Star rating: **** Mor Karbasi had to be especially good to follow her opening act, the Quebecois scallywags Galant, tu perds ton temps, with their lovely five-part harmonies, exuberant singing and suitcase percussion - and she was.

Star rating: ****

Mor Karbasi had to be especially good to follow her opening act, the Quebecois scallywags Galant, tu perds ton temps, with their lovely five-part harmonies, exuberant singing and suitcase percussion - and she was.

Jerusalem-born Karbasi specialises in Sephardic and Hebrew songs, drawing both on a repertoire that has been passed from mother to daughter for more than 500 years and original songs created in that tradition to make, with her superbly understated band, music that sounds at once ancestral and of the moment.

Her voice is a real thing of beauty, able to glide to soulful heights and convey vivid images with a lightness of touch while her musicians create sympathetic moods with flamenco-like guitar, oud, percussion, double bass and the ultra-expressive ney flute or, as on the intimate, offstage encore, power her along subtly with handclaps.