An unprecedented gathering of Cantorial and Chassidic music superstars will take place Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 7:00 pm.
The free event at Central Park’s SummerStage at Central Park, Rumsey Playfield, will incorporate contemporary musical styles and sensibilities that attract a generation of young Jewish music fans.
Featuring Cantorial and Chassidic Stars: Avraham Fried, Netanel Hershtik, Yanky Lemmer, Joseph Malovany, Lipa Shmeltzer and the band Zusha, Musical Director Avremi Gourarie and Musical Supervisor – Zalmen Mlotek.
The event will also feature an All Star Orchestra: Yaron Gershovsky, Benny Koonievsky, Mike Hall, Nadav Remez, Frank London, Michael Winograd, and Dan Blacksberg.
The virtuosity and deeply emotional artistry of the world’s great Cantors has been a passion of music aficionados from the earliest days of the recording and film media, when Cantors like the legendary Yosele Rosenblatt became models of vocal brilliance. Add the creativity of Chassidic superstars Avraham Fried, Lipa Shmeltzer and their original contemporary Yiddish songs – and Zusha, a neo chassidic band, listed on Billboards top 10 World Music charts, and you have a musical experience to inspire audiences of every background and every age group.
Yiddish Soul also highlights the enduring commitment to preserve and celebrate the Yiddish language and culture by both religious and secular Jewish artists and communities, bringing together pioneers of the Yiddish and Klezmer revival, such as Artistic Director Zalmen Mlotek, and musical consultant, Klezmatics founder Frank London, with the Chassidic superstars Avraham Fried and Lipa Schmeltzer, whose original Yiddish songs have become international hits among their young followers.
World renowned cantors Joseph Malovany, Netanel Hershtik and Yanky Lemmer are featured as well. The concert also features the new and very popular neo-Chassidic “hipster” band Zusha, which has drawn sell out audiences of young New Yorkers of diverse ethnicity to their concerts. The musical director for Yiddish Soul is Avremi Gourarie, renowned arranger and conductor of the modern Chassidic musical genre.
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