Ayelet HaShachar – Women’s Band – Baltimore, MD

Featuring Lisa Aronson Friedman, Shalomis Koffler Weinreb, and Stephanie Rabinowitz, performs original Jewish music by women for women. The group is known for its soul-stirring themes, tight three-part vocal harmonies and melodic guitar and piano arrangements. The trio draws on a lifetime’s worth of experience and musical backgrounds that include classical, jazz, folk, musical theatre and Jewish music. Before becoming Torah observant, the women each developed expertise in their creative fields and now draw on their extensive backgrounds to reach Jewish women around the world. Lisa, on keyboards and vocals, is a classically trained pianist and as a student at Oberlin College, sung with the Oberlin College Chorus. Shalomis, on vocals and guitar, has been a professional musician most of her adult life, including producing and recording her own CDs, as well as touring nationally and internationally. Stephanie, on vocals and guitar, studied voice, theatre, and movement at New York’s Circle-in-the-Square Studio, and worked in theatre in New York City and Baltimore. Ayelet HaShachar has performed in numerous venues, including the Chol Hamoed Sukkos Women’s Concert at Brooklyn College, as well as in Philadelphia, Silver Spring, Baltimore and Eretz Yisrael. Ayelet HaShachar’s songs have been known to bring light, strength, joy and comfort to many listeners. Their music is a dynamic, uplifting expression of eternal Jewish themes, resonating with meaning for our times. Ayelet HaShachar’s debut CD, Ohr Chadash, was released in February 2005. Since then, the group has composed many more original compositions, and is currently working on a second CD.

Official Website: www.ayeletmusic.org

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Ayelet HaShachar Jewish Music Experience, Inc. is the band’s non-profit organization (501(c)(3)). Its mission is to strengthen the connection of women and girls to their Jewish spiritual and cultural heritage through the original music of Ayelet HaShachar. In accordance with this mission, Ayelet HaShachar is available for live performances for Jewish women of all ages and affiliations, educating and inspiring them with the poetry and wisdom of sacred Jewish texts. The band’s concerts and workshops help Jewish women personally experience and connect to Jewish prayer. Donations to AHJME, Inc. are tax-deductible.