https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9meWapMtsxU
Background for Ravid Kahalani: TOI: Israeli Jew and Yemenite Muslim: ...Yemen Blues founder Ravid Kahalani and oud player Ahmed Alshaiba performed Arabic-and-African-infused music at the Brooklyn Bowl, August 7, 2018
Background on Neta Elkayam...
The Gibraltar World Music Festival (GWMF) is an annual music festival held in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The event has a different theme every year, past themes have been Sephardic, Asia minor, China and India, Maghreb, Morocco … the Portuguese language (Lusophone) [called Obrigado, meaning thank you in Portuguese, with Artists from Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde]...and in 2017 the theme [was] Africa and called Uprising.
Music Concert Line ups
- 2012: SEPHARDIC DIVAS - Sarah Aroeste, OFIR, Françoise Atlan, Mor Karbasi
- 2013: PASSAGE TO ASIA - En Chordais, The Sweet Canary Ensemble, Mark Eliyahu, Amir Shahzad, Yasmin Levy
- 2014: CHINDIA - Nathan Conroy, Itamar Doari, Nitin Sawhney, Mieko Miyazaki, Guo Gan
- 2015: KHAMSA - Dhafer Youssef, David Morales, Jazz Oil, Abir El Abed, Neta Elkayam, Françoise Atlan.
- 2016: OBRIGADO - Carmen Souza, Márcio Faraco & Carminho[1]
- 2017: UPRISING - Bassekou Kouyaté, Gili Yalo and Yossi Fine and Ben Aylon
- 2018: BORDERS- Quarter to Africa and Orphy Robinson and the Voicestra Polyphonic Collective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yC26d-wWxQ
The Gibraltar World Music Festival held in 2015 — Convivencia, a tribute to the Festival des Andalousies Atlantiques based in Essaouira with the participation of Jazz Oil, Abir El Abed, Neta Elkayam, David Morales and Françoise Atlan.
Nice video here: … A Musical Friendship about Abir el Abed (Moroccan Muslim) and Neta Elkayam (Jewish Moroccan Israeli), and at website MIDNIGHT EAST "Jerusalem International Oud Festival 2018: Neta Elkayam & Luna Abu Nassar" — November 14, 2018:
The Road הדרך | مشوار – We come from different places, and where we are going – well, we don’t always know. But as we travel this road, each on our own individual path, we share the journey. Neta Elkayam and Luna Abu Nassar brought an exhilarating and moving evening of song, very aptly titled The Road, in Palestinian Arabic, Moroccan Arabic and Hebrew, to the stage of the Confederation House in Jerusalem last night …
Singer-songwriters Neta Elkayam and Luna Abu Nassar are dramatically different in their musical roots and expression. Their joint performance resembles a composed salad, in which the different elements remain distinct, yet brought together on the plate and on the palate, create a new experience, aesthetic and delicious.
Elkayam connects to her Maghreb roots of Jewish-Moroccan music, singing traditional and original songs in Moroccan with a contemporary feel. The music reflects Arabic, Spanish, French and Hebrew influences. Elkayam sings with the vibrant warmth of the Maghreb sunshine. Expressive and dynamic, her presence is like that of the storyteller of oral traditions, creating the feeling of community, as people in the audience clap and sing along on the refrains.
Luna Abu Nassar is poetic and enigmatic, invoking a sense of intimacy and mystery with delicate, edgy, introspective, original songs in Palestinian Arabic and Hebrew; hers is the quiet voice that draws the listener in close, the song that enters mind and heart. Abu Nassar’s music corresponds with contemporary indie-rock, with intimations of alternative folk and hip hop. Together they created an evening that drew on both their strengths, sharing the space and creating space for one another, entering each other’s songs with a spirit of discovery, generosity, and close listening. It was a night of mesmerizing beauty and joyous music,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOs2KwIceFk
Title appears to be “Cafe Gibraltar” קפה גיברלטר so this seemed like a good place to add it in!
The Strait of Gibraltar (Arabic: مضيق جبل طارق Madiq Jebel Tariq, Spanish: Estrecho de Gibraltar) is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Gibraltar and Peninsular Spain in Europe from Morocco and Ceuta (Spain) in Africa. The name comes from the Rock of Gibraltar, which in turn originates from the Arabic Jebel Tariq (meaning "Mount Tariq"[1]) named after Tariq ibn Ziyad. It is also known as the Straits of Gibraltar, the Gut of Gibraltar (although this is mostly archaic),[2] the STROG (Strait Of Gibraltar) in naval use,[3] and Bab Al Maghrib (Arabic: باب المغرب), "Gate of the West". In the Middle Ages, Muslims called it Al-Zuqaq, "The Passage", the Romans called it Fretum Gatitanum (Strait of Cadiz),[4] and in the ancient world it was known as the "Pillars of Hercules" (Ancient Greek: αἱ Ἡράκλειοι στῆλαι).[5]
Europe and Africa are separated by 7.7 nautical miles (14.3 km; 8.9 mi)...
Shabbat shalom, shavua tov