Centennial Calendar of Events

JCC of Southern Nevada present Yiddish Las Vegas, an intergenerational, community-wide culture festival.

The Schwartz/Reisman Centre in Vaughan, Ontario kicks off The Mosaica Project: Cultural Fusion in Toronto’s Jewish Music Scene. The program celebrates the community’s diversity through music and culinary heritage.

Making Music Happen: The Soundtrack of Jewish Life in North America: Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, Florida presents Violins of Hope.

Making Music Happen: The Soundtrack of Jewish Life in North America: The Galbut Family JCC in Miami Beach, Florida starts its concert series, Jewish Music with Soul celebrating the community’s local singers.

The Schwartz/Reisman Centre in Vaughan, Ontario continues The Mosaica Project: Cultural Fusion in Toronto’s Jewish Music Scene. The program celebrates the community’s diversity through music and culinary heritage.

Musician in Residence gets underway at the Jewish Community Center of East Bay in Berkeley, California. The JCC has hired a musical educator to develop learning opportunities and a performance showcasing the diversity of the community.

The Galbut Family JCC in Miami Beach, Florida continues its concert series, Jewish Music with Soul celebrating the community’s local singers.

Musician in Residence continues at the Jewish Community Center of East Bay in Berkeley, California. The JCC has hired a musical educator to develop learning opportunities and a performance showcasing the diversity of the community.

The Galbut Family JCC in Miami Beach, Florida continues its concert series, Jewish Music with Soul celebrating the community’s local singers.

The Evelyn Rubenstein JCC in Houston, Texas, presents “One Voice, One Vibe, Our Community,” showcasing works of spoken word and music as part of the community building the JCC has done following devastating floods in 2015 and 2016.

The Mayerson JCC will invite Jewish-American pianist Eric Himy to Cincinnati for a three-day residency, when he will conduct classes and lectures and perform a concert at the JCC. Himy, a Julliard graduate, will demonstrate how Jewish composers such as George Gershwin have contributed to creating the American soundtracks of jazz, blues, and Broadway, while engaging the JCC’s diverse pool of participants.

The Jewish Community Alliance’s music project will celebrate Jewish culture by introducing the sounds of the almost forgotten Sephardic communities of the Balkans and Mediterranean though both performance, and workshops. The project includes hosting the Guy Mendilow ensemble trio in Portland, Maine. Workshops will extend the JCCs reach into Hebrew schools, a Jewish day school, and the JCA preschool.

The Y’s approach to Making Music Happen takes the shape musical program dedicated to showcasing the songs popular at various stages of the agency’s 100 years. This program specifically illustrates the role music can play in portraying the local and global history of a community. A moderator will speak to the audience about the 100 year journey, both within the Y’s community, and greater historical context. Accompanying this dialogue will be live music performers, presenting popular musical pieces from the…

In a program tailored to older, active adults, the Springfield JCC’s music project takes the shape of late morning lox and bagel brunches, accompanied by performances that will include: an older choral group, a gospel singing group, a Jewish acapella group, and other local artists. The project is designed to engage adults with the education, and music of American Jewish composers and their contribution to the American music scene over the last 100 years.

The Asheville JCC and the Asheville Jewish Folk Music Collection will invite local Jewish musicians to record original compositions and public domain songs. They will integrate bluegrass and folk music with Jewish themes through both song, and content to support the diversity and reach of Jewish music, and its development in North American culture.

The growth of the St. Paul JCC Symphony will contribute to the JCC’s goal of strengthening Jewish life and values through its arts and culture events. A classical concert will engage an audience of Russian immigrants and young listeners. In addition, the JCC will create an archival playlist of the symphony's work, expanding the symphony's reach, making its music more accessible to the wider community.

The Mittleman JCC will introduce, for the first time, a summer concert series on the JCC’s lawn. There they will offer several outdoor concerts, engaging a diverse community audience throughout the summer, ranging from silent discos for teens, to family jazz concerts. Each concert will be inspired by a different genre of music, yet will still be connected by an undercurrent of unifying Jewish themes.

The Schwartz/Reisman Centre, situated in one of the most multicultural cities in the world with a Jewish community that reflects that diversity, will tie the culinary culture of Toronto into its program, celebrating the natural linkage between Jewish musical and culinary revival. Each live musical performance will be accompanied by demonstrations and guest lectures of the city’s leading Jewish restaurateurs. The JCC will be presenting the sounds, smells, and tastes of Toronto, in a multicultural and sensory Jewish experience.

The East Bay’s Musician in residence program will engage a musical educator as a Musician in Residence, who will design musical compositions, work in partnership with staff to develop Jewish learning opportunities, and create an evening performance, showcasing the diversity of the East Bay Jewish community. These education projects illuminate f how tradition and rituals are born through diverse perspectives and interpretation.

The Tucson JCC is bringing together its community to make a songbook and community kumzitz (musical gathering). Drawing on the wider community, the Tucson JCC will bring together five local congregations, sharing Jewish spirit as a citywide community. Cantorial soloists, song leaders, and cantors who contributed to creating the songbook will allow the J to host a kumzitz led by a song leaders every couple of months thereafter.

Celebrating chamber music, the St. Louis Jewish Community Center is creating a creating a series of community events and engagement, culminating in a week of concerts and immersive performances for all ages. By engaging culturally relevant themes, the Gesher (bridge) Music Festival will extend itself to all communities in outreach performances for underserved audiences.

The Mittleman JCC in JCC in Portland, Oregon continues its summer concert series that include offerings in different genres for teens, adults and families.

Following harrowing flooding in the greater Meyerland area, this JCC became the hub for relief efforts. This project will harness the unifying and healing influence of music to illustrate the J’s commitment to rebuilding its community, through poetry writing workshops and a community concert. The project aims to address the ongoing PTSD individuals experienced, as well as celebrate the community's vitality.

The Mittleman JCC in JCC in Portland, Oregon concludes its summer concert series with offerings in different genres for teens, adults and families.

In a program tailored to older, active adults, the Springfield JCC’s music project takes the shape of late morning lox and bagel brunches, accompanied by performances that will include: an older choral group, a gospel singing group, a Jewish acapella group, and other local artists. The project is designed to engage adults with the education, and music of American Jewish composers and their contribution to the American music scene over the last 100 years.

This concert series includes nine live performances illustrating the role JCCs can play in influencing and educating the wider, diverse community by bringing musical performances to those who would not otherwise have access to them. The Hebrew, English, Russian, and Yiddish performances will engage a diverse, targeted audience, exposing it to both new, and traditional Jewish music, Jewish history and heritage through song at little to no-cost.

The Tucson JCC is bringing together its community to make a songbook and community kumzitz (musical gathering). Drawing on the wider community, the Tucson JCC will bring together five local congregations, sharing Jewish spirit as a citywide community. Cantorial soloists, song leaders, and cantors who contributed to creating the songbook will allow the J to host a kumzitz led by a song leaders every couple of months thereafter.

The Calgary Jewish Community Centre is using music to harness storytelling, taking its audience through a 150 year historical journey from a village in Eastern Europe to modern day Calgary, and their JCC. In a live concert, Calgary will celebrate the traditional Yiddish and Jewish melodies alongside the jazz, pop and folk melodies of North America.

This concert series includes nine live performances illustrating the role JCCs can play in influencing and educating the wider, diverse community by bringing musical performances to those who would not otherwise have access to them. The Hebrew, English, Russian, and Yiddish performances will engage a diverse, targeted audience, exposing it to both new, and traditional Jewish music, Jewish history and heritage through song at little to no-cost.