Hadar Boston Rising Song Gathering with Joey Weisenberg

Hadar Boston presents Joey Weisenberg, renowned musician and founder of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute, onsite at Temple Israel of Boston on Wednesday, May 21 at 7:00 p.m. for an inspiring evening of Jewish communal singing! Combining virtuosic musicianship and powerful collective song, this concert gathering with Joey, featuring local musical luminaries Yoni Battat and Richie Barshay, is a sonic journey of emotional depth and spiritual uplift.

Register to join us. Contact cajl@tisrael.org with questions.

Bios

Joey Weisenberg
Musician, composer, and teacher Joey Weisenberg is the founder and director of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute and author of The Torah of Music (2017 National Jewish Book Award) and Building Singing Communities, whose master classes in Jewish song and prayer have taught thousands of people around the world to unlock their musical-spiritual potential and make music a vibrant, joy-filled force in Jewish life. His ninth album of original music, Selah, was released on Rising Song Records in March 2025.

Yoni Avi Battat
Yoni Avi Battat is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer, playing violin, viola, and oud in collaborative and interdisciplinary projects exploring both Mizrahi and Ashkenazi Jewish expression. Yoni’s music has been described as “an education for the ear and the soul,” inviting listeners to find healing, meaning, and joy in the experience of being human.

Richie Barshay
Richie Barshay is delighted to be returning to HRSI this year! He began drumming inside kitchen cabinets at an early age, and continues banging on things worldwide to this day. From his work with Herbie Hancock in the 2000s, to tours and recordings with Chick Corea, Esperanza Spalding, The Klezmatics, Fred Hersch, and Kenny Werner, he's been dubbed "a major rhythm voice on the rise" by Downbeat magazine, and The Guardian (UK) praises "a major innovator who also knows how to have fun." He’s also performed with Natalie Merchant, Bobby McFerrin, Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Donald Harrison, Lionel Loueke, Julian Lage, the Curtis Brothers, Gabriel Kahane, Pete Seeger, and the Tony Award winning musical The Band’s Visit on Broadway and national tour. Since 2004 he’s traveled across 5 continents as an American Musical Envoy with the U.S. State Department. Richie can be heard on over 90 recordings as a sideman, and two albums as a leader: Sanctuary featuring Chick Corea (2014), and Homework featuring Herbie Hancock (2004). Based in Northampton, Massachusetts and New York City, he is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher helping performing artists and others regain more body-mind coordination and ease of movement.