Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk

Olga Avigail is a singer and researcher of Eastern European musical folklore. Born in Warsaw, she divides her time between her hometown and Jerusalem, where she currently resides. She initiates Polish-Israeli music projects and collaborates with organisations promoting Jewish culture in those two countries. In 2013 with a group of musicians she initiated the project “Jewish Polesye” which resulted in her debut album. Olga was inspired by the eclectic set of musical material from the repertoire of the 1930’s era Jewish folk singer, Mariam Nirenberg. Its premiere took place at Lincoln Center in New York. It was successfully presented at various festivals of Jewish music and culture all around the world (USA, Canada, Israel, Poland).
Olga then turned to urban music. “Li-La-Lo” is the name of the second album and at the same time a musical cabaret, set up in Tel Aviv in 1944 by a pianist and composer Moshe Wileński and poet Natan Alterman who emigrated to Palestine from Warsaw. Olga with her musicians began performing tango and other songs which were popular in Warsaw and Jerusalem in the 1940s.
“Yiddish Tango” is the third CD of Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk with leading tango musicians Tango Attack. The project was performed in many prestigious venues around the world, like Kennedy Center in Washington, Spanish Synagogue in Prague or Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto.
New project of Olga called Israel SingSite introduced the Land through songs from the Biblical times till today.