Hava Nagila Around the World - With Shofar Intro by Folkadu with Yael Gat

Folkadu is an ensemble which takes us on a musical journey from traditional Jewish tunes to Israeli folk songs, sung in diverse Jewish languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino, accompanied by a unique instrument combination of trumpet, accordion and oud. 

Hava Nagila (Hebrew: "הבה נגילה"‎, "Let us rejoice") is an Israeli folk song traditionally sung at Jewish celebrations. The melody is based on a Hassidic Nigun, composed in 1915 in Ottoman Palestine, when Hebrew was being revived as a spoken language for the first time in almost 2,000 years. 

We are now in the middle of the Hebrew month of Elul. As Rosh Hashanah approaches, it's traditional to blow the shofar each day of the month. By doing so, inevitably we’ll feel remorse over past misdeeds and set ourselves upon a fresh new path. We don't think that the rabbis who started this tradition had it in mind as a prelude to Hava Nagila, but why not take Yael Gat's interpretation as a foretaste of the coming holidays? 

Folkadu are: Yael Gat - Shofar & Trumpet 

Pier Paolo Bertoli - Acoordion 

Doron Furman - Oud

Performance at Berlin Music Festival 2021 

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