[HANASHIR:2614] Re: Songleader shortage

[David Weisz <dweisz...>]

Welcome Lara! As a former NFTY-SC member, and a current NFTY-NE advisor, I
can tell you that, from my experience, there isn't another region in the
country that places such a high value on training and developing songleaders
as SEFTY. When I was in SC, I had the position of the "unofficial official
songleader." I, along with my best friend and partner in crime, lead every
event from the middle of my junior year on, and was compensated for it as
well. It wasn't until we graduated that SC established an official regional
songleader position, and not to sound too cocky, I think it was in large
part because we had done it for so long, no one knew how else to make a
controlled transition to other folks. So far, it has apprently worked well,
though I'm still concerned with the fact that there is no development
program in SC (a concern I expressed to the regional director and president
before the final vote on the creation of the position occurred).

In any case, SEFTY is truly blessed by the fact that there are so many
people interested in learning to songlead. In all honesty, SC has just as
many folks who are interested (again, not to be modest, I taught half of
them), but there is no current program to train and develop them, and I
think that many of them will lose interest unless such a program is
developed.

So that's my two bucks worth...

David

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> Subject: [HANASHIR:2605] Re: Songleader shortage
>
>
> Shalom!
>     Well, I guess I'm another one of the young songleader ones!
> My name is
> Lara and I'm 18 and am the songleader for my region
> (Nfty-Southest), a music
> teacher for Temple Kol Emeth in Marietta, Ga, and will be a
> songleader at UAHC
> Camp Coleman this summer.  I remember how amazed I was when I
> found out that
> other regions in nfty hired adult songleaders, instead of it just being an
> appointed position for the nftyite.  Of course, the is nothing wrong with
> that, but I wonder if the other regions focus as much on training
> the younger
> songleader as my region does, because we have no shortage of
> songleaders in
> the Southeast!! We're all over around here!  In any case, I value
> older, more
> experianced songleaders more than anything..because that's how I
> learned.  I
> think older songleaders should work together with the younger ones for
> example, in a youth group setting.  L'dor V'dor of songleaders..its such a
> legacy!  I hope to be songleading till I'm too weak to pick up my guitar!!
>
> Lara Aronoff
>
> PS..to other 18 year old..Joel..I met some songleaders from Denver a NFTY
> convention..actually in competitions...was this you or your friends?
>
>

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