More possible musicians for Detroit's JCC Stephen Gottlieb Music Fest: Sephardic / Mizrachi musicians

Here is a list of Sephardic / Mizrachi musicians that I passed along to the JCC Stephen Gottlieb Music Fest committee. For more of an explanation see yesterday's post about Yiddish singers.

Pharaoh's Daughter
Led by Basya Shecter, Pharaoh's Daughter plays neo-psychedelic Sephardic/Mizrachi folk rock. A friend described them as "a Jewish Jim Morrison getting lost in the desert." Something like that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCVUDQrxFwQ
http://www.pharaohsdaughter.com/

Divhan
Led by Galeet Dardashti, Divhan plays Sephardic/Mizrachi folk music. A bit more mannered than Pharaoh's Daughter, but equally great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdvHiRSpz2M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b8QQaRFMvQ
http://divahn.com/

Smadar Levi
Israeli singer of Morrocan descent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAw12T4PFFU
http://www.smadarlevi.com

Yasmin Levy
Wonderful Sephardic vocalist. A mainstay on the world music festival circuit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kFhqS1yMu
http://www.yasminlevy.net/

Sara Aroeste
Sephardic Ladino rock band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LEf1QegfuA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO8Q6duj9U
http://www.saraharoeste.com/

Deleon
Sephardic psychedelic indie-rock band. Saw them live last fall and they were GREAT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo7aXTCCdZA

Yair Dalal
Israeli "Ethnic Musician," which means something like Mizrachi folk music treated as art music without becoming theatrical. wonderful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sYp5S-jkZo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sYp5S-jkZo&feature=related

Jaffa Road
Sephardic/Mizrachi group from Toronto.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozOMNiqu2Q0
http://jaffaroadmusic.squarespace.com/

Jaffa Road also just recorded a wonderful album of original Jewish
wedding music called The Hupah Project and sometimes performs under
that name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feXOk8zwmQk
http://www.thehuppahproject.com/

Cantor Aaron Bensoussan
Moroccan born Aaron Bensoussan performs Cantorial, Yiddish, Ladino and
Moroccan Folk Music, as well as jazz w/Uri Caine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K3_AsC4KVc

Flory Jagoda
Grande Dame of Sephardic music, songwriter of Hanukkah classic "Ocho
Kandelikas" and NEA heritage award winner. In this video, she's
singing with Cantor Gaston (see below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA6X3y8jS58
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flory_Jagoda

Cantor Gaston
Cantor in MA, originally from Argentina. Sephardic music with South American flair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46QmCFIIYbg
http://www.cantorgaston.com/