Romancero! Mark Levy's Concert of Ladino Songs

RSVP for Saturday, September 19, 2026, 3-4pm
Romancero! Mark Levy's Concert of Ladino Songs
Scotts Valley Branch Library
251 Kings Village Road
Scotts Valley, CA 95066

Cantor Mark Levy performs traditional Jewish music at the Scotts Valley Library. Enjoy refreshments during this unique performance. Join us for an afternoon of Sephardic Ladino songs performed by Mark Levy. Over the past 40 years, Levy has collected these songs, which have survived the perils of a people in exile for over 500 years. The Spanish and Portuguese Jews who were expelled in the late 15th century, Levy's father's family among them, brought with them little more than their language. They preserved this over the centuries by composing love songs and songs of longing for a homeland that were passed down to generations of descendants. Mark Levy's Romancero! Ladino concert will transport you into a cultural immersion of unique Sephardic song, sung in an amalgam of 500-year-old Spanish and Portuguese, with an occasional Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, or Turkish word, and accentuated by personal and historical stories. Mark not only sings, but also accompanies himself on the Dombeck drum and guitar as a one man show. Registration encouraged, walk-ins welcome. https://santacruzpl.libnet.info/event/17130718