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| Loca Rosa and Byelaroza
Dancers present lively performances capturing Eastern European
culture in traditional folk song, dance and legend.
Loca Rosa performs in colorful ethnic costumes and plays many insturments -- guitar, lute, balalaika and frame drum, -- while singing in many languages -- Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, Spanish, French, German, plus English, Irish and Scottish songs.. This irrepressible troubador joyfully involves the audience with traditional, contemporary and original material from her Rusian-Jewish heritage. Byelaroza Dancers perform traditional ethnic folk dances from many Euro-Asian countries -- Russia, Israel, Turkey, Greece and Spain --and Gypsy and Arabic folk dances Loca Rosa, which means Wild Rose, is the stage name of Tish Dvorkin, the lead singer and story-teller. She chose this stage name to honor her Sephardi (Judeo-Spanish) heritage and to acknowledge her birthplace in Alberta, Canada, where the wild rose is the provincial flower. It was her love of the traditional secular folk music of her Askenazi (eastern Eruopean Yiddish-speaking Jewish) heritage that drew her to become a "badkhn", or folk singer.
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Loca Rosa is
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If your school, library, arts center or community organization is interested in presenting this experienced, talented artist in these tyes of programs, contact the Arizona Commision On the Arts (phone: 602-255-5882) for information on how to recieve a matching grant, or contact Loca rosa directly by e-mail (LocaRosa@uswest.net) or phone (602-986-6016).
Tish Dvorkin, Director 480-986-6016
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