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Surf guitar guru, Mel Waldorf has brought together the seemingly unlikely pairing of traditional Jewish songs and instrumental surf guitar into a wonderfully funny and musically relevant CD entitled Meshugga Beach Party: Twenty Songs of The Chosen Surfers. Born and raised in the suburbs of New York City, Mel Waldorf grew up loving the foods and traditions of his Jewish heritage as well as rock and roll music, and surf music in particular. Waldorf explains, "Growing up in Suffern, New York, there was no surf scene - no beach, no waves, and no surficilicious babes - but it was a fantasy more than a few of us shared." By the time he was 14, Mel was learning to play guitar himself and within a year had started his first band playing classic rock and roll. Through college and graduate school (nice Jewish boys don't quit school to go to the beach or play rock and roll), Mel performed with a string of surf music bands, collectively known as the Mel-Tones, Now settled in northern California, Waldorf continues to play with the Mel-Tones playing with members of several well-known San Francisco area surf bands. In addition to his recording and performing ventures, Waldorf has written orginal surf music for a variety of TV shows and movies including Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants", Disney's "My Favorite Martian" and MTV's "The Real World." But it is Meshugga Beach Party - his own creation - that is currently garnering him the most attention. Check out the artist's website: http://www.jewishmusicgroup.com Track List: 1. Hava Nagila 2. Shalom Alechem 3. Driedl, Driedl 4. Zemer Atik 5. Oh Hanukkah 6. Dayenu 7. Maoz Tsur 8. Ose Shalom 9. At The Rabbi's Table 10. Hine Ma Tov 11. Kol Nidre 12. Avienu Malkainu 13. Zum Gali Gali 14. Baklava 15. Zrtza Alinu 16. Siman Tov 17. Sherele 18. Mayim 19. Shalom Haverim 20. Hatikvah Suggested CDs:
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