Lenka Lichtenberg's Juno awarded album Thieves of Dreams
Lenka Lichtenberg is a Prague-born world-music artist based in Canada. Her most recent album, Thieves of Dreams: Songs of Theresienstadt’s Secret Poetess is based on poetry that her grandmother wrote in the Terezín concentration camp during the Holocaust, which she discovered in 2017 among her mother’s belongings. It has become the first Czech album ever to win the Juno Award, Canada’s highest music prize.
Lenka Lichtenberg is a Prague-born world-music artist based in Canada. Her most recent album, Thieves of Dreams: Songs of Theresienstadt’s Secret Poetess is based on poetry that her grandmother wrote in the Terezín concentration camp during the Holocaust, which she discovered in 2017 among her mother’s belongings. It has become the first Czech album ever to win the Juno Award, Canada’s highest music prize.
This Sunday, Lenka Lichteberg will be in Prague to present the album to Czech audiences at a concert in the Jewish Museum. You can listen to the award-winning songs now, in this edition of Sunday Music show.
