The Shemspeed 40 Days 40 Nights tour will be at the University of Florida on February 21
Here is some info: UF Hillel and JSU are bringing the 40 days 40 nights tour to Gainesville February 19-21. 40d40n is live music festival stopping at 30 colleges nationwide, exposing college students to the breadth and depth of Jewish music. Join us for shabbat with the artists on Feb. 20th, and enjoy an oneg with hip hop artist Y-love as he talks about his life and how music connects him Judaism.
* Then, don’t miss the concert at Common Grounds on Feb. 21st, featuring local music, Y-Love, Dov Rosenblatt, and Diwon. Free and open to the public.
* Free beer from 9-11 PM RSVP ON FACEBOOK HERE
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.
