There are two… - Saul Kaye at East Bay Jewish Music Festival 2024

When: Sunday, March 31, 2024
Where: The Back Room, 1984 Bonita Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704

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Saul Kaye is a pioneer of the musical genre Jewish Blues. Saul brings together the sounds of the struggle of the African Slaves in this country with the history of the Jewish slavery experience.

Jews have been enslaved in many countries over the centuries including Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Rome, Greece, Germany, and Malta. So, like the African Slave experience proved to be a catalyst for blues, so the path of Jewish history fostered its own form of soulful tears, from Jews crying out in Egyptian slavery (Exodus) to the prophet Jeremiah weeping over the destruction of the Temple in Eicha (Lamentations) , Jews know the pain of spiritual crisis and call to Hashem with their own form of blues. You can hear it in the synagogue when the Torah and the books of Prophets are read, chanted in tropes passed down through time, recounting forbearers' sorrows on days of tragedy like Tisha B'Av, or remembering celebrations of freedom on Passover, when Jews recall the Israelite's "Song at the Sea," as the waters of freedom parted.

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