MUSICAL ARTISTS

A singer, pianist, drummer, and guitar player, Aly writes songs for building community and visioning different worlds. She leads music and prayer for Jewish community, including Let My People Sing, Kol Tzedek Synagogue, Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, & Hadar's Rising Song Institute.

Her songs have been sung in national gatherings, song circles, and quiet moments of personal prayer, and have moved people all over the world. Aly believes deeply in the power of music to awaken us to the loss and hope we carry, expand our sense of possibility, and connect us to each other and our collective strength.

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Eliana Light is cultivating a more connected world by making the urgent spiritual wisdom of Jewish liturgy and prayer practice (t’fillah) accessible and meaningful through her prayer leadership, consulting, teaching, and the Light Lab, a center for t’fillah education. She has put out five albums of thoughtful, playful, original Jewish music, including the liturgical and group singing-focused ORAH HI, and is the host of the Light Lab Podcast. She lives in Durham, NC where she is weaving everybody-welcome Jewish community.

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@_elianalight_

Yosef is a rabbi, composer, prayer leader, and spiritual guide whose music and teaching draw on the full breadth of Jewish devotional tradition — including Sepharadi and Mizrahi piyyut, Hasidic nigun, and contemplative chant. His original songs are sung in communities across North America and Israel, and he has released three albums on Rising Song Records.

Yosef co-founded Kedmah, an ensemble reviving the sacred poetry and musical traditions of Jews from Arab lands. Rooted in decades of pastoral and spiritual accompaniment alongside his musical life, he creates immersive experiences of prayer and song that open people to connection, presence, and renewal.

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Marni (they/them) is a Jewish musician, educator, and prayer leader with a deep love of people, nature and building connection.  Their debut album, the long short path, is a liturgically infused exploration of Jewish belonging, diasporic identity, grief, and healing. Marni’s music blends folk, pop, and jazz with Ashkenazi and multi-faith prayer traditions, forming songs that feel both ancient, alive and intimate. Marni is known for work that invites tears, reflection, and unexpected joy. They can't wait to sing with you soon!

@singing_jewess

Chava is a multi-award winning Jewish musician and composer whose voice was recently featured on a Grammy award winning album. Celebrated for her rich, luxurious vocals, lush harmonies, and rhythmic phrasing, Chava is also known for her loving and compassionate presence.

Serving as an artist-in-residence and educator at congregations and conferences from coast to coast, she imbues her music and teachings with the universal themes of hope, caring, connection and inclusion. In addition to her own prolific portfolio of recordings, Chava continues to support dozens of other fellow artists in recording and performing projects. She serves as Music Director of her home congregation, Temple Beth Am in Seattle, WA.

@chavam

Malka is an international sound artist who synthesizes heart frequency, soulful vocals, and a pop-RnB fusion. Her music draws listeners back to the truth of their heart.
 

Yehudah is a transformative musician who blends rhythmic textures, medicine music, with a pop-RnB edge. His sound creates an immersive experience, opening pathways for healing, introspection, and authentic connection.

Yehudah & Malka Russell, “Calling In Love”– are siblings, best friends, musical partners, and change agents. Growing up, they always used music as the medicine to heal themselves, their family, and the suffering in the world.
 

@malkhenna, @lionchildofficial, @callingin.love 

After establishing herself as a musical presence in Jewish and secular communities in Kansas City, Coleen took opportunities to share her gifts with various congregations around the United States. She has collaborated with renowned artist Josh Warshawsky. 
Coleen currently lives a nomadic lifestyle traveling the globe and offers a variety of musical gifts: soulful song-leading with the guitar and piano, entertaining on electric violin, and elevating music with her dynamic fiddling.

@la_colina_violinista
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Jack is a Jewish educator, musician, and meditation teacher living in Boulder, Colorado. Jack leads music, prayer, and meditation for Jewish communities, including Temple Emanuel Denver, Congregation Nevei Kodesh, BBYO, and various communities around Colorado.

He has been working as a Jewish educator for 9 years, most inspired by the teachings of R. Aryeh Kaplan and R. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Jack's passion lies in weaving mystical teachings with the transformative power of communal song for the sake of engaging with the paradox of inherent wholeness and brokenness in the human experience.

@jackleopold21

Rafe started his singing career with the wolves, ravens and sled dogs of the Alaskan wilderness. The wild nature of his exploratory singing has led to performances spanning the globe, from India, Hong Kong, Israel and Germany, to Italy, France, Spain, Australia, Thailand, Mexico and all across the United States.

