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Focus On Folk
Lisa Wanamaker will perform folk songs —
in Hebrew, Yiddish, English and Ladino —
at the Maple-Drake ICC
SUZANNE CHESSLER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
hile folk singer
Lisa Wanamaker
prepares for her
first performance
in Michigan, her hus-
band and manager, Dow
Lebowski, plans for a
very personal return vis-
it. Wanamaker's April 12
show at the Maple-
Drake Jewish Commu-
nity Center brings the
couple to the area where
he spent the first six
years of his life.
"I sing in Hebrew,
Yiddish, English and
Ladino (a mixture of
Spanish and Hebrew),"
said Wanamaker, 43,
who started as a folk
dancer. She added vo-
cals to her perfor-
mances, accepted sing-
ing engagements and
moved on to recordings.
"I do everything from
old Hebrew songs to
modern Hebrew songs
and obscure Yiddish
songs to familiar Yid-
dish songs. I do English
songs with a Jewish
theme, which might be
something from Yentl."
Wanamaker is accom-
panied by two musicians
— Gordon Lustig on gui-
tar and John Bilezikjian
on oud.
"The oud originated Lisa Wanamaker: From folk dancer to folk singer.
in Persia," explained
Wanamaker, who spent
a year in Israel authenticating school that taught Hebrew and
her repertoire. 'The instrument, Yiddish. Raised in a Zionist
a cross between a guitar and home, she became involved with
mandolin played•ith an eagle's Habonim. "My first album, Shir-
feather, is used by different im, was commissioned in Hol-
groups of Sephardic and Orien- land by a folk dance company
tal people. Its sounds can be there," Wanamaker said. "They
wanted a folk dance album with
Arabic or Israeli."
Wanamaker falls in line with vocals and chose the songs along
a family theatrical tradition. Her with me.
"It was a mixture of old songs
mother used the name Basha
Slobodkin when she acted in they wanted redone and Israeli
Yiddish productions and Edith songs that were new on the mar-
Young when she did plays in ket. We interspersed a bunch of
English. Her late uncle, Sam Yiddish songs, but we didn't use
Wanamaker, was director and any English.
"Because that album did so
founder of the Shakespeare
Globe Center in London. Her fa- well in Europe, we decided to do
ther, William Wanamaker, a re- another album, Shir Heaven, in
tired doctor, is a Globe trustee the United States. This time it
and travels as the theater's was arranged in Los Angeles,
and we produced it ourselves. It
spokesperson.
Wanamaker grew up in Los has Hebrew, Yiddish and La-
Angeles, where she studied dino, but it also has a lot of
dance and attended a secular English.
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"The second album has a lot
more Yiddish songs that are re-
ally obscure, rarely heard or not
recorded in many years. I've
added English words to arrange-
ments by an Israeli composer,
bringing a mixture of old and
new."
Wanamaker likes to tell her
audiences about the history and
content of the songs she per-
forms. "I don't lecture," said the
mother of Adam, 12, and
Michelle, 6 months. "I just give
a theatrical slant on what I'm
doing."
Lisa Wanamaker will perform
8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 12,
at the Maple-Drake Jewish
Community Center. Seating
is cabaret style, and tables can
be reserved. For information,
call,(810) 661-7649.