LOCA ROSA (Wild Rose) - Old World Folk Songs & Fables

LOCA ROSA specializes in the traditional Ashkenazi (Eastern European Yiddish-speaking) Jewish performing folk arts of her family heritage from Russia. Her Jewish culture also includes the Sephardi heritage of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) folk songs from the Diaspora countries of Turkey and Spain, and the Hebrew folk songs of Israel. She may also include cross-cultural folk repertoire from her diverse Old and New World heritage such as Renaissance England, Ireland, and Scotland; the United States; and, her birth place, Canada. She performs in splendid ethnic costumes; plays guitar, lute, balalaika, gusli (Eastern European lap harp), tof (Israeli hand drum), and loshki (Russian clicking spoons); and, sings in many languages which include English, Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, Spanish and French.

• NEW Arizona Centennial Project: LOCA ROSA presents Arizona pioneer history of Jewish & Russian immigrants with performances & workshops
• Russian-Jewish Folk Songs & Fables
• Jewish Festival Songs & Stories
• Fall Harvest Festivals: Old World Traditions in Folk Songs & Fables
• Old World Year-End Winter Festivals
• Snegurochka: The Russian Snow Maiden
• Red Hill Holiday: European Spring Festivals from England to Russia
• Russian Folk Tales: Baba Yaga; The Fool & the Flying Ship; & more
• Rhythms from the Global Village: Cross Cultural Folk Songs & Fables
• Jewish Shtetl (Village) Stories: Yingl Tsingl Khvat; Why Dogs Chase Cats; & more
• Children's Game Songs & Stories of Old World Cultures
• American Songs from the Old World
• Jewish Songs of American Folk Singing Icon Woody Guthrie & His Jewish Mother-In-Law, Aliza Greenblatt
• Loca Rosa Goes Hollywood: Old World Songs from the Movies
• Songs of a Russian Gypsy
• My Old Canadian Home: Folk Songs from the Great Lake Waters to Vancouver Island
• 'Tis the Renaissance Way: Folk Songs & Stories from the Old, Old World