7:30pm

An evening of Avram Sutzkever's poems set to music.

7:00pm

Yiddish theatre actor, director and founder of Strasburg's Der LuftTeater, Rafael Goldwaser, returns to Toronto with his newest one-man show.

7:00pm

Don't miss the world premiere screening of this documentary featuring the haunting musical programme of songs from the Lodz Ghetto, as performed by the Klezmer supergroup Brave Old World.

8:30pm

Clarinetist and composer Michael Winograd is considered a modern master of the klezmer clarinet style.

8:30pm

The goal of Vancouver singer-songwriter/accordion player Geoff Berner is to “drag klezmer music kicking and screaming back into the bars.”

12:00pm – 1:00am

A unique exhibition presenting the work of 17 artists who illustrated 25 of Singer's novels and short stories, including Larry River, Maurice Sendak, Raphael Soyer, Roman Vishniac, and William Pene Du Bois.

12:00pm – 8:00pm

Kids can make "apeeling" fragrant apple decorations!

4:00pm – 5:00pm

One of the most revered Jewish rituals, the celebration of Havdallah at the Ashkenaz Festival is one of Canada’s largest outdoor Havdallah ceremonies.

6:00pm

A long-time staple of the Toronto Jewish music scene.

6:00pm

Michael Winograd is one of the leading young clarinetists in the American klezmer scene.

6:00pm

Founded in 2006, the David A. Stein Memorial Filmmaking Scholarship program has given emerging filmmakers an annual opportunity to explore the KlezKanada Festival in Lantier Que creatively through the camera’s eye.

7:00pm

For the last six decades Flory Jagoda has made it her personal mission to keep the rich Ladino musical tradition of Bosnia’s Jews alive, earning her the sobriquet "Keeper of the Flame.”

7:00pm

The Black Sea Station adds a fresh modern spin to its take on traditional klezmer music.

7:00pm

This year we celebrate the 150th birthday of Abraham Cahan — founder of the Forverts.

8:00pm – 9:00pm

A third-generation klezmer musician, scion of the great Philadelphia Hoffman family of klezmorim.

8:30pm

Shot in the streets of Cairo, Taqasim Arabic and Jewish musicians and memorable back-ally jams featuring Felix Misrachi, Zehava Ben, Abraham Salman and many others.

9:00pm

One of the most revered Jewish rituals, the celebration of Havdallah at the Ashkenaz Festival is one of Canada’s largest outdoor Havdallah ceremonies.

9:30pm –11:00pm

North American premiere! This new intercultural super-group creates powerful, deeply emotional and virtuosic music.

10:00pm –11:00pm

Exploring the mysteries of the Slichot service through the fusion of music, chanting, liturgy, poetry, meditation and prayer.

11:00pm –12:00am

What happens when traditional Yiddish song is married with ‘80s power pop and hard rock?

11:00pm –12:00am

Featuring a diverse cast of artists from Toronto and around the world.

11:00pm

Revive your spirit with dancing under the stars to music so quiet you can hear the dancer’s feet scrape the floor

12:00pm – 1:00am

A unique exhibition presenting the work of 17 artists who illustrated 25 of Singer's novels and short stories, including Larry River, Maurice Sendak, Raphael Soyer, Roman Vishniac, and William Pene Du Bois.

12:00pm – 8:00pm

Kids can make "apeeling" fragrant apple decorations!

12:00pm – 6:00pm

Help create the festival’s largest work of art!

1:00pm

Meet the 14 members of The Other Europeans, a unique intercultural group of Jewish and Roma musicians hailing from seven different countries.

1:00pm

A showcase of local community groups and up-and-coming ensembles in the Toronto klezmer scene.

1:00pm

Flory Jagoda, the nona (grandmother) of Ladino music, is the last surviving member of the Altaras family, a group of well-known singers and musicians from Bosnia.

2:00pm

A soul-stirring musical journey, The Spirit of Sepharad: From Casbah to Caliphate traces the unique migration of Sephardic music from medieval Spain, across North Africa, to the Middle East.

2:00pm

What is a Jewish jug band? Families and kids of all ages are about to find out!

2:00pm

What started out as a mutual affinity for kitschy Jewish album covers soon became a quest for identity, history, and culture between the grooves of LPs.

3:30pm

San Francisco’s Red Hot Chachkas sound swings, shakes, and serenades.

3:30pm

As creator of the exhibit Isaac Bashevis Singer and His Artists, Laura will discuss the process through which she assembled this unique exhibit and reveal the fascinating stories of its unique treasures.

4:00pm

With his soulful voice and charismatic style, Efim Chorny is one of Eastern Europe’s leading practitioners of traditional and contemporary Yiddish song, and a major figure in the revival of Yiddish culture in the former Soviet Union.

4:00pm

The touching children’s book by Joan Betty Stuchner and Richard Row comes to life!

4:30pm

A panel discussion with Yair Dalal, Gerard Edery, Flory Jagoda and Galeet Dardashti.

