Baladino In Sisseton

By Steve Zwemke | Tue March 4, 2014, 3:10 pm

Baladino, a world music ensemble from Israel, is in Sisseton through Saturday as part of a multi-city Midwestern performance tour. The five-member folk group takes its audience on a journey through music of the Mediterranean region - music carried to Israel by people from Spain, Eastern Europe, Turkey and Arabic countries. Multi-wind instrumentalist Yonnie Dror described how the group brings together instruments and traditions from a wide open span of cultures while updating them with their own youthful energy and backgrounds in jazz improvisation and electronica. Baladino is performing a free public concert Saturday at 7:00 p.m. at the Sisseton Performing Arts Center.