Building Singing Communities
Joey Weisenberg, Poretsky Artist-in-Residence
Musician, ba'al tfilah, and danceband captain Joey Weisenberg will teach new melodies and lay out practical strategies for bringing communities together in song. While studying Jewish rhythms and harmonies and creating spontaneous variations of a nign, we'll discuss the process of developing a core of singers, crossing the musical "tipping point," dealing with the musical politics of a shul or group, and leaving room for silence.
Joey Weisenberg is a mandolinist, guitarist, singer and percussionist based in New York City, who has performed and recorded internationally with dozens of bands in a wide variety of musical styles. Joey works as the Music Director at Brooklyn’s oldest synagogue, the Kane Street Synagogue, and is the music faculty at Yeshivat Hadar, an egalitarian yeshiva in New York. He is an artist-fellow at the 14th Street Y's Laba program, and teaches Klezmer music as a faculty member at KlezKanada. He was recently named to "36 under 36" in The Jewish Week as one of 36 new and exciting innovators in Jewish life today. Joey visits shuls and communities around the country as a musician-in-residence, in which he teaches his popular 'Spontaneous Jewish Choir' workshops. For more information, please visit www.joeyweisenberg.com
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- Arts and Movement
- Spiritual and Religious Life
- Text for Everyone
- Morning Course
- Artist in Residence
