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Monday December 7th - Philadelphia, PA -
Annanberg Center for the Arts
http://www.annenbergcenter.org
Venue: The Zellerbach Theatre
3680 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
This concert is part of the Festival of Lights
Tickets: from 21$ to 43$
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POPULAR
ISRAELI-AMERICAN SINGER NOA PERFORMS HER “FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS
CONCERT” AS PART OF PENN PRESENTS®' WORLD DISCOVERY SERIES
PHILADELPHIA, PA — A singer/songwriter with a universal
perspective, Noa will bring her singular style to
Philadelphia, as part of the Penn Presents 2004-05 World Discovery Series, on
Tuesday, December 7, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. in the Zellerbach Theatre of the Annenberg Center for the Performing
Arts, 3680 Walnut Street. Entitled "A Festival of Lights
Concert," the performance will reflect Noa's source of creative inspiration - not just music, but beauty from the world around
her. It is the perfect celebration to begin the Chanukah
holiday, which begins December 8. Noa (whose birth name is Achinoam
Nini) is fast attaining an international reputation for fusing different music styles together into one tantilizing sound - particularly Middle Eastern beats and Jazz. Tickets for the performance are $43, $38, $31 and $21. There are discounts for
seniors, students, groups, and Penn alumni, as well as the
TIAA-CREF university faculty/staff discount. For tickets or more
information, call 215-898-3900, or visit online at
www.pennpresents.org. Media Sponsor: METRO Philadelphia. There will be a free
pre-show lecture at 6:30 p.m., place TBA.
Noa's life experience - which resonates in her music - has taken her around the world and back
again. She was born in Israel to parents of Yemenese
descent, raised in the Bronx, New York, and repatriated to Israel in her late
teens. To date she has released four international albums, has eight Israeli
recordings, and has performed around the world for dignitaries and common folk
alike, striking them with her earnest, heart-felt interpretations and
compositions. Her most recent compilation is Now (2002). Among her strongest musical influences are Joni
Mitchell, James Taylor, Leonard Cohen and Paul Simon.
She started singing at the age of three, a time when her parents encouraged her talent by putting her on a table with a carrot in her hand as a
microphone. By the age of seven she was writing songs - about
God, cockroaches, trees and love. She says she has been writing songs
(the content of which changes as she does...) and singing them ever
since. "I consider that an incredible privilege," the exotic beauty
states.
Noa spent two years in the Israeli military singing for
soldiers, then enrolled in the Rimon School of Music where she met Gil
Dor, a musician who would ultimately help shape her sound and professional
career. They have been artistic partners ever since.
Always mindful of the blessing her voice and her music has been to
her, she is proud of the hundreds of concerts she has had around the world and the
"endless encounters with remarkable people…I have sung for the Pope, Bill
Clinton, Steven Spielberg and Yitzhak Rabin to name a few," she
says, "&3133;and been on stage with Sting, Stevie
Wonder, Carlos Santana, Quincy Jones, Sheryl Crow, and so many other amazingly talented people from all over the
world."
Poetry has also influenced her music. "I love poetry, especially
e.e. cummings and Octavio Paz," she says, "…but I have taken material and inspiration from so many places and
people: I just try to keep my eyes and ears, and especially my
heart, wide open all the time."
Noa has garnered fans from around the world with her open,
frank, sensual and inviting style.
In 2001, she became a mother to a son, and considers that event to be the greatest influence ever on her music and her
life.
For more information about Noa, please visit
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