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YEMEN BLUES IN VIENNA

On Wednesday, May 16th, we will be back in Vienna where we already had a great time last November. We will performe at Konzerthaus Vienna and hope to see you all around… Tickets are available on this link

We will also be in Murica, Bochum (free entrance!!!) and Helsinki at the end of May.

For the ones who missed our first tour in China check our Facebook for some pictures.

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YEMEN BLUES LIVE IN CHINA

We are really happy to announce the first Yemen Blues shows in Shanghai during the “World Music Shanghai” festival as well as the “Hanggai Festival” in Beijing. You can find all performances listed here.

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YEMEN BLUES REVIEW AFTER GLOBALFEST NY

“Kahalani spun out chants to rapt silence and then the band, a punchy nine-piece amalgam that can break into percussive gallops on impulse, turned up the energy… at some point before the set’s end onetime New York-based bassist Omer Avital, the band’s seated co-founder, had played oud, jumped up to dance with Kahalani while twirling a white scarf and then strapped on a Höfner (read: Paul McCartney-style) bass for the danceably climactic closer.” (K. Leander Williams, The Village Voice Blog)

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YEMEN BLUES LYRICS ONLINE

As several people asked us we just uploaded the lyrics and the translation of the songs to the music section at this website. We hope you enjoy.

All lyrics you can also find at the CD booklet.

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GlobalFest PODCAST

We are happy to share the great moments we had at Global Fest NYC on January 8th in case you couldn’t be there. There is a broadcast from NPR Music which you can listen here.

Set List

• “Eli”
• “Yemen Blues”
• “Um Min Al Yaman”
• “Trape La Verite”
• “Jat Mahibathi”
• “At Va’Ani”

“Raw and rooty are two good words for this young and wide-wandering band founded by the Yemeni Jewish singer Ravid Kalahani and Israeli bassist Omer Avital that at evokes New Orleans second-line bands, the mesmerizing and earthy sounds of West African stringed guimbri, and rocking Middle Eastern rhythms, all coursing together in a raucous party of a stage show. With Kalahani’s soulful vocals alternating between the grit of the Mississippi Delta to the falsetto of Prince-style funk, Yemen Blues was one of the breakout favorites from this year’s globalFEST lineup.” (Anastasia Tsioulcas, NRP)

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

CHECK OUR NEW LIVE DATES FOR USA

We wish you a Happy and Peaceful New Year!

We will be for some dates in the US beginning of January. You can meet us in Minneapolis, Philadelphia  and New York. Check our live dates.

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YEMEN BLUES – ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2011

We are happy to announce YEMEN BLUES debut album was choosen as album of the Year 2011 in Sweden  by SvD the second biggest newspaper of the yountry and in Canada by the French-speaking newspaper Le Devoir. We espacially thank the Swedish people as we didn’t performe there yet. We hope to come over very soon. We thank you all for the amazing support and for joining our shows around the world.

If you’re still looking for the album, you can buy it online here.

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LAST SHOWS 2011 – DON’T MISS!!!

We will return to Europe for our final shows in 2011 just after we played our last shows in Israel this year just last weekend. Of course we will return in 2012 but if you don’t want to miss us for too long, check our shows in Europe:

Nov. 5th: Tampere Jazz Happening, Tampere, Finland

Nov. 6th: RBB Sendesaal, Berlin, Germany

Nov. 7th: Schlachthof, Bremen, Germany

Nov. 8th: Scheune, Dresden, Germany

Nov. 9th: Treibfabrik, Innsbruck, Austria

Nov. 10th: Sargfabrik, Vienna, Austria

All details for tickets and about the shows you can also find on our live site!

This tour line-up include some new and already known members of the collective such as Ravid Kahalani (vocals/ gimbri), Yossi Fine (bass), Amos Hoffman (oud), Galia Hai (viola), Hilla Epstein (cello), Hadar Noiberg (flutes), Itamar Borochov (trumpet), Rafi Malkiel (trombone), Rony Iwryn (Latin percussion) and Yohai Cohen (Middle Eastern percussion).

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THANK YOU!

We want to thank all of your for coming out to our shows this summer! We had a great time!
In the next few days we will update our Gallery with some live pictures.

If you missed buying our Album at the shows, you can download the album on CD Baby or wait until we start our mail order system on this website!

Pretty soon you will see new live dates on this site – stay tuned and don’t forget to follow us on Facebook!
We can’t wait to be back on stage again and celebrate the music!

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YEMEN BLUES TOURING NORTH AMERICA AGAIN

We are back in North America for some shows. Check our Live Dates

YEMEN BLUES LIVE IN BERLIN

This Sunday will be hot as YEMEN BLUES are coming to Berlin for the first time after touring all over Europe, North America and Israel since March 2011. Together with the amazing RAMIREZ BROTHERS they will rock the “Wassermusik Festival” at HKW Berlin. Tickets are only 8/10 € and can be preordered here.

See you in Berlin

 

 

THANK YOU!!!

