Description
With artists from various cultures in the Middle-East, Gil Ron Shama Project plays music inspired by Kabbalistic and Sufi traditions, focusing on how music can build bridges and promote peace in an otherwise conflict-filled part of the world.
Gil Ron Shama is known as a writer, musician, artist and an ambassador of culture and good will on behalf of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Muslim countries. He was one of the founders and lead singers of ’Sheva‘, a unique world music ensemble including both Muslim and Jewish members. The band’s main theme was to incorporate both Hebrew and Arabic texts, traditions and call for peace between the conflicted nations and around the world.
Today, Gil continues his artistic work incorporating world music sounds together with poetry of the Jewish tradition, African rhythms beating alongside electronic beats – the ancient touches the futuristic and cultures meet beyond space and time. He travels around the world, studying drum rhythms and stories from tribes and locals. In Israel, he has founded theatres and theatre groups, acting, directing and performing throughout the country.
The core of Gil’s work is to connect between Judaism and Islam, the theological, cultural and human likeness of the two religions and the ways in which the similarities can be emphasized over the differences.
Read more about Gil Ron’s work at: http://gilronshama.com/
