Bring Something
Alive to Your
Community
A Shabbat weekend with Saul Kaye is not a performance. It's an encounter — with music, with Torah, with the part of yourself that came to be moved.
Three Days.
One Transformation.
Every residency is shaped around your community's needs — but here's what a full weekend typically looks like. You choose what fits.
Opening the Gates
- Kabbalat Shabbat service with live original music
- Jewish Blues Concert — stories, songs, spirit
- Oneg Shabbat gathering with the community
- Optional: interfaith concert or community event
The Heart of It
- Shabbat morning service — full musical prayer experience
- Torah study or d'var Torah
- Afternoon: meditation, guitar workshop, or teaching
- Havdalah ceremony to close Shabbat
Going Deeper
- Workshop: Deepening Your Spiritual Practice
- Class on Jewish mysticism or blues theology
- Community brunch and open conversation
- Private sessions or one-on-one teaching
Not Just a
Guest Musician.
Most artist residencies bring someone in to perform. Saul brings something rarer: a musician who is also a teacher, a spiritual guide, and a Torah student — who can lead a Shabbat service and then sit with your congregants and go deep.
The blues is a theology of honesty — of sitting with what is real. That's what Saul brings into every space: permission to feel what Judaism actually feels like when it's alive.
Rabbis call these weekends the ones their congregants talk about for years.
Original Jewish Blues Music
Not a cover band. Original compositions that live at the intersection of Delta blues and 3,000 years of Jewish spiritual tradition.
Rabbinic Depth
Saul is a rabbinic student with years of Torah study. The teaching is as serious as the music.
Full Service Leadership
Saul leads Shabbat services every week. He arrives not as a guest — but as someone at home in the liturgy.
Reaches the Unreachable
The people who haven't felt anything in years. The skeptics in the back row. The ones who almost didn't come. They're who this is for.
What Congregations
Actually Say
Saul has been leading our Power Hour for over 5 years. He brings a unique mixture of spiritual engagement and incredible talent — and has helped many people find their connection to Shabbat who otherwise hadn't.
Your beautiful music and kavanah are a seamless blend. Yishar kochacha — thank you for elevating our prayers.
Saul's music — mixing things that don't ordinarily go together to make something even more beautiful — is a great vehicle for positive change and bringing people together.
His enthusiastic yet laid-back personality and blues sensibility and spiritual openness enhanced our Shabbat. Highly recommended.
Saul's artistic and spiritual gifts enhanced our Shabbat — bringing his blues sensibility and warmth to a congregation that left deeply moved.
Through beautiful music and an amazing ability to read the energy of the room, Saul has helped bring many people to the Shabbat experience who had not yet found their connection.