Joey Weisenberg & the Rising Song

A musician and teacher who rebuilt communal singing as a practice rather than a performance — no stage, no amplification, the room itself as the instrument — and founded the Rising Song Institute to train others in it.

⭐⭐ THE LIVING END OF THE NIGGUN AND THE BEST TEACHER OF IT ON RECORD, WHICH MAKES HIM THIS WING'S CURATOR RATHER THAN ITS SUBJECT. His pedagogy is an argument: he insists singing is a skill a community loses and can be taught back, and that the loss happened when congregations started listening to a professional instead of making the sound. ⭐ Watch the short explanation first, then the ensemble piece, and notice the thing he never says out loud — nobody is out front.