Music of the Jewish Diaspora: The Noga Band Featuring Avram Pengas - livestream

Date

Sunday July 11

Time (Eastern Time)

3:00 PM  –  4:30 PM

New York music legend Avram Pengas is a virtuoso guitarist, bouzouki player, and singer whose music is rooted in the Mediterranean tavernas of Athens. Born into a musical family of Romaniote and Sephardic Jewish-Greek heritage, Pengas was raised in Jaffa, and a budding career as a performer in Greek clubs in Israel brought him to New York in 1970 to participate in the legendary scene of Turkish-owned clubs along 8th Avenue that were the pulse of Hell’s Kitchen from the 1920s to the 1970s. A popular performer in the local Greek and Sephardic/Mizrachi communities, Pengas and his Noga Band cook up a multicultural stew of rhythms and modes spanning Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Israel, and the Levant.

Join the Museum and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance for a virtual livestream of this summer concert, which will be performed in the Museum's newly-renovated Edmond J. Safra Hall. The concert is sponsored in part through the Battery Park City Authority community partnership. 

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