Rabbi Jack Gabriel Born in a refugee camp in Italy to parents who had survived the Holocaust, Gabriel came to the United States as a young boy. He attended religious schools, and his parents hoped their son would be a rabbi, but he had other ideas. "I wanted to be Bob Dylan," he said.

So, guitar in hand, Gabriel eventually landed a recording contract with Columbia Records. Through the 1960s and '70s, Gabriel made records and traveled. In Jamaica, he met Donovan, Keith Richards and other stars of the time. He also met a young musician named Bob Marley - who Gabriel continues to call "Saint Bob" - and once sat in with Marley's band, the Wailers. In the 1970s and into the '80s, Gabriel was in Canada, where he worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Hired as an expert in American music, Gabriel soon had his own radio show and interviewed composers and musicians including Marvin Hamlisch and Les Paul.

Then it was time to shift gears.

"In the mid '80s I felt a calling to come back to Judaism," he said. After helping friends form a Jewish congregation in Woodstock, N.Y. in 1985 or so, Gabriel continued his studies in Philadelphia with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, who looks for ways for the world's religions to work together, Gabriel said. "I'm humbled and blessed he took me on a student," Gabriel said.

In the 1990s, Gabriel was on the Front Range. He was the rabbi of Har Shalom, a congregation in Fort Collins for about a decade, then moved to Boulder, where he spent several years teaching and studying at the Har Hashem congregation there. Gabriel's studies took him a few years ago to Capetown, South Africa, where he started a documentary about the work blacks and whites are doing to bring that country out of its generations of racial separation.

About his music:

"Eagle Wings" sounds like Reb Ya'acov Moshe is playing with the Higher Soul Band. He has become the voice of the songs of the land. - Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

"Rabbi Ya'acov's songs go straight to the heart... a rare combination of deep and light-hearted which can bring a tear to the eyes and laughter to the soul." - Rabbi Shefa Gold

Danya Uriel Reportedly found singing to her "angel friends" at the ripe old age of two, Danya grew up surrounded by her musical family in the mountains of Colorado. With nature as her constant muse, she has been composing devotional music for as long as she can remember. At 18, a ravenous desire to learn and travel drew her away from home to receive her degree from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, to spend a year studying Hebrew in Jerusalem, to live in the wild jungles of Mexico and then to work with young children in the inner cities of California. Ultimately however, the siren song of her Rocky Mountains proved too compelling to resist. Now making her home in beautiful Boulder, Danya finds deep fulfillment in composing and sharing original Hebrew chants, wrestling with and revitalizing the ancient texts of her ancestors and above all else, offering herself each day in the service of true LOVE.

Eyal Rivlin Though born in the blistering heat of Israel's Jordan Valley, Eyal Rivlin's heart seems to spring from Renaissance Europe. His passion for celebrating music, dance, science, and spiritual growth led him from the Tel Aviv music scene on a pilgrimage of discovery through Europe and India to the United States, and a Master's Degree in Transpersonal Psychology. For years, Eyal played hide-and-seek with God, until finally learning to surrender to the Divine sound of each moment. Now, happily centered in Boulder Colorado, Eyal inspires joy through performing, teaching and facilitating musical events, playing with world fusion ensembles, and leading evenings of ecstatic song and dance.

Danya and Eyal's debut CD, Temple: Coming Home will be released by Sounds True in June 2007. For more information, visit www.hebrewchanting.com.

Shir HaLev: The Boulder Jewish Chorus performs choral music spanning all Jewish traditions, cultures and languages. The chorus is open to adults and teens and welcomes new members. A few comments about Shir HaLev:
"What a wonderful concert. Thank you!" - Spring 2006 audience member
"The singing was beautiful, and truly moving" - Fall 2006 audience member

Contact Martha (Malkah-T) Utchenik for information about Shir HaLev: shirhalev@gmail.com.