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The Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit's Encore
Series Presents...

Wrote The Grammy Award Winning
Song From Hit Movie Flashdance

Mixed Media

Singer/Song Wri

Doug Cotler

A Family Program

Sunday, January 10,1999 • 4:00 p.m.
D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building
Members: $5 / Non-Members: $8

Cotler tours the country performing 100
concerts each year. He will perform
insightful and humorous songs about
Jewish events and heroes when he comes
to Detroit.

Co-sponsored by: Jewish Educators Council &

DOUREE
B LET
GUEST SUI TES'

ITROIT SOUTH /MD

Funded in part by: Manny & Natalie Charach
Endowment Fund, Haddow Endowment for the Arts,
DeRoy Testamentary Foundation, Boaz Siegel
Culture Fund, Benard L. Maas Foundation, Hiram
Dorfman and David Engelbert Trustees, and the
Ray and Atara Zimmerman Philanthropic Fund.
*Accommodations provided by the DoubleTree
Guest Suites of Southfield.

1/8
1999

72 Detroit Jewish News

Frum electric guitarist Yosi Piamenta
is out with a major-label CD.

undeniably Israeli despite the fact that
he's been in the States for 20 years.
Special to The Jewish News
"I play original music — which I
consider Jewish music, because I'm a
all him the Chasidic Hen-
religious Jew. I have listened to music
drix, Israel's answer to Jerry
all my life. When I was bar mitzvah, I
Garcia or the Sephardic San-
got a guitar, and that was it. I got
tana. Yosi Piamenta didn't
stuck to it."
set out to bridge pop rock culture and
By turns mellow and melodic, and
the Orthodox world, yet that has been
wildly
peppered with screeching riffs,
his strength and what sets the Israeli-
Piamenta's
music insists that you lis-
born ba'al teshuvah electric guitar
ten. It's spellbinding and sweet, and
player apart from the rock wannabe
pulls at your heart.
masses.
"His music touches people,"
With a CD out this year,
menta:
Yosi
Pia
says
Rabbi Avraham
Strings of My Heart on the
"When I play, Jacobovitz, director of
RCA label, and Midwest gigs
its jus t like
Machon ['Torah: The Jewish
planned (no firm date is set
when I Pray
Learning Network of Michi-
for Detroit at this time), Pia-
gan, who brought Piamenta
menta has expanded his audi-
to Detroit in the early 1990s for a
ence beyond the New York frum wed-
concert.
ding circuit.
"There's a dynamic excitement
"My music is not like Jimi Hen-
about
his music," says Jacobovitz. "It
drix's, but I learned how to play guitar
just
gladdens
the heart of the listener."
from him; you can hear the influ-
When
Piamenta
started playing at
ence," Piamenta said recently in a
religious
weddings
years
ago, his audi-
phone interview, his thick accent

LYNNE MEREDITH COHN