Family Concert: Too Ra Loo Ra

Eléonore Weill was raised in a musical family in southern France playing both classical and traditional music. Holding a master's in ethnomusicology from Sorbonne University and Columbia University and performance diplomas from the Paris and Toulouse Conservatories, she has enjoyed a versatile career performing early, classical, and contemporary music; Jewish, Romanian, and Occitane folk music; and various other styles on wooden flutes, piano, hurdy-gurdy, and vocals. She performs, tours, and records throughout Europe and the Americas with Ali Dineen, Tsibele, Midwood, Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar Ensemble, and Fada. She has also performed and collaborated with Jean Rohe, Jenny Romaine and Great Small Works, Frank London, CMBV (Versailles Baroque Music Center), National Orchestra of Toulouse, the Bread and Puppet Theater, and Miqueu Montanaro.

Photo credit: James Desauvage

Brian Dolphin is a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, Fulbright recipient, and doctoral student of Ethnomusicology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has studied folk music, lived with indigenous musicians, and performed all over the world. In addition to being a scholar, he leads an active life as a songwriter, performer, and songleader of both Ukrainian and American folk musics, uniting diverse communities through both the Ukrainian Village Voices choir and the "Dolphin & You" Community Sing.

Elizabeth LaPrelle is a performer and scholar of traditional Southern Appalachian Ballads from rural Virginia. She performed for many years with her family band and with the avant-garde folk duo Anna & Elizabeth. She has taught workshops and classes across the US and Canada. She now lives in Brooklyn.