Jeremiah Lockwood closes Krakow Music Fest tomorrow, July 4. Then, back to Brooklyn and Manhattan for July residency at Barbes and other local gigs. Details: jeremiahlockwood.com/events/ #khazones #blues

Bandcamp Friday 10/10: I have been entranced by the Electronica magic of Electric Rose. Ilya Shneyveys and Cantor Sarah Myerson mix interviews, old recordings, beats, singing, their own instruments to create an exciting new listening and dance release: klezmershack.com/bands/electr... (2025)

Bandcamp Friday 9: The past is not past, and scholar Anna Shternshis and her ensemble bring more of the Holocaust-era songs collected by Moshe Beregovski after the Holocaust, then suppressed by the Soviets: klezmershack.com/bands/yiddis... (2026)

Bandcamp Friday 8: Drawing from the ext of "Song of Songs," Middle Eastern "jam band," Pharaoh's Daughter featuring the voice of the wonderful Basya Schechter (since we last heard from the band, now a Hazzanit, herself) with klezmershack.com/bands/pdaugh... (2026)

Bandcamp Friday 7: Sticking briefly to liturgical music, this times from the Ashkenazi Cantorial nusakh, I have to recommend this release of women "khazntes" featuring some of today's most magnificent female voices: klezmershack.com/bands/ku/kha... (2026)

Bandcamp Friday 6: In a more liturgical vein, I was blown away by Jewish bluegrass band, Jacob's Ladder, at Ashkenaz 2 years ago. The new release is even better than I remember, highlighting prayers & psalms a la Shlomo Carlebach, but their way: klezmershack.com/bands/jacobs... (2026)

Bandcamp Friday 5: Representing a newer wave of young klezmer musicians who have spent time in Eastern Europe, Jake Shulman-Ment & Abigale Reisman shine on klezmershack.com/bands/shulma... (2025)

Bandcamp Friday 4: The amazing klezmer flautist Adrianne Greenbaum is back with klezmershack.com/bands/greenb... (2025)

Bandcamp Friday 3: The Klezmatics have released my favorite album since "Shteyt Oyf", with Americana, global songs of solidarity in English, Spanish, Yiddish ... and of course, great new klezmer tunes: klezmershack.com/bands/klezma... (2026)

Bandcamp Friday 2: Daniel Kahn does not disappoint with a new album of political and personal songs, featuring violinist Jake Shulman-Ment and violinist Christian Dawid: klezmershack.com/bands/kahn/u... (2025)

Bandcamp Friday 1 - some suggestions from the Klezmershack (in no real order): My favorite group of Yiddish song-writers and harmonizers are back with a new release, even better than their first stellar release: klezmershack.com/bands/levyos... (2026)

Jul 3-5, Cummington, MA: KlezCummington! www.klezcummington.com #yiddishculture #yiddishsong #klezmer (if you see Cookie Segelstein, give her warmest regards and damn sorry I can't be there)

Wed, Jul 1, 7pm, Plainfield, VT: Brivele w/Marxist Jargon, Plainfield Opera House, $10. #Yiddishsong

Jeremiah Lockwood & Jake Shulman-Ment, Sat Jul 18, 6pm - www.barbesbrooklyn.com (part of Jeremiah's "Saturdays in July" residency at the club) #klezmer

Rebecca Mac String Band The Boston Synagogue Wed, Jul 1, 7pm www.eventbrite.com/cc/backroom-... celebrate release of "Night Bird" #klezmer

Yidstock is a comin' Jul 9-12! Lots of actual NEW music this year! www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yidstock cu in Amherst, MA! #yiddish #yiddishculture #klezmer

Jon Kalish writes about cimbalist Joseph Moskowitz, in the news with a new archive at the Library of Congress forward.com/culture/musi... #klezmer #tsimbl

Lovely piece about Connecticut's "Jazz Rabbi" (and co-founder with Frank London of Hassidic New Wave), Greg Wall: forward.com/culture/8109... #jewishmusic #jazz

Lovely piece about Connecticut's "Jazz Rabbi" (and co-founder with Frank London of Hassidic New Wave), Greg Wall: forward.com/culture/8109... #jewishmusic #jazz

New online workshop: Yiddish Song w/Prof Kathryn Hellerstein & Cantor Jeff Warschauer - Ikh gedenk nokh di tefile: Echoes of Frumkayt in Secular Yiddish Songs & Poems: or singers of all levels 5wks, Thu, 11-12:30 ET, starts Jul 9 #yiddish #yiddishsong secure.qgiv.com/for/klezmery...

Jul 7, 7pm, Incheon, S. Korea: David Krakauer & Hankyung Arte Philharmonic Orchestra: Clarinet Fest Gala Opening Night clarinet.org/clarinetfest... #klezmer #classical #southkorea

Aug 1 6:00 PM, Warsaw, Poland: David Krakauer: Golijov Dreams & Prayers Warszemuzik Festival - Chłodna 20 backyard www.warszemuzik.org/en/ #klezmer #classical #poland

Aug 9 , 2026 - 9:15 Pm, Sienna, Italy: David Krakauer & Kathleen Tagg: Isle Of Manhattan Accademia Musicale Chigiana Festival - Giardino Nilde Iotti San Quirico D’Orcia www.chigiana.org/pf/9-agosto-... #klezmer #jazz #classical #italy

Sat, Jul 11, NYC, 9:30pm - CD release by Laura Elkeslassy, “Ya Ghorbati” publictheater.org/performances... #jewishmusic #moroccanmusic #nyc

Thu, Jun 25, Ballard Park, Ridgefield, CT, 7pm: Metropolitan Klezmer FREE www.metropolitanklezmer.com/shows/ #klezmer #yiddish

