A Curious Peek – Behind the Scenes of HASC 38 | A Time For Music

[Applause] hi we're here at the NJ Pack for a time for music 38 this is a h concert every year let's start let's get inside and let's see what it's all about we have prep everyone's getting ready All Our Stars for tonight we have sound music video and Ellie tell me how did you prepare for tonight's event I walked in and smiled and said hello to people like you and that's it I have my entire life I've been preparing for this it's not uh you know I got a good oh yeah I got a good night's sleep there you go that's I got a good night sleep I didn't have cake this morning okay I had coffee no yeah no less calories and uh and more um more more healthy stuff although I did have some candy right now I I feel bad about that um but I'll be okay I think it'll be fine tell us a little about how you prepared for tonight's event how did I prepare I prayed you prayed I DED I DED I I uh of course I save few K to Hill him but for everything going on in Amis not just for myself but for everything going on and it's uh I believe shir's F so we're singing here tonight we're also praying together well how do you feel the h concert impacts CLA especially in those days like today with so many anti-Semitism music brings us closer what what what can you share about that listen I believe music was sent here to the world to uh to bring joy sometimes in the darkest of times we say it all the time at the same time we have to how do we become music is a way such a great tool that's why by the way d is the we always go to tah because he sang Always and we learned from him that no matter what's going on in life you have to keep singing a time for music time for song has to continue because that galvanizes amist like you said together unites people together there a song tonight we're going to do United We Stand unites people together especially what's going on are you right it it song is a it's a uniter and that's the medicine that's a spiritual medicine [Music] hi we're at Hask with NYPD Chief Richie Taylor how are you it's good to see you how how does it how do you feel about being by such a beautiful event that has put together how does it impact you beautiful it impacts me so positively I see the leadership of campas a Eisner RAB Khan reab Judah so many great people coming together for the kids for families to show that they're not forgotten they're not they're not just put to the side and it's not just one day a year two days a year it's the summer it's the winter it's across the board helping kids bringing resources to the community it's just incredible this campass is just a role model example for those who do so much and give back and uh how do you feel about the work that you do and how it impacts our community well what Greater Joy can we have as a police department what Greater Joy can we have about seeing people get helped and people being being supported the police department's job is to keep people safe and make sure people feel safe and make sure we have happiness in the world make sure that we're there are supporting kids especially you know the mayor the mayor speaks about it all the time about his p in public service is just incredible I know he's a big fan of campas you know the police commissioner commissioner Tish I know she knows campas very well she loves the work that's done here she loves the people loves the staff know Deputy Commissioner Mark Stewart as well supporting Hask supporting organizations like Hask it's incredible I'm just so happy to see the wonderful work that's done well thank you so much and uh have a great [Applause] time with abam freed hello ask 38 has what does it mean who's counting so many who's what does it mean to you for you to perform tonight at such a beautiful event I'm proud that Shia mtz's Legacy and and baby is still going strong 38 years later I was by the first one you guys were born yet no no and uh so I'm happy to see that it's going on and it's great as ever this is like this is this is the show of shows and um proud to be proud of it and humble to be proud of it and is there any special song that you looking forward to singing tonight I'm not going to give that away but every song is special every thank you so much for your time Jas jasi kak kazak just Jewish Jewish we're here on Instagram and on uh Tik Tok Tik Tok Instagram YouTube Tik Tok is banned but it might be coming back we'll get it back on we'll get it back absolutely thank you I I I know it's a big night for you it's overwhelming but tell us a bit about how you feel about performing here tonight um I'm hoping that it goes beyond the performance that it's like it's a deep thing that it's uh hopefully people are inspired by the words we chose to to write songs to and not just us but all the artists we've all chosen words to sing to or we're singing words that we feel connected to and so it's not just about the show and the lights and the cameras and action that's goish that's go the go know how to do that very well right Bradway you know knows how to do it very well so my hope prayer is that we make sure that we don't just do the goish thing well we make it Jewish we make it the jity we bring out the jity of it in a sense that we we become deeper because of this night because of all the time and money and kavana and and and and thought that went into tonight that my is that it should it should actually the kav should be connected to good that come from the inspiration of tonight and all the love and all the thought and all the cavana and all the that's in the room there's all these influential people whatever that means influencers in the room influ influ curiosity it's like if it's just that we all came together and there was a big night of music and we go home and we go back to our lives and nothing changed then I I hope I I'm not coming back again you know that's not what I came here for I came here forem that we should grow from tonight that that if tonight didn't happen there'd be you know there'd be a lack of