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Description
Overview: An intimate concert series, the Rising Song Salon welcomes musical artists whose work sits at the intersection of Jewish text and storytelling into Hadar’s beit midrash for an exploration of song, source material, and creative process. In conversation with Hadar’s R. Deborah Sacks Mintz, each artist will share songs from the heart, inviting the audience into their music’s story. Come ready to listen, sing, and ask questions!
Kedmah with Yoni Avi Battat
Kedmah: The Rising Song Piyyut Project is an ensemble of musicians and prayer leaders excavating their Mizrahi Jewish heritage through poetry and song. Led by Yoni Avi Battat and R. Yosef Goldman, their debut album, Simu Lev, presents melodies from Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Morocco, Turkey, and Jerusalem, rendered with deep reverence for tradition and boldly adapted with an ear toward our modern musical world. Through Kedmah, Yoni’s interactive performances, workshops, and recordings invite listeners to travel through history and relish in the spiritual depth that this expressive poetry and music can bring into our lives.
Yoni Avi Battat brings Arab music into the soundscape of American Jewish life through composition, education, prayer, and performance. 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, especially his Iraqi-Jewish heritage. He has performed and recorded nationally and internationally as a solo artist and as a sideman with musicians such as Joey Weisenberg, R. Yosef Goldman, Zach Mayer, Laura Elkeslassy, Nava Tehilah, and Yair Dalal, amongst others. Yoni lives in Boston, MA, working locally and nationally to uplift Mizrahi identity in American Jewish communities.
You are warmly welcome to join us before the session at 7 PM for Happy Hour and Parashah by Hadar Faculty. The Salon will begin at 7:15 sharp. There will be Arvit after the session at 8:45 PM.
This event is part of a three-part series. Get a season pass for all three events here.
Date & Time
Tue, Jul 1, 2025 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
Venue Details
Yeshivat Hadar
210 West 93rd StreetNew York, New York 10025
