Dream Keepers

Formed in 2021 by Montréal-based, Jerusalem-born vocalist and composer Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, “Dream Keepers” received a Canada Arts Council Research Grant in 2023 to hone their distinctive sound that blends Persian rhythms with Jewish music, rock, and jazz influences.

This multicultural and multilingual group seamlessly combines musical languages, world rhythms, and a range of improvisation traditions. It blends the acoustic sounds of Stéphane’s contrabass and Hamin’s Persian hand-drums with powerful electronics provided by Bernard, and Ayelet’s voice soaring above.

This surprising collaboration resulted in a full program of new compositions set to poetry in seven languages: English, French as well as Ayelet’s ancestral languages—Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and Arabic—alongside Hamin’s Farsi. The band performs music set to words by Victor Hugo, Dorianne Laux, Almog Behar, Pablo Neruda and more. These songs explore themes ranging from ancestry , prayer and exile to home, love  and justice  –  themes that open a space, listeners to dream alongside them.

Dream Keepers will be performing in the U.S. and Canada throughout 2025, including performances at Brooklyn’s Shapeshifter Lab and Boston’s Lillypad.
Musicworks magazine wrote of Dream Keepers‘ debut concert at Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: “It must be noted that Gottlieb’s group was the most pleasant surprise of the festival; her stunning new compositions were played with gusto by a dream band featuring some of Quebec’s finest instrumentalists.” 

Beautifully expressed in the poem Summons by Aurora Levin Morales composed by Stéphane Diamantakiou, this excerpt expresses Dream Keepers’ intention:

“There are no peacekeepers boarding planes
There are no leaders who dare to say 
Every life is precious
So it will have to be us.”

Stepping out to inspire us all, Dream Keepers’ debut album is set for release in April 2025 on the Quebecois label Corne de Brume.