SHEMSPEED’s 40 Days / 40 Nights Tour is an interactive, live music festival stopping at 30 colleges nationwide, exposing college students to the breadth and depth of Jewish music.
An exciting tour flooded with entertainment and education, the NIGHTS will be packed with unforgettable performances infused with learning from the cutting edge of Jewish musicians while the DAYS will be filled with sessions and workshops led by the musicians themselves on songwriting, music marketing, and spirituality on the road.
For this years second annual tour the 40 will focus on Israeli music and Israeli focused workshops.
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’s 40 Days / 40 Nights Tour is an interactive, live music festival stopping at 30 colleges nationwide, exposing college students to the breadth and depth of Jewish music.