TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK (RNS) — Twenty-two-year-old soprano Shani Chamovitz flew in on a 10-hour flight from Israel, landing at Newark Airport at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday for the annual North American Jewish ...
(New York Jewish Week) — After she finished her compulsory military service as a singer in an IDF performing arts troupe, Israeli folk singer Bat Ella wasn’t sure how she would incorporate music into ...
(JTA) — When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we thought it might be cool to hire a klezmer band. This was during the first wave of the klezmer revival, when groups like The Klezmatics and The ...
From left, Seraphic Fire singers Luc Kleiner, Elisse Albian, William Duffy, and Ian Schipper. Seraphic Fire performs a series of a cappella concerts, “Jewish Voices,” throughout South Florida. (Photo ...
Arranged in an arc around a piano, four teenagers spend Sunday afternoons singing at the direction of a seasoned conductor. For two hours at a time, the group makes music within the walls of the Sid ...
For the first time in Australia's history, a Jewish musical group performed in Hebrew at the Australia Day Live concert in Sydney Opera House. SHIR, the Australian Jewish Music Festival, was one of ...
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) – Steadfast listeners of “Borscht Beat” — a weekly FM radio show featuring Jewish music, old and new — will be thrilled to hear of host Aaron Bendich’s latest ...
The song is called “I Hate A Cappella,” and the joke is that it was composed and performed by an a cappella group, The Richter Scales. The group, comprised largely of Ivy League tech workers in San ...
Every song has a story, and given the prevalence of Jewish musicians, it’s often a Jewish story. True for ” Hatikvah ” and ” By Mir Bistdu Shoen,” but also for “White Christmas”—or even “Ave Maria.” ...