Musical tribute in Memory of Reb Shlomo Carlebach

Musical tribute in Memory of Reb Shlomo Carlebach 

Senior Rabbi Ed


Feinstein and Cantor Herschel Fox invite community to

Valley Beth Shalom, Kabbalat Shabbat, Friday, March 21, 2014, 8pm, for their annual musical tribute "Farbrengan" with the soulful Chassidic

Orchestra, in memory of the legendary singing Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, z"l,

and in honor of his 20th yahrzeit / death year. Shlomo's last

Los Angeles Shabbaton was March 1994.

For more

information, visit www.vbs.org or call (818) 788-6000.  No charge. Free Parking, and

festive Oneg.  Valley Beth Shalom is located at 15739 Ventura Blvd.,

Encino, CA 91436 (on the northeast corner at Densmore).

Renowned Chassidic

Orchestra musicians include: Cantor Herschel Fox  -


soloist, Chris Hardin, conductor and pianist, Peter


Grant - guitarist, Joy Krauthammer -

percussionist, and Mike Nelson - clarinetist.

Guest artists

include Cantor Judy Fox and Shira Fox.

The beloved Hazzan

Herschel Fox offers chazzanut / songs from Chassidic dynasties

including Lubavitch, Moditzer, Gerer and more. He also shares personal and published stories about the legendary Reb Shlomo Carlebach. New stories

are in the photo-filled recent published scholarly biography of Rabbi Shlomo

Carlebach ~ Life, Mission, and Legacy, by Rabbi Natan Ophir,

"In a career

that spanned four decades, Reb Shlomo Carlebach channeled a


hundred niggunim / wordless melodies each day, composed

thousands of melodies, and recorded more than 25 albums that continue to have

widespread popularity. Known both as "the Singing Rabbi" and the

"Dancing Rabbi", Shlomo performed world-wide from Haight-Ashbury in

the sixties, to New York, Israel, Russia, India and Poland--everywhere," said

Joy Krauthammer, Reb Shlomo's percussionist and co-producer of Shlomo's Los

Angeles concerts during the last years of his life.

Shlomo's songs

aroused and uplifted millions, many still devoted, Torah-learned, and

performing disciples today. Those that were privileged to know Shlomo on a personal level knew that he was a holy Rabbi, a true Torah Chassid. World wide, there are increasing Shlomo Carlebach minyanim / prayer


groups. They are listed in Kol Chevre, annual memorial

book, filled with recollections of Reb Shlomo, and published

in Jerusalem by Emuna Witt Halevy. 

Shlomo played in

parks, prisons, hospitals, airplanes, concert halls, camps, retreats, streets,

simchas, schools and synagogues. Reb Shlomo would talk to thousands, each

on a personal level, inspiring them and assisting in their journey. View Joy

Krauthammer's story in http://rebshlomocarlebach-ztl.blogspot.com . Shlomo's Torahs, music and videos spanning


decades are available at:  http://shlomocarlebacharchive.blogspot.com   

"Shlomo

Carlebach, known as Reb Shlomo to his followers, was a rabbi, religious

teacher, composer and singer. "Carlebach is considered by many to be the

foremost Jewish religious songwriter of the 20th century.

"Although his

roots lay in traditional Orthodox yeshivot, he branched out to create

his own style combining Hasidic Judaism, warmth and personal interaction,

public concerts, and song-filled synagogue services. After Europe, he lived in

Manhattan, San Francisco, Toronto, and Moshav Mevo Modi'im, Israel (although he

traveled most days to distant cities and countries). 

"Carlebach was

also considered a pioneer of the Ba'al Teshuva movement (returnees to

Judaism), encouraging disenchanted Jewish youth to re-embrace their heritage,

using his special style of enlightened teaching, and his melodies, songs and

highly inspiring story telling." - VBS