Schedule

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Weekday Schedule

 

Tuesday, August 31st

Wednesday, September 1st

Thursday, September 2nd

Friday, September 3rd

12:00pm

   

Koffler Centre of the Arts

Yiddish Humour in Song

Binyumen Schaechter

 

12:30pm

     

1:00pm

       

2:00pm

 

Caplansky's Delicatessan

Deli Duos

Fern Lindzon and Kiki Neret

Caplansky's Delicatessan

Deli Duos

Mike Anklewicz and Ali Berkok

Caplansky's Delicatessan

Deli Duos

Brian Katz and Jonno Lightstone

2:30pm

 

3:00pm

 

3:30pm

       

4:00pm

       

7:00pm

 

Al Green Theatre

A Gilgul Fun a Nign (Metamorphosis of a Melody)

Rafael Goldwaser

Sheppard Grande Theatre

Song of the Lodz Ghetto (2010)

Song of the Lodz Ghetto (2010)

 

7:30pm

Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue

Tribute to Avram Sutzkever

 

8:00pm

   

8:30pm

 

Lula Lounge

Ashkenaz at Lula

Geoff Berner
Michael Winograd Trio

 

9:00pm

     

9:30pm

     

10:00pm

     

10:30pm

       

Saturday, September 4th

 

Enwave Theatre

Sirius Stage

Boardwalk

Redpath Stage

Lakeside Terrace

Brigantine Room

Studio Theatre

MBCS

Miss Lou's Room

6:00pm

     

Michael Winograd Dance Band

Avia Moore
Michael Winograd Dance Band

Lenka Lichtenberg

 

Short Films From KlezKanada

KlezKanada Film Scholarship Retrospective

Isaac Bashevis Singer and His Artists

 

6:30pm

         

7:00pm

Flory Jagoda

       

The Black Sea Station

 

“Abraham Cahan and the Forverts”

Boris Sandler

7:30pm

         

8:00pm

 

Elaine Hoffman Watts

           

8:30pm

         

Taqasim (2007)

 

9:00pm

     

Havdallah

     

9:30pm

 

The Other Europeans

           

10:00pm

           

Slichot

Slichot
Yair Dalal

10:30pm

           

11:00pm

   

Shtiller Tants

Di Tsvey
Shtiller Tants
Steve Weintraub

 

Sephardic and Mizrachi Cabaret

Sephardic and Mizrachi Cabaret
Yair Dalal

Yiddish Princess

     

11:30pm

           

12:00am

     

Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation

Josh Kun

     

12:30am

             

Sunday, September 5th

 

Enwave Theatre

Sirius Stage

Boardwalk

Redpath Stage

Lakeside Terrace Tent

Lakeside Terrace

Brigantine Room

Studio Theatre

MBCS

Miss Lou's Room

ZOOM! Kids Tent

Free Times Cafe (offsite)

12:00pm

                   

Parade Crafts with Shadowland

Bella Did Ya Eat Jewish Brunch

Les Bâtards du Bouche

12:30pm

                   

1:00pm

     

Community Klezmer Showcase

 

“La Nona Canta”

Flory Jagoda

Michael Winograd Dance Band

Michael Winograd Trio

 

Exhibition

Isaac Bashevis Singer and His Artists

From “Others” to Brothers

Meet The Other Europeans

1:30pm

         

2:00pm

The Spirit of Sepharad

The Spirit of Sepharad
Yair Dalal

   

Sruli and Lisa

Jewish Jug Band with Sruli and Lisa

   

"You will Know us by the Trail of our Vinyl"

Josh Kun

   

2:30pm

       

Klezmerata Fiorentina

   

3:00pm

   

Di Shekhter-Tekhter

     

Ashkenazic Storytelling

Aubrey Davis

 

3:30pm

 

Red Hot Chachkas

         

Isacc Bashevis Singer and His Artists

Laura Kruger

   

4:00pm

       

Efim Chorny and Susanna Ghergus

 

The Kugel Valley Klezmer Band

   

4:30pm

             

Exhibition

Isaac Bashevis Singer and His Artists

Sephardic Roundtable

Flory Jagoda
Gerard Edery
Yair Dalal

 

5:00pm

 

Zebrina

       

Jewish Dance Band

The Other Europeans

   

5:30pm

“Enchanted” CD Release

Adrienne Cooper

       

Lorie Wolf “Mazel and Schlimazel”

 

6:00pm

       

Les Bâtards du Bouche

       

6:30pm

                   

7:00pm

     

Roma Dance Band

Steve Weintraub
The Other Europeans

   

David Buchbinder's Odessa/Havana

Paint What you Remember (2009)

The House on Bainbridge Avenue

Binyumen Schaechter

   

7:30pm

               

8:00pm

 

Divahn

Galeet Dardashti and Divahn.
Yair Dalal

                   

8:30pm

                     

9:00pm

             

Glimpses of Yiddish Czernowitz (2010)

       

9:30pm

 

Balkan Beat Box

         

Goldfaden's Legacy (2004)

       

10:00pm

                   

10:30pm

                     

11:00pm

   

Shtiller Tants

Di Tsvey
Steve Weintraub

   

Cabaret: Echad, Tsvey,Tres

The Sway Machinery

         

11:30pm

                 

12:00am

                 

12:30am

                   

Monday, September 6th

 

Enwave Theatre

Sirius Stage

Boardwalk

Redpath Stage

Lakeside Terrace Tent

Lakeside Terrace

Brigantine Room

Studio Theatre

MBCS

Miss Lou's Room

ZOOM! Kids Tent

12:00pm

       

Sruli and Lisa

Jewish Jug Band with Sruli and Lisa

     

Exhibition

Isaac Bashevis Singer and His Artists

 

Parade Crafts with Shadowland Theatre

12:30pm

         

Toronto Jewish Folk Choir

   

1:00pm

Frank London's "A Night in the Old Marketplace"

   

Alex Kontorovich Dance Band

   

“Everybody’s Song”

Gerard Edery

Jewish and Roma Musicians in European Culture

Bob Cohen

1:30pm

         

2:00pm

Jaffa Road

 

Sruli and Lisa “Klezmer For Kids”

         

2:30pm

     

Tio Chorinho

   

Outwitting History

Aaron Lansky

3:00pm

       

Yidrythmics

Brian Katz

Mycale

Sephardic Storytelling

Aubrey Davis

3:30pm

             

4:00pm

     

Ashkenaz Parade

           

4:30pm

                 

5:00pm

 

Kaba Horo

     

Sasha Luminsky and Martin Van de Ven with String Quartet

“The Frumkiss Family Business”

Michael Wex

     

5:30pm

             

6:00pm

     

The Fellowship of the Strings

Di Tsvey
The Fellowship of the Strings

           

6:30pm

         

“Night Songs from a Neighbouring Village”

Michael Alpert and Julian Kytasty

The Socalled Movie

   

7:00pm

     

Acoustic Dance Band

         

7:30pm

 

Best of the Fest Finale

               

8:00pm

                   

8:30pm

                   

9:00pm

                   

9:30pm

                   

10:00pm

                     

10:30pm

                     

11:00pm

                     

11:30pm

                     

12:00am

                     

12:30am