The Embassy of the State of Israel in partnership with Tamer Advertisement is proud to present ዱሮ እና ዘንድሮ (Duro ena Zendro) concert on September 26, 2017at the Millennium Hall.
On this journey through generations fused by a plethora of genres and culture, the world-renowned Israeli band Bint El Funk along with Girma Negash, Kuku Sebsibe, Getachew Kassa, Sami Dan, Yared Degu Amanuel Yemane Samigo and the comedian Tomas will present their works.
Bint El Funk is a pioneering groove band who has founded the genre Yemen Funk. Their debut album, "Bint el Funk" (daughter of Funk) was released in March 2016 after three years of performance in clubs and music festivals all over Israel, during which the band has attracted an enthusiastic and dedicated audience of fans. The band initially devoted itself to converting traditional Jewish Yemenite songs to a modern groove, but soon added original material to the pot, slowly creating a unique style, diverse, yet cohesive.
Bint El Funk’s style is based mainly on a combination of funk with traditional Jewish Yemenite music, influenced by Afro beat, jazz, Mediterranean music, psychedelic‐Turkish music and more. Alongside the Yemenite texts are love songs, social protest songs, Bedouin nonsense, and poetry. Each performance quickly becomes a native tribal party with sounds, rhythms, colors, and scents, which unite on a thread connecting Sana’a in Yemen, Harlem in the US, and the Shaariya neighborhood in Petach Tikva, Israel.
The music of Bint El Funk combines old and new, personal and universal, east and west; you could find your own story being told.
Journalist wishing to cover the events and interview the band Bint El Funk please contact the Embassy's Press Department.