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 guest artist Zisl Slepovitch, and Yiddish dance master Asya Vaisman Schulman for three days of Klezmer, Yiddishkeit and traditional Jewish music, Yiddish songs, dance, concerts, Shabbat services, and hands-on workshops.

Zisl Slepovitch

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 

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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.