Montreal Jewish Music Festival

http://www.montrealjewishmusicfest.com/
Montreal's Jewish Music Festival will happen this Tuesday August 31- Thursday Sept. 2. More information about the festival on a poster at the website.

An Evening of Yiddish Poetry and Song

WWGD? [What Would Glatshteyn Do?]
An Evening of Yiddish Poetry sponsored by The League for Yiddish/ Afn Shvel magazine
You are cordially invited to a unique new event - a bilingual evening of contemporary Yiddish poetry! In zikh (Introspectivist) Yiddish poets, 1923

The program will feature Yiddish poets and songwriters reading (and singing) from their own works.
When: Sunday, August 1, 2010; 6 - 7:45 P.M.
Where: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, Manhattan,
main floor (between Houston and Bleecker at 1st St.; Bowery is the continuation of Cooper Square below E. 4th St.)
F train to 2nd Ave. or 6 train to Bleecker
Admission - $6.00.
All are invited to come listen and you are invited to participate in the program if you:
- write Yiddish poetry
- write Yiddish songs
- translate Yiddish poetry into English (or another language) or English (or another language) poetry into Yiddish
Priority will be given to poets and songwriters. If you would like to participate in the program please contact the League for Yiddish by July 21st to let us know what you would like to contribute: info@leagueforyiddish.org
212-889-0380 /212-260-1753.

KlezKanada 2010!!!

The KlezKanada full brochure is online and ready to download! Check out this astounding program, and run, don't walk, to register! www.klezkanada.org KlezKanada is a full week of summer music camp for an individual or an entire family. With a setting in the midst of the Laurentians, with lakes, scented pines, and lots of freylakhs, dancing, singing, crafts, arts, jamming, performing, observing, enjoying, kvelling, joining & belonging. Don't miss it.

Ashkenaz 2010!!!

Toronto's Ashkenaz Festival is celebrating its 15th anniversary of presenting the Canadian and international Jewish culture scene through music, dance, film, theatre, visual art, workshops, and rituals, a project so ambitious that it's taken two years to organize.

The festival kicks off on Tuesday August 31st and goes through Monday, September 6th showcasing more than 90 acts and 200 individual artists hailing from over a dozen countries. Originally created by and for Klezmer/Yiddish junkies, Ashkenaz has now grown to reflect the most cutting-edge contemporary Jewish music and art, drawing a cross-cultural and multi-generational audience eager to join in on the joyful synergy.

"It's an opportunity to share Jewish culture and values with the broader community and it's incredibly gratifying to see so large and multicultural an audience enthusiastically embrace Jewish cultural forms."
- Eric Stein, Ashkenaz Artistic Director

you can check out the full schedule with details here