Rafe’s intention with his music is to inspire a vision of a world in harmony and unity, celebrating diversity, sustainability, and equality for all beings.

@rafepearlman

Daniel Berkman, acclaimed San Francisco based composer and master of the kora and electro-acoustic instrumentation, brings a deeply textured sonic journey shaped by decades of collaboration across dance, film, and electronic music.

"Treating the timeless instruments I play and the music I create as unique happenings, inspiring awe, seeking revelation."

@danielberkman

Devora Elise Sostman is a somatic psychotherapist, psychedelic facilitator, retreat leader, and ceremonial musician devoted to the integration of psychotherapy, ancestral lineage and sound. Trained through institutions such as the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research and Inner-Tribal Treatment, a Native-led recovery center for Native Americans, her work is grounded in both scientific rigor and culturally-rooted care.

As a ceremonial vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Devora weaves ancestral prayer, Jewish lineage, and devotional music into therapeutic and ritual spaces, offering music as a living bridge between history, presence, and collective healing.

@_debraaaa

Light of the Mountain (Aliko Weste) is a visionary DJ whose sets are as diverse and dynamic as his own identity. Born and raised in the deep, rich Pacific Northwest, Aliko is a first-generation American, trans man - from Caribbean, Jewish (Sephardic and Ashkenazi), ancestry. Bilingual and multifaceted, Aliko is also an entrepreneur, coach, designer, photographer, facilitator, and one of the founders of Chavaya Festival. He is passionately dedicating his life to carving out spaces for our humanity.

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His eclectic sets are a reflection of his life's journey - blending the magic of the world with sounds that transcend the ordinary, creating an immersive experience that resonates deeply with his audience.

Light of the Mountain

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Kohenet Elana Brody is an ordained Hebrew priestess, musician and prayer leader. Elana offers Jewish prayer services across the country, and hosts healing song circles and singing retreats nationally and internationally. In September ‘24, Elana released her debut folk album The Garden, and has released many Jewish singles including her popular original songs “B’shem Hashem,” “Elah,” “Living a Miracle (Mi Chamocha) and a cover of “Kol Galgal.” Susan Rogers, engineer for Prince, said of Elana "Whatever she does will be ahead of its time."

Kohenet Elana is a frequent Jewish Renewal prayer leader at Isabella Freedman retreats, occasionally leads at Chochmat HaLev in Berkeley, and was a regular prayer leader at Romemu Brooklyn. She co-founded Or Harim, an earth based Jewish community in Asheville, NC, and currently lives and leads embodied musical prayer gatherings regularly in Boulder, CO.
 

Yoni Avi Battat (he/him) brings Arab music into the soundscape of American Jewish life through composition, education, prayer, and performance on viola, violin, oud, and vocals. Described as "an education for the ear and the soul," his debut album Fragments seeks to find new pathways to connect with ancestry and find healing around our fragmented identities, and especially his Iraqi-Jewish heritage.

Yoni is the co-founder of Kedmah, an ensemble that preserves and re-imagines Middle-Eastern and North-African piyyutim (devotional poems). From 2021-2022 Yoni toured nationally as an actor and violinist with the Tony Award-winning musical, "The Band’s Visit."

yonibattat.com
@yoniavibattat

Bobo Yogo drifted on a winged seed from a mighty birch tree in a forest somewhere far away and to the north. His music blends organic/latin/afro house and techno with ancestral music from the Jewish diaspora.
Be prepared to get down and make your ancestors proud.

@boboyogodj 

Bambi is a ceremonial DJ who plays ethnic electronic music that welcomes bodies to align with lineage, story, celebration, and bass. He has DJ’ed at festivals like Lightning in a Bottle, MANA, and Burning Man, and at Ecstatic Dances around the world.

He is the co-founder of KUMI: Morning Dance, a family-friendly, Sunday-morning, outdoor dance-party that integrates ritual, dance, and farm-to-table lunch.

Soundcloud @DJ Bambi YR

Jessica Sirena is a vocalist and live performance artist weaving together soulful pop, R&B, and ethereal, devotional soundscapes into immersive musical experiences. Her work blends rich harmonies, improvisation, and emotional depth, creating performances that feel both intimate and transcendent. Whether on stage or in ceremony, Jessica’s sound is unmistakable — sensual, expansive, and designed to move both body and spirit.

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@jessica.sirena