Musician, storyteller and ethnomusicologist Judith Cohen invites us to an intimate, informal concert based on the songs she’s learned over the decades on travels and adventures on several continents – and here in Toronto and in her native Montreal.

With four musical guests, she’ll sing songs from the Sephardic Mediterranean, from Spain, Portugal, the Balkans; from closer to home in Acadie and Québec and from further back in time, to the songs of the medieval troubadours.

Judith accompanies herself on medieval bowed vièle and henna-painted bendirs, and her guests add oud, tombek, daff, accordion, contrabass and vocals.

Her guests:

Tamar Ilana: singing, traditional percussion

Demetrios Petsalakis: oud, Greek baglama, guitar

Naghmeh Fahramand: Iranian percussion

Rachel Melas: accordion, contrabass