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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 466

Blues music

Sheva Elliot turned to her own community for support when times were tough, and found that they were there for her. (Georgia VanNewkirk)
August 19, 2023, 3:53 am
Singer-songwriter Sheva Elliot lays bare her vulnerabilities in blues-infused debut
The LA-based musician combines her childhood musical influences on ‘Pay the Priestess,’ and even recorded the album on the same equipment used by Gladys Knight and Marvin Gaye
By Cathryn J. Prince
Blues musician Buddy Guy in 2018. (Paul Natkin)
July 11, 2023, 8:41 am
Guitarist Buddy Guy cancels Israel shows, citing ‘military operations’
Octogenarian blues legend says he’s calling off concerts in Caesarea and Tel Aviv because of ‘ongoing unrest’
By Jessica Steinberg
The Black Keys duo, singer and guitarist Dan Auerbach (left) and percussionist Patrick Carney will perform in Israel on July 10, 2023 (Courtesy PR)
March 2, 2023, 6:15 pm
Garage rock duo The Black Keys book first performance in Israel
The rockers will bring their unique brand of blues rock to Rishon Lezion at the end of a European tour
By Jessica Steinberg
Guitar virtuoso Buddy Guy will play two shows in Israel in July 2023 as part as a farewell tour (Courtesy Paul Natkin)
January 25, 2023, 3:21 pm
Blues legend Buddy Guy plans Israel shows as part of farewell tour
Octogenarian guitarist will stop in Tel Aviv and Caesarea on his ‘Damn Right Farewell’ turn around the globe
By Jessica Steinberg
Soul, jazz and R&B vocalist, pianist, and songwriter Frank McComb, undated (Courtesy of the artist)
November 25, 2022, 6:25 am
Soul, jazz and R&B artist Frank McComb to visit Rimon School of Music
Vocalist and songwriter will teach master classes and perform, with a concert and some workshops open to the public
By Jessica Steinberg
Tamir Grinberg, the vocalist who won 'HaKochav Haba," the Keshet 12 reality music show, on September 1, 2021. (Courtesy: Keshet 12)
September 2, 2021, 9:23 pm
English-singing pianist wins music reality show ‘Rising Star’
Tamir Grinberg, also a vocalist and composer, takes home NIS 1 million; seen as a prodigy, he has been performing since his teens
By Jessica Steinberg
Veteran guitarist Mark Rashkow (Courtesy Sharon Shapira)
February 26, 2020, 2:57 pm
Veteran blues musician Mark Rashkow to take stage one last time
The Chicago bass player has educated a generation of Israeli blues fans, and will perform a farewell concert in TLV
By Jessica Steinberg
Adam Gussow, left, and Sterling 'Mr. Satan' Magee, of the musical duo Satan & Adam. (Courtesy)
November 17, 2018, 3:28 pm
The devil went down to Harlem — to team up with a Jewish harmonica player
Twenty-three years in the making, the new documentary ‘Satan & Adam,’ screening Nov. 17-18 at the Boston Jewish Film Festival, chronicles a musical odd couple who rise to stardom
By Rich Tenorio
Husband and wife Jewish-American bluegrass duo Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg are the faces of Nefesh Mountain (courtesy)
January 17, 2017, 9:15 pm
‘Jewish Americana’ music gets its moment in the spotlight
In the ’60s and ’70s, icons such as Shlomo Carlebach and Debbie Friedman paved the way for today’s musicians to draw on blues, bluegrass and other American influences
By Gabe Friedman
Singer Gal De Paz at a rehearsal in Tel Aviv. January 10, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 12, 2017, 8:36 pm
Blues musicians look to strike a chord in Tel Aviv festival
Annual concert series highlights the growing indie rock scene in the White City, says local singer Gal De Paz
By Luke Tress
Screenshot from 'Two Trains Runnin'.' The three Jewish boys from New York City had no idea what they were in for. (Courtesy Avalon Films)
December 1, 2016, 2:31 pm
How ‘three Jews in a Volkswagon’ braved the KKK to find a lost Mississippi blues legend
Director Sam Pollard’s ‘Two Trains Runnin’ follows white college students from the North as they hunt for art and equality during the violent Freedom Summer of 1964
By Jordan Hoffman
Phil Chess, shown circa 1970, started the legendary Chess Records label with his brother Leonard. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images via JTA)
October 20, 2016, 11:50 pm
Phil Chess, groundbreaking blues and rock exec, dies at 95
Jewish founder of record label that signed Muddy Waters, Etta James and Chuck Berry paved way for music of 60s, 70s
By JTA
Eli 'Paperboy' Reed is a Jewish songwriter who mines a number of classic genres, such as blues, soul and gospel. (Courtesy of Yep Roc Records/via JTA)
September 3, 2016, 1:15 am
A Jewish rocker rediscovers his sonic roots teaching gospel music in Harlem
Influenced by his own classes, Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed’s newest album came just in time to raise him up from the depths
By Gabe Friedman
Buddy Guy opened the third Tel Aviv Blues Festival on Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at the Caesarea Amphitheater. (Miriam Nahum/Times of Israel)
July 14, 2016, 11:15 am
Feeling the love, Buddy Guy gets down and dirty in Caesarea
Ace blues guitarist hams it up in the Holy Land, regaling the crowd with both wild antics and soulful melodies
By Yaakov Schwartz
Lazer Lloyd performs at The Mint, Los Angeles, November 24, 2014. (photo credit: Yocheved Seidman/JTA)
December 5, 2014, 1:40 am
Hassidic musician plays the whiskey black-hat blues
Blues guitarist Lazer Lloyd finds spiritual salvation in the flat five
By Anthony Weiss
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