Yasmin Levy is an Awesome Jewish Singer

 I Just been to see Yasmin Levy   at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. What can I say, she was BRILLIANT, she is an Awesome Singer, a Fantastic entertainer.
Yesmin was a guest in Glasgow to perform at the Celtic Connections which is Britain's premier Celtic festival. From its inception in 1994 at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (which still organises the whole event), the festival now reaches out to venues across the city.

The first decade saw a rapid expansion of the festival so that, by the tenth year, audiences were approaching an amazing 100,000 across ten venues. A focus on new and young talent is enshrined in such strands as The Young Tradition and Inspired Apprentices.

The main acts to have appeared at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Barrowlands, the Old Fruitmarket and the Carling Academy over the years have included the likes of Sinead O'Connor, Altan, The Waterboys, The Dubliners, Billy Bragg and Bob Geldof, as well as the very best in homegrown and international Celtic artists.

Other venues now include Glasgow Cathedral, the Tron and the impressively named King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. 

Celtic Connections | 1500 artists, 300 events, 18 days, 14 venues ...

20 Jan 2010 ... O2 ABC 1 Glasgow. Aerials Up and First Charge of the Light Brigade and ...See clips from last year's festival on BBC Scotland's Celtic ...
www.celticconnections.com/ - 

Yasmin Levy, 

born on December 23, 1975 in Jerusalem, is an Israeli singer-songwriter of Judaeo-Spanish music. Her late father, Isaac Levy, was a composer and cantor, pioneer researcher into the long and rich history of the Ladino music and culture of Spanish Jewry and its diaspora, being the editor of the Ladino language magazine Aki Yerushalayim. 

With her distinctive and emotive style, Yasmin has brought a new interpretation to the medieval Ladino/Judeo-Spanish song by incorporating more "modern" sounds of Andalusian Flamenco and Turkey,^[1] as well as combining instruments like the darbuka, oud, violin, cello, and piano. In her second album, La Judería (Sp: "The Jewish Quarter"), she also covered the popular songs Gracias a la Vida by Violeta Parra andNací en Alamó from the film Vengo, directed by Tony Gatlif, which in its original version won the 2001 César Award for Best Music Written for a Film (itself being a cover^[2] of "Το Τραγούδι των Γύφτων" ["To Traghoudi ton Yifton", "The Song of the Gypsies"], written by Greek songwriter Dionysis Tsaknis in 1990).

Her debut album was Romance & Yasmin in 2000, which earned her a nomination as Best Newcomer for the fRoots / BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards 2005, followed in 2005 with her second album La Juderia. In 2006 she was nominated again, then in the category Culture Crossing.^[3]

Yasmin's work earned her the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation Award for promoting cross-cultural dialogue between musicians from three cultures.^[4] In her own words:

I am proud to combine the two cultures of Ladino and flamenco, while mixing in Middle Eastern influences. I am embarking on a 500 years old musical journey, taking Ladino to Andalusia and mixing it with flamenco, the style that still bears the musical memories of the old Moorish and Jewish-Spanish world with the sound of the Arab world. In a way it is a ‘musical reconciliation’ of history.^[5]