Israel At 60:

A Concert With Mark Levy

SOUTHBURY — On Sunday, July 27, at 2 pm, San Francisco-based musician Mark Levy will perform “To 120 Years of Music: Israel at 60,” a special concert featuring the songs that accompanied the settlement and statehood of Israel. The performance will celebrate 60 years of the land and its people.

Mr Levy has performed and taught in the San Francisco Bay area for 30 years at temples, synagogues, Jewish Community Centers, Lehrhaus Judaica, Workmen’s Circle, and other Jewish groups. He has appeared throughout the country and abroad and is a singer and lecturer who specializes in older Judaic folk music in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ladino, Klezmer history and theory, and Jewish music history in general.

He has performed for Yeshiva University Sephardic Department’s Semana Sepharad in New York, and is a cantorial soloist in California. He recently released a fourth album of Jewish music entitled Bin Ikh Mir A Shnayderl: Yiddish Work Songs, in commemoration of the 100th birthday of Workmen’s Circle, a fraternal order of Jewish workers and their families.

The intergenerational concert is being sponsored by The Federation-Jewish Communities of Western Connecticut, Heritage Village Hadassah, and the Jewish Culture Club of Heritage Village. It will take place in the social hall at The Federation, 444 Main Street North. Refreshments will be served.

Tickets for adults are $5 if purchased in advance or $7 at the door. Admission is free for children under 10.

Tickets may be purchased at the Federation or at the Activities Desk at Heritage Village. For more information, contact Debby Horowitz at 267-3177, extension 105.