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A LIFELONG, INTENSE PASSION AND LOVE FOR MUSIC drives the artistry of Joe Eglash (aka Joel N. Eglash). His singular music is the sound of raw human emotion and pure creativity; its influences know no bounds and its imagination is vivid and alive.

EVERY LISTENER will relate to Joe's matured, colorful, and well-informed songwriting, while having their own unique experience hearing the earworming musical and lyrical influences that include the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Jayhawks, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Band of Horses, Paul Simon, and so much more.

IN 2009, Joe released his debut solo album, BUILD A FIRE, featuring bold new musical statements about fatherhood, trust, and love, to unanimously positive reviews. His sophomore effort, SO WIRED, a collection of focused power-pop songs, heavily layered and meticulously arranged, was released in 2011.

THREE, released in 2013, marks a leap forward in recording and songwriting. It has quickly become a fan favorite, with its understated, emotional, and powerful songs. Work on his fourth album continues now.

A MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST BY NATURE - though Joe is also well-known as the lead guitarist in numerous successful bands - he performs all the instruments on his solo albums (among them drums, bass, keyboard, mandolin, saxophone, and more). He has been songwriter, musical director and arranger, and lead guitarist in the Flood, and most recently the Charmers, among many others.

FOR YEARS, the Flood toured large college and community venues to capacity crowds, earning a major following. They released three popular albums of original music. The Charmers were a successful creative-cover jam band with a dedicated fan base who enjoyed their virtuosic, explosive live shows.

JOE STUDIED CLASSICAL GUITAR with Jeffrey Van at the University of Minnesota and himself taught guitar professionally for many years. He earned a B.A. in Judaic Studies from Brooklyn College.

INDEPENDENT MUSICAL ARTISTS, small businesses, and publishers know Joe as a jack-of-all-trades professional designer, writer, editor, compositor, engraver, and publisher. But he is also a widely recognized authority in the field of Jewish music, and is a consultant of musical repertoire, marketing, and building congregational instrumental ensembles. His popular T'filah Band and T'filah Choir songbook series, containing arrangements of liturgical music for synagogue bands and choirs, was published by Tara Publications. He is the editor and driving force behind countless music collections, released both independently and by established publishers.

JOE EGLASH OWNS AND OPERATES Eglash Creative, a music and design firm specializing in web and graphic design and music compositing, arranging, and engraving, for the entertainment industry. In 2005, Joe created oySongs.com, still the leading online source for Jewish music (audio and sheet music downloads), and sold the company in 2012. Formerly Managing Director of Transcontinental Music Publications and URJ Press, music/book publishing divisions of the Union for Reform Judaism, he has hundreds of publications to his credit.

Selected publications and notable endeavors / CV

JOE IS ACTIVE as a guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, accompanist, arranger, and composer in Syracuse, New York, where he resides with his wife, Cantor Kari Siegel Eglash, and kids. He is a member of ASCAP and GTM.

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