The Festival has finally come to a close and the evenings were packed with really diverse and talented Sephardic artists. Check the photos and videos below. The shows are not over though, we still got two more Matisyahu shows as part of the Festival of Light series and just like last night we will have Shemspeed fam, C-Rayz Walz & Kosha Dillz rapping along with Matis mid set…Hope to see you all there and as always info below:
Check out photos from the 2008 Sephardic Music Festival events HERE.
Check out photos from the Matisyahu, C-Rayz Walz & Kosha Dillz set last night, HERE.
Check out video from select shows at the Shemspeed youtube, HERE.
p.s. download “Childhood” by C-Rayz Walz, Matisyahu & Kosha Dillz
by clicking HERE.
SHOW INFO:
Festival of Light
12/29 – Mike Doughty & Matisyahu joined by C-Rayz Walz & Kosha Dillz
12/30 – Brett Dennen & Matisyahu joined by C-Rayz Walz & Kosha Dillz
@ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Brooklyn, NY BUY TICKETS
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.