UPDATE 11/18: Unfortunately, Elana is ill and can't come to Portsmouth this weekend. Ticket purchases will be refunded and a new date announced as soon as possible.

Elana Arian is one of the leading voices in contemporary Jewish music. A composer, multi-instrumentalist, prayer leader, and recording artist, Elana inspires communities across the country with her soulful songwriting and spirit. Elana’s work has been published in many Transcontinental Music collections, and her compositions are sung in synagogues, summer camps, and spiritual communities from London to Cape Town, from Australia to New Orleans, and everywhere in between.

Elana is thrilled to be working on her fourth album of original music, The Other Side of Fear. Elana has served on the faculty of both Hava Nashira in Oconomowoc, WI and Shirei Chagiga in London, and she is an Adjunct Professor at the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, working as a teaching artist in the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Tanglewood, and perhaps most memorably, five separate appearances at the (Obama) White House. She lives in New York with her wife, Julia, and their two daughters.