Asher Shasho Levy

Asher Shasho Levy, a Syrian Jewish musician and scholar of Sephardic heritage and culture, is heir to a vast world of Jewish music that has developed and thrived largely outside the Ashkenazi community. In bringing that music to light, the cantor, oud master and multi-instrumentalist delves into the various cultural layers accrued across the Middle East, North Africa and former Ottoman lands over some two millennia. He also serves as the hazan and musical director at The Kitchen, a progressive Jewish community in San Francisco.