We had a great time back home in Israel – thanks for your warm welcome at our shows here – we had a great time with you. We will now continue our world wide tour in Europe and North America the next month before we are coming back to Israel in October. You can always check our live updates on this site. We’re looking forward seeing you soon again.

TODA RABA!!!

TONIGHT YEMEN BLUES BACK IN ISRAEL

After great responds from the audiences in Europe and North America we’re finally having some shows in Israel starting tonight at the Barby before we continue our worldwide tour. We had great shows at Krakow Festival and Roskilde and some more fans all over Europe now. We’re happy to see our Israeli fans the next days at our shows

Thursday, July 7th, 10pm @ BARBY, Tel Aviv

Friday, July 8th, 4:30pm @ ZOLELET OPEN AIR, Jersualem

Saturday, July, 9th, 8:10pm @ SUNBEAT FESTIVAL, Kibbutz Shaar HaAmakim, Hurshata

 

 

NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE … SEE US LIVE TONIGHT!

Tonight at 10:30 pm (GMT +1) you can all join our performance at the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland. The show is going to be broadcasted live – online!

Click here & enjoy!

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YEMEN BLUES FESTIVAL WEEKEND

This weekend is getting quite busy for YEMEN BLUES as we are performing at three amazing European Festivals. We hope you have a chance to come out and meet us. Our CD will be available on all shows. Watch out for our Merchandise stand:

Friday, 8pm, TFF Rudolstadt-Festival, Rudolstadt, GER

Saturday, 8pm, Jewish Culture Festival, Krakow, PL

Sunday, 6.30pm, Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, DK

Afterwards we are travelling to Israel for some shows before we return to Europe and North America for our last summer festival dates this year. So join us if you don’t want to miss our first worldwide summer tour. We’re looking forward seeing you.

More dates you can find on our LIVE site.

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YEMEN BLUES at Fête de la Musique Paris

June 21st is the known as the shortest night all over Europe and people celebrate music all over the cites with Fête de la Musique. The Fête de la Musique began in Paris in 1982, and was founded by the popular French cultural minister Jack Lang. The festival originated in a humble burst of musical idealism and a few power connections, and yet, in only two decades has become a wildly popular global event. The Fête de la Musique is free of entrance charges and the home of this festival, Paris, is hosting YEMEN BLUES this year. Showtime is 8pm at the Musée d’Art Juif. We hope to see our French fans around tomorrow.

Farewell DORTMUND, see you in POZNAN @ ETHNOPORT FESTIVAL tonight!

“The Israeli-American band Yemen Blues tore down fences between Yemeni and African music, pop, jazz and funk, and the audience with the domicil on Thursday evening. As part of the KlangVokalFestival singer Ravid Kahalani and his eight musicians came like a warm desert storm over the audience. At the beginning the band dancing – in the end of the show everyon did.” (www.ruhrnachrichten.de)

NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM – SEE YOU SOON

After touring France, Spain, the US and Cananda YEMEN BLUES finally arrive to Germany performing at KlangVokalFestival Dortmund tonight, Thursday, June 16th, 8pm. We are happy to return around the area that already gave us a warm welcome last year when we performed Altstadtherbst Düsseldorf. This time we gonna arrive with our debut album which is only available on tour at the moment and comming out in Europe later this year. Ravid says: “We have an amazing summer ahead of us. We are going all over the world, performing at the biggest stages. After the great success at WOMEX and BABEL MED music fairs we have high expectation to fulfill, I guess. But I know the people that luckily are with me on stage are top musicians and playing the music with their hearts – so I have no worries. Hope to see you around tomorrow.”

address: Hansastr. 7-11 , 44137 Dortmund

Tickets ar available for 21,50 EUR (students: 16,50 EUR). More dates on www.yemenblues.com

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ABOUT YEMEN BLUES

is an original and fascinating meeting of traditional Yemenite melodies with the world of blues, jazz and funk. Flavours of West African roots and enhanced modern compositions are creating a breathtaking experience and a mixture of beautiful complex grooves with an amazing live energy where ever this band enters the stage.
YEMEN BLUES was founded 2010 by Ravid Kahalani, a rising star in Israel who grew up in a traditional Yemenite family. He learned the language and the traditional chants of his origin. Kahalani extended his influences in the areas of blues and West African soul, from the Sahara desert through classical Opera singing to Afro-American blues. He joined forces with Omer Avital, a well known bass player and composer from New York, and together they created YEMEN BLUES, a supergroup of top musicians from New york, Israel and Uruguay. They soon got noticed within the music world around the globe and attracted media and promoters with their imressive and intense showcases at music fairs like BABEL MED or WOMEX. Since these days they are bringing their music to audiences around the world. YEMEN BLUES is “a language you will understand no matter where you come from”, singer Ravid Kahalani says. “It is my origin and my influences all together as well as meeting with this group of amazing musicians.”

YEMEN BLUES concerts are an ultimate celebration of African grooves, a pure happiness & deep emotion Yemenite singing, a new music experience and innovative sound – with a strong message.

For more information contact: mail@yemenblues.com