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Alphabetical Index to Website Entries: V

Mariejan van Oort and Jacques Verheijen
The Dutch duo, Mariejan van Oort and Jacques Verheijen, have a website featuring their CD releases. In 1997 they released their first CD Brikele. They also have a 2nd CD, Benkschaft and a third CD, Mayn Fayfele, which focuses on the music of Mordekhay Gebirtig. They have received very enthusiastic reception by a world wide audience and some of the major Yiddish performers. **Highly recommended by JMWC.**
http://www.demaatschap.net

Tjako Van Schie Adrian Stoet, violin and Tjako Van Schie, piano have been playing together since 1984. On one CD, he plays Jewish music from the camps and ghettos of WWII. Their CD is "Shtil, die nacht iz Oysgesternt: Yiddish Music from the Ghettos and Concentration Camps. It has selections such as 'Peat Bog Soldier', 'Es Brent', 'Yisrolik' and other Yiddish and European songs from WWII and the Holocaust. Van Schie teaches at the Amsterdam Conservatory and concertizes in NL and elsewhere in Europe. He is a specialist in Bach.
http://users.castel.nl/~schic02/yiddish.htm

Suska Varda
American. vocalist. Sings traditional Yiddish music in Marin County/San Franscisco Bay Area and with Hot Kugel band.
www.hotkugel.com

Virtual Cantor
The complete cycle of nusach for worship are here, online, and for free. Broken down into individual pieces, there are 725 different tracks to cover not only Shabbat, but the entire weekday, festival and high holiday services. If you are a person who needs to learn the nusach to lead a service, this is THE place. It's a completely easy way to find the exact passage in the siddur and follow along. Highly Recommended.
http://www.virtualcantor.com/

Voices of Sepharad
Group performing since 1986. Music and dance of the Sephardic heritage. Judith Brin Ingber (dancer, choreographer and co-founder); David Harris (Artistic Director, vocalist, and co-founder); Mick LaBriola (percussionist); David Burk (guitar, ‘ud, chumbush, bass);David Rockne Stenshoel (violin). They have CDs called Hamsa, Viva Sepharad, and Pasión. They perform in and around the Minneapolis area.

Voice of the Turtle
Voice of the Turtle is a Boston-based group specializing in the music of the Jews of Spain. The group "learns most of its repertoire from field recordings housed in Jerusalem at the Jewish Music Research Center, at Hebrew University and at the radio station Kol Yisrael. These versions were collected by radio-journalists, scholars, and ethnomusicologists from Sephardi communities in Israel,documenting many versions of the songs which have been preserved by oral tradition." Their website includes information on the performers, their instruments, and the group through FAQs. Artistic Director, Judith Wachs.
http://www.voiceoftheturtle.com

Vurma
Vurma is a klezmer sextet based in Stockholm.
http://hem1.passagen.se/vurma/