This August 19th in NYC, come get a taste of the Sephardic Music Festival with this summer teaser featuring the international Sephardic Ladino songstress, Sarah Aroeste, Asefa and Diwon’s New Game album release party bringing us into the night with party vibes.
The Sephardic Music Festival each winter presents the most exciting current acts in Sephardic music, bringing together musicians from North America and abroad. This summer teaser is no exception. Bringing an eclectic mix of Sephardic-infused music, Aroeste, Asefa and Diwon all bring their unique styles to Drom to present an evening of contemporary Sephardic sounds sure to entice your ears and get you up on your feet.
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.