Jerusalem live music

News briefs from around the Jerusalem area.

The 28-year-old singer’s parents made aliya from Ethiopia in the early 1980s, as part of Operation Moses.

The fourth edition of the Pianos Festival will focus on the late Hungarian-born Israel Prize winning composer Andre Hajdu, who died in August at the age of 84.

The South African-born octogenarian clarinetist’s contribution to the freer side of Israeli jazz will be saluted at this week’s Jerusalem Jazz Fest

These three musicians demonstrated dazzling virtuosity, not for its own sake, but for radiating a spirit of utmost attentiveness and concentration.

The magic created when Eden and Shay-Li Djamchid start to sing their gentle melodies quiets down even noisy audiences.

From intimate evenings to twice-yearly hoots, Philippa Bacal knows that folk music is where it’s at.

The ambiance at the Yellow Submarine was something between that of a rock concert and an intimate hafla in someone’s home back in Morocco.

The well-meant purpose of this musical cocktail was presumably to attract classical music fans to folk music, and vice versa.

One could identify Effie Benaya, founder, manager and artistic director of the Oud Festival of Jerusalem, as the most realistic dreamer among us.