Yasmin Levy is coming to the Queen's Hall, Narberth, on Thursday, March 29. Yasmin (pictured) sings ancient Ladino songs and fuses them with the rhythms, passion and drama of Andalusian Flamenco. She has become the hot name on everyone's lips after two show-stealing performances on Radio 4's Woman's Hour and BBC's Later With Jools Holland. Yasmin was born in Israel into a Sephardi Jewish family. Family and roots are very important to Yasmin, who still lives in her parents' flat in the very small and beautiful neighbourhood of Bakaa, which is filled with narrow alleyways and warrens dating back many hundreds of years.   Her late father, Yitzhak Levy, was responsible for collecting and saving many songs from Sephari Jews living all over the world. He taught this repertoire to Yasmin's mother, who passed it down to Yasmin after his death when she was only a year old.   The Sephardi Jews were expelled from Spain and dispersed throughout Europe in the late 15th century. Their Spanish is mixed with local languages, including Bulgarian, Turkish and Hebrew, to create a new language, Ladino. Yasmin sings the most romantic of Ladino songs, which were traditionally sung in the home by Sephardi women and passed down orally. From the Ladino repertoire, Yasmin chooses songs about love, longing and desperation, subject matters that will be familiar to many fans of Flamenco. But whereas the Ladino musical tradition developed outside of Spain, Spanish Flamenco was born out of the melting pot of Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Gypsy cultures within Spain over the same time period.   By reuniting Ladino and Flamenco, Yasmin has ignited a huge interest in an almost extinct culture. Her music seems to celebrate the Golden Age of 15th Century Southern Spain, but also embraces our multi-cultural world and the ability of traditional cultures to adapt, collaborate and thrive within it. She performs with a band of international musicians coming from Spain, Israel and Eastern Europe, who fuse acoustic guitar, duduk (a kind of Armenian wooden flute) and a variety of percussion, including her husband on the darbuka and the box-shaped cajon drum which is popular in Flamenco and Latin American music. Yasmin was awarded the Anna Lindh Award for promoting cross-cultural dialogue, for her work with musicians covering three cultures and her connection with the history of Spain. Declan Connolly, of Span Arts, who are presenting the event, said: "I do hope all fans of Flamenco and world music will come out to hear the incredibly powerful, soaring voice of Yasmin Levy. Live, she sings with all the expressiveness and rhythms of Flamenco. An evening with Yasmin is like receiving a little bit of history and a night you will never forget." Doors open 7.30 pm and the gig starts 8 pm. Tickets £12/£10 members  from (01834) 869323 or http://www.span-arts.org.uk">www.span-arts.org.uk