Join us for an uplifting, freileche (joyful) service for all ages with the ten-piece Klezmer band Shir Chutzpa, visiting from Temple Shir Tikva in Wayland! 

Shir Chutzpa members are all volunteers and play a wide variety of instruments: accordion, saxophone, clarinet, flute, oboe, fiddle, bass, mandolin, drum, trombone, and guitar.

To see and hear a sample of their music, click here.

Our connection with Shir Chutzpa was made during the CBE scholar-in-residence weekend with Rabbi Neal Gold in 2022. Vivian Montgomery, Shir Chutzpa's director (as well as the band's piano and accordion player), is a good friend of Rabbi Gold and joined us for our scholar-in-residence programming.

Many of us at CBE had the pleasure of meeting Vivian, who is also on the faculty at Longy School of Music, and the idea of sharing our love of music with our neighbors in Wayland was born. 

Since then, Shir Chutzpa has played at several CBE Shabbat services and even joined with our choir.