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Music that spans the breadth of the personal and the political, the Jewish and the feminine, and celebrates life, love and friendship and the struggle for peace and justice for all people.
Original songs and arrangements combining historic teachings with contemporary and homegrown wisdom are magical, healing, and inspirational.
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Many thanks to my brilliant (and best) friend, Fran Avni whose artistry and musicianship guided me through this project. It could not happen without her. Check out her music and art at:www.franavni.com |
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Amazed 2013  |
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Vocolot at 25 2012  |
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Vocolot at 25 celebrates a quarter-century of a cappella musical activism. Original songs and arrangements of traditional texts deliver a message of peace, reconciliation, and social justice. |
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Becoming 2007   JPF 2009 Award Nominee for Best Jewish Song ("Kumi") |
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| Becoming includes 15 original uplifting joyous songs, among them love songs, lullabies, songs of healing, peace, and forgiveness, in styles that range from jazz, folk, and pop (with a touch of gospel), to klezmer, liturgical, and a cappella. “The melodies are gorgeous, the harmonies luscious, the poetry exquisite.” “After listening to Linda Hirschhorn's latest, I have to say that I am transported by her heavenly voice. In this genre-busting recording, "BECOMING" runs the gamut from lullaby to torch song to mizrachi (Eastern) groove to chamber music to swing, all with the same level of mastery that you've come to expect from this radically talented singer. After just a taste of this masterpiece, if you don't decide you want to be her when you grow up, you'll at least decide you want to spend endless hours listening to her.” —Debra Kolodny, Director of א Aleph | |||||
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Heart Beat 2002   CARA 2003 Award Winner for Best Album and Best Song ("La Comida") |
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| A passionate a cappella celebration of women's voices and percussion with songs that affirm life and sing a vision of one world at peace - spanning the spectrum of original and traditional music - sung in English, Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino. Heart Beat: a place where the personal, social, political and spiritual resonate in harmony. Includes a Yiddish song of resistance ("Zog Maran"), a Brazilian song of praise ("’Èlokim Noten Hakol"), and a joyous song adapted from a South African freedom anthem that will get you to your feet ("Yésh Lànu Koakh"). Derk Richardson of the San Francisco Bay Guardian said, "These Yiddish Divas make music that embodies peace, resilience, reconciliation, and the notion that we will overcome our enemies with our singing." | |||||
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Behold! 1998  CARA 1998 Award Runner-up for Best Folk Song ("Eretz Shiv'at Haminim") Just Plain Folks 2006 Award Nominee for Best Song ("Behold!") |
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| Another tapestry from Vocolot of breathtakingly beautiful melodies, harmonies and dynamic percussion. These songs are passionate, upbeat, and evocative, and take their inspiration from sources ranging from the ancient wisdom of Isaiah to the modern poet Walt Whitman. This is music with universal heart, Jewish soul and social conscience. Includes the passionate anti-war "Lo Yisa Goy," the sensuous, evocative "Sham‘àh Vatismakh Tsiyon", and the award-winning "’Èrèts Shivat Haminim". | |||||
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Marcia Falk's Blessings in Song 1997 
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| A combination of cantorial and Middle-Eastern motifs. The music, deeply rooted in tradition, offers listeners melodies and chants for immediate incorporation into their own community's ritual observances and practices. The recording is a wonderful complement to Marcia Falk's Book of Blessings for Daily Life (Harper San Francisco 1996), a seminal work that restructures Jewish liturgy in Hebrew and English from a non-hierarchical gender-inclusive perspective. | |||||
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Roots & Wings 1992 
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| Roots & Wings - songs of great melodic, lyrical, and spiritual depths and heights, suffused with lush harmonies. Original English and Hebrew compositions, a cappella or accompanied, these songs celebrate Shabbat, children, friendship, and peace. Includes the song "Circle Chant", sung and recorded by religious and politically conscious communities around the world. As Ronnie Gilbert of the Weavers said, "Roots & Wings makes me feel like wings, like sails, like water, like unfoldings. Linda is a gifted musician with a voice of pure honey." | |||||
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Gather Round Songs of Celebration and Renewal 1989 
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| Vocolot's first classic recording brings women's herstory alive in songs such as "Miriam's Slow Snake Dance by the Riverside" and "Ruth and Naomi", and affirms the powerful bond between women and nature. | |||||
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More Than Luck and a Prayer 1987 
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Skies Ablaze 1984 
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Note: This is now a double songbook of 53 songs that combines all the music from the Gather Round Songbook and the original Music of Linda Hirschhorn Songbook. |
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The Music of Linda Hirschhorn: More Hebrew Canons, Rounds, and Musical Settings 1995 
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THIS BOOK IS NOW OUT OF PRINT. |
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Other Albums With Songs by Linda Hirschhorn
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Celebrate Peace |
The Power of Song |
The Canvas Remembers September 11 |
Open the Gates! |
Celebrate Passover |
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2003 Craig Taubman Craig 'n Co |
2003 Brooklyn Women's Chorus Bev Grant Music |
2002 Various Artists Disc Makers |
2002 Robert Cohen Sterling Media Productions |
2000 Craig Taubman Craig 'n Co |
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Night Passage |
Celebrate Hanukkah |
Winter Solstice Live |
Love's Ripening |
CARA 1998 |
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2000 Libana |
1999 Craig Taubman Craig 'n Co |
1999 Olympia's Daughters |
1998 Straw Into Gold |
1998 CARA |
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Circle of Women |
Sing Out For Justice |
Listen and Remember |
Radiance to Pocket |
Speeney, Spawney Go to the Moon |
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1997 Alice DiMicele Earthbeat! Records Alice Otter Music |
1997 URJ Press |
1997 Jo Salas Tusitala Publishing |
1996 Femme M'Amie |
1995 Candy Forest Sisters' Choice |
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Sounds of Creation: Genesis in Song |
Shabbat Morning Service |
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Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton |
1991 Randee Friedman Sounds Write Productions |
Other Jewish Music Resources
| HavaNashira.org | The Klezmer Shack |