Socalled

Montreal based Yiddish hip-hop (yes that’s right!) artist Josh ‘Socalled’ Dolgin is an unstoppable creative force: accordion player, pianist, singer, rapper, and composer. His unique blend of klezmer, hiphop, and funk erases boundaries that separate cultures, eras, and generations. Samples of Yiddish classics from a bygone time back lyrics about love and belonging making his surprising music as fun and danceable it is moving and evocative. 

Socalled is a Juno nominee, the star of a feature length NFB documentary and has played Carnegie Hall (twice!), The Apollo Theatre and more.  He has written a puppet musical and a hip-hop Passover Seder and so much more! 

Joining him on stage will be long-time collaborator vocalist Katie Moore, Michale Felber on bass, and Nizo Alimov on Trumpet. 

Join us after for knishes and more delicious snacks  prepared by Primo’s Deli. 

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Put a Yid on It! Festival of New Yiddish Culture

The language of our ancestors remains ‘written in our bones’ and is a part of our unconscious lives. It’s hard to imagine that only 80 years ago 11 million people spoke, wrote, sang, and dreamt in this 1000-year-old language! It spanned throughout all Eastern Europe and spread wherever our people travelled. Never the majority language of a nation state but the language of a pan national community of Ashkenazi Jews ‘scattered among the nations’ enriched by and enriching so many other languages and cultures while still carrying its uniqueness with it. 

Since WWII Yiddish has become less common, but as any Yiddishist will tell you,  the idea that it is dying is wrong (if not complete heresy!). And they are very right. 

In this festival we will reach through time and present some of the great works of art - movies, music, and more, - in and inspired by the Yiddish language! 

 For more information:

https://www.radyjcc.com/put-a-yid-on-it-festival-of-new-yiddish-culture/

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Doors - 7:00pm
Show - 8:00pm

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Tickets

$15.00 + Service Fees

All tickets subject to service fees

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