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Brooklyn Bowl's Annual Musical Rosh Hashanah Services Set For October 2nd And 3rd

Live Performances From Yula Be’eri, Jeremiah Lockwood, John Bollinger And More

Presented By The Friday Night Jam, Because Jewish And Shalam Y’all Jams

September 12, 2024 – Today, Brooklyn Bowl announces its 13th annual musical Rosh Hashanah services. Set to take place at 7:30 P.M. on Wednesday, October 2nd and 10 A.M. on Thursday, October 3rd, both musically driven services will feature Rabbi Daniel Brenner with musical director Jeremiah Lockwood, Antibalas' Jordan McLean, Antibalas’ Timothy Allen, drummer John Bollinger, saxophonist Stuart Bogie (known for his work with Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Arcade Fire, and TV on the Radio), and Yula Berri on vocals and bass. 

In past years, Brooklyn Bowl’s Rosh Hashanah services have featured members of Darkside, Dr. Dog, Real Estate, Soulive, Vampire Weekend, and Taper’s Choice. This year’s festivities will feature appearances by Goose cofounder Ben Atkind, Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band fiddler Kenny Kosek, Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye, Jackson Browne collaborator Leslie Mendelson, and the Afrobeat collective Armo, which features revolving members of the Daptone Records family. Additional guests will be confirmed in the coming weeks. 

Internationally renowned teacher Jane Tuv will also lead a guided meditation at each event. There will also be Torah reading and procession led by Rabbi Brenner, as well as prayer, shofar blowing, and meditation. 

After the services on October 2nd, Brooklyn Bowl will host a meditative, spiritually driven jam session featuring members of the service’s house band as well as additional guests. After services on October 3rd at 12:30 P.M., there will be a lunch provided by Blue Ribbon with purchase of a ticket. 

All proceeds will support the non-profit organization Shalom Y'all Jams, which works to organize holiday services at non-traditional locations.

“We have said for years that Brooklyn Bowl is our sanctuary, clubhouse, church and synagogue, so it only makes sense that it has grown into the spiritual home for our musically inclined Rosh Hashanah services over the years,” says Relix’s Editor-in-Chief Mike Greenhaus. “Especially at a time when so many of us have been apart from our friends and family due to the pandemic, we hope that our suite of traditional-but-open-minded-and-inclusive services will allow us to connect with each other as we ‘begin again’ at the start of this new year.”

“In Jewish practice, the high holidays serve as a physical and spiritual preparation for the fall harvest,” says Rabbi Brenner. “At the time of the new moon we hear the blast of the Ram's horn and are re-awakened and reminded to do acts of reconciliation, devotion, and loving kindness.” 

"I am hopeful that the High Holidays this year will give us an opportunity for catharsis, healing, and (perhaps helplessly romantic) faith that we are building and rebuilding a home for ourselves and our children that can withstand destruction and brutality," says Jeremiah Lockwood.

Get tickets here: October 2nd & October 3rd 

Musicians: Isaac Gardner, Jordan McLean, Stuart Bogie, John Bollinger, Jeremiah Lockwood

Photo Credit: Ken Spielman

Additionally, The Friday Night Jam & FANS.live have a number of other spiritually and musically inclined High Holiday Services which can be streamed live via Fans.live. Each service will be led by Rabbi Daniel Brenner and musical director Jeremiah Lockwood, featuring Antibalas' Jordan McLean, Yuli Beeri, saxophonist Stuart Bogie and a full live band. 

Wednesday, October 2nd @ 7:30 P.M. ET from Brooklyn Bowl 

Thursday, October 3rd @ 10 A.M. ET from Brooklyn Bowl

Friday, October 11th @ 7:30 P.M. ET from The Blue Gallery (stream live via Fans.live)

Saturday, October 12th @ 10 A.M. ET from The Blue Gallery (stream live via Fans.live)

A guided meditation at Brooklyn Bowl

Photo Credit: Ken Spielman 

ABOUT RABBI DANIEL BRENNER

Rabbi Daniel Brenner, named by Newsweek Magazine as one of America's most influential rabbis, has played key roles in some of the most creative organizations in the religious world, including CLAL-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Auburn Seminary, Birthright Israel, and Moving Traditions, where he currently serves as the chief of education. Brenner's latest Jewish cultural arts project, Klezmer Aerobics, was featured as a select pick in the Weekend Arts section of The New York Times.

 

ABOUT JEREMIAH LOCKWOOD

Jeremiah Lockwood--music director, composer, singer, guitarist--is a scholar and musician. His work engages with issues arising from peering into the archive and imagining the power of “lost” forms of expression to articulate keenly felt needs in the present. Jeremiah is currently a Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. His first book, Golden Ages: Hasidic Singers and Cantorial Revival in the Digital Era, will be published by University of California Press in February of 2024. 2024 will also see the release of a suite of albums of new cantorial revivalist music produced by Jeremiah, including a new album from The Sway Machinery! Jeremiah has played around the world as leader of The Sway Machinery and is currently developing a new blues duo, Gordon Lockwood, with drummer Ricky Gordon.

 

ABOUT JORDAN MCLEAN

Jordan McLean is a New York City-based composer, arranger, bandleader, trumpeter, producer and educator. McLean has been active in the professional music world since 1992, having performed, recorded and collaborated with a multitude of musicians, ensembles, and performance organizations in the leading studios, festivals, and concert halls around the world.

 

ABOUT BROOKLYN BOWL

Brooklyn Bowl, ranked the #1 busiest club in NYC and #7 busiest club in the world in 2017 (Pollstar), is the ultimate night out, with its groundbreaking integration of premiere music, 16 lanes of bowling, a bar featuring locally crafted beers, and food by the acclaimed Blue Ribbon restaurant group. Located in the beautiful, 19th-century Hecla Iron Works building, the venue -- aka "rock and roll heaven" (Village Voice) -- boasts a sound system and amenities that "no other local rock club can offer" (The New York Times). Wearing its homegrown values on its sleeve, Brooklyn Bowl is as committed to locally made products -- serving award-winning beer from the adjacent Brooklyn Brewery -- as it is to environmental sustainability -- it's the first L.E.E.D.-certified bowling alley in the world and serves paper straws. And the food? "Epic," says Eater. In other words, Brooklyn Bowl's unprecedented combination of top-flight music, bowling, beer and food is "like nailing a spare on a four-ten split" (The New Yorker). 

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