The Peretz Songbook Workshop: Shabbes Songs

Want to expand your Yiddish folk song repertoire? Dreaming of singing along confidently during our Fraytik tsu Nakht service? Wishing you had an opportunity to brush up your Yiddish pronunciation? We've got just the event for you!

As part of the Peretz 80th anniversary celebrations, we invite members and friends to learn and explore the "Peretz Songbook" together. The fun, interactive, and accessible song workshops will teach some mame-loshn classics, introduce the fascinating histories of some of these songs and the people who wrote them, and invite participants of all ages to enjoy the heimish (homey) experience of singing together in Yiddish.

The upcoming song workshop on Sunday, February 9th will focus on the songs we sing at our monthly Fraytik tsu Nakht Shabbes for Cultural Jews, just in time for the next gathering on Friday, February 21st (register here). A Secular Humanist shabbes (shabbat/sabbath) celebration, Fraytik tsu Nakht is a long-standing Peretz community practice that has grown and evolved over the decades to include a range of tunes that carry forward Jewish and Yiddish traditions of connection, gratitude, peace, and the human power to make a better and more beautiful world for all people.

All ages, voices, and levels of Yiddish are welcome! Song lyrics will be provided in Yiddish with transliteration and English translation.

Invite friend or a loved one, bring a musical instrument of choice (if you like), and lomir zingen — let's sing!

*Please RSVP by Friday, Feb. 7th to help us set up.

Pictured: Marc Chagall's 1957 painting, Le joueur de flute (The Flute Player)