WORLD ARTISTS

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WORLD JEWISH ARTISTS

Singers, Songwriters, Composers, Musicians, Cantors, Choirmasters
This list is for artists involved in creating and performing Jewish music worldwide who are based OUTSIDE of Israel.
It includes many of the late greats of Yiddish song and theatre.

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Artists are listed in order of their FIRST name

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Adrian A. Durlester		USA
List Owner, Jewish Songleaders/Performers List
Avraham Fried		USA

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Beth Schafer		USA
Jewish Music & Programming

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Carol Boyd Leon		USA
Songwriter/Cantorial Soloist/Music Educator
Chaim Parchi		USA
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Charki Dunn		USA
Teacher, performer based in Chicago. Music director at Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School. As part of her job she instils the students with the love of Israeli and religious music. She leads weekly Shabbat and holiday celebrations. She directs several children's choirs and bands that perform both at school and around the city of Chicago. She is part of a high holiday choir in Long Grove, Illinois, and as well, does solo performances around the community.
Chevra		USA
Cindy Paley		USA
Read an interview with Cindy on the Bat Amanoot website
Craig Taubman		USA

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Dan Jurkowitz Tucson, Arizona		USA
Danny Maseng		USA
Diego Goldsztein		URUGUAY
Pianist who performs live shows of traditional Jewish music in original versions.

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Fortuna		BRAZIL
A Brazilian singing and writing songs in Ladino
Fran Avni		USA
Fran Moss		USA
Cantorial Soloist, Puppeteer & Storyteller

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Gerard Edery
Sephardic singer/guitarist

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Ilana Axel		USA
Jewish Music Specialist/Singer
Irwin Oppenheim		HOLLAND
Chazzanut expert
Itzik Manger (dec) 1901-1969
Legendary Yiddish poet and playwright

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Judith Cohen		USA

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Karen Daniel		USA
Singer songwriter recording artist based in Nashville, Tennessee. Writer of teachable, singable and Jewish songs for children and families, about prayers, holidays and many Jewish themes. Karen Daniel's sincere voice and gentle style reaches the heart of people everywhere. Songs include: Sing a Song About a Rainbow, Stomp Stomp Stomp (the Cookie Song), Tu B'Shevat Cha Cha and new arrangements of Yiddish standards.
Klezmania		AUSTRALIA
Australia's leading klezmer band, performs dynamic instrumentals and songs in Yiddish and English.
Klezmeritis		AUSTRALIA
A world music festival & concert band, deriving its main inspiration from Eastern European Jewish traditional celebration and dance music.

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Leonora Ensemble		AUSTRALIA
A professional Sydney string quartet that plays Jewish music in a classical idiom. The Leonora Ensemble under the musical directorship of Janet Silverton, is classically trained and its repertoire includes substantial Jewish/Yiddish arrangements for trio and string quartet with the option of flute. The Leonora Ensemble is quite unique in this field, as it is not a 'Klezmer band' but a classical group that also performs authentic Jewish repertoire in the classical idiom. The ensemble has released a CD of Jewish music called 'CLASSIC STRING SIMCHA'. It features a range of music that includes arrangements of Yiddish, Israeli and popular Jewish tunes. Contact Janet at 0417 657178 or email janet_helen@iprimus.com.au for enquiries regarding bookings or obtaining the CD. Klezmer music sample Quartet in G
Leib Glantz Cantor (dec)
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Louis Danto		CANADA
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Matisyahu		USA
Chassidic rap/reggae artist
Molly Picon		USA
Moshe Taube Cantor		USA
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Noemi Liba		AUSTRALIA

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Peter & Ellen Allard		USA
Specializing in Music for Young Children

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Rebecca Schwartz		USA
Rebecca Schwartz is a professional singer/guitarist and award-winning songwriter based in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. She has written and produced three albums: Only Time Can Tell, The Light of Shabbat, and Ahavah Rabah with deep love, as well as a songbook of her music called Rebecca Songs. Rebecca works as a songleader, Hebrew soloist, and music teacher in the Philadelphia area, and travels for special temple events. During the summer months, she enjoys the position of head songleader at Union for Reform Judaism Crane Lake Camp in West Stockbridge, MA.
Robbi Sherwin		USA
Robin Selinger		USA
Hot Shabbat & Tot Shabbat websites
Robyn Helzner		USA
World Jewish cantor and singer in Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish. Her website includes purchase details of her four CD's, two of which are specifically for children and very popular. Her recordings also include the lyrics and translations to all songs.

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Sam Glaser		USA
Sam Glaser is considered one of the top ten Jewish artists in the U.S. by Moment Magazine and tours internationally to over fifty cities a year as a performer, composer, educator and cantorial soloist. His website has tour info, soundbites and ordering information for his dozen CD releases.
Samuel Malavsky (dec)
Shirona		USA
Judaic Love Songs (Love songs for the Creator)
Shtreiml		CANADA
Klezmer jam band featuring a blend of Eastern-European, Turkish and Rock styles. The group showcases harmonica, trombone, oud and reeds.
Sidor Belarsky		USA
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Shimon & Ilana Gewirtz		USA
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Susan and Fran		CANADA
Susan Shane-Linder		USA

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Tanja Solnik		USA
The Chevra		USA
Theodore Bikel		USA
Read about the legendary actor and folk singer Theodore Bikel's new CD Treasury of Yiddish folk and Theatre Songs The Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe Video in English & Yiddish Theodore Bikel CD's on hatikvahmusic.com
Tracy Friend		USA
Singer/songwriter based in Chicago. Tracy has been composing music since she attended summer camp in the 1970s, where she experienced alternative forms of worship and discovered the power of expressing prayer through music. She has written a variety of music over the years, including composing the score for "Love in the Catskills," a musical comedy produced in Skokie, IL in 1999. Tracy recorded her first CD, When All is Said and Done, in 2004, and donates a portion of every sale to One Family Fund, an organization providing financial, legal and emotional assistance to victims of terrorism in Israel. Tracy is also Founder and Coordinator of the Midwest Jewish Singer/Songwriter Association, which brings together local artists to share their music and network with each other on a bi-monthly basis.

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Women Weaving Words		USA

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Yeshiva Boys Choir

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Zvee Aroni Cantor (dec.)		USA
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	HAVA NASHIRA A Jewish Songleaders Resource A Resource for Jewish Songleaders, Songwriters, Performers, Music Educators and all those involved in the transmission of Jewish heritage, religion and culture through music.

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