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Singing Sanctuary: A Rising Song-GJC Retrospective
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Over the past several years, Germantown Jewish Centre’s partnership with Hadar’s Rising Song Institute has transformed the Jewish soundscape while providing a model for creating and sustaining thriving musical community. The Charry Sanctuary has hosted the creation of music that has been heard by tens of thousands of people all over the world. Join Rabbi Zeff and Joey Weisenberg for a virtual retrospective celebrating GJC and RSI’s continued partnership in this vital, creative, spiritual process. Joey will give a live interview, moderated by Rabbi Zeff, about music and its spiritual expression, threaded through with videotaped performances of the music recorded at Germantown Jewish Centre, with time afterwards for questions and discussion. Come join us!
About Joey Weisenberg
A virtuosic multi-instrumental musician, singer, and composer, Joey Weisenberg has devoted himself to opening up the sounds of people singing together in community. The founder and director of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute, which aims to cultivate the grassroots musical-spiritual creativity of the Jewish people, Joey works to educate and train communities around the world to unlock their musical-spiritual potential and make music a vibrant, joy-filled force in Jewish life.
Joey is the author of Building Singing Communities, a practical guide to bringing people together in song, as well as The Torah of Music, a treasury of Jewish teachings and insights about the spiritual nature of music, which received the National Jewish Book Award in 2017.
A devoted student and teacher of ancient and traditional Jewish melodies, Joey also composes new nigunim that have moved and inspired Jews around the world. He has released seven albums with the Hadar Ensemble, most recently Nigunim Vol. VII: Songs of Ascent (2019).