JOE EGLASH.

In addition to Eglash Creative, Joe Eglash (aka Joel N. Eglash) created oySongs.com, the leading online source for Jewish music (audio and sheet music downloads). It was sold 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 as editor. In 2015, he returned to Transcontinental Music as its first director under American Conference of Cantors ownership. Under Joe's leadership, the first Jewish music licensing agency, JLicense, was created, and was launched in 2017. As director of Transcontinental Music and JLicense, he helps guide progressive Jewish music into the future.

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As editor, contributor, and leading force behind some of the most popular and widely-used publications, songbooks, series, and anthologies in the Jewish world, his name is synonymous with quality and excellence. Musical artists, small businesses, and publishers know Joe as a jack-of-all-trades editor, arranger, designer, consultant, compositor, engraver, and publisher. He is a recognized authority in the Jewish music industry, and is a consultant of musical repertoire, licensing, marketing, and building congregational instrumental ensembles. His popular T'filah Band songbook series, containing arrangements of liturgical music for synagogue band and choir, 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. He has been a leader of many successful live bands as lead guitarist and music director.

Build a Fire, Joe's debut solo recording, was released in 2009, and his sophomore follow-up, So Wired, in 2011. Three, released in 2013, marked a leap forward in recording and songwriting. Transitions (2016), his fourth solo album, has the feel of a classic double vinyl album: Frequent style changes interplay with nods to familiar influences. Wanderlust (2018), pushes forward Joe's emotion-tapped songwriting and wide-ranging musical and arranging talents with clear, colorful production illuminating complex, XTC-meets-Wilburys pop. 2021’s career-peak Twilight / Glide, an exposed masterwork written about his struggles with insomnia, is Joe’s self-proclaimed legacy statement. Its pop Americana feel is infectious, with grandiose musical and conceptual statements woven into simpler musical fabric than previous albums. He plays every instrument, sings, records, and writes the entirety of his solo efforts.

Joe writes a food blog ( What You're Not Eating ) and is active as a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, bass, drums, mandolin, baglama, and more), bandleader, arranger, and composer in Syracuse, New York, where he resides with his wife and kids. He is a member of ASCAP and GTM.