The Seventh Annual Sephardic Music Festival (SMF) will be lighting up the eight nights of Chanukah in venues around New York from December 20th-27th. The kick-off event, which will be held at Le Poisson Rouge featuring an all-female line-up of performers: Persian Jewish performer Haale, Middle Eastern fusion artist Pharaoh’s Daughter, and sultry Latin-Arabic music star Nuriya.
Be on the look out for Sephardic Music Fest in Time Out’s ‘101 Things to do this Winter’ and the weekend section of the NY Times. Find more info on our Events Page.
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.
The Seventh Annual Sephardic Music Festival (SMF) will be lighting up the eight nights of Chanukah in venues around New York from December 20th-27th. The kick-off event, which will be held at Le Poisson Rouge featuring an all-female line-up of performers: Persian Jewish performer Haale, Middle Eastern fusion artist Pharaoh’s Daughter, and sultry Latin-Arabic music star Nuriya.
