Chaim Yisrael & Lipa! Take New York By Storm

Last week Monday night and Tuesday afternoon, music fans in New York were treated to the concert of a lifetime. The shows produced by the new JME Live, reset the boundaries for concerts. World renown singer/composer Chaim Yisrael returned to New York for the first time in over ten years for a stellar concert alongside superstar Lipa Schmeltzer with the Freilach Band and Shira Choir at the Millenium Theatre in Brighton Beach, NY. Joining Chaim Yisrael all the way from Israel were two members of his “Band” Yoni Kesar on Guitar and Buziki and Raba Rahamin on Synthesizer

The concert produced/directed by Tzvi Waldman and musical director Mendy Hershkowitz of Freilach Band, featured stunning multimedia on multiple screens created by the talents Aviad Piekrash of the quality we see featured in some o the bigger Israeli concerts. Needless to say the two put on a phenomenal show stunning music fans. The two superstars even performed together several sets including mashups of Acharon Chaviv with Maalachim, Yeled Katan with Bat Melech and even Mi She’Maanim. Rumor is that a DVD of the event will hit stores as early as Chanukah.

Below are some credits and a great photo gallery by photographer Baruch Ezagui.

Stage Manager
Yanki Fekete

Production Coordinator
Chaya Sicker

Ticketing
Avi Feder

Musical Arrangements
Mendy Hershkowitz

Drums
Avrumi Schreiber

Keyboard
Mendy Hershkowitz

Synthesizer
Raba Rahamin

Latin Percussion
Samuel Torres

Darbuka
Roman Rubinov

Guitar
Nachman Drayer

Guitar and Buziki
Yoni Kesar

Bass
Shaya Lieberman

Saxophone
Shloime Cohen

Trumpet
Sam Hoyt

Trombone
Ryan Keberle

Strings Section
Stanislav Nikolov and Company

Choir
Shira Choir

Travel Arrangements
Regal Wings

Production Assistant
Meir Kalmanson
Yishai Steiner
Esty Waldman

Screens
Yan Vainblat

Lighting
Andrew De Meo

Video Director
Yanky Teitelbaum

Video Content
Aviad Piekrash

Opening Video
Mordy Gilden

Sound
Comfort Sound

System Engineer
Lipa Feldman

Mixing FOH Engineer
Eli Lishinsky

Monitor Engineer
Yossi Blumenberg