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Yiddish Concert and Café
Featuring Josh “Socalled” Dolgin
Co-presented by the UJA Committee for Yiddish, in collaboration with Ashkenaz Foundation
 

Josh "Socalled" Dolgin is a Yiddish rapping, accordion wielding, piano playing, Klezmer hip hop maestro! Heralded by Jewish, Klezmer, and hip hop musicians alike, Josh is known for his love of genre-bending Yiddish music, and explores the shtetls of Eastern Europe and the Yiddish vaudeville stages of 2nd Avenue for inspiration. In this intimate solo performance, Josh will accompany himself on piano and accordion, presenting songs from the Yiddish Theatre tradition, Hasidic melodies, Klezmer, folksong, and some of his own originals.
Following the concert, please join us for a kosher dessert reception.

Thursday June 11
Concert: 1:30-3:00pm
Reception: 3:00-4:00pm
Al Green Theatre

Admission: $10.00

For registration assistance, please call 416-924-6211 x0 or email help@mnjcc.org.
For more information, contact Lisa Roy at 416-924-6211 x6155 or email lisar@mnjcc.org.

 

Josh “Socalled” Dolgin is a Juno-nominated pianist, singer, accordionist, producer, composer and rapper based in Montreal, Quebec. With 8 solo albums to his name, Josh has performed all over the world for some 20 years, and his list of collaborators knows no generational, social, cultural or religious boundaries. Josh has lectured and led master classes in music festivals around the world, from Moscow to Paris, from London to LA, and from Krakow to San Francisco, and has performed with his full band Socalled at countless festivals and venues on every continent, including at Carnegie Hall, the Olympia in Paris, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, Harlem’s Apollo Theatre, and the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami.  In 2015, Socalled was presented with the “Adrienne Cooper Memorial Dreaming in Yiddish” award for his work disseminating and exploring Yiddish culture. Josh has also written and presented several musical comedies including the Yiddish gangster musical Tales From Odessa, and the multi-part magnum puppet opus The Season, along with creating a special program using first world war prisoner of war archives at the Weimar festival of Yiddish culture. We are delighted to welcome Josh to the Miles Nadal JCC this spring!

The Committee for Yiddish was created in the early 1960's under the auspices of the Canadian Jewish Congress to coordinate, foster and promote Yiddish cultural activity in Toronto. To this day, the Committee for Yiddish continues to fulfil this goal through a variety of activities that include classes in Yiddish language and literature, theatre workshops, concerts and lectures, and through its support of Yiddish programming by various other Toronto organizations and groups. For more information, please visit http://www.committeeforyiddish.com/

The Ashkenaz Foundation celebrates global Jewish music, arts and culture that embraces the past, present and future. While rooted in the spirit and forms of the Yiddish culture revival, Ashkenaz seeks to spotlight a broad range of multi-ethnic Jewish identities and artistic/cultural traditions.  Emphasizing cross-cultural creativity across a wide spectrum of Jewish and non-Jewish traditions, Ashkenaz spotlights world-class artists and also nurtures emerging artists. This year Ashkenaz returns to Earl Bales Park with its wildly popular “Summer Jam” concert series on select Monday nights, before concluding the summer with the 15th edition of its world-famous, biennial Ashkenaz Festival (Aug 30 to Sept 6). Join us for a full week of world-class music and art from around the corner and across the globe. www.ashkenaz.ca

Places disponibles : Disponible

Prix : 10,00 $ Taxes en sus

Étiquettes : Spring

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