Sisters of Sheynville Rock NXNE

The Sister of Sheynville were one of only two Jewish bands out of over 550 in total at NXNE, but they got great reivews... must be the "cheesy stage banter".... "well, the great news is that this was the first year - apparently- that Jewish music was included into this particular music festival, NXNE." For the great review with the rankings, see: http://chartattack.com/damn/2008/06/1617.cfm Also check out the website for the Sisters of Sheynville at: http://www.sonicbids.com/SistersofSheynville or some sounds at http://www.sistersofsheynville.ca/music/01%20Ketsele%20Broyges.mp3

Go Van Gogh

A klezmer group with a website and mp3s. Mixes Klezmer with Hawaiian, Gypsy, Western Swing, Jazzy Ethiopian, Surfing Ska and more. http://www.govangogh.net/

Duo Known as "Temple" revitalize Chanting

Temple -- Danya Uriel and Eyal Rivlin are dedicated to revitalizing chanting as a form of meditation and ecstatic prayer. They create and share their music in the service of inspiration, community building, and devotion. Drawing on the power of the repetition of ancient sacred phrases, they use Hebrew and English chants to create inner and outer peace. Also known as the duo, Temple, their CD, Coming Home, was released by Sounds True in July 2007. For more information please visit www.HebrewChanting.com

“Eyal Rivlin and Danya Uriel have found the key to the temple of the soul. From there they mined melodies that touch the heart, lift the spirit and refresh the body.” ~ Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

The Mike Eisenstadt Band Website

The Mike Eisenstadt Band is a party band in the southeast, based in Florida. They travel extensively in the eastern US. Although it is often referred to as a 'klezmer' band, the music that is performed goes beyond klezmer. It is an eclectic mix of Hebrew, Yiddish, Israeli, Rumanian, old, new, traditional, and not-so-traditional. The band plays unique adaptations of Jewish standards, utilizing a variety of styles, including Latin, funk, swing, jazz, smooth, and whatever else may seem right at the time to band members. The band's latest CD, Chazak, was released in early 2005 to excellent reviews around the US. The band website is www.eisenstadtband.com and also www.MySpace.com/eisenstadtband

Chazak represents all sides of the band, from traditional to original, all done with love and ruach (spirit) from Mike, who passed away in September, 2005. The band is led by Kevin Frye, the group s trumpeter of since 1992. Kevin strives to continue the tradition of excellence that Mike instilled for so many years. Kevin can be reached at (813) 789-5058 or kevin@baysideagency.com.

New Yiddish Songs by MIryem Khaye Seigel

Miryem-Khaye Seigel's new website has some delightful songs she composed. Gib a kuk. http://www.amks.wordpress.com

Latino-Hasidic website

Originally from Buenos Aires, Yehuda Glantz is a musician with a Latino-Hassidic style. He studied at the prestigious Conservatory of Classical Music in Argentina, immigrating to Israel in 1979. To listen to his music or watch his videos see :
http://www.yehudaglantz.com/ or
www.youtube.com/yehudaglantz "Yehuda fuses hot Latino rhythms, pop grooves and jazz harmony together presenting a rich and colorful music tapestry as a backdrop to traditional and innovative melodies. He plays fourteen instruments including the fantastic sounds of the Charango, Siku and Pincuyo as well as keyboard, guitar, accordion and percussion all coming together in a sizzling groove of rock, Latin and Hassidic ritmos."

Sephardic Music webliography

A webpage that lists all sorts of other websites with some aspect of Sephardic music, being sort of a webliography on Sephardic Music. http://www.sephardic-music.net/

Basel Synagogue Choir Opens Website

The Basel Synagogue Choir, one of the rare synagogue choirs in continuous, uninterrupted existence in Europe from before the Holocaust, has recorded several CDs, and now has a new website at www.synagogenchorbasel.ch. The Basel Jewish community founded in 1805 Einheitsgemeinde (‘United Community’) has also maintained a professional chazzan. Sound clips on the website feature the beautiful voice of Issachar Helman, a native of Israel. He and the all male Choir sing at The Great Synagogue in Basel located at Leimenstrasse 24, every week.

JewsRock

The JewsRock.org website has a lot of interesting bits, including all sorts of biographical information on rockers who are Jewish,.. or at least had a Jewish parent. At any rate, coolness is part of the ambience. Too bad the gig doesn't seem too updated since they've had their flame of fame in the sun -- mainly due to a lawsuit over the name "Jewish Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" . However, you can still learn a lot. Take the who's a Jew quiz,... and read some good bio blurbs on the, (now dubbed) "Challah Flame" (the pun obviously by guys dealing with way too many soundex files and a major lawsuit to boot ).

