Happy first day of Hanukkah! If you’re looking for ways to light up this dark season, here are two gorgeous musical Hanukkah greetings courtesy of Pharoah’s Daughter. Check out these great versions of Hanukkah classics “Maoz Tzur” (above) and “Al Hansim” (below). Both were filmed at the 2008 Rabbis for Human Rights – North America Conference in Washington DC.
(Anyone else growing weary of the utterly overused yet still somehow requisite German-folk setting we Ashkenazim use for Maoz Tzur? I’m going with this one when I light the candles tonight…)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/derek-beres/global-beat-fusion-songs_b_1135159.html
here’s a recent huffington post article that includes a nice review of Pharoah’s Daughter and a video clip of her singing in Yiddish
very nice