Loading…
Limmud NY has ended
Sunday, February 17 • 10:30pm - 11:45pm
Wails to the Chiefs: Singing Together the Songs of U.S. Presidents, Their Parties, Movements, and Popular Cultures

Sign up or log in to save this to your schedule, view media, leave feedback and see who's attending!

In honor of Presidents' Weekend, we will join together in anthems and folks songs from the eras of George, Abe, Teddy, Franklin, Jack, and Barack (and others). Happy days are here again, as are melodies from the labor, suffrage, peace, and civil rights movements, traditional spirituals, campaign ditties, and political show tunes. Bring instruments, iPhones (to search for songs and lyrics), ideas for songs you want to sing, and your sonorous voices.


Presenters
JZ

Jonathan Zimet

founder, Shir Hashirim
Jonathan Zimet, rabbi and musician, has led programs at National Havurah Committee Institutes, synagogues, Hillels, and more. He draws on his background to make music and folk cultures come alive: making nusach (melodies) accessible to lay people; opening our Zemirot’s (traditional... Read More →


Sunday February 17, 2013 10:30pm - 11:45pm EST
Princeton concourse level