Elana Arian Album Release Show: If We Loved Like That

DOORS 7 pm | SHOW 7:30 pm

An unforgettable night of music celebrating Elana’s fifth album, IF WE LOVED LIKE THAT, featuring her incredible band :

• Iván Barenboim, clarinet
• Benny Koonyevsky, percussion
• Conrad Korsch, bass
• Yaron Gershovsky, piano
• + special guests galore!
  
  ABOUT ELANA ARIAN
  A composer, multi-instrumentalist, and prayer leader, Elana is one of the most influential voices in contemporary Jewish music. A nationally touring artist serving over 30 distinct communities each year, Elana’s music is an important part of Jewish life across the globe. She has released five albums of original music to date: If We Loved Like That (2025), The Other Side of Fear (2021), A Spark of Light (2017), How to Stand in the Rain (2007), and Foreword (2004), and she is the subject of a forthcoming composer’s anthology published by Transcontinental Music Publications. Elana has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Tanglewood, and perhaps most memorably, five separate appearances at the (Obama) White House.

Before becoming a star in the Jewish music world, Elana spent a decade as a touring artist in the folk/indie scene, opening regularly for David Wilcox, Catie Curtis, Girlyman and many more. She played some of the most iconic listening rooms in the country, including Club Passim (Boston), Wolftrap (DC), the Living Room (NYC), the World Cafe Live (Philadelphia), and many more. She has appeared on NPR’s Soundcheck, as well as on PBS’ Finding Your Roots.

A sought-after studio musician for nearly two decades, Elana maintains a busy recording schedule, working with such varied artists as Peter Yarrow, the Dirty Projectors, and Catie Curtis. On Broadway, she held the guitar chair on both the smash revival of SWEET CHARITY starring Tony award-winner, Sutton Foster, and on Kristin Chenoweth’s acclaimed FOR THE GIRLS, and has worked on multiple instruments in the pit orchestras of Broadway shows. Raised on equal parts Mozart, Mingus, and Mitchell, Elana studied conducting and violin, jazz guitar, and songwriting at Yale.

ABOUT IF WE LOVED LIKE THAT

In this increasingly dark time for Jews around the world, If We Loved Like That aims to provide pathways for each of us to access gratitude and cultivate wonder in a world which so often feels narrow and closed to us. As Elana has traveled the country and experienced firsthand how clergy and communities from coast to coast are buffeted by the momentum of anti-Jewish rhetoric, If We Loved Like That serves as a meditation on how we can stay rooted in blessing and be witnesses in this world, no matter how broken and fractured that world it is.

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