Kol Tefilah

Kol Tefilah
All male synagogue ensemble. This group travels to lead services at various synagogues. They are an a cappella group with rich harmonies. They rehearse in the Boston area but come from various cities. They lead services in what they term "traditional" chazzanut style. "Demo tape" online.
http://www.KolTefilah.org/

Ari Ben Moses

ARI BEN MOSES BAND invites you to celebrate the launch of www.aribenmosesband.com. please stop by for a visit, sign in the guestbook, and let us know what you think. Stay tuned for information about the band's upcoming CD release "Only the Spirit" featuring the ultrafunky track "Jungle Science" with master percussionists from Ghana and the Dominican Republic.

Halil Duo

Piano and Flute duet, perform classical and Jewish music. Biographical information and clips of music available on the website.
http://www.halilduo.com/

Ada Holtzman has begun a wonderful webpage dedicated to Jewish musicians from Poland before World War II. She has wonderful table of contents to the Isaachar Fater book (in Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew) "Jewish Musicians in Poland between the Two World Wars". There's a biography of Fater and several musicians taken from the book.
http://www.zchor.org/fater/musicians.htm</a>
http://www.zchor.org/fater/lexicon.htm

Paulina Achkinazi,
Paulina Achkinazi, composer and arranger, announces the web-site of the vocal quartet "Ashkenazim" (Kazan, Russia). Paulina Achkinazi is the leader of the group. To read more about Paulina and her background, there is an article by Yana Ovrutskaya that we've obtained permission to produce here (pdf)
www.ashkenazim.ru

Beth Schafer
Beth Schafer runs Jewish Music & Programming and has a new website with a "blog". She has a CD Love Your Neighbor for sale as well. 407-857-8790.
bethschafer@mac.com

www.bethschafer.com

YadArts Oi Va Voy, has a new cd. and YadArts has a new website. they are a "radical diaspora culture in the present tense live music, dance, visual and performance art, film production and educational programmes representing the best artists from across ethnic Britain" has launched it's new website...check it out.
www.yadarts.com

Tsepora
Canadian. Cantorial soloist at Temple B'nai Tikvah in Calgary, Tsepora released her first CD, A Timeless Journey Through Jewish Song.

Adrianne Greenbaum
Associate Professor of Flute, Mount Holyoke College and Klezmer flautist has a new website. Adrianne is one of the leading proponents of the use of flute and old instruments for klezmer music.
http://www.klezmerflute.com

Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive
The Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive provides scholars with Web-based access to Jewish recordings that are not commercially available; and related, searchable information that can aid in the study of Jewish music and culture, Jewish society, and the history of Jewish recordings.
www.dartmouth.edu/~djsa

--London--
Just to let every body know that Jewish Music Distribution's website is now up and running! What makes it distinctive is the emphasis on UK based artists and a selection of titles that are only distributed by JMD in the UK. There is information about Jewish music and a section about concerts in the UK which we are hoping to build up. We charge only £1.50 per shipment in postage to send CDs anywhere in the world so do visit the site. Hope you find something that interests you.
Noa Lachman
Jewish Music Distribution
PO Box 67
Hailsham BN27 4UW UK
Free phone: 0800 7811 686
Tel/Fax: (44) 01323 832 863
Website: www.jewishmusic-jmd.co.uk
email: orders@jewishmusic-jmd.co.uk

Ladies and Gentlemen! It gives me the greatest of pleasure, after more than 7 years of travail, to announce that over 2,000 sheets of shul music have now been scanned and put on the www.shulmusic.org site. Because of bandwidth constraints and the anticipated stampede to download material, only the Yamim Noraim music is now available. Stay tuned to the shul music list (http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe.cgi/jewishshulmusic), and I'll keep you updated as to when the next batches will be on-line.

The uploaded files are:
Yamim Noraim basics, taken from 2 choirs: 18 MB
Sulzer in zipped file: 84 Mb
Lewandowski - all three volumes (Shabbat, Yom Tov and recitatives): 100 MB
Basic Shabbat choral material: 14 MB
Index of all known liturgical music composers: 2 Mb
The Blue Book in a zipped file: 44 MB
The Goldfarb (son and father) Yamim Noraim Songster from 1926: 4 Mb
The URL is: http://www.shulmusic.org/latest_updates.htm
Please contact me if you experience any problems, have any special requests or ideas.
Stephen Simpson
Moderator
(Mazel Tov from The Jewish Music WebCenter: Congratulations Stephen!! A wonderful accomplishment!!)

Veretskipass
Melodies from Medieval Poland, dances from Bessarabia, Ruthenia, and Bukovina, and music with origins in the Ottoman Empire. Stars Cookie Segelstein, violin, Stu Brotman, bass, and Josh Horowitz, tsimbl.
http://www.veretskipass.com/

Kef Orqestra
Active Argentinian simcha band and orchestra. has bookings, contact info, brief news and announcements and videos.
http://www.orquestakef.com.ar/web2/index.php

Klezmer and Jidd Folklore
Midi files of several Jewish songs with B and C arrangements for each one. Very useful for students learning instruments.
http://www.stifterhof.de

Yiddish-American Digital Archive
An online sound archive project has been recently started. The aim is to put Yiddish archival recordings on the Internet. In a section called "Opening the Vault", sound selections are available in Real Audio, along with the recording label and number, the name of the key artist and the name of the collection where the recording was gathered. The recordings date back as early as 1915, and include such media as an Edison cylinder and early Columbia recordings. The project features recordings of Henry Berman (1892-1952),an entertainer in Yiddish clubs, and grandfather of the founder of the online sound archive.
http://yiddishsong.org/

Jewish CD
An online ordering house that specializes in traditional, Chassidic and religious music from a variety of Israeli CD producers. Uses a "secure online ordering", according to the website.
http://www.jewishcd.com/