When my mother and father moved to our village, my grandmother, blessed be her memory, gave them a small date palm that she had grown herself from seed, for luck and happiness. My father planted it in our garden close to the house, where it has grown for the last 30 years. This melody was written in the shadow of that palm, the tree that reminds me of her.

 Nir Motzeri - Mandolin, Bansuri, Oud
 Ilan Kenan - Classical Guitar
 Eran Klein - Keyboards
 Alon Pener-Tessler - Contrabass, Fretless Bass
 Yoni Sharon - Percussion

Under The Date Tree - תחת עץ תמר

Playing on a wide range of traditional and ethnic instruments, Nir Motzeri combines the rich multicultural reality of modern Israel with the ancient Jewish tradition of niggun.  A musical storyteller, Nir's compositions are fantastical worlds in which remote genres, rhythms and styles find themselves at home with one another and instruments converse like long lost friends.  The son of a Yemenite, born into an Israeli Sephardic family, with roots stretching from Spain, Italy and Morocco, fusion is Nir’s native musical language.  Traversing borders between East and West, the old world and the new, "To Make Her Happy" is a testament to the power of pure, wordless music to touch the heart and speak the langage of the soul.