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 […]
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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 […]
Top 10 Most Read Interviews of 2021
Source: Pixabay A few more hours to go and we can bid 2021 farewell. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the passionate artists, musicians, and community leaders whom we have had the opportunity of featuring on our website throughout the year as well as our wonderful readers without whom our project […]
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 […]
Meet the Musician: Aryeh Naar
Photo: Courtesy of Aryeh Naar Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. My name is Aryeh Naar. I am 19 years old from Sydney, Australia. From a very young age I’ve been singing and involved with music. From when I was three years old, I remember standing on the Bimah next to […]
Meet the Musician: Shalom Lebowitz of the Band Shefa
Photo: Courtesy of Shalom Lebowitz Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. My name is Shalom Lebowitz. I am the lead singer and guitarist of the band Shefa. I jam alongside my older brother who’s our vocalist and my younger brother who plays electric guitar in the band. I grew up in […]