KlezKanada

"[I] found in Yiddish art songs 'a frame through which I could inhabit stories about myself. I could take a song about a lonely yeshiva bocher...and I could perform that song as myself, as a Black man who has often asked myself many of the same questions as this yeshiva bocher was asking at the end of the 19th century.'" Don't miss this fantastic interview with vocalist, composer, and arranger of Yiddish music and Azrieli scholarship alum, Anthony Russell, who will be joining... the #KlezKanada26 faculty this summer! Remember, artists and scholars ages 16-35 can apply for an Azrieli Scholarship now! The priority deadline is June 15th, apply today: https://klezkanada.org/the-azrieli-scholarship/application/ #unmuteyourself

Our friends at The Azrieli Foundation are looking to hire a bilingual, full-time Azrieli Music Prizes Coordinator! Based in Montreal, the Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) Coordinator is the primary point of contact and principal administrator of the biennial Azrieli Music Prizes - AMP program Canada’s largest competition devoted to music composition. The Coordinator is responsible for harmonizing the partners, plans and resources required to efficiently and effectively realize AMP’s core activities, as well as identifying, activating and engaging a dynamic community around AMP. See the full job description below. This is a great opportunity for some of the members of our community. Share widely with eligible friends!

Check out this poster found by our friends and partners at POP Montreal! #tbt to a concert presented in Montreal during the early 2000s! Irving Fields headlined the concert, which included a myriad of KlezKanada community members: "Elaine Hoffman Watts and Susan Watts Hoffman, Socalled, 4 Frères, Beyond the Pale, Michael Wex, Shtreiml, Michael Alpert, and a stage full of crazy geniuses from the former Soviet Union!" This summer, we'll be back to singing and dancing "dans la ...ville" (in the city) on Saturday evening and all-day Sunday August 28-29 to finish our 26th annual Summer Retreat with a bang! General registration opens July 1st, 2021. See you there! #KlezKanada26 #unmuteyourself Jetez un coup d'oeil sur cette affiche trouvée par nos amis et partenaires chez POP Montreal! #tbt à un concert présenté à Montréal pendant les années 2000! Ce concert a mis en vedette Irving Fields, en plus d'une panoplie de membres de la communauté KlezKanada: "Elaine Hoffman Watts et Susan Watts Hoffman, Socalled, 4 Frères, Beyond the Pale, Michael Wex, Shtreiml, Michael Alpert, et une scène remplie de génies fous venant de l'ex-Union soviétique!" Cet été, nous chanterons et danserons encore une fois dans la ville le samedi soir et la journée entière du dimanche (le 28 et 29 août) pour finir notre 26e retraite estivale annuelle en éclat! L'inscription générale ouvre le 1er juillet 2021. À bientôt!

Check out this interview with Glenn Patterson, the director of A Different Tune: Musical Heritage in English-Speaking Quebec on the podcast Ancr'âge Travail! Glenn speaks about his path to becoming a cultural heritage worker, his research into the older fiddle traditions of the Gaspé Coast, and A Different Tune, the project of our partner the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network - QAHN.

There's still time to register for the table-read of Blut un Blintzes (Blood and Blintzes), a Yiddish vampire radio-play by director, playwright, and KlezKanada intern Rebecca Turner. Join us tomorrow at 7:30 PM ET for a hilarious and bloodthirsty evening! Get your tickets at the link below. This event is free but registration is required. See you there! KlezKanada is proud to co-host this event alongside Musée du Montréal juif - Museum of Jewish Montreal, The Segal Centre f...or Performing Arts, and Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America. This event is a part of the Museum of Jewish Montreal’s Microgrant Program for Creative or Cultural Exploration, which is funded by the Quebec Community Group Network's Community Investment Fund.

Each April 19th, the Congress for Jewish Culture - , along with Friends of the Bund, Jewish Labor Committee and The Workers Circle, has organized a gathering of musicians, academics, and survivors and their families at the stone in the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza in Riverside Park. This year, they will host the April 19th event on the Congress for Jewish Culture's YouTube channel. Watch the premiere at the link below, tomorrow at 1 PM ET. They have a...ssembled an impressive array of academics and artists to remember the victims of the Nazi war on European Jewry and commemorate their resistance. This event will feature artists from around the globe, including friends from Montreal and KlezKanada community members: Rivka Augenfeld (Montreal), Maida Feingold (New York), Annette Harchik (New York), Feygele Jacobs (New York), Daniel Kahn (Hamburg), Shura Lipovsky (Amsterdam), Shifee Losacco (New York), Mir Kumen On Yiddish Choir of the Jewish Labour Bund Melbourne, David Rosenberg (London), Deborah Strauss (New York), and The Workers Circle Shule students.