Yale Strom’s Broken Consort: Shimmering Lights – new CD/recording on the ARc UK label
‘Shimmering Lights’ is the delightful new studio album from ethnomusicologist Yale Strom. This album is a collection of traditional and new songs and instrumentals celebrating the Jewish Festival of Lights known as Hanukkah. ‘Shimmering...
NPR Report on Jews Inspires Black American to Write “My Chanukah”
Psychology doctoral programs professor (for The Chicago School of Professional Psychology) James E. Shaw, Ph.D., says he was "driven to action to write 'My Chanukah' by a National Public Radio (NPR) broadcast which I initially considered...
בת הים הכשרה ~ The Kosher Mermaid
דיסני ביידיש? הו כן! לכבוד ראש השנה צללתי למעמקים בעקבות המאכלים היהודיים הכשרים (ואלו ש...פחות) והגעתי למסקנה מעניינת! לובסטר או גפילטע פיש? צמחונים? חכו לזה :) Disney in... Yiddish? YO! In honor of ROSH...
Tapping into the ‘Golden Age’ of cantorial music for the 21st century
Aryeh Leib Hurwitz is attuned to all things musical. A chazzan (“cantor”) and ordained Chabad rabbi born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., he studied at yeshivahs around the world while honing his voice and performing...
Singer, composer and music producer Shim Craimer tunes in to ‘aliyah’
Shim Craimer, whose dulcet tones and high energy have secured him a place as a sought-after Jewish musical performer, has sung at hundreds of weddings in the New York area and in his native...
Ada & Allison “In Droyzn is Finster” (It’s dark outside)
בלומינגטאָנער טאַלאַנטן
אַדה־רבקה העטקאָ און אַליסאָן פּאָזנער
זינגען דאָס פאָלקסליד
“אין דרויסן איז פינצטער”
בלומינגטאָן, אינדיאַנאַדעם 14טן אַפּריל 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=96&v=1S0VtsoknEA
Israeli Musical Hits the Right Notes
In a rare moment in Israel’s fractious relationship with the “liberal” media, the Jewish state was riding high this week in the pages of The New York Times and other publications, all thanks to a quintessentially...
Nathan is top-Gunn in his one-man show
Nathan Gunn is one of America’s greatest and most versatile baritones, as he amply proves in the HersheyFelder produced and directed one-man show, Nathan Gunn, Flying Solo, A Musical Story about Family, Love, and the...
Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai signs international distribution deal for ‘Toy’
Netta Barzilai, the Israeli winner of Eurovision 2018, has signed a global distribution deal for her winning song, “Toy.”
The deal was signed with S-Curve/BMG.
“Toy” is officially the most viewed song of all time on...
Israel rocks, according to bassist Dave Rublin
In 2012, Dave Rublin, 31, was a struggling New York musician with the long hair, tattoos and a restaurant job to prove it. His Jewish mother in New Jersey played her part, worrying about...