The 14th live edition of the Ashkenaz Festival will take place August 27 to September 2, 2024, at multiple venues across Toronto. The Festival will once again celebrate Jewish musical and artistic creativity from across the globe, spotlighting diverse musical expressions of the Jewish experience, with everything from klezmer and Yiddish styles to Sephardic, Mizrachi, and Falasha music, and much more. Detailed program announcements will be made throughout the summer – follow us here and sign up for our e-newsletter, or on social media to keep up with the most current information as it is announced. In the meantime, be sure to check out the Summer Jam concert series beginning in mid-July for some tasty forshpayz (appetizers) to get you in the mood for the summer-ending festival.

The Ashkenaz Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious showcases of Jewish music and culture anywhere in the world. Since 1995, the festival has taken place biennially at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto’s premier venue for the presentation of world and folk culture and for the meeting of diverse communities through the arts. Originally founded as a showcase for Klezmer music and Yiddish culture, the Ashkenaz Festival has evolved over the years into an eclectic showcase of global Jewish art and culture, encompassing not merely the traditions of eastern Europe, but also Sephardic, Mizrachi and Israeli culture, and all manner of cross-cultural fusion. The Festival is offered 90% free to the public and attracts a multicultural audience of over 60,000 people. Nowhere else in the world does so large and diverse an audience come together to experience Jewish cultural arts.