Beth Bahia Cohen & Rebecca Mac
- Global
Laced with intricate micro-tonalities, hypnotic dance rhythms and transportive melodies, Beth Bahia Cohen and Rebecca Mac will present a concert of traditional Greek and Turkish music, freshly-interpreted and newly arranged. Having worked closely for the past two years through the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program, Mac and Bahia-Cohen will be performing their debut concert together as a duo. The pair will be joined by multi-instrumentalist Tev Stevig and other special guests.
Tickets will be on sale to the public 10/17 at noon. On sale to all Passim members 10/10 at noon. On sale to All Access Passim members 10/3 at noon.
Beth Bahia Cohen
- Trad
- World
Beth Bahia Cohen is a violinist of Syrian Jewish and Russian Jewish heritage. Inspired at a young age by the sounds she heard at family gatherings, she went on to study with master musicians from Hungary, Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East. She plays the violin, viola, Greek lyras, Turkish bowed tanbur and kabak kemane, Norwegian hardingfele, and Egyptian rababa.
Rebecca Mac
- Global
- Klezmer
Rebecca Mac is Boston-based violinist and violist, regularly performing in various ensembles including Mamaliga, a contemporary quartet performing original Klezmer and Eastern-European folk inspired compositions, Zol Zayn, a klezmer dance-band, and Zunroyz, a trio un-earthing string repertoire from the Jewish music archives. Mac can also be found performing on the Turkish yali tanbur. Mac has performed nationally and internationally at renowned music festivals including KlezKanada, Yiddish Summer Weimar and Yiddish New York.
