Leadership (Cantorial Soloists)

Caron Dale | Beth Rubens

Caron Dale

Caron has been singing Jewish music since she was a young girl having started and managed ensembles in high school and college.  They were a prelude to Lox & Vodka, the Klezmer, Jewish and American music band, which she started because of her love of the music, the rich traditions, the wonderful holiday celebrations, and the deep spirituality Judaism offers.

Lox & Vodka has been the Kennedy Center’s artist in residence and the Washington Post’s Best Pick.  They’ve performed for Presidential events and have been featured in Festivals around the country.  They have recorded “Heavy Shtetl” and “Celebrate Shabbat”, and Caron wrote and recorded a Chanukah song which received national acclaim.  It is part of a complication CD entitled, “A Chanukah Feast”, a fund raiser for the wonderful organization Hungry for Music.  www.LoxVodka.com

In combining her love of music and her background in early childhood music, www.DaleEntertainment.com, Caron created a fun project working with pre B'nai Mitzvah students to write lyrics to selected themes e.g., Shabbat, peace, Israel.  These songs were included at Shabbat Services and other synagogue events in an effort to engage children in creatively expressing their Jewish identity and participating actively in the synagogue.  This program was funded at a number of synagogues over many years.

Caron is delighted to be joining the Hevrat Shalom Congregation as Cantorial Soloist and is looking forward to a wonderful exchange of spiritual, meaningful, creative and fun experiences with the congregation.

Beth Rubens

Beth M. Rubens has been teaching with Musikids since 2002, and has been an Early Childhood Music teacher since 1999. She taught at the Levine School of Music in Washington DC, as well as in public and private school settings in the San Francisco Bay Area, working with babies through second-graders. Beth holds a Bachelor of Arts in French from Vassar College, and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She also completed Levels I and II of Orff Schulwerk teacher training in Early Childhood Music, as well as multiple teacher training workshops. Beth has performed professionally in opera, musical theater, recital, choral music and cabaret both in her native California as well as in the Washington D.C. area, New York, and Italy.