Noam Weinstein

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Descended from a long line of casually dressed Eastern European Jews, Noam was born in May of 1977 to Boston’s Diane Weinstein and her husband Larry. Upon seeing their son’s face for the first time, they decided to name him Noam, Hebrew for “acceptable.”

The 30-year-old artist grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and began playing guitar and trumpet in elementary school and performing at venues such as Club Passim as a teenager. After college Noam headed for New York City, where he became involved in the Greenwich Village songwriters exchange and began singing his own material at area clubs and accompanying other songwriters as a guitarist. In 2001 Noam released his debut EP, Enough About You. In 2002 he followed it up with Above the Music (produced by local legend Jimi Zhivago), and in 2004 he completed his first full-length album, Probably Human (with the soon-to-be-legendary Tyler Wood). Late 2006 brought We’re All Going There, produced by the ingenious Lee Alexander. Sadly, Noam sold his trumpet in 1999, a year when the trumpet market had more than sufficient inventory.

Noam’s music has begun receiving airplay on stations like WERS, WXPN, and WFUV, and his song I Can Hurt People aired on the Showtime network during its program Weeds. Live appearances have included South by Southwest in Austin, CMJ and The Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York, and various clubs across the nation, as well as in Ireland (a small country in Western Europe) and England. In 2008, Skycap Records will be putting out Sixteen Skies, Noam’s first foreign release.