alignment in the world there' be without mean without if this concept didn't happen tonight there would be something missing in the world I want to be involved in things which are integral to the development of the world and the progression of the world so that's what I think is really supposed to happen I think it's going to happen that's [Music] my tell me a bit about what you are doing here today and and who are you so we're here to support campas and I'm a photographer for a couple years I say more more than a decade we'll keep it at that there you go and uh yeah we do uh we're in Lakewood we travel Mony faraka um jasi of course a pleasure where are you guys from which outf we're our jity we're a Jewish Jewish social media platform we do news we do Jewish culture music pleasure to meet you yeah so your involvement in has and who are you some of your favorite people in ask only Rabbi Stern nobody else well thank you Rabbi Stern little comedy Absol absolutely always welcome um real quick how many years have you been doing what you do oh in general I just wrote a book about the first 40 Years of my career uh which I hope everybody will buy um and I've been this is H 38 I think I've been at 35 on stage if I'm not mistaken that 35 of them that that is amazing and did you ever have uh any any um Jewish music star that has inspired you in any way yeah I mean I think all of even tonight I went over to Yakov I said to him that uh he did something last night at a concert that was a tremendous C that he did which I know about CU I know the people so there are a lot of people that uh from the very beginning of my career there are a lot of people I've met in this Jewish music industry who do tremendous things for people especially in the area thank you so much a pleasure [Music] all right we're here with Momo Momo what is your job here tonight so I'm shooting video for fr the band that's it um yeah one almost shooting video for fr the band and is it is it a harder job to pull to shoot video tonight is it different with the live audience is it no no so it's extremely easy on a serious not so you're here today with FR doing the production we today with FR shooting video for FR of land and some sort of video for them after the show um been here since 6:00 a.m. and time is now it's 8 8:00 probably going to go on until like 12:1 but uh it's all worth it it's all part of the job yeah yeah yeah I hear it very nice I'm happy to see you and learn hi my name is Yi how do you feel about tonight's energy about the crowd fantastic only the best for H only the best for what do you think uh H has impacts on cloud especially like times like today where there's so many your voice every time lives up warms up people heart singing from your heart [Music] continue my big the big can ever in the Jewish music this is the place it's the best music the best singers the best the pointing every every singer every singer is the best event and do you do you find that this event is very impactful and of course this is this is the place to be tonight yeah of course Sunday absolutely in January is ask can it's so it can be it can it can start the year people are so inspired to be here they singing now yeah look what's look what's happening over on the back thank you thank you so much that's the point all right so where do we start this is uh the fourth year that we're involved in the time of Music um every year it's just just just it's Mal there just no asked there's amazing amazing energy and Vibes in there a everything from the reception which is an event for itself to the concert and everything that's happening around the concert has concert was once upon a time a concert now it's not only a concert it's an experience and that's where we come into the picture we were hired by Green events to turn this in we were hired green events was hired by Camp pass to turn this into an experience and I think we're getting there slowly slowly one year at a time um it's just amazing lineup amazing energy amazing Vibes and I'm super proud I'm super pumped and the things are happening and everything's running off schedule and uh any other questions no that's it I mean the food is amazing uh the experience is amazing there like is there any challenges involved on making such a big production is there's always challenges meaning there's always things happening and the the the key is to keep levelheaded and always focus on the big picture so we always all these challenges what we do is we sit months and months and planning to to figure out when there are challenges if there are challenges that come up we're set for it so there's no doubt if anybody's going to tell you that they're involved in big Productions and there's no challenges don't listen to them these people are liars there's always things happening this is an event just to give you an idea of context there's about 5 600 people working just working getting paid working as staff people anywhere around and around it this is a tremendous undertaking there a lot happening a lot going on and uh managers itself we have like 15 20 managers so um yeah I mean it's it's great it's amazing and uh it's just it's just I'm loving it well I'm I'm happy to here and I'm looking forward for more things that are going to come from Green events it's amazing thank you so much hi Ley my name is Yi hey good to see good to see you we're here at backstage at the H concert and I want to know how are you enjoying tonight how how are you looking forward for tonight and who is your favorite artist from tonight oh good question so tonight is a jam-packed night as you can see surprises keep on coming this is the most talked about Jewish event Jewish music event in the year so uh I'm sure everyone out there is enjoying and there's a great show coming up so uh enjoy it thank you so much and uh I'm happy to hear good to see you and uh where would you go for all your Jewish news so be honest with you a couple places but jeos is the number one kosher Jewish news in America believe me [Music] City