Yiddish Soul: A Concert of Cantorial and Chassidic Music

All Events, Music, Free, Outdoor, June 16
Tuesday | June 16, 2015
7:00 pm
SummerStage at Central Park, Rumsey Playfield, New York, NY United States
FREE

Yiddish Soul: A Musical Leap of Faith

Featuring Cantorial and Chassidic Stars: Avraham Fried, Netanel Hershtik, Yanky Lemmer, Joseph Malovany, Lipa Shmeltzer and the band Zusha

Musical Director – Avremi Gourarie
Musical Supervisor – Zalmen Mlotek

All Star Orchestra: Yaron Gershovsky, Benny Koonievsky, Mike Hall, Nadav Remez, Frank London, Michael Winograd, Dan Blacksberg

An unprecedented gathering of Cantorial and Chassidic music superstars, incorporate contemporary musical styles and sensibilities that attract a generation of young Jewish music fans. 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.

Doors open at 6pm , Show is at 7:00 pm