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MUSICFEST from page 33

speak on the state of Jewish music in
America in conversation with Jewish
News publisher Arthur Horwitz.
"Our JCC is one of the first in the
country to put on a music festival," says
Martin W. Hollander of West
Bloomfield, MusicFest co-chair along
with Mindy Soble of West Bloomfield.
"Instead of presenting individuals
throughout the year, we decided to
reshape 'these events into one blockbuster
program," Soble says.
Now, she adds, the JCC will have four
major programs a year: the Lenore
Marwil Jewish Film Festival in the
spring, MusicFest in the summer, Book
Fair in the fall and SAJE (Seminars for
Adult Jewish Enrichment) in the winter.

Sarah Aroeste

Scratch the surface, and all of the 10
groups coming to MusicFest 2004 have a
fascinating story of how their Jewish
roots pushed them to express themselves
uniqUely and musically. Some, like Sarah
Aroeste or the Afro-Semitic Experience,
have created new hybrid musical styles
that appeal not only to Jewish listeners
but also to a broader, more general audi-
ence.
Recently featured on National Public
Radio as an up-and-coming artist,
Aroeste, 28, says she and her band corn-
bine "her proud Sephardic heritage" with
contemporary rock and jazz, creating the
first Ladino rock band.
But the music she calls "a hidden treas-
ure, ripe for cultivation" took years to
discover.
Aroeste, whose father was the dean of
the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
in Philadelphia, began to study opera in
high school. In a summer vocal program
in Tel Aviv, she met Nico Castel, one of
the world's leading Ladino experts and
the New York Metropolitan Opera's dic-
tion coach.
But opera was never Aroeste's calling.
She took a break from it and, at the
National Foundation for Jewish Culture,
set up a conference on new Jewish
music. "Musicians were doing incredible
things informed by their Jewish back-
ground, but there were no Sephardic
musicians," she says.
Three years ago, Aroeste, who grew up
in a Sephardic extended family and
whose grandparents still spoke Spanish,
formed a group with guitarist Alan
Cohen, taking the lyrics and melodies
from traditional Ladino music and
"making it our own with new instru-
mentation," she says. Her band uses
modern instruments like electric guitars
combined with the more traditional
stringed oud and dumbek drum.
The music led her to learn belly danc-
ing to include in her act.

"Sephardic culture is infused with a
sense of sensuality. I don't highlight it
but use it in my expression of the
music," she adds.
Aroeste, who has played around the
country, says much of her audience is
not Jewish. "We do world music festivals
and reach out to the Hispanic communi-
ty," she says, adding that her band and
guest artists — composed of Israelis,
Muslims and Christians — also are
involved in Arab-Jewish music and peace
initiatives. "It's important to us," she
stressed.

Afro-Semitic Experience

Bass player, composer and music profes-
sor David Chevan, 44, of New Haven,
Conn., grew up in Amherst, Mass., lis-
tening to gospel and creative music over
the radio. There was no Jewish music
station, he says, but at his synagogue, the
progressive rabbi let the congregants take
turns leading the service.
"By the time I was bar mitzvahed, I
knew the liturgy and the melodies well,"
he says.
Later, when he heard African- •
American musicians bring their church
music powerfully into jazz and gospel, he
wanted to find a way to bring synagogue
melodies into his playing.
A key to his musical quest came when
Chevan met the African-American
pianist Warren Byrd and they eventually
formed the Afro-Semitic Experience.
Four albums later, the group is a unique
mix of the two co-leaders and their
Jewish and African-American roots, with
album tides like The Days of Awe and

Avadim Hayinu, Once We Were Slaves,
whiCh is a mix of Hebrew, gospel and
civil rights songs.
"One thing that comes out of our
music is the importance of community
— how you make communities together
on local and world levels," Chevan says.
The band includes Alvin Carter Jr.,
drums; Baba David Coleman, percus-
sion; Stacy Phillips, violin and dobro;
Will Bartlett, saxophone and clarinet;
and Mixashawn.com, tenor saxophone.
"Our sights are very high for this year's
festival and for what's to come," co-chair
Hollander says, hinting at off-site venues
like Orchestra Hall in the future.
"MusicFest is a work in progress," co-
chair Soble.says, "completely run by vol-
unteers." ❑

MusicFest 2004! runs June 20-
27. For ticket information, call
(248) 788-2900 or see the Web
site at www.jccdet.org. Tickets
for all performances also are
available at the door. To volun-
teer, call (248) 432-5577.

