Get ready for the 23rd annual KlezmerQuerque
March 7, 8 & 9, 2025
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
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KlezmerQuerque is an internationally recognized annual festival of klezmer music and dance. Join Cantor Beth Cohen and special guest artists Zisl Slepovitch and Asya Vaisman Schulman for three days of Yiddishkeit including Klezmer and traditional Jewish music, Yiddish songs and dance, concerts, Shabbat services, and hands-on workshops. Also featuring Jordan Wax, Batya Podos, The Nahalat Shalom Community Klezmer Band, Rikud Dance Troupe, and High Dezert Klezmer.
Zisl Slepovitch
Photo: Misha Gulko
D. Zisl Slepovitch (composer, woodwinds, sound design) is a native of Minsk, Belarus, a New Yorker since 2008. He is a Jewish music scholar (Ph.D., Belarusian State Academy of Music), composer, a multi-instrumentalist klezmer, classical, and improvisational musician (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals); a music and Yiddish educator. Slepovitch is a founding member of the critically acclaimed groups Litvakus and Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble, a regular contributor to the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, a Musician-in-Residence at Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, a pianist and music coordinator at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York. Slepovitch’s credits include “Defiance" movie, "Eternal Echoes” album (Sony Classical), “Rejoice" with Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot (PBS), and “Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish" (off-Broadway). @zislepovitch • https://zislepovitch.com
Asya Vaisman Schulman
Asya Vaisman Schulman is a Yiddish dance teacher, singer, and songwriter and has participated in and taught at Klezmer and Yiddish culture festivals around the world. She is the director of the Yiddish Language Institute and the Steiner Summer Yiddish Program at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. She is the lead author of In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook, published by White Goat Press in 2020. Schulman received her PhD in Yiddish Language and Culture from Harvard University, where she wrote her dissertation on the Yiddish songs and singing practices of contemporary Hasidic women.
Asya (L) dancing with Sarah Myerson, Deborah Strauss and Avia Moore.
Jordan Wax
Jordan performs both traditional songs and his own original compositions in Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jews. His debut full-length studio album of original Yiddish songs, The Heart Deciphers | טײַטש, is out now on Borscht Beat.