Sy Kushner Website

Sy Kushner has a website that lists his recordings and music books, and a blog. http://www.nulitemusic.com/site/

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Shofar

Michael Chusid sent a link to his wonderful website about the shofar. He is a master of shofar blowing and a teacher to many in California area. He has put up a link to an entire book, Hearing Shofar: The Still Small Voice of the Ram’s Horn, he has written on the subject of the shofar, along with a Shofar Sounder's Reference Manual by Arthur Finkle. These useful resources are now made accessible to anyone via the website. What a gift! http://www.hearingshofar.com/

Klezmer Shpil Orchestra

The ''Klezmer Shpil'' orchestra by Berl Portnoy (Israel) was founded in 1991 in Petrozavodsk (Russia). Between 1992 and 1995 the orchestra traveled intensely, appearing at numerous festivals and concerts in Russia, Finland, Sweden and Norway.In 1993 the Klezmer Shpil's first solo CD was produced and marketed in Finland. The orchestra's second recording was produced in Sweden in 1995.In 1996 the orchestra re-located to Israel, where it soon became a well-recognized feature of the local klezmer scene. Today the ''Klezmer Shpil'' orchestra is known not only in Israel but also around the world. It boasts multiple appearances at concerts, events, and other Jewish music venues. The ''Klezmer Shpil'' orchestra promotes traditional Klezmer music, Yiddish folksongs and the songs of the Yiddish theater.

http://www.geocities.com/klezmer_shpil/thegroup.html

Serban Nichifor Music Commemorates Holocaust

Serban Nichifor, a Romanian composer, has a website with his music that commemorates the Holocaust. This can be found at http://www.shoahmusic.lx.ro . There are videos attached to listening to the music.

Daniel Halfon WebSite

Daniel Halfon is the Hazzan of the Yad Harav Nissim synagogue in Jerusalem and a leading authority of the cantorial style of the western Sephardim.
http://danielhalfon.com/

One to Watch

Alicia Jo Rabins has a song cycle/band called Girls in Trouble. All of the songs are based on stories of women from Tanakh/midrash. Release date scheduled for October 2009.
Alicia's myspace page is: www.myspace.com/girlsintroublemusic.
Be on the lookout.

Orel Foundation Website.

Orel Foundation Website is dedicated to presenting information for scholars and musicians about the music banned between 1933-1945 in Europe. Many Jewish composers are part of this group of banned composers. There are many fine biographies, links to performance dates and general information about the music and lives of these composers.There are many interesting articles and a discussion board. There is also a review of the Biographical Dictionary of Persecuted Musicians 1933-1945, which started from a list of about 5.000 names that Peter Petersen collected over the last twenty years. Organized by and a welcome from James Conlon, Music Director of the Ravinia Festival, Los Angeles Opera and the Cincinnati May Festival.

http://orelfoundation.org/index.php/site/

Kol Shira in Iowa

Linda Wertz wrote to let us know there is a group in Iowa called Kol Shira, which consists of 6 women accompanied by guitar, flute, cello,bass & percussion. They have YouTube videos which show what they can do!
http://www.valeriedavine.com/kolshira.html

Israel Women Composers Forum

This website is in English and Hebrew. It lists Israeli women composers and a catalog of their musical works, with links to composer homepages, and news and events..
http://www.womencomposers.org.il/default.asp

Yoel Taieb

Yoel Taieb has a new website called the "Power of the Nign": http://www.nigun.info which is available in French, Hebrew, and English. You can listen to some of Yoel's music on YouTube.

New Recording Studio

Daniel Gil announces his new recording studio website:
www.reicherrecording.com

Daniel offers "24 simultaneous channels of 24 bit/96khz digital recording. This is great for voice overs, commercials, radio/internet spots, demo CD's, analog/digital mixing, and of course complete production/arranging of your music for a full length CD!!" Contact Daniel directly with any questions.

Reuben Jewish Jazz Duo

The Reuben Jewish Jazz Duo is Nehama and Shimon Reuben, husband and wife professionals in Jewish music, for harp & piano. They perform traditional Jewish music, liturgical, and new compositions. They have produced several albums between 1997 and the present, and travel throughout Europe to play in festivals. They appeared in Prague at the Jewish Music Festival in summer of 2000 and on national French TV for the 2000 millenium celebrations. Shimon recently recorded a new double album CD piano jazz solo "Yom Yeroushalayim Blues", 25 compositions Nehama composed for harp solo and just published "Rhapsodia Ivria for harp" by Editions Combre - Paris. CDs are for sale at www.fnac.com
shimon-reuben.jimdo.com
nehama-reuben.jimdo.com

Eleven Doors Open

Sue Horowitz, a singer and songwriter who lives in coastal Maine, has a new website. She has a new CD out called Eleven Doors Open. The website has clips, a bio and some info on the CD.
http://www.suehorowitz.com/index.php

Jewish Folk Songs Website

Batya Fonda has a website on Jewish Folksongs in English and Hebrew. She teaches and sings in the Tel Aviv area. Her website includes some texts, sound clips and some articles.