Ensemble Me la Amargates Tú

Check out the music from the website of Ensemble Me la Amargates Tú. It's quite well done with the combination of well known Ladino songs and period instruments.

"Ensemble Me la Amargates Tú was founded in the year 2006 as result of the musicians' eagerness to gather and play songs from the distant past. Ladino songs, a tradition that was carried forth from generation to generation has today become a symbol of the Jews who lived in Spain until the 15th century, and has spread into different places of the world. At present Sephardic music is quite common, and always differs depending upon the country. Me la Amargates Tu has decided to combine principles of the folk Ladino tradition as well as musical elements of the period."
The ensemble believes that the use of instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque periods are in accordance with period performance practice."
http://www.tuliorondon.com/English/melaamargatestu.htm

Who IS Yitzy Spinner?

A Chazzan in White Plains, NY, Yitzy Spinner is also the composer of hundreds of Jewish songs. He has a website at: http://yitzyspinner.com/About.html

New Jewish Music Label

Talk about E-c-l-e-c-t-i-c.....The Jewish Music Group is a Record Label and Music Distributor specializing in Jewish Music and Entertainment with everything from Connie Francis (remember her?) to Meshugga Beach Party (you know, that obvious blend of American instrumental surf guitar and Jewish music) on their front page this month. (Yes Virginleke, there is the possibility to blend anything with Jewish music!)

The label is owned and run by industry veterans Richard Foos (formerly Rhino, currently Shout Factory Entertainment) and David McLees (formerly Rhino Entertainment and Warner Music Group). JMG is distributed in the U.S. by RED Distribution exclusively in the the non-Judaica market. Label President, David McLees explains, "We want our releases to cover a wide spectrum of music, the Jewish retail world, as well as cross over into the broadest possible market including traditional, specialty and mainstream." Tel: 818-508-2500. Web: www.jewishmusicgroup.com. (Klezmatics, Debbie Friedman, and more).

Ellen Finn Website

Ellen Lippman Finn has a website that features some of her Jewish compositions. http://www.ellenfinnmusic.com/ Ellen is a composer, jazz bassist and music teacher with a special interest in writing Jewish music. Check out the website for more information.

Kol HaRuach Klezmer band

A simcha band, Kol HaRuach Klezmer band, also known as Just Jazz band, announces their website at: http://www.kolharuach.com/.

Herzliya Chamber Orchestra

Harvey Bordowitz, Music Director and Conductor, announces a new website for the Herzliya Chamber Orchestra. The Orchestra is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The website address is: http://www.hcomusic.com By logging on to the new website you will learn about the Herzilya Chamber Orchestra's present and future programs.
Herzilya is a community located on the coast of Israel. Guest artists include many of Israel’s finest soloists and conductors. The Orchestra also plays many world premières of commissioned works by Israeli composers, as well as classical music from the baroque to the present.

NextBook Podcasts a Lot of Great Jewish Music

If you haven't visited NextBook, you may want to take a look-see, and hear! It has many online podcasts of Jewish music interest. http://www.nextbook.org/index.html There's a very interesting interview with Galeet Darshati, about Mizrachi music. Nextbook Website tells it's purpose: "Nextbook.org is an online gateway to timely discussions of Jewish literature, culture, and ideas. It publishes original content, including interviews with authors, essays, and online galleries and also hosts a weekly podcast on topics of interest in contemporary culture, including conversations with writers, short stories, and discussions of music. Nextbook.org's homepage features a lively, eclectic cultural news digest linking to current articles in the Jewish and mainstream press and to web pages offering historical context. The site links to cultural resources elsewhere on the web and allows visitors to search our annotated reading lists, to create their own lists, and to keep up with Nextbook programs around the country. "

Jack Gottlieb's website

Jack Gottlieb, composer and director of the Leonard Bernstein Office, has published a website with information on Gottlieb's own compositions, including music reviews, list of recordings, writings, and audio clips. The site includes a biography and a calendar of appearances. Visit: http://www.jackgottlieb.com/

Chanale for women Website

Chana Fellig announces a new website for Jewish women 'Chanele' at www.Chanalesings.com. She's got photos of some of her visits and gigs, information on her CDs, and contact information.

KFAR away in Chicago, the music rocks

If you haven't visited the website of KFAR, a Jewish Arts Center... located in Chicago do so...It's an independent, inclusive, pluralistic not-for-profit organization organization. It is not aligned with any religious movement, political organization or central agency. But the thing is, they have the hippest music and play the coolest bands for the young crowd. Wish we had one in Boston. If you want the music contact: http://booking.kfarcenter.com/ featuring rising bands like Blue Fringe or to find out what's going on http://www.kfarcenter.com/. The website needs some work.

