Yaakov Shwekey singing at the HASC 16 concert, 2003. Towards the end Shwekey is joined by Mordecahi Ben David and then Shloime Dachs.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Avraham Fried with Hamezamrim
Avraham Fried and The Hamezamrim Choir singing at a Bris in Crown Heights.
Guardian Angels by The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Curtis Sliwa's Guardian Angels pass by by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on a Sunday for Dollars, after the 1991 Crown Heights riots.
Friday, March 06, 2009
Caption Anyone?
This is a real photo from the Event at MSG last Sunday night.
Sent in by a Gruntig reader "While Lipa was singing his heart out, i noticed how the person(s) to my left were enjoying the concert!
Submit your caption of the photo through the comments section below.
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Sent in by a Gruntig reader "While Lipa was singing his heart out, i noticed how the person(s) to my left were enjoying the concert!
Submit your caption of the photo through the comments section below.
Click on the image to enlarge.
Have something you wanna share? Send it to us: Gruntig@Gmail.com.
Shabi Interviews Yeedle
Shabi from COLLive.com interviews Yeedle Werdyger after his concert in Crown Heights last Motzei Shabbos.
Yehuda Ben Yossi Piamenta Asher Bara!
Yehuda Piamenta son of Yossi Piamenta, about two years ago rocking a Bar Mitzvah in Germany.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Chasidim in Willi Get Free Shobbos Entertainment
That's the compensation they get for being forced to live in a zoo.
From the photographer: "A shooting took place in Williamsburg Shabbos Feb. 14th 2009 at 2PM, on Division ave, between Berry St. and Wythe St. There were about 50 NYPD officers at the scene. It's unclear what really happened. One thing is clear: two were arrested and one other suspect remained at large".
From the photographer: "A shooting took place in Williamsburg Shabbos Feb. 14th 2009 at 2PM, on Division ave, between Berry St. and Wythe St. There were about 50 NYPD officers at the scene. It's unclear what really happened. One thing is clear: two were arrested and one other suspect remained at large".
Lipa is Mobbed in Kosher Delight After Concert
When a Rosh Yeshiva walk in the room the place starts singing "Yomim Al Yimei Melech Tosif", but when Lipa walks in the room the crowd sings a different song.
Lipa Schmeltzer walks into Kosher Delight on Broadway, in Manhattan, after The Event concert Lipa with Sheya Mendlowitz later later both sat down to eat together with Dedi who was already in Kosher Delight, eagerly awaiting their arrival so they can join him in his meal.
This video shows only the beginning, it only took a few more moments and Lipa was surrounded by a crowd that makes the one in the video look small.
Lipa Schmeltzer walks into Kosher Delight on Broadway, in Manhattan, after The Event concert Lipa with Sheya Mendlowitz later later both sat down to eat together with Dedi who was already in Kosher Delight, eagerly awaiting their arrival so they can join him in his meal.
This video shows only the beginning, it only took a few more moments and Lipa was surrounded by a crowd that makes the one in the video look small.
The Cool Jew Show Interviews Mo Kiss of Kol Noar
Kol Noar is officially released and can now be purchased in stores or online by clicking here.
On Wednesday afternoon prior to its release, TheCoolJew recorded a show with the choir's producer and arranger Moshe Kiss, to discuss this album. Click here to listen to the interview.
In case you hadn't had the chance yet, click here to visit The Kol Noar Boys Choir website.
On Wednesday afternoon prior to its release, TheCoolJew recorded a show with the choir's producer and arranger Moshe Kiss, to discuss this album. Click here to listen to the interview.
In case you hadn't had the chance yet, click here to visit The Kol Noar Boys Choir website.
A Chillin Sukkos in Jerusalem
Shlomo would say "ahh so holy, so sweet", and i say "Lord get me high, get me high".
Amshinover Rebbe Under His Son's Chuppa
The Amshinover Rebbe at his son's wedding. Bayit Vagan, Jerusalem, February 12, 2008.
Click here for more of the Amshinover Rebbe at his son's wedding.
Click here for more of the Amshinover Rebbe at his son's wedding.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Yoely Lebovits "My Yellow Bus" Music Video
Yoely Lebovits, The sweetest of the sweet, AKA the Pester Rebbe singing "Yellow Bus" from the comedy CD "Purim Bailout".
Click here to purchase the CD.
www.Badchen.com That's Badchen with an "E"!
Filmed and edited by On Time Pro Video.
Lyrics by Shauly Grossman.
Music: Yitzy Landau.
Recorded: Fountain Studio, Yossi Blumenberg. Starring Yoely, Mordchai Hersh Hershkowitz, Avromi (Abe) Karpen, Pinny Korn, Suchi Gelbman, Shauly Grossman, Yitschuk Landau, Chaim Lebovits, Yoely Klein.
Click here to purchase the CD.
www.Badchen.com That's Badchen with an "E"!
Filmed and edited by On Time Pro Video.
