By COLlive reporter
Photos: Israel Bardugo
An impressive 6,000 people cheered Jewish music superstar Avraham Fried as he opened his summer tour in a mega concert that included memorable moments.
Produced by Bama Productions, it was held at the Sultan’s Pool, a ancient water basin by the west side of Mount Zion in Jerusalem. Dried-out during the summer, it is a known venue for concerts and festivals.
Fried, who is marking 30 years as a headliner in the music industry, sang many of his timeless classics as well as some of his newer compositions, accompanied by advanced lighting and multimedia effects.
He even borrowed a song for his musical repertoire, directed by Yuval Stupel.
Introducing the song, Fried said: “I am proud to tell you that this is a smash hit around the world and the singer who succeeded in bringing this song to the world is my nephew. His name is Benny Friedman.”
Fried added that “the song was so successful, that there is even a tie” with the title of the song “Yesh Tikva” imprinted on it, which Fried was wearing as part of his changing outfits during the evening.
“You know the song?” he asked, and some people in the crowd responded by singing “Yesh Tikva” on their own.
Joining Fried on stage for a few songs was famous Israeli singer-songwriter Amir Benayoun who offered a Mediterranean influenced version of one of Fried’s most well-known songs, Aderaba, composed by Yossi Green.
Benayoun, who has been incorporating teachings from the Rebbe in his songs since becoming a baal teshuva in recent years, sang some Chabad niggunim with Fried while a photo of the Rebbe was projected on the screens.
The concert showed Fried’s continuing popularity with international audiences, despite a crowded industry and many other distractions available nowadays.
VIDEO:
The Aderaba duet
Full recap of the mega concert
A huge kiddush libavitch!!
The feeling was so intense during the chabad niggun!
fantastic pictures, looks amazing! thank you for making a kidush lubavitch
Gotta love Avremel. A true legend and sweetheart.
veri beatiful
so many ties here
I was also there. The concert and all the special effects were amazing. And yes, the highlight was the Rebbe in the video clapping and making Lebedik with his hands/as etc while 6000 people stood and danced and clapped. If anyone has a video clip, please post. It lasted several minutes. Kudos to Avremel.Major Kiddush Lubavitch.
I attended the concert, and have be I many of Fried’s concerts, however he did something here that was simply beyond words to describe. After singing fo over two hours, he said to the crowd “do you think we can end this concert without even one chabad niggun? He then started a very joyous and moving chabad melody, and had the entire stadium on their feet singing along, and then a video of the rebbe at a farbrengen clapping his hands and then standing up and clapping even stronger and almost dancing in his place was shown on the gigantic… Read more »
I’d love to see more FRIED and FRIEDMAN shows. I love how their voices blend.
akenora!
Two of the most humble superstars alive