Afro-Semitic Experience

The Afro-Semitic Experience is a vibrant group of Jewish and African American musicians with a shared passion for merging their musical roots, melodies, and grooves. Enjoy a concert from the band that puts the “unity” in “community!” Presented with The Jewish Federation of Greater Fairfield County and Jazz Society of Fairfield County, Inc.

Critics have described The Afro-Semitic Experience as, “a whoopin’, hollerin’, testifyin’ celebration of multicultural soul music. Imagine Charles Mingus sitting in with a Klezmer band, playing Gospel music set to the polyrhythmic pace of congas and bongos.”

Founded in 1998, this group of Jewish American and African American musicians have been performing, recording, and teaching together for over 25 years. Their friendship ignites a shared passion for merging their musical roots: Jewish and Afro-diasporic melodies and grooves. Together they combine the core concepts of ase and shalom — power, action, unity, and peace. The result is a powerful and poetic musical experience that celebrates diversity, promotes social justice, and inspires hope and joy. Their music embodies the radical notion that people of different faiths, races, and beliefs can come together through music to celebrate and build community.

Performing music from Our Feet Began to Pray.