Shemspeed was front and center at the Crown Heights Labor Day Parade (Officially named the West Indian American Day Carnival), this is the Biggest parade, street fair or festival in New York City, simply the biggest cultural event of the year. We got a call to walk with Mayor Mike Bloomberg and rep. So we sent Erez Safar & Yosef Savoy to walk side by side. check out some of the photos.
The parade is held in Brooklyn’s historic Crown Heights neighborhood. The parade route begins at the corner of Rochester & Eastern Parkway and ends near the Grand Army Plaza where non-masqueraders can jump up with the bands.
check out all the photos at flickr.com/shemspeed
Note: We only stayed till 12pm, for the official parade march, because after that it gets crazy….
Shemspeed is an independent recording label and promotional agency highlighting cross-over music artists with positive and unifying messages. Founded by Erez Safar, an American-Israeli DJ/Producer, Shemspeed promotes over 15 dynamic artists representing a wide range of genres including hip-hop, reggae, and rock. These artists include Y-Love (revolutionary Jewish hip-hop), Diwon (Yemenite / Sephardic hip-hop, Israeli music and more), DeScribe (soul-awakening dancehall, hip-hop, & soul), and Electro Morocco (Israeli rock, dance music.) Shemspeed artists, collectively showcasing the diversity in world Jewish music, have performed with musicians as varied as Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Idan Raichel and Eminem; they’ve been profiled in Rolling Stone, SPIN, The New York Times and XXL; and they’ve been seen and heard around the world on various TV appearances (Conan O’Brien, CBS and BBC World) and global radio. Shemspeed’s mission is unifying people through culture and education, celebrating diversity and common ground. By way of this work, we add a public Jewish voice to multi-cultural, inter-faith, creative and collaborative bridge-building.
Shemspeed was front and center at the Crown Heights Labor Day Parade (Officially named the West Indian American Day Carnival), this is the Biggest parade, street fair or festival in New York City, simply the biggest cultural event of the year. We got a call to walk with Mayor Mike Bloomberg and rep. So we sent Erez Safar & Yosef Savoy to walk side by side. check out some of the photos.