Tahel Shanah Uvirkhoteiha:
Mizrahi Melodies for The New Year
with Yoni Avi Battat
Thursday, August 28th on Zoom
6-7:30pm ET | 5-6:30pm CT | 3-4:30pm PT
Bring Arab music into the soundscape of your high holiday experience! In this workshop, musician Yoni Avi Battat will share traditional melodies and piyyutim (liturgical poems) for Selichot, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur. Drawing from a number of different Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) traditions Yoni will teach these approachable and beautiful songs, and about the musical traditions they come from. Participants will walk away empowered to bring these melodies to their own communities and incorporate them into their high holiday musical prayer experience.
Automated captioning provided. ASL & Live Captioning available upon request by Friday, August 8th.
No one turned away for lack of funds. Please email info@letmypeoplesing.org for a discount code if cost is a barrier for you.
meet your Teacher
Yoni Avi Battat
Yoni Avi Battat (he/him) amplifies and transforms the echoes of his Iraqi-Jewish ancestry to create music that is profound, moving, and accessible. Described as "an education for the ear and the soul," his debut album Fragments seeks to find new pathways to connect with ancestry and find healing around our fragmented identities, and especially his Iraqi-Jewish heritage. Yoni's newest project is Kedmah: The Rising Song Piyyut Project. Their first album Simu Lev presents traditional Jewish music from Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Morocco, Turkey, and Jerusalem. He has performed and recorded around the world on viola, oud, violin, and vocals, both as a solo artist and a sideman with artists such as Yair Dalal, Laura Elkeslassy, and Joey Weisenberg. From 2021-2022 Yoni toured nationally as an actor and violinist with the Tony Award-winning musical, “The Band’s Visit.” Yoni lives in Boston, MA, working locally and nationally to uplift Mizrahi (Middle-Eastern) identity in American Jewish communities. www.yonibattat.com