Giora Feidman website

Giora Feidman, the great klezmer clarinetist has a website that includes some sound samples from each of 36 albums, a biography and a calendar of his touring engagements.
http://www.giorafeidman.de/index.html

Samy Elmaghribi records liturgy of Sepharad

Samy Elmaghribi sings music of Andalus, Egypt, Morocco and Algeria as well as Sephardi liturgy. He has a series of liturgical CDs out includuing Shabbat, Psalms and Yamim Noraim. The website is in French. http://www.samyelmaghribi.com/

Blues Genes, the Blues from Israel

Miri Goldschlag sings Blues/Jazz standards and originals in English and Hebrew with Jean-Yves Slon (guitar, slide guitar, harmonica) in the Tel Aviv area. They now have a website with some demo clips at www.Bluegenes.biz
Contact for engagements at: p.o.b. 2058 - Savyon 56530 - ISRAEL
or email at jyslon@013.net.il

Jewish Music Forum

The Jewish Music Forum of the American Society of Jewish Music has a new website. http://www.jewishmusicforum.org/ . The website includes the schedule of this year's upcoming lectures as well as information about location, and times. The website also has contact information about the organization and last year's program.

Texas Jewish Music page

For years he hosted a radio show. He has shared a lot of this on the web. Deep in the heart of Texas, Michael Sherman's Jewish music page has lots of cool things, including interviews, lyrics to songs, links to great sites and lots of photos of wonderful musicians.... very useful place to visit. http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~sherman/Jmusic/JewishMusicpage.html

Fanny Brice website

Rex Strother of Salt Lake City, Utah, has created a wonderful website devoted to the career of Fanny Brice. It has a nice gallery of images. (including video clips from 1930 "Be Yourself") at: www.saxonyrecordcompany.com/v-web/gallery/fanny-brice

Shlepping Mishpacha klezmer band

A British band has a new website: www.shleppingmishpacha.com A lot of them studied at the Royal Academy of Music. By the sounds of things, they're having a great time with the klezmer music.

New Chassidic Nigun Website

New Website from Yoel Taieb on the Nigun: http://www.geocities.com/chassidmusic/

Seth Nadel orthodox rock

Seth Nadel is a guitar playing "reb" whose music sounds like a cross between Bob Dylan and Shlomo Carlebach with a bit of soft rock band backup. He sings in Hebrew. But see for yourself. His website has video as well as soung tracks in a convenient variety pack of formats. www.sethnadel.com

Varshavsky-Shapira Piano Duo

Varshavsky-Shapira Piano Duo from Jerusalem, Israel - winner of numerous prestigious international competitions (1-piano 4-hands and 2 pianos). Biography, repertoire, awards, sound samples and contact information. the official website: www.piano-4-hands.com

Merlin Shepherd

Merlin Shepherd, a klezmer clarinetist in Great Britain announced his website: http://www.merlinshepherd.co.uk/

Israel-Music.com

Another commercial website of Jewish music from Israel will be of interest: Here's the address: http://www.israel-music.com/(over 3400 albums you can listen to). And the section for Jewish, Hasidic, Holidays, etc. - http://www.israel-music.com/browse/music/jewish/ (over 300 albums you can listen to).

Ofer Ben Amots

Composer Ofer Ben Amots has new website in addition to the release of his music on the Milken archive CD: http://www.oferbenamots.com

RebbeSoul has new website

"world beat and Jewish roots music on the cutting edge. " http://www.rebbesoul.com/ This Los Angeles-based group has a new website and lists 5 recordings. The website has press reviews, contact info and upcoming tour listings.

Techelet Ensemble

Yoel Taieb and the Techelet Ensemble from Safed, Israel, have a new website. It has reviews, biographies of the musicians, links, and more. http://www.geocities.com/techelet4yoel

Jewish Music List Archives Now Searchable Online

Introducing http://archive.chazzanut.com/
Chazzanut Online now contains a fully searchable and browsable archive of the jewish-music@shamash.org (1992-2004) and hanashir@shamash.org (1996-2004) mailing lists. That's more than 800MB worth of data!

Have you experienced trouble searching the archives of the Shamash mailing lists? Have you always wished that there were an easy way to find a mail thread of several months or years ago? Use this archive to find Jewish music topics discussed online through the Jewish Music List.

