Romancero! Concert of Ladino Songs

Cantor Mark Levy performs traditional Jewish music at the Capitola Library. Enjoy refreshments during this unique performance.

join us for an evening of Sephardic Ladino songs performed by Mark Levy.  Over the past 40 years, Levy has collected these song - songs which survived the perils of a people in exile for over 500 years. The Spanish and Portuguese Jews who were expelled in the late 15th century, Levy's father's family among them, brought with them little more than their language which they preserved over the centuries, composing love songs and songs of longing for a homeland which were passed down to generations of descendants.

Mark Levy's  Romancero! Ladino concert will transport you into a cultural immersion of unique Sephardic song, sung in an amalgam of 500-year-old Spanish and Portuguese, with an occasional Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, or Turkish word,  and accentuated by personal and historical stories. Mark not only sings, but also accompanies himself on the Dombeck drum and guitar as a one man show.