Last year, The Wall Street Journal did an incredible write up and photo spread on the Fest. Each year we have TV stations, Time Out, Times, and private directors come out and cover the festival as well as radio spots and blog features.
In the past, we have had everyone from Yair Dalal and Matisyahu to Shotie Hanevua and Hadag Nachash perform. This year we want you!
This year is going to be the 7th and biggest NY SMF yet! Soon we take the festival to LA, Mexico City and Miami!
If you would like to submit your own music or a band that you really like, send mp3s and links to smf@shemspeed.com
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 Annual Sephardic Music Festival is coming!