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Susan Feltman Gaeta To Perform At Beth Ahm In WindsorNationally renowned singer and West Hartford native Susan Feltman Gaeta will return to Connecticut to present "An Evening of Inspiration & Live Sephardic Music." The concert will be a fundraiser for Congregation Beth Ahm and will take place at synagogue at 362 Palisado Avenue (Route 159) in Windsor, Conn. on this Saturday evening, October 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Hartford-born vocalist and guitarist Susan Gaeta has performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Greater Washington Jewish Folk Arts Festival, the Holocaust Museum, and for numerous Jewish and interfaith communities around the U.S. She is a sister of Congregation Beth Ahm Co-President Steve Feltman and a daughter of West Hartford residents Philip and Frances Feltman. She now lives in Virginia.
Gaeta recently completed an apprenticeship with her mentor, Flory Jagoda, a composer, singer and musician known worldwide as the Keeper of the Flame of Sephardic music. As part of that work, she received a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities to record a CD to preserve and continue Jagoda's music from her perspective as apprentice. This recording traces the evolution of the authentic a cappella women's Sephardic vocal tradition that Jagoda learned from her grandmother, to Gaeta's interpretation of the composer's more contemporary pieces.
Prior to her apprenticeship with Jagoda, Gaeta spent eight years in Argentina where she performed jazz and both American and Argentine folk music in Buenos Aires. She studied with, and often was accompanied by, classical guitarist Oscar Casares. Today, Gaeta performs as a soloist, as a guest accompanist for Flory Jagoda, and as a member of the Sephardic music group, Colors of the Flame.
Sephardic music is the lyrical and oral history of the Sephardim, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled the Iberian Peninsula during the Inquisition of 1492. Sephardic music was born in medieval Spain, with canciones being performed at the royal courts. Since then, it has picked up influences from across Spain, Morocco, Argentina, Turkey, Greece and various popular tunes from Spain and further abroad.
The October 20 fundraising event will feature an opening performance by the Congregation BethAhm's own Beth Ahm-en Klezmer Band. Admission to the fundraiser is $10 per person and includes dessert after the concert. Special sponsorships are available that include recognition in the concert program book. They are: Blue sponsorship for $54 - includes 1 admission; Bronze sponsorship for $72 - includes 2 admissions; Silver sponsorship for $140 - includes 4 admissions; Gold sponsorship: $275 includes 8 admissions; and Platinum sponsorship: $500 includes 16 admissions.
For ticket reservations and sponsorships, please call (860) 561-4370.
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