Lyrics by Shauly Grossman.
Music: Yitzy Landau.
Recorded: Fountain Studio, Yossi Blumenberg. Starring Yoely, Mordchai Hersh Hershkowitz, Avromi (Abe) Karpen, Pinny Korn, Suchi Gelbman, Shauly Grossman, Yitschuk Landau, Chaim Lebovits, Yoely Klein.
Lipa's Crazy Fans!
This video from the event Sunday night shows you the following Lipa Schmeltzer has!
Someone is From Out of Town!
Mr. Frum Satire was at a wedding in Crown Heights and thought it was awesome to find these interracial challah rolls.
Monday, March 02, 2009
Videos of the Event
There is plenty of footage on the web from last night's concert. Below are some of the highlights, including some which are exclusively for Gruntig.
Click here to view 25 clips, some longer then others, but all in HD. I don't know how much longer these videos will last on the net, especially since a professional DVD of the Event is in the making.
Lipa Medley. A song containing many short glimpses of Lipa's hits.
MBD's surprise entry. The applause MBD got from the crowd when he entered was historical. People who have been going to concert for years exclaimed, never before had they ever heard an ovation like that. This may compare to a similar historical moment, when Shlomo Carlebach made a surprise guest appearance and joined MBD with Abie Rotenberg at the HASC 6 concert.
Abie Rotenberg's video tribute to Rabbi Eli Teitlebaum Z"L. Abei is joined by MBD on the video and is later joined by YBC/Pirchei, Lipa and the entire cast on stage.
YBC/ The Pirchei choir singing Ani Maamin, one of Pirchei's greatest hits.
A glimpse of Shloime Gertner's Music Videos presentation.
Funny Video with Lipa looking for his long lost brother "Dedi" who is in the Israeli Army.
Rabbi Boruch Chait, the legendary composer, together with Acheinu and Sruli Wuliger sing a song he composed while he was with Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum Z"L.
Dedi's entry. Listen to the crowd. Definitely the loudest I've ever been part of!
Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum's grandson talks about his special Zaidy, in a video tribute to the late Rabbi.
Life of Rubin has a collection of links to various stuff related to the concert.
TheCoolJew.com did a great podcast with Sruli Meyer of Sameach and Yossi Zweig of JewishInsights.com, click here to listen.
And in case you missed it, here is Gruntig's review of the concert in short.
Click here to view 25 clips, some longer then others, but all in HD. I don't know how much longer these videos will last on the net, especially since a professional DVD of the Event is in the making.
Lipa Medley. A song containing many short glimpses of Lipa's hits.
MBD's surprise entry. The applause MBD got from the crowd when he entered was historical. People who have been going to concert for years exclaimed, never before had they ever heard an ovation like that. This may compare to a similar historical moment, when Shlomo Carlebach made a surprise guest appearance and joined MBD with Abie Rotenberg at the HASC 6 concert.
Abie Rotenberg's video tribute to Rabbi Eli Teitlebaum Z"L. Abei is joined by MBD on the video and is later joined by YBC/Pirchei, Lipa and the entire cast on stage.
YBC/ The Pirchei choir singing Ani Maamin, one of Pirchei's greatest hits.
A glimpse of Shloime Gertner's Music Videos presentation.
Funny Video with Lipa looking for his long lost brother "Dedi" who is in the Israeli Army.
Rabbi Boruch Chait, the legendary composer, together with Acheinu and Sruli Wuliger sing a song he composed while he was with Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum Z"L.
Dedi's entry. Listen to the crowd. Definitely the loudest I've ever been part of!
Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum's grandson talks about his special Zaidy, in a video tribute to the late Rabbi.
Life of Rubin has a collection of links to various stuff related to the concert.
TheCoolJew.com did a great podcast with Sruli Meyer of Sameach and Yossi Zweig of JewishInsights.com, click here to listen.
And in case you missed it, here is Gruntig's review of the concert in short.
Eli Gerstner Interview After The Concert
TheCoolJew.com interviews Eli Gerstner after The Event concert. Security was banging down the door, that's why we had to rush and that's why we are talking so fast!
Shlomo Carlebach talks in Yiddish
Shlomo Carlebach speaks in Yiddish on the topic of Purim.
I never heard Shlomo speak in Yiddish. I find this pretty amazing. Like a real farbrengin.
BTW anyone know who that guy speaking to Shlomo at the 1:10 mark is?
For more of Shlomo on Purim (in English) click here.
I never heard Shlomo speak in Yiddish. I find this pretty amazing. Like a real farbrengin.
BTW anyone know who that guy speaking to Shlomo at the 1:10 mark is?
For more of Shlomo on Purim (in English) click here.
Shloime Gertner Mezibush Part 2
Second half of Shloime Gertner singing old yiddish songs in Mezibush for a Russian Jew's mother via cell phone.
Click here for part 1.
Click here to listen to Shloime sing at a recent wedding.