Esti Kenan Ofri

Singer Esti Kenan Ofri has worked and recorded with Betty Olivero ("Juego de Siempre")and many other composers. She is the singer for the Kol-Tof Duo ("Camino en Mano") and the Kol-Oud-Tof Trio ("Gazelle"). Visit the web site at www.koltofmusic.com

I Hear America Singing

The Music Division of the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the launch of a new Web site, I Hear America Singing (IHAS), a portal to the Library's music and performing-arts collections available at http://www.loc.gov/ihas/ The Library of Congress has holdings of many famous American Jewish composers and performers, including Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland, which will eventually be included in this collection IHAS.... (For more information about current online exhibits.... see the JMWC biographies at http://www.jmwc.org/jmwc_biography.html#b) for more on IHAS see entries ...

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I Hear America Singing integrates the collections, commissions and live concerts of the Library of Congress, allowing users to discover the Library's music and performing-arts collections through a single gateway on the Web. The site brings together thousands of materials digitized from the Library's vast collections of sheet music, sound recordings, moving images, manuscripts, photographs, and oral histories, along with essays by Library staff and other leading researchers in the performing arts. It showcases the world-renowned tradition of live performing arts at the Library by featuring cybercasts of new concerts and offering a wide selection of historic concerts from the archives, including premieres of important works of contemporary classical music. It makes education a vital component by cybercasting performing arts-related symposia and panels held at the Library and making them available to users. I Hear America Singing will also become a "virtual community" for scholars, musicians, and music aficionados. Researchers will be able to comment online on the materials presented and share their own conclusions and insights about them. Content appealing to the K-12 community of teachers and students will be added in future releases. The debut release of I Hear America Singing offers the following special features: *Selections from jazz legend Gerry Mulligan's collection at the Library of Congress, including his previously unreleased oral autobiography, original scores and manuscripts, and recordings *"Life in Nineteenth-Century Ohio," a capsule example of how music reflects social history based on the lively musical life of Cincinnati a century and a half ago *"Patriotic Melodies," which features the stories behind of some of America's most important national songs *Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing," with an interpretation by the Library's poetry specialist and a reading of the poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins *A collection of historical sheet music published from 1800 to 1922 Forthcoming additions to I Hear America Singing will include concerts performed at the Library of Congress, including specially commissioned pieces and cybercasts; Civil War sheet music; and African-American popular music from the early twentieth century. Please submit any questions you may have about this Web site to the Library of Congress's Music Division at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-perform.html

Kenny Karen

Kenny Karen is a singer/songwriter of notoriety with strong links to his Jewish heritage. He has composed such classics as "Jerusalem Is Mine," "Tateniu," "The Seed of Abraham" and "If the World Had Cried" to name a few. He has a new website...http://kennykaren.com/

Jerusalem Express Klezmer Orchestra

It's a "Budapester, professional klezmer band, playing traditional jiddish and Jewish songs arranged by Laszlo Szirtes..." Jerusalem Express Klezmer Orchestra would love to place outside Hungary. You can see the website www.szirtes-jeko.hu and get an idea about the band.

Esther Ofarim

Not that it's really new, but if you're looking for info on Esther Ofarim, just visit.... A fan website with information about her life and work at www.esther-ofarim.de

Voices of Sepharad

Voices of Sepharad have been working together since 1990. They are based in Twin Cities, Minnesota...They have a new website... www.voicesofsepharad.com David Harris and Judith Ingber cofounded the group. Harris specializes in Sephardic music and the vocalist. Mick LaBriola (percussionist) ; Judith Brin Ingber (dancer, choreographer); David Burk (guitar, �ud, chumbush, bass) and David Rockne Stenshoel (violin) round out the group.

Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews

Completely revised website, sponsored by UC DAVIS, far richer repository of transcriptions and mp3s...

The launch of the Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews website, newly revised. You may access it at: http://www.sephardifolklit.org

Halil Duo

Piano and Flute duet, perform classical and Jewish music. Biographical information and clips of music available on the website. http://www.halilduo.com/

ARI BEN MOSES BAND

ARI BEN MOSES BAND invites you to celebrate the launch of www.aribenmosesband.com. Upcoming is information about the band's upcoming CD release "Only the Spirit" featuring the ultrafunky track "Jungle Science" with master percussionists from Ghana and the Dominican Republic.

Kol Tefilah

All male synagogue ensemble. This group travels to lead services at various synagogues. They are an a cappella group with rich harmonies.

Kol Tefilah They rehearse in the Boston area but come from various cities. They lead services in what they term "traditional" chazzanut style. "Demo tape" online.
http://www.KolTefilah.org/