Festival Cultural de Mayo Jalisco 2010

Klezmer is Jewish music from the East of Europe. It brings us the musical legacies that started in the Middle Ages and which come to our days renewed by the cultural and musical influence of the peoples that have sheltered it throughout the centuries. It is music for celebration and introspection, rejoicing and feeling nostalgic.

Sherele is a Quartet integrated by musicians from France, Mexico and Argentina, and their residence is in Guadalajara.

Sherele presents Klezmer repertoire themes, re-interpreted incorporating elements from the tango, Argentinian and Latin American folklore, and thus the members of the group propose their own way of interpreting Klezmer.

Sherele always delivers communicating with humor and enthusiasm, feeling deeply this ancestral musical tradition living between nostalgia and festivity, between humoristic voices and spiritual chants. With its music, it promotes universal values, eminently contemporary such as fraternity among different cultures and a celebration of diversity.

She lives in Guadalajara since 1998. She studied Clarinet in Paris and has a licentiate in Musicology by the Sorbonne, in Paris. It was in that city that she developed as a jazz musician, also playing contemporary and experimental music. She has taken part as interpreter at theater and dancing shows in Paris and in Guadalajara.

She is also a composer, and has written for the theater in France and in Mexico. She also wrote Desierta Piel, multidisciplinary work created for the singer Jaramar, which was presented at the Teatro de la Ciudad in Mexico City. The multidisciplinary project -poetry, music, dance and painting, all live- Animalario-Divertimiento Escénico was created in Guadalajara in 2005. She accompanies the singer Jaramar since February 2002, and they have had tours in Mexico, the United States and Europe. She has recorded for singers, blues, jazz and rock groups, world music. Her CD Analogies was released by Discos Imposibles in 2006, and she received an excellent critique that enhances, besides the interpretation of all the music, her gifts as a composer.

She was born in Argentina and studied at the Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda in Buenos Aires where she specialized in tango and the pedagogy of music.

She studied technical guitar perfecting courses with Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez in Guadalajara.

She has been a member of different groups devoted to tango and Argentine folklore.

She now directs the Tierra Tango Ensemble, a guitar trio that interprets a tango repertoire with original arrangements for them, and plays in different cultural forums in Guadalajara and all of Mexico.

He was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco and started studying music at the Music School at the Universidad de Guadalajara, and the double bass is his instrument, which he studied with the Polish Professor Risjard Ronowicks. He continued with Professor Tony Bothelo from Brazil, but by then, more focused on jazz and Latin American folklore. He would continue later with the Mexican jazz player Rodrigo Castelán.

His interest on producing music, on the other hand, moved him to take different courses, like audio and digital recording with different Mexican and foreign engineers and producers, and he has devoted himself to production and composition professionally since 2004.

He has recorded many CDs playing the bass. He has also performed in different theaters and forums, and among the most important, we have:

Teatro Degollado, Guadalajara; Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City; Teatro Metropólitan, Mexico City; Sala Carlos Chávez at the Centro Cultural Universitario, Mexico City; Sala Olin Yolíztli, also at Mexico City; Teatro Rubén Darío, Nicaragua; Oosterpoort, at Groningen Holland; University CC, at Leuven, Belgium; CC Leopoldsburg, Leopoldsburg Belgium; Theatre Toursky, France.

He is a batterist specialized in jazz music. He studied independently with Glen Fuguett (1997) and Ed Soph (2000). He got a Jazz Diploma studying with Francisco Téllez at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), in Mexico City, 2001. Recordings: Harlem Jazz Tapatrío, Discos Imposibles, 2004 and with 3Mother Funkers; Música para caminar con estilo... ALLO Records, 2005. He will son launch: Diluvio (Intolerance) by Jaramar. He was a batterist in Pitecantropus Erectus (1999), Harlem Jazz Tapatrío (2000-2004), Ludens (2004), 3Mother Funkers (2004). Nowadays he is with Nathalie Braux Jazz Studio, Sherele, Gil Cervantes Trío and Jaramar.

Sherele literally means “small scissors” and the “musical origins” of the term has to do, according to some interpretations, with the leg movement in some dances, and according to others, it is related to the traditional dance of the barbers and Taylor’s guilds. Another version is related to the hair-cutting ceremony for brides before their wedding.