This year will see a slew of Israeli’s at SXSW (South By South West) , scroll below to catch some of Tel Aviv’s Barzilay regulars as well as Shemspeed’s Kosha Dillz, DJ Balagan & Y-Love. If you recall last year Shemspeed shot a movie every day and posted all of the craziness that went down. Get ready for this year!
Here’s the list of some of the approved Israeli & Shemspeed fam acts that will perform:
Wed March 17th
Carusella: Barbarella (615 Red River St) (21+) 8 pm
Kosha Dillz: The Independent (501 N IH 35) (21+) at 9:15pm
Onili: Club 115 (115 San Jacinto St) (21+) 11 pm
Orphaned Land: Red 7 (611 E 7th St) (All Ages) 1 am
Thursday March 18th
Kosha Dillz, Y-Love & DJ Balgan: Side Bar (602 East 7th St)
Saturday March 20th
Soulico: Beauty Bar/Palm Door (401 Sabine St) (21+) 10 pm
Boom Pam: Beauty Bar/Palm Door (401 Sabine St) (21+) 11 pm
Balkan Beat Box: Beauty Bar/Palm Door (401 Sabine St) (21+) 1 am
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.
