://www.alliance-francaise.ca/fr/culture/concerts/cohen-judith-fr

"Sisters Queen and Captive" Toronto Storytelling

Festival: Stories at the Gladstone. March 3, 2019.

February 24-7. Hannover, Germany.

"We will live after Babylon: Armenian and Jewish

Historical Experience between Expulsion,

Exile and Destruction":

"'If you see me walking alone on the road' -

Sephardic songs of exile, expulsion, memory - and return"
Lecture; and "Singing the exile: Songs of the Sephardic

Diaspora": workshop-concert.

Songs and Travels" - Solo concert

Aga Khan Museum, pop-up concert series.

January 30, February 2 & 3.

"The King got up one Monday Morning"

StoryFusion Cabaret, Storytelling Toronto. January 26, 2019.

January 26, 2019 20:00. Centre for Social Innovation, 720 Bathurst, Toronto

Ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist Judith Cohen performs sung stories and tales

from Sephardic and pan-European traditions.

http://storytellingtoronto.org/events/the-king-got-up-one-monday-morning/

2018 and earlier:

Portuguese, Spanish Renaissance and Sephardic Songs for launch of Toronto author Anne Dublin's young adult novel "Cage without Bars." Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto, October 29, 2018.