Jill Rogoff: "a world in one voice"

Meet
Jill Rogoff

“If you’ve not found her music, believe me you should!”

“Jill creates a magical, ethereal space around herself with her charming style and astonishingly broad repertoire. She gives her listeners wings!”

“...although I don’t speak the languages she sings in, other than English, it doesn’t matter because she has such a beautiful expressive voice so full of feeling and emotion that it surmounts any language barrier.”

New Zealand-born JILL ROGOFF specialises in traditional -- particularly British Isles/Celtic and Sephardic -- and early music, and is also a singer-songwriter, therapeutic harper, arranger and unofficial musicologist.

For more information about Jill and her music, click here.....

For music samples, and information about Jill’s albums and details for ordering them, click here.....

The Voice of the Wanderer

Stop press! Not to be missed! Jill’s fifth commercial album is The Voice of the Wanderer, a unique recording of traditional Jewish songs from around the world. Here, she sings not only in Hebrew, Ladino and Yiddish, but also in Aramaic, Arabic, Farsi and Kurmanji Sorani (a Kurdish dialect). Order your copy now directly from Jill:

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In addition, join Jill’s mailing list! Wherever you live, if you want to be informed when she releases new albums or gives a concert in your vicinity, send her your full name and contact information.

Jill sings for her living and arranges her own concert schedule. She is available for concerts (both public and private), school concerts, illustrated lectures, workshops and private lessons (both adults and children). Please contact her at:

fax no. (from abroad): 972-2-679-0410; (from within Israel): (02) 679-0410

Jill invites you to become better acquainted with her music. On this site, you’ll find summaries of her present dedicated concert programs and school programs, reviews of her solo albums and other albums which feature her singing; reviews of various concert programs she has given in the past, and lyrics of the songs she has written , the poems she has set to music, her own arrangements for songs, and a gallery of photos.

You’ll also find here interviews and some of the articles that she has written over the years on various topics. They reflect only her opinion at the time of writing, and are not meant to be considered as definitive or to be offensive to anyone alive or dead, present or absent. Another page gives some of the poetry and song translations into English that Jill has made over the years.

Jill is currently working on translations into various languages of her musical biography, and the descriptions of her diverse concert programs. So far, the Czech, French, German and Hebrew translations are complete, and parts of the Spanish translation are ready. One in Italian will follow.

For an overview of the site, consult the site map.

For information about social action projects with which we can all help, click here..... HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES: The current situation in Myanmar, Chad and Darfur, and many other locations, with enormous numbers of vulnerable, under-privileged people in need of assistance in many aspects of their lives, calls to us from around the world. Please help now by donating to the various campaigns! For a moving, articulate account of a hands-on experience of the situation in Chad, for example, read the journal of British actor Nathaniel Parker, who visited the country in May 2007. Here’s a direct link to the documentary that he made for Concern during his visit, and another for making a donation.

Nathaniel Parker in Chad, May 2007

Nathaniel Parker in Chad, May 2007

For acknowledgements and sources of images found on this web site, click here.....