Israel Blues Society

"Duck is Dead" band at the Battle of the Blues Bands      Photo by Lili Barchilon

Genesis of Israeli Blues

Eli Marcus
Eli plays country and ragtime blues, fingerpicking and slide guitar. He is a blues songwirter, singer and concert producer.

Judy Buchman-Ziv (aka Judy BZ)
Judy is a singer, entertainer of folk, jazz, choir and classical music

Shelly Ellen
Blues, counry & rock singer songwriter, leader of She Rock band.

Johnny Mayer
Johnny set up Blues for Peace, blues guitar, harmonica, composer.

Ronnie Peterson
American blues artist in Israel, performed with BB King

Gor Delta Jr.
Gor plays Country and Ragtime Blues styles, fingerpicking and slide guitar.

Harold Jacobs
Guitar, vocals, blues, rock style

Shelley Ellen
Country, blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. Performs frequently as a solo artist and with "Tripod" group.

Paul Moore
British entertainer sings and plays many instruments, band leader.

Yonat Mayer
Yonat sings, plays guitar and writes songs. She is studying at Rimon School of Music and Contemporary music.

Marc Miller
The singer and guitar player made the journey from Greenwich Village to Kibbutz Afik, an original Jacob's Ladder performer.

Andy Apothaker
Andy Apothaker was one of Israel's best loved blues musicians. The one time George Benson sideman died in 1995.

Itzkik Freidman
TRASK band leader and guitar player.. blues concert band.

Harold Mimoni
singer.. soul influenced vocals, in a league of his own!

Yuval Gerstein
Yuval plays guitar, studies at Academia School of Music, Jersualem.

Ilan Mohiach
Ilan is a leading arranger and plays saxophone and flute.

Mickey Shaviv
Blues guitar, bass, vocals. Leader of the Blue Eyed Brotherhood. Session player. Accompanied Ahinoam Nini.

Barnet Sternfield
Latin Jazz Group leader, percussion, Jerusalem, 02-622-1524.

Igor Zolotrion
Guitar, songrwriter, rock - fusion band, Israel, Italy and Russia.

Avner Strauss
The guitarist and vocalist put on Israel's first blues concert in 1972 and released four albums. "1/2% Blues", his latest on Hed Artzi.

Danny Litani
Singer, song writer, actor. One of the first Israeli musicians to discover the blues. Band plays covers and originals, often on TV.

Hillary Sargent
Trinidad singer performs covers and original songs with her band.

Ron Simmonds
Ron plays R&B, blues nightly at the Cafe London, Tel Aviv.

Yulia Feldman
Yulia sings and scats jazz, voice reminicent of Billie Holiday.

Assaf Hikimi
Assaf plays contrabass, performed with Blues for Peace show, living in NYC.

Ronen Itzik
Ronen plays drums, performed with Blues for Peace show, studying at Berklee.

Orit Orenstein
Orit plays contrabass, founder of Shoham 3rd stream music project.

BANDS

Ronnie Peterson Blues Band
B.B. King called Ronnie Peterson "an amazing guitarist and performer." Ronnie also performs with veteran Israeli blues musician, Danny Litani.

Southbound Train
An electric blues band featuring slide guitar. Founded by Assaf Ganzman & Daniel Kriman.

Daily Blues
Chicago blues band, backed up King Ernest in Israel. Leader Dov Hammer sings & plays harmonica.

Highway Band
Popular blues band in the Gulf War era.

 Blue Strings
The six piece plays rock & country music. Performed with Menachem Zilberman. Great repetoire, excellent vocals.

Smokin' Gun
Band responsible for popularizing American Country Western music in Israel. Appears annually at Jacobs Ladder Festival.

Tony Pearson Band
Tony plays R&B and funk, backed up Tina Turner. Band features Liat Ben Shimon, vocals. Tzur Ben Zeev, bass.

Bella Donna
The band made up of seven women plays soul and funky music. A popular group year after year.

Black & Blues
Unique band plays R&B, blues & rock in new arrangements. Singer Gidon Yuval has that 'blue eyed' soul in his voice.

Sanhedrin
Plays acoustic & electric blues of many styles. Band members are drawn from some of Israel's best alternative rock bands.

Classy Jazz
The bass, piano and saxophone trio performs jazz standards and features Shahar Belkarovitz on sax.