{"id":23762,"date":"2017-04-07T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=23762"},"modified":"2017-04-04T16:42:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T23:42:38","slug":"help-celebrate-israels-69th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/help-celebrate-israels-69th\/","title":{"rendered":"Help celebrate Israel\u2019s 69th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jane Bordeaux \u2013 Amir Zeevi, left, Doron Talmon and Mati Gilad \u2013 perform at the Chan Centre on May 1. (photo from Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What better way to bring folks together in song and celebration of Israel\u2019s 69th birthday than with folk music. And what better band to unite Diaspora Jews than one that writes and performs American-style country-folk songs in Hebrew!<\/p>\n

Tel Aviv-based Jane Bordeaux \u2013 Doron Talmon, Amir Zeevi and Mati Gilad \u2013 will headline this year\u2019s community Yom Ha\u2019atzmaut concert at the Chan Centre on May 1, 7:30 p.m. The trio regularly plays to sell-out crowds.<\/p>\n

Their debut album was well-received, with songs such as \u201cEich Efshar<\/em>\u201d (\u201cHow is it Possible\u201d) and \u201cWhisky\u201d radio favourites, and the video of their song \u201cMa\u2019agalim<\/em>\u201d (\u201cCircles\u201d) went viral. A second album is nearing completion and is expected to be released in June.<\/p>\n

Talmon and Gilad met in 2012 at Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in Ramat Hasharon, Israel. It was in a contest of original songs. \u201cThe idea was to perform some of my songs, and get some practical experience of a band format \u2013 you know, finding musicians, getting a name for the band and that sort of thing,\u201d Talmon told the Jerusalem Post<\/em> in a 2016 interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe kept on playing after that one,\u201d Talmon recently told the Independent<\/em>, \u201cand, when we needed a new guitar player, Amir, who\u2019d been serving with Mati in the military band, had just returned from the U.S., and joined the band.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the band has only been together five years ago, they have all been performing for much longer than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been singing since I was a little child, always had the attraction to writing songs and singing them,\u201d said Talmon. \u201cAfter I returned from a long trip in South America, I decided to go and study music professionally, so I went to Rimon school for three years, learning music, songwriting and how to form a band, eventually.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been playing since I was 5, piano and then bass guitar,\u201d said Gilad. \u201cWhen I went to Thelma-Yellin arts high school in the jazz department, I started also playing the double bass. After high school, I served in the military in an army band and simultaneously studied at the Tel Aviv music conservatory. After the army, I started learning in Rimon school and was there for a year learning both classical, jazz and pop music.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Zeevi, he has been playing the guitar for as long as he can remember. \u201cMy high school in Holon had a music major, that\u2019s when I started taking the guitar more seriously, meeting great players and teachers,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the army, I\u2019ve played in the air force band and, after my release, I decided to go and learn music in the New School university in New York City, learning both jazz and country music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Usually, it is Talmon who comes up with the idea for a song, both the lyrics and melody, then the group starts playing with it, sometimes changing its harmony or structure, and building the arrangement. \u201cSince we perform a lot,\u201d they said, \u201cwe often try these new songs in shows, to get the feeling of what it is like to perform with them onstage and how does the crowd react, and each time improving and adjusting the song till it feels complete.\u201d<\/p>\n

In true country music fashion, many of Jane Bordeaux\u2019s songs have to do with love and loss \u2013 ol\u2019 American hurtin\u2019 songs with a modern, Israeli twist.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican folk-country, the way we see it, is storytelling, about the dark and the bright sides of life, wrapped in beautiful harmonies and joyful rhythm,\u201d the band members agreed. \u201cHow can you not get excited from it? Also, we are addicted to the banjo\u2019s sound and it\u2019s going to feature a lot in our new album.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe songs are inspired from life, of course, mine and my friends,\u2019\u201d explained Talmon. \u201cSometimes, a song may be very close to a personal experience or feeling I had and, sometimes, it can be an idea I borrowed from a book I read or a movie I\u2019ve seen, even a sentence I\u2019ve heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMa\u2019agalim\u201d is a bittersweet song about life: \u201cIt\u2019s not me that\u2019s progressing \/ It\u2019s just the time that\u2019s moving on.\u201d The video features a wooden doll in a penny arcade. As the cylinder turns, she walks along her track, bundled up in a coat and scarf, passing people in various stages of life, from cradle to grave. Produced by Israeli animators Uri Lotan and Yoav Shtibelman, it really is a must-see (vimeo.com\/ 162052542).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe minute Uri and Yoav, the creators of the clip, showed it to us,\u201d said the band, \u201cwe were so amazed by the beauty and sensibility of the video they made, so we can\u2019t really say we were surprised that it went viral \u2013 we never had seen such animation before. We feel that there\u2019s a unique connection between the music and the visuals that\u2019s very moving, so people get excited by it, even without understanding the lyrics.\u201d<\/p>\n

No doubt a similar connection will be formed between the band and their audience in Vancouver, where they will sing in both Hebrew and English.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not going to be the same as in Haifa or Tel Aviv,\u201d they said about the Yom Ha\u2019atzmaut concert. \u201cWe love adjusting our set to best fit the place we are going to perform. Since the show date is Israel\u2019s Independence Day, and we guess some of the crowd is English-speaking, in addition to our originals, we\u2019re going to play some English covers and Hebrew all-time favourites \u2013 and even some special surprises for the Canadian crowd that obviously we can\u2019t tell in here!\u201d<\/p>\n

The group starts their tour in Vancouver, then they have a few shows in North America, including one in Toronto.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are super-excited about the show in Vancouver,\u201d they told the Independent<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be the first show of our first tour outside of Israel and we\u2019ve got a lot of great stuff planned specially for it, so we\u2019re hoping to see you there!\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for the May 1 community celebration ($18) can be purchased at jewishvancouver.com\/yh2017<\/a>. In addition to this year\u2019s co-sponsors \u2013 Canadian Friends of Hebrew University, Consulate General of Israel in Toronto, Georgian Court Hotel, the Jewish Independent<\/em> and Jewish National Fund \u2013 the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver event is supported by 46 other community organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jane Bordeaux \u2013 Amir Zeevi, left, Doron Talmon and Mati Gilad \u2013 perform at the Chan Centre on May 1. (photo from Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver) What better way to bring folks together in song and celebration of Israel\u2019s 69th birthday than with folk music. And what better band to unite Diaspora Jews than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[4330,6942,3649,762],"class_list":["post-23762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-israel","tag-jane-bordeaux","tag-jewish-federation","tag-yom-haatzmaut"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}