An Invitation to Piyut

There's a terrific website devoted to introducing the world of piyutim... to the world. The Piyut website explores historical and contemporary versions of piyut: the texts, the music, the history, and the various styles from different places in the world. There is a collection of piyutim and melodies which is also searchable. There is a list of melodies, articles, website radio, and lists of new recordings. There is also a section devoted to liturgical texts not always included with the traditional groupings of piyutim. Many of the tables are in Hebrew, but the site doesn't carry a full mirror in English of all the Hebrew pages. Let's say you want to hear "Ma Nishtana". You can get the text, and also hear it in the Egyptian, Kurdistani, Babylonian, Tunisian, Yemeni, Moroccan, and Ashkenazi styles. You can also get some information on the poets of the texts of the piyutim. This site, sponsored in part by Avi Chai, is an excellent site for anyone curious to learn more about the world of Jewish piyutim. (also spelled with 2 y's... Piyyutim, if you're going to Google or look it up on Wikipedia).
http://www.piyut.org.il/english/

Sephardic Music Comes to Light

Joel Bresler announces the launch of his website on Sephardic Music: A Century of Recordings, www.sephardicmusic.org. The site chronicles the first 100 years of commercial Sephardic recordings. It includes survey articles on the 78 and modern eras, a comprehensive discography of Sephardic 78s, and a sample of what a future discography of modern-era recordings could look like. Visit this site to learn about Sephardic repertory and performance practices, and hear clips of famous Sephardi singers and musicians. The site provides access to information by label, by song and by artist. There are many images of covers and performers. The site also provides sound recordings divided into time periods. This site will prove especially useful in the years to come to anyone with an interest in music of the Sephardic Jewish community.

Classical Music in Israel

For those living in or visiting Israel, there is now a website devoted to listing concerts of classical music. This website will prove useful in planning any trip. The site also has links to major Israeli orchestras, choirs, ensembles and some individual performers. The site features a forward looking calendar, a "music-makers" mart where performers can try to match with organizations needing musicians, and a "market-place" which is something of a classified ads section. The site is an outgrowth of the newsletter "Living in Harmony". http://www.classical-music-israel.com/

Jewish India new CD and website

Rahel Musleah announces her website devoted to the music of Jewish India. www.rahelsjewishindia.com Rahel is a musician and writer, who has spoken widely on the topic of this music. Her new CD, Hodu: Jewish Rhythms from Baghdad to India, features ancient texts, authentic melodies and contemporary rhythms. Her songbook, B’Kol Arev: Songs of the Jews of Calcutta, compiled more than 50 songs for Shabbat, holidays and special occasions (Tara Publications); an accompanying cassette featured 18 selections.

"Rahel Musleah was born in Calcutta, India, the seventh generation of a Calcutta Jewish family that traces its roots to 17th-century Baghdad. Through her multi-media song, story and slide programs, she shares her rare and intimate knowledge of this ancient community’s history, customs and melodies."

Mama Doni

The Mama Doni Band is a quirky and energetic family-friendly rock band that is dedicated to making Jewish culture fresh and fun for kids. The music is funny and clever for adults as well as kids (everyone from babies to bubbies they like to say).

Mama Doni just released a new album called "I Love Herring (and Other Fish Shticks For Kids)" you can hear some samples at MamaDoni.com.

www.MamaDoni.com The Mama Doni Band came away with one of the top prizes in this year's International Jewish Music Festival held in Amsterdam from May 9-12. Competing against ensembles from 15 countries, The Mama Doni Band was awarded the special IJMF Foundation Simcha Prize for Inspiring Joy through Music. (Simcha is the Yiddish word for "joy" or "gladness."). The Prize carries a cash award of 500 Euros.

Though many of the 23 competing ensembles have been performing together for years, the newly formed Mama Doni Band was selected by the Festival for this prestigious award in recognition of the joyfulness and energy Mama Doni Band brings to Jewish music. The Mama Doni Band's fresh blend of "Jewgrass," rock, and reggae garnered high praise and resulted in the receipt of the special prize.

Tziona Achishena Zilbershtein CD Hanayni

Singer Tziona Zilbershtein lives in northern Israel. She devotes her recordings specifically for women as a religious Jew. Tziona has a lovely voice and a lot of talent. She's trained in music and dance in the United States, from classical ballet to Indonesian traditional dance, to Tai Chi. She's also a multi-instrumentalist and composer. Tziona originally performed in the improvisitory jazz style but has since moved into accessible religious songs based on liturgical and biblical texts. Among her CDs is the new Hanayni, preceded by Miriam's Drum, a superb recording of spiritual song and dance. Her focus on rhythms is evident in earlier recordings such as the CD Aleynu. Tziona's music is availble through her website: http://koltziona.com/

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/