Join us at The Church for back-to-back concerts of The Little Commie Girl: One Story, 15 Songs curated and performed by singer Sanda Weigl with Shoko Nagai on accordion and piano. The performance creates a timeline of Weigl’s extraordinary life and career – featuring Romanian folk and songs by Kurt Weill, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Luz Casal, all layered with soul, jazz and avant-garde precision.
Born in Bucharest, Romania, Sanda moved to Berlin and was immersed in the theater traditions of the Berliner Ensemble. Sanda first achieved fame as a teen-age member of one of East Germany’s most popular rock band. After publicly denouncing Russia’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, she was sentenced to two years forced labor in an East Berlin factory and then, expelled to the West where she worked in music and theater throughout Europe with The Berliner Ensemble, Schiller Theater, Robert Wilson, Pina Bausch, Nina Hagen, The Alexander Balanescu String Quartet London, and many others.
For over 20 years Sanda has presented her singular interpretations of the Folk and Roma songs of her childhood, the Brecht-Weill catalog, the Tom Waits & Leonard Cohen songbook, German medieval minnesinger repertoire, the German Weimar Cabaret songbook and vast repertoire to critical acclaim throughout the United States, Mexico, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Austria, Israel, UK and her native Romania. She has performed at the Pina Bausch Festival, The Nobel Prize for Literature celebration, The Monterey International Festival, The Ruhr Triennale, The JVC Jazz Festival in NY, The Ringling International Festival, The Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau, Germany and dozens of other festivals and venues around the world.
