If you would like to sing Jewish music in four-part harmony, we invite you to join our choral group.

Begun in 2003, HaShirim numbers about 30 singers from throughout the Peninsula-South Bay.

We meet every Monday evening from 7:20 -9:15 at Congregation Beth Am, 26790 Arastradero Road, Los Altos Hills, in the Beit Kehillah the first building on the lower campus.

Choral music enhances our connections to Judaism, deepening our spiritual experience.
Our mission is to promote the Jewish experience in our community through our music,
which includes a repertoire ranging from folk to modern, in Hebrew, Yiddish, English and Ladino.

We have been performing at "To Life!," the Palo Alto Jewish street fair for several years, and in 2006, we also sang at Paramount Great America, at the opening of Theatreworks' "Brooklyn Boy" in Palo Alto, and recently at Palo Alto Commons and the Hyatt Classic Residence. We have also performed at the Albert L. Schultz JCC in Palo Alto, the new Peninsula JCC in Foster City, annually at the Jewish Home in San Francisco, the Reutlinger Home for Jewish Living in Danville, and Congregations Kol Emeth in Palo Alto and Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, where we rehearse.

Our director is Billie Bandermann, who is a De Anza College voice teacher and director of the college's Women's Chorus. We ask that participants attend regularly so that we can develop a choral blend.

A voluntary tax-deductible contribution of $10 per rehearsal or $25 a month helps to cover the cost of our director, accompanist and sheet music. However, your voice is the contribution we prize most, and no one will be turned away because of financial considerations.

We would like another six people to fill out our group, especially TENORS.
If singing brings joy to your life, and you want to share that joy with others, come join us.

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