In addition to Eglash Creative Group, a music and design firm, Joe Eglash owns and operates oySongs.com, the leading online source for Jewish music (audio and sheet music downloads). Formerly Managing Director of Transcontinental Music Publications, music publishing division of the Union for Reform Judaism, he has hundreds of publications to his credit.
He is a recognized authority in the fields of Jewish music and guitar pedagogy, and is a consultant of musical repertoire, marketing, and building congregational instrumental ensembles. His popular T'filah Band songbook series, containing arrangements of liturgical music for synagogue band, was published by Tara Publications.
Raised in a family of folk music enthusiasts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Joe studied the guitar and saxophone. Before earning his B.A. in Judaic Studies from Brooklyn College, he studied classical guitar with Jeffrey Van at the University of Minnesota, where he formed a band, The Flood. For years, The Flood toured large college and community venues to capacity crowds, earning a substantial following. They released three popular albums of original music.
BUILD A FIRE, Eglash's debut solo recording, was released in 2009, and its follow-up, SO WIRED, in 2011. All instruments and vocals on both albums were recorded entirely by Eglash.
Joe Eglash is active as a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he resides with his wife and two children. He is a member of ASCAP and GTM.
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