Jay Beck is a percussionist, vocalist, drum-maker, and educator who has been performing, teaching, touring. and recording professionally for many years. He was a longtime member of psalters and seeks to aid resistance movements and serve reconciliation through studying the art forms and spirituality of oppressed, nomadic, and indigenous people groups. He is a core organizer for the Carnival de Resistance and collaborates with his wife,Tevyn East, to present midrash theater that emphasizes the voice of the Divine inside creation. They live in Philadelphia.