Video of the day - Yisroel Werdyger

This video taken by Hersh Rosner is the best quality you're going to find on YouTube for our Jewish singers. The sound is a bit loud, so prepare to turn it down a bit :).

Benzion Twerski: Vechonen

You may or may not have heard of Benzion Twerski, but we guarantee you will soon! His debut album, Vechonen, is finally here. The songs were all composed by him (in the Twerski tradition). The musical arrangements were done by Yidi Strohli. The guest soloists include Mendy Strohli, Michoel Schnitzler, Shloime Taussig, Yoeli Berkowitz, Yoeli Falkowitz, Duvid Reifer, Shauli Waldner, and Lazer Kish. It is a masterpiece of nigunim of the old style! Each song is original, hartzig and completely enjoyable.

Available online now. just visit TopJewishMusic.com

JMDerech Experience - Avraham Solomon

I was a little hesitant about doing this report because it meant traveling through Brooklyn. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Brooklyn (seriously?), it’s full of a new beast called “the Brooklyn driver”. They’re fast, unpredictable and downright scary (no offense to Brooklyn drivers :P). Regardless, when I heard that Avraham Solomon, the famous soloist from the Miami Boys Choir’s Torah Today album, was going to be singing at this wedding, I decided it was worth endangering my life in Brooklyn traffic.

I show up at the chassunah and think about doing valet parking, however for those of you who haven’t tried this, just follow the valet driver and park behind him. They always know where the good spots are, assuming they aren’t parking in a private parking lot :). Anyway, I show up to the glamorous ballroom at Ateres Chynka and the 7 piece orchestra was warming up at the shmorg and they sounded great, just a taste of what they would sound like during dancing.

From the dinner music, all the way to the second dance, Avraham Solomon, who said he hadn’t done this in a while, sounded amazing and you would have thought that he did this kind of performance every night. He was hitting every note, high to low and with what seemed to be ease. The musicians were fantastic and played their instruments skillfully. I was very impressed with the saxophone player who put on quite a show. Unfortunately, I’m not so familiar with the wedding scene and don’t know the names of all the musicians. However, I did recognize that Mo Kiss, the leader of the Kol Noar Boys Choir was on lead guitars and was excellent, as can be seen in the video.

I highly recommend Solomon as a singer for your next simcha, not because I’m being paid to say that (I wish), but just because he was so professional and has an excellent voice to top it all off.

See below a video of the event and a link to the Torah Today album where Solomon first appeared on the JM scene.



http://www.mostlymusic.com/torahtoday-p-1632.html

JMDerech Experience Archive:

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YU Maccabeats - Debut Album

Here's something I'm looking forward to listening to this upcoming s'fira!

It's almost here! the Maccabeats' first CD! Here's a taste of what you can expect. Come join us for our CD release party and free concert (March 23rd 10:15pm, YU Wilf Campus Lamport Auditorium). See you there...
SPECIAL GUEST AT THE END OF THE VIDEO.
www.maccabeats.com

Video of the day - Vihee Sheomda (Pirchei Etzion)

Vihee Sheomda has become quite a hit. Everyone is singing it, including this boys choir from Israel. Check it out!

Udi Davidi Music Video

Udi Davidi has just released a brand new music video with music and lyrics by Udi Davidi.

Directed by Simcha Lev, photo by: Amiti Eisenberg, lighting by Omri Botbol and produced by The Commune.

This video is so professional, a nice change from all the YouTube videos from people's flip camcorders and blackberry's.

Video of the Day - MBD ~ Omar R' Akiva

After a video of a rookie singer (Eli Levin), why not go to the King of Jewish music, MBD. Here's some footage shot at the Kulam Ahuvim concert by one of TheCoolJew's video guys.

There's lot's of annoying screaming from guys throughout, but at least the crowd enjoyed it :).