RE: SONGLEADERS IN THE (JEWISH) NEWS

[Adrian A. Durlester <durleste...>]

Joanna:

This is great. Could you possibly contact the folks at the bulletin and see if 
you could secure their permission to post this article to the Hanashir web 
site?

Adrian


On Tuesday, February 24, 1998 2:29, joanna selznick 
[SMTP:joanna (at) alumni(dot)stanford(dot)org] wrote:
> SONGLEADERS IN THE (JEWISH) NEWS:
> Last Friday, this article appeared in the San Francisco (Bay Area) Jewish
> Bulletin.  Since then I have received many interested calls and inquiries,
> including an offer for free tix. to a concert May 2nd at the Berkeley
> Jewish Music Festival for members of the Bay Area Songleaders Collective.
> If anyone out there is interested in starting a similar local resource
> group, feel free to contact me (Joanna) as to how to pull it off.  It's
> amazing what can happen when you figure out there are at least 25 other
> people doing what you're doing in the same area, and most of them gather in
> the same room...at our meeting, we came up with many ideas, some of which
> were compiling a gig referral list, email listserv, holding holiday music
> and professional development workshops (sign language, song teaching,
> nussach/hazzanut) and one day coordinating a local hava nashira event.  The
> most amazing realization we had was that we didn't *have* to go outside of
> our group to find the resources to do these things. Our meeting was a long
> time coming.  It may be for your community, too.  Read on...