Tue, Jun 23, NYC, 5-70m: Isle of Klezbos, El Sol Brillante Garden+Irena Klepfisz. 522 East 12th St (between Avenues A & B) East Village NYC  elsolbrillante.org; Rain location: Sixth Street Synagogue, 325 E. 6th St NYC  sixthstreetsynagogue.org #klezmer #yiddish #yiddishpoetry

Sat, Jun 27, High Park, Nature Center, TO, 2:30-4:30pm - Klezmer Jam & Yiddish Dance - www.blogto.com/events/klezm... #klezmer #klezmerjam #yiddishdance #Toronto

Tue, Jun 23, 7pm (doors 6:30pm), Electric Hora dance party at the Burren, Somerville, MA. tickets.24hourmusic.com/eventperform... #klezmer #yiddishdance

Fascinating article from “The Conversation” about a trove of Yiddish songs that survived the Holocaust via Australia: theconversation.com/these-hidden... #holocaust #holocaustmusic #yiddish

Sun, Jun 28, Alma Theater, Cain Park,  Cleveland Hts: Yiddishe Cup. FREE yiddishecup.com #klezmer #yiddishsong #yiddish

Wed, Jun 24, Brooklyn, NY, Barbes, 7:30pm - Michael Winograd and an all-star band perform “selections from 101 nice klezmer melodies” (his new klezmer book) www.viewcy.com/event/michae...

Zisl Slepovitch is on tour in Europe this summer, but first, two gigs in NYC today and tomorrow: dmitrislepovitch.com/calendar #klezmer

How can I not have announced this year's #Challapalooza in Cambridge, MA? It's TODAY! Great music, arts, food, fun for kids in the park. cu there! #jewishculture #yiddish #klezmer #jewgrass www.challapalooza.org

Six new albums from all over the Jewish music map (but, as usual, mostly Yiddish/klezmer): klezmershack.com It's Bandcamp Friday - whatever you spend goes directly to the musicians. Do well by doing good! #klezmer #yiddishmusic #cantorial

Sarah Bunin Benor interviewing Yoni Avi Battat, classical-music-trained, focused now on Jewish-Arabic music, has a #klezmer background, 14-Apr-2026 #Iraqimusic #Jewishmusic #mizrahimusic

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״אָט גײַט יאַנקעלע״ אַוּפֿגעפֿירט פֿון מאָלי פּיקאָן Yiddish Song of the Day: "There Goes Yankele" performed by Molly Picon (1923) #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2n8...

Not usually the sort of thing I repost as KlezmerShack, but too good to pass up, and too tired to change to a more appropriate persona. Besides, I am married to a librarian.

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״קאַזאַכסטאַן״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון סאָפֿיאַ מילמאַן Yiddish Song of the Day: "Kazakhstan" performed by Sophie Millman #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_mB...

Sat, May 30 - Brooklyn, NY, Jalopy, 8pm: “Di rayze aheym / The journey home” CD release - poetry of Irena Klepfisz, music by Avi Fox-Rosen & all-star band www.viewcy.com/event/avi_fo... #yiddish #yiddishmusic #yiddishpoetry #yiddishartsong Shockingly wonderful music!

Sat, May 30 - Toronto, ON, Kensington Market: Klezmer Jam & Yiddish Dance nowtoronto.com/event/klezme... #klezmer #yiddishdance

Fri, May 29 - Putney, VT, Next Stage, 7:30pm: Baklava Express CD release www.commonsnews.org/issue/866/86... +May 30, Brooklyn NY, Sababafest #sephardicmusic #jewishmusic #middleasternmusic

For those looking for an intro to the new @Klezmatics release, “We were made for these times,” or just jonesing to hear them perform: www.npr.org/player/embed... #klezmer #yiddishmusic #americana

Tue, May 26-31 - Debrecen, Hungary, Pásti Street Synagogue - Jewish Cultural Days and Street Festival www.debrecensun.hu/local/2026/0... #jewishculture #klezmer #yiddish

Jun 14 - Edinburgh, Scotland, The Wee Red Bar, 14:00: Och Vey + Chaia + Michael Alpert list.co.uk/event/och-ve... #yiddishmusic #electronica #klezmer

Thu, Jun 4 - Houston, TX, MFA, 6:30pm: Best Little Klezmer Band, jhvonline.com/best-little-... #klezmer #yiddishmusic

There is a new volume of songs out of “Yiddish Glory,” the Silenced Songs of World War II.” Here is a neat interview with Dr. Anna Shternshis on the subject. #holocaust #jewishmusic www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2026...

Jun 17, Boston, MA Temple Israel, 7pm: Jacob’s Ladder CD release, HaMakom (The Place) www.jacobsladdermusic.com +Jun 28 (Gloucester, MA), Jul 31-Aug 1 (Aspen, CO) #jewgrass #bluegrass

Jun 5 - Newton, MA Hyde Park, 6pm: www.bostonjewishmusic.org Klezmer in the Park - 4th annual Newton Highlands Klezmer Dance w/AllStar band #klezmer #yiddishdance

Thu, Jun 4 - Cambridge, MA, Club Passim 8pm: Levyosn’s Dream CD release! www.levyosnmusic.com/tour + Jun 11 (Brooklyn), Jun 12 (Easthampton, MA), Jun 13 (Hancock, NH), Jun 14 (Schenectady, NY) #yiddishmusic #klezmer

Tonight! Tue, May 26 - Somerville, MA, 7pm The Burren: Electric Hora Allstar band; Adah Hetko dance leader www.bostonjewishmusic.org #klezmer #yiddishdance