Shop: AllThingsGeekChic Photo: Courtesy of ETSY Choosing the song, you walk down to your Chuppah with your parents, or whomever you decide to ask, is an exciting moment when planning your wedding! While some couples prefer more traditional melodies, you find more and more who opt for either instrumental, contemporary love songs or covers of […]
Tag: Music
Meet the Musician: Miriam Ben Shimon
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I was born to a Polish mother and Italian father. Lived in both of their home countries. When I was 19, I moved to England. Even though we weren’t Jewish, we have always lived with strong religious values that my mother transmitted, such as: Hitbodedut, […]
Meet the Artist: Amy Gelfman of Gelfman Studios
Photo: Courtesy of Amy Gelfman Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I have always thrived on creativity and imagination. As a child I used to draw whimsical characters, ladies with larger-than-life eyes and lots of swirly whirly patterns. I remember feeling discouraged because I could never draw realistically, so eventually I stopped and decided […]
Meet the Cantor and Artist: Deborah Katchko-Gray
Photo: Courtesy of Cantor Katchko-Gray Photo Credit: Kristen Jensen Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I’m a fourth-generation cantor, who loves folk music. I grew up on cantorial music from my famous grandfather, Cantor Adolph Katchko, my wonderful father, Cantor Theodore Katchko, and my mom, a great pianist and accompanist, organist […]
Meet the Opera Singer: Cheri Rose Katz
Photo: Courtesy of Cheri Rose Katz We are thrilled to be able to interview you for our magazine, Cheri. Could you please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background? Thank you so much! I am thrilled to be here and be interviewed by you! I grew up in New Jersey, and as […]
Meet the Musician: Deborah Stokol
Photo: Courtesy of Deborah Stokol Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I am an Argentinean – South African – American-Jewish multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and producer. I have sung all my life, studied and played the piano for 31 years, and have written music for nearly as long — doing so to […]
Meet the Musician: Yaara Beeri
Photo: Courtesy of Yaara Beeri Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I was always connected to music, I played the cello as a child in the Old City of Jerusalem and I was looking for a sound that would express the longing for the ancient, for the original Jew, I understood […]
Meet the Musician: Gavriella Goldman
Photo: Courtesy of Ortal & Gavriella Goldman Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I’m Gavriella Goldman and I play the Horn. Together with my sister Ortal, we perform music comedy shows as the Goldman Sisters. We also play standard classical music concerts in collaboration with other musicians. I have been playing […]
Meet the Textile Artist & Musician: Ortal Goldman
Photo: Courtesy of Ortal & Gavriella Goldman Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I started learning the Violin when I was five years old. When I was at school I never actually planned on being a Musician. For a long time, I wanted to be a doctor. I tried many different […]
Meet the Musician: Chanale Fellig-Harrel
Photo: Courtesy of Chanale Fellig-Harrel Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. My name is Chanale Fellig-Harrel and I am a professional songwriter and performer of Jewish music. I was raised in a Chabad home, a grandchild of holocaust survivors and Russian immigrants. Although I never received any formal musical training, I […]