David recently released a new song about Miriam suitable for Shabbat Shirah and Passover. The song features Cantor Talya Smilowitz and is based Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso’s children’s book about Miriam.

Sasson v’Simcha (Joy and Delight) is a bluegrass setting of the Friday night Shabbat liturgy in Hebrew. Please be in touch to bring Sasson v’Simcha to your synagogue!

David recently released a new song about Miriam suitable for Shabbat Shirah and Passover celebrations.

A song cycle in memory of October 7, including settings of Hebrew, Yiddish, and Engish poetry. Premiered in Tel Aviv by members of the Israeli Opera in March 2024.

Trained as a classical composer at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, David has composed Yiddish art songs, other solo vocal works, chamber music, choral music, a musical, and a children’s opera.

With fiddle and a variety of mandolin-family instruments, Wallace and Sasso orbit around traditional folk, original songwriting, and the ever-evolving boundaries of Americana music. They have released two critically acclaimed albums, Stuff of Stars in 2019, and Old Habits in 2021.

David is active in the Connecticut Irish traditional music scene as a backer and on the tenor banjo. His new collaboration with button accordion Damien Connolly is “Hup and Away.”

David has played with CT bluegrass band Five ‘n Change (formerly Five in the Chamber) and now performs and hosts bluegrass jams with trio Midnight Gander.