| rdfs:comment | - Vocolot is a contemporary Jewish women's a cappella ensemble based in California consisting of Elizabeth Stuart, Julia Bordenaro, Shana Levy, and director Linda Hirschhorn, founded in 1988. The group performs original compositions and arrangements of traditional Jewish, folk, and world-music songs in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and Arabic. Mixing folk, classical, cantorial and jazz idioms in a polyphonic style of intricately interwoven voices, the women perform a cappella with occasional use of hand drums and body percussion. The ensemble has been compared to Sweet Honey in the Rock. Vocolot has won several awards, including CARA awards for best album and best song, and most recently they were the only American group to make it to the finals at the 2008 International Jewish Music Com
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| abstract | - Vocolot is a contemporary Jewish women's a cappella ensemble based in California consisting of Elizabeth Stuart, Julia Bordenaro, Shana Levy, and director Linda Hirschhorn, founded in 1988. The group performs original compositions and arrangements of traditional Jewish, folk, and world-music songs in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and Arabic. Mixing folk, classical, cantorial and jazz idioms in a polyphonic style of intricately interwoven voices, the women perform a cappella with occasional use of hand drums and body percussion. The ensemble has been compared to Sweet Honey in the Rock. Vocolot has won several awards, including CARA awards for best album and best song, and most recently they were the only American group to make it to the finals at the 2008 International Jewish Music Competition in Amsterdam. Many of Vocolot's songs share themes of peace and justice, and Vocolot has sung at numerous rallies and fundraisers on behalf of El Salvador, Nicaragua, the homeless, women's shelters, Darfur, Israel and Palestine, and at many anti-war demonstrations. In addition, they commonly perform at festivals, conferences and conventions, folk music clubs, Jewish community centers and federations, colleges and universities, and synagogues throughout the U.S.A.
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