Shira, aka ShirLaLa, is an internationally recognized performer and Jewish music educator. One of the Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36, The New Re-Engineers” of Jewish life, she travels across the country and internationally delivering a dynamic, interactive program of joy and spirit, story and song.
Shira serves on the faculty of the Hava NaShira Music Institute, adjunct faculty of HUC-JIR Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, and is a founding company member of Storahtelling and Lab / Shul where she is a ritual leader, maven, actor, writer, director and musician.
Yoshie is a guitar, bass, oud player and composer whose band, Pitom (Tzadik Records) has received critical acclaim from Jazz Times magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Guitar Player Magazine and many more. The unique blend of rock, jazz, experimental and jewish styles in his playing and composing is a defining characteristic of his music.
Yoshie is also a sought-after freelance musician in New York City in bands ranging in style from acoustic world music to heavy metal and has performed with John Zorn, Cyro Baptista, and Frank London, among many others.
Alicia is the world's leading klezmer fiddler, a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics who she co-led for seventeen years, and a composer who was selected to be a 2014 MacDowell Fellow. She has played with and composed for violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, the late poet Allen Ginsburg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, singer/songwriter Debbie Friedman, Avraham Fried, singer/songwriters Diane Birch, Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar, and many others.
She has appeared on David Letterman, MTV, PBS' Great Performances, NPR's Prairie Home Companion, Weekend Edition and New Sounds, and on the soundtrack for the L-Word.
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Featuring Meirav Ong, Brooklyn-based watercolor and Judaica artist.
Ong's works are a series of meditative processes that explore the tension between the physical and the spiritual, the soul and the body, the light and the dark. In many moments, our words fall short of expressing that which is truth, creating barriers that prevent us from experiencing true light. Honest reflection and meditation triumph in a way that words fail. These paintings are her expression of that tension and the meditation demanded by it.
Working with watercolor and gunpowder illuminates the space between control and uncertainty. The fluidity of the materials is a reminder of how limited we are to outside forces, yet it is through these moments of perceived limitation that we find our strength and learn to take control. http://meiravongjudaica.com/
