Yidstock 2018: The Festival of New Yiddish MusicAmherst, MA
 YIDSTOCK 2018 will bring the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Don't miss out on what promises to be a great festival of music and related events! PLEASE NOTE: Tickets can be purchased to individual events as listed below. |
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Yidstock 2018: The Festival of New Yiddish Music - Concert Passes
July 12, 2018 1:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 brings the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center. Concert Pass allows access to all concerts at YIDSTOCK 2018. Tickets may be purchased to individual events. |
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TALK | The Essential Klezmer, with Seth Rogovoy
July 12, 2018 2:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock's artistic director and the author of "The Essential Klezmer," takes the audience on a multimedia journey through klezmer. |
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TALK | Exploring Yiddish Theater Music, with Hankus Netsky
July 12, 2018 4:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | Meet the figures who shaped the soundscape of the golden age of Yiddish Theater, inventing a uniquely Jewish world of popular musical entertainment. |
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CONCERT | David Krakauer's Acoustic Klezmer Quartet
July 12, 2018 8:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | The Helen & Irving Sunshine Memorial Concert | Delight in a performance emphasizing the beauty of traditional klezmer dance tunes, ritual songs, and reflective melodies, all given the ineffable David Krakauer touch. |
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TALK | Exploring Yiddish Art Music, with Hankus Netsky
July 13, 2018 11:00 AM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | Explore how Jewish composers sought to bring their original compositions and folksong arrangements to the stage over 100 years ago and how art music figures into the current era of the Yiddish renaissance. |
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WORKSHOP | Yiddish Dance 101: How to Dance to Klezmer Music, with Steve Weintraub and Lauren Brody
July 13, 2018 11:00 AM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | World-renowned dance instructor Steve Weintraub offers an overview of the Yiddish style of dance. |
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TALK | A Conversation with David Krakauer
July 13, 2018 1:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | As a former member of the Klezmatics, and on his own as a soloist and bandleader, world-renowned clarinetist David Krakauer has been one of the most influential, forward-looking exponents of modern, progressive klezmer. |
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CONCERT | Heather Klein & Joshua Horowitz
July 13, 2018 2:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | Classically trained soprano Heather Klein presents lost works of the Yiddish Art Song repertoire with accompanist Joshua Horowitz. |
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TALK | Socalled: Ghettoblasting Toward Yiddishland
July 13, 2018 4:15 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | The inventor of Yiddish/hip-hop fusion, Josh Dolgin's shows variously include classic Yiddish ballads, theater tunes, and folk songs, often sliced and diced and put back together with electronic beats, rapping, and samples. |
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CONCERT | Tsvey Brider, featuring Anthony Russell & Dmitri Gaskin
July 13, 2018 5:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | Yiddish vocalist Anthony Russell and pianist/accordionist Dmitri Gaskin explore diverse idioms and styles to create contemporary and idiosyncratic new music set to the works of some of the greatest poets in the Yiddish language. |
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WORKSHOP | Build-a-Sher Yiddish Dance, with Steve Weintraub
July 14, 2018 10:00 AM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | World-famous dance instructor Steve Weintraub explores the iconic Jewish square dance, the sher, with participants creating their own Yidstock sher. |
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TALK | A Journey to LadinoLand, with Sarah Aroeste
July 14, 2018 1:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | International Ladino singer-songwriter Sarah Aroeste weaves stories from her personal family history together with song in this multimedia presentation. |
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WORKSHOP | Instrumental Klezmer, with Brian Bender
July 14, 2018 1:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | An instrumental workshop for aspiring klezmer musicians, taught by trombonist/keyboardist Brian Bender. Open to all ages, instruments, and playing ability. Bring your own instrument. |
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TALK | A Cross-Cultural Convergence, with Anthony Russell
July 14, 2018 3:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | Anthony Russell's work in traditional Ashkenazi musical forms led to a musical exploration of his own roots through the research, arrangement, and performance of a hundred years of African-American traditional music. |
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CONCERT | David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness Reunion Concert, with special guest Socalled
July 14, 2018 8:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | The Joan A. Backman Memorial Concert | This reunion concert of Klezmer Madness features Krakauer's groundbreaking fusion of early klezmer sounds, jazz influences, and funky undertones. |
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WORKSHOP | Yiddish Songs, with Asya Vaisman Schulman and Brian Bender
July 15, 2018 10:30 AM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | Learn Yiddish songs old and new with instruction by the Yiddish Book Center's Asya Vaisman Schulman and music by Brian Bender. |
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CONCERT | Beyond the Pale, with surprise guest
July 15, 2018 12:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | The Bernard and Reva Broder Memorial Concert | Celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, Beyond the Pale brings a global, world-music approach to klezmer. |
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TALK | The View from Toronto, with Eric Stein
July 15, 2018 1:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | Eric Stein will share his thoughts and observations about Canada's Yiddish culture scene, as well as offering his perspective on the global evolution of klezmer and Yiddish music. |
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CONCERT | Yiddish Meets Ladino, with Sarah Aroeste and Anthony Russell
July 15, 2018 3:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | In a program commissioned especially for Yidstock, Ladino vocalist Sarah Aroeste and Yiddish vocalist Anthony Russell join forces to musically reconcile these long-lost cousins of Jewish music. |
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TALK | Full Steam Ahead! with Aaron Lansky
July 15, 2018 4:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | Hear from Aaron Lansky, the Yiddish Book Center's founder and president. |
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CONCERT | Socalled String Quartet
July 15, 2018 7:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2018 | This one-of-a-kind concert by the brand-new Socalled String Quartet features the mad wizard of Yiddish hip-hop on vocals backed by string quartet playing newly commissioned transcriptions of classic Yiddish theater, folk, and art songs. |
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