Tamar Ilana and Ventanas at Hermann's Jazz Club

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Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
8:00 AM to 10:00 PM

Sought-after world music vocalist and flamenco dancer Tamar Ilana and her trans-Mediterranean ensemble Ventanas embrace the varied instrumental and melodic traditions of North Africa, the Balkans, Turkey and Spain to create fresh interpretations of classics and inspired original songs. Flamenco guitar, violin, darbuka, fretless bass and percussive flamenco footwork intertwine with surprising harmony, joy and yearning.

Tamar Ilana defies easy categorization. The Toronto-born singer’s voice is as fierce and powerful as it is delicate and ornamental, and she is as comfortable enchanting heart-wrenching flamenco arrangements in Spanish as she is breathing mournful Sephardic love songs, or singing playful Balkan party tunes. With her four-time Canadian Folk Music Award-nominated ensemble Ventanas, Ilana skips effortlessly from one genre to the next, and in her original compositions blends these diverse influences with a mastery that makes their synthesis sound like the most natural thing in the world.

“An enchanting and genre-warping cross-cultural party” - New York Music Daily “An audible walk through a spice market in Istanbul. Simply intoxicating!” - Jazz Weekly Ringer of the Week Hermann’s Jazz Club Feb 22, 2018 8pm, doors at 6pm 753 View Street Victoria, BC, V8W 1J9 $20 advance, $25 at the door

Tickets: www.caravanbc.com , in person at Munro's Books, Ivy's Bookshop, or call 250-388-9166.