Renowned klezmer fiddler Alicia Svigals will teach traditional tunes and accompaniment patterns, and reveal the secrets of Yiddish playing style, including the rhythmic feel and ornaments like the "krekhts" that make a violinist, accordionist, or any instrumentalist sound like a bonafide klezmer! Especially for strings, but all instruments are welcome. For advanced beginners to pros. […]
In 1983, on the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Irena Klepfisz and her mother Rose returned to Poland for the first time since their emigration to America. On her return from this trip, Irena composed Di rayze aheym / The journey home, first published in 1985. 40 years later, in 2025, Avi Fox-Rosen […]
Every third Sunday of the month, join Montreal’s klezmer community to play klezmer tunes together. KlezKanada’s Montreal Klezmer Jam is a space where Montreal musicians – and guests from out of town – come together regularly to play klezmer music, discover new repertoire, and build community. Each session opens with a mini concert set at […]
Every third Sunday of the month, join Montreal’s klezmer community to play klezmer tunes together. KlezKanada’s Montreal Klezmer Jam is a space where Montreal musicians – and guests from out of town – come together regularly to play klezmer music, discover new repertoire, and build community. Each session opens with a mini concert set at […]
Every third Sunday of the month, join Montreal’s klezmer community to play klezmer tunes together. KlezKanada’s Montreal Klezmer Jam is a space where Montreal musicians – and guests from out of town – come together regularly to play klezmer music, discover new repertoire, and build community. Each session opens with a mini concert set at […]
Join KlezKanada for an evening of Umru / Unrest, with Daniel Kahn, Christian Dawid, and Jake Shulman-Ment "UMRU / unrest" is the newest, boldest, and most mature record from acclaimed Detroit-born, Hamburg-based songwriter and Yiddish troubadour Daniel Kahn, New York's premier fiddlemaster Jake Shulman-Ment, and Berlin's multi-instrumental klezmer MVP Christian Dawid. These songs— original and […]
Every third Sunday of the month, join Montreal’s klezmer community to play klezmer tunes together. KlezKanada’s Montreal Klezmer Jam is a space where Montreal musicians – and guests from out of town – come together regularly to play klezmer music, discover new repertoire, and build community. Each session opens with a mini concert set at […]
Join KlezKanada for their annual end-of-summer party of klezmer, dancing, Yiddish song, and more! Featuring Zoë Aqua with Levi Garda and Mike Pratt, Brivele, and La Délegation. Brivele is a Seattle-based ensemble who braid together Yiddish song, anti-fascist and labor balladry, folk-punk, and contemporary rabble-rousing in stirring vocal harmony. Zoë Aqua (fiddle) will be joined […]
The Bashevis Singers: New Yiddish Folk from Australia Join KlezKanada and the Bashevis Singers for a concert of Australian Yiddishkayt! The Bashevis Singers are the children of generations of people who lived their lives in Yiddish. The sibling/cousin trio – Husky Gawenda, Evie Gawenda and Gideon Preiss – have released five albums of classic folk […]
Every third Sunday of the month, join Montreal’s klezmer community to play klezmer tunes together. KlezKanada’s Montreal Klezmer Jam is a space where Montreal musicians – and guests from out […]
Every third Sunday of the month, join Montreal’s klezmer community to play klezmer tunes together. KlezKanada’s Montreal Klezmer Jam is a space where Montreal musicians – and guests from out […]
Every third Sunday of the month, join Montreal’s klezmer community to play klezmer tunes together. KlezKanada’s Montreal Klezmer Jam is a space where Montreal musicians – and guests from out […]
Every third Sunday of the month, join Montreal’s klezmer community to play klezmer tunes together. KlezKanada’s Montreal Klezmer Jam is a space where Montreal musicians – and guests from out […]
The Yiddish Culture Jam is a heymish (cozy) weekend-long event with a special focus on contemporary Yiddish cultural creation and cross-cultural collaboration. The program showcases and explores the tremendously rich […]