Join us for a special Shabbat weekend with guest artist, Coleen Dieker!

Coleen will co-lead our Kabbalat Shabbat Service on Friday, May 10, with Rabbi Nemitoff and Rabbi Weisel.

...and join us the following morning, Saturday May 11, for our Shabbat Morning Service co-led by Coleen and Rabbi Nemitoff.

Coleen Dieker Bio

A student of music since she was a preschooler, Dieker performs at a high level on a wide variety of instruments: piano, guitar, flute, ukulele and violin. She is also an accomplished composer and arranger, a gift she has employed in various roles, including as a music director in the non-secular world.

Her past projects include Ensemble Iberica, which explores the traditional music of Spain and Portugal. She has also collaborated and performed with Jessica Paige, Making Movies, Nick Marshall, The Steamboat Bandits, and Ayllu. She currently performs with Flannigan's Right Hook, a high-energy rock/bluegrass/Celtic band. She also writes, records, and tours with acclaimed Jewish singer/songwriter Rabbi Josh Warshawsky.

No matter the endeavor, Dieker contributes more than just her music virtuosity. She also delivers passion, enthusiasm and a sense of adventure that her peers admire and respect. Clint Ashlock, artistic director of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, once said of Dieker: “She is not afraid to assert her personality, which is difficult to do consistently when you play in such a wide variety of musical settings like she does. She’s really one of the most brilliant individual musicians in our scene.”

Coleen lives a nomadic lifestyle traveling the globe and offers a variety of musical gifts: soulful song-leading with the guitar and piano, entertaining on electric violin, and elevating music with her dynamic fiddling.

She brings her music and artistry to Jewish communities and synagogues around the country in many ways, including leading high energy services, giving concerts, artist-in-residencies, in studio recordings, and fun family events.