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Featured Artists
Meet the Artists
These artists are not strangers to this sanctuary, and they are not strangers to each other. Batya, Aly, and Richie have toured together and recorded on each other’s albums. Their musical connection runs deep. Levyosn brings that same spirit of musical connection, and in that spirit we become one kahal — one community.
What makes these artists extraordinary is that wherever they perform — in concert halls, synagogues, song circles — they make every person in the room feel like they belong. That is their gift. HBT, like many others, has personally experienced it through shared prayer, musical davening, and song. And now we all experience it together. On May 4, that circle opens wider as they share one stage for a full evening of music, connection, and joy.
These musicians, this sanctuary, this night.
Batya Levine
Singer-Songwriter · Song Leader
Batya Levine is a communal song leader, musician, and shaliach tzibur whose work centers the healing and liberatory power of Jewish song. Co-Founder and Co-Director of Let My People Sing, Batya traces their musical lineage not to the concert stage but to something older — song as medicine, song as healing, song as davening. Their music is rooted in Ashkenazi yearning, queer heart-medicine, and emunah — faith made audible.
Many of Batya's melodies are already woven into the musical life of HBT — songs that have found a home in this sanctuary — sung here without performance or pretense. Through song, Batya holds the unbroken thread — connecting us to our ancestors, our history, and who we are as a Jewish people.
Aly Halpert
Singer-Songwriter · Guitarist
Aly Halpert is a Jewish musician, educator, and activist whose songs have been sung in national gatherings, song circles, and quiet moments of personal prayer. A singer, pianist, drummer, and guitarist, Aly writes music to awaken us to the loss and hope we carry — and to connect us to each other and our collective strength.
Aly is not a stranger to this sanctuary. She led our Shabbat Shira service in 2026 — an Avodat HaLev, a service of the heart. At the core of her music is the same question at the heart of everything HBT has been doing this year: in a place where there is no humanity, how do we stay human?
Richie Barshay
Percussionist
Richie Barshay is an internationally acclaimed percussionist whose work spans jazz, world music, and Jewish musical traditions. A longtime collaborator of Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Esperanza Spalding, and The Klezmatics, Richie has performed on five continents and appears on more than 100 recordings. Based in Massachusetts, he brings global rhythmic depth and musical imagination to every stage he occupies. You can hear him alongside Batya Levine and Aly Halpert in the video below.
Levyosn
Boston Ensemble
Levyosn — named for the leviathan, the mythical sea creature traveling the world's oceans collecting songs, krill, and dreams — is a Boston-based ensemble specializing in Yiddish song and klezmer. Founded by Adah Hetko, a Yiddish singer, songwriter, and dance leader with deep roots in the international Yiddish cultural world, Levyosn doesn't just perform — they bring the whole room in. When they played HBT during Sukkot, you could feel and experience the connection.
Levyosn performed at HBT during Sukkot, supported by CJP's Arts and Culture Community Impact Grant — an evening of Yiddish song and communal joy in our shared space.
Adah Hetko
Yiddish singer, songwriter, and dance leader with deep roots in the international Yiddish cultural world.
Lysander Jaffe
Grammy-nominated vocalist, violinist, and community music leader. Co-artistic director of Palaver Strings.
Lexi Ugelow
Vocalist, songwriter, and expressive arts facilitator devoted to intergenerational community singing.
Raffi Boden
NYC-based cellist, composer, and improviser who has performed internationally.
Hear what's coming — watch below ↓
Listen · Watch · Feel It
One Stage. Shared Sound.
Batya Levine, Aly Halpert, and Richie Barshay — together on one recording, together on one stage.
These are artists you already know. This is community. Join us in our Sanctuary for a full evening of extraordinary live Jewish music — there is no better place to hear them.
"Music is not separate from our life together. It carries our worship, deepens our study, strengthens our activism, and binds us across generations."
This evening is HBT's major annual fundraiser — and a celebration of what we are together. Some come through worship, some through learning, some through justice work, some through school or friendship. And many through song. When we invest in this night, we invest in the community we are shaping together.
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Family Concert
Aly Halpert — Family Concert & Pizza Dinner
5:45 PMDoors open for Family Concert ticket holders
6:15 PMAly Halpert live children’s concert · Pizza dinner in the Social Hall
The evening begins early for families. Enjoy a live children’s concert by Aly Halpert and a pizza dinner in the Social Hall — then watch the One Stage concert livestreamed in the Social Hall. One ticket. The whole evening.
Each Family Concert ticket includes one One Stage ticket. Details at ticketing.
Children under 13 attend free. Adult pricing applies to guests 13 and older.
One Stage Concert
Batya Levine · Aly Halpert · Richie Barshay · Levyosn
6:45 PMDoors open · Dessert & Cheese Reception
7:30 PMOne Stage concert begins · Sanctuary
~9:30 PMConcert ends
Come early, find your seat, and enjoy our dessert and cheese reception before the music begins. The Social Hall remains open throughout the evening — livestream, music, room to dance, room to breathe.