5:00pm

Progressive Jewish fusion ensemble Zebrina is one of the freshest additions to Toronto’s Jewish music scene.

5:30pm

Adrienne Cooper is internationally recognized as one of this generation’s stellar performers and teachers of Yiddish vocal music.

5:30pm

Mazel and Schlimazel is a musical adaptation of the classic tale written by Isaac Bashevis Singer, featuring an onstage band playing original klezmer music and animation based on the illustrations of Margot Zemach.

6:00pm

Four of the finest young Canadian harmonica players collaborate in the creation of a new repertoire of Jewish harmonica quartet music.

7:00pm

A high-powered collision of two great musical styles predated, but not predicted, by the Jewish-fuelled, American mambo craze of the 1950s.

7:00pm

Binyumen Schaecter reminisces about growing up in one of New York’s most influential families of Yiddish linguists, poets, writers, and activists.

7:00pm

This film follows Mayer Kirshenblatt on a journey back to his hometown of Opatow and shows off the vibrant colours and bold canvases he created.

8:00pm – 9:00pm

Infusing traditional and original Middle Eastern Jewish songs with sophisticated harmonies, entrancing improvisations and funky arrangements.

9:00pm

Glimpses of Yiddish Czernowitz is a visual tale of the all-but-lost Jewish community of Czernowitz.

9:30pm

Combining the musical traditions of Europe and the Mediterranean rim with rock, reggae and electronic music.

9:30pm

Goldfaden's Legacy is a musical romp celebrating the songs, stars and stories of Yiddish Theatre.

11:00pm – 1:00am

This powerful combination of famous musical personalities yields an unassailable force of excitement.

11:00pm

Revive your spirit with dancing under the stars to music so quiet you can hear the dancer’s feet scrape the floor

11:00pm

An eclectic variety evening featuring various festival artists performing solos, duos and trios, hosted by Ashkenaz Festival founder David Buchbinder.

12:00pm –10:00pm

A unique exhibition presenting the work of 17 artists who illustrated 25 of Singer's novels and short stories, including Larry River, Maurice Sendak, Raphael Soyer, Roman Vishniac, and William Pene Du Bois.

12:00pm – 6:00pm

Kids can make "apeeling" fragrant apple decorations!

12:00pm – 6:00pm

Help create the festival’s largest work of art!

12:00pm

What is a Jewish jug band? Families and kids of all ages are about to find out!

12:30pm – 1:30pm

The choir performs a suite by Srul Irving Glik with musical settings of work by five Canadian Yiddish poets, including Peretz Miransky and Rokhl Korn.

1:00pm

Moroccan-born Sephardic music master introduces teenage audiences to the shared musical heritage of Jews, Christians and Muslims during the Golden Age of Spain

1:00pm

Binyumen Schaecter reminisces about growing up in one of New York’s most influential families of Yiddish linguists, poets, writers, and activists.

1:00pm

Grammy award-winning klezmer giant Frank London mixes Jewish, jazz, and world beats in his unique adaptation of a phantasmagorical Yiddish play, written in 1907 by I.L. Peretz.

2:00pm

Jaffa Road is an acclaimed Toronto-based world music group made up of some of Canada’s most exciting and virtuosic interpreters of inter-cultural music.

2:00pm

A caffeinated mix of energetic, wild Balkan gypsy songs and music with elements of urban funk/rock/jazz grooves.

2:00pm

Ashkenaz favourites Sruli and Lisa return to the festival for the first time since 2006.

2:30pm

Tio Chorinho is a new Toronto ensemble dedicated to performing Brazilian choro music in the tradition of the great Jewish mandolin master, Jacob do Bandolim.

2:30pm

Aaron Lansky is the founder and president of the National Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created in the early 1980s to help salvage Yiddish language publications.

3:00pm

Get ready for a whole new approach to Masada music!

3:00pm

“YidRhythmics” is inspired by Dalcroze Eurhythmics, a European movement-based approach to music education.

3:00pm

Acclaimed Toronto storyteller adds a little contemporary Jewish spice to folk tales, fables and jokes from both Ashkenazi and Sephardic folklore.

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Propelled by the sounds of all the festival musicians, the Ashkenaz Parade is the undisputed highlight of each Ashkenaz Festival.

5:00pm

Sasha Luminsky and Martin van de Ven will perform unique interpretations of contemporary Jewish chamber music featuring themselves as soloists, culminating in a combined performance.

5:00pm

Yiddish raconteur and Ashkenaz fave Michael Wex returns to the festival to launch his new novel.

6:30pm

A multimedia concert program that brings together two musical traditions – East European Jewish and Ukrainian – that have existed side by side and interacted for centuries, mirroring the complex relationship between the two peoples that have nurtured them.

6:30pm

Socalled has graced Ashkenaz stages many times in the past, but now see him up close and more personal than ever before in this NFB-produced, feature documentary film.

8:00pm –10:30pm

A series of performances by some of this year’s headline artists.