By Chassidic House Party
Photos by Michal Weiss – [email protected]
The night started off with the band’s pianist, Daniel Berry, performing original compositions never before played to a concert audience. After being lifted up by the neo-classical jazz tunes, the stand-up comedy of Crown Heights’ very own JJ Hellinger brought the crowd to tears of laughter as the evening got rolling. Before long, Chassidic House Party took the stage and the packed house got what they were waiting for.
Between the two hour-and-a-half long sets, the audience schmoozed with the band and enjoyed refreshments provided by Gombos. Chassidic House Party’s singer, Choni G, ended the intermission with a display of his amazing vocal talent which segued into another set of the band’s upbeat niggunim that got the crowd onto their feet more than once.
The concert’s cutting-edge event flyer attracted a wide variety of Crown Heights locals and out-of-towners, including rabbonim of neighborhood shuls, shluchim, and community youth looking for a night of good music. As always, the band made sure that a kosher mechitza was in place. Chassidic House Party considers a Chassidishe environment to be an integral part of their concert experience, allowing both sides of the room to fully express and enjoy themselves in a kosher way.
Despite the great turnout at the last two shows, Chassidic House Party seems to have their eyes set on an audience larger than the Crown Heights neighborhood. They’ve just announced that in the coming months they will be expanding to play campuses and Jewish Community Centers across the northeast. Besides playing a few shows in the shechuna over Purim time, it may be a while before locals are able to see Chassidic House Party at a “home show” again. The combined group of almost 200 people who have come out to the band’s shows in the last several weeks, plus those that seize the chance to see them over Purim, will make up the lucky few who get to say that they’ve been fans from the very beginning.
All of the band’s members are thankful for the support they’ve received from so much of the community thus far, and look forward to continued support as they embark on their new shlichus of translating our traditional niggunim for this generation. We wish them the best of luck!
Perhaps if they went through the trouble of putting together an actual event and composing a proper press release, you may see some press 🙂
you rock
Keep up the good work guys and don’t be influenced by the success and / or fame that follows. Be true to thyself and the music you play, it Rocks !!!!!!!
sholly davidson, nice to see you there.
lets hear some press on the Night Owls :o)
We love you!!!!!
are you going to stick with mechitzas in universities? i say GO FOR IT! give them a geniune chasisdic experience, no pshoris, no apologies…they’ll come flocking!!