Eglash Creative Group (ECG), owned and operated by music and publishing industry veteran Joe Eglash, is a firm offering expertise in graphic design, sheet music, transcription, editing, and arranging, worship music, marketing, and product development. ECG specializes in producing professional-grade products for independent artists and publishing companies including full-service design, sheet music, songbooks, and promotional solutions. In addition, ECG consults with synagogues and churches on achieving a vital worship music program and building successful congregational instrumental ensembles.
In addition to Eglash Creative Group, Joe Eglash owns and operates oySongs.com, the leading online source for Jewish music (audio and sheet music downloads). Formerly Managing Director of Transcontinental Music Publications and URJ Press, music/book publishing divisions of the Union for Reform Judaism, he has hundreds of publications to his credit.
He is a recognized authority in the music industry and guitar pedagogy, and is a consultant of musical repertoire, marketing, and building congregational instrumental ensembles. His popular T'filah Band songbook series, containing arrangements of liturgical music for synagogue band, was published by Tara Publications.
Raised in a family of folk music enthusiasts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Joe studied the guitar and saxophone. Before earning his B.A. in Judaic Studies from Brooklyn College, he studied classical guitar with Jeffrey Van at the University of Minnesota, where he formed a band, The Flood.
For years, The Flood toured large college and community venues to capacity crowds, earning a substantial following. They released three popular albums of original music.
Build a Fire, Joe's debut solo recording, was released in 2009, and his sophomore follow-up, So Wired, in 2011. He plays every instrument, sings, and writes the entirety of his solo efforts.
In addition to the ECG blog, Joe writes a music blog (JoeEglash.com), a food blog (What You're Not Eating), and collaborates on a cigar blog (The Humidor Putzes).
Joe is active as a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, arranger, and composer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he resides with his wife and kids. He has found himself back in the smoky bar scene as lead guitarist with the Charmers, and is a member of four additional bands. He is a member of ASCAP and GTM.
