Belly Dancing at the Cafe Feenjon

New York’s City’s Café Feenjon, known for its popularity among Near Eastern music fans, showcased a number of well-known musicians in its day (1970s to mid-1980s), including Herschel Bernardi, Eartha Kitt, and José Feliciano. On this recording, the Feenjon Group, named after this café, gathers for a night of music. Musicians Menachem Dworman, Margalit Ankory, Jerry Sappir, Angelo Saridis, Ali Hafid, and Jimmy Linardos provide vocals, with Steve Knight on guitar and Lou Mavrogian on bass. Song themes include love, nature, and longing, and are performed in Yiddish, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Turkish, and Spanish.

Track Listing

101	Bei Mein Rebbe Is Givaizin A Ganayva (There Was a Robbery at My Rabbi's) The Feenjon Group	01:27
102	Beryuzovye Kalyuchki (Emerald Rings) The Feenjon Group	02:58
103	Erev Shel Shoshanim (Evening of Roses) The Feenjon Group	03:33
104	Aina Zorga (Blue Eyes) The Feenjon Group	04:27
105	Lomer Alleh Singen (Let's All Sing) The Feenjon Group	03:46
106	Biklibidia (Jewelry) The Feenjon Group	03:18
201	Marinella The Feenjon Group	04:18
202	Donna Donna The Feenjon Group	03:04
203	Shishelai The Feenjon Group	04:07
204	Efiges (Nightbirds) The Feenjon Group	03:08
205	Mach, Mach (Come, Come) The Feenjon Group	03:02
206	Doce Cascabeles (Twelve Bells) The Feenjon Group	02:17