Festival General Schedule

Saturday 2/18 Schedule

• 12:00 - 5:00pm, 7:00 - 8:30pm: Box Office open

• 1:00 - 5:30pm, 7:00 - 8:00pm, 10:00 - 11:00pm: KlezCalifornia Information Table (Sholem Aleichem Vinkl)

• 2:00 - 3:30pm: Workshops Session 1 (FREE) l'koved Shabbes (in honor of the Sabbath)

• 3:45 - 5:15pm: Workshops Session 2 (FREE) l'koved Shabbes (in honor of the Sabbath)

• 5:30pm: Dinner, followed by Havdoleh with Heather Klein

• 8:00pm: The Klez-X concert, followed by Dance Party with Steve Weintraub

Sunday 2/19 Schedule

• 9:00am - 3:15pm: Box Office open

• 8:30am - 6:30pm: KlezCalifornia Information Table (Sholem Aleichem Vinkl)

• 9:30 - 9:50am: Welcome and Orientation

• 10:00 - 11:30am: Workshops Session 1

• 11:30am - 12:45pm: Lunch in two adjacent areas:

• Open Mic Cabaret, MC'ed by Achi Ben Shalom (to sign up, see instructions on Registration page)

• General shmuesing (conversation) and special interest tables (including Yiddish conversation, creating a new klezmer band, etc.)

• 1:00 - 2:30pm: Workshops Session 2

• 2:45 - 4:15pm: Workshops Session 3

• 4:30pm: Snacks

• 5:00 - 6:30pm: (FREE) Community Yiddish Sing-Along (Sharon Bernstein, with Stu Brotman, Jim Rebhan, Gerry Tenney)

Monday 2/20 Schedule

• 9:00am - 3:15pm: Box Office open

• 8:30am - 6:00pm: KlezCalifornia Information Table (Sholem Aleichem Vinkl)

• 9:30 - 9:50am: Welcome and Orientation

• 10:00 - 11:30am: Workshops Session 1

• 
  11:30am - 12:45pm: Lunch in two adjacent areas:

• Open Mic Cabaret, MC'ed by Achi Ben Shalom (to sign up, see instructions on Registration page)

• General shmuesing (conversation) and special interest tables (including Yiddish conversation, creating a new klezmer band, etc.)

• 1:00 - 2:30pm: Workshops Session 2

• 2:45 - 4:15pm: Workshops Session 3

• 4:30 - 6:00pm: Finale - Music and Dance Party

• 6:00: Festival ends

Workshop Schedules

For more details, see Workshop Descriptions and Faculty.

Saturday 2/18 Workshops

Session 1, 2:00 – 3:30pm 

• (FREE) The world of our great-grandparents: the early history of eastern European Jewry (Blady)

• (FREE) Guided klezmer jam (Egger)

Session 2, 3:45 – 5:15pm 

• (FREE) History of klezmer (Tenney)

• (FREE)Learn & sing Zmires (Bernstein)

Sunday 2/19 Workshops	Monday 2/20 Workshops
Session 1, 10:00 – 11:30am Get ready for Yiddish dance band: klezmer modes, rhythms, style, for klezmer beginners (Lewicki) Klezmer style/technique for strings (& other instruments with consent of instructor) (Hoffman) Klezmer style/technique for everyone else (Brown, Saunders) Breaking it Down: tools, tips and techniques for learning to play insanely difficult music  (Saxon) Songs of Mordkhe Gebirtig (Bernstein) Learn klezmer dances (Weintraub; music Rebhan) Fabric collage without sewing, for all ages (Sherman) Yiddish in my family (Tkach, E. Jolish, A. Jolish, Moderated by Harvey Varga) Kids’ klezmer ensemble (Egger) Warm-up/jam room available	Session 1, 10:00 – 11:30am Get ready for Yiddish dance band: klezmer modes, rhythms, style, for klezmer beginners (Lewicki) Klezmer style/technique for strings (& other instruments with consent of instructor) (Hoffman) Klezmer style/technique for everyone else (Brown, Saunders) Breaking it Down: tools, tips and techniques for learning to play insanely difficult music  (Saxon) Ballads of Itzik Manger (Bernstein) Learn klezmer dances (Weintraub; music Rebhan) Shabbes (Sabbath) candlesticks, for all ages (Sherman) School, love, and death in nineteenth century Russian Jewry (Zipperstein) Kids’ klezmer ensemble (Egger) Warm-up/jam room available
Session 2, 1:00 – 2:30pm Klezmer ensemble Alef (Brown)  Klezmer ensemble Beys (Hoffman)  Klezmer ensemble Giml (Saxon)  Russian Yiddish songs from A to B: An-Sky and Beregovski (Lewicki)  Master class for singers (Bernstein) How to lead klezmer dance (Weintraub; music Rebhan)  The Neo-Khasidic Fables of Y.L. Peretz (Chaver)  Bubeh Maysez: A History of the Yiddish Language (Blady)  Youth Program (Tenney)  (Sorry, no Warm-up/jam room this period)	Session 2, 1:00 – 2:30pm Klezmer ensemble Alef (Brown)  Klezmer ensemble Beys (Hoffman)  Klezmer ensemble Giml (Saxon)  Russian Yiddish songs from A to B: An-Sky and Beregovski (Lewicki)  How to lead klezmer dance (Weintraub; music Rebhan)  Jewish Women's Revolution in the Name of Tradition: Sara Shnirer's Yiddishism (Seidman) Bubeh Maysez: A History of the Yiddish Language (Blady)  Youth Program (Tenney)  Warm-up/jam room available
Session 3, 2:45 – 4:15pm Techniques for writing new klezmer music (Hoffman) Interpreting the chart: How to approach a piece of written music and translate it into sound (Saxon) Encounters between Yiddish and Slavic musics (Schwartz) Gypsies, tramps and thieves: Yiddish underworld songs (Lewicki) 100 Yiddish words in the average New York Puerto Rican vocabulary (and if you don't know them you should be ashamed of yourself!) (Varga) Awesome & easy Yiddish stunts & dances (30 mins) (Weintraub, music Rebhan), then kids to Youth Program (Tenney) Warm-up/jam room available ... then come to Community Yiddish Sing-Along with Sharon Bernstein, 5:00 - 6:30pm	Session 3, 2:45 – 4:15pm Techniques for writing new klezmer music (Hoffman) Interpreting the chart: How to approach a piece of written music and translate it into sound (Saxon) Lokshn & Macaroni: Ashkenazi Music in Italy (Spagnolo) Master class for singers (Bernstein) Gypsies, tramps and thieves: Yiddish underworld songs (Lewicki) Yiddish Through its Proverbs (Levitow) Awesome & easy Yiddish stunts & dances (30 mins) (Weintraub, music Rebhan), then kids to Youth Program (Tenney) Warm-up/jam room available