By COLlive reporter
Avremi G, a Brooklyn-based Chasidic musician, shares the story and motivation behind the first ever Niggun Riot which he created, and the surprisingly (or maybe not so surprisingly) positive response it received.
“People are always looking for a reason to smile, and if you give them a reason they’ll do it,” he says, in a short film created by filmmaker Shlomo Chaim Rivkin.
After two weeks of playing on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights, other singers and musicians like Jeremy Litton, Zalmen Nigen, Chony Milecki, Eli Marcus, Shmuly Lieberman, Chaim Cohn, Aryeh Leib Hurwitz and Peretz Chein joined him as well, to grateful crowds.
“The goal here is to continue this and to do it in other neighborhoods. The response has been one of the biggest of anything I’ve ever done,” Avremi said.
Rivkin says he plans to create a series of documentary films about different people that he meets.
“I saw a post on social media about Avremi’s Friday music, and I contacted him to document it on a short film. At first he didn’t understand why, he wasn’t sure if he wanted to do it, but the film turned out really beautiful,” Rivkin says.
“This is something that I would like to continue doing, telling people’s stories – everyone has a story to tell.”
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Watching this gorgeous endeavor brought happy tears to my eyes! May the power of unity in song bring Moshiach now!
One of the best things to come from C. H. Simcha!
Nice
Love this! Will it be every week?
I was there for the first one. Wish I knew you were continuing. Yosher koach! Thank you all for helping us experience the joy of summer, with Niggunim, here in Crown Heights, in public! Are you going to continue every erev Shabbos on Kingston?
loving crown heights even more now
So so beautiful and kind of mashiachdig actually 🙂
People sing nigunim all the time, some at this place, some at that place, some at that wedding…but when it is outside, everyone is in it together. And happy together
love
Love the idea!! Wish I could see it in person!! Keep making us happy and brinigin moshiach!!
Just watching it here put a smile on my face!
Lovely to some positivity in Ch ..let there be music!
instead of everybody focusing on just putting on teffilin on fridays, we should also care about preparations for Shabbos and making other Yidden happy in a nice way.
KOL HAKAVOD
Thank you, very unique & special.
Avremi is a good, sincere yid with a heart of gold! There’s a lot to be learnt from him.
A friend for over 20 years
Another nigunim project was recently launched.
There are many videos of farbrengens in Yiddish and Hebrew online that many people will never look at because of the language barrier. But during those farbrengens many nigunim are sung. A youtube channel was made to present only those singing sessions where one can get the authentic farbrengen experience https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFTAxj-7rSI1h_Z9CLAsG-g/
On facebook they can be found here : https://www.facebook.com/FarbrengenNigunim/
so beautiful! music creates simcha and achdus!
I love it!
Thanks for taking out the time to contribute to the hood.
Happy Tu B’av
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so nice, beautiful please keep it up!! it increases such a nice vibe on kingston ave. increases joy! sincha smiles….so nice to play nigunim play more often!!! Chazak!