Tag: Ashkenaz Festival

The Ashkenaz Festival and Magen Boys Entertainment are organizing a summer jam concert series that explores the connections between Jewish culture and jam bands like The Grateful Dead and Phish, popular among Ashkenazi and Israeli Jews.
Jewish affinity for jam bands like The Grateful Dead and Phish, known for improvisational music and long concerts, is explored in an episode of Culturally Jewish.
Jewish organizations are hosting high-profile fundraising events with notable speakers like Stephen Harper, George Bush, Mayim Bialik, and Fran Drescher to raise funds for significant projects like Vancouver's JWest, a major Jewish building project.
After over 90 years, the lost Yiddish opera Bas Sheve by composer Henech Kon and librettist Moyshe Broderzon is being performed for the first time in North America.
Canadian Jewish festival season is in full swing, prompting questions about who these events cater to and who attends.
The author reflects on their experience in Yiddish culture and the Klezmer revival in the late 1990s.
David Buchbinder, a Juno award-winning trumpeter, discusses spirituality and music with Ralph Benmergui.