Laura Lassy Townsend & Ira Khonen Temple

Judeo-Arabic Music
Artistic Discipline: Music
Category: Brooklyn Arts Fund
Grant Year: 2021
Location: Prospect Park South
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With a newly formed feminist Judeo-Arabic band, Laura Lassy Townsend (vocals), Ira Khonen Temple (keyboard), Eylem Basaldi (violin) and April Centrone (percussion, oud) unearth and reinvent the Judeo-Arab North African and Middle Eastern liturgical and secular repertoire.