Click here for part 1.
Click here to listen to Shloime sing at a recent wedding.
The Historic Event!
How do you say "go fly a kite" in Yiddish? one way is "Kish in Toches". Another way is to have Lipa make a Siyum on Mesechtas Megilah in the middle of the concert!
I just came back to Brooklyn and all i can say is "what a concert". The songs, the arrangements, the performers... And the audience, how they were into it! You could feel the energy in the the hall buzzing in the air. A surprise all star cast lead by The one and only MBD... There wasn't a moment of boredom during the entire 3 hours of the show. When Lipa Schmelzter and Sheya Mendlowitz kept on repeating that this concert will be something else, i thought to myself, yeah that's what they all say! but now after i saw what they were actually referring to, i couldn't agree more, this "Event" was in fact something out of the ordinary.
There is so much more to talk about but I'm exhausted, and besides I'm sure there will thankfully be many other writeups and articles from respective bloggers and news sources, that to write one myself is just not necessary.
I think one person who does not get the sufficient credit he deserves is the man behind the show, Sheya Mendlowitz. besides for being the producer of the entire show in general, there were those moments tonight which had Sheya Mendlowitz style written all over. The Perchei choir, Boruch Chait, Abie Rotenberg and as well as MBD's song selection, the typical sweet taste of good old Jewish music which when you hear today you know it's with Sheya behind the curtain. If you take a close look at some of the best concerts and best albums performed and released in the last 25 years of Jewish Music, you will see Sheya's famous signature written under the "A Production of" category.
It's interesting to note, prior to tonight, it seemed that Lipa was to be the main performer with perhaps 15 to 20 percent of the time to the other performers. Now although Lipa was the star of the evening, (i say that even with MBD getting probably the biggest ovation of the night), i don't think he even got 40 percent of the show time. But nevertheless, the rest of the performances were of such solid quality that this was not an issue at all.
Another interesting side note is the fact that there was no M.C. at the concert tonight. I actually like the idea. Kind of original.
I just want to say one last thing, March 1st, 2009 or Hey Adar, 5769, which ever way you refer to it, will forever be known as the night of a huge victory for Jewish music in this century.
The Jewish Music Report has already written up a full review. Check it out here.
The all new Pirchei Choir singing Carlebach's Eilecha, a popular Pirchei song.
The crowd going just a little too crazy, at the end.
I just came back to Brooklyn and all i can say is "what a concert". The songs, the arrangements, the performers... And the audience, how they were into it! You could feel the energy in the the hall buzzing in the air. A surprise all star cast lead by The one and only MBD... There wasn't a moment of boredom during the entire 3 hours of the show. When Lipa Schmelzter and Sheya Mendlowitz kept on repeating that this concert will be something else, i thought to myself, yeah that's what they all say! but now after i saw what they were actually referring to, i couldn't agree more, this "Event" was in fact something out of the ordinary.
There is so much more to talk about but I'm exhausted, and besides I'm sure there will thankfully be many other writeups and articles from respective bloggers and news sources, that to write one myself is just not necessary.
I think one person who does not get the sufficient credit he deserves is the man behind the show, Sheya Mendlowitz. besides for being the producer of the entire show in general, there were those moments tonight which had Sheya Mendlowitz style written all over. The Perchei choir, Boruch Chait, Abie Rotenberg and as well as MBD's song selection, the typical sweet taste of good old Jewish music which when you hear today you know it's with Sheya behind the curtain. If you take a close look at some of the best concerts and best albums performed and released in the last 25 years of Jewish Music, you will see Sheya's famous signature written under the "A Production of" category.
It's interesting to note, prior to tonight, it seemed that Lipa was to be the main performer with perhaps 15 to 20 percent of the time to the other performers. Now although Lipa was the star of the evening, (i say that even with MBD getting probably the biggest ovation of the night), i don't think he even got 40 percent of the show time. But nevertheless, the rest of the performances were of such solid quality that this was not an issue at all.
Another interesting side note is the fact that there was no M.C. at the concert tonight. I actually like the idea. Kind of original.
I just want to say one last thing, March 1st, 2009 or Hey Adar, 5769, which ever way you refer to it, will forever be known as the night of a huge victory for Jewish music in this century.
The Jewish Music Report has already written up a full review. Check it out here.
The all new Pirchei Choir singing Carlebach's Eilecha, a popular Pirchei song.
The crowd going just a little too crazy, at the end.
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Yeedle Sings For Crown Heights
Yeedle Werdyger performed on Motzei Shabbos at the George Wingate Auditorium in Crown Heights. Yeedle was joined by the Sparks Boys Choir and the Piamentas Jr. The concert, produced by Yaron Levy of Pearl Productions, was held to benefit Darchai Menachem Yeshiva of Crown Heights.
Click here for photos courtesy of COL Live.
More videos soon to follow.
Click here for photos courtesy of COL Live.
More videos soon to follow.
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