Singer-songwriter and fiddler Lily Henley has a new album like no other: On ‘Oras Dezaoradas,’ she crafts new music for centuries-old traditional Sephardic Jewish ballads. It’s a beautiful project, sung nearly entirely in Ladino, the near-forgotten Sephardic dialect that sounds more like Spanish than anything else.
On this week’s podcast, we talk to Henley about the making of ‘Oras Dezaoradas,’ her unique upbringing in music, her songwriting process, and much more. It’s a great chat about a truly unique album.
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