{"id":346,"date":"2011-03-15T17:24:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2011-03-15T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:26:30","slug":"maccabeats-purim-video-ein-prat-the-fountainheads-purim-video-and-ghettopella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/maccabeats-purim-video-ein-prat-the-fountainheads-purim-video-and-ghettopella\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabeats Purim Video, Ein Prat \/ The Fountainheads Purim Video, and Ghettopella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the battle is on &#8211; which video will go viral?<\/p>\n<p>Ghettopella, based at Montreal&#8217;s McGill University, has just released their first video on YouTube. No specific Jewish content here &#8211; in fact that is not really their type of thing &#8211; but with strong ties to the Jewish student community at McGill, they have a natural audience. Here&#8217;s their first effort &#8211; of course, the video is not professionally produced so there is no choreography and the audio isn&#8217;t good either &#8211; but the group has potential. Keep a watch out for more! (search YouTube for &#8216;ghettopella&#8217; for additional versions of varying quality)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fNmNO1LRNME\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Maccabeats, Yeshiva University (YU) students&#8217; a capella sensation, released a Purim video last week, and has had extensive exposure in the NY Jewish world and beyond. Here&#8217;s their Purim entry (400K hits to date):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kgJInVvJSZg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, I just came across Ein Prat \/ Fountainhead&#8217;s &#8216;Raise Your Mask&#8217; Purim video. I hadn&#8217;t come across this group before. They are pretty polished, and I liked their script, videography and choreography better than the Maccabeats (I particularly liked the Elvis Presley reference). 65K hits to date.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/csDSQ8Thq5M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What do you think &#8211; who is the worthy a capella group of the future &#8211; Ghettopella, Maccabeats, or Ein Prat?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the battle is on &#8211; which video will go viral? Ghettopella, based at Montreal&#8217;s McGill University, has just released their first video on YouTube. No specific Jewish content here &#8211; in fact that is not really their type of thing &#8211; but with strong ties to the Jewish student community at McGill, they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,42,40,41,46,39,45,44],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-cappella","tag-acappella","tag-ein-prat","tag-fountainheads","tag-ghettopella","tag-maccabeats","tag-purim-song","tag-purim-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}