COST: Pay What You Can
Suggested Donation $15-$25 Per Person
FOOD (first come first served) 6:30-7:15PM
CONCERT 7:15-8:30PM
Neta Elkayam is a multidisciplinary artist and singer of North African Jewish roots, leading ensembles across Morocco, Europe, Jerusalem, and New Orleans. She blends Andalusian, chaabi, and Amazigh traditions with pop, electronic, and jazz, moving fluidly between worlds and stages as an international soloist.
Her work draws on deep archival research to channel ancestral memory and unwritten histories through a bold, personal voice. She has performed on major stages worldwide and received major recognitions including the ACUM Music Prize, New York’s American Sephardi Federation’s Pomegranate Award, and the Trophée Marocains du Monde in Marrakech. Today, she lives and teaches at Xavier University in New Orleans.
For this Mimouna night, she is joined by a special international ensemble of musicians from Morocco and Israel, created just for this evening, a one time, unrepeatable gathering.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
Washington Moroccan American Club; Kesher Israel Congregation in Georgetown; Adas Israel Congregation; the Generations After; Anu – Museum of the Jewish People in Israel; Stand With Us
SPONSORS:
American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists; JxJ Washington Jewish Film and Music Festival; Diana Schemo (in loving memory of Yosef ben Avraham, a”h); Rose and Rob Capon;
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Mimouna is a traditional Moroccan Jewish festival of good neighbors celebrated together with Muslims, when after Passover, doors of Moroccan-Jewish homes are left open and all are welcomed to enjoy singing, dancing, and traditional sweets.
Enjoy traditional foods (first come first served) and experience a new generation of Jewish and Muslim Moroccan artists who will share a harmonious blend of music drawing from their collective Sephardic, Jewish, Muslim, and Mimouna heritages, as well as Andalusi, and Chaabi styles.
Chaabi music and dance in Morocco comes from the Berber-speaking tribes of the Rif Mountains in the north, and true to its name meaning ‘of the people,’ is enjoyed by diverse Moroccans alike. Andalusi music was originally developed in al-Andalus/Muslim Spain and is exemplified by traditional Sephardic-Moroccan Jewish music.
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