The Afro-Semitic Experience will be performing in concert on the Town Green in New Milford, Connecticut on August 22 from 7-9:15. If you are using your GPS the address for the Green in New Milford, is 25 Main Street, New Milford. This concert will be rain or shine. If it rains the concert will be held at the Congregational Church right by the green.
The Afro-Semitic Experience
The Afro-Semitic Experience will be playing on Tuesday, July 14, at 7:00 pm in a free outdoor concert that is hosted by First Church, 830 Corbin Ave, in New Britain. The group will be performing in their courtyard which is right by their parking lot. Bring a picnic dinner and your dancing shoes and come celebrate Unity in the Community with them.
The Afro-Semitic Experience
The Afro-Semitic Experience will be having a Juneteenth performance concert at the James Blackstone Memorial Library, 758 Main Street in Branford, Connecticut at 6 pm. This set, in commemoration of Juneteenth, will be focusing on music of enslavement, liberation, and community. With all that’s been in the news over the past week and beyond we hope you will join us as we sing Unity in the Community and make a joyous noise to celebrate freedom.
Àse and Shalom,
The Afro-Semitic Experience
https://afrosemiticexperience.net/home
We merge our musical roots, Jewish and Afro-diasporic melodies and grooves, combining the core concepts of àse and shalom – power, action, unity, and peace.
The Afro-Semitic Experience
CMI Confronting Racism is pleased to present a very special community event!
The Afro-Semitic Experience will premiere a new Jazz song cycle Exodus to Emancipation
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 7 pm Congregation Mishkan Israel
Exodus to Emancipation explores the legacy of slave songs from both African American and Jewish traditions, intertwining historical research with creative musical interpretations and original compositions. Through the work, the Afro-Semitic Experience, a seven-piece ensemble co-founded by bassist and composer David Chevan and pianist and composer Warren Byrd seek to evoke the emotional depths of enslavement and liberation, offering a musical journey bridging two histories of struggle and resilience.
Like previous works by The Afro-Semitic Experience, this song cycle is rooted in collaboration. Drawing from collections of spirituals, slave songs, biblical sources, and transcribed archival recordings, the ensemble has crafted a work that reveals connections between African American and Jewish musical traditions. The project highlights lyrics and stories that illuminate shared experiences, tracing how spirituals have historically referenced the biblical Exodus as a symbol of hope and resistance. These connections deepen our appreciation of how music has served as both testimony and refuge for oppressed communities.
Beyond honoring musical heritage, Exodus to Emancipation delivers a profound social and racial justice message, through storytelling and artistic vision.
Congregation Mishkan Israel’s Confronting Racism series has been offering ongoing opportunities since 2020 to increase understanding of systemic racism both historically and in current times. Participants reflect on how Jewish teaching and ethics compel us to confront racism in its many forms, guided by the teaching that “You are not obligated to complete the task, but neither are you free to desist from it” (Pirke Avot 2:21).
In addition to congregation-based programming, CMI Confronting Racism is proud to welcome community members at public events with guest speakers.
Light refreshments will follow the program.
