One of the oldest and largest Jewish Culture festivals in the world, presenting contemporary Jewish culture from Israel and Diaspora, held in beautiful venues of Kraków's Jewish district of Kazimierz.

This year’s music programme of the Jewish Culture Festival includes not only 15 concerts, but also numerous music workshops and lectures on music – after all, there is the word ‘listen’ in this year's motto 'Shema Israel' (Listen Israel).

Main festival concerts will be held at the friendly Museum of Engineering and Technology.

Sunday, June 23rd
20.00 – Opening concert: Maya Belsitzman, Matan Ephrat feat. Cracow Golden Quintet

Monday, June 24th
20.00 – Shtern faln –  The Kadya Trio: Sveta Kundish – vocal, Dr. Alan Bern – composer, piano, accordion, Mark Kovnatskiy – violin

Tuesday, June 25th
20.00 – The Dream Past: A Sonic Conjuring  – The Sway Machinery: Jeremiah Lockwood - guitar, vocal, Yuli Yael Be’eri -  bass, vocal, John Bollinger - drums, Stuart Bogie – saxophone, Kenny Warren – trumpet

Wednesday, June 26th
20.00 – Nizozot – Bastarda Trio: Paweł Szamburski – clarinet, Tomasz Pokrzywiński – cello, Michał Górczyński – bass clarinet

Thursday, June 27th
19.00 – Voices of Yemen: Moshe Harir – vocal, oil can, Yair Tzabari – vocal, percussions, oud, Aviad Yihye – vocal, percussions, Ravid Kahalani – vocal, percussions, Boaz Gadka – vocal, percussions, Amitai Aricha – vocal, percussions, Rony Iwryn – percussions, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz – bass guitar, Ofer Mizrahi – guitar, Dan Mayo – drums
22.00 – Alex Roth’s Cut The Sky: Alex Roth – guitar, field recordings, special effects, Mikołaj Trzaska – saxophones, klarnety, Hubert Zemler – drums

Friday, June 28th
19.00 – Maqamat: Adon Olam – Elad Levi – violin, musical director, Nissim Lugasi – vocal, Persian tar, Yohai Cohen – vocal, Wassim Odeh – oud, Niri Sadeh – ney, Avishag Neriya – viola, Gaya Sela – keyboards, Adam Chichportich – guitar, lavta, Tiferet Teimans – clarinet, Daniel Merran – violin, Tamar Arad – qanun, Ido Levi – bass guitar, Itamar Panai – drums, Amitai Ezroni – percussions

Saturday, June 29th
18.00 – Maqamat: Isfahan, Jerusalem, Marrakesh: Nissim Lugasi – vocal and Persioan tar, Niri Sade – ney, Elad Levi –  Andalusian violin, Wassim Odeh – oud, Gaia Sela – keyboards, Tamar Arad – quanun, Ido Levi – bass guitar, Amitai Ezroni – drums
21.00 – Yemen Blues: Ravid Kahalani – vocal, gimbri, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz – bass guitar, oud, Dan Mayo – drums, Rony Irvyn – percussion

Sunday, June 30th
19.00 – Hebrew Tangos – Warsaw Dance Combo feat. Karen Malka and Boris Martzinovski

In the Festival Tent Maya Belsitzman and Matan Ephrat will play a concert to welcome the Shabbat (Frida, June28th, 21.00), Strauss Warschauer Duo (Sunday, June 30th, noon) – will perform classics of the Yiddish music and finally MLDVA will be the last act of the 33rd JCF (Sunday, June 30th, 21.00). Jarosław Bester will play his solo accordion recital in one of the Kazimierz’s synagogues (Saturday, June 29th, godz. 23.00).

In addition to above-mentioned concerts, the organisers also invite us to join music workshops: Yiddish singing with Jeff Warschauer, Yiddish music with Deborah Strauss, nigunim singing with Paweł Szamburski, K. Mołodowska song workshops with Sveta Kundush and Alan Bern, Jewish oriental music workshops with teachers of Maqamat school in Safed, Israel. Alchemia will host traditional jazz sessions, while the FKŻ Tent will host Polish and Israeli DJs.

You can also join the pioneering deep listening workshops. Together with Rafał Mazur you will learn to listen and hear the real sounds of Kazimierz in its characteristic locations (High Synagogue, Old Synagogue, Nowy Square) and at very unobvious times.

In addition, Michał Jaczyński will talk about Jewish music in the interwar period, which will provide an excellent context for Janek Młynarski’s Sunday concert of Hebrew tangos.

Details of all events available in the Program section of the festival website.