Photo by Dan Rous
Joey Weisenberg is the Creative Director of the recently-founded Hadar Center for Communal Jewish Music, and is the author of Building Singing Communities. He’s a multi-instrumentalist musician, singer and composer 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 and Ba’al Tfilah (prayer leader) at Brooklyn’s oldest synagogue, the Kane Street Synagogue.
Joey visits shuls and communities around the country as a “musician-in-residence”, in which he teaches his popular ‘Spontaneous Jewish Choir’ workshops. His nigunim have become popular worldwide.
Building Singing Communities
Using ideas from his recently released book Building Singing Communities, Joey teaches communities how to come together to make music a lasting and joy-filled force in shul and Jewish life.
Videos, Music, Books
Enjoy performance footage, instructional videos, sample music tracks from Joey’s discography, published books and articles, and more!
Concerts
Joey enjoys performing intimate concerts in communities world-wide…
Weddings & Simchas
…and playing with the Raya Brass Band for unusually fun weddings! Here are some options:
Kane Street Shul
Follow Joey’s work as Music Director of the Kane Street Synagogue, Brooklyn’s oldest shul, including a weekly concert and Beit Midrash.
Yeshivat Hardar
Calendar
When and where Joey is performing and teaching next.
Press
Articles about Joey and his music.
Photos by Dan Rous
