Community Calendar

The Springfield 4th of July Parade is back! Join us in Springfield Center, NY for a “Hometown 4th of July” Parade starting at 11:00am sharp, followed by a patriotic celebration with food, music, historical displays, raffles, and more at the Springfield Community Center. Then head to Glimmerglass State Park for a free evening concert featuring The Council Rock Band starting at 7:30pm, followed by fireworks at dusk! Springfield… the place to be on the 4th of July!

Join us in welcoming world-renown guest artists to LMC's campus. This season, we will feature musicians of the New York City Ballet with Elizabeth Pitcairn and Glen Inanga.

Yaakov Yanky Lemmer was born and raised in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, where many of the great cantors of the Golden Age used to sing. His earliest performances took place in the Beth El synagogue. With an ensemble led by Frank London of the Klezmatics, Yaakov brings fresh interpretations to traditional liturgical prayers and Hasidic nigunim, as well as to some more obscure Yiddish songs. This will be Yaakov’s Yidstock debut.

* Helen and Irving Sunshine Memorial Concert

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music is back, in-person, bringing the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Don't miss out on what promises to be a great festival of music, talks, workshops, film, and dance. This event is sponsored by WAMC Northeast Public Radio. PLEASE NOTE: Lineup is subject to change. All ticket sales are final. Visitors over the age of 12 will be required to show their vaccination card and proof of booster. Vaccines will be required for children who are eligible. Full schedule and registration at www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yidstock.

Enjoy a variety of live performers including a family entertainer, parade and live music. Summerfest Parade at noon. Dozens of food options and merchandise vendors, as well as informational tables about local not-for profits. Free screening of "The Biggest Little Farm" at the Crandell. See our website for the complete list. https://visitchathamny.com/chatham-summerfest/

Paul Shapiro's Ribs & Brisket Revue celebrates the unique era when Jewish music was merging into the American mainstream. Blending jazz, Yiddish swing, R&B, klezmer, and humor, this joyous ensemble swings hard and is endlessly entertaining. Featuring vocalists Cilla Owens and Eleanor Reissa, this program features the 1950s repertoire that underscores The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, particularly the music of the Barry Sisters. The band features Jerry Koran on piano, Dave Hofstra on bass, and Tony Lewis on drums.

*Inaugural Lorraine Libby Buch Memorial Concert

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music is back, in-person, bringing the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Don't miss out on what promises to be a great festival of music, talks, workshops, film, and dance. This event is sponsored by WAMC Northeast Public Radio. PLEASE NOTE: Lineup is subject to change. All ticket sales are final. Visitors over the age of 12 will be required to show their vaccination card and proof of booster. Vaccines will be required for children who are eligible. Full schedule and registration at www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yidstock.

Socalled aka Josh Dolgin is an artist based in Montreal, Quebec, who has been performing and creating internationally for over 20 years. As a music producer, performer and composer, Josh is the de facto godfather of Klezmer Hip Hop, wherein he uses new technologies and contemporary production styles to rework and reexamine Yiddish music in the 21st century. Josh writes and presents musicals, studies the music of Kurt Weill, produces, sings, plays, and arranges in a myriad of ensembles, including an Austrian Big Band, his own pop ensemble, and Di Frosh, a project with a string quartet (presented at Yidstock in 2018). Josh will sing solo at the piano and accordion in a rare, intimate, unplugged program of Yiddish and Yiddish-related music and history.

*Joan A. Backman Memorial Concert

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music is back, in-person, bringing the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Don't miss out on what promises to be a great festival of music, talks, workshops, film, and dance. This event is sponsored by WAMC Northeast Public Radio. PLEASE NOTE: Lineup is subject to change. All ticket sales are final. Visitors over the age of 12 will be required to show their vaccination card and proof of booster. Vaccines will be required for children who are eligible. Full schedule and registration at www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yidstock.

For the past five years, vocalist Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and accordionist Dmitri Gaskin have been entertaining audiences internationally as the duo Tsvey Brider (Two Brothers in Yiddish), performing their original and stylistically diverse settings of 20th-century Yiddish modernist poetry. Their collection of songs, now reimagined through Gaskin’s arrangements for string ensemble, bring a whole new world of sound, texture, and color to the work of Tsvey Brider. Joining them will be Matthew Stein (fiddle) and Misha Khalikulov (cello) of the San Francisco Bay Area klezmer trio, Baymele.

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music is back, in-person, bringing the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Don't miss out on what promises to be a great festival of music, talks, workshops, film, and dance. This event is sponsored by WAMC Northeast Public Radio. PLEASE NOTE: Lineup is subject to change. All ticket sales are final. Visitors over the age of 12 will be required to show their vaccination card and proof of booster. Vaccines will be required for children who are eligible. Full schedule and registration at www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yidstock.

The Klezmatics–the internationally acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning modern klezmer outfit–was founded in New York City in 1986 and has been performing around the world since then. Blending instrumental and vocal virtuosity and experimentation with theatricality firmly rooted in klezmer and Yiddish tradition, the Klezmatics brought the revival of klezmer into the rock era, blazing the path for the klezmer renaissance with one foot in the shtetl and the other in the downtown avant-garde. The Klezmatics are Lorin Sklamberg (vocals, piano, and guitar), Frank London (trumpet and keyboards), Matt Darriau (clarinet, saxophone, and recorders), Lisa Gutkin (violin), Paul Morrisett (bass and tsimbl), and Richie Barshay (drums).

*The Bernard and Reva Broder Memorial Concert

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music is back, in-person, bringing the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Don't miss out on what promises to be a great festival of music, talks, workshops, film, and dance. This event is sponsored by WAMC Northeast Public Radio. PLEASE NOTE: Lineup is subject to change. All ticket sales are final. Visitors over the age of 12 will be required to show their vaccination card and proof of booster. Vaccines will be required for children who are eligible. Full schedule and registration at www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yidstock.

On July 15th at 7 p.m. at Hudson Hall, Aston Magna presents the “All Handel” program, offering “Armida abbandonata” and “Gloria.” Performing are soprano Dominique Labelle, with Daniel Stepner and Julie Leven, baroque violins; Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba, and Michael Sponseller, harpsichord.

Gates Open at 2 Festival and ends at 11pm
Drive through the orchards to a beautiful field in back of the farm with a great view of the Helderberg Escarpment for a full day of live music and craft beverages. Dozens of producers will be bringing their favorite brews and ciders for you to enjoy, food made on site will be available.
Beverages are not included in ticket pricing in order to make this festival available to all ages.
Music line up:
The Jagaloons
Televisionaries
The Abyssmals
Bruel County Bad Boys
BattleaXXX
Mystery Girl
The College Farm
Featuring DJs Big Ed, Ritz Carlton, and Spacewolf with Masterpeace
Breweries:
Paradox, Browns, Strong Rope Brewery, Big aLICe Brewing, Rare Form, Brewery at CIA, Common Roots Brewing, Bolton Landing Brewing, Frog Alley, Creature Comforts, Wayward Lane, Unified Beerworks, Arrowood Farms Brewery, Artisanal Brew Works, Helderberg Mountain Brewing, Woodstock, Bound By Fate, Nine Pin, St James Brewery, Mixed Breed Brewing, Whitman Brewing Company, Brooklyn Cider House, and more to come!