The Guy Mendilow Ensemble & Beyond the Pale

THE GUY MENDILOW ENSEMBLE
(The Forgotten Kingdom Performed by The Guy Mendilow Ensemble)

“A resurgent force … explodes with artistry, refinement, and excitement”
—Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati OH

Folding radio drama-style stories into a top-flight world music concert, The Forgotten Kingdom conjures Sephardi women’s voices lost to war.

Audiences traverse picturesque Mediterranean port towns and ruined Ottoman villages, from Salónica to Sarajevo, guided by an “international tour-de-force” (Bethlehem Morning Call) from the Middle East, South and North America. World-class musicianship and cinematic storytelling restores living colour to faded, sepia snapshots of ordinary people caught in extraordinary upheaval.

BEYOND THE PALE

“A bracingly modern, mind-blowing flight into a very new Jewish-Balkan sonic atmosphere”— LA Weekly

One of Canada’s most innovative and exciting acoustic roots ensembles uses klezmer and Balkan styles as the point of departure for the band’s genre-defying sound, which is also shaped by everything from jazz and classical music to bluegrass and reggae. With unique songcraft and exuberant energy, Beyond the Pale’s music ranges from a raucous roar to the most intimate and dynamic “chamber-folk.”