Rising Song Circles

Rising Song Circles are groups of music lovers in Jewish communities around the world who join together regularly to study nigunim, nusach, and Jewish musical wisdom, guided by Joey Weisenberg's master classes.

 Here are the five easy steps: 

1. Get the word out to your community. We will provide a suggested email. The group can be any size. 
2. Have all the participants subscribe to Joey’s Master Classes in Jewish Song & Prayer.
3. Schedule 6 dates over the course of 3 months for meeting with the group for the initial course of song and study.. (This is our recommended structure, but you can decide on a different schedule for your community.)
4. Send out the schedule, along with the Zoom link and the Study Guide, to your participants. 
5. Follow the Study Guide! 

If you have a group of 10 or more subscribers, Joey will join you for a free, private, customized workshop, on topics of your choice.

If you expect a large number of participants (say 15 or more) we can set up a special, customized web-page for your community, It will look a lot like the Rising Song webpage, but with your logo. Plus your subscribers will be automatically added to your group on our system, so we can help keep track of them for you.

We also have a more detailed step-by-step guide available. Click here.

You can have as many people as you’d like in your group.

You can start on your own with a handful of friends, but if at least 10 people subscribe as part of your Rising Song Circle, Joey will be happy to join your group for a private session.  

One person in the Rising Song Circle becomes a point person and organizer who brings others together.

All this takes is a good organizer!  Even if you don't have very much musical experience, you can still facilitate a Rising Song Circle - just bring people together and follow our study guides, and you and everyone can learn together! 

If you also have experience as a music teacher, a cantor, a song leader, a musician, a ba’al tefilah or a ba’al neginah, you can bring all of those skills with you to leading a Rising Song Circle!

Though it’s difficult and unadvisable to sing close together and make really beautiful music in person during the ongoing pandemic, we view this situation as a great opportunity to study and enjoy Jewish music online, to learn nigunim and sing them in our living rooms, and to study the nusach of Jewish prayer chant so that our spiritual lives do not become stagnant. 

The material on this site give us the tools to create powerful moments of prayer at home with our families or even to lead intimate backyard gatherings with our closest friends. 

We believe that taking advantage of this unprecedented time to study (Jewish) music will make it all the more exciting and meaningful when we’re able to gather together in song again. 

Each member of the circle subscribes to Joey's Music Prayer Artistry master class series for $18 per month. This subscription grants a person access to all the videos (more than 500!) on this site.  There is no additional fee to organize a Rising Song Circle, and Joey will lead a free custom workshop for your group when 10 or more people subscribe.

Part of the mission of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute is to inspire musical growth in the Jewish community worldwide. As founder and co-director of RSI, Joey wants to see that happen. So, in partnership with him, we’re investing our time and energy to make it happen. When we see potential and musical-spiritual organizing power in a community, we want to support it,  and that’s the point of this resource.

Music is now more important than ever. Song reminds us of our essential humanity and it will have the power to rekindle communal bonds after so many months spent social distancing.

Get in touch with us! We'll connect you with a group, ideally in your local area, or with a group facilitator who can help you join virtually.

Email us at [email protected]