TALK | A Conversation with Adah Hetko and Kaia Berman Peters of Levyosn
Friday July 12, 2024 1:00 PM - July 12, 2024 1:45 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | Adah is a leading Yiddish singer-songwriter on the international Yiddish culture scene, a regular faculty/staff member at Yiddish New York and KlezKanada, and has worked for the Yiddish Book Center and YIVOs Yiddish-language progr...
Saturday July 13, 2024 8:00 PM - July 13, 2024 9:30 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | The Joan A. Backman Memorial Concert | Gephilte, a jam-band experiment in Yiddish funk, is the latest boundary-busting project from renowned Canadian Yiddish hip-hop provocateur Josh Dolgin aka Socalled
TALK | A Conversation with Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen
Saturday July 13, 2024 1:00 PM - July 13, 2024 1:45 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | The two have been collaborating on musical settings for 20th-century Eastern European Yiddish poet Itzik Mangers collection of khumesh lider, tragicomic retellings of Bible stories, which they will feature in concert on Sunday. Th...
TALK | Curating Yiddish Culture, with David Mazower
Saturday July 13, 2024 11:00 AM - July 14, 2024 12:00 AM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | David Mazower, the Yiddish Book Centers research bibliographer, is the chief curator and writer of our acclaimed core exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture.
WORKSHOP | Instrumental Klezmer, with Brian Bender
Saturday July 13, 2024 1:00 PM - July 13, 2024 3:00 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | An instrumental workshop for aspiring klezmer musicians, taught by trombonist/keyboardist Brian Bender of the Yiddishkeit Klezmer Ensemble, Little Shop of Horas, and the Wholesale Klezmer Band.
CONCERT | Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen [Present Itsik Manger's Khumesh Lider]
Sunday July 14, 2024 3:00 PM - July 14, 2024 4:00 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | The Bernard and Reva Broder Memorial Concert | Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen are joined by Yoshie Fruchter on bass, guitar, and voice; Eleonore Weill on flutes and voice; Shai Wetzer on percussion; and Kaia Berman...
CONCERT | Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-ment featuring Richie Barshay
Sunday July 14, 2024 12:00 PM - July 14, 2024 1:00 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | The Lorraine "Libby" Buch Memorial Concert | Detroit-born, Hamburg-based troubadour and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Kahn, New Yorker master fiddler Jake Shulman-Ment, and legendary klezmer percussionist Richie Barshay b...
CONCERT | Eleanor Reissa and the Klezmer Brass Allstars
Sunday July 14, 2024 7:30 PM - July 14, 2024 8:45 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | The Sarah Rose Lazarus Family Concert | The soulful and inimitable Yiddish vocalist Eleanor Reissa will explore the world of Yiddish song, fueled by the best brass band in the land.
TALK | Conversation with Aaron Lansky and Susan Bronson
Sunday July 14, 2024 4:30 PM - July 14, 2024 5:30 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | Yiddish Book Center Founder and President Aaron Lansky and Executive Director Susan Bronson provide an update and share exciting news about the Yiddish Book Centers future plans.
WORKSHOP | Lomir Zingen! Yiddish Song Workshop, with Asya Vaisman Schulman
Sunday July 14, 2024 10:30 AM - July 14, 2024 11:30 AM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | From familiar tunes to hidden gems, well learn to sing a few Yiddish songs with a special focus on perfecting pronunciation and capturing the rhythms of a Yiddish sentence.
Sunday July 21, 2024 7:00 PM - July 21, 2024 9:30 PM Headwaters Arts and Conference Center Dubois, WY
The Documentary Concert Spanning 240 years of the Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs of the People of the West and celebrating their diverse cultures, lives, and legacies.
