Music

Boulder Jewish Festival

2025 Musicians Announced!
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Jeff and Paige's exciting fun-filled concerts, albums, and nature and science activities are filled with love of the outdoors and ecology, bringing concepts like insect anatomy, energy conservation and plate tectonics to the whole family. Check them out on their YouTube channel!

Hal Aqua and the Lost Tribe
12:15 - 1 PM

Hal Aqua and The Lost Tribe play klezmer and Yiddish fusion music -- an exuberant musical experience, rooted firmly in traditional Jewish modes and melodies and driven by contemporary rhythms and danceable grooves.

Boulder Israeli Dance
1:10 - 1:25 PM

The Boulder Dance Coalition’s mission is to promote dance—and the physical and mental well-being, social connections, and shared joy it brings—by providing affordable facilities and support for dance and related community events.

Lily Henley
1:30 - 2:10 PM

When singer, fiddler and songwriter Lily Henley set out to make an album of Sephardic Jewish ballads set to new melodies, she was looking for her own way to interpret a critically endangered tradition. On Oras Dezaoradas (out on Lior Éditions Records), Henley highlights the Ladino language, a threatened tongue that fuses old Spanish with Hebrew, Arabic, and Turkish elements that is spoken by less than 100,000 people in the world today. She found herself directly connected to centuries of women spread across a forced global diaspora.

Sarah Bracha and Yoel Sykes
3:30 - 4:10 PM

Sarah Bracha Gershuny and Yoel Sykes have been living, working and praying together in intentional community for the last five years. Since 2023 they have been co-creating Wellsprings, a spiritual community dedicated to heart-opening prayer and the cultivation of space for belonging and spiritual aliveness here in Boulder, CO.

Born and raised in Jerusalem, Yoel is known through his work as part of the Nava Tehila leadership team, where he has composed many melodies for Jewish liturgy, recorded 4 professional albums and co-led musical kabbalat Shabbat services for 13 years. Yoel studied music at the Center for Eastern Music in Jerusalem and flamenco guitar in the Fundacion de Christina Heeren School of Flamenco Arts in Seville, Spain.

Gora Gora Orkestar
4:15 - 5 PM

Gora Gora Orkestar brings the sounds of the Old World to the Rocky Mountains performing high-energy Balkan and Klezmer music. Formed in 2009, this 11-piece brass band is dedicated to making the audience dance with driving rhythms and innovative approaches to the traditional music of Eastern Europe. Since its formation, Gora Gora has focused on learning this music with attention and authenticity, and its members have had the chance to learn from experts in the field at events such as Balkan Camp and KlezKanada.

MC HOSTS

Two things have been constant throughout Mark's life: performance and passion for others. For the past twelve years, Mark Megibow has produced all of his beats with just his mouth and a microphone, as the "vocal drummer" for FACE, the all-vocal rock band from Boulder, Colorado. Join Mark as our MC for the Boulder Jewish Festival 2024.

Rabbi Marc Soloway has been Bonai Shalom’s rabbi since 2004. Before that, he was an actor and storyteller in his native London and developed and performed a spirited one-man show of Jewish stories called The Empty Chair, as well as a show for children called The Jewish Princess and Other StoriesRabbi Marc is engaged with many important faith-based, environmental, and justice organizations and contributions to the world community are great. He is also active in Hazon, America’s largest faith-based environmental organization.