The musicians who bring joy, spirit, and live music to your celebration.
Nathaniel Markman is a string instrumentalist, event producer, singer, and songleader who deeply values the power of music to bring people together. He plays violin, guitar, and mandolin to accompany his ceremonies, and is passionate about helping families find the perfect blend of live music for life's major milestones.
Nathaniel is the music director for the Bay Area wedding band Shamati and collaborates with talented local musicians to create unforgettable live music for wedding ceremonies, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, and memorial services. Before settling in the Bay Area, he toured as a fiddle player and recording artist with bands such as Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Wildbirds, Moshav Band, and Craig Taubman.
Isaac Zones is an Oakland-based musician specializing in Jewish, spiritual, folk and family music. Isaac teaches music classes, leads prayer services, officiates lifecycle events, and songleads for community events, weddings and other celebrations.
Isaac learned to play guitar at Camp Tawonga, where he's been on staff almost every summer since 2001. He loves to officiate Bar Mitzvahs with Bay Area B'nai Mitzvah all over the Bay Area. Contact Isaac directly for pricing!
Jonathan is a songleader for various Jewish events and a Judaic Studies & Hebrew teacher for Kindergarten, with more than 23 years of teaching at Brandeis Hillel in San Francisco. A past recipient of the Diller Award for Excellence in Jewish Day School Teaching, Jonathan earned a Certificate in Day School Teaching from Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles as part of the DeLeT Program, and holds both a multiple-subject and a single-subject teaching credential in music.
Jonathan has been musically involved with Congregation Emanu-El and Camp Tawonga since the early 1990s, bringing his love of music to the Jewish community for decades. In his spare time, he enjoys creating music with others, spending quality time with his family (including two lively dogs), and backpacking in the Sierras.
