Molly Bajgot Concert

Thursday – June 6, 2024
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

MJM and the JCA proudly present an inspiring evening of new Jewish music and powerful song with Molly Bajgot. Molly will share music from her new first full-length album, Revelry, new tunes for Jewish liturgy and original songs of hope. Molly’s soulful voice and alluring melodies bridge the realms of Jewish, folk, and devotional music. Her orientation to community building and prayer shines through in her musical leadership. Together, we’ll create a sacred and songful space to revel in our aliveness, our grief, our healing, and our work for collective liberation.

Stay after the performance for a meet-and-greet with the musicians. Beverages and light refreshments will be served.

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Molly Bajgot (she/her) is a queer Jewish musician, educator, and activist living on Nipmuc & Pocumtuc land in Easthampton, MA. As a singer, songwriter, and community prayer leader, Molly writes songs for quenching the soul and melodies to enliven Jewish liturgy. Her music comes from places of pain, joy, grief, and a commitment to life and beauty. Today, she writes original songs and melodies for Jewish liturgy that draw from a place of yearning and reclamation. Her first album of original music, Revelry, was released in January, 2024.

Matt Goldfield is a multi-instrumentalist and producer living in Northampton MA. He has produced a pair of albums for the Jewish holiday months of Elul and Tishrei. He performs improvisational solo piano work, and often performs with Anat Hochberg and Molly Bajgot as well. When he was an adventurous youth he played rock and roll with The Rationales.

Richie Barshay began drumming inside kitchen cabinets at an early age, and continues banging on things worldwide to this day. Noted for his work with the Herbie Hancock Quartet in the 2000s, he’s been dubbed “a major rhythm voice on the rise” by Downbeat magazine, and The Guardian (UK) praises “the arrival of a major innovator who also knows how to have fun.” Find him on stage and recordings with Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Esperanza Spalding, The Klezmatics, Fred Hersch, Kenny Werner, Lee Konitz, Natalie Merchant, Bobby McFerrin, and Pete Seeger among others. Since 2004 he has led outreach projects across 5 continents as an American Musical Envoy with the U.S. State Department. He can be heard on over 80 recordings as a sideman, and his two self-produced albums: Homework featuring Herbie Hancock (2004), and Sanctuary featuring Chick Corea (2014). Based in New York City and Northampton, MA, he is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher and maintains a private practice for performing artists and others to regain better mind-body coordination and ease of movement.

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