[HANASHIR:5041] UAHC Camp Swig and Newman CD is Available!

[Josh Miller <jmiller...>]

Hello Everyone!

So many people have emailed me to ask about the CD for UAHC Camps Swig and
Newman that I am posting back to the list about it to share excitedly that
after a long year-and-a-half long wait, the UAHC Camp Swig and Newman CD:
Shir L'Yom Chadash that I have been laboring over lovingly is now totally
finished and has been massively duplicated (we made 2000!) and is available
for folks that want it... I hope that this commercial does not over-step
the bounds of this list, and if it does, I apologize... I guess I feel like
so many of you have been a part of the process of creating this project,
from inspiration at Hava Nashira to actually being a part of the writing or
recording, that I wanted to share!

All proceeds, I should mention, are going to support the music programs at
UAHC Camp Swig and Camp Newman, so you're getting great tunes and
contributing to a very nobel cause if you decide to purchase a copy...
Additionally, I think it will be a great resource for songleaders
interested in having a sense of what kids are singing today at the Reform
Summer Camps, and the sound of the CD is very take-you-back-to-camp with
lots of camper/staff voices and guitar! Here is a complete list of the
songs we put on the final CD:

1.  Modeh Ani (Kol B'seder)
2.  Mah Tovu (Rabbi Margo Stein)
3.  Heiveinu (David Feingold)
4.  Mitzvah Goreret (Rabbi Andy Vogel)
5.  Fixin' the World (Cantor Wally Schachet-Briskin)
6.  Gesher Tzar M'od (Josh Bloomberg)
7.  The Tree Song (Josh Miller)
8.  V'sam'ti Makom (Cantor Wally Schachet-Briskin)
9.  Shiru L'Adonai (Hollander)
10. L'chah Dodi (Hopi Chant / Dveykus)
11. Bar'chu (Cantor Rachelle Nelson)
12. Sh'ma  (Becky Gimblel)
13. V'ahavta (Julie Silver)
14. Mi Chamochah (Debbie Friedman)
15. Hash'kiveinu (Ethan Bueno de Mesquita)
16. Oseh Shalom (Debbie Friedman w/ Cantor Wally Schachet-Briskin's English
Part)
17. Shalom Aleichem (Regesh)
18. Hinei Mah Tov (Folk / M. Jacobson)
19. Harachaman (Chassidic)
20. Miriam's Song (Debbie Friedman)
21. David Melech (Shlomo Carlebach)
22. Shir Chadash (Julie Silver)
23. Sh'ma (Joanna Selznick Dulkin)
24. Vihi Noam (Ethan Bueno de Mesquita)
25. Hash'kiveinu (Mah Tovu)
26. Shelter Us (Larry Jonas)
27. The La La Song

The CD is being sold via Sounds Write Productions (thanks Randee Friedman)
and you can learn more about ordering it by surfing to it on the
Soundswrite Homepage:

http://www.soundswrite.com/swstore1.html#campnewman

Thanks everyone for your interest, and feel free to email me privately if
you have any other questions at all!

- Josh "The Tree Song Guy" Miller
  Berkeley, CA
  
PS- Here the text from the liner notes that talks about the CD to give
people as sense of the vision for this project, in case other folks might
want to do the same at their camps/synagogues:

"We are proud to present our third camp album, Shir L'Yom Chadash (A Song
for a New Day). It was 1975 when Camp Swig recorded its first album, Tov
Lanu La-shir (It is Good for Us to Sing), followed in 1984 by Shir
Milibeinu (A Song from our Heart). Shir L'Yom Chadash was created to
preserve the musical heritage of Camps Newman and Swig as they have evolved
over the last decade, and to allow all of us whose lives have been touched
by the beauty of camp to again bring part of that heritage into our homes.
This album features some of the music that has been popular at our camps
during the 1990's as well as music composed by campers and staff. In
support of Camp Newman and Camp Swig's ongoing role as a premiere creative
centers for Reform Jewish music, proceeds from sales of this album will be
donated to a special fund to strengthen the music programs in years to come.

Each day at camp is filled with song. This album traces a musical journey
through a Friday at camp. Our days begin with Mifkad Boker (the morning
gathering), where we sing morning prayers as a camp community. The morning
shirah (song session) features a selection of much loved hits--songs heard
almost every day at camp. Although Friday begins like any other day, as the
sun begins to set on Friday afternoon and we prepare for Shabbat, a new
spirit enters. We gather as a community to welcome the Sabbath bride with
L'chah Dodi and together we sing ourselves to the spiritual high point of
the camp week, Shabbat evening services. The Shabbat service on this album
features a selection of our beautiful camp prayer melodies. Music surrounds
our Shabbat dinner, beginning with Shalom Aleichem and ending in the
Shabbat shirah. The music recorded in this Shabbat shirah reflects a taste
of the favorite camp Shabbat melodies and the overwhelming energy of a
Shabbat song session. Every evening ends with the music of closing circle,
a beautiful all-camp ritual based on the traditional Jewish bedtime liturgy.

We hope that the music and memories on this recording help to sustain the
joy of camp in your lives. By taking the energy and spirit that this music
helps to create at camp into your hearts and into your communities, you can
fulfill the vision that this collection of shirim (songs) can become a Shir
L'Yom Chadash, a Song for a New Day."

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