MARCH 30 • 2023 | 81 Employing a DIY, grass- roots strategy and funding via Kickstarter and other cam- paigns, Orshalimy has built a dedicated audience through house concerts and other inti- mate appearances, including for synagogues and cultural orga- nizations. She’s released sev- eral albums of her own music and works with her husband as a duo called We Are the Northern Lights. “Witchcraft, ” meanwhile, is a sequel to her first jazz album, “It Never Was You, ” which she released during December of 2019 after creating a Great American Songbook repertoire to perform at a reception in New York for for- mer President Barack Obama. “The first album did have some female Jewish writers on there, but it wasn’t a major- ity, ” she says. During virtual concerts she produced during the pandemic lockdown, Orshalimy’s fans began to ask for a sequel, which inspired her to “do a little more research” into the realm of Jewish female writers for “Witchcraft. ” “What I found is almost all of them are lyricists, ” Orshalimy says, “and the lyrics these women wrote were so heartfelt and powerful, just little nuances here and there in the way they expressed emotions. I think there was something about the live-or-die kind of situation they were in that just made them hustle like there’s no tomorrow and made the emo- tions run so strong. Everything was felt so fiercely, the love and the loss and the pain and the struggle. “It’s so different than what you hear in (pop) music today. ” Orshalimy has built a show around “Witchcraft” and other standards, with a “storytelling” aspect from her research. She’s also recorded a third album of additional Great American Songbook material she plans to release in the future — and a list of other projects she’ll get to as time and circumstances allow. “We have many songs — so many songs. There’s never a shortage of those, ” she says. “There’s always the next album, and the next album ... It’s the work of my life, so I want to just keep doing it and move forward. ” You can purchase “Witchcraft” at https://hadarmusic.com. Hadar in concert April 8, 14, 16 AINADAMAR FOUNTAIN OF TEARS Fascism. Flamenco. Ferocious. expressbillingservicesinc@gmail.com www.expressbillingservices.com Express Billing and Consulting Services, Inc. p (248) 414-5405 f (248) 414-5407 We take care of your billing so you can have more time to spend with your patients! 1022 S. WASHINGTON AVE • ROYAL OAK, MI 48067 Let Old Friends be your Michigan-Florida Connection Keyes Real Estate Estate Property Sales from Listing to Clean-Out! Buy • Sell • InveSt Throughout South Florida, Including Boca, Boynton, Delray, Broward and Miami-Dade Counties Nina Spinner-Sands NinaSpinner-Sands@keyes.com (954) 290-8293 Rita Morse RitaMorse@keyes.com (305) 609-7559