Sarah Aroeste Band

Sarah Aroeste is the founder of the NY-based Ladino Rock group, the Sarah Aroeste Band. American-born Aroeste, with family roots that go back to Spain and more recently to Salonika, Greece, launched her band to help bring Sephardic music to a new generation. Most influenced by the music and language of her Spanish origins, Aroeste grounds her music in Ladino, an ethnic form of Castilian Spanish developed by Spanish Jews after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. Although this mysterious pan-Mediterranean language has, unfortunately, been fading away, the musical legacy of Spanish Jews highlights the strength of an oral tradition that spans many centuries and crosses many geographic boundaries. Determined to help keep Ladino music alive, Aroeste updates and reinterprets the tradition by fusing it with more modern sensibilities. With its unique Ladino Rock sound, the Sarah Aroeste Band takes traditional Ladino music from across the Mediterranean and combines it with contemporary influences such as rock, funk, and blues. Since Aroeste launched her band in 2001, she has toured and amassed a loyal following across the nation and abroad, and has worked hard to bring an updated, exciting new sound to Ladino and Sephardic music.
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Introducing our new album Puertas! Puertas continues along the path that we started from our debut album A la Una: In the Beginning, and shows an even more pronounced mix of traditional Ladino sounds with contemporary and rock influences.The album was co-produced with Grammy Award-winning and critically acclaimed musician/producer Frank London (Klezmatics, Hassidic New Wave), and features many great guest artists including a remix engineered by Balkan Beat Box leader, Tamir Muskat. With 10 new tracks on the album with sounds ranging from funky pop beats, to flamenco-style strumming, hard electric rock riffs and driven Middle Eastern rhythms, Puertas shows the unique qualities of what is traditional and new in Sephardic music.

The Forward (July 31, 2007) calls Puertas a "thrilling new album" and one that "is an argument about Ladino music’s future."

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Watch a new video of our Ladino Rock-Ballad Me Siento Alegre- Yearn for You live from the Knitting Factory, NYC May 2007.
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