Booking

Bring Music into Your Community

Following the success and acclaim of his recent albums, Simu Lev and Fragments, Yoni is booking live concerts, residencies, and workshops across the United States and abroad. Whether performing a concert, leading musical Shabbat services, or teaching classes and workshops, Yoni weaves original and traditional Middle-Eastern melodies together with personal stories and approachable explanations. Through these focused moments of spiritually fulfilling learning, members of your community can encounter the beautiful specificity of Arab Jewish expression, while finding meaning and healing around their own fragmented identities.

“…seductive rhythms, sumptuous strings, and dazzling virtuosity.”

World Music Central

“Deeply personal and universal. A fresh and enticing way to engage with ancient tradition.”

Laura Mandel, Executive Director of JArts Boston

“…an education for the ear and the soul.”

Jewish Post & Opinion

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Yoni is available as a solo artist or with an ensemble of any size to fit your vision and the needs of your community.

Click below for programming ideas:

  • Bring your community together to celebrate the diversity of Jewish expression. Performing music from his recent album, Fragments, Yoni will discuss his journey of learning Arabic language and music, and how he is finding his own voice as an Iraqi-Ashkenazi-American-Jewish musician. Projected slides featuring the beautiful artwork of Ariel Basson Freiberg will translate Arabic and Hebrew lyrics in real-time. This repertoire can be combined with Yoni’s original adaptation of Mizrahi Havdalah to make the perfect Saturday night event.

  • Bring Yoni into your community for a special Shabbat service. Working together with your prayer leadership team, Yoni will help craft a service where he will present his original and traditional Mizrahi melodies alongside your community’s beloved favorites. With or without instruments, Yoni’s music can help bring the sound of Arab Jewry into your prayer space.

  • Teaching is a central part of the way Yoni engages with community. See below for a list of possible workshop topics:

    • Singing Our Stories: Understanding Our Fragmented Identities

    • Ana Elekh: Entering the World of Maqam and Piyut

    • Alif-Baa: Arabizing the Sounds of Hebrew Pronunciation

    • Mawashahat: Connecting Arab Classical Music to the Synagogue

    • Iqa’at: The Rhythms of Mizrahi Prayer

  • Combine together several programs, for a complete Shabbat of immersive music and learning with Yoni.

  • Prepare for the High Holidays with a concert that showcases and teaches Mizrahi selihot melodies. Perhaps some of these melodies will even become a part of your community’s beloved High Holiday repertoire! As per Mizrahi tradition, this concert can take place anytime during the Hebrew month of Elul.

  • Turn your living room or front porch into an intimate acoustic music venue. This smaller format will allow us to engage on a more casual and personal level, joining our voices together and discovering new avenues for expression and togetherness.

Recent Appearances

Headliner Performances:

  • Kennedy Center - Washington, D.C.

  • Lowell Folk Festival - Lowell, MA

  • Weitzman Museum of American Jewish History - Philadelphia, PA

  • Pico Union Project - Los Angeles, CA

  • Arrow St. Arts Festival - Cambridge, MA

  • Brandeis University - Waltham, MA

  • Claremont Colleges - Claremont, CA

  • B’nai Jeshrun - New York, NY

  • Kol Tzedek - Philadelphia, PA

  • Temple Beth Elohim - Wellesley, MA

  • Temple Israel Center - White Plains, NY

  • Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody, MA

  • Temple Beth El, Sudbury, MA

  • HPCT - Highland Park, NJ

  • Beth Israel - Andover, MA

  • Kahal Joseph - Los Angeles, CA

Prayer Leader Residencies:

  • IKAR - Los Angeles, CA

  • Small Town Jewish Life - Waterville, ME

  • Temple Beth Zion - Brookline, MA

  • Temple Aliyah - Needham, MA

  • Shirat Hayam - Swampscott, MA

  • Yale Slifka Center - New Haven, CT

  • Martha’s Vineyard Jewish Center - Vineyard Haven, MA

  • B’nai Vail - Vail, CO

  • Temple Israel - Brookline, MA

  • Darchei Noam - Toronto, Canada

  • Dorshei Tzedek - Newton, MA

Teaching/Workshops:

  • Hadar’s Rising Song Intensive - New York, NY

  • Let My People Sing - Falls Village, CT

  • Hebrew Union College - New York, NY

  • Temple Sinai - Brookline, MA

  • University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA

  • Columbia University, New York, NY

  • Schechter Boston - Newton, MA

  • Temple Beth Sholom - Framingham, MA

  • Lerhhaus - Somerville, MA

  • BASE Boston - Cambridge, MA

  • BASE Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA

  • Tufts University - Medford, MA

Share your vision, and let’s get started!