Joey Weisenberg is the Founder and Director of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute (risingsong.org), now offering 1000+ videos of Master Classes in Jewish Song and Prayer (joeyweisenberg.com) and free streaming of all albums from Rising Song Records (risingsongrecords.bandcamp.com). Rising Song seeks to empower Jewish community-building through music. Joey works to educate and train communities around the world to unlock their musical and spiritual potential, and to make music a lasting and joy­-filled force in shul and in Jewish life. Joey has run hundreds workshops and trainings across the country, including the Rising Song Intensive each December at Hadar. Joey is the author Building Singing Communities (2011), and the award-winning The Torah of Music (2017) published by Hadar, and is a multi-instrumental musician, singer, and composer. His nigunim, published in 8 albums and a songbook, have become popular worldwide.