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Ever since my sophomore year of college, when I first picked up a guitar and started to strum, I’ve been making music. The first band I got to play with, Mamma’s Groove gigged at many of Madison, Wisconsin’s dive bars of the 1980s and early 90s – Club DeWash, O’Cayz Corral, The Willy Bear – and at the infamous Mifflin Street Block Party. In rabbinical school, I started playing klezmer and the music of Shlomo Carlebach, and my year in Jerusalem I was part of a band called Elisheva Jones that played a weekly gig at Cafe Magritte. Nowadays I mostly write songs and play them with local musicians and friends whenever I have an opportunity. Between 2012-2013, I began a song cycle eventually entitled Lunar Tunes in which I wrote a song for each Jewish festival. The album was released as a digital video compilation in November of 2013.

A Passover Redemption Song

A Passover Redemption Song

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This is not your typical Passover song. “Goodbye Egyptland” Words and Music by Daniel Brenner     This song is written from the perspective of one of the “mixed multitude” – an Egyptian who watches the destruction of the plagues and chooses to join the Hebrews in their escape from Egypt. I wanted to counter the “silly songs” about the plagues that I’ve heard over the years and offer a new perspective on the tale we tell each seder night.